DIY Spring – Decor Craft Design

DIY Spring Wreath – Upcyling Rattan Basket

Still with a Spring theme, our April Challenge Theme is Welcoming Spring. I think one of the best way to Welcoming Spring is to hang A Spring Wreath at home or front door. Then, I start to look for inspiration on Pinterest, and I found this very simple Easy Spring Wreath. I love the simplicity because to me, less is more. From there, I started with upcycling my rattan handle that I have kept for quite a while. I got it from a rattan basket which I have turned into A Rattan Basket Tray. But before I share with you steps on how I make The DIY Spring Wreath by upcyling rattan basket, let me explain a bit about The Sustainable Pinterest Challenge.

The Pinterest Challenge has had a bit of a reboot for 2022 and is now the Sustainable Pinterest Challenge. Each month I join a group of creative bloggers and we select a pin or two that we feel inspired by and give it a go. Starting in January 2022 the Pinterest Challenge has a sustainable, eco friendly twist to it. All the projects shared will have something about them that involves recycling, upcycling, a general ethos of reducing waste and using what we have. It’s not about beating ourselves with a stick, it’s just about giving thought to how we can make small changes in our lives just a little more sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment.

Last month’s theme challenge was “Floral” and I made an DIY Painted Upcycled Mug with tulips. For this month theme “Welcoming Spring” and of course a sustainable as a base to any of our challenge projects, I made use of my rattan basket handle and made a DIY Spring Wreath from Upcycling Rattan Basket. Last challenge, I presented tulips and on this Welcoming Spring Challenge, I presenting lavender flowers.

Things To Prepare

I love the rattan handle look, so I just use it as it is. It’s already stand out with its character. I also use my previous project as a decoration for the Spring wreath, which is my Mini Spring Flower Cart that I made from upcycling tin cart. yes, this Spring wreath is load with upcycling materials. I even use the ribbon bow that I re-use from a flower bouquet. Anyway, let’s see what are the complete supplies that I used to make this DIY Spring Wreath:

A rattan basket handle
Creamy white ribbon bow (satin and organdy)
Lavender artificial flowers
A mini spring flower cart (I fill up some artificial moss inside the cart)
Hot glue
Rope

How To Make

It’s actually very simple to make my Spring Wreath. Only took me a few easy steps to finish my lavender wreath. Now, gather all the supplies which I’ve mentioned above and follow these easy steps on how to make DIY Spring Wreath from upcycling rattan basket :

1 . Take the rattan handle and and bend it into a loop and secure it with rope, tide tightly!

2. Get your beautiful lavenders (fresh or artificial, is up to you; mine is artificial lavenders) and bend it along the rattan loop, facing both left and right. Secure it.

3 .Then I use my mini spring flower cart with the words “Spring Flowers” as a Spring sign

4. Give the final touch to the wreath with a neutral color ribbon bows on top of the rattan loop. And you’re done!

Super easy and simple, right? And I didn’t spent much money for it, because my supplies were all used and scraps that I had. I just need to buy the artificial lavender, but if you have fresh lavender on your backyard, then this project won’t cost you any money. So, have fun with your own version of simple Spring Wreath from upcycling something and Happy Spring everyone!

Now let’s take a look at what the other Sustainable Pinterest Challenge participants have made for their “Welcoming Spring” challenge.

Julie | Sum of their Stories

Gail | Purple Hues and Me

Terri | A Good Life

Lydia | Life Beyond the Kitchen

T’onna | Sew Crafty Crochet

Julie | Treasures Made From Yarn

Allyson | Southern Sunflowers

Mel | Decor Craft Design

Niki | Life as a LEO Wife

Linda | Crafts a la Mode

Here are the projects :

Button Bouquet in a Cotton Reel

Woven Cord Basket

Chalk Paint Vase for Spring Flowers

Crochet Butterflies

Floral Tray Pouch

Fluffy Crochet Duster Cover for Spring Cleaning

Painted Bunnies on Wood for Easter

Braided Chunky Yarn Wreath

DIY Spring Wreath – Upcycling Rattan Basket

Homemade Cotton Bunny

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DIY Spring Potted Plant Sign

Still enjoying Spring? Still decorating your home for Spring and try to have it relate to coming Summer? Maybe you should try using some decorations that can match either Spring or Summer. A green blooming plant would do great to represent both Spring and Summer. That is why I created this DIY Spring Potted Plant Sign.

This Spring sign is super easy to make. It takes a little time to do too. So it’s a great Spring project for those who’s already busy juggling with everyday activities but have a yearning to do some DIY decorations. Let’s start with the things to prepare which followed with steps to make it. I’m sure anyone can do it right by following these simple steps.

Things To Prepare

This is a very easy and quick Spring sign to make. It’s even greater with only less supplies involved. I even re-purpose my old desk calendar for this spring DIY. Okay, here are the short list of items that I used to make my Spring Potted Plant Sign:

A black plank (I use an old desk calendar cardboard, you can use wooden plank as well)
Green craft foam
White marker
UHU Glue

How To Make

My Spring Potted Plant Sign is not just convenient in supplies but very quick and simple in process too. Only a few steps and you can finish a green spring sign right away. Therefor, here are the list for making this cute potted plant :

1 .Have your black plank media in square shape.

2 .Draw a white pot by using white marker.

3 .Now, cut the green craft foam into a shape of leaves in 8-10 different sizes.

4 .Glue the craft foam leaves one by one and arrange it nicely.

5 .And for a final touch, draw a white line to frame the potted plant sign.

Super simple DIY Spring you can make in no time. It doesn’t need a high skill in crafting to make this little potted plant sign, so anyone can do it.

For more of my future Spring posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

For creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop and Happiness Is Homemade Link Party! Link your inspiring posts (anything, from recipes, home decor, DIYs, crafts, family, health to gardening) every Monday and Sunday. Get a change to be featured! I’m one of the co-host of You’re The Star blog hop for Creative Week and Happiness Is Homemade will choose the creative posts to be featured on Creative Features week and on Happiness Is Homemade. Please come and join the blog hop and I would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

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Hello Creative Spring!

Mel

DIY Spring Painted Poppy Sign

I don’t have time to paint a proper painting on a canvas since my kid’s online school has begun. So, I’ve been doing a little painting in different media most of the time. Just like what I did for this Spring wall sign. I painted some pink poppies on a rusty enamel cover. I love the natural rust on my old pale greenish yellow enamel cover. Actually I found it at my Mom’s storage. Funny, you can find treasure sometimes in a storage.

I chose pink poppy among many colors, because it’s not red which mostly represent sad of death, it’s also not blue which I find it beautiful but it will look pale for my spring sign, so I think a beautiful and cheerful pink would look fantastic to represent colorful spring season.

Things To Prepare

You can find other media to work with to have a similar look as my spring painted poppy sign. Get any rusty enamel of cooking or eating tools to work with. Enamel is perfect for painting as it has a smooth surface; then it can also turned rusty, so we can get the rustic style. My enamel cover has a depth on the back side, so I can hang it without a hanger addition. So, you can add a hanger if you can’t hang your enamel media on the wall. You can be creative with the hanger you are going to choose. And for the paint, I used several colors and a brush with a small sharp tip, which all can be found at Michaels. Anyway, these are all the items I used to make my DIY Spring Painted Poppy Sign happened :

Old rusty enamel cover
Red acrylic paint
White acrylic paint
Green acrylic paint
Brown acrylic paint
Black permanent marker

How To Make

The tittle is DIY Spring Painted Poppy Sign, so yes, it’s all about painting works. Painting a poppy is as simple as the flower itself, but there’s something about poppy that really caught my eyes. I still don’t know what it is. Maybe because of its simplicity, a raw beauty. Well, that’s what I think, what about you? Well, I tried to explain step by step on how I paint these pink poppies.

1 .First of all, make sure you have washed your enamel media and dry it.

2 .Mix some paint. Mix white and red to get pink, have two to three shades of pink. Mix green with white to get two shades of green. Prepare your brown acrylic paint too. Don’t forget to leave white paint for adding some shades.

3 .I started out with lighter pink and paint four petals of poppy. I painted one of front view, the other one is a bit side look and the rest are the buds.

4 .Then I continue with darker pink to give shadows from inner to outer petals. Concentrated on the inner parts.

5 .Get some brown and paint the stamens, I did it by dotting my brush.

6 . Next is to use green in two shades to paint the stalks and buds. Let it dry and your Spring painting is finished!

7. Lastly, take a black permanent marker and write the word “SPRING” on top of the Spring sign. You are done with the painted poppy sign! I finished it in less than 10 minutes. You have to be quick anyway, if you use acrylic paint, as it will dry quite fast.

I never learn how to paint in a course or something, just autodidacts. So, maybe I don’t have fancy techniques to share, I just use my senses every time I paint. So it’s hard for me to explain in details; as for me, painting is coming from my heart, senses and feelings. But I really hope my explanation and those step by step pictures I gave, would help you paint beautiful pink poppy. This beautiful Spring Painted Poppy Sign with rustic enamel as the canvas, would look great for your farmhouse decor or even vintage shabby decor. Would that be great? Two styles decor in one plate.

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Mel

Easy DIY Spring Fancy Cupcake Topper

Getting stuck at home for long time during Covid-19 even with your loved ones can be gloomy. Try gardening, playing board games or even baking may help to spent more fun time at home. Having a birthday celebration at home with family or just simply having a tea time together can also a fabulous and fun way to past time and at the same time be entertained. And to add more magic and have a fancier birthday party or your tea party at home, try my Easy DIY Spring Fancy Cupcake Topper!

This cupcake topper is looking fancy but easy to make. The whole family can sit together and try this Spring DIY and have fun with cutting gluing work! It’s worth it! It’s super cute DIY and fast to duplicate, so all of your wonderful cupcakes will get the fancy flower topper. Want to know the details? Let’s find out!

Things To Prepare

Not many supplies to get to make these fancy toppers, most of them are laying around in your home. So, let me just list down for you the things I prepared for this Easy Spring DIY:

Dark and light pink glittered craft foam
Toothpicks
Green thin ribbon
Fancy tape
Glue

How To Make

This is a very fun and easy DIY to make, and it would be merrier if you ask along your kids to help with this fancy flower cupcake toppers. Just follow these simple steps to make Spring Cupcake Topper :

Draw the back of the glittered craft foam with big and small flower shape. Do it to both dark and light fancy foam.
Glue the small glittered flower onto the big flower foam. Do it to the both colors.
Take a green ribbon and tie a knot around the toothpick of the fancy cupcake topper.
Apply some glue to the toothpick and attach it to the back of the fancy flower. Secure it with fancy tape.There you go, your pretty flower cupcake topper for Spring party is ready.

Super easy to duplicate the fancy topper in no time. So you can make lots of them without any trouble. I’m sure this Spring flower cupcake topper will cheer up your day with family at home while having cupcake party, tea time or birthday celebration. Hope you would love to try, happy fancy crafting!

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Be fancy and creative!

Mel

DIY Spring Sign For Wall Decor

I had kept a defective wooden sign I bought in sale at Daiso for quite a time. I was planning to use it as a sign, but give it a totally different look. Since the old sign has already have a burlap rope as the hanger, it became easier for me to only transform the look. Since the Spring is still linger, I made a DIY Spring Sign that would look great for Wall Decor or just as a mantel decor.

I painted a bouquet of aster tied in a simple rope. I love to see some aster hanging on my wall; it calms me. It looks so serene with its lavender color, no wonder aster means patience; but some others said it is a flower of love and wisdom. It’s a simple humble looking flower with its own beauty. And it’s a symbol flower of September. However, I painted the aster with acrylic paint. Let’s find out how I make this simple DIY with a little painting job involved.

Things To Prepare

It’s a make over project actually, because I turned a flawed sign into a new painted Spring sign. And here is the list of the supplies I used for this Spring sign DIY.

Defective wooden sign (an old sign would do too)
White spray paint
Acrylic paints (white, yellow, blue, green and red)
Black marker

How To Make

It’s mostly a painting job and you can replace the painting part by doing a decoupage. Anyway, let me show you the steps I made when I was making this DIY Spring Sign.

I spray painted the half-price sign in white and wait for it to dry.
Mix the paint to get the desired colors.
I started to paint the petals of each aster blossom first and then added the yellow stamen.
I painted the flower stalks, leaves and finish it off with a simple red string tied in bow.
And last but not least, write the word “Spring” on the bottom of the aster black marker. Finished!

It’s an easy spring sign to make for those who familiar with painting works. It’s just a simple painting of aster to mark a very calm spring. So, I hope you enjoy my DIY Spring Sign For Wall Decor and maybe inspired to make your own version. Have a fun creative spring sign project to do!

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Mel

DIY Spring Flower Tin Can Pot For Rose Moss

Social distancing by staying at home whole day for weeks can be boring and suffocated. Do a little gardening can be soothing and fun. Particularly when the work is done, your eyes will see only beauty which very relaxing. A little gardening can be only planting or arrange a little plant indoor or semi-outdoor. Like me, I made a DIY Spring Flower Tin Can Pot For Rose Moss to grow on my balcony. It’s an easy DIY of re-purposing tin can to plant a very easy but pretty flower; Sun Rose.

What is Ross Moss?

This tiny pretty flowers are commonly known as Ross Moss with its Latin name portulaca grandiflora. It also has other famous name; like ten o’clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, Vietnam Rose, sun rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane. Ross mose is actually a succulent flowering plant in the family Portulacaceae; watch the leaves which have the same texture like succulent. It was originated from Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay.

It’s very easy to grow that almost like a weed. Ross moss needs lots of sunshine and it only blooms in the morning and start to withered on the afternoon. It’s a low maintenance flower plant, so it’s a great flowery plants to grow along pathway or garden. It also comes in wide variation of colors and petal shapes. My moss rose that I used is a five magenta petals.

Okay, since you have introduced with Rose Moss or some of you are already very familiar with this sunny flower. Now, I can start to write about how I make the Spring flower pot from tin can.

Things To Prepared

Most of the supplies I used was came from scraps I have. So, you probably would not able to replicate my pot exactly the same. But don’t worry, you can always use your available scraps and craft supplies at home to decorate this tin can pot, just let your creativity takes control. Anyway, things I used for this tin can flower pot DIY are

Shallow tin can (I used tuna can)
White spray paint
Old painted button
Burlap
Colored burlap rope
White knitting fabric ( I got it from my scrap fabrics)
Popsicle sticks
Black marker
White gelly roll pen
Glue
Hot glue

How To Make

It’s not a difficult Spring DIY with easy supplies. Take a look at the picture and follow the tutorial.

Get the shallow tin can and clean it. Make some holes on the bottom can. Tuna can is perfect for this re-purposing project.
Spray paint the tin can with white color. Let it dry.
Take your burlap and cut it an half wide of the tuna can height. Glue the cut burlap around the painted tin can.
Use a creme colored burlap rope and tie the tin can pot around three times. Secure the rope edges with glue in the middle front. It will be covered by the button ornament.
Take a square white knitting fabric and glue it to cover the rope’s ending.
The painted button was an old clear button that I have painted in pink, roughly. Use the button to finish the spring flower pot.
For the Spring Sign, use some popsicle sticks to form a rectangle sign with a stick.
Paint the sign with black marker and write the word Spring by using white gelly roll pen. Plug the Spring Sign on the Sun Rose tin can pot. And your DIY tin can pot is ready for the flower you desired and mine is Rose Moss.

Wouldn’t you just love to see the Rose Moss blooming in the morning? Especially when you grow them in front of your windows. Beautiful sight to enjoy in this middle of Covid-19 horror. Well, a little Spring craft will add more boredom killer for staying at home and your home would look springy with flowers on the pots. Therefor, save your tin cans and be creative with it!

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Mel

Easy DIY Spring Coaster

Some have found Spring, some are still waiting. But one thing for sure is, most of you must be preparing our home for Spring decor; from small functional things to decoration purposes only. Everything smells and look like Spring. Flowery decor is the easiest way to capture the Spring. And this time I spread a little Spring to your coffee or tea rituals. I made an easy Spring coaster.

I made my Spring Coaster from cotton rope and colored burlap rope. I used the cotton rope as the coaster and the colored burlap rope as the flower decoration to the coaster to get the Spring twist. This is an easy DIY you can make to give some Spring to your home. And the best part is you can make a lot of this in a day! Maybe make a dozen and you can use the flower spring coaster yourself all during spring or give a half of them as a gift to your dearest one. However, the most important thing is to share with you how I made this Spring Coaster.

Things To Prepared

Basically you will only need three materials to do this super easy coaster with a spring touch. And what are those?

Cotton rope in white color
Burlap rope in pink and green
Glue (clear power glue will do great)

How To Make

How to make my DIY Spring Coaster with the flower? Just follow these easy steps and look at the picture above!

Make a circular pattern by using the rope and add glue along the rope. Do it until you get the desired diameter.
Secure the end rope with glue too.
Make a petal pattern by using pink burlap rope. Apply it with glue.
Take the green burlap rope and do a circular pattern on the center of the flower. Don’t forget to use glue.
You can have a more durable coaster by adding a piece of circled fabric under the coaster. Glue it.

You can be more creative to make other pattern of Spring. Mine is five petals flower with pink and green, you may try other flowers or other colors. Isn’t it great DIY for Spring? My flower coaster from rope is inexpensive, easy to make and pretty looking. So let’s make lots of it and have some tea party with your friends and family to show of your handmade spring coaster.

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Be lucky and creative!

Mel

DIY Spring Lace Tin Can Mug Flower Vase

DIY Spring Lace Tin Can Mug Flower Vase

Like I have mentioned before on my post DIY Easy Succulent Pot Holder that I made from upcycling tin can, I have lots of ideas on how to make use of the tin can. So here is my other diy tin can creation, a spring lace tin can mug flower vase.

There are things that you need to prepare for this diy spring lace tin can mug flower vase. :

Used tin can (I got it from canned food)
Blue spray paint
Lace
Drawer’s handle
Glue
Screw and bolt

Now, let’s check out these easy steps to upcycling tin can into a spring lace mug flower vase :

Clean the used tin can properly and spray paint it with blue. Leave it dry.
Glue a lace on top and below the tin can mug. Let it dry.
Screw the drawer handle to the tin can mug and secure it with bolt.
Put some flowers to the tin can mug that serves as a flower vase. There you go, your diy lace flower tin can mug vase for spring decoration is ready.

More flowers on your home would reflect spring, pair it with spring colors decoration and you will have it perfect spring decor. So, my lace tin can mug flower vase is great diy for spring decor. For more spring DIYs, please follow me, it’s great to share and inspires!