Tag: Dollar Tree

DIY Valentine Ombre’ Wooden Heart

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Good morning! It’s the last week of January already! Valentine’s Day is coming quickly. I posted a few ideas last week too. Here is the link in case you missed it. I have another simple Dollar Tree craft for you today.

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I found this unfinished heart at my local Dollar Tree. I had the pink and white paint on hand but they do carry paints at the store too. I also picked up some valentine ribbon and a couple of plastic heart necklaces.

I started out by picking my paint. I picked white and two shades of pink. I put each color in a pan. I knew I wanted to paint the heart ombre’, so I started with white at the top of the heart.
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Next, I used the lighter pink while the white was still wet. I blended the white and pink together where the colors met and then continued adding the pink down the heart.

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Lastly, I added the dark pink, using the same technique as above.

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Once the paint was dry, I penciled in the word love.

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I went over the letters with hot glue and then laid the bead necklace on top of the glue. I did small sections at a time so the glue wouldn’t dry. I just snipped the necklace when the letter ended and then started the next one.

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There had been a small piece of twine to hang the heart with, but I decided to use a piece of Valentine ribbon instead. I drilled the holes a little larger to fit the ribbon through and then just knotted it in the back.

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I also bought the scarf and fortune cookies at the Dollar Tree. The cute little bird came from Target after Christmas, but the pink looks great for Valentine’s Day!

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Do you decorate for Valentine’s Day? I like just adding a few little touches on my mantle. Have a great day!

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Win a Year of Cards from Dollar Tree!

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Good morning! I just had to let you all know about a sweepstakes from Dollar Tree! You could win Hallmark and Dayspring cards for a whole year! These cards are so awesome! I buy these all the time for any special occasions.

Win a Year of Hallmark Greeting Cards!

Here’s what Dollar Tree has to say:

Guess what? We are celebrating our one-year anniversary of our new greeting cards by hosting a sweepstakes for you, our valued customer! Enter 8/22/19 through 9/7/19 for your chance to win* one of 20 prizes – The prize includes a gift box containing seventy (70) Heartline a Hallmark Company, Expressions from Hallmark, and Joyfully Yours a Dayspring Company greeting cards, thirty (30) note cards, and one (1) $100 Dollar Tree gift card.

Can you believe it! 70 Hallmark cards, 30 note cards AND $100 Dollar Tree gift card!

Here are a few of the cards I have acquired from Dollar Tree. They are beautiful and the quality you would expect from a Hallmark card.

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Enter soon! This ends on Sept. 7! Good luck!

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Decoupage Pumpkin with Maps

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Good morning! I made it back this week! Thanks for joining me! I have a really simple craft for you all today. Lauren has been decorating with maps and travel items lately, so I made this for her. I first picked up a foam pumpkin from the Dollar Tree. I had Mod Podge and maps on hand. Obviously, you could use any type of paper to have it match your decor. Scrapbook paper, pretty napkins, or old book pages would look nice too.

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I gave my pumpkin a coat of primer, just so the bright orange wouldn’t show through. Then I tore up a map page into little pieces.

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I had to have a bit of California in my pieces. 🙂

travel pumpkin map pieces

Once I had my pieces, I brushed Mod Podge on a small section of pumpkin and placed my pieces on it, overlapping them. Then I brushed more Mod Podge over the top. I continued over the whole pumpkin. Once I had all my pieces on, I brushed more Mod Podge over the whole thing making sure I brushed under any loose pieces.

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While letting the pumpkin dry, Lauren picked out a small stick to use as the stem (I actually found some faux stems on Amazon!)

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I wanted the stem to look a little rougher, so I added some hot glue around the edges.

travel map pumpkin stem with hot glue

I mixed up some grey and tan paint, not mixing it too thoroughly. I wanted it to show the different colors.

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Once the paint was dry, I hot glued it to the top of the pumpkin. This is how it turned out! It looks much better than just a small branch.

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I really like how you can spend so little to make something that fits your own style and decor.

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I think I may have to pick up a few more pumpkins!

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There you go! Not only affordable, but quick and easy too! Have you every decoupaged your own pumpkin? I would love to hear about it!

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Dollar Tree Hacks!

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Hello!  I hope everyone is doing well as we go into the weekend.  Has everyone recovered from the 4th?  I know there are still fireworks going off in my area, but only here and there.

This week I am featuring Dollar Tree Hacks. There are so many different things you can buy at Dollar Tree that are just as good of quality as Walmart.  You can buy journals and pens, cake mix and sodas, plates and silverware, and much much more!  And you can buy lots of things to have an awesome project.

Now, this post is not sponsored by Dollar Tree, but we are an affiliate with them.  Click on the banner in the sidebar and if you purchase something we will get a percentage at no extra cost to you.

Enjoy!

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How to Make A Dollar Store Basket Look Like One from Pier 1 from Busy Bliss

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Magnetic Toy Storage from Dollar Store Crafts

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Fish Scale Wall Art from Two Thirty Five Designs

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Plastic Elephant Bookends from Love Grows Wild

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DIY Hurricane Lanterns out of Dollar Tree Frames from Grosgrain Fab

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DIY Watermelon Stickers from Sarah Hearts

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DIY Treat Stand from The Crafting Chicks

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How to DIY a Magnetic Organizer from the Dollar Store from The Crazy Craft Lady

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DIY Mousepad from The Crafted Life

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DIY Sunburst Mirror from Healthy Wealthy DIYs

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How to Make a Wreath for $20

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Hello!  This is a random post that is not a top 10, but it is a re-post.  This is the perfect DIY for summer and it’s super easy!  For $20 and 2 hours of work, you will get an awesome wreath.  Enjoy!

Flower Wreath Supplies

Things you need are a pool noodle, lots of fake flowers, tape, scissors, and some sort of statement decoration.  All of these items can be purchased from the Dollar Store, so it makes the wreath even cheaper!

Flower Wreath Noodle
Flower Wreath Taping

The first thing you need to do it make the pool noodle into a wreath.  Just make it a circle and use tape to keep it in place.  I had to use packing tape to make sure that it would stay in place.

Then I started placing flowers.  I wasn’t sure how it was going to work exactly, but I thought that the easiest way would be to cut the wire to stick in the noodle.  So, after a little bit of work trying to figure out the easiest way to cut the flowers, it was able to get started on my wreath.

Flower Wreath Flower Placement

I went with white, pink, yellow, and orange for my flower choices and filled in the noodle as I went.  I didn’t fill in the back of the noodle because I knew that no one would see the back.  But, I worked for about 2 hours to fill the wreath.

Now for you decoration of choice.  I went with a wooden S since our last name is Smith.  I first covered the noodle with a sparkly silver ribbon so that we wouldn’t see the green styrofoam underneath.  I painted the S white so it would stand out against the silver ribbon and between all of the flowers.

Flower Wreath White Letter

After a little bit of hot glue, the wreath was complete!  And here is the finished project!

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First of all, I love how the colors look against mom’s turquoise door.  It makes the pinks and yellows really stand out.  And I love how it looks!  The colors are so bright and pretty and they look great with the S on the wreath as well.  This wreath is even better because it only cost me $20 to make!  $20 and 2 hours of work to have the beautiful wreath, I think it’s worth it!

If you want to check out the Dollar Tree website, click on the link in the sidebar to find all of your supplies for $1!

If you decide to try this project, please let me know how it goes!  And, comment a picture of it below so we can see you beautiful creations as well!