Wishing Everyone a Very Safe & Happy Easter!
God Bless You All!
I wish Everyone a Safe &
Pleasant Easter Weekend!
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For this Flashback Friday, I chose to re-post my free to print-off coloring pictures in honor of Easter. I hope you all or your children enjoy them. 🙂
Here’s a gift from me to you. It’s a few coloring pictures from my collection (that I drew and had posted on my ex-website many many years ago.)
I hope you’ll print these pictures off for a child or children, to color to celebrate this special weekend.
Before you print these off:
Click on the images to open a separate picture.
Do a print preview to check to see if you may need to set it to ‘landscape’ to print these off properly.
At the top of your browser on the far left hand side choose ‘File’, then choose ‘Print Preview’
At the top of the print preview page is an option for ‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’
Try both and choose the one that fits the picture to the page best.
As I was going through my old blog picture/files I came across the many different holders/displays I made for battery operated tealights.
I decided not to wait til Friday to post this Flashback because Easter is coming up and this might make a fun decorating idea for someone to use.
This is one of my more favorite ideas that I put together. I placed battery operated tea lights in plastic eggs. They’re such a fun inexpensive decoration.
My husband told me that I needed to drill a 1/16 inch hole in the plastic egg so the heat from the battery operated light can vent out.
So, if you decide to use this idea of putting battery operated tealights in plastic eggs, be sure to drill a hole in the eggs to help the heat vent out.
Be sure to keep an eye on the eggs and tealights in case they over heat and need to be turned off.
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Here’s a photo pf the battery operated tealights I use.
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Today I’m going to start having ‘Flashback Fridays’ each week where I’ll re-post a craft or something from my old blog ‘Enjoyingcreating‘. I have several crafts and things from it that I think would be fun to share again here on my new blog. Plus, this gives me another opportunity to keep my blog active.
I hope you all will enjoy seeing my crafts and things from years past on my ‘Flashback Fridays’ postings.
To start my ‘Flashback Fridays’, since we’re in the early throws of Spring and Easter is coming up soon, I decided to post my ‘Bunny Sculpt tutorial’.
This little bunny is about 2 1/4 inches long when it’s finished. The photos make it look bigger. It’s cuter in real life.
Let me know if you or your children make a bunny by this tutorial. And be sure to take some pictures too. I’d love to see your creative little bunnies.
I originally made this tutorial for polymer clay, but you can use homemade clay or air-dry clay.
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If you use air-dry or homemade clay, please remember to ignore the baking instructions.
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Bunny Sculpt Tutorial
~Adult supervision is required~
Supplies:
polymer clay or an air dry clay
a toothpick
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Make the following pieces:
1 – 1 1/2 inch oblong ball of clay for body
1 – 1/2 inch round ball of clay for head
4 – 1/4 inch small oblong balls for feet
1 – 1/4 inch round ball for tail
2 – 1/2 inch cone shapes for ears
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Press the clay in place as follows:
1/4 inch round ball on one end of the oblong body.
1/2 inch head ball at the other end of oblong body.
4 small oblong balls in feet positions.
2 cone shapes on top of head for ears
Next you need:
1 tiny light pink ball of clay
2 tiny dark pink balls of clay
Press the clay in place as follows:
2 dark pink clay balls in eye positions
1 light pink ball in nose position
Take a toothpick and draw a smile
and dent the eyes to make pupils
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If you’re using air dry clay, you’re finished.
Set your Bunny sculpt somewhere safe and let it dry.
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If you’re using bakeable clay then go to the next steps.
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Before baking,
Pierce the body underneath to allow
clay to bake thoroughly so it won’t
crack or poof or something.
Bake the polymer clay bunny at the manufacturers recommended temperature and for the recommended length of time.
Allow bunny to cool before touching.
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Tah – dah, you’re done and have a wee little bunny figurine.
I hope you all enjoyed my Flashback Friday.
It was fun sharing my bunny sculpt with you.
It’s always been one of my favorite sculpts
because it’s simple and makes me smile.
I got a carried away with my April ‘Wreath of the Month‘
When I started making the wreath base by twisting newspapers and forming them into a circle it looked kind of oval shaped. Mmmm, Then inspiration took over and instead of fixing it and making it a nice and round, I kept it and finished making it into an egg shaped base. I really liked the way it looked.
I painted the base in light blue and light green to help give more color to the Easter grass and to hopefully lessen any gaps or thin spots the grass may have.
I had a great deal of fun making the pom-pom critters. It reminded of an Easter when my son was a toddler. I made pom-pom chicks for all my nieces and nephews. The kids really loved them.
I crocheted the little flowers and added a pearl bead for the center.
For the eggs, I had some left over plastic ones from years past. I thought they needed a bit of glam so I took some gold trim and hot glued it around them.
It was an easy choice to add a bow in yellow gingham. It’s kind of like the sun shining above the bunny & chick enjoying an Easter celebration.
This wreath is about 14 inches tall and bigger than my other wreaths.
My husband likes it alot. He says it looks like an Easter window display for a store.
My Bff loves the wreath and said, it’s the cutest wreath she’s ever seen.
I personally am pleased as peaches with it. 😉
What do you think? Is my wreath too busy or about right?
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Here’s why I’m making a ‘Wreath of the Month’ for every month of 2014.
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