Happy Weekend!

By Kelly on May 17, 2013

Holy Cannoli. I’ve gone from Florida to DC to New Jersey this week, and am headed into NYC as we speak!! And I’ve been crafting the whole way. First I made the flamingo piñata, on Wednesday I made a few dozen more honeycomb business cards, yesterday I made a dozen piñatas for a meeting (Yep, I said piñatas and meeting in the same sentence.) and my task this weekend is making giant letters and banners for Nole’s Paper Party at the National Stationery Show! Who needs sleep anyway, right!? If any of you are headed to NSS, please let me know! I’d love to say hi and I’ll be there all four days wandering around, squealing over every booth and piece of stationery. Goodness, I’m excited! But for now, I craft.

Streamers

Behind the Scenes of the DIY Giant Balloon Messages via My Instagram

{Inspire} Links to Love

How awesome are these “What to Pack” cards!?
This puppy themed party! Can I attend!?
Colorful cards you’ll find me drooling over at NSS.

{Create} DIY Projects & Recipes

I just think these gilded bear vases are too cute.
A cute way to package taffy favors!
Chocolate bar cake. Genius.
Loving these little painted cake toppers!
Gorgeous tablecloth DIY.
These popsicles need to happen in my house, immediately.

{Celebrate} Studio DIY Elsewhere

DIY piñatas rule! Honored to be included a few times!
Talking Gatsby on Oh So Beautiful Paper!

Find out what crafty things are happening in your area this weekend right here!

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DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

By Kelly on May 16, 2013

Since I’m running around like a crazy lady getting ready for NSS, I invited a few crafty folks to share their DIY genius here on Studio DIY over the next few weeks! Woohoo! First up, the ladies behind Icing Designs. You may remember the gorgeous paper flowers they shared here back at Christmas time, and now they have another paper flower DIY to share, this time for the warmer months! YAY! They jazzed up some paper lanterns with their faux floral creations and these are so perfect for outdoor bashes. Let’s get to crafting, huh? Take it away, Melissa and Kellie…

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

Mini paper lanterns (You could really do this with any size lantern!)
Tissue paper
Flower stamens (You can get these in the baking section of any craft store)
Ribbon
Scissors
Hot Glue
Layer 6-8 sheets of tissue paper (color of your choice)

Cut out a 2×2 inch square. Fold the square into quarters. Hold the folded tissue at the folded point, starting on one side cut around to make a petal shape (be careful not to cut to close to the point).

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

Unfold the tissue and layer the flower shapes on top of each other, staggering the petals.

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

Take the petals and fold them in half gently, cut a small slit in the back middle.

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

Stick the floral stamens in, put some hot glue on them {under the flower} to hold them in place. Also put a very small dab of glue on the top, layer by layer begin to squeeze each layer of the flower upward. Then fluff and separate them.

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

Trim the back if there are stamen stems hanging down, put a dab of glue on the back of the flower and glue it onto the lantern. Repeat until you have 3 flowers. If you are doing a larger lantern we suggest using 5-7 flowers.

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

Turn your lantern over and tie a piece of ribbon on the bottom. You can hang the lanterns with fishing line.

DIY Paper Flower Lanterns DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

How To Make Paper Flower Lanterns  DIY Paper Flower Lanterns

All Photos by Icing Designs for Studio DIY

Gorgeous!!!! A huge thank you to the Icing Designs ladies for getting us all ready for our outdoor events!! You can check out all their awesome DIYs on their blog right here.

For more paper flower DIYs, click here! And for more DIYs all around, head this way!

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Five Things That Look Like Fruit

By Kelly on May 15, 2013

We’re pretty lucky to have amazing fresh fruit and produce all year long in LA, but for a lot of you, strawberry season is just starting to hit (among other things)! YAY, my favorite! There’s something so, um, fresh and fun about fruit-inspired crafts and I’ve seen a ton of them lately. Is “fruit” a weird theme for a party!? Whatever, it’s totally on my list (along with a flamingo party too). Here’s five fruity crafts to get you started!

1. Fruit Balloons: Fruity balloons! The perfect little garland for summer parties, or even picnics!? Strung between the trees. I love it!!

DIY Fruit Balloons

Fruit Balloons by The House That Lars Built for Oh Happy Day

2. Watermelon Bunting: If you’re having a BBQ for Memorial Day and serving watermelon, perhaps you can change up the typical patriotic decor and throw in a little fruit inspired bunting! It’s a free printable, how do you pass it up!?

DIY Watermelon Bunting

DIY Watermelon Bunting via Mini-eco

3. Strawberry Favor Boxes: Could these BE any cuter!? A perfect itty bitty favor box, that would also be super cute strung all together on a garland, or as place cards! Can someone just throw a strawberry party and invite me!?

DIY Strawberry Favor Boxes

DIY Strawberry Favor Boxes via The REAL Housewives of Riverton

4. Fruit Honeycombs: We all know I love a good honeycomb project, and since Brittany is the queen of fruit-inspired crafts (see the balloon evidence above), she made fruit honeycombs happen! Awesome.

DIY Fruit Honeycombs

DIY Fruit Honeycombs via The House That Lars Built

5. Fruit Piñatas: Can’t end a post without a piñata, right!? I want to make a whole (giant) fruit bowl of these!

DIY Fruit Pinatas

DIY Fruit Piñatas via Kitiya Palaskas

Now just let me think of who I can convince to have a fruit themed birthday… any volunteers!?

Have something you’d like to see in the “Five Things to do with…” series? Let me know in the comments below!

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DIY Giant Balloon Messages

By Kelly on May 14, 2013

It’s graduation season and, in my world, it’s birthday season too, so I have a dual-purpose DIY for you today! Giant balloon messages!! (I told you my theme of the year was giant!) I wanted to create something that would make a big statement and since it has come to my attention that you folks love balloons they were the perfect thing to make it happen! To celebrate the Class of 2013, I used giant numbers and to ring in any other special occassion, I wrote a little message. Both were easily strung on the balloon and make great decor and gifts for just about any reason to celebrate!

DIY Giant Message Balloons

Giant Balloon Messages DIY

DIY Balloon Message Supplies

Poster Board
Scissors
Ruler
Tape
Balloons! (I used a 36″ round balloon)

Cut out your numbers or letters from your poster board (mine are about 15″ tall each). You can print off numbers/letters in a font you like to use as templates or just freehand it. I used a ruler to make sure all my numbers were equal width since I didn’t use a template. Tape your numbers/letters to the string of the balloon and that is it!!! I added some skinny strips of streamers (cut in half) to jazz them up. These will not weigh the balloons down so I just secured it to the ground by taping it securely. You could also tie them to a table or chair.

Giant Balloon Message DIY

DIY Balloon Messages

These make great party “WOWs” and the perfect alternative to the typical balloon bouquet that signifies the party house!

DIY Giant Balloon Message

All Photos by Studio DIY

Anyone out there throwing a graduation party? Birthday? For me, May and June are full of celebrations of the like! Hooray!

Get even craftier with balloons right here. And for more DIYs all around, head this way!

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DIY Flamingo Piñata

By Kelly on May 13, 2013

Happy Monday guys! I’m coming at you from DC today, I’m just all over the place! Last week I left you in Florida and now I’ve begun to work my way up the East Coast. We were in Florida because Jeff’s sister Jen was graduating from the University of Miami.  We had such a fun weekend and, of course, I couldn’t go without a little bit of celebratory crafting. As a fun way to present her real graduation gift, I decided to make her a piñata and hide the gift inside. Somehow, a flamingo seemed like the perfect fit! This tutorial isn’t complete or detailed, since I made it on the go, but my past piñata tutorials can help ya out there. Isn’t he just SO fun!?!?

DIY Flamingo Piñata  How To Make a Flamingo Pinata

Cardboard (I used a tri-fold display board)
Pink, white and black crepe paper (I actually used black tissue because I couldn’t find black crepe in FL!)
Strong Tape
Craft Glue
Scissors
String

Start by cutting out your cardboard shapes. You’ll need two flamingo shapes (I just freehanded them while looking at a flamingo pic online!), a few long pieces of 3″ wide cardboard (for the sides) and two skinny pieces for the legs. Then cut a bunch of strips of 1″ wide fringe.

Flamingo Pinata DIY

Tape together your piñata. Start by taping the sides (bending the cardboard as you go) to one of your flamingo shapes, then repeat with the other side. I left a flap in the back for adding in the gift and then just tucked it under to close!

DIY Flamingo Pinata Tutorial

Once you have his body completed, cover the whole thing in fringe. Start with the front and back, and start at the bottom working your way up. When you get to the beak, add a few layers of white fringe and then a few layers of black to finish it off. Then repeat this with the sides. Finally, wrap the skinny cardboard legs in fringe and glue them to the bottom of the body. Add an eyeball (his is black tissue paper!) and poke a hole in the top to add a string for hanging.

DIY Flamingo Piñata

All Photos by Studio DIY

This piñata was made just like the giant heart piñata, except I used tape instead of hot glue for putting it together. For more detailed instructions, head there.

For more piñata fun, click here! And for more DIYs all around, head here!

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