DIY 4 Leaf Clover Door Hanger

Follow the steps below to make your own DIY 4 Leaf Clover Door Hanger:

  
Draw out a 4 leaf clover shape onto a piece of plywood. You can either do this free hand or use a stencil. 

Even though this is a St. Patrick's Day DIY, you can take this same concept and easily make an Easter DIY with the same steps. Instead of a clover, you can draw a bunny shape or even a basket.

Use a jig saw to cut out the shape. If you are not comfortable using a jig saw or if you don’t own one, you can cut a shape out of foam core instead, using an exacto knife.  

Now that your shape is cut out,  we can cover the front with moss. You can buy sheets of moss at any craft store. 

Flip the moss over and trace the 4 leaf clover shape onto it.
Use hot glue to glue the moss onto the front of the plywood. Don’t worry about cutting multiple pieces out of the moss. The seams will not show when you are done.

 After you glued on all the moss, turn it around and screw in these eye hooks. This is how the clover will hang from your door or wall. Thread a ribbon through and tie.

 Now its all set to hang! You can leave it how it is or you can tie a bow on the front. 

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DIY Beaded Fleur De Lis From Recycled Goods

This fluer de lis is the perfect as a Mardi Gras decoration. But since we live in New Orleans, we can get away with displaying it all year.

What you will need:

• Foam core or cardboard
• Newspaper (and a lot of it)
• Box cutter
• Packing tape
• Clear drying glue
• Hot glue
• Mardi Gras beads (all the same shape/size) 

 Cut out a fleur de lis out of newspaper. Fold the newspaper in half so that it is symmetrical. 

 Trace the cut out onto foam core or cardboard (anything you have around the house)

Use a box cutter or exacto blade to cut it out.

Ball up newspaper and tape it to the cut out. You can ball up as much newspaper as you want to make more of a relief.   

Now you can start gluing Mardi Gras beads onto your masterpiece. Use hot glue to adhere beads on all the edges. I like to use hot glue in the beginning because it dry quickly, although I would not use it for the whole project because it doesn't hold as well as other glues. You can use any clear drying glue to adhere the rest of the beads onto the fleur de lis.

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DIY Rudolf T Shirt

What you will need for this project:

• Felt - Tan, red, white and green
• Puff paint - brown, white and green
• Hot glue/gun
• Scissors
• Pen

Make a sketch of your design

Draw the head shape onto the felt and cut out

Draw one antler

Only draw one antler and cut out

Fold the felt and trace the antler so that you have two symmetrical antlers 

Cut them out

Hot glue the antlers behind the head

Trace the reindeer's snout onto the tan felt, then draw a circle inside, cut out.

Hot glue the tan circle onto the face

Draw a nose, cut out and glue

Cut out some ears and glue tan felt inside

Cut and glue on a mouth

Add a scarf

Hot glue whole design onto a t shirt

Use puff paint to to trace around all pieces. Use green and white paint to make stripes on the scarf. 

Put in a safe place to dry overnight 

Voila!!

DIY Antlers for Halloween or Christmas

My husband and I dressed up as a werewolf and victim deer for Halloween. The antlers turned out great! I'm going to wear them for an ugly Christmas sweater party as well.

What you will need for this project:

• Aluminium foil
• Hair band
• Hot glue/gun
• Mod podge
• Newspaper 
• Paint

Mold aluminum foil into antler shapes

Paper mache the antlers with mod podge and strips of newspaper

Try to make the antlers as smooth as possible

Mold some ears out of foil and paper mache them as well

Use hot glue to make lines on the antlers. Spray paint

Use white paint to paint the insides of the ears and also to highlight the antlers

LOVE!!

Ugly Sweater Party DIY

I love ugly Christmas sweaters that make a pop culture reference. Does Santa’s pose look familiar? Kim Kardashian recently did a photo shoot that recreated one of Jean-Paul Goude photographs from the 60’s. But instead of champagne, of course Santa is balancing a glass of milk on his bum!

All you need for this project is:

• Felt (red, white and tan)
• Hot glue/gun
• Tacky glue
• White putty paint
• Scissors 
• Pen

Supplies

Click on this LINK and print out the photo above and cut out all the pieces.

Each pattern piece says what color it should be traced on and what piece it is. Trace and cut each piece out of felt.

Use hot glue or tacky glue to stick all the pieces together. Then use white puffy paint to trace around all the white trim on Santa's suit. 

Hot glue Santa on to your sweater. Also glue on Santa's glass and bottle of milk.

Use puffy paint to write "MILK" on the bottle.

Cut out thin strips of felt so see where you would like to draw the milk arch

Use puffy paint to trace on your milk arch.

LOVE IT!