Easter Bunny Buckets with Kathy

Hi Everyone! It’s Kathy today with a tutorial showing how to create these adorable Easter Bunny Buckets. I made these for my daughter and her college roommate because even the big kids like an Easter Basket!

I started with one of the bunny faces from the Easter Bunny Face Bundle (here in the Silhouette Store). I resized it to fit the bucket size. To do this, I first measured the area of the bucket where the face would be placed. I drew a square, using those measurements, on my Silhouette mat, then layered the bunny face part over the square and dragged the corner down until the sizing was correct. I then deleted the square.

Next, I ungrouped the pieces, and placed the face and whiskers pieces on my mat. (I have them here twice because I made 2 buckets. ) I added strips of the vinyl to my mat, adjusted my cut settings and blade for vinyl cutting and cut these pieces.

Once I cut the face pieces, I started the process of adding them to my bucket. First, I weeded out all of the “extra” pieces from my mat so that only my design remained.

Starting with one of the faces, I covered the design with a piece of transfer tape. I ran my scraper tool over the design a few times to make sure the tape would stick to the vinyl. I then peeled the tape off of the vinyl backing. The face design stays with the tape.

Next, I centered the tape over the bucket where I wanted the face design. I ran my scraper over the design a few times to help the vinyl attach to the bucket, then pulled the transfer tape off of the bucket.

I repeated these steps with the whiskers. Once they were on the tape, I aligned them on the bucket to match up with the bunny’s “cheeks” and used my scraper tool to help adhere them to the bucket.

To finish the buckets, I cut the ears from cardstock and glued them to the inside rim of the basket. I also added a 3D Bow (here in the Silhouette Store) All that was left was to fill it with some treats!