Sunday, March 20, 2016

Simple Easter Crafts for Spring

Hi everyone. I'm busy crafting for my family's Easter celebration next weekend. Over the next few days I'll be posting some of my projects here for you .

Spring Shadow Box


These are simple, inexpensive projects that you can try at home. 

First you'll need to gather the following materials:

six small wooden oval shapes
one 9 x 9 shadow box
assorted paints and markers
hot glue 
vinyl 
Cricut Explore cutting machine

The Cricut Explore machine is optional. You can buy any vinyl saying at your local crafts store or online on Etsy. However, I highly recommend this awesome machine. No cartridges needed. 
First I purchased the six oval shapes at Michael's. 
They were found in the wood letter aisle and were only 29 cents each!
Score!
The cute shadow box was also on sale and it cost me around $8. 
I have a large assortment of paints and sharpies but I picked up a few more paints. 
They are only 69 cents and I picked some pretty spring time colors. 
I painted each wooden "egg" in the colors I wanted. I let them dry while I designed a chevron pattern on Cricut Design Space. I first measure the egg to find out how big the chevron pattern should be. 
I cut it out of cardstock. I used that pattern as a stencil and just stenciled it on with paint. When they were dry, I simply went over the outline with a contrasting color sharpie.
When they were all dry, I simply hot glued them to the inside of the shadow box. 


sorry for the orientation. I forgot to turn them around. Anywho, then I just simply picked my font on the Cricut Explore and cut out of vinyl. So easy! I think it looks pretty cute. 

Another take on this craft is to have each of your kids decorate one "egg" then simply cut your last name out of vinyl. Instant memento.

Here it is in its temporary spot:

I hope you got some ideas on how simple and easy it is to decorate a shadow box. 

I'll be back tomorrow to share my Easter door hanger. 

xoxo

Patty







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