Happy 4th of July!

After being invited to a friend's house tomorrow to celebrate the 4th with a day of swimming, grilling out, and fireworks, I decided that I needed to make a little hostess gift. 

My oldest wanted me to make cake pops for her to take to her friend's lake house where she will be spending the 4th, so I spent the majority of the day working on the cake pops.

For the hostess gift I took a glass vase and glass etched their initial on it so it could be used later for whatever.  I filled the bottom of the vase with decorative rocks and loaded it with red, white, and blue cake pops.  I also added some cute bags with red, white, and blue M&Ms with red and blue fireworks attached.

Seeing that I had so many cake pops left over I made a little centerpiece for my dining room table.  I just put some of the decorative rocks in the bottom of two different sized mason jars and added the red, white, and blue cake pops.  Hopefully the cake pops will last until tomorrow, so I will still have my cute centerpiece intact!

Easy Glass Etching

I have seen a lot of cute personalized glass pieces and decided that I could probably do something like that too.  Once I finally found the glass etching cream I played with some cheaper items until I actually felt comfortable with the whole process.  Before I got my silhouette, I just made a few sets of monogrammed glasses for gifts, but now the possibilities are endless.
After a little research I figured out how to cut contact paper using my silhouette cameo,  instead of using all my vinyl on my glass etching projects.  It works perfectly for me, at least so far.

Here is my new dish soap bottle, after seeing them all over pinterest I knew I had to make one...

And I couldn't stop there so I personalized the jar that I keep my doggies treats in...

 Lastly I etched and personalized this pyrex dish using the the borders set by Jennifer Wambach, which is the shape featured in the Weekly Shape Challange on the Silhouette Blog.  I love all the borders and this is probably just one of the many projects I will make using them, I already have some other ideas I am working on.

Wedding Gifts

My friend's niece got married this past weekend and she wanted me to make something personalized for her.  This is what I made for her using my silhouette...

I found a really cute frame to put it in.

Then the mother of the bride decided she wanted something to give to her on her big day, so we came up with this...

Since this was sized 12 x 12, I was able to get a shadow box frame that this looked great in.  

My friend's daughter saw the gift and she wanted one too do I made this for her...