Flower Bath Foam Scrubbies

We all love participating in Pinterest Challenges! You just never know what you might find and inspire you on Pinterest! While searching for hostess gift ideas, imagine my surprise to see an Eva Sponge included in a Spa Gift Basket!  

For those of you who don't know what "eva" means in the crafting world - they're referring to those "foam sheets" you find in the kiddie section of craft stores! Yep, that's right, foam sheets! Oh boy was I excited!!! I've made lots of crafts using foam sheets so I knew right away I could easily make something like this! Heck, yeah! 



Materials Needed:
Foam Sheets - 12" x 18"
Template
White Twine
Scissors
Rubber Band (large,thin)
You will also need the ball point of a pen that doesn't work.

Instructions:
Begin by creating a template of petals. I drew a larger petal first and copied that five times next to each other and then drew a smaller one to copy five times, combining all the petals into a strip. The larger petal is 2 1/4" tall x 1 1/4" wide and the smaller one is half that width. You can copy and paste this to Word and adjust the size, if you want. But, you'll probably be able to draw a much neater looking template! Lol!

Next, use the ball point tip of a pen that no longer writes to outline the petals on the foam sheets. I used the entire length of the sheets (18") and outlined three rows to cut out. 

Once the rows of petals are cut out, it's time to make the hanging rope by braiding four strands of 15" white twine.

Here's how:

  

1.  Tape down the ends of four white twine strands 15" long to your work surface.

2. Take the strand on the far right and pass it over the strand next to it and group the two strands in the middle. 

3.  Then take the far left strand over the two strands next to it.

4. And, as in the beginning, continue on by taking the far right strand over the strand next to it (grouping the two strands in the middle)  Continue on!

5. Then take the far left strand over the two strands next to it and continue braiding following the same steps over and over .  .  .

until reaching the end.

And finally, tie the braided ends together in a loop, cutting off excess twine.

For the scrubbie, place the strips of foam petals on top of each other, staggering the pieces so that the longer length end is on the outside, then the next length and the shortest on top. *Don't follow the picture below. The hanging rope goes on top of the smaller petals. You want the smaller petals in the center of the scrubbie after rolling. I realized my mistake after I took the picture. Sorry I didn't take a corrected picture.

Begin rolling the foam sheets together starting with the smaller petals. Be sure to roll tight while keeping the edges straight. Notice how the strips are staggered near the end as you roll.

Once you've reached the end, hold tight while .  .  .

wrapping a large, thin rubber band around about a 1/4 inch away from the edge  

as many times as you can for tightness and to hold the foam in place.

Next, tie a strand of white twine as tight as you can over the rubber band, tying  in two or three knots to secure. Then cut off the rubber band. 

Also, cut off the excess twine close to the tied knots.

Push the outside petals down and out and it's done!

Easy peasy, right!

How cute is this for bath or shower! And great as a gift, too!

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Welcome to the June Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop hosted by Erlene @ My Pinterventures.  If you aren't familiar with the Pinterest Challenge, it's a monthly event that challenges us to not just be pin hoarders, but to make it happen! 

LET’S MEET THIS MONTH’S Co-Hosts! 

My Pinterventures •  Cookies Coffee and Crafts 

Sew Crafty Crochet •  Sum of their Stories   

Eye Love Knots  •   This Autoimmune Life 

Love My Little Cottage  •   Across the Boulevard 

Suzerspace •  My Sweet Things   

Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After 

Purple Hues and Me  • Decorate and More with Tip

Mom Home Guide •  Our Unschooling Journey 

Our Good Life  •   Intelligent Domestications  

Craftify My Love   •  Life Beyond the Kitchen 

K's Olympic Nest •  Teadoddles 

Our Crafty Mom  •  My Family Thyme 

  Farm Girl Reformed

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Foam Pine Tabletop Xmas Tree - Christmas in July

Welcome to the final week of our Christmas in July Blog Hop where a group of talented ladies featured awesome holiday ideas every Wednesday of this month. I've truly enjoyed participating and having all of you share with us in this event!

The Christmas project I'm sharing with you this week is quite easy and inexpensive to make! It's what I call a faux pine xmas tree made out of foam sheets! Yes, foam sheets!  I love making crafts using foam sheets. You can easily manipulate the foam into something beautiful!

Here's how I made it:

The base is a 14" cone shaped cardboard you can either buy or make, like here. I already had one on hand, so I just painted it with green acrylic and let dry.

I used two - 12"x18" foam sheets that I divided into 8 - two inch wide strips and cut out.

Then I made small slits in the strips, leaving a border at the top.

To speed the cutting process up, because it can get drawn out, instead of cutting eight, 2" strips, I cut four, 4" strips and folded over each one and cut the slits toward the fold. Once finished cutting the slits, cut along the fold, separating into two inch strips.

Lay the strips on a medium warm flat griddle or an iron propped up for a flat surface, just for a few seconds for the slits to curl.

If the strip is too long, lay on partially and lift up each section once curled, until complete.

*If there is too much curl, turn strip over on opposite side for a few seconds to relax the curl a bit.

Begin hot gluing the strips on the bottom of the cone, going round and round .  .  .

moving toward the top.

Stop about three rows from the top and begin gluing on strips curling in the opposite direction or upside down .  . . 

continue until the top is filled in and the tree is completely covered into a frilly little pine!  Hot dang!!!!

For a festive look, randomly add stick-on rhinestones!  

Makes for a lovely tabletop holiday accessory!  And only for a few dollars!

Be sure to check out the rest of the group's awesome Christmas projects:

2 Crochet Hooks

Across The Blvd.

SewCraftyCrochet

The Boondocks Blog

One Mama's Daily Drama

My Husband Has Too Many Hobbies

Stone Cottage Adventures

Purfylle

Olives-n-Okra

And join the party by linking up your favorite Christmas post!

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Ruffled Foam Sheets & Glitter Christmas Tree Cones

I've made my share of decorated Christmas tree cones.  I think someone could easily do a post on 1001 ways to decorate a cone tree.  

To add to this, I'm showing you yet another way a cone tree can be decorated using foam sheets and glitter.  This is totally a diy craft starting with making the cone out of poster board, cutting out circles of foam sheets, turning the circles into ruffles using an iron, sprinkling the glue coated edges with glitter and finally gluing the ruffles on the cone tree with hot glue.  That's all it takes to make this easy and elegantly looking tree. 

To start, it was hard for me to take pictures of making a cone for this project since I was alone at the time, but you can go here to see how I made one out of poster board. After making the cone, I started cutting out circles using a 2 1/2" circle punch but found the circles too small so I

traced around the mouth of a 3" plastic cup and cut out around 100 circles at first. I know, very time consuming, but I turned on the Hallmark channel and watched and listened to a marathon of Christmas movies.

Then, I sandwiched the circles between sheets of parchment paper and applied the iron for about 15 seconds. 

Heating up the circles made the foam pliable and easily shaped by cupping it in the palm of my hand and forming what looked like ruffles to me

Using a brush to apply white glue to the edges .  .  .

and then dipped them into glitter

and allowed to dry.

Once dry, the ruffles were glued onto the cone starting at the base.

It's amazing to see how each ruffle would intertwine with the other when gluing them on.

The ruffled Christmas tree cones turned out to be very impressive looking.

Besides using them at Christmas, they could easily fit in as wedding and party décor!

The tallest finished tree measures 24" and the smaller one, 15 inches.

What  glorious ruffled Christmas trees!

Take a little time to enjoy

and

Happy Holiday Crafting!