Embellishing Life: March 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I love this Easter basket.

There's just something about strawberry baskets that's so sweet and girly!

I drew the "seeds" on the strawberries with a black sharpie.

For the leaves I traced and cut out a star on green card stock.

The stem is a segments of a chenille stem poked through the center of the star,

and all hot glued to the top of the egg.

I found this idea in the April Family Fun Magazine.

Edited: berry baskets found at Sweet Lulu

After Easter the ladybug can use this in her play kitchen.

Now I'm wondering what else we can turn plastic eggs into :)

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Well hello, Spring. We have anxiously awaited your arrival. What better way to welcome it than with a garden fairy and gnome?

What we used to make these:

~pictures of your cute little munchkins

~styrofoam

~bamboo skewers

~embellishments for the clothing and wings (scrapbook paper, twine, ribbon, paper flowers...)

~adhesives

~jar

~moss

~any other spring goodness you'd like to add to your jar

Here's what we did:

~Cut out a full body picture of your little munchkin.

~Use glue dots or other adhesive to add embellishments as cute fairy or gnome clothes

~Use a glue gun to attach part of a toothpick or bamboo skewer to the back of your fairy/gnome

~Stick your skewer into a small piece of styrofoam (I cut a large block of styrofoam into small pieces)

~Hot glue the styrofoam to the bottom of a jar

~Fill bottom of jar with moss and be sure to cover the styrofoam (helps if the styrofoam is already green!)

Wednesday, March 28, 2012