Nautical diy cards

August 22, 2013

I’m sharing another diy I made for the world is your oyster blogger exchange. This one is a nautical card diy. You will need:

-a few cards ( I had some with patterns but you could use plain also)
-acrylic paint-for nautical flags you need red, blue, yellow, and white
-paintbrushes
-a search for nautical flags pulled up on a browser

First paint a white line across the middle of the card to “hang” your flags on and then choose 5 flag designs to add to it. Do this on as many cards as you like! I chose 3 cards since it seemed like a good number.

Have fun painting!

Nautical themed coasters

August 21, 2013

Yesterday I mentioned I am participating in a mail exchange. This months theme is the world is your oyster. I brainstormed some ideas for diys and one of them was cork coasters (they can also be used for mini wall art).

For the project I used:

-a large piece of cork
-acrylic paint
-chalkboard paint (not pictured)
-paintbrushes

First I cut 4 squares from the larger piece of cork and then I decided on 3 different images to paint on each one and I decided to paint the 4th with chalkboard paint so that little messages could be written on it between uses.

I chose to paint a lobster, an anchor, and some nautical buoys. On the chalkboard coaster I wrote the theme of the package. I love how the set turned out and I was temped to make my own set since I had so much fun painting them all.

A themed package: the world is your oyster

August 20, 2013

Last month I mentioned that I was taking part in a blogger exchange held by Lani of Elle Dee Designs. I have so much fun putting together my packages that I thought I would share the one I mailed out this month.

The theme was The World is your Oyster. I found a fun door stop DIY, I cut and painted some cork coasters, added nautical flags to some cards, found some pretty salts at a local shop (get it sea salt), gathered some heart shaped shells at the beach, and included a chocolate bar because I think in most cases you just can’t go wrong with chocolate. I’ll be sharing the details of a few of these projects this week. Stay tuned.

I also love to carry the theme into the packaging so I made a treasure map of sorts with pictures that match the packaging on each item. The idea is that you follow the map and open each package in the order in appears on the map. I think it turned out pretty darn cute!

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