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Apr
06

DIY: Silk Dyed Easter Eggs

by: camberley
Link to DIY: Silk Dyed Easter Eggs

Last week, our friend Jen sent me a link to a tutorial on silk dyed Easter Eggs. After reading through the post, I knew this little project was something I had to try. So, on Monday I ran into a local thrift store and picked up some inexpensive silk ties and scarfs.

This little craft was really easy, and I love how it’s practically fool proof – the perfectionist in me could never hand paint Easter eggs. The only downside to this project was that it took a little bit of time to cut up the fabric and tie the eggs.

Materials:

  • Silk Fabric (you could use ties, blouses, scarfs…)
  • Eggs
  • White sheets (or a pillow case)
  • Twist Ties (or rubber bands)
  • Scissors
  • Water
  • 1/4 Cup Vinegar
  • Large Pot
  1. Cut silk into pieces that are large enough to cover the entire egg.
  2. Wrap eggs tightly in silk (with the printed side facing the egg). You want the fabric to make good contact with the egg but it will still work even if it doesn’t fit perfectly around the egg.
  3. Fasten silk around egg with a twist tie.
  4. Next, cut your white sheet (or pillow case) into pieces that are large enough to cover the entire egg.
  5. Wrap eggs tightly in the white sheet and fasten with a twist tie.
  6. Place eggs in a large pot and cover them with water. Then add vinegar.
  7. Bring pot to a boil and then reduce to a simmer.
  8. Allow eggs to simmer for 20 minutes.
  9. After 20 minutes remove the eggs from the large pot and allow them to cool.
  10. Once they are cool, remove the fabric!

Note: if you want your eggs to look shiny just rub a little vegetable/olive oil on them!

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Apr
04

DIY: Bleeding Art Tissue Paper and Paper-Mache Eggs

by: camberley
Link to DIY: Bleeding Art Tissue Paper and Paper-Mache Eggs

Internally, I’ve been a wreck. I wouldn’t blame it on the new baby or my growing list of housework, I blame it solely on work. My workload right now is somewhat daunting, so by 5:00 pm each day I’m riddled with anxiety and I can barely stand to stare at the computer screen any longer. Hopefully I will make peace with work, and we can be friends again. Because when work and I are friends, I have more time for this little blog.

Last week, I managed to squeeze in a break at work to play with bleeding art tissue paper, paper-mache eggs and mod podge. This mindless craft (paired with Diet Coke and Pandora) was a great way for me to disconnect from the world for an hour.  Plus, I thought it was a great way to decorate Easter Eggs.

MATERIALS:

  • Paper-Mache Eggs (I bought these at Hobby Lobby for $.25-$1.00 – you could also use regular eggs if you’d like)
  • Bleeding Art Tissue Paper (you could even use plain tissue paper)
  • Scissors
  • Paint Brush
  • Mod Podge®

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Cut/Tear bleeding art tissue paper into different shapes.
  2. Take paint brush and brush Mod Podge® onto a small area on the egg.
  3. Next, place bleeding art tissue paper on Mod Podge® area.
  4. Then, cover the top of the bleeding art tissue paper with a layer of Mod Podge®.
  5. Repeat until entire egg is covered.

Note: I kept going back over the tissue paper with Mod Podge® to give it more of a blended look.


Have any of you ever experimented with bleeding art tissue paper? If so, what have you created? I’d love to do more projects with it.

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Mar
22

DIY: Children’s Easter Bunny T-Shirt

by: camberley
Link to DIY: Children’s Easter Bunny T-Shirt

I recently made a trip to H&M and scored this cute little bunny rabbit top for Josephine.

This is the perfect little spring outfit, so we’ve been getting a lot of use out of this number.

Since a lot of our readers probably don’t live by an H&M, I thought I’d whip up a little DIY Easter Bunny T-Shirt craft.  This project took me less than 20 minutes and, since I had all of the materials on hand, it didn’t cost me a cent.

MATERIALS:

  • T-Shirt (or Onesie)
  • Fabric Glue
  • 2 Scraps Fabric (I used fleece for the bunny’s tail)
  • Scissors
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Freezer Paper Stencil
  • Iron

DIRECTIONS

  1. Heat iron on high
  2. Print your stencil out on freezer paper – making sure that you print it on the Matte side of the paper. (Click here to download my Bunny Stencil)
  3. Take freezer paper stencil and place shiny side of freezer paper (side without the ink) on to the fabric.
  4. Take iron and iron over the freezer paper/fabric (remember- you’re ironing on the matte side that has the rabbit printed on it). Press iron for 30-60 seconds, until freezer paper adheres to fabric.
  5. Now, take freezer paper/fabric and cut out the outline of your rabbit. Note: I didn’t cut into all of the intricate line details on my stencil. I just cut around the outside of the rabbit.
  6. Peel freezer paper off of fabric. Then, apply fabric glue to the back side of the rabbit and place it on the T-Shirt.
  7. Next, take your second fabric (felt and fleece will probably be easiest to use for this) and make a small flower. Click here for a tutorial on how to do this.
  8. Glue the back side of your fabric flower to the Bunny’s tail.

For a boy’s version of this shirt, you could always try using a button as the bunny’s tail. Or use a more masculine animal.

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Mar
13

DIY: Easter Egg Gift Topper

by: camberley
Link to DIY: Easter Egg Gift Topper

One of the things I love most about having my birthday this time of year, is that sometimes Easter falls on my special day. I enjoy Easter because I get to spend it with family ushering in spring with dozens of sweets. This year, I’ve decided that I’d like my sisters to top my gifts with Easter themed gift toppers. Is that too much to ask?

Gift toppers don’t have to require a lot of time or money. For example, all the below gift topper took was some colorful cardstock (which I had sitting in my office) and 10 minutes of my lunch break.

 

Materials:

  • Ribbon
  • Cardstock
  • Egg Shaped Stencil
  • Glue (like Elmers)
  • Scissors
  • Pen

Directions:

  1. Using your egg shaped stencil and pen, trace eggs onto the backside of your cardstock. You’ll need to cut 5 eggs out.  1 for the base (I just used a plain cardstock) and 4 for the 3D effect. Note: I used varying sizes, you may use just one size if you’d like.
  2. Take 4 of the eggs and fold them in half.
  3. Apply glue to your base egg.  Then, press 2 of the folded eggs halves onto the base glue.  Next, take another folded egg and glue it’s half to one of the folded egg halves attached to the base.  Finally, take the last egg and glue it to the two exposed egg halfs (so in the end all of the eggs are glued together).
  4. Lastly, glue the eggs to a piece of ribbon and tie it to your gift.
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