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Fairfield World Pillow Party 2019 Let It Snow Pillow

The Fairfield World Pillow Party has been so much fun and these Let it Snow! pillows were super fun and easy to make. My friends over at Fairfield World, Laura Kelly Designs, The Hedgehog Hollow put together this fun Holiday Pillow Party blog hop.

What’s needed:

Fairfield Poly-fil Premier Ultra Plush Pillow
1.5 yards of Kunin Premium felt cut from a bolt: Charcoal
9″x12″ Kunin Premium felt: Candy Pink
9″x12″ Kunin Coordinate felt: Silver Dot on White
pins
Snowflake Pattern
Let it Snow! Pattern
Scissors
Beacon Fabri-Tac Premium Fabric Glue
Cutting Mat, Cutting Ruler and Rotary Cutter
Sewing Machine

Fairfield has great pillows to add to any pillow case. They provided these awesome Poly-Fit Premier Ultra Plush Pillow Inserts. I created my very own pillow cases to go over them. Here is how I made them!

The pillows were 20″x20″ so I cut my felt at 21″x21″. I cut 4 squares and then cut 2 of them in half.

Each pillow should have 3 pieces of Charcoal fabric, (1) 21″x21″ and (2) 10.5″x21″. Pin the two smaller pieces to the bigger piece. This leaves an opening in the middle of the back of the pillow.

Leaving 1″ around the edge, sew all the way around the pillow case.

Once the pillow cases are all sewn, remove all of the pins and put the insert in the pillow case.

Print out the patterns and pin them to the felt.

Cut the snowflakes and the letters from the felt.

Once everything is cut out, lay the pieces out on the pillowcase to make sure you have it where you want it.

Using Beacon’s Fabric-Tac Premium Fabric Glue, glue your pieces in place.

Let the glue dry and then your pillows are ready to use!

Hope you like these adorable Let it Snow! Pillows that I created for the Fairfield World Pillow Party 2019. Be sure to check out the other pillows that were created!

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Until next time…..

Thankful Burlap and Felt Banner

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Disclosure: As a member of the Laura Kelly Design Team, I received product from Sizzix/Ellison for use in my blog posts. The opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links.

Thanksgiving is upon us. And I’m feeling really thankful this season. I’m thankful for my family and my friends. I’m thankful for a house to live in, food to put on the table and a bed to sleep in. I’m thankful for a car to drive. I’m thankful for my husband’s job and for my job. I’m thankful for my church and church family. I’m thankful that my children go to a great school. And I’m thankful to be healthy! My list of thankfulness could go on and on and on.

Lately I’m obsessed with banners! I love to make them as much as I love hang them in my house! They are easy to make and you can make them any ways that you want! They can really make a difference in your home, even if it’s just for a little color!

Just recently Sizzix sent me this amazing banner die designed by Lori Whitlock. I used it, along with some of my favorite dies by Laura Kelly, to create this amazing Thankful banner! This banner die might be one of my favorite dies ever!

Materials used:

Laura Kelly’s Dies:
- Pumpkin #2 Die
- Lemonade Capital Alphabet
Lori Whitlock Die:
- Big Banner
Glue (I used Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue)
Burlap
Felt
- I used Kunin Group’s Eco-fi ShaggiChic for the pumpkin
- I also used Kunin Group’s Eco-fi Classicfelt for the stem of the pumpkin and the letters
Sizzix Big Shot and Cutting Pads
Paper to put under the burlap when cutting
Jute Rope
Small clothes pins

Directions:

First, I cut out all of the pieces needed for the banner. The ShaggiChic felt is a little thicker so I cut them individually. Sometimes you can cut multiple pieces in one run through of the Big Shot.

With the burlap I placed a piece of paper underneath the burlap each time I did a cut. I didn’t want the fibers of the burlap to get all over the die. Putting the paper underneath really helped.

2. Once all of my pieces were cut out, I started putting the banner together. I glued the pumpkins to the burlap banner pieces. Then I added the letter and the stem.

3. Usually I like to use ribbon for my banners, but lately I’ve liked using jute rope. Jute rope goes really well with the burlap! And I love the natural look of the jute rope!

I hope you like my Thankful burlap and felt banner. I love it so much that I want to keep it out longer than just the Thanksgiving season. I hope that you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Sculpey Alien Magnets

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Everyone loves a good magnet, especially to hang up the kid’s art work! I created these awesome Sculpey Alien Magnets inspired by Laura Kelly’s Alien and Cosmic Cafe Printables.

Materials needed:
Sculpey (I prefer Bake Shop)
Clay tools
Laura Kelly’s Alien and Cosmic Cafe Printables
Magnets
Glue

My friend Laura is an incredible artist. She designed these Alien and Cosmic Cafe Printables. You can get your own at www.shoplaurakelly.com. I think they are absolutely adorable!

Sculpey’s Bake Shop Oven-Bake Clay is super fun and easy to work with! And it doesn’t take long to bake and harden! Using clay tools, I rolled out my clay and cut shapes that resembled a few of the aliens that I created with the printable. I rolled out my dots and then put everything together! I didn’t want two aliens that were the same color, so I added some white clay to my green to lighten it up.

Once my aliens were baked, hardened and cooled, I added magnets to the backs using Aleene’s Max Tacky Adhesive. I let the glue dry and then hung my awesome Alien Magnets on the refrigerator!

Hope you like my awesome Alien Magnets inspired by Laura Kelly’s Aliens!

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Until next time…….

End of the School Year Banner

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Before we know it, this school year will be ending and it will be Summer time!!!! It’s hard to believe, but it’s true! At our house, we are super excited about our summer vacation and the fun things that we get to do! In honor of the End of the School Year, I made this adorable little “Happy Summer” banner using Laura Kelly’s Peep and Lemonade Alphabet Dies from Sizzix!

My friend Laura Kelly is such a creative lady and she has a great collection of dies with Sizzix. These particular dies are a part of the Ellison Classroom Series. Click the picture below to find the link to where you can get your own.

Alright, now on to how I made this adorable little banner. Using my Sizzix BigShot, Boy and Girl Peep dies, and an extended cutting pad I cut the peeps using different flesh tones. Using bright colors, I cut out all of the different clothes. For the feet, I just cut out part of the legs and cut the feet part off. For the hair of the girls, I just cut out extra heads and then cut the hair off of them.

Once everything was cut out and organized (who was getting what clothes), I used Tombow Liquid Glue to glue all of the parts together. Once they were all dried, I laid them out so that it looked like they were holding hands and then I glued them together.

Once everyone was glued together, I used Laura Kelly’s Lemonade Upper Case and Lower Case Alphabets to add the words “Happy Spring”. Click the photo below to go to the link where you can get your own!

Again, using the Tombow Liquid Glue, I added the letters to each of my peeps. I also added a dot between the words “Happy” and “Summer” just so that one of them wouldn’t be lonely!!!

Once everyone was completely dry, I punched a hole in the first and last hand. Then I tied baker’s twine to each hand so that I could hang it up!
Hope you like my End of the Year – Happy Summer Banner!

Until next time……….

Disclosure: I received product from Sizzix as a member of the Laura Kelly Design Team. Laura Kelly is a licensed designer for Sizzix. All opinions are that of Katie Berry.

Washi Tape Pumpkin Popcorn Box

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For the last couple of years, my friend Laura Kelly has put together an awesome Popcorn Box Blog Party with a selection of great craft items to help decorate the popcorn box! She has done it again, and with the help of some great companies! These awesome Popcorn Boxes came from World Market!
This year, Scotch donated their Expressions Washi Tape! I thought to myself, why not make a Washi Tape Pumpkin!

Using Krylon spray paint that I had, I spray painted the box to cover up most of the red designs on the popcorn box. The color was not quite orange, but it did the trick.

Once the spray paint was dry, I covered the box in orange wash tape. I didn’t want the lines to be perfect, so I made the tape go in all different ways! It kind of made it look like an orange mummy! Once it was covered, I used an Exacto knife to trim around the scalloped top of the box.

Next, I just tore pieces of black washi tape to make the pumpkin face!

And it was done! Super easy and perfect for a Halloween movie night with some popcorn!

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Candy Corn Fun with a Laura Kelly Printable!

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It’s Candy Corn Time!!!!

It’s that time of year again! It’s now Fall and the weather is changing. And if you go to your local stores, Halloween displays are out! With the Halloween displays, comes the Candy Corn! Yum!
My friend Laura Kelly created a cute little Candy Corn Printable. You can download it for free! And if you make something with it, she’d love to see it!

I love to color by hand, but I also love using the Live Paint Bucket in Adobe Illustrator to color! That’s what I did here with Laura’s printable! I also added a few words on one of the pieces of Candy Corn that I planned to cut out and use for my Candy Corn guessing game!
Once the sheet was all colored, I created a “Guesses!” sheet, leaving room at the top to add some of the colored pieces from the sheet. I printed out my colored Candy Corn Printable, cut some pieces out and glued them to my “Guesses!” sheet!
Now it’s time for everyone to make their guesses as to how many pieces of Candy Corn are in my mason jar! I can’t wait to find out who gets the closest! I did not count them yet, as I wanted to make a guess too! Hope you like my quick and fun idea of using Laura’s cute Candy Corn Printable!!!

Until next time………

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National Watermelon Day 2015

Expressionery Wraps With World Market!

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Expressionery.com, Laura Kelly and World Market put together this awesome blog hop to show twenty ways to wrap World Market gifts with World Market wrapping and Expressionery.com personalized self inking stamps with Laura Kelly designs! Read on to see how I used my self-inking Expressionery.com stamp and World Market goodies provided by Laura Kelly, as well as some that I purchased myself! Below is a picture of the goodie box that was delivered by my awesome friend Laura Kelly!
After looking at my box of goodies, I made my way over to World Market to see what I could find to help with wrapping my gifts! There was a pouch of bath fizzers and a cute little jar in the box. I put the fizzers in the jar. While I was at World Market, I found an inflatable bath pillow. I thought this combination might make a great teachers gifts. After a long day, she could go home and take a nice relaxing bath. The orange tissue was included in my box, so I bought an adorable World Market gift bag to go with it. Laura also included some pink crinkle paper that i stuck in the bottom of the bag. Also, there were some awesome, sturdy gift tags. Using my Expressionery.com self inking stamp, I made that my personalized gift tag.
Placing the pink crinkle paper in the bottom of my bag, I added my jar of bath fizzers and the inflatable bath pillow, inserted my tissue paper, added my personalized gift tag and it was ready to go! I totally love the adorable World Market gift bags!
Also included in my box was some World Market coffee, tea and chocolate! During my trip to World Market, I purchased this cute COFFEE mug and some smaller gift bags (these came in a pack of 6).

Like with the bath gift, I did the same with the coffee gift, minus crinkle paper! Laura also provided the bright yellow tissue paper! I finished this gift off with a personalized gift tag too!

Be sure to check out these other great ways to wrap your gifts with World Market and Expressionery.com

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Expressionery Bakes!

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Sweets, Sweets, Sweets! I love to bake them and with the help of Expressionery.com, Laura Kelly and The Bakers Party Shop sponsoring this awesome post, I was able to bake and decorate with awesome baking supplies and an adorable personalized self-inking stamp!

Getting inspiration from Pinterest, I made a Sunkist flavored cake, using a Betty Crocker box mix and a 12oz Sunkist. My boys love helping me bake, especially when I am using my Kitchenaid Mixer!
Ingredients:
1 Box of cake mix (do not add egg, oil, water)
12 oz of Sunkist

Follow instructions on the box for baking.
The Bakers Party Shop sent me adorable cupcake liners and mini pie pans. We decided to use them both, creating cupcakes and cupcake pies!
I love homemade cream cheese frosting, so I decided to make that and add the Orange Cream Flavoring and Electric Orange gel food coloring to make my frosting taste like and look oranges! Of course, they boys were excited to be able to eat any frosting that wasn’t being used!
Recipe:
8oz cream cheese, softened
1 stick of butter, softened
4 cups of powdered sugar
Orange Cream Flavoring, to taste
Electric Orange gel food coloring, to coloring liking

Mix the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Slowly add the powdered sugar. Once all combined, add in the flavoring and the food coloring.
The Bakers Party Shop also sent these beach themed candy molds and these adorable sprinkles! Using vanilla candies, I made candied shells and sea creatures to go on my cupcakes.
Expressionery.com supplied me with this adorable “Baked with a lot of Love – Katie & The Berry Boys” personalized self-inking stamp with art by my best friend, Laura Kelly! Included in my box of goodies from The Bakers Party Shop was some bakers twine, tags and adorable packaging.
I love all of the goodies from The Bakers Party Shop and the stamp from Expressionery.com.
You can get your very own personalized self-inking stamp from Expressionery.com.
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You can get your very own baking supplies from The Bakers Party Shop. The Bakers Party Shop is offering a 25% off promo with SUNSHINE25.

Be sure to enter to win $250 Visa gift card and a personalized Expressionery Stamp!
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And be sure to check out these other amazing ideas using supplies from The Bakers Party Shop and Personalized Stamps from Expressionery.com!

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