DIY Kitchen Drawer Liners

So, I am a bit crafty, but the visions for projects do not always appear in reality as they do in my head. Oh well. So I wanted to remove the Christmas wrapping I had lining the kitchen drawers, and figured I would use the tons of scrapbooking paper I have lying around. And to add to the cleanups in the future rather than throwing the next liner away, I decided to use contact paper to cover the paper. That way I could just wipe it off and reinsert.

Seems easy enough right?....Riiiight.

Before...

Official Free Wedding Template - Really

In my quest to figure out how to create printable PDFs, I have aged, cursed, and may have teared up a bit in frustration.  For me, nothing - nothing - is every as easy as they say it will be in a tutorial when computers are in the mix. Never. Ever.

Playing with Glass...Part 4

Well, it is done.  I have completed my etched/painted glass experiment.  The final step was to see if the glass could hold up to washing.  It did!  I was so excited to take the pictures to show here.  So excited, but now my experiment has ended in tragedy.

As I was taking pictures of the finished product, a gust of wind blew the book it was sitting on, and to save it, the hand with the camera came up to crash into it!  Sigh... see if you can see the massive 3 way CRACK in the glass!

 There she is!  My beautiful idea come to life!

 This is my baby about 30 seconds after "the incident..."

 ...10 seconds before "the incident."

 About 1 minute after the incident.  (I was in shock when it cracked so I was staring in disbelief for a moment or two!)

  Oh, it still hurts to look at.  

I don't know if you can really see from the pic, but the base of the glass has the reverse etching and the flowers themselves were what got the frosted effect.

My wine charms, recreated famous works of art available in my Etsy store, are featured on the bottom.

And to be a drama queen, to show the full circle of "life," here is my glass, laid to rest.  So young, gone before her time... she never even got to fulfill her purpose of carrying a good wine...(sigh).

Playing with Glass...Part 3

Okay.  I have gotten this far with the glass.  It's has been etched.  It has been painted/decorated.  And it has now been through the oven to be heat sealed!

I was nervous about putting a glass in the oven, but it had to be done.  Although the Deco Color pens didn't give these specific directions, all other companies I researched based on their glass painting products recommended putting the item in the oven at about 325 for at least 40 minutes.

I put the wine glass on a cookie tray with a small sheet of foil on it.  Then when the oven was ready, I placed the tray in the oven for about thirty minutes, then turned off the oven and left the glass there for about 4 hours to really set and COMPLETELY cool.

It looks good.  Although I did not want to use the medium tipped marker on this project and mainly used fine tips, the medium tip made my flowers look really good.  There were no visible drawing lines with it like the ones the fine tipped markers left behind.

I will give the glass a test of a few hand washes and see how it holds up.  (I might even be so daring as to put it in the dishwasher for a true experiment!)  I will post the results tomorrow.

Free DIY Wedding Invites

As a budding graphic designer who did her own invitations... (crazy, YES! -- worth it? YES, YES, YES!) Anywhoo, one of the things I wanted to do was try and share my invite with others.  The basics have been left out for you to fill in as necessary.

As I am not sure how it will look right now, I will post just the invite. If I get requests for more, I will post the coordinating bottle tags, bottle labels, mailing labels and RSVPs too.  This was for a message in a bottle wedding invitation, so if anyone is having a destination or beach wedding, this might be for you!

There are some crafty tutorials on the web but I am more that willing to post my winning tutorial here!  So here is the basic invite:

The font was Baroque Script. I've not worked out how to make this an editable download so if you like it or want something similar, email me and let me know! 

What do yo think?