Easter Garland

Easter Garland Right Side Upper

Easter Garland

Were has the time “flown”? It seems like yesterday was Valentine’s Day! I wanted to share with you my Easter Garland. I’ve done tutorials on some of these and will post the last few after Easter so you can get a jump start on next year!

Why am I craft blogging on Easter? because I am “home alone 2”. I stayed at home on Christmas because I had just had surgery. Now I have planter fasciitis (inflammation of the covering of the muscle on the BOTTOM of the foot) and each step is so painful (even with that drated boot!) that I didn’t go to Easter dinner either. So y’all eat some ham and coconut cake for me!

I hope everyone has had a Blessed Easter!

buggaalcrafts a.k.a. Melba

Easter Garland Left Side Lower

Easter Garland Left Side Upper

Easter Garland Right Side Lower

Easter Garland Right Side Upper

Fabric Wrapped Button Wreath

Mini Bunny Hug Wreath

Mini Button Crosses

Mini Button Mini Grapevine Wreath

Mod Podge & Tissue Paper Carrot

Mod Podge Fabric Egg

Sew Sweet a Spool of Thread

Wire Beaded Egg Shape

Wooden Easter Eggs

Wooden Spoon Bunny

Mini Bunny Hug Wreath

Mini Bunny Hug Wreath

I found an Easter Egg Decorating Kit at the Dollar Tree last week and immediately said “I can make something with that!”. So here it is, my Mini Bunny Hug Wreath!

This would be a great craft for the kids.  It is easy and inexpensive.  No-one will guess that this is an up-cycled shower curtain ring!

Materials

• Shower Curtain Rings
• Fabric Scraps
• Quilt Batting
• Egg Decorating Kit
• White Pom-Poms
• Pastel Buttons
• Rick-Rack

Instructions

• Wrap shower curtain ring with quilt batting and torn fabric strips.  See my previous post “Mini Fabric Wrapped Button Wreath” (link below) for instructions.
  • https://buggalcrafts.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/mini-fabric-wrapped-button-wreath/
• Cut a short piece of the strip that is designed to wrap around an egg.  Glue it to the wreath before gluing the bunny paws to the wreath.  Glue a rick-rack strip on top of this.  Glue a nesting set of buttons in the middle.
• Glue the bunny parts from the kit on the wreath like the bunny is hugging the wreath.
• Glue buttons on the bunny’s paws.
• Add a rick-rack bow with a small button centered on it to the base of one of the bunny’s ears.
• Glue a white pom-pom on the bottom of the wreath.

 

Thank you for reading my post. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.  If you have any questions or something is not clear, please let me know so that I can improve the tutorial.   

Please take a moment to leave a comment and rate this post.

Thanks again. 

Melba a.k.a. buggalcrafts

Easter Egg Craft Foam Wreath

Easter Egg Craft Foam Wreath

This is my Easter Wreath this year.  I found the craft foam egg wreath at Wal-Mart for 97 cents.  I had all the lace, trim, ribbon, stickers, buttons, and another embellishments on-hand.

It is very simple and lots of fun.  You can decorate it i with almost anything!  Plus it will be a snap to store as it will lay flat.

The wreath was also available in bunnies and I belive also came with chicks.

Thanks for taking a look.  What kind of wreath have you done for spring or Easter?

buggalcrafts a.k.a. Melba

 

 

 

Mini Fabric Wrapped Button Wreath

Mini Fabric Wrapped Button Wreath

At first glance a shower curtain ring might not seem to be the ideal mini wreath base, but add a little quilt batting and some seasonal fabric and you’ve got the perfect base for your mini wreath!

 

THE BIRTH OF THIS MINI WREATH

Last spring a chance trip to a thrift store netted me 18 wooden curtain rings for $1.99 and I been hooked on making mini wreaths ever since!

While looking for more wooden rings on the cheap (these are pretty expensive to buy outright in bulk!) I kept seeing shower curtain rings for dirt cheap – so the wheels started turning and I came up with a way to use these inexpensive plastic rings for spectacular Mardi Cras and Valentine’s Day Curtain Ring Ornaments.  Click on the link to see how I did it!

I made a few fabric wrapped mini grapevine button wreaths for my Christmas tree last year but just thought that using them as the wreath base was just too expensive.  I continued to wrestle with the need for a CHEAP wreath base until I remembered the Candy Cane Package Decorations I made that were inspired by my friend Maggie’s Fabric Wrapped Candy Canes.  She uses plastic candy canes for a base and I had tried some with some super skinny (remember these?) purchased at a flea market.  I didn’t like how they looked so I used quilt batting to pad them out.  Remembering this, the “Mini Fabric Wrapped Button Wreath” was born!

CRAFT PATICULARS

These are very cute hanging on a seasonal tree or wreath.  Or suspend one or two on long ribbons and hang them in a window,

This is a great craft for kids as it is very easy to do. And at less than 15 cents each it is also very inexpensive – – – making it a great craft for a crowd.

And while it is easy enough for kids, teens and adults can be challenged enough to keep their interest.

Customize it to the season simply by changing the color of the fabric, buttons and trim. So it works for Valentine’s Day, spring & Easter, Harvest, Christmas, etc. all equally well.

Use your mother’s or grandmother’s vintage buttons to create a heirloom ornament.

 INSTRUCTIONS

Materials

• Shower curtain rings
• Quilt batting strips
• Torn fabric strips
• Trim:   ribbon, lace, rick-rack, etc.
• Embellishments:  buttons, mini wooden shapes, ornamental buttons, string of seed pearls, etc.
• Ornament hangers

 

Also Needed

• Scissors
• White glue
• Cotton swabs or paint brush

 

Cost

• Rings: On-hand or around 8 cents each
• Fabric: On-hand or $1 a yard and up
• Buttons: On-hand or $2 and up for 30

 

PHOTO TUTORIAL

Photo 1: Assemble supplies. Cut strips of quilt batting. Tear strips of fabric. Both need to be about 1 inch wide and 14 inches long.

Photo 2: Starting at the open end (this will be the top of the wreath) of the shower curtain ring wrap the quilt batting strip around the ring. Apply tape or glue to hold.

Photo 3: Attach the torn fabric strip to the top of the wreath with a little glue and then wrap around the ring overlapping the edges until the ring is completely covered. Trim end and the glue to hold.

Photo 4: Secure end with glue. Allow to dry.

Photo 5: Glue buttons on the wreath.

Photo 6: Wrap contrasting trim around the top of the wreath several times and then tie the ends into a bow. Insert ornament hanger under trim. Glue a button and/or other embellishment in the center of the bow if desired.

NOTES:

• Wrap very narrow trim all the way around the wreath if desired.
• Instead of gluing a mini ornament on the wreath tie it to the top of the wreath before adding trim and let it hang freely in the center of the wreath.

Thank you for reading my post. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.  If you have any questions or something is not clear, please let me know so that I can improve the tutorial.   

Please take a moment to leave a comment and rate this post.

Thanks again. 

Melba a.k.a. buggalcrafts

Another Valentine Craft: Mini Valentine’s Button Grapevine Wreath

Mini Valentine’s Button Grapevine Wreath

I found these darling little heart shaped buttons at Hobby Lobby the other day and just had to get them to make a couple of these wreaths.

I had made one with regular buttons and it came out super cute so I knew this one would be darling too – and it is!  This was a hard craft to get  good photo of – the Glitter Mod Podge creates tons of sparkles on “film”.

This can also just as easily be a Christmas or other holiday ornament. Keep an eye out for the Mardi Gras and Easter wreaths in a post coming soon.

Materials:

• Mini grapevine wreaths
• Red rick-rack
• Glitter Mod Podge
•  Mini glittery foam hearts

Costs:

• The buttons are $1.99 a package.  I bought 2 packs because I wanted to use them for several crafts.
• I had the grapevine wreaths, rick-rack, Mod Podge, and tiny white buttons on-hand.

Instructions:

1. Attach mini hearth shaped & round buttons and mini hearts with Glitter Mod Podge and let dry.  Drizzle the Mod Podge over the wreath and attach the buttons randomly.
2. Suspend a couple of heart shaped mini cookie cutters with narrow white ribbon and tie on the wreath to dangle down in the center of the wreath.
3. Next tie some red rick-rack on the wreath and make a bow.
4. Add a couple of homemade heart shaped sugar cookies to the top of the wreath (punch a heart shape from tan craft foam and then a smaller one from white or red craft foam and glue together.).
5. Display your wreaths:  Suspend from a curtain rod on ribbon or fishing line.  Attach a ribbon to either side and use as a curtain tie.  Tie on a wreath or garland.

ALTERNATIVES:

• Wrap the wreath with lace before gluing on vintage buttons in assorted colors.
• Use mini shells in the place of buttons.  Add a gauzey gold ribbon.

 

Mini Grapevine Wreath With Vintage Buttons

My First Craft Blog Post! It’s a Gingerbread Christmas!

My First Craft Blog Post! It’s a Gingerbread Christmas!

It’s almost Christmas, my favorite time of the year.  This year I decided to have a “Cookie Chrismas Tree”. I have collected cookie ornaments for years, but I wanted to have some homemade ones, so I started looking for sugar cookie and gingerbread crafts to make.  I bought some craft kits from Oriental Trading (one of my favorite on-line stores) & put my own spin on them and found several great craft ideas both in the stores and on-line.  Here are photos of my tree.  I will be posting directions for the one I made and will also share the urls’ of the ones I found on-line.

 

Over the year I have collected lots of gingerbread ornaments, but this is the first year there has been enough for a sugar coma on the tree!

I wired candy cane floral picks to candy cane ribbon bows. The snowman ornament is a homemade cookie cutter ornament.

Christmas Sweet Christmas! For a topper I simply wired a gingerbread plushie to the top of the tree.

In the lower right is one of my handmade cupcake ornaments.

Christmas cookies on a copper cookie sheet.

See the glass gingerbread boy? He actually got broke and I glued on the gumdrop minis to hid the broken area.

I “made” the gingerbread ornaments from a kit but I added the button touches myself.

Can you believe I found this Lucy holding gingerbread men?

Another Copper Cookie Sheet Ornament.

What tree isn’t complete without it’s “Gingerbread Peacock”? Ok – so he isn’t gingerbread!!!

The gingerbread girl is a stuffed paper sack ornament made using leftover wrapping paper.

In the center of the photo is a Fabric Wrapped Grapevine Wreath topped with a gingerbread button.

Another Fabric Wrapped Mini Wreath and a view of my new gingerbread tree skirt!

The snowman is an inexpensive dollar store ornament bought last year that I dressed up with some glitter to resemble frosting and a snowman Christmas cookie mini ornament and cutter.

This is my non-gingerbread memento ornament for my mother. She died of breast cancer several years ago.