CTR B Lesson 30 – Jesus Christ Love ME {Free Printable}

I know this is very last minute…but hey that’s how I roll. (That’s what happens when a disorganized person tries to run a business and raise four kids at the same time!)  Well for all you procrastinators like me….or maybe your ward is a week behind mine and you are super awesome and preparing next weeks lesson, or maybe you just want something to keep your kids entertained either at home or during sacrament meeting.  Whatever your reason please help yourself to these free "print and color" printable'.  
 
 http://www.4shared.com/photo/8MfaZPbK/CTR_B_Lesson_30_-_Jesus_Christ.h

http://www.4shared.com/photo/cuvbV9bJ/CTR_B_Lesson_30.html

Guest Post - Creative Idea to Display Free Printables!

I love to make Subway art for each holiday, but my little cheap black frame from the dollar store for the subway art just wasn't cuttin' it any more. Not to mention it was falling apart and the prints were getting all bent up moving them in and out and storing them. I love a project that can be interchangeable, so I LOVE, LOVE this idea from Poppy Seed Projects! This plaque is made with one of the Christmas printables which is PERFECT for a Christmas in July project! 

This would be a perfect Super Saturday project!

Last Minute Father’s Day Printable – Banner and Block

Just incase you are looking for some last minute Father’s Day gifts and decor I have two fun projects that I created for the kids.  The first is a printable that we used for the Father’s Day Blocks that we made for our Kids Craft Class last Tues.  (The next class is this Tues. the 18th at 10:00 am., we will be making Road Trip Chalkboard Plaques).  This is an update on a project that I did a tutorial on a couple of years ago.



The print we used for the class is a small 3x3.

Monday Madness – Chalk Board Plaques

Happy Memorial Day!
If you keep up with trends and read blogs then you’ve seen Chalkboard prints…they are everywhere.  I have to admit I am kind of infatuated with them.  I love the throw back to antique signs and marketing designs that are usually mixed in with newer fonts and elements.  Plus they are super fun to design. 
We are excited to introduce a new project….a line of chalkboard prints.  The prints can be purchased on their own, or as a kit.  The kits include a plaque of wood to mount the print on, as well as step by step instructions.  When I made mine I added some Texturizing Cream to the top layer. 

Scatter Sunshine Chalk Board Plaque



The best part about this project though is that we will also be offering the prints as free printables. The Spring Chalk Board printable is already online ready to go.  If you looking for fast (and still pretty dang affordable} the Spring Chalk Board plaque kit can also be purchase online for only $7.95.

10 Fast, Affordable and Free Mother’s Day Gifts Using Printables

About a week ago I posted some of our free printable for Mother’s Day, well I reworked a few of them for some more fun options (okay really, I needed something to add to my own Mother’s Day gifts. )  So  here are a few last minute gift ideas and {gift decorating ideas} for Mother’s Day.  ALL of them based around some FREE PRINTABLES - Too bad husband's don't read blogs. . .these are so easy, even they could do them.

First a cute gift tag. . . .

 
. . . or two.  This one really can have multiple personalities and also work as a printable for a frame
Or as a card.



For additional colors see the original blog post.

There are also a couple of different version of this one.

Guest Post - DIY Mother's Day Serving Tray Made from Shaped Frame

Hi! Mariah here from Giggles Galore, I’m excited to be here sharing an easy and inexpensive idea I’m sure you will love.

Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we all know mom could use a little pampering. Why not serve mom a special breakfast on this DIY Serving Tray using a stylish shaped mdf frame from Poppy Seed Projects!

This modern serving tray is an easy DIY project that will make a big impact. Let’s get started.

Free Spring Chalk Board Art Printable

I love Spring!  Really who doesn’t?  But I think if you live in a snowy area like Ut. where the weather is at best chaotic you have a special appreciation for Spring.  When the tulips and grape hyacinthia’s start to bloom….


….my heart just feel lighter and I start to get in decorating mode.  Yes I said decorating mode.  Nothing inspires me to liven things up like Spring.  Last year I shared a popular post on Tips and Tricks for Decorating for Spring.  This year I’ve already shared the Top Five Spring Projects , but I thought I would also share a free Chalk Board Spring printable with you.  This is also one of the projects that we did during the craft class we taught at Snap this year.

Princess Birthday Party Freebies and Templates

As promised here are the freebies and templates from Ellie’s Princess Birthday Party.

Below each picture is a link to down load the freebies. The downloads of course won’t be personalized and won’t have the Poppy Seed logo on them. The only thing that I ask is that you please, be courteous of both my time and ideas and only use freebies for your own personal use. 

First the invites.  Once MPIX delivered these little babies all I did was add the little Crystal to the wheels.  It was simple enough that Ellie could help, which she loved of course.

Here’s the actual pick of the invite.  You’ve seen the front side….



http://www.4shared.com/photo/DznERT0N/Ellies_th_B-day_Invite_-_Blank.html

…but I have yet to show off the back side.  Have I ever mentioned how much I love polka dots?



http://www.4shared.com/photo/fEqVDcz0/Ellies_th_B-day_Invite_-_Backs.html

Guest Post - Neighbor Gift Printable

 

 Hi, I'm Nikkala one of the Crafting Chicks and I'm excited to be guesting on Poppy Seed Projects today! This project takes 2 of my favorite things and combines them into a little gift that would be great to give neighbors or friends for Christmas.

 

First thing that I love? Poppy Seeds miniature frames! You know how small things are adorable? Well, it's the same with these frames! I think they are so fun painted a bright color and left empty on a wall. In fact (don't tell Kim or Holly) I think the mini's are my absolute favorite of all their frames. I used the Miniature Eleanor Frames, sanded and painted a metallic red. Because the frame is so small I decided to keep it pretty simple and just a solid color.

   

 And the other thing I'm loving right now is chalkboard art! So I created this little bitty sign to go inside the frame. You can download them here. They come 4 to a page and are sized 4" x 3" to fit perfectly.

You could use regular tape to hold it all together, but why?! I used red polka dot washi tape on the back. It adds a fun little surprise!

   

 This is one of my favorite Christmas songs, but being election day and all, I guess it's fitting for today too! Don't forget to vote! :)

Great post, Nikkala! We {heart} the crafting chicks and all their fun ideas, and that is a DARLING little printout.  Only seven weeks until Christmas so I had better get my be-hind into start on some neighbor gifts...thanks for the reminder!

Happy Halloween – Last Minute Free Printable

Still adding some last minute touches for Halloween night?  Well you are not alone, to be honest with you I never really stop decorating for the Holidays until the day after.  I love adding last minute touches and looking for last minute deals.  I figure even if I only have it up for a couple of days this year, it’s going to be Halloween again next year. . . right?  Or maybe you need a last minute gift for I dunno. . .Visiting Teaching?  (They sale really great frames at the dollar store that can be spray painted in less than 10 min).

Regardless of what you use it for I hope you enjoy!  And don’t forget the sale on $3.00 5x7 mdf shaped frames ends Sunday at midnight.  For more details read this weeks Monday Morning Madness post.

  

http://www.4shared.com/photo/AX3MTZPt/Happy_Halloween_Free_Printable.html

A Collection of Cute Ideas

No guest post this week, sorry!  BUT instead I thought it would be fun to show some of my favorite post by various bloggers featuring Poppy Seed Projects.  Most of them are fantastic tutorials, or great decorating tips.
Becky from The Crafting Chicks uses our Carson frame for her easy tutorial on how to paint stripes on a frame using painters tape.

Vivienne from The V Spot Blog .com features one of our all time most popular plaques, the Hello Sunshine Plaque to show how she turned a mistake into one of my all time favorite plaques.

SWEET S'MORE BAR PRINTABLE

School started at our house last week.  I was sad summer flew by so quickly and my little buddies wouldn't be home all day anymore - I wasn't ready!  Then the day before school started they drove me CRAZY at the grocery store and as punches were flying at the checkout stand{between them, not me!} I had a change of heart, haha.  Regardless of how I felt they were ecstatic to go back to school and that is all I can ask for, right?

As summer winds down I wanted to share a fun freebie for all of those last summer parties and camping trips.  We did a killer s'more bar for our Relief Society BBQ a couple of weeks ago, and it had every body drooling for dessert before we even ate dinner!  Since it was Relief Society we had to make it cute - a bag of marshmallows and a box of graham crackers just wouldn't do...

Spiderman Birthday Party FREEBIE

My oldest turns seven  (SEVEN?!) next week.  I'm trying to wrap my head around that and plan his birthday party at the same time.

This kid is IN LOVE with birthdays.  His birthday, someone else's birthday, it doesn't matter, he has always had a big thing for birthdays.  Here is my proof (excuse me while I go cry my eyes out because I swear he was this little  5 minutes ago):

Guest Post - Super Cute Super Saturday Ideas

Hi Poppy Seed followers.  My name is Adrienne and I am the blogger behind Free Time Frolics. I am so excited to be here with you at Poppy Seed Projects.  Thanks Holly for having me.  Today I will be sharing a few projects for Super Saturday Ideas or Gift for you to make for your own friends and family.

1. I Love to see The Temple

I had this one in mind for my daughter.  It would make a great gift for that special Little Miss in your life. I was going to wait for Christmas to give my Little Miss hers but she saw it and fell in love.  Her favorite song to sing is I Love to See the Temple.  We sing it every night.

Happy 4th Flag Banner Freebie

If you are like me you have a TON of BBQ’s not just this weekend, but all week. . . and into next weekend AND if you are like me you have waited until the last minute to start figuring things out.
WELL here are two really simple freebies that will and some serious cuteness to your festivities.

FIRST FREE DOWNLOAD:

Happy 4th Flag Banner

I have to say these were not easy pictures to take. . .up against a window with all that light coming through and messing things up.

SUPER FUN SUMMER - FREE PRINTABLE

I don't know about the rest of you, but by the time school has been out for a few weeks my kids start to get BORED if I don't have things planned for them to do.  Trying to avoid that this year, I came up with a plan.  I decided to assign a specific activity to each day of the week.  My cute friend (and super fun mom) Hillary did this last year with her kids and let me borrow her names for each day of the week.  

Here is our summer schedule, day by day:

Father's Day Freebie - Office Snack Labels

This year my husband decided to take care of his own Father's Day present a couple of weeks early.  He needed something for his mountain bike, and that was fine with me! Even though he bought his actual gift, I still want to do some things on Sunday to make him feel special and let him know how much I appreciate the kind of dad he is every day of the year.  Since we're in the middle of moving, I had three basic requirements:

1.  Cheap (he already bought his real present)
2.  Easy (like, "the kids need to be able to do most of it while I pack up the kitchen" kind of easy)
3.  Handmade (in a manly sort of way - he doesn't care about baker's twine and cute scrapbook paper)

LAST MINUTE TEACHER GIFT

 I had big plans this year to make a cute craft for my boys' teachers as an end of the year thank you gift.  That shouldn't have been too hard, since HELLO - I happen to have access to lots of craft supplies.  I've done it before, and it has always been a big hit.  But this year the week got away from me (that is not a surprise lately) and the day before school ended I decided to bag the craft and do a cute gift card instead.  Well then the DAY got away from me (are you sensing a pattern here? Ha!) and I was going to pick the gift cards up that night.  By the time we had dinner with cousins from out of town and the final tee-ball game of the season, and then a last minute cousin sleepover - the gift card idea got pushed to the wayside.  So after getting 6 children to sleep (or at least quiet) in our basement, I started looking around my house for a treat I could make the teachers instead.  Since it was 11 o'clock, this needed to be a quick treat.  What is the quickest treat out there?  

Rice Krispies!  Okay, I know what you're thinking.  Rice Krispie Treats -super lame.  But if you're thinking that YOU.ARE.WRONG.  Because these are not just any Rice Krispie Treats.  These are crazy-yummy, hide them from the kids, eat half the pan all by yourself Rice Krispie Treats.  If you don't believe me, you need to try them - they will change your life!  Okay, maybe they won't change your life, but they are really good.  Its the combo of the brown butter (gives them kind of a carmel-y taste) and the sea salt.  And it may or may not call for DOUBLE the amount of butter as traditional Rice Krispies - that could have a little something to do with it.

Once they were done we boxed them up in some cute little gable boxes from Poppy Seed, attached the label to the front with a glue stick, and tied the recipe (printed on cardstock) to the box.  The recipe was personalized by having my boys sign the bottom 'from the kitchen of' part.  Super cute, easy, and cheap!

Gable boxes available at Poppy Seed (in store).

Teacher Appreciation Freebies

Well just to show how self absorbed I can be I just figured that since my kids don’t get out of school until after Memorial Day, that nobody else did either.  I did also take my sisters kids into consideration when I made that assumption, they are on year round and aren’t out until July.  So I apologize that this is a little late for many of you, but here is a short list of freebies that we have listed on the blog for teachers.
Subway Teacher Print

http://www.4shared.com/photo/dlGqzXCn/Description_Teacher.html

Mother’s Day Free Printables

Looking for a couple of cute idea for Mother’s Day?  Here are a few of our past freebies that fit the occasion perfectly..
Mother’s Day Gift Tag:

http://www.4shared.com/photo/qcfRRUhI/Mothers_Day_Tag_2011.html