More Pinterest Projects

Over the past year and a half or so, my creative side has definitely been growing at a steady rate! A good part of that is probably due to my discovery of Pinterest. ;-) I haven’t had as much time lately as I would like for doing artsy projects, but I’ve been able to do a few over the past few months. And yes, they’ve been gifts for Jessie. ;-) But I’m hoping to expand my artistic endeavors when I have a little more time on my hands!

We moved about a week before Jessie’s birthday. I couldn’t locate our wrapping paper and ribbons for his gifts, so I crumpled up some of the packing paper to give it a textured look, and decorated it with one of the Sharpie pens I had access to.

In September, I made a fall-themed gift basket for Jessie that included Apple Cider packets, candy corn, cans of soup, ingredients to make a loaf of pumpkin bread, and a chai latte mix from a recipe I found on Pinterest. I also included some more monogram notecards and a binder filled with some of the newsletters I wrote in middle school and high school.

Unfortunately I don’t have a picture, but my next big project was my Christmas gift to Jessie. I wrote him 12 “Open When . . .“ letters. On each envelope, I did some special lettering and word art. Then I made my own stationary by decorating some simple white paper. It took quite a while to do all of that fancy lettering, but it was so much fun!

For Valentine’s Day, I kind of had a house decorating theme in mind (Jessie is living in a small town house this school year.) I decided to do some string art! I started with a plain board I bought at Hobby Lobby, stained it several times, put a coat of polyurethane on it, found a large Texas graphic online, outlined the design with small nails, put a heart where Jessie lives, and then wound the string around to make the design.

As another part of his Valentine’s Day gift, I dug up a few smooth canning jars and tea lights, and tacky glued jute on the rims. Then I used a Sharpie paint pen to write on them. :-)

Lately I’ve been very inspired by hand lettering. I’ve bought a little chalkboard and a chalk pen that I’ve kept in my bedroom, and I bought a brush pen a few months ago. When my skills there have improved a little, I might do a post about that. ;-)

Any suggestions of projects I should try? Leave me a comment! I’m really enjoying expanding my artistic horizons! :-D