DIY St. Patrick's Day Centerpiece

DIY on a Dollar Store Budget

Thank you for joining me for the St. Patrick’s Day Blog Hop! 

I’ve joined the team of 16 talented bloggers to share St. Patrick’s Day crafts. We were given a budget of no more than $10 and challenged to craft a creation using items from the dollar store or the dollar section of other local stores.

I chose 8 dollar store items to make a St. Patrick's Day Centerpiece.

• 1 felt hat
• 1 package of two round floral foam
• 4 green tipped white carnation bunches
• 1 green carnation bunch
• 1 package of 12 foam shamrocks (contains 6 glittered and 6 plain green) but I only used the 6 glittered

And...

• Some hot glue and glue gun
• Wire cutters
• 4 pennies

1. To make the hat bouquet, I started by gluing on a glittered foam shamrock on each side of the hat. (off centered to the right on each side) 

2. Then inserted the floral foam; snugged tightly into the hat.

3. Using wire cutters, snipped off each individual flower about 4" to 5".

4. Inserted all of the flowers into the foam to create a tight bouquet.

1. To make the penny shamrock picks, I glued pennies onto 4 of the glittered shamrocks.

2. Using 2 of the leftover wire stems from the flower bunches, I cut off the straggly stem parts to make a long straight stem and glued it onto the back of 2 of the shamrocks.

3. Then "sandwiched" each shamrock with hot glue to have it the same on each side of the pick.

4. Finally, inserted them into the carnation bouquet. 

I think to glam it up for the table, I'll add some of those gold foil covered chocolate coins... sitting in the flowers. Just for a little dessert fun; after St. Patrick's Day dinner! 

What do you think for $8.00 (... and four cents!)

Kinda' cute!!! 

Let’s meet all of the crafty bloggers...

and check out the rest of the budget crafts! 

Megan at C’mon Get Crafty

Erlene at My Pinterventures

Victoria at Dazzle While Frazzled

Kim at Made in a Day

Lyn at MidMichiganMom

Robin at Redo It Yourself Inspirations

Karen at Garden Chick

Marie at DIY Adulation

Terri at Our Good Life

Sherry at Olives-N-Okra

Raquel at Organized Island

Michelle at Our Crafty Mom

Betsy at Happily Ever After, Etc

Tammy at One More Time

Molly at Just a Little Creativity

Rebekah at Crayons in My Camera Bag

Do you have a budget friendly St. Patrick’s Day craft to share? Link up your project below and be seen on all 16 blogs. Thank you for stopping by!

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St. Patrick's Day Placemats

I was so excited to get stencils from The Crafter's Workshop and discover this shamrock! 

The title of it is actually  "Happy Clover Fragment".  It's so delicate and beautiful that I needed to use it right away for the upcoming holiday! 

#TCW2071

Dashing to my linen storage, I pulled out these green dollar store place mats to prepare them for the stencil. 

I removed the beads to add this gold bias tape on the edges with Speed-Sew glue.
(No sewing! Love that!)

When the glue dried I applied Easy Tack to the stencil so it would stick to the fabric. 

I chose to use gold glitter glue to sponge through the stencil. 

Then applied a light layer of gold acrylic paint. 

I placed the stencil fragment randomly in all four of the corners.

This little creative craft went very quickly and easily! 

Now these plain old ugly place mats are ready for our St. Patrick's Day table! 

I love this stencil!!!
It's soooo cute! 

I still have time to use it on some napkins too.

St. Patrick's Day Door Hanger - Wall Plaque

I picked up this cardboard Celtic Cross at the Dollar Tree Store. I thought it was very pretty but not hefty enough for the front door.

Since it's cardboard recycle and re-purposing month over at Creative Craft Challenge, I decided to use these Valentine hearts to create a large clover to add to the cross.

To cover the Valentines and make them green, I considered painting, or gluing some paper, or fabrics, ribbons; anything as long as it was green.  I remembered having some greenery stashed from Christmas decorating, so I grabbed them. Having the idea to cut the leaves and decoupage them onto the hearts, aha! Clovers are leaves and so are these! Perfect color and texture. Green floral tape was another idea, but I didn't have enough to cover all three hearts.

I found it was best to apply the glue right on the back of the leaves to adhere well.

To start the project, I cut the leaves into individual pieces and glued them onto the edge of the hearts. Overlapping to fold over the sides for good coverage. 

Once I covered the hearts with leaves, I painted on Mod Podge over the entire surface and the overlapped sides.

Once the leaves were dried on, I used the green floral tape to cover the sides of the hearts. It was best to start it with a staple to hold it in place.

Using glue and wrapping on the green tape,

it covered nicely.

Then I covered the tape wrapping with Mod Podge. 

After it dried, I super glued the points of the hearts together.

Then super glued the cross centered over the glued hearts.

My cordless drill was the perfect size and weight to hold the work together while it dried.

Then, I stapled on the ribbon, that was originally on the cross, to the top of the newly created clover.

The bottom of the cross is now the stem. A Shamrock is born!

A nice large Trinity decoration is made and it's as solid as a Blarney stone!

And, it fits the door window perfectly!

Between the one dollar for the cross and the items on hand, this door hanger cost was ...

only $1.00...!

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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