Are you ready for a simple project to kick off the summer? You will not believe how easy it is to make this beautiful door hanger. You can change up the colors and make it fit any season or occasion.
Materials and Tools:
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Rafia – https://amzn.to/45KpXd4
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I started out by painting my 14″ wood round with the white Waverly chalk paint on both sides and the rim.
While the blank was drying I used my Cricut machine to cut out my design, weeded and placed it on my transfer tape. I placed the letter “B” on the round first leaving as much room at the top as possible. Next, I placed the “Welcome to our home” decal in the middle of the letter, trying to center de design. I burnished both pieces and slowly removed the transfer tape.
In order to dress up the round, I took a eucalyptus stem and cut four pieces about 4″ long and four pieces about 4″ long of a lavender stem. Then, I stapled the stem pieces as close to the middle as possible leaving the outside pieces stick out on the outside of the round. In order to cover up the staples, I wrapped a piece of raffia around my hand four times, made a bow, and stapled it in place.
In order to create a hanger for the wood round I cut a 6″ piece of twine, folded it in half, and stapled the ends to the middle top of the back side of my wood round.
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Happy Crafting
We all have that one thing that we love about spring. As days become longer and warmer, everything around us becomes just a little greener. Flowers are blooming. OK, so here in the north part of Georgia mountains it is definitely spring time. Our nights are definitely cool but the days are just beautiful and bright. This is quite a change from our last spring in Florida, which went from hot to hotter.
To celebrate the new season we will decorate this vintage red truck. The shopping list is short and the number of tools is very limited as well. I am not a florist and at first I definitely though I will have trouble with arranging the greenery. You know what I realized? You can pull out the flowers and rearrange them if you do not like how it turns out.
So since it is very fixable, let’s begin with our lists.
SUPPLY LIST
Vintage Red Truck (Target)
Moss (Dollar Tree)
Floral Foam (Dollar Tree)
Glitter Egg Picks – 1 pack of large, 1 pack of small (Dollar Tree)
Floral Bundles, 1 purple, 1 yellow, 1 off white, 1 pink (Jo-Ann)
Bunny (Michaels)
TOOL LIST
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Wire Cutters or Stem Cutter
Lazy Susan (if you have one)
* You may need a razor knife to cut your floral foam to fit
Step 1. We are starting with out truck and floral foam. Cut the foam to size if necessary to fit the bed of your truck. Use your hot glue to glue in the foam to the bed of the truck and make sure that once cured, it does not move.
Step 2. Place your bunny to see where you would like to display it. I chose to glue my bunny in close to the truck cab a bit on an angle. Make sure to hot glue your cutie in place.
Step 3. The bed of my truck has wooden slats for rails therefore I chose to cover the top and the three visible sides of the foam with moss. I used hot glue to make sure it stays in place.
You may choose to use scissors or the flower stems to push the moss into cracks your fingers may not fit into or just because you may not want to get burned by the hot glue. My moss is quite messy but it does a great job of covering and looks very natural just in case it shows through the flowers.
Step 4. Now you are ready to decorate the truck bed with flowers. Remember to cut each stem individually but also that you would leave it possible longer than what you think to start with. You can always trim it shorter if needed but it will be more difficult to add the height back. Also, you want to make sure your stems have different length. I envisioned the very back of the bed as the tallest portion with shorter flowers in the front so they would not overpower by bunny, the the sides shorter yet.
I started with my purple flowers, they look somewhat like wisteria but I am totally not an expert on flowers. As a matter of fact, I have a very hard time with keeping up with live plants therefore I absolutely love artificial ones.
If you are confident of your skills than you may want to use some hot glue to secure each stem. I usually do not glue my flowers in because I like to re-purpose my projects at a later date and the hot glue makes it more difficult.
This is the point where if you have a Lazy Suzan you may want to give it a spin. Go around your the bed of the truck and simply push the flowers into the foam. Make sure the flowers do not cover your bunny. If they do, just cut the stem shorter and try it again.
Continue with all your flowers until your truck bed is full, or just until you like it.
Step 5. Find a place to put your glitter eggs picks. I chose to have my eggs bit taller to see the sparkle behind my bunny. Try your placing and if you do not like, take them out and move to a different spot.
I must admit that Christmas is my favorite time of the year. Holidays are the perfect time to spruce up your home and show off your new creations. This is exactly why today we will be making the Holiday Lantern Centerpiece. This project is very easy to complete. The thing is that sometimes we want something to add that little bit of color and light to our table but we are tired of the same old flower centerpiece. The good news is that when you get tired of what your piece looks like, you can take it back to bare bones and decorate it for the next season or holiday. Lets’ go over some supplies we will need.
– Lantern
– Small Ornaments
– Present Ornament
– 10” Piece of Garland
– Battery Operated Lights
– Ribbon
– Pipe Cleaners
– 2 Greenery Floral Picks
Now you are ready to follow this simple process.
Step 1. We are going to start with the lantern. Open the door or top of your lantern and place your ornaments on the bottom to cover it completely.
Step 2. Bend your piece of garland in a circular shape and place it on top of the ornaments.
Step 3. Test your battery-operated lights and place them inside the lantern on top of the garland making sure the battery pack is hidden by it. You may choose to tuck in some lights around the bottom layer of your lantern.
Step 4. Carefully place your wrapped present ornament on top of the garland. You may choose to keep it in the center or off-center. Hot glue it in place for extra stability especially if you think you will want to hang your lantern.
Step 5. Next, we are moving on to decorating the top of our lantern. Take 8 pieces of 10” ribbon and while holding the ends all together we will tie them with our pipe cleaner or floral wire. Once tied, you need to fluff out your ribbon to your liking.
Step 6. We are taking our two floral picks and while holding them end to end (metal portion) and overlapping at least half of an inch, we will tie them together with pipe cleaners.
Step 7. Attach your bow to the greenery picks with pipe cleaners.
Step 8. Attach your bow to the top of your lantern. You may choose to tie it on with pipe cleaners or hot glue.
Step 9. Turn on the lights and enjoy your beautiful holiday lantern centerpiece.
Now you are ready to display your piece inside your home or gift it to someone special. You may even choose to add your own touch to this lantern and substitute some of the pieces. And that is absolutely a great idea. Make it your own so you can enjoy it.
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Happy Crafting 🙂
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