DIY: Recycled Plastic Egg Flower Painting

DIY:

Recycled Plastic Egg Flower Painting 

WARNING: Extremely Easy Project!

 Today's DIY will show you how to make a beautiful flower painting out of those plastic eggs that get hoarded after Easter every year.  I am in love with how posh and anthropology looking this is. I painted mine onto fabric to make into a pillow but you could add this to a canvas or even directly onto a wall.  

SUPPLIES:

• Something to paint (I did a pillow) 
• Toilet paper roll 
• Plastic egg 
• Paint (your choice of colors)

Ideas other than a pillow to paint:

• On canvas 
• A wall 
• flower pot 
• t-shirt 

Lets begin... 

Step One:

Make petals 

Just flatten your toilet paper tube down and than cut a strait line than open it up and you now have the perfect shape for a petal. 

Step 1/2: 
Open egg

This will be the center of your flower you can use either side of the egg it wont make a difference as long as it is round.



Step Two:
Dip into paint

Step Three: 

Press firmly 

First put down your circle than add as many petals as you want all the way around. 

All done! 

I added stuffing and made it into a pillow than put it into an Easter basket this year. What are you guys going to do with your recycled egg paintings? 

If you do this project or get inspiration for one like it I would love to see a picture of it so tag me on instagram in a picture of it @DIYNATION7797

Basket of Sunshine

Hey guys! I just want to show you a gift I gave out to one of my best friends. ITS A BASKET OF SUNSHINE! If you love pinterest as much as I do you might have noticed the boxes of sunshine people send out and I just adored them so I decided to make my own for Britt.  If you have a friend with a bubbly wonderful happy personality this is most definitely a good ideal gift for them.  

Maybe this will help give you some ideas on what to put in your own sunshine gift basket. 

So I suppose I should show you the content?

This is a handmade pillow by me! I made the fabric myself and I will be posting a DIY on how to do this yourself right away.  

Thrifted yellow and white striped cardigan

Body wash and Scrubbie

Adorable little bee plates!

Lemonade... its getting warmer out so its perfect!

Paintable wall hanger

A lot of the items are bee related because Brittanys "thing" is Beeeee bold! She used it as her campaign slogan to run for a state FBLA office and I think it works rather well for her. 

Bee sharpie mug! 

If you guys haven't tried the sharpie mug DIY'S yet you sooo need to they are adorable. 

Yellow beauty products 

Here was the back of the basket with my terrible paint job ... I am not much of an artist as you can tell

If you came up with any really cute DIY gifts for anybody I would love to hear about them and if you have a picture of it tag me in the picture on instagram @DIYNATION7797

Quickie DIY: T-shirt pillow (no sew)

Quickie DIY:

T-shirt Pillows 

There are tons of t-shirt DIY'S out there it is almost impossible to come up with your own idea anymore but I do have a DIY for you guys today. 

 I actually made my first version of this back in like the 7th grade so I like to think this is an original idea because I did it before pinterest and such.

The skill level of this DIY is basically none.  It would be great to do with the kids or team bonding or something because it is so easy. These pillows are great for t-shirts that are just two small anymore but you don't want to throw them away.  I think t-shirts are connected to some nerve in our hearts that wont allow us to part with our old warn tee's 

-Also keep in touch with me for a DIY on what to do with the extra t-shirt scraps from this project will be up soon :)

Its basically one of those oh so popular tie blankets but instead it is a pillow out of t-shirt... and its spherical... SPHERICAL!

My generation would understand that line^

I am going to show you a DIY that allows you to never have to get rid of those priceless gems of a t-shirt.  

Supplies: 

• t-shirt of choice 
• stuffing 
• ruler/tape measure
• scissors/rotary cutter
• large circle 

First step- Take your round object and trace it around the part of the t-shirt you would like to keep like the logo

I used an old vinyl record I had some other things that you could use are maybe big bowls from your kitchen.  You can also free hand this if you wanted to.  I just used chalk to trace my circle.  

The bigger the circle you use the bigger your pillow will be. 

Step two- make another circle on the outside of your first circle about two inches away

Just go the distance all the way around the circle and make dots and lines, than later you can go through and connect them all to make the outside circle 

This is what will show you how long your strips need to be.

This is what it should look like when you are completely done 

If you look my circle is big and it goes up into the neckline. Do not worry about it if you do this just make sure there is at least an inch of fabric you will be able to tie instead of 2 inches.  You can simply just stretch the strings out when you get ready to tie them and they will work just fine.  

Step three- cut out your circle 

Make sure you are cutting out your outside circle and not your inside. 

This is what it should look like once you have cut it.  If the edges don't perfectly match up don't worry about it as long as they are close you will be fine.

Make sure you do not try to pull apart your circles if you do you will never get them aligned properly and the cutting and tying part will be a disaster.  

Step four- Cut your strips 

(yes I know the dog hair is everywhere)

Cut your strips about a half inch to an inch apart from the outside circle to the inside circle. It is not a big deal if they are not exactly the same size but do not make them to big or they will be very hard to tie and do not make them to thin because they will break as you are trying to tie them.  

This is what it should look like when it is all done. 

Step Five- Begin tying the two sides together 

Make sure the pieces you are tying together are across from each other.  Do not criss-cross or skip because than you will have a mess.  If you by accident do skip or something happens its not a big deal as long as the other strings around it match up correctly.  

Make sure you Double Knot  the strings 

This is what it should look like when you have tied all the way around but it is important you leave an opening that you haven't tied so you can add the stuffing.  

Step six- Time to stuff! 

Stuff your pillow to the desired hardness 

Step seven- Tie it off 

All you have left is to tie it closed and you are all done! 

The pillow on the right is the one I did back in the day.  It was the t-shirt from the first concert I ever went two.  (The Jonas Brothers) Who is still an amazing band by the way... 

I kind of wish I kept that t-shirt but I got older and thought I was to cool for that .I was even to cool to save Nick Jonas's face? Well its still a cute pillow so I will live :) 

If you do this DIY I would love to see it on instagram @DIYNATION7797