Springtime (or anytime) Crafts

I love spring! i love all the bloggers out there that have spring inspired crafts. A person can spend hours on Pinterest simply by looking up "spring eggs".  In general i love bird's nests and eggs; regardless of the season. While these seem to be "spring"  they will be on display year round.

i have had a package of peat pots for some time. I bought them knowing one day i would get inspiration. And i finally did!  I found a six pack of chalk eggs at the 99 cent store, so of course i had to have them. After several coats of Gesso, some paint, some splattering and they were done. I just needed to find a vessel for them....enter the peat pots.

i dry brushed white paint on each pot, added some Spanish Moss, some dried flowers (used earlier on my birdhouse), a few do dads and embellishments and i was done.  So of course i had to make another one:

this book may not look like much more than an altered book cover, but with a lot of projects i do, i really take the long road.  this book began as a hardback book cover only. I removed the pages, added a few coats of Gesso and it sat and sat for months.

i decoupaged the inside of the cover with the handmade script paper, used Tim Holtz paper for the outside,  added some fibers and sisal twine and then i had to work on the pages.

the pages inside consist of scrapbook paper scraps, newsprint paper and a variety of other papers that were cut, glued, molded and then glued again to the spin.  I used Gorilla Glue for the final gluing and just a head up on Gorilla Glue, LESS IS MORE.  I used too much and it bubbled up and spooged everywhere.  It was an easy fix, but now i know for next time.  This book is NOT complete, i have the cover and the innards, not i just have to fill it.

this was a quick and easy spring project.  I love the limited addition blue and green Ball Jars and as much as i would love to buy a whole case, it just isn't in my budget, BUT buying ONE jar at Walmart for $1.88, that i can do.  I just added some (3) spring foliage picks (on sale for $1.19),  some river rocks, then added a wooden bird pick, which i covered with ephemera paper, then added some sisal ribbon and to top if off, i added the little wooden clock and the word 'spring' i acquired from a magazine. when you don't have a sticker and don't feel like rubber stamping, finding a word or two from a magazine comes in handy :)

i bought two of these back in December, they were clearance fall items and i think they were 79 cents.  Not bad since the pot is actually terra cotta. While these little pots of blooms are cute, i felt i needed to change them. 

i removed all the flowers and rubber stamped them with music sheet and script stamps. I then painted the stigma (the center) white and then used something i don't use often, i covered them in white and black glitter. 

i decoupaged the pot, added a little clock tag and i was done.  the only thing i had to by was the little potted flower :)

And yet another birdhouse. You can never have too many.  this was a mini wood birdhouse i got at Walmart for $1.00 several months ago.  I decoupaged the body with a script napkin and the top was decoupaged with ephemera scrapbook paper and then added some baubles and bling.

And my final and most recent project. I would love to say i thought of this all on my own, but that would be a lie. My inspiration was found on Pinterest and it led me to an Etsy store: Rebecca Ersfeld's Rebeccavintageliving.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/166760190/shell-nature-study-collage?ref=listing-shop-header

This is actually a hardback book cover, decoupaged and on all three i attached items i have collected on my hikes/walks.

Seashell Collection

Birds

Nature's Treasures

these three displays only cost my time, which when i am doing something i love, doesn't seem like payment at all.