Here Comes the Easter Bunny!..... and a little lamb!

A fun Free for All challenge at Split Coast on Friday - to make a 3D basket using the colors of plum, celery and banana.

I used Claire's adorable basket template from last year. I stamped the sides of the basket with the beautiful broderie anglaise lace stamp (don't you love that name?!) from the Faux Fun set by Waltzingmouse Stamps
I made my handle using a Martha Stewart lacey punch and I put a strip of yellow CS behind it so it shows through the holes in the lace. The base is a narrow scalloped rectangle Nestability.

I'll be making 10 of these to sell at my church Easter Sale. Aren't these little Lindt bunnies and lambs adorable!? They fit in my baskets perfectly don't you think?!

You can see the basket I made using this pattern last year on this post

Kent and I met up with friend and fellow Stamping Around teacher, Donna and her DH, Doug yesterday - we had a great meal at The Old Salt Restaurant in Hampton, NH. Donna and I will be teaching at the next Stamping Around weekend at Wholly Scrap in North Hampton, NH 4/16-4/17 We'd love to meet you there!!

This is also qualifies for the Our Creative Corner challenge to think Easter!

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Faux Fun
Paper: Lavender Moon - PTI, Barely banana, certainly celery - SU
Ink: Lavender Moon - PTI
Accessories: Scor pal, Scor tape, basket paper shred - CVS, basket Template, Martha Stewart lace punch, EK success edge punch, narrow rectangle nestabilities, Lindt Lamb & Bunnies

WMS Customer Blog Hop - The Theme is Spring!

Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Customer Spring themed Blog Hop! If you want to start with the first person on the hop - check out Angela here. If you get lost - you'll find links to all 52 participants on Claire's blog here.

Today I used Claire's wonderful Spring Baskets Template for my project - isn't it just divine?!?!! I stamped the zig zag from Off Beat Backgrounds around the top piece of the basket. Then I added this pretty narrow lace around all the joinings.

I white embossed one of the lacey stamps from Vintage Circles on a scalloped circle that I attached to the bottom of the basket. Finally I tied this soft as butter silk ribbon around the column and added the basket shred and yummy Lindt gold wrapped chocolate bunny to top it off! Miss Bunny came with a bright red ribbon around her neck - so I swapped it out for this soft pink chennile one!

We hope you'll leave some love along the way as you hop to let everyone know you've enjoyed this glimpse into spring time!

Next stop on the hop is Jennifer!

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Off beat Backgrounds, Vintage Circles

Paper: Spring Moss, Berry Sorbet - PTI

Ink: Versamark

Accessories: Lindt Chocolate Bunny & foil wrapped eggs, basket shred, scalloped circle nestability, hot gun, white EP, lace from my stash, scor tape, Spring Baskets Template -Waltzingmouse, green silk ribbon - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, scallop punch - SU

An Easter Basket, a CPS Sketch and a Clean and Simple

I made these cute baskets for an upcoming Easter sale at my church. The instructions for these came from the April 2006 issue of Paper Made Easy magazine (I cut out and file pictures and instructions for all kinds of seasonal crafts so I can find them when I need them - hopefully!! )

These are made of the little peat containers you buy to start flowers inside before it's warm enough outside to do so. I got mine at K-Mart in the garden section last year.

First I painted them with acrylic paints - inside and out. The lovely vintage bunny clip art is from Dover Publications Holiday Vignettes Book and CD which I printed, cut out and decoupaged onto the containers using Mod Podge. Then you dry brush Gold paint on the edges and dip the top rim into glitter before it dries. I attached the ribbons with glue to hold it at the angle.

Finally, you just punch two holes on either side and wrap the wire through them. I used colored wire that I got at a craft store (forget where!). They come several colors to a pack - each color is on a spool. Inside I put pieces of thick yarn and nestled a plastic egg full of jelly beans in the basket. I used an oval punch for the sentiment tag and attached it to the wire with a piece of sheer white ribbon.

You can see the glitter on the top edge a little better in this pic.

The tags on these cute baskets qualify them for this weeks Our Creative Corner challenge - to use a tag on you project.

Stamps: Easter Blessings: Rubber Soul

Supplies: Peat pots 2.5", green & purple wire 18 gauge (10" piece for each basket), Hodge Podge, Mint Julep & Orchid Acrylic paint - Deco Art Americana, Glorious Gold- Dazzling metallics, Vintage bunnies: Dover Publications - Holiday Vignettes Book & CD, thick yarns, sheer white ribbon

My first card today was made using the sketch from Card Positioning Systems (CPS) - they have teamed up with Papertrey Ink and one lucky person will win some Papertrey prizes!

Can you tell I just got my new PTI stamps in the mail today!?!?! I used their new Itty Bitty Dots Designer paper as well as one of the new stamp sets - Friends till the End. I thought it was a really weird sketch when I first saw it - but I like how this card ended up. I stamped directly on the designer paper with Dark Chocolate ink.

Stamps: Friends till the End: PTI

Paper: White, DP- Itty Bitty Dots - all PTI

Ink: Dark Chocolate - PTI

And my next card was made for the CAS (Clean and Simple) challenge over on Split Coast. This week it was a sketch. I turned the sketch on it's side and used a word panel instead of stars on the corner. Again - I used my new Papertrey 'stuff'!
I appreciate your coming by today!
Stamps: Friends till the End, Beyond Basic Borders: PTI

Paper: Spring Moss, New Leaf: PTI

Ink: New Leaf

Accessories: Rectangle Nestabilities, sponge.

Lauren's Nest

Isn't this just the cutest basket?! I found the tutorial on how to make this on Lauren's blog here. You can also see her gallery on Split Coast Stampers here.

It is made with 4 large scalloped rectangle nestability panels and one large scalloped square for the bottom. I did emboss all the panels as well.

You score the side panels on the sides and bottom and you score the front and back panels only on the bottom so you can glue the panels together. I used Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive for this and it worked great as it does, in fact, dry quickly! I got mine at Michaels.

I cut 2 scalloped circles, one very vanilla and one Wild Wasabi, for the front - stamped it with my Michael's $1 stamp, then colored it with Prismacolor Markers and put dimensionals on both of them and attached them to the front of the basket.

The handle is 11 x 1 1/2 and I also put panels of the DP on it. The handle is just attached to the inside walls of the basket and it gives the basket stability. This cute double sided designer paper is by SEI called Winnies Walls. I got mine on line at Eclectic Paperie.

I am so excited to find a fun craft to make using my nestabilities. It helps justify my buying them!

I'll be making these for our Easter sale at church for sure. They'd also be fun as place settings for Easter Dinner with the family!

Thanks for stopping by - I really appreciate your checking out my cards and crafts! See you tomorrow with whatever I do next!