D.I.Y. Mossy Holiday Display
Hello lovelies! I hope you all had a great weekend. Today for our 18 Days Series we have a wonderful project put together by Cori of Cori Kindred. Here's more from Cori on the simple how-tos for creating this fun Holiday decoration:
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This little holiday display has pretty much everything I love in it: lush moss, a pretty vintage dish, lovely vintage paper and a tiny little fawn. Plus it's super easy and ridiculously cute!
Here's what you'll need:
- A bowl or dish
- Small block of floral foam
- Knife
- Glue (I like to use clear caulk)
- Scissors
- Moss (I used supermoss preserved sheet moss purchased at joann fabrics)
- Wire or toothpick
- Label (vintage or handmade)
- Little animal (I have vintage fawns for sale in my mushroom & moss vintage etsy shop)
Step 1: cut a block of floral foam that goes just a little bit higher than the dish you're using:
Step 2: cut down the edges and cut little wedges to fill in the gaps. glue foam pieces together and to the dish:
Step 3: cut out a square of moss a little bigger than your dish. apply glue to the top of the foam. while pressing the moss to the foam cut the moss a tiny bit smaller than the dish, and press down. fill in any gaps with little pieces of moss:
Step 4: type or write on your label, and glue to the wire. insert it into the moss and add your tiny animal. yay! so cute:
Thank you so much for sharing this adorable project with us Cori! You can see more from Cori on her:
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D.I.Y. + Projects, Holiday Inspiration/Projects, Tutorials | Monday, December 14, 2009 
Reader Comments (13)
totally adorable!!!! thanks, cori! :) joannaxoxo
Adorable! I love her and her shop and this little deer is the sweetest thing ever! :)
xo
Melis
Very cute!!
this is so cute ... I have everything on hand reach and I will make it very soon . merci so much for sharing.
sabine
this is adorable!
So, so cute - and it looks easy-peasy, too!
Such a cute idea!!
I love it. What a wonderful idea. If only I had the time to do something other than complete presents for the holidays! I just realized this evening that I was putting off a present for a friend that's Jewish, but I'm almost out of time and only have 4 days to finish!!!
Cori, this has to be the cutest xmas idea I've seen! I need to go find a tiny deer right now! Thanks for this!
nancy x
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Cori, you are SO creative!
Um, the photos don't seem to match the topic
So odd. Thanks for letting me know about the mismatched photos. I have no idea how that happened. x Ez
hey there,
absolutely beautiful! BUT, from experience working in the florist business I can only recomment you gals *not* to use floral foam - this stuff is nasty as hell, here a link to a blog (not mine) discussing this topic:
http://gorgeousandgreen.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/floral-foam-not-so-green/
i'll think of an alternative and will keep you posted!
xx,
jules