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Need something fun and festive to adorn your front door as St. Patrick's Day approaches? Try this super easy project that can be tailored to your own tastes. If you prefer, uses gold and silver buttons in place of colorful ones.

You will need:

4 paper mache hearts
assortment of colorful buttons
acrylic paint in green, black and white
scissors
hot glue gun
old toothbrush
acrylic sealer spray, matte finish


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What you do:

On work surface, position the four paper mache hearts into a clover design. Hot glue them together. Use scissors to trim off the hangers from the hearts, leaving one on to hang the clover by.

Paint clover completely with green acrylic paint. Repeat if needed.

Dip the bristle tips of a toothbrush into some black paint that has been lightly thinned with a drop or two of water. Test your splattering ability on a piece of scrap paper before doing this on your clover. Hold toothbrush horizontally and drag your finger across the bristles, causing the paint to splatter spots wherever you aim it. When you are comfortable with this method, go ahead and splatter the entire surface of the clover with black paint. Clean out toothbrush and repeat this method with white paint. Spray entire surface with acrylic sealer spray and let dry.