Easter Treats

I always make little treat containers on holidays that I give to friends and neighbors, as well as cashiers, bank tellers and those I deal with on a regular basis. I love to surprise people with an unexpected treat, so I've done this for years. I'm sharing photos of some of the treats I made this year using an assortment of bunny dies, stamped images, and cardstock along with ribbons and twine. These tiny bags are a great little hand-out for people and a good way to use up all those wonderful snippets of pretty paper and cardstock. Instead of naming each item, I'll just share the photos and if you want to know any particular brand I used, ask in a comment and I'll be glad to fill you in.

I decorate both the front and back of each little "bag."

A very thoughtful blogger (Thank you so much once again) sent me some die cuts of this long-legged bunny after I mentioned how much I liked them. When I showed them to another friend of mine, she searched for the die, found it, bought it and sent it to me! (Thank you once again for your kindness and generosity) I've had more fun with this cute bunny than I can put into words. I put him on many of these treat containers and had so much fun dressing him up in different suits. He just seems to make everyone happy, including me 😊

I made a little blue Easter box with paper from an older Tim Holtz pad, adding a die-cut Easter greeting on one side...

along with one of his die-cut bunnies on the other side.

This basket/box holds 8 of the little treat bags and this one went to the employees of my bank.

Here's another bunny box I made with some grey colored  paper from the same TH pad. This box went to my neighbors who always have family over for Easter dinner, so she loves setting her table with these little treats for each one of her guests.

This box was made for my neighbor who lives below me. He is single and has a beautiful dog, so I included treats for him in one carton and dog treats in the other, and then tucked an Easter card inside the box. The carton containers were made with a TE die (a gift from a very thoughtful and generous friend - thank you again) and I cut down a couple of those TH bunnies and put them behind snippets of grass just for fun.

Here are the cartons tucked inside the little box.

With all of these snippets I used I'll share my treats with

the Snippets Playground #477.

Thank you again to all my fellow bloggers and friends for being so generous, caring and sharing with me. You all helped me put quite a few smiles on people's faces with these little treats.

I hope everyone who celebrates Easter had a great day yesterday. I had friends and neighbors stop down and bring me so much food I'll have to freeze most of it, but I was so happy to see everyone and get to chat with them for a while too. 

Beware everyone - today is April Fool's day so use caution! LOL I used to prank my husband years ago by putting salt in the sugar bowl and watch for that sourpuss face when he took that first sip of morning coffee. 😝 Somehow it got funnier each year because he never seemed to remember when it was April Fool's day. 😉 

Have a fantastic Monday and keep smiling!

Carol

Easter Treats

Two very kind and thoughtful friends sent me the products I'm using in today's post. Vicki of Stamped Smiles sent me this amazing folding carton die from Taylored Expressions along with that wonderful little sentiment die. Also my sweet friend Lynn  (who is taking a break from blogging) sent me this adorable little bunny die recently so I had to use him on these cartons. He's holding a tiny little egg with an itty bitty heart in it, so I die cut the heart in 2 different colors and swapped the negatives LOL These cartons are filled with Easter goodies and are going to my awesome neighbors. His is the green version, and hers is the one with flowers. I added 2 tiny sparkly stickers to the sentiment panels on each one and tied them with some vanilla colored twine.

I decided to create a basket to hold these cartons so I made one with pink cardstock and added SU! embossed basket weave panels to all 4 sides, along with an Echo Park die-cut Easter sentiment. I attached some pink ribbon to the handle and then attached it with my Crop-0-Dile and some silver eyelets so it will hold the weight of the cartons.

Here's the finished gift I'll be sharing with them on Easter.

         

I made another one of these box/baskets (which I'll share later) and I thought it would be easier to adhere the embossed panels before putting the box together. Well look what I did in my haste to make it easier! LOL I put the panel on upside down and didn't realize it until I glued the box together. LOL Before I took it apart to fix it, I thought I'd take a picture to show that I'm as human as everyone else and make big mistakes too! LOL I actually had a good laugh once I saw what I'd done 😄

 

I'm going to share this project with the NBUS #60 challenge since these bunnies and cartons are having their first outing. Darnell is also working on her monthly I.D.E.A.S. for 2024 and it's embossing.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your week ahead is a great one for you. Keep smiling 😊

Carol

Easter Bonnet

 I've had this Penny Black Easter Bonnet stamped image in my stash for a long time and with Easter just around the corner, I figured it was time to color it and make a card with it. I used Copics and glaze pens to color the image and mounted it on a piece of bright yellow cardstock. I found a strip of designer paper that seemed to match the soft coral cardstock and found another strip of dark purple cardstock that coordinated with the big bow around her neck, so I embossed that with a SU! dots ef and punched the end with a hexagon punch to give it a fishtail look. The sentiment is a pre-printed one from Simon Says Stamp and I had a narrow strip of the yellow cardstock, so I glued it behind the sentiment just for fun.

I'm sharing this with

  the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for March -

A/G *optional "Easter"

 the Allsorts Challenge #770 - Spring or A/G

The Four Seasons March 2024 Challenge - Spring

Thanks for the visit and as always, I wish you the best possible day.

Carol

Easter Treats

I made a lot of Easter treats again this year and actually forgot to take pictures of all of them before they were handed out, but here are a few that I did get photos of.

First up is this little box done with retired SU! designer papers and a bunny made with Lil Inker dies. 

Here's another version done in pink colors. I added an eye with black Nuvo drops.

Here are both boxes with the treats I put inside. I have 2 friends who just love these shortbread cookies and prefer them over candy.

Here is a small sampling of the many bunny boxes I made this year. Just out of range in the photo on the left is a Lindor Truffle candy which I added to each box

I used spring-themed designer papers and cardstock to make most of them and added die cut bunnies done with Gina Marie Designs small bunny dies. The boxes were made with a Lawn Fawn tiny gift box die and I added a tiny scalloped circle to each box. I had a whole stack of those scalloped circles already cut but I'm not sure which die I used to cut them. Just to make them sparkle a little, I added either a gemstone or pearl to each one.

I like to give these out to the employees at my local small grocery store, cashiers, and bank tellers every year along with other unsuspecting recipients just to see that little smile when someone is surprised with a little treat! I made quite a few others and filled them with jelly beans or Easter M&M's for the kiddos.

Entering these into the following challenges:

Four Seasons April 2023 A/G Challenge

Critter Crazy Challenge #73 - A/G featuring a critter

the Crafty Calendar April Challenge - Die Cuts

 the Use Your Stuff #481 challenge - Easter

Happy Hopping everyone - Easter is almost here!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

 

More Treats

I have a retired die from SU! that makes these little boxes, and I made 2 of them for our neighbors. They're going to be filled with those wonderful little almond-flavored Italian rainbow cookie bites for a sweet Easter treat. Chocolate for him and white chocolate for her. I decorated the side panels using square and scalloped punches, adding die-cut bunnies from GMD to the blue and SU! die-cut blooming heart flowers to the pink. The tops were decorated with die-cut sentiments and eggs, using mirror silver and gold to make the crosses. Once they're filled, they'll be tied up with some pretty ribbon.

Next I made a couple Easter baskets and filled them with candies. These 2 larger ones are filled with chocolates and decorated with Lil Inker die-cut bunnies and an Echo Park die-cut Easter sentiment, with the smaller sentiment being cut from a sheet of SSS pre-printed sentiments. I'll tie some pretty ribbon around these too before handing out.

Last but not least, I made 24 smaller baskets with a small sampling shown here. I used assorted dies, punches and pre-printed sentiments and I was able to use a lot of snippets to put these together. I tied them all with some bits of twine.

 I do enjoy making things like this but what I love the most is seeing the faces of people when I hand them out randomly. I always put one in the mailbox the day before Easter and put the flag up so the mail carrier gets one too.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a wonderful day whatever you do.

Carol

Joyful Easter

Today I have 2 Easter cards to share. I have quite a few of those strip embossing folders and hardly ever use them, so I pulled 2 different ones out and made cards with them. For the first, I used some GinaK orchid LE cardstock I've had for years. I also used a GinaK stamp that I colored with Copics and used a Darice strip embossing folder to make the horizontal panel. I added some very old flower ribbon to the embossed panel, adding peel off stickers to the centers for a little sparkle. 

The sentiment is by Sweet 'n Sassy.

 For this version, I chose a Cuttlebug strip embossing folder and added aqua Nuvo drops to the flower centers for some subtle sparkle. The flowers were colored with glaze pens and black Nuvo drops. I chose Soft Sky cardstock for the card base and horizontal panel.

I'd like to enter the first card into the "Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge" which is anything goes with an option to add a twist of Easter. Embossing is required whether it's heat or dry embossing.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope you're enjoying a nice weekend. It sure feels great to know warmer temperatures are on the way soon!

Take care and stay well.

Carol

Bunny Treats

 I made a couple of these Easter bunny carton treat holders for my neighbor's 2 grandsons. They're easy to make and I used the directions found here.

They're made with punches and dies using circles, hearts and shaving strips of black cardstock for the whiskers. A white gel pen accented the black circles to create little eyes and I think they turned out so cute! There are pink ovals inserted into the ears and I hope those cute little boys enjoy a few chocolate treats inside!

I'm entering them into the Double D Challenge for "Easter"

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a wonderful day ahead.

Carol

Easter Card

 Today I have an Easter card to share, made with a Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 18 die, a Simon Says Stamp egg die, a Gina Marie Designs bunny die, and a Kaiser Craft die-cut sentiment. I added a little twine bow around the bunny's neck and added an eye and a nose with markers. The word "Happy" was heat-embossed with white ep on navy card and fussy cut to fit above the die-cut word Easter.

Entering this into the following challenges:

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A/G

Dies R Us Challenge#190 - A/G using dies from their store (Spellbinders)

Krafty Chicks Challenge #605 - A/G

Crafty Cats Challenge #589 - A/G or lots of layers

the Four Seasons April SPRING challenge - A/G Spring

 Sorry if I haven't been around to visit lately. We've been dealing with the loss of 2 life-long friends in January and February,  and then earlier this week my husband's sister suddenly passed. She's being buried on her 55th wedding anniversary and the sadness is beyond words for both of us.

I hope to pick up the pieces and get back on track soon, but for now I'm just trying to breathe without having panic attacks.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a good weekend and a very happy spring as well.

Carol

Easter Treats

 Here's a sampling of some of the Easter treats I'm making for hand-outs this year. I used all snippets of designer paper and die-cut bunnies and tags - some that were die-cut in previous years and just sitting in my snippets box waiting to be used. The larger bunny in the bottom row was made with my Cricut (which I sold at least 5 years ago) and he and the other big bunny on top are sporting bows die cut with Lil Inker dies. The other bunnies were cut with 2 different sized die sets from Gina Marie Designs. The little tags are by MFT and the sentiments are from SU!s Teeny Tiny Wishes (2009) which I still use all the time on cards and projects. I placed one treat to the left to show you what's inside each little box.

Honestly, I could sit and make these treats all day long if I only had some where to distribute them all! We hand them out to friends, neighbors, cashiers, bank tellers, and people waiting in line behind us at stores. I love to see the smiles I get back when I surprise a complete stranger - that's my reward for taking time to make them. 

I'm entering these into the Snippets Playground #424 since everything used to make them came from snippets.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

Carol

Got Eggs?

 I recently won this fun Stamping Bella Oddball Easter Bunny stamp over at the Snippets Playground, so I thought I'd make my first Easter card this year with him. I used 2 pieces of (r) SU! Soft Sky designer paper and split the panels with a narrow strip of lavender cardstock. I framed the bunny image with dark purple cardstock, then colored the image with Copics and glaze pens. The grassy border was done with a SNSS die, while the 2 bunnies were done with Gina Marie Design dies. The sun and cloud were done with Lil Inker dies and the sentiment is a wooden stamp I've had for years.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

Four seasons March challenge - A/G spring with a mood board too

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - add a die-cut

the Critter Crazy Challenge #60 - feature a critter

Craft Rocket Challenge #90 - use an animal

NBUS #36 - never before used schtuff (Oddball Easter Bunny stamp)

Thanks for stopping by and do have a good week ahead. Spring is rapidly approaching and I long for the days where we can sit out on the front porch again and just enjoy some warmer weather!

Carol

Easter Basket

I always give little holiday treats to the people who work at our local bank since we've dealt with them for many years. 

This year I made an Easter basket that holds little chick & duck boxes that I filled with a few small chocolate treats. The basket was created with an old file shared by GinaK designs and was made with her bubble-gum cardstock. I used a few stitched ovals and stamped a (r) SU! Bunny, adding blue to his eye and liquid applique to his tail. I added a strip of ribbon to the handle and attached a MFT tiny tag along with a die-cut little bunny from GMD.

 Here are the boxes of goodies I filled it with. You can tell by the feet which are ducks and which are chicks. Some are holding tiny Easter baskets, while some have just broken from their shells. I used the Lawn Fawn tiny gift box die along with an add-on set for the chicks and ducks. I just love making things like this and in spite of it being time-consuming, it's always fun to see the end results. 

I will enter this into the following challenges:

As You See It Challenge #246 - Easter Thoughts

The Sisterhood of Crafters Easter/Spring Challenge

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Spring/Easter

As Always, thank you for taking time to stop by. I wish you a fabulous day!

Carol

Easter Bunny

 I recently won a prize from STAMPlorations and chose this Broken Glass stencil for my prize. I thought it would make a pretty Easter card so that's what I made. I used distress inks and small brushes to color it. I used  Tempting Turquoise cardstock to make the card base and mat, and used some MFT stitched oval dies to make the focal point. I stamped the (r) SU! bunny image with Memento ink and colored it in with a light tan marker. I used some pink for the eye and ears and used a chocolate marker for the nose. The grass was made with a Sweet'n Sassy die and I added a little bow that was recycled from another card.

I'm going to enter this into the challenges listed below:

NBUS #24 - the stencil is brand new

2 Crafty Critter Crazies March - use a critter

Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge - a/g

Cute Card Thursday Challenge - a/g

Craft Rocket Challenge #79 - use dies and/or spring

Just Us Girls Challenge #574 - word week "animals"

STAMPlorations March Stencil challenge - a/g and must use a stencil

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do!

Carol

Easter Cards

 I thought I'd share some of the Easter cards I made and sent out this year now that they've been received. I made a double point fold card using this tutorial, and added some Lil Inkers die-cut bunnies, along with a stitched circle die from MFT and some grass - die-cut first with a SNSS border grass die, then cut with the stitched circle die to make it all fit together nicely. I used assorted snippets of dsp and cardstock from my stash in spring colors.

  Here's how I did the inside -done with an Echo Park die in matching dsp to the front of the card.

These went together so quickly, I made several in assorted pastel colors.

I'd like to share with the SOS #418 challenge - which is Happy Passover/Happy Easter/Happy Spring

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carol

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to those who celebrate today.

A thoughtful friend sent me this image, and I colored it with Copics, then covered it with glossy accents. I used a Cuttlebug Decorative Tile embossing folder because it reminded me of stained glass windows. The scalloped circle mats were done with SB dies, while the sentiment was done with a SB ribbon tag die. I fussy cut the white greeting panel to go on top, then attached it with some satin ribbon from my stash.

I'll share this with the Cute Card Thursday Challenge 629 - Ribbons

Wishing everyone a peaceful and joyful Sunday. Thanks for stopping by.

Carol

Snippets Make Fun Cards!

I recently pulled out a little bag of Lawn Fawn and MFT plaid, striped and polka dot snippets and made a herringbone panel for a background. Once it was finished, I die-cut the center of it with a Lil Inker Stitched rectangle die, which left a narrow outer frame that I used on the card below. For this card I chose a stamped image I've had for years that someone sent me, and I have no clue who makes it, so if you know, please leave a comment and I'll give credit where it's due. EDIT: Janice M let me know in a comment that this image was by Elzybells - a company no longer in business - thanks Janice - I thought you sent me this one but wasn't sure) I colored the image with fluorescent and pastel Copics, adding some yellow glaze pen on the chick to look like feathers. The sentiment is from SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes.

I will share this card with the Make My Monday #119 challenge - to make your own background paper

Also sharing with the Tuesday Throwdown #454 - anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #628 - anything goes

For my 2nd card, I used the outer frame that was left from the die-cut panel in the above card. I also made a smaller piece of herringbone with the smaller strips and a snippet of white card. I die-cut this piece into a stitched tag, cutting a larger tag with a snippet of matching dsp to mat the main one. I added my last piece of lavender gingham ribbon which was just long enough to make a little bow, along with a sentiment made up of a stitched die-cut circle, an I.O. hugs die (cut and layered 3 times) and a few little gemstones and assorted stamps to make up the sentiment.

I will share this with Pixie's Snippets Playground #375 - must use snippets

Also sharing with A Place to Start April 2020 challenge - use ribbon or twine

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2014 - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do!

Carol