Easter Theme WYLTC

It's time for Wood You Like To Craft!
This month's theme is A Christ Centered Easter.
Krystal started us all off with her adorable 12 Days of Easter Advent Calendar

It turned out so great!
Come on over and see how we put together our version of an Easter Countdown....and yes, it involves bunnies!

Bunny Silhouettes WYLTC

This month we are hosting Wood You Like To Craft

and of course we had to do something Easter/Spring related!

We drew our inspiration from some fun 

weather vane type accessories we've seen from Target and Pottery Barn.

We found this great rabbit graphic from The Graphics Fairy.

It was the perfect shape for what we had in mind.
We blew it up to be about 21" wide
and cut it out of 1" pine.

We then gathered our other supplies:
1 7" section of 3/8" dowel
1 chunky table leg from Home Depot
1 cedar fence cap

1 2 3/4" square cut from 1" pine scraps

You can really use anything to build up your base.

Candace used some scraps from her garage and

a ball finial from her son's bunk beds~it's been used

as a weapon being thrown around for a while

so she figured this was a better use for it!;)

After drilling the holes into the bunny and the table leg,
we glued everything together with Gorilla wood glue.
Once dry we stained everything with a coat of stain.
I used Min wax Dark Mahogany Wood Stain,

 and Candace used watered down, dark burnt umber acrylic paint.

When it had dried we tried 2 different paint approaches.

I used some cream acrylic paint that was watered down

to a 50/50 consistency, applying a generous coat.
After letting it sit for a few minutes, it was wiped away with paper towel.
This made the grain of the wood pop through and gave the bunny
a nice translucent weathered warm grey look.

Candace applied some furniture wax to her bunny before

she coated it with a thick coat of cream paint.
The wax allowed the brown stain to peek through quite nicely
when she lightly sanded it.

We always love playing around with paint and trying new things out!
Most of all we love playing around with silhouettes!
We're thinking we might have a whole week dedicated to
all things Silhouette.....
We'll see!
Can't wait to see what Krystal, Melinda and Wendy have
coming up in the next few days!

Mae's Closet Winners!

We're finally announcing the winners

for our wonderful Mae's Closet giveaway!

Don't these bunnies make you want to pull out all your Easter decorations!

Elizabeth was kind enough to offer 2 bunnies to give away and our winners are~

Cary M.

&

Lyndsey

Congratulations gals!

Thanks so much Elizabeth!

And The Winner IS!!!!!!!!

One of our Fabulous Readers SUE!!!

We couldn't figure out how to get the computer random draw thingy to work

so we did it the old fashion way.

I found out my paper cutter needs a new blade....

Plus my little girl felt really special being the "official" drawerer....is that a word?

Here are all the entries....

She dives in for the winner, I told her to really dig around...

                Here she pulls the winner out and starts complaining about having to do this out in the cold and was worried the wind was going to blow the papers away....:)

Here is Sue's entry...We are so glad that you love the bunnies Sue, they are now yours to enjoy!

Thank you to everyone that entered!

It was really fun to watch and to hear so many kind words sent our way!

It was so fun we're going to have to do this on a regular basis!

THANK YOU!!!!!

p.s. Sue we need your contact info so we can pop these babies in the mail heading your way!

Just send us an email craftysistersnc@gmail.com!

Our First Official Giveaway!!!

Who doesn't love getting something for free?
We want to give a little back to all the wonderful readers of our blog!

(and hey, add to your Spring/Easter decorations too!)
Nicole made up these cute Bunnies this last week
and we just had to share some with you!

We have loved sharing our fun projects
and want to send out a Big
THANK YOU
 for all the nice comments and emails!

We love hearing from you!
So all you need to do to enter
is leave us a comment!

You have until Thursday night to enter our giveaway,
 and then one one lucky person will randomly be drawn to win!

Easter is almost here...and we have some more "egg"-cellent ideas coming soon!
Stay tuned! :)