Favorite Finds: Photo Ideas, Home Decor & Flower Cupcakes

I always love being able to share my finds with all of you...thanks for stopping by!! I'm going to Swiss Days this weekend, I'll try to post pictures of my favorite finds afterwards! If you're local join me at Swiss Days...you won't regret it!!

Bubble Chalkboards

This idea has to be one of my all time favorites and I can't wait to create some of these for fun! This was posted over at one of my favorite creative sites,  Make & Takes. And they show you how to create your own...by the way it's made form foam core...how easy is that?? I give this a huge thumbs up for such an original idea. 

Check Your Pockets Laundry Room Sign

Loved this idea I saw over on Love Stitched blog. She created this to put in her laundry room so her family members could empty their pockets out before their clothes were washed  (and shows you how to make it) . Definitely a problem at my house....almost washed an iPod or two!! 

The Twinery Baker's Twine
Who doesn't love pretty, colorful string? Well for me these totally caught my eye and I couldn't resist sharing a link to The Twinery website. Their twine is made from 100% cotton, it's eco-friendly and made in the USA. Great for gift wrapping, crafting or typing up baked goods to give to a neighbor...these yummy colorful baker's twine is the perfect finishing touch. But for me, I'm buying some to use on some cards and scrapbook pages! The Twinery's blog has some darling ideas too!

Ribbon Rose Cupcakes

Start with these fruit rollups...

To create these...

Check out Confessions of a Cookbook Queen blog to learn how to make these darling cupcakes and ribbon flowers!!

SNAP, FLASH...more FUN ideas for your PHOTOS!

8I started looking at come fun ideas for custom printed Birthday cards for a friend of mine, but once I started browsing around the new BHG's Life in Photos website I was hooked. I've already started about three projects I hope to get ordered this month while they are offering Free Shipping!

Let me show you some of my favorite finds from their website. First, the customizable invites/cards you can print for as little as $1.65 and they offer a lot of variety of designs and you can order as many as you want. Wouldn't family love getting a darling card like this announcing the latest birthday for your daughter? Mine would!

But look how fun these are...POSTERS! Wouldn't this be so unique to have posters that you create with your favorite photos. They're "fabric" posters and "repositionable". I can't wait to try this out for myself! But I have a couple of friends (...you know who you are that will beat me to it!)

Back to more custom printed ideas. Love these tri-folded invitations and there are some cute designs to pick from. Being a long time card maker I've decided keeping it simple costs me a lot less, takes less time and I love that these type of invitations feature PHOTOS!

I love Photobooks! Sure I scrapbook...but these are such a great GIFT for just about everyone! I fell in love with making this this past year and can't wait to make more. I loved the Photobook designs that BHG's Life in Photos offers...they totally fit me. But I'm always looking for creative gift ideas too and this books is the one I started working on for a Birthday gift for a friend of mine. She will love this, I know it looks like I should do it for my daughter, but I loved the design and I can change the fonts. So I'm going to put things like "I WISH we continue to have LAUGHTER"...you get it don't you?

But another great idea for my friend's birthday was this fun "swatch book" album design...I can't stop thinking off all the funny photos and things I can include in this design. Check it out here to see more of the pages.

I have to admit there were other yummy ideas on the BHG's Life in Photos site, but I'll post about those on my Lil Red Cottage Blog!

Cool Photo Ideas

You know me, I love a great home decor idea and especially if it has to do with photos. I found these beautiful examples on a great website called "Cool Photo Ideas".

They offer contests, photo display ideas and other fun ideas to use with your photos. Check them out when you have a second!