Category Archives: DIY Project / Crafts

Halloween Friends : Candy Holders- Dollar Store Finds

I love this candle stick. I can’t get enough of them. So many crafty things you can do with them. And for 1.00 they are amazing. Dollar Store also sells different size glass bowls and flutes and vases etc.ย  Chad and I found 5 different sizes and wanted to make some fun Halloween Glass Candy…

Guest Blogging- We’re over at Love & Sugar Kisses today!!

WOOHOO!! We are a guest blogger today!! Click on the above button or here to join us over there for today’s Halloween post!! Leave a comment over at Loveย  & Sugar Kisses if you don’t mind saying HI ๐Ÿ™‚  

Dollar Tree Finds – DIY Pumpkins

Dollar Tree has these really great pumpkins. I decided to attack it with some vinyl. A whole lot easier than carving. I can peel the vinyl off and change it again later if needed. Raven is just a graphic I found online and imported it into my Silhouette machine, enlarged it and traced it. It…

Dollar Store Finds – DIY Halloween Tap Lights

LOVE shopping the Dollar Tree.ย  Found these tap lights for 1.00 of course. ๐Ÿ™‚ย  I thought it would make it fun to turn them into a Halloween lights for the house ๐Ÿ™‚ My son wanted his to be a Ghost. ๐Ÿ™‚ย  This was such an easy craft. I simply used my Silhouette machine and cut…

Halloween Candle Holder & Cupcake Stand

I love Halloween!! I also love that Halloween doesn’t have to be just Orange and Black. ๐Ÿ™‚ย  Vibrant colors are my favorite this time of the year. I wanted to make a more festive Halloween Cupcake Stand and Chad wanted one made into a Candle Holder ๐Ÿ™‚ The black background is hard to see the…

Halloween Printable – {FREEBIE}

Starting to look a bit like Halloween here in our home. The 1st item of business I need to work on my mantel/shelf. I don’t have a fireplace so I have this cute shelf I decorate every holiday. It isn’t decorated exactly how I want it to look like. I have a few more projects…

Pumpkin Poop – { Free Printable }

I love this poem. I have no clue who the original author is. I have used this poem for many years and love it. I wanted to make a cute tag to give away to friends. I worked on pumpkin graphics for Halloween. Then created a fun topper tag. Poem reads: “I started to carve…

Readers Creations – LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

I have had readers send me photos of the creations they have made from projects we posted here at Nothing But Country.ย  It makes me feel so good to see others projects or how they were inspired by a project and made it for themselves. Here are 2 of the recent ones I have gotten…

Puppy Party – Invite & Thank You

I believe this will finally wrap up everything we did for the birthday party. WHEW. ๐Ÿ™‚ย  Alot of work but tons of fun!!! I seriously am already thinking ahead for next years party ๐Ÿ™‚ย  I have an idea.. but I will give myself a few months off. ๐Ÿ™‚ HAHA Here is the invitation we mailed…

Puppy Party- Puppy Cupcakes

These puppy cupcakes were so easy.ย  We had planned to do something else but once I saw how adorable the Scooby-Doo Graham Cracker Sticks were for the bones. We kept it simple. Chad baked from Food Network – Chocolate Chip & Mascarpone Cupcakes & frosted/piped on a simple vanilla buttercream frosting they were soooo good….

Puppy Party – Push Pups

I so badly wanted to use my push pop containers for the birthday party. So I made these “PUSH PUPS” Filled them with chocolate covered raisins. Added this sticker to it- Click Here To Download I simply printed them on a 8 1/2 x 11 full size sheet of address labels by Avery. Then punched…

Puppy Party – Paint Swatch Bunting

The green / blue / brown bunting was so easy to make. Simply got paint swatch samples from our local home improvement store. (We asked before we took- the nice thing to do) Cut each swatch into a triangle and punched a hole in each corner We then threaded bakers twine and alternated colors. Once…

Puppy Party – DIY Puppy Ears

We gave each of the puppy party friends a set of ears to keep. Maria @ Love & Sugar Kisses had the BEST tutorial on how to make these. They were SOOOO SIMPLE!! (Inside view of the ears) I found the headbands 4 for 1.00 at the Dollar Tree.ย  Felt from JoAnn’s Crafts and some…

Puppy Birthday Party – Part 3 (Fun & Games)

Wrapping up the rest of the party. We had a blast with activities. We did a group shot of the girls. (We actually did this party 2 times in 1 day– friends in the morning and family (all boys) in the evening) If you missed our tutorial on how to make the card table dog…

Puppy Birthday Party – Part 2 (Puppy Stations)

Continuing with the rest of the fun party we had a week ago for my daughter. We had many activities. This post is going to cover the fun stations we had ๐Ÿ™‚ I want to give credit where it is due – The Crafting Chicks featured their stations where I branched off and expanded on…

Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ... Read More About Us ยป