SPRING CRAFTS USING DOLLAR TREE ITEMS (PART 2)

Happy Friday!

It is a very cold day in Texas today.

We have been in the mid 70's about every day in February and today we are in the low 30's. 

Go figure!

But I am not letting this cold front get in my way of starting to decorate for Spring. 

I have already done a couple of items for my front porch, but it is not quite finished yet.

As we wait for the cold weather to go away, here is a little inspiration on some Spring crafts 

you can be making meanwhile.

 These cherry blossom branches were very simple to make.

I started by spray painting some branches from my tree on the front yard. 

 Of course, I used my favorite paint, oil rubbed bronze.

I bought tissue paper from Dollar Tree and I selected two different shades of pink.

To make the flowers, I made myself a template with cardboard paper

 I cut all the tissue paper in 4x4 pieces, placed the two different colors together and using the template 

I started to cut my flowers. 

When you are finished, overlap the two colors together, pinch and twist the ends, add a little drop of hot glue 

and start attaching to your branches.

And this is the final product.

Total cost of this project was $2.00 for the tissue paper.

This next project was a little more time consuming.

Spring mason jar dioramas.

I already had the tree jars and the first thing I did was paint the lids and I did add some little wood knobs I already had, which I painted apple green and glued to the lids.

I had purchased three glass candleholders from Dollar Tree a long time ago and using E6000 glue, 

I attached them to the jars.

 I did let them dry for a whole day, just in case :)

And then came the fun part, decorate them!

I put some moss on the bottom of each jar and added some little birds I already had.

I made a tiny banner out of craft paper in the same colors as the birds and I attached everything to two small pieces of branches from the boxwood bush that sits on my flower bed.

 

 I did not want to use any glue inside the jar, so I am not going to lie, it did take me a looong while to get it to fit tight. Everything kept falling to the bottom of the jar.  These little branches just did not know how hard headed Maria is. :)

Total cost of this project was zero for me since I used everything I already had.

I hope this post gives you a little inspiration to start making some easy and very economical Spring crafts. 

I wish you all a very happy weekend.

Stay warm!