seven thirty three - - - a creative blog: Friendly Tuesday

and Hot glue, fabric and embroidery hoops-

You can make yourself a super cute, super easy and super cheap

Lucky door décor!

And I am so LUCKY to be here on seven thirty three today!
Hi everyone! I'm Tausha from Sassy Style Blog. I have admired Kim from afar for awhile now, so I am honored to be guest posting on her blog! I am so excited to be visiting and sharing a bit of creative craziness. I have the blog Sassystyleredesign.blogspot.com

I love to create, thrift shop and use my glue gun. I also have an obsession with Diet Coke and all things gooey and sweet! I am a mom to 3 chickadees and a wife to man who makes me happier that I sometimes deserve! I have a business Sassy Style Redesign. I get to work with my mom and do something that I love. Decorate! It’s fabulous!

I am also so blessed to be on a local Ut TV show, Studio 5. I love this and I love the fact that my kids like to use my segments as Show and Tell. Not my 11 year old though, she is way too cool for this!Good thing my 9&6 still like me. Yes-I refer to my children as numbers. J

Hope you will come and visit Sassy Style. Bring your Diet coke and relish in the crazy, craftiness going on! Please, feel free to stay awhile! The laundry can wait!

On to the tutorial!

This little sign is sure to bring nothing but rainbows and gold coins your way.

I would also say leprechauns, but they kind of freak me out, just a bit.

Anyway..want to make one?

This is what you need:

Embroidery hoops-4 (or however many you need to spell whatever you want)

fabric-I picked a myriad of greens

Felt-again, I used different greens

hot glue and gorilla glue epoxy

Heat and bond/wonder under

embellishments of your choice-buttons, ribbons etc..

(making it’s TV debut)

ok-I picked up my hoops at the thrift store. They were filled with some beautiful craftiness that had surpassed their prime. All 4 of my hoops are different sizes. I wanted it to look a little crazy. If this is not your style, but all mean, buy all 4 the same size.

I just ripped them out.

sorry people that made the lovely geese, and Santa doily's.

I then made sure that I could put them all back together without too much trouble. I know that some of you are thinking, well, why wouldn’t they just fit back together? You would be surprised. I highly recommend that you do this.

I cute the letters out of felt. I just freehanded them onto the felt with my sharpie. If you hate your writing, or this is not something that you want to do . You could just pick a font of your liking on word and print and trace the letters as well.

I adhered all of the felt letters with hot glue. Mostly because I was lazy and I didn’t want to get out the heat and bond.

however, I had to get the heat and bond out when I did the clover. I used fabric for the clover, so the only way that it would adhere, was to iron it on.

Man, I love that stuff!! It has saved my bacon way too many times to mention!

Once the letters and everything was adhered, I got to embellish!

My favorite part!

L- I added ruffles to some of the hoops. I just used my glue gun to make the ruffle as I glued the fabric on. I added some button flowers to the L to finish it off.

The Clover - is one of my favorites. this doesn’t have a lot of doo dads on it, but I love it none the less. I just used some fabulous ribbon from the Ribbon Retreat to the finish the edge. I thought that I was finished and then I thought it needed something else. Shocker! I would think that I needed to “mess” with something.

I added a little border of flags. The flags are 4 layers. Why 4 layers?

Well, I didn’t like the first 3, so I just kept on gluing.

I then added some more ribbon from the Ribbon Retreat and some fabulous bakers twine from Pretty Lil Packages. (her twine is fabulous and the least expensive I have ever seen-go and buy some)

And then, of course some buttons. I LOVE Buttons!

The C-I added some rosettes. I love this one. It’s so simple, yet fabulous!

K-this letter was embellished very simple because of the polka dot background. I just used some Ribbon to finish of the K. Simple!

Now..hang it on your door!

Oh wait, you probably want to know how to hang it on your door.

Let me show you.

I found a piece of wood in my garage that was long enough. I then epoxied the hoops to the board. I used the epoxy because I needed the glue to hold the hoops through the rain, snow and sunshine.

I had my loving husband fashion me a hangy thing so I could use a wreath holder to hold this baby up. It’s just wire screwed into the board. Because I didn’t want the wood to scratch my door, I used a fleece blanket from the dollar store to back it. I just cut it up to fit. Make sure whatever you use is thick enough to protect your door. I do this with everything that I hang on my door.

It doesn’t prevent against all scratches, but I’m ok with that. I want to re-paint my door again this spring. Any suggestions? I’m thinking turquoise? What do you think? Too crazy? Still thinking on that one.

So, now you are really done!