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.

Butterfly Birthday Card

I saw this gorgeous card on Pintrest using the big Stampin' Up butterfly stamp, and I thought "Hey! I can make that one!" Here's the link to the original card instructions Laura's Creative Moments. Yeah, it's in Dutch, but don't worry it's easy to follow.

The main stamps and supplies you need are: 

White or cream cardstock cut to 8 1/2" to 4 1/2" inches

Stampin' Up Swallowtail, Simple Sketched and some other flower and butterfly set. Stampin' Up! has loads of them, pick a set that you like to use.

One color of Stampin' Up! Ink for each card. I used Lost Lagoon, Cherry Cobbler and Wisteria Wonder

Ranger Distress Ink: Vintage Photo, Antique linen plus your blending pads

Any random Spellbinders tag die that will fit the birthday sentiment stamp.

And some natural colored twine.

The tricky part is stamping the butterfly in the correct corner of the card. That would be the left side of the card if you're pressing the paper onto the stamp like I do with large stamps. You want to stamp it at an angle and not straight across.

Then cut the edge of the paper around the right side of the butterfly wing to give that decorative edge. Then stamp and distress the edges of the paper as you please. The red ink wasn't very colorfast, so that's why the red card is not looking like a Vintage Photo color, but it still looks good. I also stamped off once before stamping the inside stamps. Score your fold line at 4 1/2" inches, and it will give you a square card.

How do you use your large stamps in card making?

Easter Egg Booth

Happy Easter!

This was our treat for our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Each child could pick an entire paper basket with three treat filled eggs  The usual comments of "How cute!" and "So creative!" were heard from the parents of the children. Plus, a few pictures and questions of taking an extra one if there was some left.

I had my hubby help by using his recently learned scouting skills to lash some wooden dowels to the card table for the banners. It held.  Here's a quick list of craft supplies: gold glitter Happy banner (Theresa Collins), black paper banner kit (American Crafts), gold Sharpie, chalkboard paper (DCWV), white chalk marker (Chalk Couture), Berry Basket Die (Stampin' Up!)

We always seem to have an unusual amount of cardboard boxes around the house, so the case trays for food cans seemed the appropriate vehicle for all the baskets. And thanks to my grandpa's collection of farm related decorations, the added milk can and metal drink cooler were perfect decorations. I found the metal basket in a thrift store.

Now I need to think of what next year's treat will be...

Stampin' Up! 2015 Party Order

It's here! My 2015 Stampin' Up! workshop order! I got most of it, some of the dies and embossing folders are on backorder. Hope they show up soon.

Stuff I paid for ( 3 dies on backorder), not as much as last year. I got picky this time.

Stuff for free (1 embossing folder on backorder), and the 50% off items. Gotta love Sale-a-bration time. Oh, and I split my hostess dollars with sis-in-law because she let me have the party at her house. If I didn't have to clean my house, it was worth it to split the party profits. 'Til next year!

My Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration order

It's my usual brag of how much I saved on my Stampin' Up! order during Sale-A-Bration. Here's the pile of boxes from my workshop order.

Then, here's the pile of stuff I paid for...fun!

And, here's the pile of stuff that was free with hostess dollars and my 50% off items. There should be another 5 free things in that pile from SAB, but I sneaked them in the bags of my other guests' orders. Hope they like them.