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St. Patrick's Day Pot Of Gold

  Found this Great St. Patty's Day Craft on the 36th Avenue.   Materials: Mini terracotta pot Black acrylic pain Sponge brush Mod Podge Gold glitter Shamrock sticker or vinyl cut out Rolo candies to fill Step 1: Begin by painting your terracotta pots with the black acrylic paint. It took two coats to cover. Step 2: Once dry, apply a thin layer of Mod Podge along the inside of the lip. {I use sparkle Mod Podge when crafting with glitter!} Sprinkle with gold glitter.   More directions here!

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DIY St. Patrick's Day Free Printable Banners

  Found this great DIY Printable and Craft on Elle Claire Inspired!   I designed 3 fun free printable banners for you for St. Patrick’s Day using fun graphics from our sponsor, GraphicStock.com. I hope you love them! The 3 banners include patterned pennants, gold “lucky” banner, and a shamrock banner. I will have all of the links to download the free printables together below. I used my paper cutter to cut out all of the long straight edges of my flags and it saved me SO much time. I can’t ever seem to cut in a straight line, so it saved my sanity too. I sprayed each of the gold flags with a glitter spray that I will link below with the...

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St. Patrick's Day Shadow Box

Found this great St. Patrick's Day craft on Houseful of Handmade.   What’s more fun then awesome decorations? Awesome decorations that are also entertainment! I decided to hide one 4 leaf clover in the shadow box full of 3 leaf clovers. Now when we are bored, we try to find the lucky clover. It’s the perfect start to my spring mantle. I can’t wait to make some more spring decor since it’s too cold to go outside and garden. I made this simple shadow box out of a 1×2 and 2 8×10 Polystyrene sheets. It cost me a total of $7.50 since I already had some finishing nails and wood glue on hand. I found a beautiful piece of blue tinted wood...

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Melted Crayon Hearts

  Found this fun craft on Mom Luck.   Materials: Assorted broken crayons Silicone Mold (found at Walmart, target, etc...) How to Make: 1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. 2. Unwrap your crayons, making sure you get all of the paper off. If your making a solid color crayon separate your colors into piles. If not you can just make one big pile. 3. Next break or cut the crayons into small pieces. The smaller the pieces the quicker they will melt. 4. Now place these crayons into the mold and fill up about 3/4, depending on how big of crayon you want. The rest of the instructions are here.  

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Valentine's Day Posh Chandelier

  Found this fun DIY on The House that Lars Built.   Materials: scrapbook paper in shades of pinks and reds baker’s twine in pink and white paper straws in pinks and reds wreath form 18″ yarn in ice blue and turquoise scissors glue gun hold punch Heart punch To make the top part of the chandelier: Take the wreath form and string a 4′ yarn through each hole and tie securely. Cut the straws into 3″ parts. I used 16 pieces per strand and 8 strands for a total of 128. Cut the same amount of hearts with your heart punch. Hole punch the center of each heart. String each yearn starting with a straw and..... The rest is...

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