Masterpiece Wall

My daughter purchased her first home a little over a year ago and like any new home owner she has a to do list that doesn't end.  She saw this idea on pinterest and wanted to do one for Jackson and Tanner.

We ordered the 4x24 inch wall decal from a etsy shop madebytheresarenee.  She offered the decal in many colors and we ordered the dark brown. It was exactly what we wanted.

Lindsay decided this was going on a short wall and wanted to do three sections.

As always we butter up to Jon for our wood projects. We had him cut us 3 - 2x23 inch boards.

We painted the boards with an expresso color, added picture hangers to the back and glued on 3 clips to each board.

Lindsay applied the wall decal.

Then we hung the boards.  I had a hard time getting a good picture but you get the idea.

Paper-Mache Easter Eggs

These are the latest addition to my Easter crafts.  Eventually I will be making green and blue eggs to coordinate with my Easter Tree,  but for now I wanted to make sure I had at least two eggs done before Easter.

Here are a few of the materials I used: 

Assorted lichen, paper flowers, paper-mache eggs, Dresden trim, Caspia and a wood napkin holder.

I found the rabbit clip art at Graphics Fairy.  

Rabbit Link

Assorted Rabbits link

I resized the images to around 1 1/2", printed out one regular and one reverse page orientation on to card stock so I could have a front and back. Then with my X-acto knife I carefully cut out the rabbits and glued them together with a small wire inserted at the bottom between the two cut outs.

To get rid of the white edges on the side I used my watercolor pencils and colored it in.  Then I added a few coats of Mod Podge to seal it.

 I cut out a hole in the paper-mache egg, painted and added Dresden trim around the opening.

I added some crafters clay in the bottom of the egg and created the inside of the egg.  To finish it off I added a paper rose to the top.

I painted the napkin rings and used them as my egg holder.

Felted Easter Bunny

For one of my Easter crafts I decided to needle felt a rabbit.  This is my first attempt at doing a rabbit. It always seems like with making the first of anything there are things I would do different when making the next one. For instance I wasn't exactly thrilled with the shape of the head, but instead of redoing it I just remind myself thats what makes it unique.  

                         

Then I gave her a little home with felted eggs.  

Easter Tree

When I go to Michaels I sometimes stop at the Dollar Tree next door to see if they have anything interesting to use for crafting.   

This time I found a potted tree there. So I thought I would give making a Easter tree a shot.

I found these cute little wooden hen eggs at Craft Supply House on Etsy.

They are just under a inch long and the perfect size for this tree. I added a eye screw to them and then coated them with glass glitter.

Of course I had to change the pot color!  I had some MS Weather Crackle effect that I had not used before so I experimented.  I painted the base brown. Then painted my weather crackle effect and once that was dry I painted the top with a antique white.  For my first try I was pretty happy with the results.

I cut a organza bag I had into strips and used that to tie the eggs onto the tree.