Spring Craft Ideas

Create place cards for your Easter guests from colored note cards and a festive stamp.

A pretty floral headwreath ~

I made vegetable sushi for the first time! It was actually somewhat easy :) Practice, practice, practice!

For the tutorial, click here.

Polka Dots Nails tutorial.

To make a watercolor egg: 

1) Lay a hard boiled egg on a napkin or in a container

2) Drizzle the egg dye over the egg with a fork or another object of some sort

3) Let dry, peel & eat!

Happy Spring!!!

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DIY Holiday Gift Series: Key & Keychain

Give a handmade fabric keychain & a cute colorful key for Christmas...

Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Supplies:

• 3" x 36" piece of non-stretchy fabric... I used cotton
• iron ~ you might be able to use a hair straightener  :)
• metal key chain ring
• sewing machine or fabric glue
• key & nail polish for decorating

Take your 3" by 35" cotton fabric, iron in half lengthwise, right side out.

Open it up... 

Fold each side into the center fold...

and iron!

Sew down the long side or iron on fusible tape like steam-a-seam.

Slide a lanyard hook/ key ring onto one strip.

Sew the short ends together with the ring still threaded on strip.

Fold the ends inward, enclosing the ring, & topstitch right above the ring.

All done with the lanyard!

Take a coordinating color of nail polish...

And paint the top half of the key!

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DIY St. Patty's Day Ornament!

Here is a quick tutorial on how to make a St. Patty's Day Ornament!
Level: ●○○○

Supplies:

• doily
• heart shaped punch/scissors
• glue stick  
• green paper
• green marker
• ribbon/string to hang it

Gather your supplies. I will be using a green file folder for the clovers.

Punch out 3-4 hearts and glue them to the doily.

Attach a string/ribbon and hang from a tree....

...Or hang from a curtain pull back!

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DIY Valentine nails!

:: How to make little hearts on your nails with a dotting tool :: 

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DIY Salt Dough Ornaments

This is kind of last minute, but here is a tutorial for cute salt dough/ clay ornaments.
Level: ●●○○

Supplies: 

• salt dough recipe & ingredients
• ribbon to hang ornament
• plastic straw (to poke a hole)
• plastic or metal cookie cutter
• watercolors + brush

1. Make the salt dough using the recipe. 
2. Shape some salt dough using a cookie cutter, making sure it's somewhat flat.
3. Using a straw, poke a hole at the top of the ornament. 
4. After the ornament(s) has air dried for a day or two- I know, a long time... paint them with watercolors.
5. When the watercolors dry, string a ribbon through the hole you made with the straw and tie it off.

All done- it may be a little squishy though... :D

Merry Christmas!!!

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Reuse Magazines: Holiday Cards

    Have some old December magazines you can cut up? In this tutorial, I will be making Christmas card using cut out from magazines. Get your scissors ready...

Level: ●●○○

Supplies: 

• old magazines
• scissors
• sharpie
• Elmer's bottle glue
• blank cards

Trace out an image on the back on the page with a sharpie and cut out. You can even cut images or words from scraps of wrapping paper.

Look at all the pics I cut out :D  Now paste the images onto the blank card.

To make the glue more even, smooth it out on the back of the image with a paintbrush before you stick it on to the card.

Here are my finished cards. Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas

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