April and May Dry Erase Menu

I decided to combine the months of April and May on my dry erase menu and use the quote "April showers bring May flowers" to build upon.

If you would like a background on my dry erase menu,

you can view my first blog post on it here:

http://ktscreativeinsights.blogspot.com/2013/01/dry-erase-menu.html

I used a Spring themed 12x12 scrapbook sheet for the background.

I then used a 8x8 sheet for the foreground.

I picked something that had some decoration but was mostly plain in the center so that the menu would be easily read.

I used my Cricut to cut out the letters for the headline

"April Showers Bring May Flowers"

and glued the letters on.

I used paper flowers to accent the headline and the 8x8 paper,

using glittered brads to hold them together and then glue dots to hold them to the paper.

That's our menu for the month of April and May! :)

A Gift for my Sweetheart Blog Hop

Welcome to “A gift for my Sweetheart” blog hop.

Sit back and relax while you browse through 17 unique handmade gift ideas to give a loved one on Valentine’s Day. Each stop along the way has a gift they poured their heart into but that doesn’t mean the project contains the traditional Valentine heart theme.

The hop started at Christine’s blog http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/ if you didn’t come from Http://papershenaniganz.blogspot.com

 be sure to start at the beginning so you don’t miss out on the inspiring ideas.

For this hop we have 2 sponsors, in order to be entered in the drawing for the 2 prizes you must comment and follow each blog.

Hot Berry Designs

$10 gift certificate

Scraptastical Kreations

$15 gift certificate

You have Saturday and Sunday to hop and leave a comment at all the blogs for your chance to win. The winners will be randomly chosen Monday Jan 4^th  and will be announced on Christine’s blog http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/

Robert and I like to keep a weekly menu.

We are trying to eat healthier and this helps us stay on track.

It also helps us with planning grocery shopping trips and staying within budget.

So, for my project, I created something for the both of us for Valentine's Day.

I created a Valentine's theme background for our menu.

The menu is made from a 12x12 frame.

Glass works great with dry erase markers, so this works great as a menu that you can change the background on!

I started with a fun, vintage Valentine's paper for the background.

I then placed a red square of cardstock in the center to have a solid section.

This solid section really helps when writing on the menu, making it a lot easier to read.

I had love themed alphabet stickers that I used to created the titling "Menu".

I stamped kissing deer onto a tag.

I colored the little hearts on the back with a red marker.

I tied the tag with white and gold twine.

Vintage looking cardstock adorns the lower left corner.

Cardstock sticker punch out reads "LOVE".

Gold sequins ribbons runs to the right and above of the sentiment.

Vintage little Valentines girls are decorating the sentiment "LOVE".

Thank you for stopping by the next stop is Claire at http://threewaterscreations.blogspot.com/

Christine- http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/

Elecia - http://creationsby-kahaulani.blogspot.com/

Suzanne - http://www.zannieberry.blogspot.com/

Melissa- Http://papershenaniganz.blogspot.com

Katie - http://ktscreativeinsights.blogspot.com/

ClaireR http://threewaterscreations.blogspot.com/

Shawnee - http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com

Beth ~http://motherandaughterdesigns.blogspot.com

Ashley - http://thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com

Jamie - http://www.jamielindstromdesigns.com

Lissa Marie  www.somanycrafts.com

Mary - http://irongatestamps.blogspot.com/

Angela- www.3crazymonkeys.com  

Sarah - http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/

Miranda-  http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/

Lucy - http://love2createitall.com

Dry Erase Menu

So many tutorials lately have included using picture frames as different types of dry erase boards.

We have been trying to create a weekly menu so that we can eat healthier

and do better with our grocery budget.

I love to scrapbook and thought it would be really neat to create a dry erase menu

from a 12x12 picture frame with a different background for every month.

For January I kept with a winter theme.

The background is vintage sleigh paper in blues, browns, and tans.

I then decorated with a pretty blue paper and dark brown paper.

Pretty white winter ribbon was used along with blue sequins ribbon.

The cute little mice are a rub on sticker.

The title is made using metallic letter stickers.

This is now hanging in our kitchen!

My goal is to create a different background for every month!

And to utilize the menu to its full potential of course!!