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March 21, 2018 by Sydney 1 Comment

Rustic Burlap Bunny Garland with The Cricut Maker

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See how easy it is to make this cute Rustic Bunny Garland with your Cricut Maker. It’s the perfect way to add a pop of color and rustic style to your Easter decor.


Today is the day for our Create with Cricut Challenge! Every month I team up with a group of super talented bloggers and we all use the same material to make something with our Cricut machines. This month’s challenge was burlap and I’m not going to lie I was stumped on what to make at first.

That was until I realized we had absolutely no Easter decorations up yet. That’s when I knew I wanted to go with an Easter theme. When I was at Hobby Lobby picking up some fabric for another project (which I can’t wait to show you) I saw these colored burlap ribbons. They were 5.5″ x 15′ and I knew they would be perfect to cut Easter bunnies out of.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

I also picked up this Yarnology Pom Pom Maker and you guys this thing is seriously awesome! I’ll do a video soon showing you how to use it but it makes making yarn pom poms SO easy! Thanks to my sweet friend Jenn from Housewives of Riverton for the recommendation!Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

As I cut these bunnies out with my Cricut Maker, which cuts through burlap like butter, it’s seriously awesome to watch, I learned a few things. First, it’s best to clean your mat of all leftover burlap in between cuts. I didn’t do this with the orange bunnies and some of their ears and feet got unraveled. Secondly, it’s best to not use the cheapest burlap you can find when cutting shapes like this. It tends to unravel easily. I bought two different types of burlap ribbon and the more expensive of the two (the blue color) definitely stayed together better.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

With that being said these were still super easy to make and the only thing that took more than 5 minutes was making the bunny tail pom poms. It took about 3-4 minute per tail so it’s a great craft to do while catching up on your favorite Netflix show! Let me show you how to put this fun garland together!

SUPPLIES:

If you’re ordering supplies from Cricut.com, make sure to use promo code TFRUGAL to get 10% off and score FREE shipping!

Bunny SVG (I got this one off Etsy for $1)

Burlap Ribbon

Twine

Yarn

Yarnology Pom Pom Maker

Scissors

Spatula Tool

Hot Glue Gun (this is the one I have)

Cricut Maker

StrongGrip (purple) Mat

DIRECTIONS

Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Open up your Cricut Design Space and upload your bunny SVG.

Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

If you are using burlap ribbon that’s 5.5″ wide, size your bunny to 5″ tall. Duplicate the bunny and move your second bunny right below the first bunny and attach.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Duplicate the two bunnies and move them to right past the 6″ mark on the horizontal axis. Attach all 4 bunnies. This makes it easy to put two strips of the burlap ribbon on your mat and cut them all at once.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Duplicate your set of 4 bunnies two more times and change the color so they cut on a new mat.

Send to your Cricut and cut. You’ll want to change the material to burlap and use the rotary blade to cut these bunnies.

Carefully remove the burlap from the mat with your spatula tool.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Use the Yarnology Pom Pom Maker to make the bunny tails.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Attach bunny tails to your burlap bunny with a hot glue gun.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Attach your bunny to the garland with a hot glue gun.Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

And that’s it – easy peasy right?! I love how this garland turned out and my kids love it too!

If you’d like to check out more ways you can use your Cricut check out these posts! Need help with your Cricut? Join our Cricut Support Facebook Group!Make this felt heart garland in less than 30 minutes and for ONLY $1

 

Want to check out what other projects you can make out of a cereal box with your Cricut?! Check out what some of my super talented friends did with their Cricuts below.

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Make this fun Easter Garland in less than an hour with your Cricut Maker

Filed Under: Crafts, Cricut, Most Popular Tagged With: Bunny, Burlap, Cricut, Cricut Maker, Easter, Garland, Rustic

November 2, 2015 by Sydney 6 Comments

DIY Rustic Ornament

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Make this rustic looking Christmas ornament for less than $5 and check out the 2015 Ornament Exchange.

DIY Rustic Ornament | Tastefully Frugal

Yes I know it’s only the second day in November but I am so excited for Christmas I couldn’t wait to start sharing some of the fun and frugal Christmas decorations I am creating this year. I’m also excited to tell you about the Ornament Exchange hosted by Erlene at My Pinterventures. Over 80 bloggers have gotten together to create and exchange ornaments this holiday season. I got teamed up with one of my new favorite bloggers, Emily from Our House Now A Home, and couldn’t wait to make something special for her and her family. Emily is getting a sneak peak of her ornament today because I dropped the ball (but not the ornament 😉 ) and am just shipping it today.

DIY Rustic Ornament | Tastefully Frugal

To keep with Emily’s overall theme of traditional Christmas colors and incorporating nature I knew I wanted to include pine cones somehow. I didn’t know what else I wanted to add but knew I wanted pine cones. So I headed to the one place my creativity blooms the most, Michael’s. I found a pack of pine cones and cinnamon sticks. Some of the pine cones were painted gold and there were also green and red balls in the pack. Not only was this EXACTLY what I was looking for but it was also 50% off too making it only $2.50! I picked up a Clear Plastic Ornament too and headed home to put together my ornament. The only other thing you’ll need is ribbon to hang your ornament.

DIY Rustic Ornament | Tastefully Frugal

To make: Fill the ornament with as many pine cones, cinnamon sticks and decorative balls as possible and close. Tie a ribbon to the top and you’re done. I added a B to the ornament (Emily’s last initial) using my Cameo too. All in all it took less than 5 minutes to put this ornament together and it turned out better than I could have imagined. Plus it made my house smell amazing too. If you have little ones around I would definitely recommend sealing the ornament with super glue (don’t worry Emily I already did that for you) to keep your contents from being spilled out twenty billion times a day. No exaggeration there by the way. I made one of these for our house too and it has been opened at least that many times in the last three days. 

DIY Rustic Ornament | Tastefully Frugal

Do you have a color or theme for your holiday decorating? I’d love to hear about it! And don’t forget to check out the other ornaments these crafty ladies made:

DIY Adulation

The Farmhouse In The Field

My Sweet Things

Christmas Tree Lane

Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: Christmas, Decorating, Holidays, Ornament, Ornament Exchange, Rustic

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I’m Sydney, the creator here at Tastefully Frugal. I’m a mom to two crazy little boys and one little princess and married to the best guy around. My goal is to help you do more with the money you have. From recipes to meal plans, crafts to organization tips and more!

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