4 NEW SPRING AND EASTER DIYS | 5 MINUTE CRAFTS | DOLLAR TREE AND BUDGET DECOR DIYS

foreigner if you're new I'm Corey welcome to my channel if you're coming back thank you as always for being here I appreciate you more than I can say so thank you thank you thank you I have some new Easter DIYs to share so let's go ahead and jump right into DIY number one . I have a bunch of floral picks and some greenery, as well as ribbon. The floral picks are from Hobby Lobby that I got on clearance, at the end of the season. It ended up costing like a

dollar

a piece, it was amazing. The Greenery is from Walmart that I bought a while ago, as well as some twigs left over from a selection I got from Hobby Lobby and then the ribbon is from Costco.

It's a little bit of my Kirkland tape. I'm going to use that strip of tape as a base piece, so I'm trying to layer this pick that I'm separating because I want to have it in different lengths, so I'm using the tape to help me have something that I can secure it to. We're going to do some sort of spray here, so once I had all of that laid out, I went ahead and grabbed my Greenery and started trying to piece this together. together, so I'm sorry, a part of me is off camera here, but I'm basically breaking this up too.

If you haven't followed or seen me before, I tend to separate most of my floral picks and my green picks. because that way I can manipulate them a little bit more to my liking, so I'm not actually going to separate these two little boxwood spikes, so I'm just going to put them together and fluff them up and then I'm going to add the other Greenery to them one at a time. I'm just going to intersperse it. I didn't have much of that type left, so I just used a little bit here and there, kind of woven in and then once I had it.

I put it all together, put it together with the orange to get an idea of ​​what it would look like and decided I needed to trim those stems a bit, but I'll come back. In the meantime, I'm going to try to see how you know I'm visually correct, so I need to see everything laid out before I commit, so now that I have my hot glue, I'm going to go ahead and start securing it the same way I had placed it, so I grabbed those floral sticks and turned them over so I could see how I had placed them, if that makes any sense, because I want to start at the bottom and place them on top of each other facing up so that all the stems are hidden and all my hot glue is hidden, so here I'm cutting out the little bases of those to secure them all together.

I only used the longer type of ruffles. stems, the wires on the end of them, I wrapped them around the base of the boxwood picks, that's how I secured them, that's all I did, you could use floral wire or I guess you could use twine or something like that , whatever you have. in your stash, but that's how I secured it and now I'm just using copious amounts of hot glue to connect the two. I have a piece of parchment paper underneath because hot glue won't stick to the parchment. took off and once everything was good and cooled it took a little while so you have to be patient and patience is not my middle name but we got it done it is trimming off some of the hot glue that had overflowed. and now I'm just tying my little bow around that area to try to hide that I started and I said bow but actually these were just meant to be my Tails um and now I'm going to create a bow that I started tying a knot in and then I decided not to. .

I'm going to wait and do the second part of this knot once I've created my loop, so I'm just making three little loops on each side, aren't they great. a little bit, but I guess that's just the way I talk, but I'm lining them up and I flipped the tape underneath. I don't know if you noticed that I tied it up and then flipped the tails under the bun. Before I would pull them tight and that would place the knot at the back of the bow. Now I was hoping I could fluff this up and it would be enough, but it wasn't.

I have some space just above the loop. where I just feel like it needs more coverage, so I'm going to create a second arc and this time I'm going to do the back and forth method, so basically I just fold it back and forth, kind of like an accordion style. You'll do that and then for this one, I think I had five loops on each side. Here you can see a little better what I'm talking about with the back and forth. I cut it out so I could work with it. I better have four or five loops, but do what makes your heart happy, what seems pretty to you.

I'm going to tie it in the middle with another smaller piece of ribbon and then I'm going to go ahead and start fluffing my bow and then I'm going to place it on top of that other bow and try to see what works best. I am visual. I have to work with things. You will see it a little in another. project, my first take is not always the way I have to do things. I have to do repetitions, um, but that's just part of my process and part of the crafting process in general is part of the creative process, but you can.

Look, I have this situated now. I just added some hot glue in there to secure it. If I had used a chenille stem to tie the center, I would have used the chenille stem to hold it in place, but I simply opted to use a This time I didn't make a piece of ribbon and this time I didn't make a notch in the ribbon for the bow. I just used it, so you can certainly make a notch if you want, so I'm just fluffing up all the pieces trying to get it into the shape that I'm looking for and I'll make it nice and full.

I'm going to stick a couple of these little ends in here and create additional loops with them just to fill the bottom of that bow, so I'm going to add a little bit of hot glue sticking the ends into that glue to secure them and then just manipulating the picks a little more and now I'm going to flip the back. I discovered that some of my green tape was showing. so I'm just cutting out the part that's not necessary being careful not to cut any of the glue because I don't want to compromise the structure of my piece and you can see I already have the loop there to hang. and this is done, I think this is super cute, but let me know what you think foreigner number two, okay, this is a microfiber towel from the Dollar Tree.

I've had it in my stash for a while. I have folded it in half. the fuzzier side on the inside and now I have a piece of parchment paper that I'm going to use to create a pattern. Now I'm just going to draw this by hand and you don't have to draw it by hand, if that intimidates you you can do it. find a silhouette online and print it out and use it to trace with your parchment paper, um, but whatever works for you, um, I opted to draw it by hand because I didn't want to have to try to find something.

I had something specific in my head. and I didn't want to have to try to find that specific silhouette online and print it and all that, as you can see I have my first iteration, it won't be my last, in fact I think I went through it. Three or four different tries before I got where I wanted, I tried to turn it around. I thought no, I need a new piece of parchment, so like I was saying a little earlier, here's my process. I'm visual and I have to do it. I try things and if something doesn't work the way I want, I start over or go to plan B, whatever it is, but essentially I'm trying to draw a bunny here in the shape of a friend and I'm actually done.

I was pretty happy with this shape here and I had found something online and was using it as a guide, but I ran out of room on the right side and he wasn't as tall as me. I liked it, so I decided he was going to be here. I'm just fine-tuning it, so to speak, fixing the ears and whatever, but I decided I was going to try to make this shape, but just a little bit bigger so you can. Look, in a second I first started trying to cut it and I thought: you know what? I don't want to cut it yet and then I went to grab my pins and this is where I'm putting it in the um.

Fabric. I say you know what I want to make it bigger, so I took another piece of parchment paper. I'm going to put it below. There we're going to put my new parchment paper on top so you can see what it would actually look like. It's easy to trace something with parchment. I'm using the basic shape I already created and here I'm like, oh my gosh, I have to start over because I didn't move far enough to the left, so anyway I went ahead and kept working with this until I got it the way I wanted. and it doesn't have to be a bunny, it can be any shape you want, let's sew this, in fact, I'm going to be using my sewing machine again, guys, I'm so happy I figured out what was wrong with it and so I've I've been able to sew things in the last few months, but if you don't want to make a bunny, hey.

You could make an egg, why not make an egg shape properly and sew an egg shape? That's Easter too, but you could do a little checking. I don't know, there's a lot of different things you could do, but once I have this and I'm sorry for showing you this process for so long. I should have cut a little more, but once I got the bunny how I wanted, I went ahead and pinned it through both layers of fabric. Alright, so I'm just pinning this down and going through both layers because I want to make sure that when I cut this out, both layers are going to be the same shape and they're going to line up correctly, so now I'm going to go ahead. and cut all this.

I'm not going to torment you with all the cuts, but I'm just going to follow the line everywhere, be careful with the pins, don't get stuck, um, and I just did it everywhere and then. I cut out some of the little spots where the fabric is a little thicker than what I normally work with so something was slipping underneath so I trimmed it down a little bit and now I left the pattern here my bunny is still pinned. I left it here. I need to be careful to leave an area unstitched so I can fill it in, so I decided to start at the base of the tail, where the top of her back is.

It's not the top of her back, but the bottom of her back, where the back is. it meets the tail, which is where I started and I ran it back and forth a couple of times to anchor my stitches and then I stitched all the way around. edge and then I stopped at the base of the collar and ran it back and forth again, so now I'm going to take out all my pins and remove the pattern that I just sewed through the pattern, no big deal, so I'm I'm going to take all of that out and clean it up and then I'll be ready to turn my bunny over because that's why I put the fluffy side when I folded it to the right, the fluffier side, they're both a little bit fluffy. but, to turn it around, some of those tighter areas needed some help so I grabbed a little dowel to help me get everything right side up down to the little cracks and now I'm ready to stuff this little guy in so I've got my fiber filling.

I'm going to go ahead and fill it out. I'm going to use that little dowel again to help me get some of that fiberfill into some of those little tighter spots, um and then I also used some of the leftover microfiber towel to stuff the bunny as well so you know. You don't want to waste anything right now. I have my thread with a longer needle. I think it's actually a doll making needle that I bought at the craft store a while ago and I enjoy working with it. This is when I do things like this, but I'm going to grab the fabric on the inside of this split and pull it tight and that will help hide my stitches right now.

This is going to be a little forgiving because the lint of the fabric will help me hide my stitches. I wasn't too keen on putting the opening on the back of the bunny because it usually tends to be more visible, but the fabric, this type of fabric, definitely saved me, so you can honestly do it. I don't even see it, especially when you rub it with your fingers, like back and forth, you kind of rub it a little bit once you're done sewing it, so now I have some black embroidery floss that I'm going to use. working with, first I'm going to create some whiskers, so I'm going to run my needle once I have this here and it's situated, I'm going to run my needle right through his little face and, um, at the points where I feel like the whiskers they should be so now I probably made this harder than necessary.

I was just trying not to waste any of my embroidery floss, so I ran it back and forth a few times leaving loops on either side. side that I will later cut out, not cut out, but cut out. I'll cut the ends of the loops so that only little threads come out of both sides, but first I have to level everything out and make sure everything is the same length, so I have one loop on each side and then I have one end on each right side, so in the end, once I cut the loop on each side, I will have three little whiskers on each side of his little face.

So you saw how I did that. Now, to keep them from slipping, I'm going to go ahead and tie a knot at the base, right near his little face of each mustache, so just tying a little knot, I'm just checking to see which one. end one belongs to and tie a knot on the other end and I did that for all six whiskers and now I'm using some thread, although I'm separating the threads because the thread was thicker than I wanted. I don't have light pink embroidery floss, so I'm using the thread I have in my Dollar Tree stash and I'm only using two of the threads that make up the thread.

I think it was four threads that were kind of twisted together to createthe thread and I'm using two of them. I'm going in through the back of his head, you're probably wondering why, but it's because I don't want to have to try to figure out how to create an anchor knot where his nose will be, so I went in through the back of his head and left a very long knot. tail inside his little head, hopefully, that makes sense. I basically stopped pulling on the thread when I saw it disappear into the back of his head.

Hopefully that makes sense, so I just created a little nose there and now I'm back with the black embroidery thread to create the eyes for her. I'm going to do the same, leaving a tail of the embroidery thread inside. You saw me waiting to see when he would disappear. I'm going to leave that tail in there, um, just to help keep it from falling apart. and then I'm tying a little French knot for his eye thanks also to all my subscribers who helped me remember what that knot is called that's making a little French knot and then I went to try the other side but I finished.

I ran out of black, I haven't run out of it, you can see, I still have some embroidery thread in there, but it ended up being too short for the needle I was working with, so I had to cut it off and I just ran out. tying a bunch of little knots by hand, so that's definitely an option if you don't want to do a French knot, you can certainly tie little knots against the side of his little face and I just hide, I think it was three. or four of them on top of each other until it was about the same size as the french knot I had on the first side hmm, so once I made the eye I went ahead and put the needle back through that eye until the other side and again I'm sorry, I'm off camera, but until it was far enough away that I could rethread the needle so that I could pull the embroidery thread all the way, now the two um with the two widths two The pieces were too wide to fit through the needle at a time so I did one at a time and took them out and then I was able to go ahead and trim off the excess and then just pull out his little eye. a little bit and that just tucked the embroidery floss back into her head so the tail again tucked in so it's all sewn up and I have some ribbon from the Dollar Tree I just cut a little thread and I'm going to make a simple little bow here just tie the bow on your shoelaces and I don't know why I have so much trouble tying the bows right side up my bows always come out better when I tie them upside down I can't for the life of you My Life will tell you why, but look at this, so all I did was after tying the initial part, I turned it around and tied my bun, look how beautiful that bun is now, I don't know why I can't do it. right side up I just have no idea maybe it's the way I'm starting my little base to tie you know how you tie it like the beginning of a knot to start your bun.

I wonder if I need to turn around the way I do it. I don't know, but anyway let me know what you think of this DIY number three. Okay, this is a frame that was in my stash, they literally pulled it out of the trash. I'm using my celery chalk paint giving it two coats of paint um I had set aside this frame for a different project and it ended up being a bust this was probably a couple years ago at least um so it's been sitting in my stash and I thought You know what I would use.

For this I was inspired by something I saw online so I'm using my burlap type ribbon, it's not exactly burlap but it has that burlap look and I'm going to apply a little bit of ribbon across it and then also up and down. below, so once I've cut it out, I'm going to turn it over and get it ready to stick with hot glue. I'm not going to tighten it too much when I do this, I'm going to leave it a little bit loose because we're going to do something with the front and we're going to need a little bit of give, so just using my hot glue I had folded the ribbon down because I like clean edges. .

I used my hot glue there and I'm going to do it all the way around with each of the four pieces of ribbon or the four ends of the ribbons, so now you can see I have a little bit of give. I'm going to grab some jute cord from my stash. This is actually just a scrap piece that I'm using, so I'm going to wrap it around the center of the ribbons both ways and pull it taut so that we're essentially creating a cross shape here over the frame, I'm just going to tighten it as tight as possible. as tight as I can and I think I tied a knot and now with the excess I'm going to end up tying a bow too, so I think maybe I was actually trying to get it. a little bit tighter there, so I'm tightening it as much as possible, tying that off, making my little bow trimming that end that was a little crooked and now I'm going to grab these pome berries, these are golden.

They are leftover from Christmas if I had had red or even ivory I think it would have been very pretty. The gold is also pretty, but it doesn't stand out as much as another color would because of the background, the colors I've used here are very muted. The tones between the brown burlap type of ribbon and then the celery chalk paint, are very muted. Personally, I like the colors, and I hope you like them. I'm enjoying them too, but use whatever colors you want, whatever colors make you happy, you can use, you know, an Easter colored ribbon for this if you want, but this is what I opted to go with something with a un bit more rustic and just manipulating the berries into little squiggles until I had it just the way I liked it and that's it for this project so let me know what you think now it's time to shout time out pretty Rose a hippity hoppity in

spring

. and these welcome signs, I love them and beautiful Karen, what a beautiful cross you have created and sweet Mary.

I love this two tone bunny. I love pink and chocolate together and cute Sharon. The houses of these birds are absolutely beautiful and pleasant. Tammy Tammy has been busy and I love all those beautiful colors. I would love to greet you too. If you are interested, email me at craftbycoury gmail.com. Do it yourself number four. Okay, this is so simple it probably shouldn't. I don't even call it DIY, but I have my Spanish moss that I've been working with for a long time. I've done so many different things with this bag of Spanish moss, guys it was 7.99 oh I can't talk. 7.99 at Hobby Lobby um, it was a great deal because it will last me forever, but essentially I'm layering it with little Easter eggs inside my glass vase, that's it, you know, like I said, it's a little hard to call this a DIY. or a craft because it's very simple, very easy, but I think it really makes a very nice statement and you don't have to use eggs, you can use lemons or stones or the little moss stones, those dark green ones from the Dollar Tree, mix those With the lighter colored Spanish moss, I clearly didn't like the way I had it the first time, so I'm going to do it again so I can look at it all in a slightly different way, but it's such an easy project and so fact, I love this.

I'm going to display it in my house and I hope you like it too, but leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this one. Okay, that's all for today. If you enjoyed the projects, remember to give as gifts. A big thumbs up leave me a comment let me know which one was your favorite and until next time be nice and make it a great day. Thank you very much for watching, take care, bye, thank you.