Tag: Easter

Mini Wreath Place Setting Tutorial with Michelle

With family so far away, our Easter Dinner is a quiet gathering where we use our everyday plates. This year, I (Michelle) decided to make dinner fun with some Mini Paper Wreaths.

Lori Whitlock Easter Rabbit Place Setting Svg

Making the mini wreaths was fairly easy with my Silhouette Cameo, but I have a couple hints and tricks to make it really easy! I started with Lori’s Circle Monogram Frame (Silhouette Design Store or Lori Whitlock SVG Shop) to make the wreath. This is possibly my favorite SVG file. The wreath is actually 6 seperate pieces. Since I am making a small wreath, I’m going to release the compound path and make all of the leaves filled in, which is easier for me to cut.

Release Compound Path

I’m also going to cut a 5-inch circle to fit my plate. (Hint: When making a circle hold down the shift key and your circle will be perfect each time.) I recommend cutting three or four monogram wreaths to make your mini wreath nice and full.

Next, I cut some BRAND NEW Bunnies. This Easter Bunny Silhouette is absolutely darling! I love his little tail cut-out. He’s new in the shops and you can find him in the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop and the Silhouette Design Store. I cut two 4-inches bunnies and glued them back to back, but one would’ve been enough. I wanted to add a cute sentiment, and I found exactly what I was looking for in the Bunny Dingbats Font. You can find this in the Silhouette Design Store and the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop. You will find additional bunny silhouettes in the font. They would be cute too. With the bunnies so small, I had trouble getting the sentiment cut cleanly with paper, so I used vinyl instead. It came out perfect the first time!

Lori Whitlock custom vinyl SVG sticker on paper

Yes! Paper crafters can use vinyl too! I love how it came out.

I topped off my wreath with a cute paper bow found in the Silhouette Design Store or at the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop and my project was finished. This would be a great project to try new techniques such as releasing the compound path and using vinyl. if you would like even more information, I would encourage you to check out Lori’s class on Craftsy. With the class, Lori explains numerous techniques for getting the most out of your Silhouette Cameo.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed my Mini Wreath Tutorial. Happy Easter!

Michelle

One Buck Wednesday at Snap Click Supply and Digital Inspiration with Ashley

Today at Snap Click Supply I have two items featured for $1 on Wednesday!. That means you can pick up 2 of my digital scrapbooking products at a steal. TODAY ONLY!

Basics Paper Flowers

 

Easter Friends Life Cards

 

Be sure to go grab these great deals while you can. These offers will end at midnight!  Ashley used this week’s files to make this fun Easter layout!

Welcome to Wednesday.  With Easter just around the corner, it’s time to craft up all that Easter goodness.  And when the day is over document all the fun! Lori’s Easter Friends Life Cards are the perfect companion for your Easter pictures.

Find these cards for $1 today!

Bunny Window Treat Boxes with Kathy

Hi Everyone!  I can’t believe Easter is in 2 weeks!  Since it’s so early this year,  I had to get my act together much more quickly to make these fun little treat boxes for my college sophomore and her dorm-mates!

I used Lori’s Easter Window Box Bunny (SVG File, Silhouette File) and added a fun little pop-pom tail to the window!  (The pom-poms were made with baker’s  twine and a pom-pom maker).

I filled them with some chocolate eggs and sent them off to the girls!  Head over to Lori’s shop for a great variety of Easter files!  That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

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Rainbow Palette Carrot Boxes

 

Hello, Crafty Friends!! Winter is almost behind us and with all the rain we’ve been getting here lately the flowers will soon bloom! If Spring will be here soon, then so will Easter!! Time for pretty colors and lots of sunshine and BUNNIES!! I consider all my kiddos my little bunnies… they’re quick, bounce around a lot, and so stinking CUTE!!  So, I made these adorable carrot Easter baskets using Lori Whitlock’s Easter Basket with Carrots File for each of them… because what little bunny doesn’t like carrots, right??!!

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You can find this Easter Basket with Carrots box file in Lori’s SVG Shop, HERE.

OR in the Silhouette Design Store, HERE.

I used my Sizzix eclips to cut out my project. And when you first load it into the ecal software it downloads onto your window, the shapes are displayed stacked on each other. I usually separate my pieces by color.

Then, if I’m making multiples, I add and cluster my multiple shapes together so that I can cut more at one time.  Depending on how large the shape is I may also separate them further into multiple pages.

Then, I cut. The box piece was too big to cut multiples so I just cut one box at a time, multiple times.

I love rainbows. It makes a wonderful Spring palette. It’s bright and cheerful! And since I’m using a multi-color color scheme I chose to tie them all together with my patterned paper. I used a rainbow gingham pattern that contained all the colors I used for my boxes. This way I don’t have to worry about finding matching paper for each color and still have them coordinate with each other.

I cut out all my pieces except the WHITE pieces (the scalloped circles and tags) and I’ll show you why…

I cut my white pieces from the same piece of cardstock. Except, my tags are printed with HAPPY EASTER on them first.

For the tags, I decided to use my machine’s PRINT-2-CUT option. First, I printed my tags.

Go to FILE, then click PRINT from the menu. Don’t forget to print with the registration marks!! That is very important!

Once it was printed, I lined up my print out sheet to the very left of my cutting mat.  Line it up with the corner.

Then, go to the CUTTER tab, click on PRINT-2-CUT. You’ll be taken to the PRINT-2-CUT menu screen. Click NEXT.

Before you proceed, THIS PART IS SUPER IMPORTANT, make sure you HIDE all the text in the tags.

If you do not do this it will CUT each of those letters… and we don’t want that!! So make sure all your tags are blank!

You’ll notice that there are registration marks on your print out.

When you choose NEXT on your PRINT-2-CUT window, it will ask you to align the laser dot with the registration mark. Get it the closest to the center of the registration mark as possible for BOTH registration marks. Then, CUT!!

For the main boxes, I folded at the crease lines, all go the same direction, toward the center of the box.

I added a little line of glue to the tabs and adhered them to the side walls and set aside to dry.

I shaded my carrots using my ColorBox PetalPoint ink pads in Pinwheel and sponge daubers to shade the edges of my carrots. Then, added details using the fine tip ends of similar colored markers. This part is totally optional and for a much quicker project, you can totally SKIP it!!

I ran my carrots, carrot stems, and background pieces through my Xyron 3″ Sticker Maker for quick and easy adhesion.

Then attached them to my cut out scalloped circles and sent them back through my Sticker Maker.

Attached the backgrounds onto the boxes, then attached the scalloped circles with carrots to the centers.

Then topped off each box with iridescent ribbon that I tied to create multi-looped bows and attached my tags.

And here are my finished boxes…

These just make me so giddy!! With the bright rainbow color palette, I can’t help but be HAPPY!

I know my little bunnies (my 4 kids) will absolutely love these! They’d love the box just by itself but I’m a super awesome mom so I’ll stuff it full of goodies!! LOL

Hope you loved this tutorial!

REMEMBER… Easter is April 1st!! Very fast approaching… so get going and get creating!!

HAPPY SPRING, HAPPY EASTER, & HAPPY CRAFTING EVERYONE!!

~ Mitsyana Wright

Easter Cross Card Tutorial with Courtney

Hello everyone! Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with an A2 Pop Dot Easter Card tutorial!

This card is very special as my friend is being confirmed into the Catholic Church this Easter. She loves to travel and this season of her life has been such a journey. So there is so much symbolism here. I chose wood for the crosses. I put an airplane in with the flowers. I chose to emboss the whole thing with the world as Jesus came to save the world and there is a world map behind the crosses.

Without further adieu here is my tutorial! This is how it looks when you import it. I copied and pasted the layer with the three crosses as I wanted to cut it out of two different colors to make the crosses really stand out.

Here it is after I colored the layers how I was going to cut them out. I do this as I have three little “helpers” and it’s easy to forget which papers I picked out. 

This is what it looked like after I cut it out.

I used my X-acto knife to cut out the crosses.

I put all three layers together and embossed them at the same time with the world embossing folder from the Go See Explore collection for Echo Park Paper by Lori Whitlock.

Isn’t this world embossing folder fabulous? I just love it.

Here is what it looked like after it came out. I kind of had to pull it apart so I could put foam dots in between the layers.

I was careful how I aligned the embossing folder so that once the card was assembled you could tell that it was a world map.

I glued the crosses to the green layer.

I glued the world map to the back of the green layer. In hindsight I wish I would have popped that layer as well to give the crosses some depth.

Time to break out those pop dots!

These enamel shapes are awesome. I grabbed one for my sentiment.

Now it is time to decorate. Enamel shapes and dots galore.

I love these clouds and stars.

I tucked an airplane in the flowers.

Here it is all finished. I hope you enjoyed my tutorial today and that you make a special card for someone for Easter or to bring to Easter dinner as a thank you. This one is beautiful in all white or in many colors!

 

A2 Pop Dot Card Easter Cross in Lori’s shop

A2 Pop Dot Card Easter Cross in Silhouette shop