Doodlebug Fairy Garden Birdhouse Project!

Hellloooooo friends and fellow crafty mamas! How are you doing this week? Did you have a nice Easter? Our Easter was amazing! Mostly because we were able to attend all the church services and get out in the fresh air and bask in the beauty that is this time of year. I'm so grateful! Now, it's April already and this year is going to fly on by I think! Today is my design team day to post on the Doodlebug Blog and of course share my project here too! CLICK HERE to head over to the Doodlebug Blog and leave some love! 

I'm doing my first project with the brand new Fairy Garden Collection. OMG I squeeeeeeed when I opened the box! It's adorable and fun and beautiful of course…. Little fairies, mushrooms, bugs, and tons of bright paper!!! I had purchased this cool wood plain birdhouse at Hobby Lobby a while back just knowing the right idea would come to me…and here it is! I decided to decorate the birdhouse using papers, stickers, die cuts and more from Doodlebug. I just love how it came out! It's on display in our family room. I hope you'll try this project – it was so much fun.

Here is the front of the birdhouse…

 

And this is the back of the birdhouse….

 

And the top down view!

 

This is what the plain birdhouse looked like. I bought Mod Podge Thinking I would cover the papers… But I only ended up using it as the glue to attach the paper. I liked the way the paper was without covering it. So you can use liquid glue, tape or Mod Podge! Whatever you have on hand.

 

Our new Target has a craft area that has these cool pots of acrylic paints. I found the perfect shade of blue and painted the parts of the birdhouse that would show. I used four or five coats of paint for a nice thick finish. It dries really fast. You can use any type of acrylic paint.

 

This was the most time consuming part of the project – the roof! I wanted cute shingles…. So I die cut ten scallop strips for each side and layered them onto the roof line! Came out exactly how I was hoping! I first cut a piece of 12 x 12 paper in half. Then I cut one inch strips. So each piece was 1" x 6". The I used the scallop die cut to cut the strips. 

Parts of my process…. To make the shabby chic flowers I used the Doodlebug Flower Dies. They come already cut! I sprayed them with water and crumpled them in my hands. I set them aside to dry. After they were dry, I glued them together using liquid glue and then splattered them with white paint. I added Glitter Sprinkles for the centers.

 

 

 

The little fence is PERFECT for the front of the birdhouse. It's from TE and you can find it HERE. I layered three dies together to make the fence thick and so I could glue it down. I added the welcome sign and then put on some bugs and birds and mushrooms!! The 'hello sunshine' is a word sticker from the 12 x 12 sticker sheet.

 

For the back of the birdhouse I added a big round sticker over the floral paper. Then I created a sweet banner to go across the back  -  held up by two sweet butterflies.

 

I hot glued the flowers to the top and corner of the birdhouse and added the leaves in.

 

I die cut a circle into a larger scallop circle die to make the green part for the front. I added a tweet sweet little birdie too.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today to see my latest Doodlebug project. I am having the best time designing for Doodlebug. I hope my love and enthusiasm shines through. Truly one of my favorite companies for twenty years. I feel so blessed to work with them! My next project will be in two weeks! Hmmmmm. What should I make? Any ideas? Drop me a note in the comments! XOXO

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