I couldn’t think of what to do for an inexpensive but creative centerpiece for my sister-in-laws Fiesta Baby Shower. I remembered seeing these big letters at Hobby Lobby and it hit me: cactus letters! Admittedly, cacti are getting overdone and letters are way overdone but, every now and then, I like a few trends too much not to use them because they are just too cute for their own good.
It’s simple to do these and really cheap! Take any letter, or shape for that matter, from the paper craft section of the store. I’m not sure what you call this material…it’s like a thin cardboard. Help me out, people?
Directions
Paint your shape with any craft paint, cut toothpicks in half with scissors, add a dab of hot glue and place each toothpick half pointy side up in each glue dot and get er’ done! I used this craft paint here if you want to do it just like mine.
Lastly, attach any fake desert looking flower to the top of your piece like a good old real-deal cactus. It’s that simple! You’ll notice I pointed the “cactus needles” in sightly different directions for a real-life look. It looks weird for them all to be stuck straight up and down.
You can do whole words, colored toothpicks, different colored letters, ANYTHING! If you have a cactus themed room in your child’s room, you better do this right away! I know I made this but….I think it’s adorable all while being on trend and not too cute-sy. What do you think?
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Love these!! Where did you get the desert flowers?
Thank you! Hobby Lobby in the floral dept with all the stems!
Where’d you get this table runner?
Hey! It isn’t a runner. It’s actually a 5 dollar rag rug from the store 5 Below!
Where did you get the rag rug from that you used as the table runner? I love the colors for that table scale!
Hey! I got it from Five Below and they carry them year round for 5 bucks!
Too cute! What is the name of the FolkArt pain color you used? Thank you 🙂
Hey there! 2552 citrus green!
Where did you get the letters??
Nevermind, I see hobby lobby lol 🙂
Hope it turns out great!
How’d you make sure the hot glue didn’t ruin the paint?
I didn’t do any prep. Because the hot glue stays put, it seals in the paint underneath and it shouldn’t run. I just used regular acrylic paint as well. It is linked in the post if you need it =0)
Do you think I could spray paint the letters instead of use acrylic craft paint?
I’m a firm believer in spray painting most everything so yes!!! I’ve spray painted paper mache and chipboard both before so it would work!