Decorating Graduation Cap

Decorating Graduation Cap

Besides making your own graduation announcements, you can also decorate your graduation cap. Decorating graduation caps is a great way to get a few classmates together to hang out and crafted a little bit before the big day.

Materials:

• Graduation cap
• Picture of idea for cap (apple)
• Scissors
• White crayon
• Jewels/Gems (brought a pound for $8 at Hobby Lobby using a coupon)
• Tweezers (helps when laying the jewel down on the cap)
• Jewel it! (Type of glue for the jewels) $ 4.99 at Hobby Lobby

I really wanted my graduation cap to reflect my personality and future career. We (me and classmates) started by making a list of things we would want on our caps. We deceived we would make apples because were graduation with a Bachelors in Elementary Education and will soon be teachers!! I just printed a picture of an apple from clipart and cut it out. I placed the cutout on top of my cap and drew around it with a white crayon. Once the white outline was on the cap we started to bejewel or bedazzle the cap with gems/jewels. It is better to start from the inside out using the jewel it! glue and jewels. Remember to leave a little room from your tassel. (By the way, not one jewel fell off and it’s been 3 weeks)

Graduation

Graduation Announcements

It’s that time again, Graduation! Graduation is a time of celebration but can be hard on the pocket book. I recently graduated from college with a degree in Elementary Education and my pocket book was very tight being a single mother and having to start paying loans back. So I had the great idea of making my own graduation announcements and bedazzling my graduation cap.

All the graduation announcements I looked at were 25 cards for a $100 or more. So I decided I could make my own cute announcement for half the price or even less.

First I started by thinking about what size I wanted the announcements to be. I decided on 5x7. Always make a sample card before cutting all your paper. I made the black card stock 5x7 and made all the other colors smaller to give it a cuter look. Below is a list of the materials I used and a picture of the finished product.

Materials:

• 1 pack of envelopes (25 to a pack for $2.99 at Hobby Lobby)
• 9 sheets of 12x12 black card stock (Cardstock was 50% off at Hobby Lobby making each sheet of cardstock 30 cents)
• 9 sheets of 12x12 purple cardstock
• 13 sheets of 8x10 white cardstock (I used the white cardstock to print my writing. This paper was only 15 cents a sheet!)
• 1 purple polka dot ribbon (This ribbon was 2 inches and from Michaels. I used a 40% off coupon making the ribbon only $2.50)
• 1 silver ribbon (This ribbon was $2 from Craft warehouse)
• 1 package of Craft Glue Dots (love, love, love!!) $4.99 most expensive but well worth the price
• Paper cutter (already purchased)

Making the grand total $19.83!

Diaper Cakes!!

Diaper Cakes!!
I became interested in diaper cakes when I started looking for a cute baby shower gift for a friend. I loved the idea of the diaper cake but hated the price! So I decided I could probably make my own diaper cake for less, come on how hard can it really be…and that how I got started making diaper cakes!

Below is a picture of one of the first diaper cakes I made. This diaper cake is actually a rolled diaper cake meaning all the diapers are individual rolled and secured with a rubber band.

Materials:

• 90-100 disposable diapers
• Rubber bands
• 3 different styles, size, and colored ribbon
• Wooden characters
• Cardstock
• Circut
• Cake tray
• Tissue paper or cut up paper strips
• Hot Glue and Hot Glue Gun

Below is another diaper cake I made using the rolled diapers. For this diaper cake, I decided to cover all the diapers/tiers using cardstock, pink zebra and lime green ribbon. Instead of covering the second tier with card stock, I decided to use a skirt that I purchased for the baby. To add a finally detail, I cricut out the letter J for Justine!

Materials:

• 90-100 disposable diapers
• Rubber bands
• 2 different styles, size, and colored ribbon
• Cardstock
• Circut
• Baby clothes
• Cake tray
• Tissue paper or cut up paper strips
• Hot Glue and Hot Glue Gun

What you can make a diaper cake without rolling up 90 to 100 diapers? Yes, that’s right folks there an easier way to make a diaper cake! It’s called a spiral diaper cake and to be honest this is my favorite way to make a diaper cake, it looks clean and classy! Oh, and did I tell you that you actually use LESS diapers!

Materials:

• 60-100 diapers (depends on the amount of tiers your making) I was able to make one 3-tier diaper cake and one 2-tier diaper cake using 96 diapers!
• Cake pans of various sizes (12, 10, and 8 inches)
• Large rubber bands
• 3 or less different, style, sizes, and colored ribbon
• Flowers (from Hobby Lobby print a 40% off coupon from the website)
• Cake tray
• Tissue paper or cut up paper strips
• Hot Glue and Hot Glue Gun

A Diaper cake that Lani made! More diaper cake pictures coming soon!!!

Here is a couple more pictures of other tutus I have done...

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Lani's beautiful daughter madison

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Cherrelle's daughter on 4th of July 2011!! Cherrelle made her tutu!

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So I recently did a spa/ tea party for my daughter who turned 4. So I thought I would post some pics to give you lady's some party ideas!! I made tea hats for all the girls and I made my daughter a hot pink tutu. Everything turned out great. They played dress up, had tea, got there nails and toes done we even did a couple of crafts. The first craft was decorating princess wands and the other was making friendship bracelets. All though I did lose the beautiful charms I bought for them to use they still came out adorable. For snacking we did sandwiches which I had walmarts deli make. I made fruit kabobs and a vegi tray and of course chips you cant have sandwiches without chips lol. I bought the indiv snack size box of chips at Costco. I came with 50 for only 10.98. Also we had cute little mini sugar cookies with hot pink frosting to got with the tea/apple juice. Also her cake looked like a teapot and the cupcakes like tea cups. Inside the goody bags that looked like purses where necklaces and toy rings along with candy and cake pops and pretend earrings. The girls had a blast!!!!  I will say it was by far the smallest party shes had but also the best. Easy with no stress and that's how this crafty mommy likes it.

She told me about a million times that day that we were the best mommy and daddy in the whole world, and I told her if I could I would give her the world!!=)  We had such a wonderful time!!!

The hats and the flowers on the hats came from the dollar store so inexpensive. The ribbon was from hobby lobby for 2.99. All I needed was my handy hot glue gun.