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DIY Indoor BBQ Picnic

Jul

DIY Indoor Picnic

I surprise my girls with an indoor picnic every couple of months because sometimes it just seems like the fun thing to do. Just don’t plan to do it on spaghetti night due to the fact that it can be a mess. While you can certainly use your normal dishes for an indoor picnic, I figured we should make it fun by creating a picnic caddy for the house. As a result, it’s basically everything we need in one little package.

Create a picnic caddy

You can use a box or a crate for this, an upcycled fast food drink tote or almost anything you’d like. I had cardstock and my die cut machine therefore, I chose to make one out of paper.

This is great for utensils, condiments, straws, napkins, you name it. While it’s not carrying anything especially heavy, it holds up pretty good. You probably don’t want to load it up with drinks unless you really reinforce it.

Add some custom plates

I wanted to create custom plates so I bought clear plastic plates and lined them with patterned paper. Simply trace the center of the plate on your favorite patterned paper, cut it out and adhere it to the bottom with mod podge. NOTE: only apply the mod podge to the bottom of the plate. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to eat from a mod podged plate since it probably has chemicals you may not want to ingest but maybe I’m wrong?!?!

Picnic themed invitation

Next, create a cute little apron card. I downloaded this one from the Silhouette store. Isn’t the grill set cute?

This can be an invitation to the picnic, a menu (on the inside) or just a cute piece of decor in addition to whatever else you have planned.

Ready for the picnic

So there you have it… a fun DIY Indoor Picnic that’s as cute as can be. Just add your favorite food & beverage and dine in style.

Supplies:
Sunshiny Days Ephemera Die cuts (733609)
Sunshiny Days Daydream (733598)
Sunshiny Days Flower Garden (733603)
Sunshiny Days Fresh Squeezed (733605)
Sunshiny Days Flip Flops (733599)
Sunshiny Days Cardstock Stickers (733608)

Quick Picnic Basket Gift

Jul

Summer Picnic Quick Gift

Jul

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Hey there, it’s Amy from The Happy Scraps here today. Do you love summer time? I do, and I love getting outdoors and spending time with my family. One of our favorite things to do is head out on a picnic. Summer was made for picnics, wasn’t it? I decided I wanted to dress up some drinks for us to take on a picnic, but this would be a fun little gift to give to a friend or take with you when getting together with friends for a BBQ or picnic as well. Come along and I’ll show you how I put this Summer Picnic Quick Gift together.

I picked out some fun supplies from the Jen Hadfield Everyday Collection as well as some stickers from the Spring Fling Collection. Using the Everyday Pops of Color paper, I cut it to size, inked the edges and wrapped it around the soda crate box.

I measured the top handle part of the crate, doubled it so I could fold it over the top, and cut some Everyday Honeycomb to the size I needed for it. Then I inked the edges.

I attached it to the top of the box.

I cut a piece of Everyday Trellis paper and cut a triangle out of the end of it, creating a flag like shape. Once cut, I inked the edges of it as well.

I got the other embellishments ready. I pulled some stickers from the Everyday Cardstock Stickers and Spring Fling Foiled Cardstock Stickers. For the stickers, I used the baby powder trick on. I also used a card from the Everyday Foiled Cardstock Cutouts w/ Gold paper and trimmed it down to the size I wanted. I inked the edges of the card.

I mounted the flag shape onto the box, then started mounting the embellishments. I used 3-dimensional foam tabs to create some dimension.

Once I had everything mounted onto the box, I had fun drawing the dashed line from the bee to the strawberry. I thought it was a fun little addition to the project!

I finished it all off by adding a straw to each bottle of soda. I tied it on with some baker’s twine.

Now I’m all ready to grab it and head out on a picnic! Who’s coming with me?!

Aren’t the embellishments on the front so cute?

And the straws, it just wouldn’t be complete without them.

Whip up one of these cute little Summer Picnic Quick Gifts for your next little get together. It’ll be so fun!

Supplies:
Jen Hadfield Everyday Pops of Color
Jen Hadfield Everyday Trellis
Jen Hadfield Everyday Honeycomb
Jen Hadfield Everyday Foiled Cardstock
Jen Hadfield Everyday Cardstock Stickers
Spring Fling Foiled Cardstock Stickers
Baker’s Twine
Paper Straws
Adhesive
Ink
Pen

Picnic Pie Box

Aug

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Hello everyone! I’m Eva Pizarro and today I have a fun tutorial to share with you. I love to find new uses for my tools and looking at the Banner Board Punch by WRMK I immediately thought I could use it to make a pie box for my next picnic.

Start by scoring a 6 x 12 inch of paper at 1.5 inches.

Place your paper on your Banner Punch Board with the scoring on the upper side and cut your paper from the scored line to the tip of the banner. To make the pie box bigger, I cut placing my cutting tool on the guide but with the blade facing the outside. You will not be able to cut the tip of the triangle but that’s ok. Just use your scissors to cut a straight line.

This is what your paper will look like once you take it off your board.

Put your paper on your Banner Punch Board again and slide it to the 7 inch guide. Now you are going to score the paper following the guides of your board.