Desperate Craftwives Spring Crafts Roundup

Spring is in full swing around here! The kids are on Spring Break this week so I am going to put my crafting aside (even though I have a couple great Easter project ideas gnawing at me). But I don't want to leave anybody hangin' so here is a little roundup of my Spring projects from last year!

These Floral Embellished Eggs were super easy to make using styrofoam eggs, pins and little paper flower embellishments! 

My Salt Dough Easter Egg Garland is hands down my most popular post of all time. It has been featured on Baby Center, Retail Me Not, Tatertots & Jello, Chickabug, Care.com, and more!

My kids loved these cute Bunny & Carrot Easter Cookies! The carrots are kind of like eating vegetables, right?

I made this Spring Wreath using "mambo" yarn and it was a quick & easy project! Not sure I'd have the patience to make a yarn-wrapped wreath with regular skinny yarn!

Want to get the kids involved in making some Spring decor? These Coffee Filter Flowers were the perfect craft for little ones. They made a nice bouquet for Grandma on Mother's Day.

And, of course, the Magic Jellybeans. Have your kids plant them the Saturday before Easter, water them, and they will be amazed when the jelly beans magically bloom into Lollipop Flowers on Easter morning!

Happy Spring! Thanks for visiting my blog! I'd love to have you follow along or "Like" the Desperate Craftwives Facebook Page!

-Blythe

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Easter Cookies

I was on my favorite online cookie cutter shop, http://www.cheapcookiecutters.com/, looking for a rather obscure cookie cutter I needed (a syringe...and yes, they had it!), when I stumbled across a carrot cookie cutter. I thought carrots would be so cute with some little bunny cookies for Easter, so I ordered it.

The recipes I used for the cookies:

The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies and Sugar Cookie Icing

If you are looking for non-traditional cookie cutter shapes (and the traditional ones too), http://www.cheapcookiecutters.com/ is the place to look. This is where I purchased the shapes for my Strawberry Cookies, Onesie Cookies and Elmo Cookies.

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Salt Dough Easter Egg Garland

One of my most popular posts was my Salt Dough Starfish Garland, and that was my inspiration for this Easter project. I love the way it turned out!

What You Need:

• Salt Dough: Mix 2 cups flour & 1 cup salt with approximately 1 cup water to form dough
• Egg-shaped Cookie Cutter
• Acrylic Paint & Paint Brushes
• Mod Podge
• Ribbon for Hanging

How You Make It:

• Roll salt dough out to about 1/4" thick and cut out egg shapes (I cut 12).

• Poke hole in the top of each egg. I used the non-pointy end of a Bic pen.
• Place on cookie sheet and bake at 200 degrees for several hours until eggs are hard & dry.

• Once cooled completely, paint your eggs with pretty patterns & colors.
• Once the paint is dry, seal with a coat of Mod Podge.
• Tie a loop through the top of each egg with ribbon and then suspend each one from a longer ribbon to make the garland.
• Hang garland and step back to admire how cute this project turned out!!!

Link Parties I'm Posting To:

  www.lilluna.com

My entry into A Crafty Soiree sponsored by Appliances Online and the Bosch Washing Machines.