Monday, March 28, 2016

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt 2016



It's bunny boxes for Easter! I didn't buy anything new for this project. I used what I had. I saw many projects on Pintrest using the Stampin' Up! Curvy Keepsakes Box die and turning it into a bunch of creature for the season. So why not bunnies?

I used the mini heart punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack for the adorable little bunny nose. Drew on the face with a black pigma pen and used A Heartfelt Creations stamp and die set that are long retired. They were individual lily petals that I thought looks like the inside of an ear.

Not shown is the back where I cut a cotton ball in half and glued it on for the fluffy little cotton tail. Of course we filled them with lots of yummy chocolate treats.

These boxes hold a lot of treats inside. They're bigger than you think they are. The fun part was making 65 of them for the egg hunt. I enlisted my husband's family to help assemble them. I think they appreciate all the effort it takes to make a large orders of crafts.

We hung them from our fruit trees with colorful bakers twine. It looks like a curtain of cute bunny fruit.

The kids came around and pointed at which bunny they wanted and we cut them down to land in their Easter baskets. Moms thought they were adorable and made sure they told their visiting family that we make the treat containers every year.






Relief Society Birthday Gift Bags -- Year 2

Yeah, my ward Relief Society asked me to help make the birthday gifts, again. Here we have these adorable fabric mini totes!

The pattern for these fabric bags is from All People Quilt designed by Monica Solorio-Snow of Happy Zombie. You can get 4 bags from two fabric fat quarters and a couple yards of 3/8" ribbon.

I had a good time making these bags, and I'm still not finished. I had to cut fabric for 140 bags. Quilters cotton is best, but almost any cotton is best. Don't make the same mistake I did and cut 2 sets of fabric the wrong width and have to dive into my own stash and see what I could salvage. Auuggghhh!

You will need to press the horizontal seams, just like in quilting. After that, pressing doesn't much matter. I didn't hand stitch the inside seam closed as the instructions suggest, I just did a narrow top stitch to close up the end on my machine. It's on the inside, no one looks that close.

The Relief Society essentials that went in the bag were, a travel-pack of tissues, lip balm and mints. My birthday isn't until May, so I don't have mine, yet.