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Harry Potter Hogwarts House Cards

October 4, 2017 by Carolina 4 Comments

If you have a Harry Potter fan in your life, they will love these Harry Potter Hogwarts House Cards. The ties that Hogwarts students wear are one of the most iconic parts of the clothes in the movies. Each house wears striped ties in their house colors. These make a great Harry Potter Birthday Card, Hogwarts Congratulations card, or a fun card for any Muggle special occasion.

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To make the Harry Potter Hogwarts House Cards, you’ll need:

Cricut Cutting Machine
1 12×12 sheet in each of the 2 house colors
Gold Adhesive Vinyl
Glue Stick
Wax Seal (optional)

Open up the Hogwarts Card file in Design Space. Cut out the pieces.

Peel the pieces off the mat. To prevent curling, it is often easier to peel the mat away from the paper, rather than the paper from the mat.

Fold the envelope, and glue the side and bottom flaps to eachother.

Fold the card. Glue the tie in the center of the card front.

Carefully place the gold H on the tie.

Write your message inside the card. For fun, look up some great Harry Potter quotes. Here are a few of my favorites:

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

“After all this time?”

“Always,”

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Mischief Managed.

Put the card in the envelope, and close. You can seal it with a wax seal for an authentically magical feel.

You can make all your cards for the same house, or you can make an assortment of Harry Potter Hogwarts House Cards.

If you’re looking for another fun Harry Potter craft, check out this DIY Time Turner Necklace or this Monster Book of Monsters.

Filed Under: 15 minute crafts, cricut, easy, fast and cheap, kids, paper Tagged With: Card, card making, cards, harry potter, tie

Harry Potter Time Turner Necklace

July 23, 2014 by Carolina 13 Comments

Are you nuts about Harry Potter? I’ve read the books twice (working on a third time – this time to my son), and love to watch the movies late at night, especially while doing some late night crafting. I love all of the wonderful wizarding world happenings in the movies – traveling by flu powder, a magical hat that knows where you’ll be successful, and books that are also monsters. When I was asked to take part in Marissa from Rae Gun Ramblings’ Harry Potter series, I wasn’t sure what kind of project to come up with! So many different possibilities… but in the end I decided to make a Time Turner Inspired Necklace.

Hermione reminds me so much of myself as a kid – kind of awkward, messy hair, and bossy. But with an awesome gang of friends. She also takes on a lot – including a double course load… assisted with the help of her time turner necklace. There are lots of times when I could use one of those! So, although this one doesn’t have any magical time-altering powers, I still love it. If you want to make your own time-turner necklace, here is how you do it…

Start with these supplies:
Crystal beads to make the hourglass
Hoops in 3 sizes for the body of the necklace
Jump Rings
Jewelry Wire (this is 28 gauge)
Jewelry pliers

Start by adding the wire to one of the smallest hoops.

Then make the hourglass by adding the beads. Wrap the wire on the opposite side of the hoop to secure.

Thread the wire back through the bead to the center.

Twist the wire together in the center, and wrap around, to complete the hourglass look, wrapping the wire around the center to secure before clipping the wire.

Now that the hourglass is complete, add another small circle. Carefully open it like a jump ring, and loop it through the center circle, holding the hourglass, then close.

Wire the second hoop in place by cutting a 8″ length of wire for each side, and secure the spot where the small hoops meet on each side, leaving the wire tails in place. Use these wire tails to add a larger hoop. Then open up another hoop, and add it to the time turner.

Secure this hoop in place using the same wire tails, then clip the extra wire.

Use a jump ring to add the final, largest hoop. You can use a jump ring to secure the last layer of rings as well, if needed.

Add a jump ring to the top, and string on a necklace. Your time-turner is complete! Though you can’t go back to this morning to get twice as much out of your day, this craft didn’t take that long, so you still have plenty of time to create lots more today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Filed Under: 30 minute crafts, jewelry, quick Tagged With: book, necklace, series

Animal Chocolate Holders

June 14, 2016 by Carolina Leave a Comment

These adorable Animal Chocolate holders are easy to make with the free cut files I’ve shared below, and they are super versatile! Use them as gifts for a friend. As party favors. Write names on them and use them as placecards for a fun dinner party. Make lots and use them as centerpieces. Make two of each animal for a fun Noah’s Ark themed baby shower. Pick your friend’s favorite animal and fill up a tote. Use the frog as “Chocolate Frogs” for a Harry Potter themed party. I could go on and on… there are so many ways these animal chocolate holders can be used for parties, gift giving, and more!

Butterfly Chocolate Holder Cut File

Flamingo Chocolate Holder Cut File

Frog Chocolate Holder Cut File

Horse Chocolate Holder Cut File

Kangaroo Chocolate Holder Cut File

Penguin Chocolate Holder Cut File

For each animal chocolate holder you need 12×12″ scrabook paper, a round chocolate (I used Lindt’s chocolates), and hot glue. Each Silhouette cut file has one or more of the animals on it, already sized and ready to go. Just cut, and glue together while holding your chocolate in place!

This frog is adorable – great for a princess party (anyone want to kiss the chocolate frog?), or make them with brown construction paper as “chocolate frogs” for a Harry Potter themed party!

The Flamingo Chocolate Holder is perfect for pool parties! You could make a “Palm Beach” tablescape with some astroturf and these “lawn flamingos” scattered down the center. You really can’t go wrong with a pink flamingo!

These butterfly chocolate holders might be my favorite! Use them as place cards for a fancy tea. You can cut them out in different colors, or cut them out from white cardstock and decorate with your favorite markers, crayons, or colored pencils.

One side of this little penguin actually has a beak that you can fold out! He is super cute, and great for any winter-themed party. Dress him up with a scrap of felt as a scarf for some extra dimension (and cuteness!)… you can even glue on some googly eyes to make him a little more crafty!

This horse chocolate holder can be whatever you want – call him a “Mustang” to use him at a school function with a Mustang mascot. Use him for a cowboy themed event – or for any horse lover!

I had so much fun creating these different chocolate holders – I hope you enjoy crafting with them!

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Filed Under: 15 minute crafts, easy, edible, fast and cheap, paper, silhouette Tagged With: butterfly, Chocolate, cutable

Monster Book of Monsters in just 30 Minutes

July 20, 2015 by Carolina 7 Comments

The Harry Potter books (and movies) are full of all kinds of fun magical creatures, like the Monster Book of Monsters. These are the little things that make the story so magical and fun! Making your own Monster Book of Monsters is easy to do, with just a few supplies, and in only a few minutes.

I made this project as part of the annual Rae Gun Ramblings series celebrating Harry Potter crafts! You can go check out all the other awesome projects that are part of the series… but for now, let me show you how easy it is to make your own Monster book of Monsters. When you get down to the bottom, you’ll find an awesome Harry Potter inspired giveaway as well!

To make your own Harry Potter inspired Monster Book of Monsters, you’ll need:

Faux Fur from Shannon Fabrics
Hardback Book (I picked one up at Goodwill)
Googly Eyes
Red Felt
Hot Glue
Scissors

Start by placing the fur right-side-down, with the book open on top, and cutting the faux fur about 2″ larger than the book on all sides.

Cut in towards the spine both at the top and the bottom, at an angle, and cut away. Then use hot glue to glue the spine in place.

Mark the corners of the book.

Cut away the corner, so that the flaps of fur are angled. Then glue down the flaps one at a time.

Repeat with the other side. You now have a furry book!

To secure the eyes, first move the fur a little, so that you create a part in the fur where you want to glue the eye.

Add a generous dab of glue to the back of the googly eye.

Secure in place, where you created the part in the fur. Repeat for all the eyes you want to add.

Once you’ve added all the eyes, you can pet down or fluff up the fur on your Monster book of Monsters.

Add a tongue by cutting a rectangle of red felt, then curving one end. Place between the pages so that the tongue sticks out.

Your Harry Potter inspired Monster book is complete!

Check out this fun Harry Potter inspired giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Filed Under: 30 minute crafts, easy, fabric, fast and cheap, google eyes Tagged With: 30 minutes, book, diy, kids

Craft Lightning Day 5 Roundup!

September 26, 2014 by Carolina Leave a Comment

It is Day 5 of Craft Lightning, and all week long we’ve been sharing fast and easy Halloween crafts that can be made in 15 minutes or less! If you missed them, check out Day 1 Fast Halloween Crafts, Day 2 Fast Halloween Crafts, Day 3 Fast Halloween Crafts, Day 4 Fast Halloween Crafts. Now let’s get on to today’s crafts!

To get a full tutorial on each project, click the link below the photo.

Pumpkin Soap Dispenser

Spooky Jars

Halloween Gift Tag with pocket

Spider Cookies

Pumpkin Centerpiece

Ghosts under Glass

Harry Potter inspired Mandrake Plant

Dia de Los Muertos Bow Tie

My crafty partner for this series, Angie from The Country Chic cottage made this awesome Elsa crown

And I whipped up some fun Spider Snacks great for school or a Halloween party.

Filed Under: 15 minute crafts, craft lightning, feature, halloween Tagged With: craft, easy, fast

No-Sew Magician Costume

September 26, 2014 by Carolina 6 Comments

This no-sew magician costume was incredibly easy to make. Even the top hat. And the bow tie. And the wand. All made without any sewing! If you’re looking for a fast and easy magician costume, then this is the perfect craft for you! This costume is made in 3 different parts – the hat, the shirt, and the wand. Each part will take you 30 minutes or less to make!
And even better, I teamed up with over 80 bloggers to share a TON of different costume ideas! It was orchestrated by Jamie Dorobek and her handmade Halloween costume site, Really Awesome Costumes . To help you get ready for Halloween, we’re sharing tons of easy ideas to craft up DIY Halloween costumes for everyone including your pets, family costumes, and even a trunk or treat idea! Be sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the full round-up!

Supplies:

Black Felt
Hot Glue
2 sizes of plates
White Shirt
Sharpie Marker
Dowel
Glitter tape
Jacket, black pants, black shoes.

We’ll start with the hat. Trace a plate onto the felt. Cut 2. Trace the smaller plate on the inside.

Cut a 6″ tall piece of felt, as long as the circumference of your smaller circle, plus 1 inch. Fringe the bottom, about 3?4″ apart, and about 1″ deep cuts.

Glue the fringe to the inside of one layer of the donut-shaped felt piece.

Glue the other donut piece on top to cover the fringe bits.

Repeat with the top of the hat, using the circles cut out from the inside of the donut shaped piece.

Cover with the second circle, and the hat is done!

For the shirt, draw a line just off-center, and draw on buttons.

Cut a strip of felt, and cut notches to make a bow.

Wrap a smaller strip of felt around the middle, then glue the bow into place at the collar of the shirt.

The wand is easy! Cut a dowel to about 6″, then color with the Sharpie.

Wrap some glitter tape on one end. The wand… and your costume… is done!

Check out all these other great costume ideas!

And now it’s time for tons more DIY Halloween costume inspiration! Join in on the BLOG HOP! Click on the links below each collage to get the detailed instructions about how to make the costume pictured, just like mine above. Don’t forget to follow the Handamde Halloween Costumes Pinterest Board for even more DIY costume greatness!

1. Handmade Baby Hamburger Costume

2. DIY Baby Game Boy Costume

3. DIY Minecraft Steve Costume

4. Football Brothers Halloween Costumes with DIY Pads and Onesie

5. Star Trek Halloween Costume for Kids

6. A Bee and Her Keeper

7. No Sew Magician Costume

8. Flint Lockwood Costume

9. Pinocchio

10. Marty McFly

11. Princess Wedding Dress Costume

12. Handmade Lalaloopsy Doll Costume

13. Homemade Toothless Costume

14. DIY Mermaid For Less Than $20 (No-Sew Option)

15. Easy Tinker Bell Costume

16. Mario and Luigi Go Kart Costumes

17. Dog The Bounty Hunter and Beth

18. Family Monsters University Costumes

19. Scooby Doo family costumes

20. DIY Storm Cloud Costume

21. Cheap and Easy DIY Spider Costume

22. Easy Tin Man Costume

23. No Sew Bee Costume

24. Planet Halloween Costumes

25. DIY Cheshire Cat Costume

26. DIY Instagram Board

27. Elsa crown

28. Dog Collar Ruffles

29. DIY Pineapple Baby Costume

30. DIY Lego Movie Costume

31. Weeping Angel Costume

32. Disney Planes Costume: Dipper

33. Easy Pirate Costume

34. Easy Costume Idea – Renaissance Girl

35. 10 Minute Homemade Jellyfish Costume

36. DIY Cat Costume

37. Lucy And Ricky Costumes

38. Easy Frozen Costumes (Carrisa!!)

39. Easy Greek Goddess Costume

40. DIY Family Willy Wonka Costumes

41. DIY No Sew Maleficent Costume

42. No Sew Pineapple Halloween Costume

43. Graveyard Bean Bag Toss: Trunk or Treat Car Costume

44. DIY Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costumes

45. DIY Raccoon Costume with Printable Mask

46. Easy WildStyle Lego Movie Costume

47. Simple Hello Kitty Costume

48. No Sew Minnie Mouse Costume

49. DIY Inspector Gadget and Penny Costumes

50. DIY Frozen Elsa Dress Baby Edition

51. Fairy Princess Dog Costume

52. DIY Hashtag Halloween Costume

53. Toddler or Baby Egg Costume

54. Easy No Sew Olaf Costume

55. DIY Baymax Costume

56. DIY Tooth Fairy Costume

57. Baby Short Stack Pancake Costume

58. Elephant and Piggie Halloween Costumes

59. Instagram Halloween Costume

60. Peter Pan & Mr. Smee Halloween Costume

61. Wildstyle Costume from the Lego Movie

62. Fred and Wilma Couples Costume

63. Viking Family Costumes

64. DIY Cruella de Vil Costume for a child

65. Disney Frozen Olaf Halloween Treat Bucket

66. How to Make a Minecraft Steve Head

67. DIY Harry Potter Costume

68. DIY Duck Dynasty Costumes

69. No Sew Cupcake Baker Halloween Costume

70. DIY Skunk Mask

71. Ghostbusters Proton Pack DIY

72. Frozen Anna Costume Tutorial

73. Candy Corn Costume

74. Paw Patrol Halloween Costume

75. No Sew Toothless Dragon Costume

76. DIY Robot Costume

77. Wonder Woman Costume

78. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Costume

79. Thrifted Gentleman Spy DIY Halloween Costume

80. DIY Boy Garden Gnome Costume

81. Group Costume: Bob Ross, Happy Tree, & Squirrel

82. DIY Blues Brothers Costumes

83. Snow White Costume

84. Peacock Princess Costume

85. Scarecrow Costume

86. Easy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Costume

87. Handmade Teddy Bear Costume

88. Princess Elsa and the Spy Kid

89. DIY Baby Koala costume

What handmade costume ideas did you love the most?! Be sure to click over to get the costume instructions, pin the costume, and let them know you love it! Also, follow the Handmade Halloween Costume board on Pinterest!

Follow Jamie Dorobek {C.R.A.F.T.}’s board “Handmade Halloween Costumes” on Pinterest.

Filed Under: 30 minute crafts, halloween, kids Tagged With: costume, Simple

Craft Lightning Camp Crafts – Day 4 Roundup

July 24, 2014 by Carolina Leave a Comment

We’re nearing the end of Craft Lightning week, and we have some more great camp craft ideas to share with you! Angie from The Country Chic Cottage and I put on this week-long Craft Lightning series, and this week the theme is camp crafts!

Laura from Laura Kelly Designs made a quick and fun interactive rainbow tablecloth for the Sock Monkey, tie-dye, rainbow mash-up party she put on.

Kadie from Seven Alive whipped up this fun little nature treasure box – such a great craft to do in the morning before a nature hike!

Mandy from Sugar Bee Crafts made these cute numbered shirts with her kiddos. Great for kids to personalize – you can use them to indicate ages, or group numbers.

These no sew zippered pouches made by Heidi from Happiness is Homemade were created using Duck Tape – and with all the colors and patterns of Duck Tape available, these make an awesome camp craft and back to school craft!

How cool is this light up Harry Potter Wand from Marissa at Rae Gun Ramblings? She whipped it up in just 15 minutes, and it makes the perfect camp craft for campfire night!

These glow in the dark mason jar lanterns from Kimbo at A Girl and a Glue Gun make an awesome pre-campfire craft as well… or they could be used instead of a campfire if there is too much fire danger.

This crafty camp sign by Lindsay at Frenchie Wraps can be used to decorate the camp, or can be great for campers to take home to decorate their rooms.

Pass the marshmallows! Angie from The Country Chic Cottage, my partner for this series, just upped the yum factor on traditional s’mores with these Nutella Peanut Butter s’mores. We will absolutely be trying these out at my house!

I whipped up a simple pony bead bracelet – an easy camp craft for kids or adults.

Be sure to stop back tomorrow, our last day for Craft Lightning Craft Camp… we have lots more fun crafts to show you!

Filed Under: 15 minute crafts, craft lightning, feature, kids Tagged With: camp, camp craft, craft, roundup

Google Eye Monster Jewelry

October 16, 2013 by Carolina 6 Comments

I have a thing for google eyes. Or googly eyes. Whatever you want to call them. I don’t know why, exactly. They are just so much fun. And so simple to craft with. Add two google eyes to a rock, and you’ve got a little rock person. Done. And so simple! And there is such a variety of googly eyes. Big ones, small ones, colored, glow in the dark, with eyelashes… I have a small collection of googly eyes that I use on different projects. And I was super, super excited to make this Google Eye Monster Jewelry. It is insanely simple to make, and is so much fun to wear! Let me show you how…

Start with:
Earring posts
Jewelry Glue
Google eyes of your choice
Necklace Pendant
Jump Ring
Necklace Chain

Grab your earring posts and two googly eyes. Put a dab of glue on the earring posts.

Smoosh your google eyes onto the posts. Don’t center them (you’ll be tempted to). Instead, put the posts towards one side. This side will be the top. Not centering the posts will make them more comfortable to wear, especially on smaller earlobes.

Just let the glue dry, and you’ve got some great googly eye earrings!

I wanted to make a necklace to go with my earrings. I had these charm bases from Martha Stewart’s Jewelry line, and they fit a google eye PERFECTLY. I love it when that happens!

Just a very small dab of glue in the middle (enough to secure it, not so much that it gooshes out everywhere) (yes, “gooshes” is a very technical term here).

Then I just put my google eye in place, and let it dry. After it dried, I added a jump ring to the top and strung it on a chain for a very spooky looking pendant.

It reminds me a little bit of Mad Eye Moody from Harry Potter… but in Jewelry form!

Filed Under: 15 minute crafts, easy, fast and cheap, google eyes, halloween, jewelry, quick, simple, Uncategorized Tagged With: 15 minutes, easy, fast, handmade, jewelry, quick

Rune Necklace

October 2, 2013 by Carolina 3 Comments

Lately, I’ve been into Harry Potter. Which is where I came up with this Rune necklace. Hermione talks about how much more interesting a subject Ancient Runes is than Divination, and in the final book, the Deathly Hallows are mistaken for a rune. I thought it would be fun to incorporate runes into a necklace for a Halloween-worthy look that you can get away wearing to the office. A fun accessory that isn’t too costume-y.

This necklace is also super-easy to make! All you need are:
Sharp Blade
Large Black Beads (with white underneath)
Eye Pins
Chain
Jump Rings
Necklace Clasp

Start by scratching your rune designs into one side of the beads. I made sure that my beads had black over white, so that the bottom layer showed through.

I looked up a list of runes to find the different shapes I wanted. Each has a meaning, so I picked symbols that have meaning to me.

As you can see, scraping the designs into the beads made the shapes look very raw and rustic – perfect!

I strung the eye pins through the beads, and closed the loop on the other side, using round-nosed pliers.

Then I used jump rings to string them together, and attach them to the necklace chain.

All that was left was to add the clasp, and my Rune Necklace was complete!

This will surely get you in the mood for some more fun Halloween crafts. I’ve teamed up with some of my blogging buddies to share fun Halloween crafts all week long! Check out some of their projects in the linky below:

Filed Under: 30 minute crafts, easy, fast and cheap, halloween, jewelry Tagged With: 30 minutes, diy, fast, jewelry, quick

Craft Lightning Super Spooky Edition – Day 1 Roundup!

September 23, 2013 by Carolina 1 Comment

Craft Lightning is one of my favorite ongoing series. For lots of reasons. I love hanging out with Angie from The Country Chic Cottage, who puts these events together with me. I love having other bloggers join in, and I LOVE all the fun projects. Seriously, y’all… check out what today’s awesome bloggers have come up with!

The Creative Mom has these Halloween candy dishes – she made 4 fun designs! How fun! I want to paint up a whole family of Frankensteins in different sizes!

Over a 4 You With Love, you’ll find this Washi Tape candle. Who doesn’t love Washi Tape? And it is PERFECT for quick crafting! A great way to add color and texture in almost no at all time!

These Pumpkins from DIY Inspired are lots of fun. I love the shine and subtle pops of bling. This would look great on a mantle… and can you believe it was done in just 15 minutes? With the help of a 3-year-old (and you know that kind of “help” makes things take just a little longer, right?)

Laura Kelly always comes up with cute projects… these Halloween treat bags are great for “Boo”-ing your neighbors, or just because! I love them!

My partner in crafting, Angie from The Country Chic Cottage, made these fun treat bags out of Duck Tape! Oh, the possibilities!

And earlier today, I shared with you a bead spider that you can whip together in just 5 minutes! How fun would it be to make a whole trail of these, Harry Potter style across a window ledge?

If you have a 15 Minute Halloween craft you’d like to share, please add it to the Craft Lightning Linky – we’d love to see it!

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