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Materials Required:
1. Foam (polystrene) Easter Egg (available from craft stores)
2. Pins (if you can find them, the short (about half length) ones are great, otherwise normal, plain silver-topped pins are fine)
3. Round sequins of your choice.
The multi-faceted, slightly rounded sequins...
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Glitter Eggs are easy to make and very effective.
For this egg I used the glitter made up of tiny rectangular strips - but any type of glitter can be used.
Materials Required:
1. Foam Egg shape (available from craft shops)
2. White glue
3. Paint brush
4. Kebab stick (small)
5. Glitter...
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Materials Required:
1. Wooden Peg
2. Piece of felt
3. Piece of net shiny material measuring width of slightly less than the length of your peg, and length approximately 1 12 times the length of your peg.
4. 2 small google eyes
5. Thin pointed black felt pen
6. Pipe cleaner
7. Scr...
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If you have made the easter basket from my earlier posting (click here to see the easter basket post), you can fill it with these delicious choc treats.
They are easy to make and kids love eating the fruits of their labour!
Notes on the recipe for Parents:
1. The Milk Arrowroot Biscuits (...
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Another simple, yet effective, decorative design is to use blow spray pens to decorate your egg.
Click here to go to my post with the instructions for making the decorative eggs....
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This easter basket is perfect for holding some home-made easter goodies.
Materials Required:
1. One sheet of white A4 card
2. Printer
3. Colouring tools (eg pencils, crayons, felt pens)
4. Scissors
5. Adhesive eg Double Sided Sticky Tape (DSST), stapler, glue, sticky tape
6. Other d...
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These Decorative Easter Eggs are made in the same way those in my last post were (click here for the instructions) , but I have taken the design a step furthur, adding some jewels and other elements.
The enhancements can be simple, such as adding some self adhesive rhinestones to the design, ...
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These Beautiful Easter Decorations are made from polystrene foam eggs, brought from the local craft shop.
Materials Required:
1. Polystyrene foam eggs
2. Tissue paper (in chosen colour - this will be the base colour of the egg)
3. White glue
4. Paint brush
5. Gel pens
6....
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When my favourite t-shirt got a hole in it, instead of just throwing away, I decided to use the material to make some cards - the beautiful design on the shirt was too good to waste!
Materials Required:
1. A piece of white A4 card
2. Double-sided sticky tape (DSST) - thin is best
3. T-sh...
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The instructions for the BIG BUCKLE CARD can be found here on the Splitcoaststampers website.
In creating my version of this card I used the following rubber stamp sets:
1. "Petal Prints" Two-step stampin'. Produced by Stampin Up
2. "Birthday Whimsy". Produced by Stampin Up.
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If you have made a Beaded Bookmark (see my last post) you may like to package it, so it looks professional.
Materials Required
1. A sheet of A4 paper (I used white)
2. Printer
3. Cotton and thread
4. Sharp implement for punching a hole in paper. A needle or pin will suffice.
5. Sticky...
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Beaded Bookmarks
These bookmarks look good, work well and make great presents. Best of all they are simple to make!
Great for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas and Birthday Presents!!!
Materials Required:
1. Four large crimp beads
2. Beads of your choice - NB: The hole...
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Love, Passion, and I Love You!
Materials: (for all cards)
Card: Bazzill French Vanilla, Blackberry
Paper: Dark blue web paper; Graph paper.
Embossing powder: Opals Franklin
Heat tool
Adhesives: Double sided sticky tape (DSST), Double sided sticky paper (DSSP), Foam mountin...
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Kids will have fun making this dog, decorating it and then playing with it - making it's middle stretch.
Materials Required
1. Two pieces of A4 paper
2. Printer
3. Scissors
4. Double Sided Sticky Tape (DSST)
5. Split pin
6. Google eye
7. Decorating tools eg crayons, textas, pencils, ...
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This is an easy birthday cake to make - it uses polly pocket accessories to decorate the cake, and you can decorate it so that the children don't need to eat any artificial colours in the icing!!
Step 1
The first step is to bake a large cake - big enough to fit your chosen polly pockets on...
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Decorative Easter Eggs (4)
Glitter Eggs are easy to make and very effective.
For this egg I used the glitter made up of tiny rectangular strips - but any type of glitter can be used.
[ Click here to read more ]
If you have made the easter basket from my earlier posting (click here to see the easter basket post), you can fill it with these delicious choc treats.
They are easy to make and kids love eating the fruits of their labour!
[ Click here to read more ]
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Decorative Easter Eggs (3) - Other Design Options
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Decorative Easter Eggs (2)
Finished Decorative Easter Egg
These Decorative Easter Eggs are made in the same way those in my last post were (click here for the instructions) , but I have taken the design a step furthur, adding some jewels and other elements
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Decorative Easter Eggs (1)
These Beautiful Easter Decorations are made from polystrene foam eggs, brought from the local craft shop.
Finished Decorative Easter Eggs
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When my favourite t-shirt got a hole in it, instead of just throwing away, I decided to use the material to make some cards - the beautiful design on the shirt was too good to waste!
Finished Recycled T-shirt Cards
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