I've always loved vases full of gaily coloured branches with miniature Easter decorations hanging from them. It's like a mini-Christmas tree but for spring.
I found a few Easter-themed Victoria-era decorations over at the Graphics Fairy: some hares, chicks going for a drive, Easter eggs, and best of all: an adorable rabbit in a top hat and tie.
I fished a clear plastic to-go box lid out of recycling and got to work. I glued the images to the plastic using Mod Podge and applied a protective coating over top. Using my variable heat tool and the pointed stencil burning tip, I slowly melted through the plastic and the paper. That was the mistake right there. If I had cut the images down to the desired shape and size beforehand, melting the plastic would have been much easier and faster. Trying to burn though plastic, paper and dried Mod Podge took forever.
If you are looking for a perfect, clean cut edge, this isn't the way to do it. But I liked the brown, chunky edges that resulted.
To hang the decorations, I burned a hole through the top of each and tied a loop of sewing thread.
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