More crafty things...

I saw this idea at the craft store. They used a pre treated board and it had the clips already on it, but it was a little spendy, so I looked around for something different. 

Then I remembered that I had this wooden serving tray at home already! I still needed the clips though...then I found the flowers and clothes pins at Michaels in their cheap, matchy-matchy bins. There was a sheep of flowers with a pattern and then the clothes pins jumped out at me and I thought, clothes pins will totally work! So I put it all together and here's the final product!

I can't wait to get some herbs going in the garden!

Then I painted my wooden tulips.

I got a few at the tulip festival and a couple at Michaels. They had pre-painted options but the colors were just a bit off from my tastes, so I opted for plain wood and I used cheap acrylic paint from the store to make them colors more to my liking. Love them!

The bunny, the bunny, mmmm, I love the bunny!

This is a knock off of a scrapbook page I made eons ago. I decided to make an Easter wall hanging. The back is a great turquoise blue, to represent the sky. It's about 20x20ish. 

Then, I just started cutting pieces for the body, the ears, the inside of the ears, and the tummy. I just ball parked it, but you could pre-draw patterns if you weren't sure how big to make them. I would do that on wax paper and get a general idea of the lay of the land. I used greens and yellows for the boy bunny and pinks and turquoise for the girl. 

Here's what that looks like half-way through.

At this point, you use wonder under or heat and bond to adhere all the pieces to the background fabric. Then I machine stitched  around the edges (fast appliqué). 

Once you have that, you can start to add embellishments! I added buttons for the eyes and nose, as well as the boy's shirt. I made a string of  beads for the girl. I made a bow-tie for the boy and a hair bow for the girl.

Then you can stitch in little details like mouth lines, ear accent lines, etc.

Then I added the outside border. This helps fasten the bunnies down.

Afterward, I decided to add a strip of fabric that was scrunched up in order to make it look like grass.

Fin!

Here's my month block, too!