crafty sisters summer garden stakes

It's still Thursday somewhere right?

In my mad rush to head out of town to a Lacrosse tournament,  I was barely able to get my pictures uploaded to post for this month's summer project!  I even forgot to upload my original wood cuts for a full tutorial.  Sorry!

OK...to get to the point of my project...I love summer!  I love love love being out in my yard in the heat but most of all I love gardening!  There is honestly nothing more I enjoy then digging in the dirt.  So my daughter and I made some quick and easy garden stakes made from a fence board.We cut our cat heads into various squares and rectangles about 8 and 9" high, did a few rough cuts to add some ears and sanded down the rough edges.  For the noses we used left over pieces of wood lathe which was the purrrrrfect width.....sorry I couldn't resist that one!

I found these cool little screw on caps in the electrical department that I used to hold my stake in place.  I used my miter saw to cut different lengths of metal stake that was 1/4" in size.  Watch out when you do this cuz sparks will fly!

We used acrylic craft paint to customize replicas of our own kitties, nailed on the noses, sanded off the edges for a little pop and then sealed with a couple of coats of polyurethane to protect them from the elements.

Super easy and a fun project you can do easily in an hour with your kids!  

I see some more to be made in our future.....ducks....squirrels.....options unlimited!

Happy Summer from Crafty Sisters!!

Phoebe, Fluffy, Callie & Morris.  Four very spoiled kitties!

Hello Sunshine!- Sassy Sanctuary

Hello all!  Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here today. Its been a long time, no blogging.  Here is my excuse.

Meet Liam!

The last couple of months have been spent snuggling this little guy and chasing his 3 older siblings.  So not much crafting was going on and boy did I miss it!

Crafting makes me happy.

Its sorta my "me" thing, so a round of WYLTC was definitely in order!

When Melinda announced that our theme would be "summer,"  I admit I was stumped!  So I got on pinterest and search summer decor and found a bunch of  "hello sunshine"  signs and other crafts.  So I decided to do my own spin off of that.  Because what says summer more then sunshine?!?!
(and I do LOVE the sunshine!)

It makes me happy.  :)

Now I was a horrible blogger and completely forgot to take pictures along the way, but here is my method.

I always make a paper templete before I transfer anything to wood.  I used a kitchen plate to get a half circle, then made one of the suns rays and traced it around the sun.  I just eyeballed the spacing.  They arent perfect but close enough!  I also just free handed the little cloud.  Once I had my template I traced the sun and cloud onto wood and cut them out. 

Then all you have to do it sand and paint!  I decided to add a little paper to the middle part of the sun and then, because I felt like it still needed a little something, something... I added gold and white glitter.

I cut the text "hello" from vinyl and used it as a stencil to paint on my word.  The font is called "japan".

Then you just hot glue (or any glue you prefer) your cloud to the sun and let it brighten your day!

I hope you all are having a faboulous summer so far!  And be sure to come back to see what Wendy and the Crafty Sisters have in store for summer!

Now I'm off to tend to a hungry baby!