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DIY Easter Bunny Paper Garland

Hey crafty friends!  One of the things I want to do more of here on the site is to show you how you can use your paper stash for things beyond just a scrapbook page.  When this DIY Easter bunny paper garland idea came to me I knew I had to save it to share around Easter/Spring time.

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Easter Bunny DIY Paper Garland

One of the main things I liked about this project is you could include your children no matter their age.  If they are older they can do the whole thing themselves, a 7-8 year old could do most, and even a 2-3 year old could glue the cotton balls on.

To start the project you want to print a bunny silhouette from google.  There are several styles to choose from, but I liked the simplicity of this one so our 7-year-old could help cut.  Print your silhouette, cute it out and trace it onto your cardstock. You can use the scale button in your printing options to make the bunny larger or smaller.  You can also use the trace feature on your cutting machine if you have one.

Trace your bunny silhouette

After you cut out the number of bunny silhouettes that you want to include on your garland you need to get out the cotton balls.  You will glue a cotton ball in the center of the bottom of the silhouette to create a bunny tail.  You can use a half a cotton ball, a whole, two, etc. based on how you scaled your bunny.  This is where even the youngest kiddos can help.

Glue cotton balls on for bunny tails

These bunnies could be used as is now, but to create the garland you arrange them in the pattern you would like based on the size of where you want to hang them.  Glue the back of each of the ears to the jute using hot glue.

Hot glue the bunny in place

Once the glue is dry flip the banner over and your garland is ready to go!  Super quick and easy.  It’s also paper so you can keep it for next year if stored carefully, or not feel guilty disposing of it since it was so inexpensive to make.

DIY easter bunny garland

I also have created a youtube video following me as I created my banner.  In the video I also discuss different options for making the banner larger, and some ideas of what you can do with the bunny silhouettes if you scale them down.  I hope you’ll come take a look.

Thank you for creating along with me, and I hope to bring you more off the page projects soon!

Supply List:

Bunny Silhouette

Cotton Balls*

Allen’s Tacky Glue*

Jute*

Pencil*

Scissors*

Hot Glue Gun

Glue Sticks*

Cardstock

 

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Quick and Easy Nature Themed Cards

Hey crafty friends! I’m glad to be joining you today for another reveal with the Southern Girls Challenge. For this go round we were asked to create nature themed products.  At first I thought this was going to be really challenging for me. I don’t usually use these type of elements on my projects. Then I was working on something else, and the die cuts from the Pebbles Spring Fling collection jumped out at me. After that I had quick and easy nature themed cards all ready for the challenge.

My card stash has been getting low, and we have some birthdays and weddings coming up, so this idea was perfect for that! These cards were created with nothing but scraps of paper I had left, after I killed the kit they came in, and some die cuts I had set aside to donate.  I created a total of five cards in just an hour.  Once I got rolling on looking at the die cuts are card elements it all come together in a snap. You can do the same in a short time when the kiddos are napping, after work, etc.Quick and Easy Nature Themed CardsWhile I used scraps of 12×12 papers I had left…6×6 paper pads are perfect for this as well.  If you love a collection, but don’t want to invest in the whole kit you can do both pages and cards with just the 6×6 pad and die cuts.  By using some foam dimensional squares you can give the die cuts a more chipboard look by popping them up.

I hope this gives you some ideas on how to look at your project left overs differently.  I’d also love to see what you create based on this theme.  Be sure to link up over at Southern Girls and leave me a link too so I’m sure to see it.

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Messy Girl Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  I’m back today with a messy girl scrapbook layout.  The story behind is layout was just to cute not to document it.

Upclose detail of scrapbook layout

Each year we go to a county that is about 3.5 hours away and unplug and unwind.  Where we stay has no cell phone service, no internet and very limited television.  We ride ATV’s, fish, have campfire’s, etc.

Our children have always come with us.  Julia was five months the first time she came and Michael was nine months on his first trip.  Last year though Julia was old enough to really start enjoying the activities.

On the day of the photo we had been riding ATV’s and has encountered many mud holes.  Both children were covered from head to two in mud, and neither of them minded a bit.  She was laughing and asking for more, more.

I’m thankful that, for now, she is enjoying the experience.  I can imagine that as she gets older, and more into “girly” things, she may not want to end up all muddy so I wanted to make sure to document this trip.

I started the layout with a sketch from Stuck ? Sketches.  For their February 15th challenge they had to sketches and I used the second one with the circle element, and banner under the photo.  I ended up not using the banner, but my doily is the circle element in the sketch.  I also used the single photo and created strips on the top like the sketch, but also added the same detail to the bottom.

Messy girl scrapbook layout

Killing my Felicity Jane Willow kit with this layout was also a bonus of the project.  I ended up creating seven projects from the kit before I called it done.  I still have the solid colored cardstock left so I added that to the remaining kits that I have from them.  Other layouts I created with the kit are So Big, Young at Heart, 1st Fluff, and one of my all time favorites Dare Heis.

I love how these soft colors gave the photo a feminine feel, but the blues balanced it out and didn’t make it to girly…perfect for the photo.  Thank you for joining me today and I hope you enjoyed the layout and can see how to adapt it for your style.

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Supply List:

Papers – Felicity Jane

Cambridge Dolies*

ATG Gun*

Cutterbee Scissors*

 

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Craft Room Challenge – Reveal

Hello Crafty Friends!  I’m so glad you are joining us for the big reveal from the craft room challenge.  This is where we see all our hard work paying off. If you want to see where I started head over to week one’s post or here’s just a single picture to remind you.

The biggest difference in my space is my desk, and my new drawers from Ikea.  Replacing the old cabinets from Michael’s has made such a difference in my organization.  The old cubes just didn’t have enough space to place and see anything effectively.  As you saw in my organization post I can now readily see what I have.  It makes such a difference.

Another change I made is that I removed the VERY large white cabinet from the wall.  You can see the bottom of it in the picture above.  It was just so bulky for the wall and since it was almost empty it was wasted space.  I replaced it with a wrought iron rack from Hobby Lobby that now holds my kits.  If you’d like to see how I’m storing my kits in the rack please let me know.  I’d LOVE to share.

Now on to the big reveal picture….

A clean craft space after the hard work of the craft room challenge

It looks so much bigger without stuff all on the floor and with less on the walls.  I’m also not sure that the cabinets on the left, where my printer is, are staying. The printer would fit on the Ikea drawers so that corner may be empty at some point, but I didn’t want to get rid of them just yet. I may use them to store the items in my shop and replace the bins I currently have, but we’ll see how that works when the products all come in.

Thank you so much for joining us each week this month, and we hope that you have gotten lots of ideas and inspiration to get your craft room in order.  If there’s anything more you’d like to see close up please let me know.  Until next time….

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!

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Craft Supply Organization-Craft Room Challenge

Good day everyone and welcome to week four of the craft room challenge!  This week we were focusing on craft supply organization.  This is my favorite part of clean up. I LOVE to organize and I have several ideas to share with you that I think are just great! If you want to see where I started in this journey be sure to check out week one.

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Bling/Tools

The first thing I want to share with you is how I store my bling and most used tools.  The bling includes, enamel dots, stickles, gems, single colored brads, etc.  Each color (or color family if I don’t have many) gets their own white basket*.  The baskets come in a set of three from Dollar Tree. so it is very affordable to separate them this way. When I want a certain accent piece I can now just pull out that color basket and everything is right there.  I also placed some shelf liner* on the bottom of the drawer so nothing slides around.

The tools are the ones that I used the most – think tape runner, sticker maker and tiny attacher. This is the top drawer of my Alex cube so it’s very accessible when I’m creating and easy for clean up after.

Washi/Glitter

I store my washi tape and glitter.  The storage is VERY similar to the bling, but I use long baskets again from Dollar Tree.  I attempt to keep them color organized, but this drawer is our 22 month olds favorite to play in.  I figure if arranging washi keeps her entertained for 20 minutes it really doesn’t matter what order they are in!

The glitter is in tiny bottles also from the dollar tree. I find these are perfect for putting a spoon in to scoop glitter out and the opening is large enough that pouring back in is easy.  There’s less mess this way for me.

Store washi and glitter easily and inexpensive

Embellishments

This is one of my favorite storage tips.  I bought a bunch of 4×6 plastic photo cases off eBay (it was the cheapest place at the time) and each collection gets its own case.  If I have two collections of the same topic, and from the same company, they will go in the case together each in a zip top bag to save space.  I am still toying with how I want to label these.  I don’t really care for the post it note as it block me from seeing what’s in the case, but I don’t want a permanent level either since when a collection is done the case will be re-used.  Any tips for me?

scrapbook embellishment storage

6×6 paper pads.

I have been using this method for a long time, and it’s still working wonderfully for me.

Week Five Mission

I hope those tips gave you some ideas, and now it’s one to week five!  This week we are to clean and decorate…if that’s your thing.  Vacuum that floor – dust the shelves and hang some things up that make you happy and inspire you to create. I can’t wait to share the reveal with you!

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Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!

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