Window Herb Garden with Chalkboard Labels

 It's Wood You Like To Craft week again!  This month we are making "chalkboard" projects and I'm sharing my window herb garden with chalkboard labels.  Go check it out!

It might just be my favorite project of all time...

As always I'm linking to these great parties and events:

DHD Blog Hop- Inspiration and a free printable!

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to Sassy Sanctuary!  I'm super excited to be a part of today's blog/facebook hop and to share a little scrap-booking inspiration using this months oh so cute house party kits!

This months color scheme is titled "romantic"  and it is a beautiful, soft pallet perfect for your little girls or lovey dovey photos of you and your loved ones!

 
You can check out and download the kits HERE.
The house party kits will be on sale, 30% off, through May 5th.

So... what do you do with these lovely kits?  Well... make beautiful scrapbook layouts of course!

This first layout is of my sweet little Ava.  These are the pictures from her Easter photo shoot.  I just love these pictures and love how the kits colors really complement them and leave a very pretty, soft overall feel.

And with the romantic theme in mind I went and found a few photos of me and my honey.  These are pictures of us at our wedding, one from a few years ago, and one from sometime in between.  Its fun to see how we have grown and aged together.     The romantic kits have everything you need to tell your own love story.  Aww!

(Come visit my DHD gallery to see exactly which kits I used for these layouts.)

BUT, I've said it before, as much as I love digital scrapping, my true love is digital printables!  So with Mother's Day just around the corner (at least in the US)  I thought I'd use the house party kits to make you guys a free printable.  Mothers Day Cupcake Toppers!

Aren't they sweet!  What a perfect addition to any Mother's Day Celebration!  (And what Momma doesn't like cupcakes?!?  I know this one does!!)

Here is your printable.  Just save the image (click to get the full image and not the thumbnail) and print it as a "full page." I like to use card-stock to give them some weight.

(FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY)

They are created to be used with a 2" punch.  I have both a circle and a flower punch and love them for cupcake toppers.  The punches I use are EK punches.  You can get them at Joann's (be sure to print a 40% off coupon!) and they are great because they have a deep reach and you can see what you are punching!

Then all you have to do is tape a tooth pick to the back and stick them in your cupcakes!

And if you REALLY want to wow your mom, you can make matching wrappers too!  All you do is pick out some matching papers from the kits and print them.  Then print the template and cut out the shapes.  The template is going to make them a little on the big side, so if you have smaller cupcakes (like I did) you may have to trim them down a bit.  I ended up taking about 1/4" from all sides to get mine to fit right.  Just take a little off at a time until you get them to fit your particular cupcake.

They are basically little sleeves that your cupcakes sit in.  But they sure make the cupcakes look special!

Here is the template for them.  Once again, click to view the full image, save it, and print it "full page."

And HERE is the link again so you can go pick up a paper pack to match the toppers.

I hope you'll enjoy this month's house party kits and create some lovely scrapbook layouts and make your Momma a special Mother's Day cupcake!

And if you do craft with us using the house party kits we want to see!  Please post your cards, layouts, and crafts in our color swatch challenge so we all can share in the inspiration!

If you are new to digital scrapbooking and would like to give it a try, I use and LOVE the software Scrapbook Max.  You can download a free trial and see what you think.  Its super easy to use and I know you will love it!  But I have to warn you, once you go ditgital, you'll never go back!!!

You can follow the rest of the DHD blog/fb hop by going here

(Sorry about the "pin it" app.  Just be sure to click the arrow where the pin it button doesn't appear)

Wood You Like To Craft- Mother's Day Projects

Hey Everyone!  Its Wood You Like To Craft week again and this month we are all doing Mother's Day Projects.  There has been some seriously cute ideas so far but today its my turn to share my Angel Mother....

Click on over to check out all the details.

And don't forget to see what everyone else made while you are over there.  You won't be disappointed!

Wood Conection Winner

The winner of the $25 gift certificate to The Wood Connection is....

drum roll please...

 

Who is...  

 

Amanda who said "How fun is this?! I totally think I am going to have to make one of these. Love it! Love The Wood Connection too :)"

 

Congrats Amanda!  I'll email you now!

 

Flower Dry Erase Board- Guest Posting for the Wood Connection

Hello Everyone!  I'm so excited to be guest posting for The Wood Connection again today.  They have the cutest stuff!!!

Now, I have been dying to get my hands on dry erase paint.  Have you heard of the stuff?  Well a trip to the Wood Connection was the perfect excuses to try it out on something. It looks like this...

You can get it at Home Depot or Walmart, for about $20.  Then take a trip to the Wood Connection and get all the rest of your supplies and you'll end up with something like this....

How fun is that?!  My 4 year old daughter about went nuts when she saw it.  In hind sight I should have made it to match her room, but I didn't so it lives in my hallway.  Its the perfect place to write notes to your family...

 

Or keep a weekday calendar...

And it even looks great just wiped clean...

So are you sold and want to make one of your own?  Head on over to the Wood Connection's blog to get the Full Tutorial.


But thats not all!

GIVEAWAY TIME

The Wood Connection has so kindly offered to give one of YOU a $25 gift certificate to their store! They are located in Salt Lake City, Utah so whoever wins will have to be able to get to their store to use it. They have some of the cutest wood craft kits and everything is all ready to go, making it super fun and easy to spit out some cute creations!

 To enter leave me a comment on this post!

Good Luck!!!

Sweet As Spring- DHD Blog Hop and FREE printable!

Hello everyone!  If you are here from Design House Digital, welcome!  I am so glad to have you "stop" by Sassy Sanctuary and I hope you'll follow along and join my madness.  To the rest of you (so you know whats going on) in order to celebrate the official coming of spring, we at Design House Digital bring you a sweet new blog hop, “Sweet as Spring!”

Start at the Design House Digital blog, and visit a series of blogs belonging to the Design House Digital creative team.   At each blog stop, you will learn something new from one of our Design House Artists and find a "clue."  You will need to follow the hop in order, write down the clues and put all the clues together to form a coupon code for the wonderful "Sweet as Spring" Mega kit!

Isn't it so pretty?!?!

Twelve designers contributed a total of 67 elements, 51 papers, and 4 alpha sets , and this gorgeous kit is a treasure worthy of the journey.  But, in addition, everyone who downloads the kit before Wednesday, March 27, will also be entered into a drawing for a $15 gift certificate to the Design House Digital shop!

But that's not all!  We have a challenge for you, too: build something amazing of your own!  Using just the Sweet as Spring collaboration kit (and your own photos, of course), create your own project and put it into our Sweet  as Spring Challenge Gallery.  If you post your project before April 17, you will be entered into another drawing for a $15 gift certificate to the Design House Digital shop, but the challenge gallery will remain open afterwards, and we would love to see your layouts any time.

If you are new to digital scrapbooking and would like to give it a try.  I use and LOVE the software Scrapbook Max.  You can download a free trial and see what you think.  And be sure to download the "Sweet as Spring" kit so you have some goodies to play around with!  But I have to warn you, once you go ditgital, you'll be hooked!!!

So now for the fun part.  What can you do with the faboulous kit?  Well... you are sure to create may beautiful layouts like this...

But one of my favorite things to do with digital kits is make banners and other "printables".  I've made banners for baby showers and other parties before, but this time I created a "spring" banner for my mantle.  Want to see?

I just love it!  It is such a cute addtion to my spring display.

If you want to make a banner of your own, they are super easy to do.  I just make individual images for each pennant of the banner.  Usually at 4x6, since that is a standard photo size.  Then print them on card-stock, cut them out, punch a couple holes, and string them together using ribbon.

But it gets even easier.  If you want to make MY spring banner, I'm including all the images as a free printable! Just click on each image to view it full size, save each image to your computer, print and assemble!  

(FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY!)
DHD Terms of Use

I hope you'll enjoy them!

Now, here is my letter  for the coupon code:   D

You can use the list below to go to all of the stops in the blog hop, or you can jump directly to the next blog: BY CLICKING HERE 

·        Design House Blog- Start here!

·        Sarah Sullivan

·        Vanessa Fenton

·        Inkling and Wit

·        Diane Rooney

·        Mary Moseley

·        Kristin Damon

·        Imaginenation

·        Courtney VanSickle

·        Kandy Caballero

·        Krystal Winn

·        Tracey Allen

·        Qadirah Gomez

·        Kelly Birrell

·        Amy Lanham

·        Sweet as Spring – a blog hop treasure!

 

Thanks so much for coming by!!

12 Days of Easter Advent Calendar

Hey everyone!  Its the first on the month again which means its Wood You Like to Craft time!  This month we are sharing ideas for A Christ Centered Easter.  It should be awesome.  So be sure to check back all week and see all the fun projects.

Today I am there sharing my 12 Days of Easter Advent Calendar.  Head over and check it out!

click HERE

As always I'm linking to these great parties and events:

Jonah's Nursery

(The official almost done reveal)

Well... I've teased long enough.  I'm ready to show you guys Jonah's nursery.  There is still one more thing I plan to do in there, but who knows when I'll actually get around to it.  So without farther ado, here is the almost done nursury.

This is the view right as you walk into the room.  His walls are a "greyish green."  I painted the trees with some good old frog tape and some white paint.  The rocker is from Babies R Us and is super comfortable.  I spend a lot of time in that chair!

 As you rotate around you can see the cute mobile I made and the picture frame growth chart.  It looks so much cuter with all those sweet baby pictures in it!

The beautiful crib is the Ashby Crib from Pottery Barn.  It's a discontinued crib that I got from Downeast Home and paid a fraction of the PB price!  I LOVE Downeast Home!

And the bedding... I made it myself!!!  I'm not much of a seamstress and this is by far my biggest sewing project to date.  While time consuming, it was actually pretty easy. (Although I pretty much just winged it the whole time so I cant really give you a tutorial.  sorry!)  The whole room is based off this adorable print, Wonderland in Blue by Monaluna.

  

 I paired it with a bright blue minky, a tone on tone chevron, and red trim.  Its so bright and happy and I just LOVE it!  (The little owl throw blanket I found at TJ Maxx.)

As you continue around the room this is the view from behind the door.  I have my Baby Stats frame and a little coat hook. (Hello kitty!)

And finally as you circle around again you see the changing table and the alphabet banner I made.  The little dresser is also from pottery barn.

And that's it!  I hope you like it!  We are loving it.  Its such a fun space to hang out and snuggle my sweet little man.

 (Sorry for the less then stellar photos.  I tried to photograph when the room got the most light, but it just made for weird light and shadows. Bummer.  I really need to work on my photography skills)

As always I'm linking to these great parties and events: