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Sep 08

Welcome Autumn Wreath

Sep 08

Pumpkin spice lattes are officially here… so of course the fall decor has to follow ;)

Today I’m excited to be teaming up with some other rad bloggers to share fall wreaths! The wreaths that some of these ladies came up with are freaking amazing. You can find them all linked at the bottom of this post. Mine is rather simple- just the way I like it!

I started out with natural elements- a grapevine wreath and autumn foliage, but then added some shine with rose gold and gold foils… and hand lettering of course ;) And you know that I have that ‘welcome autumn’ lettering available as a free download for you so you can make your own!

Ready for the DIY how-to?Continue Reading…

Jun 12

True North Strong and Free! DIY Canadian Throw Pillow

Jun 12

This post contains affiliate links at at no cost to you! These help support Lemon Thistle- you can find my full disclosure & policies here.

It’s that time of year when ALL the web is flooded by patriotic projects. I see red white and blue from my US friends and my Canadian feed is filled with goodies for Canada and I totally love it. This year is especially Canadian as we’re celebrating Canada 150 (woohoo!). I’ve done a couple Canadian projects already this year but today I’m excited to join a few of my Canadian blog buds to share some inspiration in celebration of Canada 150. And for my project? I’m bringing a DIY handlettered Canadian pillow with the lyrics, ‘Oh Canada… True North Strong & Free’. Which, by the way, I’m totally aware that I skipped some words- but I picked my faves, the ones that represent what I love most about Canada.

This pillow is so simple to make using a Cricut or other cutting machine and heat transfer vinyl. I did the hand lettering for you so all you need to do is grab the free design below. If you don’t have a cutting machine, you can still use the template and print it out using it as a stencil or transfer. To transfer a pencil outline to your pillow case, just color on the back of your print out with pencil, then flip pencil down/design up and trace firmly over the design. You can then use fabric paint to fill in the lines. My all time fave fabric paint is Tulip Soft Matte Black. But if you’re using a Cricut? I’ve got the full step by step below!

Oh, and YES you could totally make it extra-patriotic with red and white!Continue Reading…

Mar 29

Modern Yearly Photobooks- & organizing years of photos

Mar 29

I partnered with Mixbook for this post- and I’m so loving their products. You can read all my policies right here.

You guys! I am SO excited to be sharing this today. Not only because the photobooks are rad but because this task has been in the back of my mind for YEARS!

I’m sure I’m not the only one that has way more photos on their hard drive than they’ll ever enjoy. And as soon as I became a mom I knew I wanted to document those kids the best I could so they could have something to look back on the same way that I have something to look back on- I mean, who doesn’t love looking through baby photos. My dad is a photo lover so I think I have WAY more than most people my age, but I am so grateful for that. But even though I had these great intentions… I have never managed to get it together enough to make a scrapbook or album or anything. I made an engagement photo book… and a wedding photobook… and then I never did another thing again.

And every time we got photos printed, my kids would pick them up and carry them around and love on them and kiss them and spend so much time looking at them… I was reminded that I NEEDED to get my digital photo collection under control so my family could actually enjoy all those memories that I’d documented. I totally take after my dad in loving photos so between that click happy attitude and blogging I have two external hard drives and over 2 million files. 2 million, you guys. That’s crazy pants.

So today I’m not only going to talk about how I printed up my photo books with Mixbook (and I’ve got a MAJOR discount for you at the bottom of this post!) but I’m also going to talk about how I sorted through the mass amount of photos from the past four years (I just went back to babies being born) and organized them to easily make them into yearly photo books. I promise you- if I can do it, you can too. I did this in two weeks just a bit of time in the evenings- from collecting all my photos to hitting order on the photo books. I’m SO proud of getting this done for my family- I’ve been letting it stay in the back of my mind for years and now that’s GONE. This is a bit of a beast of a post, it has all my tips so I’ve broken it down into headlines to make it easy for you to find the tips you need.Continue Reading…

Feb 08

Valentines Treat Box Handlettered Printable

Feb 08

Every year I design a fun Valentines Day printable for you to gift or send to all your friends. And every year I have the best intentions to actually give them to my friends. Some years I write names on them and pop them in envelopes. But very rarely have I actually followed through and sent them. THE worst, right? *sigh* oh well, this year I’m being a bit less ambitious and only giving some sweet treat boxes to those I’ll see Valentine’s week. I’ll pour my effort into helping the kids address the Valentine’s they craft for their pre-school class.

When I was deciding what to make for my Valentines this year, I knew I wanted to include some hand lettering (of course!) and I wanted to do something other than just a flat card or post card as I have done in the past. SO I’m pleased to introduce you to these little Valentines treat boxes! Just print these babies off on cardstock, cut, glue, fill, and tie up your sweet treats for the perfect Valentine’s gift. You could even fit one of those mini gift cards in here if you wanted to- or whatever is small enough to stuff in there. I chose Lindt Truffles because I’m a bit of an addict but you do you ;)

To make your own Valentine’s Treat Boxes, you’ll need:

Feb 03

Handlettered DIY Lightbox Inserts (plus free handlettered template!)

Feb 03

*A big thank you to My Cinema Lightbox for providing the Vintage Lightbox featured in this post. Links in this post and others may contain affiliate links at no cost to you- See my full disclosure & policies here*

Okay. Can I just tell you how freaking excited I am for this DIY? It’s game changing for me. I LOVE my lightbox, I got a rad original My Cinema Lightbox last year and it’s been front and center in my living room since. It’s just so fun to change up cheeky phrases. Before Christmas, I decided I’d take on making my own handlettered inserts for the holidays for that baby (because, y’know handlettering has to be on everything in this house). It turned out SO great and I really love the way it looks BUT a lot of you told me you don’t have a Cricut and you’d love to find a way to do the DIY without it. I took the challenge and I’m happy to share the very simplest way to make your own with no fancy tools today!

I also have a free printable file so you can snag my handlettered words for Valentines day. You could really use ANY font that you like for this- you don’t have to start hand lettering just for this DIY. But if you wanted to, you know I’d support that decision- I’d even love to help you ;)

Okay, so do you want to know the trick to make your own light box inserts?

Jan 31

DIY Heart Shirts for Valentine’s Day (the stripey kind!)

Jan 31

One of the things I did for the kids last year on Valentine’s day was make them some modern XO t-shirts. This year I wanted to make myself one and Aubrey wanted to have a matching one. Emmitt decided he’d rather have a house on his shirt so he got that ;)

And seriously… just making these DIY heart shirts gave me a great excuse to get some fun pictures with Miss A and I. Feel free to scroll past the WAY too many images of her and I having a ball and get to the instructions.

I’ve been loving all the big heart shirts I’ve been spotting out there and wanted to make my own but know a giant patch of iron on is probably not going to stand up or be super soft so I gave it a spin and made it stripes to cut down on some of the iron on bulk. And I actually love it more than the solid hearts! Go figure ;)

So today I’m sharing the free digital file so you can go ahead and make your own DIY Heart Shirt. Just scale it up or down for a kids size shirt or adult size. You could even scale it way down and make a onesie. I always measure the space on the shirt I want to cover and size it accordingly.Continue Reading…

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