Happy Father's Day! Today's blog is a bit different than the others we have done, it's a craft tutorial! For Mother's Day we dressed up as our mothers but if we dressed up as our father figures for this post Kyra would be in a shorts and an army shirt while Paola would be in jeans with a white t-shirt tucked in... That's not our style so we decided to show you how we made our gifts for them instead. Our father figures have played a huge impact in our lives and shaped us to be the incredible women we are today so we wanted to do something special just for them. We made the gifts depending on the things we know they like and love including their favorite colors to show how much we love and appreciate them. We know that Father's day may be a tough day for many because they may not even have a real "Dad" to celebrate with or even want too but we're always doing things a bit outside of the box. This post goes out to all the Father figures not just in our lives but yours as well. Regardless of whether they're your biological father, foster parent, grandparent, coach, teacher, uncle etc. or even your mom because sometimes they have to play both roles this day is for you to celebrate and recognize WHOEVER you choose. Show them how much you love and appreciate all they've done for you with this simple yet thoughtful gift. This present is easy to make and very cost effective! We made two for under $10 (not including the stuff that is put inside)! The good thing about this craft is you can change the words and colors to be anything you want and it turns into a different gift depending on the holiday or recipient!
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Things you need!
- any glass item you want to paint on (we chose two vases from the Dollar Tree)
- letter stickers
- acrylic paints (we chose different shades of green and blue but it's up to you!)
- sponges (we chose circle sponges in three sizes)
- newspaper or something on the surface to insure that you don't get paint on something it's not supposed to be on
- things you want to put in it (maybe lottery tickets or candy?)
- imagination! (Reminds us of something figment would say)
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First things first!
1) Start out with your vase and place the letter stickers where ever you want in whatever order but keep in mind that you will be peeling them off so it is best to keep them a little separate so each letter is defined!
2) Start painting, we chose to place different colored and sized circles all over our vase (it reminded Paola of bubbles)!
3) Let the paint dry and peel this stickers off to show the letters imprinted below!
4) Fill with all the goodies that they love!
5) Be awed at how amazing your new gift is! And give it to the person reciving it!
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Happy Father's day to all of the father figures out there! We hope you enjoyed our first of hopefully many DIY Crafts/gift ideas. This was surprisingly rather enjoyable for the both of us, although Kirsten is definitely the more artsy one I had a good time too. (I actually made art this is a BIG deal everybody). Anyone who knows us, knows that the art supplies don't get handed to me unless they involve coloring or very minimal parts but this is something even art challenged me can do so we know you can too. We hope we've given you some gift ideas for someone special in your life and can't wait to see what you come up with. If you use our tutorial be sure to tag us or send us the picture we'd love to feature you on our social media and show it off for the world to see. We want to give a shout out to all the father figures out there ours especially. We wouldn't be the remarkably intelligent, loving and all around wonderful people we are today if it weren't for them. It doesn't matter what your father figure looks like or even if they're blood related to you, what matters is the role they played in your life! Celebrate the love and care that they give you & tarnish societies idea of what Father's day "should look like" because how you choose to show appreciation or who you choose to give it to is entirely up to you.
If you have any comments, questions or concerns feel free to comment below and we'll do our best to not only reply but help as soon as we can.
As always thanks for reading,
May your days be filled with pretty dresses & or fabulous dapper clothes + a lot of happiness.
Paola & Kirsten xx
AKA "thehepburnmovement"
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