Easter Crafting Inspiration: Easter Scene Jar

Out of all our Easter projects this one is probably the most complex and involves quite a few different elements but once you get started you will find it hard to stop. You will just want to keep adding more and more....

The fun part of this project is that you can add some lights inside the jar and as we know, everything looks much better with the added feature of LED lights!

On the front of the jar we used a clear sticker from LaBlanche. These stickers can adhere to the jar and also be easily peeled off again. So if you make a mistake when positioning on the jar you can easily peel off and re-align again!

As you can see from above we have created a scene inside the jar using some wooden bunny embellishments alongside some moss and mini plastic speckled eggs. We also added some paper flower embellishments and a piece of faux blossom garland.

We finished off the top of the jar with a nest made from twine and added some more wooden bunny embellishments and miniature speckled eggs.

Materials Needed:

Clear Jar (we used an old Kilner jar)

LaBlanche Decorative Stickers

Faux Moss

Mini Paper Flowers

Wooden Bunny Embellishments

Mini Plastic Speckled Eggs

Mini Pastel Decorative Eggs

Twine

Tiny LED Lights (many eBay sellers)

Faux Blossom Garland

Additional Supplies:

Hot Glue Gun

Tweezers

Tissue Paper

How to Make:

1. Choose your main decorative sticker that you want to use on the front of the jar and adhere to your jar. Use some of the smaller stickers around the outside of your jar for added decoration.

2. If the bottom of your jar is not very level you might want to add a small bit of tissue paper to the bottom to help create a flat surface. 

3. Wrap a long length of twine around the top of the jar and tie a bow.

4. Cut a length of your blossom garland and make a circle with it that will fit in the bottom of the jar. Wrap the LED lights around the garland and place it in the bottom of the jar with the wire from the lights coming up at the back of the jar. Adhere the wire in place at the top of the jar using a glue gun and add a small flower. 

5. Then use the glue gun again to adhere the battery pack to the back of the jar.

6. Choose a couple of different sizes of bunnies from your pack and glue them in place inside the jar.

7. Add some moss using tweezers and glue in place some mini speckled eggs and flowers.

8. To make the lid, wrap some twine around 3 fingers to make a nest shape. Leave a little extra twine at the end which you can use to wrap around the nest to hold it in place. Use a glue gun to adhere the nest to the lid.

9. Add some bunnies, eggs, flowers and a bit of blossom branch and glue in place.

10. Then simply place the lid on top of the jar and you are finished.

This is a great project to give someone as a gift at Easter and it will definitely be a piece of home decor you will want to get out year after year!

Easter Crafting Inspiration: Easter Bottle Vases

We have another decorative accessory for your home today with these beautiful bottle vases. If you've seen our previous posts in the Easter series so far you will be glad to hear that today's project uses the same method. This means you have three possible projects you can make with your foil wraps!

Materials List:

LaBlanche Foil Wraps

Glass Bottles

(You could also use recycled jam jars or any type of small glass jar or bottle)

Twine

Wooden Tag Embellishments

Spring Flowers

How to Make:

Simply follow the instructions from our Egg Decorations blog post to adhere your foil wraps. 

Finish your bottles off using some twine around the neck of the vase and attaching a wooden tag embellishment. If you have any 'Happy Easter' stamps you could also add this sentiment to the wooden banner.

These vases take less than no time to make so before you know it you will have enough made up to decorate your table ready for Easter!

Easter Crafting Inspiration: Egg Vases

Following on from our last blog post, why not save some of your plastic egg decorations to create these miniature egg vases. These vases will make wonderful decorations to your dining table this Easter and can be filled with some beautiful Spring flowers and foliage.

You can use the same LaBlanche foil wraps from our previous post to decorate these eggs and then to allow them to stand up you will want to get some of the gold egg stands which can be found on Hochanda and Lablanche websites.

Once again you can also find alternative egg stands on eBay.

Extra Supplies:

Pair of Tongs

Bowl of Boiling Water

Glue Gun

Spring flowers (grab some on your next dash to the supermarket for essentials)

Decorative Moss

How to Make:

Follow the instructions from our previous post on how to attach the foil wraps. Once you have done this you will need to saw the top of each egg off to allow you to put your flowers in. We then used a glue gun to attach the stands to the bottom of each egg. We recommend gluing the stands to the egg so that they are more stable when filled with flowers.

Add a tiny bit of moss and trim your flower stems to fit.

If you want to make some more Easter inspired vases stay tuned for our next blog post...

Easter Crafting Inspiration: Hanging Egg Decorations

These hanging easter egg decorations are perfect for hanging around your house at Easter time. If you have a decoration tree (often found in Hobbycraft) then these will look beautiful hanging up and you can add any odd trims and lace you have to make them look extra vintage.

You can also add some feathers around the top of the egg for extra decoration.

We added some beautiful gold trimming around the top of the eggs to make them more elegant and vintage.

You can add a small piece of trim to the bottom of the eggs or why not add a tassel as you will see in our picture below...

So how did we make these decorations and what did we use:-

Well we initially bought a set of eggs and foil wraps from LaBlanche when they were featured on Hochanda a couple of months ago. Even though Hochanda still sell some of the Easter items in their collection we couldn't find the eggs or foil wraps on their website anymore.

However you can still buy direct from LaBlanche, so please click on the following links to find the items:-

(Please note you may need to translate their website using Google Translate)

Eggs 

Foil Wraps Design 1

Foil Wraps Design 2

Foil Wraps Design 3

Foil Wraps Design 4

Tassels

Extra Supplies:

A pair of Tongs

A bowl of boiling water - we found that using the bowl from a slow cooker works well and if you are making a lot you can plug in your slow cooker to keep the water hot while you make them all.

Hot glue gun

Some spare fabric trims and feathers

How to make:

These egg decorations are so simple to make. Choose the design of foil wrap you want from your sheet and tear away gently along the perforated lines. Then take an egg and hold the foil wrap around it using your tongs. Dip the egg in the boiling water, keeping hold of it with your tongs, within seconds you will see the wrap adhere to the egg. And that's it!

After that you can decorate the eggs how you please! To attach the tassels you will need to use a hot glue gun. Also if you want to add a hanger to the top you will need to use a hot glue gun to attach some thread.

Alternative Supplies:

If you would prefer to order supplies more locally you can easily source some white plastic eggs on Google which list many alternative sellers. For the foil wraps, Hochanda sell an alternative set by La Blanche which you can easily cut to fit the size of your eggs.

For another idea of how to use these plastic eggs stay tuned for our next blog post...

Easter Crafting Inspiration Series

We have finally got round to launching a Easter Crafting inspiration series on the blog. Lately we have been creating some Easter projects to celebrate the season. Initially these were meant for our Easter workshops, however with the current situation in the UK we thought we would share these a bit earlier and inspire you to get crafting for Easter because who knows when our next workshops will be......

So if you need a bit of inspiration to get you in the crafting mood stay tuned to our blog over the next week for some Easter project posts. We will try to include as much detail as possible and also where you might be able to get the supplies and tools you need. However where this is not possible we will try and list some alternatives.

Stay safe, stay indoors and enjoy this time at home with your crafting supplies!