Tag: Spring craft project for mom

Craft Project #17 – creating a tree topper

My mom’s little Christmas tree that sits outside her apartment door needs to be decorated for spring as well. I decided to make some picks to use as a tree topper.

While shopping for things at Dollar Tree, I picked up a pink baby headband that has a flower on it, some Main Street Wall creations Jumbo Stickers in pink flowers, and some floral wire. I will also be using 3 wood butterflies left over from other craft projects.

The first part of this project was to attach 3 wood butterflies to the pink baby headband. The supplies I used for this are E6000 adhesive, floral wire, 3 left over wood butterflies, and wire cutters.

The first step was to cut 6 inch pieces of the floral wire.

I then folded the floral wire in half and attach the wire to the back of the wood butterflies using E6000 adhesive. I then set them aside to dry.

Once the adhesive was dry, I then attached the wood butterflies to the baby headband using E6000 adhesive. To make sure the butterflies did not slip, I used a small piece of foam board that I pressed down onto of the wires and excess adhesive.

I have happy with the outcome. I plan to wrap the headband on the top stem of the tree but without something else around it, the tree would look like it has a pony tail. So, I will be using the pink flower jumbo stickers to make picks out of and place them around the top of the tree as well.

I used the same process for making the flower picks as I did for the butterfly picks. The first thing I did was to put the stickers onto pink poster board.

I then separated each flower but cutting them into single flowers. Then trimming off the excess poster board from each flower.

After that was done, it was time to add chenille stems/pipe cleaners to the back of the flowers. I used white chenille stems as that is what I had on hand.

I folded each stem in half and attached it to the back of the flowers using E6000 adhesive. I also place a small piece of foam board on top of the stem and excess adhesive. They were then set aside to dry overnight.

Now, I have 3 large flowers to place around the headband to make a unique tree topper. I cannot wait to see how it looks.

I wonder how many more spring craft projects I will make. I guess only time will tell!

Craft Project #12 – Sign

Time to make a pre-decorating sign for my moms door area! I find that it keeps her door area somewhat decorated before we put up the next seasonal/holiday decorations up. This time, I decided on a wood frame that has slats. I found it at Hobby Lobby and it is the perfect size!!!!

I decided to use Varathane wood enhancer in the color Whitewash to tone down the appearance of the frame and to make sure the embellishments would not get lost in the natural wood tone.

I purchased unfinished wood letters that are 2 inches in height at Hobby Lobby. I initially thought I would spell out SPRINGTIME but once I got everything at home, I realized that would not work and decided I would just spell out SPRING.

I was not sure what color I wanted to paint the letters since there are so many pastel colors that I thought I might use. I even thought about using a different color for each letter.

In the end, I decided to use the color yellow after painting the back of the letters to see how the color would actually look.

Once everything was dry, I attached the letters to the frame using E6000 adhesive. These letters are not going anywhere!

I started second guessing myself about how I wanted to decorate the frame and decided to see what other embellishments I have on hand or recently purchased that I could use.

After some internal debate and discussion with my granddaughter, Victoria, it decided to continue with the wood flowers and butterflies. Figuring out a potential placement was then figured out.

I then got all of the wood flowers and butterflies I had painted together. As a very last minute purchased, I found some green leaf ribbon on Amazon that I thought would work perfect to add vines and a little more character to the frame.

Before I attached the ribbon, flowers, and butterflies, I decided to rub some green metallic paint to the bottom slat of the frame.

It did not take long for the small amount of paint I rubbed onto the frame to dry and in no time at all, the frame was completed.

Now it is time to make another small wreath for the Spring pre-decorations to go with the frame.