Besides being super useful, re-purposed items can become even better than they were before. And being environmentally friendly doesn’t hurt either.

To help inspire you and get you started, we’ve up-cycled one of our Christmas projects. We originally made this faux marble deer head back in November and the first step here is to make it too – that is if you haven’t done it already! Find the instructions here.

Finished? Great! Onto the next steps for a brand new faux deer head …

All you’ll need for this transformation is a glue gun and an assortment of flowers.

Decide on your layout and then start gluing the flowers into place.

And that’s all it takes! With the flowers, this newly flowered deer head is ideal for bedrooms and nurseries but could really fit in anywhere.

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DIY Flower Heart New Baby

What You’ll Need:

– A wood plaque or a canvas
– Lavender acrylic paint
– A white paint pen
– Paper flowers
– Pearl beads
– Yarn
– White tulle
– Hot glue gun and sticks

Firstly, paint your plaque or canvas solid lavender (or other colour of your choice). Let dry.

Secondly, use the paint pen to write your message on the bottom of the sign and let dry.

Cut a length of tulle, enough to cover the front of your sign and a little more so it will wrap around the back. Glue the tulle onto the back of the board
to secure.

Start gluing the paper flowers onto the middle of the sign. Keep adding flowers to make a heart shape.

Add the pearl beads to the centre of each of the paper flowers.

Finally, tie a length of yarn around the top of the sign to finish it off.

We hope you liked this DIY Flower Heart New Baby and it helps you with your shower decor planning or gift giving! Remember to share your results with us

Planning a baby shower?  Certainly, check out this Easy Breezy Garland for a tropical themed shower or our Yarn and Cat Mobile!

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Adorable Cat and Yarn Mobile

What You’ll Need:

– Embroidery hoop or metal ring
– Felt sheets in grey, dark grey, pink, white and black
– Embroidery thread in light grey, dark grey and black
– Embroidery needle
– Yarn in pink, blue and multi-colour
– Tiny Styrofoam balls
– Hot glue gun and sticks
– Scissors
– Template – get it here

Firstly, wrap the small Styrofoam balls in yarn. Start by holding one end of the yarn against the ball and wrapping the yarn around it, to hold the end in place. Continue wrapping in different directions until the whole ball in covered.

Secondly, loop the tail end of the yarn under one of the previous loops (a darning needle can come in handy here if you are having trouble lifting a loop). Tie a knot where you have looped the yarn and leave a long tail attached to the ball for hanging later. Repeat until you have four tiny balls of yarn.

Trace the front and back cat templates out onto dark grey felt and cut out the shapes.Cut out two small triangle of pink felt for the ears and glue them onto the back cat shape.

Trace and cut out the belly template from some light grey felt.

Cute Kitty Smiles!

Cut out a small pink triangle to make the cats nose. Glue the nose into place, on the top edge of the tummy piece. Embroider a mouth under the nose.

Glue the tummy piece to the front of the cat, only use glue around the outside of the tummy piece, don’t put any glue in the centre or you won’t be able to stitch on the mouth. Use some of the black embroidery thread to sew on some whiskers.

Cut out two small circles of black felt for the cat’s eyes. You may want to use something like the end of a marker to trace the circle before cutting. Use the light grey embroidery thread to make some highlights in the eyes. Loop the thread three or four times very close together to make the larger dot and only once for the smaller one. Glue the eyes into place.

At the top of the cats head, glue a long length of yarn, sandwiched between the two layers. This is how the cat will hang from the mobile. Add a small circle of light grey felt to the front and back of the tip of the cat’s tail with glue.

Glue the front of the cat to the back; be sure to only put glue on the inside of this piece, so that you can stitch around the outside. You don’t need much glue here, it’s only to hold in place while you’re stitching. Use the dark grey thread to add a blanket stitch all the way around the cat. At the tail and ears, only go through the top piece for the blanket stitch instead of putting it through both layers.

Almost Finished This Adorable Mobile

Make four little cats, either all the same or in any design you like.

Tie the string from each cat and tiny yarn ball to the hoop. Simply tie a couple of knots and cut off the excess string. Try to tie each piece at a different level.

Finally, cut three long pieces of yarn to hang the mobile with. Tie each piece to the hoop and then hold the mobile up and level it by pulling each string higher or lower. When you are happy with the length, tie all three strings together into a knot and then again to form a loop.

Finished! A project that takes some time but one you will fall in love with.

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