GIVEAWAY!! Fall Pumpkin Craft

How cute is this balsa wood pumpkin fall craft!!!  This fun craft comes together quickly and adds a fun pop of color to your Fall decorating.  Best of all - we are giving away all the materials necessary to make it.  That's right - it's a GIVEAWAY!!!  Here's how you enter:

1. Follow us on Instagram
2. Tag a friend
3. Like us on Facebook

U.S Entries only. (Currently unable to ship PenBlades out of the country)
Contest ends Friday 10/2 @ Midnight!

We are always on the lookout for new ways to use a PenBlade. This project was inspired by a sleepless night spent perusing Instagram because isn't that what everyone does when they can't sleep?

What you Need:

• Metal or wooden base
• Balsa wood
• Burlap ribbon
• Orange paint
• Green paint
• Sponge brush
• PenBlade #11

This is how we made it:

• Start with a square of balsa wood.  The size depends on how big you want your project to be.  Ours is 4" x 4" and /" thick.
• Lightly trace the outline of a pumpkin onto the balsa wood.  You can use a template, a stencil, or if you are like our talented designer, you freehand it.  I know, how annoying is it when you learn someone can just freehand draw a pumpkin or well, anything.
• Next, use a PenBlade to cut out your pumpkin design.  We prefer the #11 blade. Be SO careful when cutting, Balsa wood is super fragile when cut into so many times!
• Paint your pumpkin.  (You could also cover it with glitter or paper. If you use paper, we recommend you adhere the paper to the balsa wood before cutting out the pumpkin.)
• Glue your Burlap ribbon to the back of your base, gathering it as you glue. Use a PenBlade to trim any excess ribbon. We used a metal base we got from Pick Your Plum.  The cute chevron print burlap ribbon also came from Pick Your Plum.  Can you tell we kinda like their site?
• Attach the pumpkin to the base (we used magnets) and VOILA, a very cute Fall/Halloween decoration for your home.

Stay tuned for ways to add some versatility to this project and be sure to enter our GIVEAWAY!!!!

If you want to purchase PenBlades go to our Buy page and enter the code BLOG930 for a 30% discount.

Wood Block Pumpkins

It is Fall time and we are in the crafting spirit!

We decorated some super cute little wooden pumpkin blogs from the wooden connection here in Utah

The things you need to have cute wooden pumpkins:

• Mod Podge
• PenBlade #10
• Twine
• Orange and Green Paint
• Orange craft paper
• Sponge Brush
• and of course your wooden blocks, acorn if you want

First thing you need to do is paint the Pumpkin blocks orange and the stem green. 

They don't look this good by themselves!

While the paint is drying grab your orange colored paper

Using your #10 PenBlade, slice the paper in one inch wide strips to match the length of your pumpkin

ModPodge those strips onto your pumpkin

  

Then get out your twine! Start wrapping your stem! It doesn't hurt to put a little glue on the stem to hold the twine in place. Once you are ready to stop wrapping here is how to easily cut your twin using the #10 PenBlade-

Loop the end

Place in cutting grove

and pull!

Boom! Congrats on your adorable pumpkins!

Now you have the perfect little mantle or table piece for your home!

 

Because we love you! we decided to give you a discount when you buy our PenBlades!

Here is a good ol' 33% off your purchase!

Code: BLOG28

Monster Bookmarks

Who’s ready to do the Monster Mash?

I mean Monster Craft!

Today I decided to do the lovely craft of making bookmarks! It turned out super cute and even the little ish ones could do this.

Things you will need:

Card Stock or Construction Paper

Number 15 PenBlade

Glue

Step 1: Grab construction paper and make the dimensions 6×6

Step 2: Fold into a triangle

Step 3: Fold the left corner to the center point

Step 4: Fold the right corner to the center point

Step 5: Open back to triangle, fold one center flap down to bottom

Step 6: Re-fold left corner and tuck into pocket

Step 7: Re-fold right corner and tuck into pocket

 

Step 8: Using the PenBlade cut out a piece for the mouth opening and glue into the square

Step 9: Using the PenBlade cut out ovals or circles for the white eyes and smaller ovals or circles for the main eye color and glue together

Step 10: Using the PenBlade cut out a zig-zag for the teeth

Step 11: Glue it all into place and you have your new monster bookmark!

 

 

 

 

Paper Masks

Comic Con in Salt Lake City is this week so I thought we could prepare ourselves with some simple paper masks!

Things you need:

• Colored Paper
• #15 PenBlade
• Hole punch
• String
• Glue

It’s simple. Using the #15 PenBlade, cut out your mask shape and cut two holes for the eyes. Then using different colored paper you can cut out some sharp edges for the hair. Don’t forget to draw some commas for the eyebrows! Slant them down because Hulk is Mad! Glue all the pieces together and then hole punch the two sides add string and attach to your head! Easy right?

Happy National Cheeseburger Day!

Today is National Cheeseburger day! Yay! Go celebrate this day by eating one! But if you don’t want to eat one, you can always craft one! I was in the cheeseburger spirit and decided to make a cheeseburger out of paper. I think it turned out pretty cute.

 

All I used was:

• Scrapbook Paper of different colors
• A cutting board
• A number 15 PenBlade

Once you have all your materials cut away! You know what a cheeseburger looks like! Make the bun, the lettuce, the meat, cheese, and tomato.  Then enjoy your delicious paper cheeseburger!