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What You’ll Need:

• 25 Corks
• Orange paint
• Green Paint
• Floral Wire
• Felt or Silk Leaves
• Paint Brush
• Glue

We’ll start with 24 of the corks. Start by pouring some orange paint onto a plate or dish and then dip the end of each cork into the paint. Dab excess paint onto a paper towel. Repeat for all 24 corks and then let dry. Repeat the same again on the opposite sides of the corks.

Paint the remaining cork green to make the stem.

Glue the orange painted corks together in rows, which should make five rows. The first and fifth row and have four corks, the second and forth rows have five corks and the middle row has six corks.

Attach all the rows together to form a pumpkin.

Add a stem to the top of the pumpkin, curling the floral wire around a thick paint brush or dowel to create a curly Q vine. Attach the vine, stem and then leaves to the pumpkin.

To make the pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern, use some black paint to make eyes and then a mouth.

We hope you had fun making a jack-o-lantern cork pumpkin, Happy Crafting!

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What you’ll need:         

• Orange felt – the thicker the better
• Burlap ribbon
• Coloured thread and needle
• Hot glue gun and sticks
• Green paint and sponge

Draw three carrots onto some orange felt and then cut them out.

Use the embroidery thread to make lines through the carrot, add as many lines as you like.

Glue the carrots together at the tops, overlapping slightly, so the carrots spread out. Add some burlap ribbon by piling it on top of itself to create volume.

Add a green bow.

If you like, sponge some light and dark green paint onto the burlap ribbon and let dry, in order to create some depth to the plain ribbon.

Enjoy your new Easter door decoration and Happy Crafting!

Be sure to check out some more of our Easter recipes and tutorials here.

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What You’ll Need:

• Wood board (at least 10” by 10”)
• Small nails
• Hammer
• Crochet thread
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Leaf template – get it here

Print out the leaf template and then position it on the wood board.

Start hammering the nails into the board, following the outline of the leaf. Place the nails about ½” apart.

Once the entire leaf is filled outlined, lift the template away from the board, to rip the paper off.

Hammer more nails around the outside of the board, about ½” apart, all the way around.

Tie a thread to a nail on the outside of the board. Start winding the thread between nails, going back and forth multiple times, until it starts to look full. Remember to wrap a thread around the leaf pattern, leaving the leaf empty. Doing so will help outline and highlight the leaf shape.

Change thread colours to make each corner a different colour. Finally, tie off the ends tightly on an outside nail to secure the threads.

We hope you love this engaging leaf string art and hope you have an amazing Thanksgiving weekend! For more Thanksgiving DIY check out our Stamped Thanksgiving Napkin Rings and Rustic Painted Pine Cones and Acorns.

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What You’ll Need:

• Toilet paper or paper towel roll
• Pattern ribbon for base layer
• Solid colour ribbon – the width needs to be smaller than the base ribbon
• Coloured twine
• Fall themed stamps
• Black ink
• Hot glue gun and sticks

Firstly, measure the base layer ribbon on the tissue roll. Mark the edge of the ribbon and then cut the the roll at the mark.

Use some glue to attach the base ribbon to the cut rolls.

Cut strips of the solid ribbon to fit around the rolls.

After that, stamp images onto the middle of the solid ribbons.

Use some more hot glue to attach the ribbon onto the rolls, over top of the base layer.

Finally, use a thread of twine to wrap around the napkin ring twice and then tie in a knot on the front.

Napkin rings – done – now all you need to do is add great food, family and friends. Happy crafting!

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What You’ll Need:

• Wood board
• White acrylic paint
• Orange Felt
• Green Yarn
• Brown embroidery floss
• Letter stencil
• Pouncer
• Carrot template – click here 
• Hot Glue and sticks
• Embroidery needle (any needle with a large eye will work)

Cut out the template and use it to trace out and then cut a carrot from your orange felt.

Sew randomly spaced lines in different lengths on the carrot with the embroidery thread and needle.

Stencil the words on the plaque and sure to paint one letter at time and let dry between each so the paint doesn’t smudge.

Cut lengths of green yarn, you’ll need about eight or so. Use the hot glue to attach one end of all the yarn strings to the centre point of where the carrot will be and then fan out the yarn strings and use a small dot of glue to secure them which will make the carrot’s leaves. Glue the carrot in place.

We hope Easter sign this brightens your weekend. Happy Crafting!

For some more DIY Easter decor certainly check out our graphic Blue and Navy Easter eggs and our Easter carrot door hanger.

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