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Easter Garden

Today my project is being featured on Inspirations – my first post for the blog. When I got my date for Inspirations I thought it was quite near Easter and tried to come up with an Easter craft.   There are so many Christmas crafts but not so many for Easter it seems… We used to make Easter gardens at Sunday school and youth group; I always enjoyed making them and thought I’d revive my love  but with a ‘ribbony’ twist.     I started with a piece of polystyrene cut to a rectangle.   I glued a couple more bits of polystyrene together for the hill and carved it to shape with my craft knife.   Then I took a thicker piece of polystyrene and carved it in to a tomb.   My tomb stone is a vintage button from my Grandma’s button box. To make button gravel: Put 2 or 3 buttons in a zip lock bag cover entirely with kitchen roll (make an envelope like shape so no small pieces escape and cause injury!) Place on a ...

WOYWW 197

So this is what is on my desk today for WOYWW ! Hopefully these photos explain last Wednesdays polystyrene...     I sculpted an Easter garden.  You can go to this post if you would like to find out more... Also on my desk is this washi birthday card... Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to join in the biggest desk hop over at Julia's - seriously I think it gets bigger every week!