Materials and Supplies

• Cardboard (I used a box)
• Tissue paper in various colors
• Glue or Mod Podge
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Crayons (optional)

 How to Make This

1. Draw an oval.

2. Cut the circle out of the cardboard.

3. Draw the design that you want to fill in on your cardboard egg.

4. Color the Easter egg shape.

I colored it to identify where each color should go. I thought this would also help in case the cardboard showed through between tissue paper pieces.

5. Cut strips of tissue paper into strips, then squares.

I have the best luck with larger squares when adhering them to the egg.

6. Center the eraser of the pencil on the square of tissue paper.

7. Cover the entire eraser in the tissue paper.

8. Dab the tip of the eraser in the glue and attach tissue paper to the Easter egg.

9. Continue to attach the tissue paper to the egg. 

I have the best luck by outlining the egg in one color at a time. Then I also filled in all the yellows.

10. Keep filling in all the areas of the egg.

Try to fill in all of the holes and go as close as possible, especially between colors, to give a full look.

11. Attach a ribbon to the back of the egg.

I had the best luck hot gluing the ribbon, then taping over it with clear tape.

12. Hang up and admire!

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Easter bunny silhouettes have been filling up my blog roll. I LOVE the bunnies at I Should be Mopping the Floor, Create Craft Love, and Peterson Stories.

This is one of the easiest Easter crafts that you can do. Easy-peasy, with great results!

Materials and Supplies

•  Picture frame
•  Patterned paper, two different papers
•  Bunny cookie cutter
•  Pencil
•  Scissors
•  Pom pom or cotton ball
• Glue (not shown)

How to Make This

1. Trace the background paper to fit your frame.

2. Cut the background paper to size.

3. Place the cookie cutter on the second paper and trace the shape.

I used a cookie cutter to trace my bunny. You could also print a bunny, then cut out the silhouette and trace the inside of it.

 4. Cut out the bunny silhouette.

5. Glue or tape the bunny to the background paper.

6. Glue the pom pom to the picture.

You could also use a cotton ball.

7. Place the picture in the frame.

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This project started out as a way to use some leftover Easter eggs from my wreath project (which I'll be posting later this week). However, it turned into my favorite Easter craft so far! I am in love with the glittery Easter eggs. Here is how I did it.

Materials and Supplies

• Styrofoam topiary
• Plastic Easter eggs (I got mine at the Dollar Tree)
• Mod Podge
• Glitter (I used clear, extra fine glitter)
• Hot glue gun
• Green grass (paper kind)
• Foam brush (not shown)

How to Make This

1. Cover the Easter egg in a fine layer of Mod Podge or other glue.

2. Roll the Easter egg in the glitter.

I had the best luck by putting the glitter in a disposable bowl. After the first pass, there were some unglittered spots from where my fingers were. Once the eggs dried, I spot-touched them to make the glitter more even.

Tip: Glittering the eggs can get messy! I bought a disposable casserole dish and a plastic tablecloth at the Dollar Tree. I put the bowls of Mod Podge and glitter inside the dish. When I was done with the project, I wrapped up the tablecloth and threw everything away.

3. Glue the Easter eggs to the styrofoam topiary.

I put a fairly large glob of glue on each egg, using a hot glue gun.

4. Press the plastic eggs to the topiary.

I held each egg in place for 20 to 30 seconds to make sure they would stay.

5. Continue applying eggs until you've filled the topiary.

I tried to space them out a bit, while not leaving large gaps.

6. Fill in the gaps at the top of the topiary and between the eggs with paper grass.

I used a hot glue gun on some of the larger gaps to help hold the grass in place. Most of the grass stayed in place, just by putting it between two eggs.

7. Trim any errant grass.

I kept mine fairly wild, but you could make yours neater, if you're going for that look.

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I put together this pretty wreath to go over my St. Patrick's Day Mantel. I planned to keep this wreath super simple, on the idea of this wreath from Pinch a Little Save a Lot. However, I decided to switch it up a bit because I really liked the green satin ribbon I bought to cover the wreath and I wanted to keep it somewhat visible. I also used this opportunity to FINALLY learn how to make felt flowers. I can't believe this was my first time making flowers--now I'm hooked and plan to do a lot more for various spring projects.

This wreath took me about 2 1/2 hours to make, but that was mostly learning how to make the flowers. The wreath itself went pretty fast. Here's how I did it!

Materials and Supplies

• Wreath form
• Hot glue gun
• Green ribbon
• Foam clovers 
• Felt - white and several shades of green

How to Make This

1. Cover the wreath in ribbon.

I wrapped the ribbon around the wreath, with a slight overlap each time. I actually ran out of ribbon toward the end, but I was able to cover the gaps with the clovers and flowers.

2. Make felt flowers.

There are a lot of good flower tutorials online. I used tutorials from My Design Dump and Cherry Street Cottage - this one also has a great video tutorial.

3. Trace a circle.

I used three different size circles. I traced two plastic bowls and one glass rim to get my circles.

4. Cut out your circle.

5. Cut a spiral into your circle.

Start from the outside and work your way in.

6. Start twisting your circle. 

Start in the middle and roll your circle. Add some hot glue or fabric glue every couple of rolls.

7. Twist the fabric to add some interest.

After about 2/3-3/4 of the way, I started twisting the fabric. I thought it added a lot more interest to the flower than a straight-up rosette. There is a great tutorial on Cherry Street Cottage to show how to do this.

8. Glue a ribbon to the top of the wreath. 

I also added a ribbon to the side of my wreath to keep it hanging right, given that the weight is a little lopsided.

9. Lay out the clover on the wreath.

I picked up several packs of these foam clovers at the Dollar Tree. I decided to put my clovers on about 1/2 to 2/3 of the wreath, to keep the pretty green ribbon visible.

10. Glue the clovers to the wreath.

I used hot glue to do this and overlapped the clovers a bit.

11. Hot glue the rosettes to the wreath.

12. Hang the wreath and enjoy.

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This is the first year I've ever decorated for St. Patrick's Day. Writing a craft and decorating blog= suddenly caring about St. Patrick's Day decorations. I have to admit that I enjoyed decorating and I like to think I found a non-tacky way to decorate for this holiday. Green is one of the main accent colors in our house, so that's a bonus!

What's On My Mantel

Above the Mantel

Left side

Center

Right side

Pitcher from Crate and Barrel outlet, Burlap and Clover picture, candle and candleholder.


What do you think? Have you put together a St. Patrick's Day mantel?

A Mantel a Month Links

February Valentines Day Mantel
January Mantel
Christmas mantel
Race-car birthday mantel 
Fall mantel

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