1st Birthday Cupcake Door Hanger!!

  What you will need:

1.     24” cupcake

2.  6" number

3.   8” circle

4.  light blue, turquoise, and hot pink spray paint

5.   assorted craft paint

6.   wood glue and hot glue

 Step 1:

Spray paint the cupcake light blue.

  Step 2:

Next, use a shade darker and paint ridges.

  

Step 3:

Use an angled brush to paint different colored swirls on the top of the cupcake.

  Step 4:

Highlight the swirls with colors that are nearby them.

  Step 5:

Paint the circle pink.

  Step 6:

Paint the number turquoise. 

                                                                           Step 7:
Attach the circle the the bottom part of the cupcake and the number to the circle use wood glue and hot glue. Hot glue acts as a temporary hold until the wood glue dries, the wood glue will create an almost permanent bond.  Its very durable.  I highly recommend elmers wood glue. 

Mermaid Plaques

Mermaid Plaques

What You Will Need:

1. 2 plaques (link) 

2. Blue and pink spray paint

3. Scrapbook paper

3. 2 mermaid cutouts (link) 

4. spray adhesive 

Step 1:

Spray plaques pink, focus mainly on the sides.

Step 2:

Spray the mermaids blue.

Step 3:

Spray the plaques with spray adhesive and allow to sit for 10 seconds before placing the paper. 

Step 4:

Place the paper on the plaques and smooth with your hands.

Step 5:

Use an X acto knife to remove excess paper.

Step 6:
Use E6000 and hot glue to attach the mermaid to the plaque.  The hot glue acts as a temporary hold until the E6000 dries.

Ice Cream door hanger

Ice Cream Door Hanger

What you will need:

1. Unfinished Ice cream cone, from build-a-cross.com

2. tan and cream spray paint

3. brown, blue, and pink craft paint

4.  large paintbrush 

Step 1:

Use spray paint to paint the ice cream cone. Paint the top then the bottom. 

Step 2:

Mix water and brown paint together then paint it onto the ice-cream. 

Step 3:

Wipe the watered down paint off with  a paper towel horizontally. 

Step 4:

Next, with a small paintbrush paint "Sweet Summertime" in your own hand-writing. If you don't like your hand-writing you can google a font and look at it as you paint it.  Google "sweet summertime" and click image search.  This helps me a lot!

Step 5:

Next paint brown criss cross lines on the cone.

Step 6:

Next, staple burlap ribbon onto the back for hanging.