by a Guest Author
You don’t have to go to a lot of trouble to make Easter craft projects with your kids or to decorate your home, if you know this simple trick: free vintage Easter clip art or vintage Easter cards can make the basis for great crafts! By using these classic images, even kids can make simple but impressive three-dimensional craft projects you’ll be proud to display. Here are the supplies you’ll need to make the project:
- Vintage Easter images
- Card stock
- Color printer
- Manicure scissors
- Foam adhesive stickers
- Ribbon or a small table easel
- Glitter glue (optional)
Your Easter craft project begins by selecting one or more vintage Easter images suitable for wall hangings. That means the images should be large enough to print at a decent size and still look good. If the image is too small or doesn’t have enough resolution, it will either be blurry or be pixelated. You can test the viability of an image very easily by just putting it into a Word document, sizing it and printing it. If it doesn’t look good at a large size, you can either search for another image or just scale down the project size and make a table decoration instead of a wall hanging.
Once you choose your image and size it, print three to four copies of it on card stock. This will give you one base copy and two or three copies to cut apart to make a 3D look. Now, find areas within the image that can be cut apart with the manicure scissors and layered in the exact same location over the base copy, using the foam adhesive stickers as risers. This will form the first layer of the three-dimensional art. When you choose the areas to cut out for the first layer, try to choose a few that also have even smaller areas within them that could be cut out of the remaining sheets for a second layer. Cut these out and attach them with the foam risers too. Once completed, decide whether you would like to leave the overall image intact on the card stock or cut around its shape with the manicure scissors. If the outside edges of the image are detailed, you probably shouldn’t cut it out — especially if children are doing the project. If the project will be used as a table decoration, you can cut the edges of the paper down to a smaller size with a paper cutter.
You can make your final artwork sparkle by using a little glitter glue to enhance it. But don’t use too much; that will make the paper buckle and also may look tacky.
If your project is large and will be used for a wall hanging, punch a hole at the top and run a ribbon through it to use for hanging. If it will be used as a table decoration, place it on the table easel. It’s as easy as that!
I hope you have fun making this Easter craft project and that you have a great holiday!
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