Easter Bunny Baskets

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with some adorable Easter Bunny baskets that I whipped up with Suzanne Cannon's electronic cutting file available in the Silhouette store.  It was so quick and so easy I made a bunch of them.  I cut my first few with cardstock but much preferred the baskets I made with two sided patterned paper. 

These would be perfect to adorn your Easter dinner table.  Make a basket for each place setting out of different pastel colours and then put in a few chocolate eggs (or even a hard boiled egg).

Here's what the cut file looks like - only two pieces - fold the box up on the score lines and attach the handle.  Adorn with bunnies as desired.  The bunnies would also make an excellent border on a card or scrapbook page (note to self for a future project).

Happy Easter everybody!  May your day be filled with chocolate eggs and a delicious Easter dinner.

Easter Tulip Lantern-15 Minute Wonder

Hi y'all!

Robyn here today with an

Easter miracle.

Yes you can make this as a last minute gift in only 15 minutes 

and

it's currently on sale in the Silhouette Store!

On the Mat

Easter Tulip Lantern

You can watch an assembly video
(only the holiday has been changed!)

Folds flat for mailing.
Only one piece!

and looks lovely with a battery votive light inside.
Additional bunnies optional!

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Tulip Easter Egg Holder / Easter Egg Holder Bunny Style-15 minute wonder!

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here

 with a Egg display project plain and fancy!

The bunnies box can be done in 15 minutes! I timed it!

The tulips do take a bit longer.

Egg design by my afterschool kids!

They give new meaning to create without limits!

All files can be found in Suzannes Silhouette Store

There are several more styles so you will just have to hop ever there an take a peak!

On the Mat

Tulip Easter Egg Holder

On the Mat

Easter Egg Holder

Get hopping  on your digital crafting!
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Flourished Shamrock - Atomic Lucky - ECD Friend - May Your Longest List - Side Easel

Yogi here today and it's almost time for St Patrick's Day...

I'm using a stamp that was meant for Christmas... but with a little masking it's now good for any time of the year. How many stamps or dies do you have in your stash that you only use for what they were originally meant for?? Why not look at them again and see what you can do with them - you'd be surprised...

I'm using an A Way With Words dies  "Friends"  from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE

I'm also using a quote and sentiment stamps from Quietfire Design  ("May Your Longest List at Christmas..."); ("You Are..." 5pce set)

Also using a couple electronic cut files from Suzanne available on Silhouette. Click image to purchase. 

 

  and the digi paper available from Suzanne on Quietfire Design 

 

Opened the two Silhouette files. Decreased the size of Lucky to 6.5"w. Cut from white cardstock and colored while on my mat with various distress green pads. Removed from mat and embossed both shamrocks using Emerald Creek "Green Sparkle" embossing powder. Clear embossed the tiles for Lucky. Mounted the tiles onto a dark green cardstock and trimmed down.

See template image at right to create the card structure. I used a 12"w light green Bazzill Monochromatic cardstock cut to 5"h. Scored and folded at 7". Then scored diagonally across the 5" section.

 

Fold the "A" over and use it as the template to cut a front piece the width of the card and diagonally to the diagonal score line. Image above card template image on template. Adhere to front of card.

Using my Tim's Stamping Platform, stamped the "You Are So" using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed.

Adhered the "lucky" strip on the bottom and them the flourished Shamrock of the edge of the fold.

 On the floor: Printed out the digi paper of the smaller shamrock pattern, trimming down and adhering to floor.

Again used my Stamping Platform, masking of the "Christmas" words and stamping using the black. Stamped the bottom part of the quote onto tracing paper and repositioned my card and stamping. Clear embossed the quote.

Scored the shamrock and adhered to floor to act as my stopper.

Die cut the Friends, fussy cutting the "s" off... inking with a green pad and embossing with the green sparkle embossing powder.

Raided my stash for the letters for "My" (Elizabeth Craft Designs "Upper Case Alphabet")

Happy Birthday Balloons Box Card/ Happy Birthday Gears Box Card, and more!

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here with

  Suzanne's latest Silhouette files to the rescue

as I have hundreds of spring birthdays!

I'm highlighting two of the new birthday card boxes- they fold flat for shipping- they are all one piece (and embellishments)

and

 are all on sale right now 50% off!

on the Mat

Happy Birthday Balloon Box Card

Scraps make great balloon bunches! and put some into your card for an opening surprise.

The little long tab on the top is the only place you need to put adhesive.

On the mat

Happy Birthday Gears Box Card

15 minutes or less for this one!

Grunge it up or not!

***12yo male gender identity testimony***

"Cool Miss Robyn!"

Others in this collection:
Happy Birthday Flourished Box Card

Happy Birthday Brushed Box Card

Thanks for visiting and I encourage you to get cutting!
Do ask if you have questions and comments are welcomed.

Pansy Cards

Hello, Connie Nichol here with two cards featuring the pansy cut file available here in the Silhouette Design store.  I love pansies.  They are so cheerful and one of the first flowers I see for sale in local greenhouses in the springtime.  Because they tolerate some frost, I can plant some pansies in the front of my house long before I would dream of planting any other flowers.

I created the card just as it came on the cut file, but you could certainly think about just cutting out the pansies and using them to adorn just about anything.    (Hmmm, I just inspired myself to create a scrapbook layout with a bunch of pansies.  Stay tuned.....)

I started with purple cardstock and a yellow pansy, and then flipped the colours around to see how that worked.  I think I prefer the purple, but the yellow is nice too.  And that's the beauty of electronic cut files - trying different colours and sizes.  Next time I will try a white pansy with a purple face, a yellow pansy with a black face and a blue pansy with a white face and they will all be beautiful.  Just add a Quietfire Design stamp and you are good to go.

I feel fortunate I was able to make these cards at all since I had a 'helper'.  My cat Charlie was quite interested in the movement of the electronic cutter and also wanted to help glue.  Sigh.  

I'm hoping spring comes soon so I can go buy some real pansies.  Their little faces just make me happy.  Happy paper crafting!

Flourish Heart-Pop Up, Leafy Heart, Cherish

Hi y'all!

Robyn here with a card suitable as a last minute valentine or any occasion 

you want to tell someone you care.

Glitter has been kept to a minimum incase it goes out to someone who is sparkle impaired!

From the inside out...

Flourished Heart

On the mat

This is the fun and freedom of digital cutting!

• ungroup
• make compound path
• release compound path
• regroup
• duplicate
• rotate
• making sure all essential parts are slightly overlapping, Weld
• delete non-essential points in point editing
• Cut and fold
• Admire!

Back to the front!

Leafy heart

On the mat

• Stencil, Elizabeth Craft Designs Hearts and Paws, using worn lipstick distress ink.(sold out!)
• Die Cut Elizabeth Craft Designs , A Way With Words, Cherish

Create a rectangle on the mat to size your heart frame.

Cut and paste it all together and share the love around!

The next few weeks we are going deep into the archives to use our oldest stamps and dies from 

Quietfire Design.

Outtake from this project and  WOYWW here.

Y'all come back now! Hear!

Comments and questions welcomed.