Hi Everyone! I wanted to let you know about a special happening in my shop today and tomorrow! All previous Kit of the Month Bundles are 50% off when you use code KOTM at checkout. Don’t miss out on these fabulous bundles! Sale ends tomorrow!
Easter Treasure Treat Boxes with Aimee
Happy Wednesday friends! Easter is here and I am getting ready for our family dinner. I love having little name cards for the table but when I saw the Treasure Chest (SVG, Silhouette), I knew I could combine name cards with treats.
These adorable little boxes came together quickly which left the fun part of decorating them. I used the checked patterns that are in Lori’s Easter Wishes and Spring Fling collections as my color inspirations. Then I dug through my ribbon and button stash to find some coordinating colors.
I originally wanted their names on the boxes but came up with the idea to add their initial on this sweet little bunny from the 3 Easter Bunny Rabbits (SVG, Silhouette). The initials came from one of Lori’s new fonts called Spring Fling Font (SVG, Silhouette). The inside pieces of the bunny’s ears and the initials were cut from the same cardstock that I cut the boxes from to keep with the color scheme.
If you are looking for a quick and fun project for your Easter table give the Treasure box a try!
Hope everyone has a beautiful and blessed Easter!
Aimee
Spring Fling Embroidery Hoop with Cathy
Happy Spring everyone! I think it may have finally arrived here in Michigan, but we are supposed to get a little bit of snow today. Hoping it doesn’t last long, I’m so ready for sunshine and warmer weather. I have a fun project to share with you today with an embroidery hoop and one of Lori’s mason jar box cards. Lots of dimension, pretty spring patterns and colors.
I used Echo Park’s Spring Fling collection designed by Lori to create my project. I started with an 8 inch wooden embroidery hoop. Adding the paper to the embroidery hoop can be a bit tricky and time consuming, but I love the results. I found this tutorial and it was really easy to do. After I had my hoop done, I cut all the fun little pieces for Mason Jar Pinwheel Box Card that you can find here in Silhouette or here at Lori’s shop
I inked the edges of everything with Broken China Distress Ink and assembled it, once it’s all cut it really only takes a few minutes to assemble. I added the 4×4 sentiment from the collection kit to the embroidery hoop and then attached my box card with Scor-tape plus few pop dots. I added a few stickers from Spring Fling, a bit of twine and enamel dots.
Here you can see all the dimension that these box cards have. So fun!
Thank you for stopping by, I hope you have a Spring filled week with sunny skies and warm temperatures.
~Cathy
Easter Egg Diorama Tutorial with Kathy
Growing up I always loved those sugary Easter egg dioramas…they were so cute, with their little spring scenes! When I saw Lori’s Easter Egg Diorama cut file (SVG, Silhouette) I knew I had to make it! The egg looks complicated but it really is easy to assemble, and it makes the cutest table decoration! Take a peek…
To start, cut your pieces and lay them out. I found it was easier to add the decorative panels to the egg base before assembling.
Start by folding all the pieces along the score lines. Then, for each of the egg pieces, glue the tabs that help curve the pieces into an egg shape. (see blue circle) Do this for both the tops and bottoms. There are tiny tabs around the diorama’s opening, make sure to glue them as well.
Next you want to form the top and bottom pieces of the egg. Start with the bottom two pieces. Glue them to form the egg bottom using the tabs. Once dry, glue on the bottom piece.
Repeat with the two top pieces of the egg.
Next you want to assemble the insert portion of the egg. To make the bunny, glue both pieces back to back, making sure to add the white eye piece in between and do not glue the bottom half-circle pieces. These will be split open to use as a base to glue the bunny to the insert. I didn’t want a chocolate bunny in my egg, so I used a bunny cut out I had in my stash. I created my own base by cutting two circles, folding each in half and gluing to either side of my cutout.
Insert the grassy piece through the front slot in the insert base and glue the inserted piece to the back side of the insert. Next, fold the other grass piece, glue the eggs to the front, folding out the rounded half circles. Glue to base. Finally add your bunny by inserting the half circle pieces into the back most slot, opening up the circles and gluing to the backside of the insert. See pictures for details.
Once your insert is complete, add a little adhesive to the “spokes” and fit it into the bottom of the egg, spokes down as shown.
Add adhesive to the bottom tabs of the egg top and fit the top and bottom together. You will want to press from the inside of the egg to secure.
Lastly you want to create the bow for the top. Start by cutting the bow pieces and curling them as shown. I ran a pencil along the pieces to do this.
Assemble each of the bow pieces by first gluing the end tabs into the center. Then wrap the middle tab around the bow center and glue. Stack the bow pieces and glue together.
Glue bow to to top of the egg.
So cute!
If you make one of these cute little eggs, be sure to tag Lori Whitlock on Facebook and Instagram. We would love to see what you create! That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!
New Easter Boxes Bundle in Shop!
I have a brand new bundle of Easter boxes in the store this week! The Easter Box Bundle 2 includes 10 different boxes and baskets perfect for Easter and more! They are the perfect size to hold a small treat or gift. Take a peek…
I created a fun video showing how to assemble these boxes. You can view it on my YouTube Channel HERE.
These boxes are available in SVG format both as a bundle and individually in my SVG shop and they are also available individually in the Silhouette Store.
And don’t forget, all SVG files and commercial licenses in my SVG shop are 25% off through Saturday when you use code APR2019 at checkout! Have a great day!