Butterfly Birthday Beach Bucket

Hello!  Happy Wednesday! :)

My friend's little girl is having a birthday party this weekend, and Kason will be bringing Miss Ryleigh a super cute beach bucket filled with beach/pool goodies!

I got inspiration from Yesterday on Tuesday.  She made these adorable, personalized beach buckets.

I already bought the goodies to fill the bucket, and one of the items was a butterfly beach towel.  It was instant inspiration for my chalkboard.

I drew out a butterfly on contact paper.

Folded it in half, and cut out around the image.

I then affixed the contact paper to the bucket and sprayed it with chalkboard paint.

 Tada!  :)  I outlined the butterfly and added some polka dots with paint pen.

Personal, affordable, and easy...always a good recipe!  This gift came in under $10.00! 

Have a wonderful rest of your week!  Come back tomorrow for a giveaway announcement!

Office Mural

Well, here I am! I'm so excited to make my very first post to my Crafts & Sutch blog. I've been truly inspired by so many crafty women in my life, and just recently discovered the craft blog world. Wow! I want to be a part of it too! :)

My first post has been a labor of love and has taught be sometimes Plan B is way better than Plan A. This past year I started to work from home and I needed a space that I wouldn't mind spending a lot of time in. I decided to paint a mural on one wall. I'm not an artist, just someone with a crafty bone and who isn't afraid to try something new.

I found an image on Google images of some modern flower silhouettes. I came up with my color scheme, and printed out my image. I borrowed a projector from my mom and traced the image on my wall (you could rent a projector from a teacher supply store or ask a teacher friend). I painted it with your normal, run of the mill craft paint and simply filled in the lines! Easy peasy!

As soon as I painted the swirls, I knew they were way too busy and needed a softer appearance. I took the wall paint and dry brushed over the swirls to give them a distressed finish (Plan B).


I love how it turned out! The total cost for this project was $6.97 ($2.98 for three bottles of craft paint and 3.99 for some paint brushes)! Not too shabby for a work of art!

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