Cricut Crafts - Wood Crafts - 7 ALL NEW Spring and Easter DIYS! IOD Stamps and Transfers!

Hello friends, we are back with another video for you. We've rounded up some more

spring

and Easter DIYs. We are very excited. Thanks for joining us. Let's get started. This little sign was originally, I believe, from Hobby Lobby. I got it from the thrift store one fall, I actually bought a couple of them just to use them as flashes, so I'm starting to paint it with a good couple of coats of white, which is just the Rust-Oleum chalk paint that I'm using and then it dries out. First I'm going to apply a sheet of the decoupage paper I've been using.

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I usually buy decoupage paper from Zazzle or Sonnets Garden and Blooms. she is on YouTube and has a store. I'm using a DIY liquid patina to apply this. It is similar to a Mod Podge. It's just a little thinner, so it's not as sticky and doesn't wrinkle as much. I chose some

transfers

that I picked up. from Amazon was actually last year and I'm trying to use them all this year. I'm finishing up with some of them and the

transfers

, if you haven't used them yet start using them because they just take the simplest projects and make it so beautiful and it's so simple and easy, some are pretty inexpensive too, you get a lot of them for a lot money, I guess I'll say it, so I applied the decoupage paper and let it dry. and I'm getting rid of those edges, look at that handy little sander I'm using that came from Teemu and I've loved it and by the way, I've put it to good use, so after I get all those edges sorted I apply another coat of sealant on top, it's the same liquid patina and I just apply it to make sure everything is good and use my fingers just to smooth out any of those little wrinkles and make sure the edges are good.

It doesn't stand up which one it was, so I applied a little more here, there and everywhere. I just want to make sure it doesn't start to lift after it dries. At this point, I'm ready to transfer and I chose this really beautiful one. It looks. I like

spring

and it says Be The Light and I think it's just simple and beautiful and it transforms this piece in a way that paint can't and even a Cricut decal, right? They provide these sticks to apply them. You could use them. anything, really, when I can't find one, I pull out a credit card or just an old gift card or my scraper, my Cricut tool, whatever you can get your hands on will work, little by little, go. through everything and you can see it take off and then they recommend polishing these transfers.

You just use the leaf that comes off after you apply it and you just rub it on there and that polishes it. I'm just using that sander. again just to put everything back together, but that's how it turned out and it's so beautiful and bright and we love this chandelier. I think it's a chandelier. It came half painted. Someone already did some of the work for me. Again, this was from the thrift store. I also think it was originally from Hobby Lobby at some point and someone looks like they started a project and never finished it, but that's okay because I'm adding more white and this anyway.

It will be used for now as a bird's nest. I'm not going to glue anything to it in case I want to change it and use it for something else later, which I probably will. I actually bought these birds at Hobby. Lobby, they are ceramic and they have a lot of beautiful details on their wings, their tail and their beak, and they are very cute and very inexpensive because of course all the spring things were on sale and this is the milk paint that I gave them counted. all over and I just give that little bird a coat of that milk paint and the milk paint can wear off with moisture, which is what I'm doing here.

I'm just taking a wet or damp paper towel or a BB wipe and I'm doing kind of a combination of both just to get that crackle finish on that milk paint, so I did the bird, a bird and the milk paint, the candlestick and the milk paint and then I did another bird in a very light pink and everything. They turned out really very pretty and I'm doing the same with the bird, making it a little distressed, so you can see some of that white coming out and some of that stands out many of those details on the bird's wings. and feathers and everywhere is his little body and I'm going to grab some Spanish moss oh well, first I forgot.

I used this oil wax, it's a dark wax to bring out those ridges and details even more and it's almost oily I guess. It's an oil wax so you only use a little bit and I just applied a little bit, wiped it off again and put a little more on until I really got the look I want. This I also mean is a DIY product that could be great. Pickens I'll have to look and I'll put it in the description box of course but this comes from Jamie Rue vintage, she has a local shop and also an online shop so this is where I start playing with the Spanish moss. a couple of those painted eggs I have, a couple of different birds.

You know, I couldn't really decide exactly how I wanted to set it up and how it would fit best since I said I didn't want to glue anything. down, so I was doing my best to see what would look good in our little bird's nest and in the end I went with one of the bigger birds, that little one is also from Temu and was originally golden. I do not do it. I know if you'll see that in this video, but I painted that same paint with milk. I mixed some of that paint with milk and I wasn't going to waste it, it wasn't happening, I was going to use every drop and besides.

It's beautiful and I love the color, especially now with this season and all the decorating I've been doing flows so beautifully with everything else, which is why I display all the birds in one area or another on tiered trays or just on shelves, but In the end I choose one of these bigger birds to put on top of that nest and I have my little one there helping me, she's interested and in the end we decided that's how we liked it best and it's just a fun little bird's nest chandelier and here there's a photo of it, a little video to try to show you the details and what we got from that base coat of milk white paint and then the oil wax and there are the two birds, there's a little pink one on top and to the side so You can tell the difference now these are the little eggs that I used in many different projects, they came from Amazon, they are made of

wood

and have a flat bottom. so they do stand up, they are a little smaller than I expected them to be when I ordered them, but I was able to make it work in the end.

I kept some of them simple

wood

grain and painted some in the Apothecary color. i got these

stamps

out these are an IOD product they are called a letterpress press I think they are these are not this is a really good set if you are ever interested in purchasing letters because they are small enough to do small projects and they come with three styles or fonts Different ones now recommend that when you use a stamp for the first time you scratch it just a little bit, not a lot, just a little bit with a sheet of sandpaper, so that's what I was doing there.

Since I haven't used these yet, I'm now going to stamp spring on one set and Easter on the other and I'm just sandwiching the little eggs in between to keep them steady while I apply those inking

stamps

. Again it's the same ink I've been using, IOD black, it's permanent. I made Nick one of them and where I didn't want the ink to go, I tried my best and it didn't come off so I'm just cleaning off each little stamp as I go because otherwise they get stuck in a pile and I forget about them and then end up having to clean them with soap and water, if you do it right away just clean them as you go. then you can put them back in that little container and be done with them until next time, so this apothecary is a DIY painting and it's also a little greener than the milk paint I was using, but it's also still a beautiful spring .

The color is beautiful any time and I've used a lot of that in my house as well, so I decided to use the plain eggs with spring and the apothecary, you see, that's where I got the little eye and that never quite came out. somehow, but you can't even notice it, probably just you and I, because I've pointed it out to you, we'll notice it, so the little apothecary eggs that I made for Easter and they just end up sitting on a shelf and you look. Really very cute. I decided to do something else. I grabbed my drill and some kind of very thin drill bit and this wasn't the easiest thing for me, because I don't know, I'm not that good at the drill. and these eggs are quite small.

You'll see a Band-Aid on my finger later in this video and this would be the reason why I put these little holes on the top and then I cut out these little flowers and I couldn't make them out. I probably got them at Hobby Lobby because I've had them for a long time. They were just some leftover stems I had, but they are so small and delicate that I thought they would look so cute when glued together. I hatched these little eggs so I used the wire cutter just to cut a little stem for each letter and this is probably one of the favorite things I did on this project for myself.

I love it even with the finger injury. and everything, but they look cute on my teardrop tray, they look cute on a shelf, they're so adorable and again one of my favorite things that I didn't glue the stems on so I could change them if I wanted to fix them. The small eggs are plastic. Look, there's my band-aid. It was much easier to drill them. Are plastic. They come from Walmart or Hobby Lobby. I don't remember seeing them in both. They were a little slippery, so the drill slid here and. there, but it was easier to drill them into that little tray.

I cut out some decals from my Cricut on just black vinyl. I just liked random Easter words and most of them I didn't show myself weeding because everyone has seen everyone weeding a million times. but I left this part out because it shows how much I was struggling and I probably weed almost every day, so it's not that I don't know how to do it, but the letters were sticking to the excess vinyl that I lost like one. Of them, this is a very thin font, but it's a font that I use all the time, so it's not like I didn't know it was going to be a little complicated, so there goes my U, my 1n and my y.

I'll investigate. I wasn't going to try to cut this again if I didn't have to, so I found them. Luckily I didn't completely destroy them, but this whole decal needed a little surgery, but I just wanted to show. You can fix it if you mess something up, don't always be so quick just throw it away and throw it away and cut it again which trust me I ended up having to cut it again anyway even after spending all the time trying to fix it so who knows which one is the best option, but in this case I was able to fix it and you wouldn't realize I had to go through everything to use a transfer piece. tape for each and the reason is that I usually try to reuse my transfer tape but the reason is that on this rounded egg surface you have to cut little raised strips in the vinyl to get the decal i.e. on the tape of transfer to get the I calculated the vinyl to fit correctly so I couldn't reuse the transfer tape but they are all very small so I will feel really bad about having to use one piece for each and I think I made five of these, maybe six, and then I got some twine and a needle, this was a pain too.

I got the largest neolite needle I could find. No, I don't sew, so I don't have a huge stash of needles. I threaded the string through it and wanted to push the needle through. through each hole, which ideally sounds very simple, well this needle wasn't long enough so I used, name it, almost every little Grabber tool I could find, funnily enough, although I didn't have any tweezers there, I looked but I could not. I didn't find any, I didn't look that hard but I never found any, so this was the hardest one, but each one of them was a little tricky once it was done, it's okay, it's just about getting that little dot to show up in the other.

In the end I took some beads, the little beads in the middle, the colored ones that I had already painted for another project, so I always keep extra Beats and they worked perfectly for this little project, so I made a couple of small beads, the big one in the in the middle and I did that for each egg. I tried some tassels at the end and I think it's adorable. I love it. It's there on my shelf with all the other things we've been making and it's so cute. The sign would come from Hobby Lobby. In fact, I bought that Hobby Lobby that has a pretty good discount of 40 every two weeks or so.

To get wooden signs, cut some vinyl. This says hello. I used a gray color on this one, so I'm. I removed them and then cut some tulips to say spring. I chose this coral color. Now I set this up to make my alignment simple and perfect but I got distracted and forgot that was my plan why I set it up this way, I made it to make it easier for me but in the end it became harder for me because I messed it up, but this was just a very, very simple project, it doesn't matter how you do it, I just applied that little shoutout.

First, in the middle, I measured that part. If I had done a better job measuring,It would have saved me some pain too, but it worked, it's just a little off. The measurements were not perfect and the alignment. The trick I used didn't work for me, but I just used a design right away from Cricut design space, so if you have access to it, it's free. I didn't pay for anything other than, you know, you pay monthly for access to the qriket layout, but that's where I got this, so I didn't create this layout and it was pretty. close to what I was going to do anyway and this saved me from having to do the design work, so why not use it?

It's just as cute. All these vinyls are from Amazon. I don't remember the brand I should look for. but I'll link them like this mint green, a really pretty purple, and that coral pink color, this is where I start to realize, oh, I did this really wrong, so at this point I'm okay, forget it. I'll try to line them up as best I can and place them here and I had to remove the eye, fortunately it hadn't adhered completely so it wasn't too bad to remove it. I didn't break it or I think something good came out and I just combined the little tips of those tulip stems or tulips, yeah, whatever they're called.

The flower part and this is very fun. My daughter wanted to do this. said we needed a little more colors so we did a few more colors and this is in our family room with everything else one and really easy it can't get much easier than that and cheap you know the sign itself It was probably like three. dollars and then the vinyl was only a few cents because we already had it, it didn't require much use, so it looks very nice, very fun and we are happy with it, the last project we did was more or less At the last minute we found this candle .

I had bought it for something else, it's one of those Dollar Tree candles and since I already had the vinyl, I pulled out a bunny and went back to the design space and cut out a bunch of them. and I just stuck them here randomly, but it's so cute I love the bunny tails and the tails that look pink and I guess this can't even be called DIY, but it definitely adds some fun to a little Easter. Style the rest of the decor and this anyone could do even if you didn't have a Cricut you could just get some stickers grab one of those candles from Dollar Tree and there you have it it's done and complete we had a lot of fun this week creating we hope that you enjoy some of these projects we hope that you continue to join us and keep watching we are having a lot of fun as a family accomplishing this taking this new adventure learning a lot as we go these things you know what you can get you can buy them at Hobby Lobby you can go to Joann's you can go to any TJ Maxx store but it makes a difference when it's something you made yourself there's just something different thanks again Friends everyone have a great week and stay safe see you next time.

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