I’m so excited to be teaming up with a handful of other bloggers each month to bring you the Monthly Craft Challenge. This month we were challenged to do something with flowers. While I was working on this I was trying to think of something that could be on display for Spring and into the Summer since Summer is coming! This is what I decided to do.
I had this fun wood slat board that I picked up and I painted it white. Then using my Cricut, I cut this Dahlia out of vinyl to use for a stencil. I started by painting the outer edge with the red color that I had, and then I added some white paint to it each time I was moving inward on the petals, making the center circle the lightest in color.
Once I had it all painted, I distressed it with some fine grain sand paper. I love that you can see the wood grain when you do this technique.
I finished it off by tying a couple of ribbons on it at the bottom.
I adore the way that this turned out and it was so simple and quick to make. I’m excited that I can be used through the summer months as well.
I hope you’ll pop on over and see the rest of the projects that the other bloggers created! They are so talented!
Love this! It is so pretty! If you get a chance, please share this on my linky party: http://suburbsmama.blogspot.com/2013/05/sunday-link-party-7.html
OMG this is simply stunning! I LOVE it!
Thank you Marilyn!
Lovely Project!
Thanks for sharing.
Susan @SugarBeans.org
Thank you!
Adorable, luv it!
Thank you!
Cute project- I love that flower! What cartridge is that from?
Thank you Dana! The flower is from the Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art cartridge.
Yay! I have that one!
Thanks!
Dana
I love this project! I would love it if you would come and link this up at my very first link party
Dandelion Wishes Wednesday.
Thank you for the invite! I linked up. 🙂
love this project!!!
Thank you!
So pretty! Love the colour and everything about it.
Thank you! I love this color too. 🙂
Oh my gosh… I really love this! I love that’s it’s painted on boards and I love the design! Great job!
The best part is the board is one solid board, so easy to work with. Thank you!
This is so pretty! I love it. Now I just have to get myself a Cricut. And a wood slat board thingy. And probably some creativity. *Sigh* Gorgeous! 🙂
🙂 You could totally do it!
You did a fabulous job on this Amy! I love it! Way to go on KSL as well. You rocked it!
I featured this project on my facebook. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂
Thank you Katie! Thanks about KSL, that was scary, and hard because I had no idea what they were going to ask. 🙂
And of course I don’t mind that you shared on FB. Thanks!!
This is so pretty! Perfect for spring!
Thank you Lisa!
I love this! You did such a great job 🙂 The colors just pop on that white background and I really love that it’s not solid. Very fun! Krista @ A Handful of Everything
Thank you Krista! I love that it isn’t a solid color either. Thanks for stopping by!
fun and so bright and colorful
Thank you.
So, so cute! I love everything about this project! The flower is so pretty and the ribbons at the bottom add a cute touch! So glad I stopped by! I’m your newest follower!
Thank you Allison.
Oh this is SO cute! It’s so perfect for spring and summer, the dahlia looks gorgeous. You did a really great job!
Thank you SO much Taryn!
This is perfect for spring & summer! Love the colors!
Popping over from Happy Hour!
This beautiful Amy. I love the way you distressed it and then added the little ribbons at the bottom. Such a nice touch! I think I need to try one of these in blue for our guest room. 🙂 Our Simply Create Link party is going on right now. I would love to have you link up, as I’m sure my followers would like to see what you created too. Hope to see you soon!
Melissa
redflycreations.com
Very pretty indeed! 🙂
Love this! It looks amazing!
Claudia @ popsandpodge.com
Way way cute!
So, so cute! I have a Cricut too. What cartridge did you use for your dahlia? Thanks so much for sharing your great idea. Have a wonderful weekend!
I used the Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art cartridge.
This is so gorgeous!! I am totally going to do something similar for my friend’s daughter’s room that I am helping her with right now… but since I don’t have a cutter I may have to get creative. You could probably use premade vinyl decals and paint over them and then peel to leave a reverse stencil? Thanks for sharing this!!
Krista @ thehappyhousie
I would think you could for sure! Good Luck!
I really love this! I’m thinking of something like this for my daughter’s room – great job! Found you via Whipperberry Link party 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
Very cute, I love it!
Thank you!
So, so cute! I just pinned it!
xoxo,
Laurie @ Gallamore West
Thank you Laurie!
I love this! The colors are so pretty and I love the ribbons. Thanks so much for coming out to the party at Clean and Scentsible. I’ll be featuring this tomorrow. Happy Sunday!
Jenn 🙂
Thank you so much for featuring me, Jenn!
So pretty!
This is so pretty, I love it! In case you didn’t see it earlier, I featured this on my blog today! I’m stopping by to pin it, and to let you know you can grab a Featured button if you don’t already have one! http://practicallyfunctional.net/2013/05/7-creative-ideas/
Thank you so much for the feature!
This is so darling!! Would love to have you come link this up to my party and follow along. http://alivedinhome.blogspot.com/2013/05/get-social-sunday_18.html
Pinned! This is too cute! Love the colors & the ribbon! The “hello” is adorable too, turquoise is my favorite color:) Did you make that as well?
Thank you. 🙂 Yes, I did make the hello, you can find the post about it here. https://www.thehappyscraps.com/2013/04/hello.html
Too cute! I have that cute ‘hello’ piece from The Wood Connection on a wreath! LOVE IT!
http://myworldmadebyhand.blogspot.com/2013/05/hello.html
I love this! I turned out great! Thank you for sharing on Blog Stalking Thursday! I have featured your project on Blog Stalking Thursday Features YOU! The post is going live later tonight. I would love for you to stop by and grab a feature button. Thanks again for sharing!
Thanks for linking to Take-A-Look Tuesday over at Sugar Bee Crafts – you were featured today!
–Mandy, http://www.SugarBeeCrafts.com
I love this Amy!! And your photography is amazing BTW.
Featuring YOU today! 🙂
Ginger @ GingerSnapCrafts.com
http://www.gingersnapcrafts.com/2013/05/over-20-things-to-make-this-summer.html
LOVE this!! Fabulous job! :*)
Sooo pretty, yet so simple! Love it! Even though you used different tones, it doesn’t scream ombre, and I love that! Just subtle enough.(I’m kinda over the whole ombre trend, ok well I just don’t like trends) And also love the wood grain showing through, and just… well love it all!
Super cute! Thank you so much for coming to share at Super Saturday Show & Tell! I’d love to have you come and share again today http://www.whatscookingwithruthie.com Have a great weekend! xoxo~ Ruthie
So beautiful!! Great job mama!!
Thank you so much for linking up to Creative Showcase! I featured this project here: http://www.housewifeeclectic.com/2013/05/creative-showcase-creative-link-up-with.html
What a beautiful idea, thanks for sharing! Pinned.
Another gorgeous project of yours. Thanks so much for sharing. I’ll be featuring this. 🙂
This is so perfect for this season! I love anything that gives me that warm fuzzy feeling of spring/ summer time! Thanks for sharing!
http://www.istaistaista.blogspot.com
absolutely beautiful! great craft! saw your post on Todays Creative Blog!
I love the black dahlia so this is def getting put on my pinterest!
Beautiful! Can you share what sizes your board and cuts are? Thanks in advance
I really love this. It turned out adorable and I want to try it for our little girl’s nursery. She is due to arrive in October! 🙂
I am meeting you from Katie’s blog at Made to be a Momma!!
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this is so cute! where did you find you slotted wood if you don’t mind me asking?
I purchased the board from The Wood Connection.
Love this!
Its so super cute…really love the colors!
As if this wasn’t cute enough, you added the ribbons at the bottom and I am in LOVE!!! This is perfection.
Visiting from Craftomaniac!
Cheers,
Dee
http://www.thecsiproject.com
Just saw this from your post on Facebook. I love it!! How big is the flower? I’m thinking that I would love to make something like this, but I wanted to know how much wood to get. Thanks!
The board I used is about 11″ x 18″, so I think the flower is about 9″ around. 🙂