Spring Bouquet...

Here is a quick spring bouquet idea...using stuff I already had except for the flowers!! I love big bright colored flowers and they are there to greet anyone who comes in our front door!! ;) Happy Spring!!

{spring bouquet}

Item's Needed:

3 big bright flowers of your choice- you can get them for 2 bucks at Walmart

1- glass vase (used before for eggs/pinecones etc.)

2- small or 1 lg. bag of split peas

Step 1: Take your glass vase and pour in both bags of the split peas...it won't fill it up but maybe 1/3 of the way..unless you have a small vase. You can guesstimate how many you will need!

Step 2: Take your 3 bright colored flowers and stick them down into the split peas... I stuck them in at different directions.
Step 3: Set it on a bookshelf, stand, or table and ENJOY!! :)

{spring bouquet}

bugs...

I keep thinking if I do more and more Spring crafts maybe it will get here and stay?! I don't think its working but the crafts are dang cute!! Here is Spring craft up I came up with last night!!

{bugs}

Item's Needed:

1- old frame with 4 windows in it..or 4 small seperate frames

1- piece of springy scrapbooking paper

The Letters B, U, G, S in vinyl or rub on lettering

Green Paint

Paint brush

Embellishments

Stamp Pad/Distressing Ink

Paint brushes

Scissors

Sanding block

Step 1: Take your old frame or seperate frames and sand them down a little bit.
Step 2: Paint your frame...i had to do about 3 coats to cover the brown.

Step 3: While your frame is drying take your glass and trace it on your scrapbooking paper.

Step 4: Cut out your four squares..

Step 5: Put your B U G S on each of them.

Step 6: Now that your frame is dry...sand the edges and give it the weathered look.

Step 7: Distress your edges with ink!!

Step 8: Put your glass & paper back into the frame.

Step 9: Embellish away!! My favorite part....

Flowers & of course {buttons}

also some Ribbon!! :)

Step 10: Stand back and marvel!! SOOO cute!

Set it on a shelf, counter, wall...wherever you want!!

{bugs}

Easter/Spring Topiary..

I have seen alot of topiaries around at many craft stores and I love them...but I dont love there price! :) So I came up with a way to make it and it is really quite inexpensive. Total cost- $1 for the bucket (target), styrofoam ball 1.50, JellyBeans 1.00, grass 1.00, tulle 1.00/yd, wooden dowel 50 cents, other styrofoam piece 1.50, and the ribbon I already had. So about 7-8 bucks!! I can so handle that!! So here is how I did it!!

{Easter/Spring Topiary}

Item's Needed:

1- styrofoam ball

1- approx 12'x12' square of tulle

1- small metal bucket (target dollar spot)

1- bag of jelly beans

15-20inches of coordinating ribbon

Some Easter grass

1-wooden dowel

1-styrofoam square or piece for the bottom

Scissors

Hot Glue Gun/lots of gluesticks!!

( I will warn this project takes some time! Have to glue jelly beans on one by one!)

Step 1: Take your styrofoam ball and your wooden dowel...push your dowel

down inside the styrofoam ball a ways. It is hard to push it in and I had to hot

glue it to get it to stay in.

Step 2: Take your tulle of choice and wrap it around your styrofoam ball like so...
Step 3: Take your ribbon and tie it around the base of the styrofoam ball on the dowel..like so...

Step 4: Take your styrofoam piece depending on what size you have you may have to cut it in half. I used a piece I already had so I had to make it fit!! :)

Step 5: Cover it all with your grass..

Step 6: you dont have to do this step but I am a little crazy about color and order so I

seperated the jelly beans into little bowls.

Step 7: Start glueing...I had no certain pattern just tried to get all different colors everywhere

and to fill in all the holes...(which is impossible but it still looks cute!)

Step 8: Keep going....

and going...

Step 9: After they are all glued on how you want...take it and stick it down into the styrofoam/grass in the bucket. I had to one again use hot glue..that puppy was pretty heavy with all the jelly beans on it!! :)

Step 10: Set it on your shelf/stand with the other decor and admire!!

So cute!!

I LOVE IT!! I walk by it alot and it looks so perfect with the other decor! I love being frugile!

{Easter/Spring Topiary}

circle spring bows...

Here is the tutorial for the circle spring bows in the giveaway!! They are really simple to make!! Have fun with it. If any of you make these...send me some pics so I can see what you came up with! HAPPY SPRING!!

{circle spring bows}

Items Needed: