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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Spring Topiary Video

I've had a blast making spring decorations and different topiarys. You can check out a different topiary (meaning different than the one I'm going to show you how to make today) here, my spring door decoration here, and my birdhouses here. It's like I have Spring Crafting fever or something...ha...let's be honest...I always have crafting fever! I'm so excited to introduce my second tutorial! I got such a great response from my first video that we're onto number two!

HOW TO MAKE A SPRING TOPIARY

Watch at YouTube here

A couple little side notes for you after watching the video...

-Cricut Cartridge Straight from the Nest p. 53 layer/shadow is the flower I used at 1 inch (not 1 inches..ha! my dad was laughing at me about that!)

-I also hit autofill before cutting the flowers

- If you don't have a cricut or the Straight From the Nest cartridge, I found a paper punch at JoAnn's online that is the same exact flower I used and guess what?...It's on sale right now for $5.99 here it is:

-They also have the fun fur in green

...this is what the packaging looks like and this is the color

-Here's the wreath I made last year that I talked about in the video

I hope I was able to teach you or inspire you today!

Smiles,

Jill

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Valentine Topiary

Have you ever started on a project with one thing in mind and ended up with something totally different when you were done? Well this little topiary of mine started out as a decorative ball. I was going to make a bunch of them and put them in a vase, but then the idea of a topiary came to mind. So here it is:

I used the cricut cartridge "Straight from the nest" to create the flowers. If you don't have that cricut cartridge, you could use a flower punch.

To create this topiary:

Styrofoam ball, wooden rod, cotton, tulle, flower pot, white pearl headed pins, flower pot foam

1. Paint your styrofoam ball the same color you plan to make your flowers

2. Punch out all the flowers or use Cricut Cartridge Straight from the Nest flower at 1.0 in.

3. Use pins and poke holes in the flowers

4. Once the paint is dry put flowers and pins in the styrofoam ball

5.Paint rod and flower pot to desired color.

6. Cut rod to height preference

7. Stick rod into styrofoam ball, make sure to hot glue rod and then stick it in

8. Place rod into potting foam (sorry I know it's not the technical term, but the floral foam you use for fake flowers..it's green...) and place it into pot.

9. Place cotton on top of flower foam....I actually used polyfil because that is what I had on hand.

10. Cover with tulle. I hot glued the tulle around the pot.

11. Enjoy!

***This just in......this project was featured on Lil Luna, Decorate to Celebrate, and My Craft Spot!***

Happy Crafting Everyone,

Smiles,

Jill

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