Quick Custom Wall Hooks

I made these cute Dino wall hooks for my sister, who is doing foster care. She is wanting to get her spare room set up and kid friendly. She's doing a dinosaur theme. It was pretty much her idea to get these wall hooks and customize them somehow.. but she wasn't sure what to do. So that's where I came in. I thought it was a GREAT idea! :) And knew exactly what to do and how to do it!

So we went to the Dollar tree and she bought these 3 wall hooks:

We came back to my place, and got started. This project took me about 10 maybe 15 minutes. And I just quickly did it at my computer desk. :) I printed out these CUTE lil Dinos, on card stock paper.

The tops of the wall hooks slide right off, I then used them as a stencil to trace around the dino print outs.

Then used my paper cutter to cut them out.

After they were all cut out.. I used Mod Podge on the wall hook top.

Then added the card stock ontop

I knew I wanted to seal them too with Mod Podge. But I didnt want the ink to run.. so I used my acrylic sealer spray. On it first.. just did a quick spray coat. Let it dry for about a minute. Then added a top coat of Mod Podge.

Once they were dry.. I slide them back onto the hooks.

And voila! Here is what you have, adorable customized wall hooks for your own theme decor! :)

Its such a cute idea.. Im wanting to go back and get more hooks to do robots for the boys, and something Zebra for Kiah.

Or how cute would it be to use their own pictures! :) I think that would be perfect for maybe a coat hook by the door.. with their own picture for their coat maybe? Im liking the idea, or make something in the kitchen for your aprons.. with a flirty apron pic on it. The possibilities are endless here. The wall hooks come in blue and pink at the dollar tree. And if you dont like the color of the hooks.. you can always spray paint them before hand. Then follow the steps here. :)

If you happen to do this quick little project.. come back and post a link to your blog or picture. I always am curious to see what others do!

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Creating my own Life Size Photo Cut Out (Part 2)

This is part 2 of creating my own life size photo cut out for my Hawaiian Luau party. You can check out part 1 to see how it started... Which I MUST say was featured on Someday Crafts!!!!!!!! :) I was pretty ecstatic about that!! It totally made my night when I found out!

Before I started the sketch on the sheet rock, I needed to make sure to line things up. I didnt do a full measurement of the sheet rock, but it was a lot longer than I needed, and not as wide as I had hoped. But I made it work. I knew I would want about 2 feet cut off so I measured and drew a line a cross the bottom of the sheet rock. Then from that line I measured about 67 inches (5 foot 7in) My husband is 5'9" So I wanted to make these a little shorter than us, I figured people could kinda duck to fit their faces in, and if they were a little shorter than that we could have a stand. I'm 5'3" so I measured for the woman to be 5'2" or 62 inches. I didnt make her a lot shorter than me cause well Im short already. And also I didnt want her too much shorter than the guy. :)

Anywho.. this is how it started.. I had printed out a picture of the original cardboard cutout I found online. I also had my rough sketch with me for reference


I had this spidey mask from my son. I thought it would be perfect to use as a guide for the head. I traced it out, the moved it out to make it wider and traced it again on one side.. then moved it out to make it wider on the other side, and traced again. I wanted to be sure it would fit someone's face.. so I went out to measure the hubs face.. LOL It was kinda weird.. but It seemed to be about 6" both ways. So I came back to the sheet rock and adjusted it to make it the same.



And then I just started sketching from there...


Making sure things look proportionate on such a large scale is pretty hard. You cant tell..but I had a lot or erased lines! I just kept drawing and re drawing and erasing until I liked the way it looked.  I'll be so glad when I can paint it and make it look better!


A full shot of the dude's body. :) Kinda hard to get a good angle of him.. the pencil looks so light in the photo!


Here I tried to take a picture little by little so you can kinda get a better glimpse of the whole sketch. ( I adjusted the brightness/contrast so you could see the pencil better!)






And the female!! AHH SHE was TOUGH! I thought it was hard to draw her on the sketch pad.. well this was waaaay harder. I think I spent an hour trying to draw her boobs right! haha I was laughing to myself as I was drawing boobs. I felt like a little kids saying to myself youre drawing boobs! LOL The other thing I had the most trouble with was her legs and feet.. which you will  see what I mean. Urgh! hehe AND Im embarrassed to say it, cause I didnt realize it until I looked at it a few hours later.. but I gave her 2 left feet! hehe.. so I will fix that probably today. Before my husband saws the face holes.

Anyways.. Im pretty sure once its all painted it will look 100 times better! So here is the Luau Chick:








And the whole thing:



Over all, Im VERY happy with how it is coming along. Im proud of this and hope its something everyone will enjoy!!

Stay tuned.. for more updates on the progress!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Creating my own Life Size Photo Cut Out

UPDATE: Ive finished part 2, part 3 and the last part 4 of progress..go check them out too! :)


So my birthday is coming up. August 8th, I will be turning 26. Woot. Im having a big Hawaiian Luau Themed pool party. And I had seen these photo cut outs that I really really wanted!


I thought it would be a cute thing to do as a party favor, since im not a child, and didnt want to do goody bags. LOL I wanted to buy this and take a photo of everyone who came. Then print them out and send them out, as a party favor and thank you to all who came. How fun would that be! I know Ive always loved these at fairs and such.

Well The hubs said that the price was just too much, for a piece of cardboard. about $40-$50 depending on what site you get it from. But considering it was over-sized it would have to be specially shipped and cost about $25 or more on top of that.

So the idea was a no go with the hubs. But I was talking it over with my sisters and they all said the same thing. 'Why dont you make one yourself?' I kept saying.. ahh I dont want to *insert pout face here*.. I just want to buy this. How am I supposed to make a life sized photo cut out?? LOL One of them suggested using that thin wood board (ply wood maybe?) or sheet rock. I was in denial for a while.. not wanting to take on the project.

However one day out of nowhere I got excited about it. I decided hey I can do this.. and it can be fun.. and then I'll blog about it. heh heh So I talked to the hubs. And asked if I could have his help, since it would need to be sawed (for the face cut outs) and would need a stand! He agreed to it, and I was even more excited!

He went out and bought one sheet (i guess you would call it lol) of sheet rock. He decided that may be the best thing to use. Easier to draw/paint on. He is so sweet thinking of me like that. And a few 2x4's for the stand. Spent maybe $15. But I cant remember for sure. All I needed for my part was pencil to sketch it out, and paint to finish, which I already had on hand! So Super cheap!!

Im not going to post the finished product in this post, since for one it isnt even finished yet and two it would be a very long post. But I will continue to post on my progress. Last week I did a rough sketch on some sketch paper. Just to get an idea of how I will draw it and how it would look, what I would need to work on and all that jazz.

here is that rough sketch:


As you can see I made the heads too far apart and had to improvise on the rest of the girls body. Other things that need work; Hands, FEET, pretty much all of the girls body in general.. I couldnt get the proportions to look right at all. And for some reason (besides the feet) I did pretty good on the guy's body! LOL

Over all I was actually pretty impressed with how it turned out. And felt a little more confident about making the actual thing. Though it would be a lot more work to make it life size, than a 20 min 9 x 20 in rough sketch! But I know I can do it, and it will be my own. And something I know I will be proud of, and hopefully something my party goers will enjoy too!


Please stick around (maybe become a follower) to see this work in progress come to completion!!

UPDATE: Ive finished part 2, part 3 and the last part 4 of progress..go check them out too! :)
Linking up at these fab parties!!!

Maternity Photo Shoot With Jenn

This photo shoot was actually taken a while ago. But I am just now getting around to posting it, for my photography gallery!

This is Jennifer, and this is her very first pregnancy. She had a baby boy! Jennifer loves horses and all animals. She has such a kind heart towards people and animals. She is a country girl and enjoys being out doors, which I believe we reflected in her photographs. :)

Here are just some of my very favorites.. we did 2 separate sessions, and took over 300 photos maybe closer to 400!

These first ones were done in my studio, before I really had it set up. They were more like test shots, planned on being black and white. Making sure she was comfy in front of the camera, and also to see how her belly was looking. She was worried it wasnt big enough for a cute photo! :) But I helped her with posing in a way to help make her belly pop and I like the way they turned out!











These below are from the second session. She is so gorgeous, and so easy to photograph! She was relaxed and natural, and so funny. Saying 'Wow its hard being a model!' :) But really she made it so easy. She followed my tips for posing and relaxing her face.. and she just did wonderful and looked amazing!













Funny thing about this rose bush... there was only ONE rose on it! But we decided it would be a cute shoot, took the photo anyways... and I worked to add in more roses. Can you guess which one is the original? :)



I believe these next few in front of the cactus and wood fence are my absolute favorite of hers. The purple in her shirt and the sage green of the cactus just went so well together. And the whole scenery was just so Jennifer! Not to mention the perfect breeze that came in flowing her hair.. so lovely.

















*All photos taken and edited by me and were re-sized to fit blog.