Which came first … the Easter chicken or the egg?

I’m enjoying a lovely long Easter weekend with my family and made a little card and gift for my daughter…

I saw gift boxes similar to this on Margaret’s blog and fell in love with them.

Margaret is a fellow member of our Pink Ladies’ team and she is so talented,

you can check out her beautiful projects here.

and the lovely Anca, another fellow Pink Lady, showed us how to make these cute little chicks using the owl punch…

I love being a part of the Pink Ladies – it’s great to be a part of such a great team - everyone is so helpful and willing to share ideas, tips and projects.

Happy Easter!

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Here’s what I used to make today’s cards – all supplies from Stampin’ Up!:

cardstock: so saffron, elegant egg plant, whisper white; stamp sets: teeny tiny wishes; inks: early espresso; punches: word window, modern label, owl, hole, itty bitty flower, 1 3/4″ circle; accessories: international bazaar dsp, whisper white taffeta ribbon, pumpkin pie stampin’ write marker pen, simply scored scoreboard.

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Quick and easy punch art Easter bunny and tutorial…

With Easter being early this year, despite the snow outside, I decided to make some super cute punch art  Easter cards for my friends and family, using Stampin’ Up punches and some of their gorgeous designer series paper.

The first one for my best friend, Debs, using the Birds of a Feather dsp –

I really like the pastel colours of the designs in this set of papers, and how cute the egg pattern looks on the flower pot.

I added a sentiment from the teeny tiny wishes set, stamped in marina mist, punched out with the word window punch and layered onto a modern label punched shape, with a few white gel pen doodle dots for highlights.  I also tied a small bow from 1/4″ stitched grosgrain ribbon, and adhered it with a glue dot.

A close up of the eyes …

I loved this cute little guy so much I made another, this time a 6″ x 6″ card using the Sunshine & Sprinkles dsp from the spring/summer catalogue …

I love those fluffy clouds and the pretty Easter colours of the striped paper too …

Would you like to make one of these cute bunnies yourself?  It’s really easy!

You will need the following Stampin’ Up punches …

 ornament
extra large oval
large oval
small oval
narrow oval (retired)
¾” circle

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and for the eyes and nose? ….

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the paper doily sizzlit – found on page 191 of the main catalogue …

you know those bits you usually poke out and throw away?  Well don’t dispose of them … they are the perfect shapes for eyes and noses!  Cut one doily in whisper white, and one in basic black.  Not only will you have a large supply of punched pieces to use on your cute bunnies, but you’ll have two gorgeous doilies for use on your other projects too!

I have a free tutorial showing how to make the punch art bunny here.

And there you have it - a super cute, quick and easy punch art bunny to use on your projects.  Just change up the colours and the bunny could be used for baby or children’s projects too.  Hope you have fun making him!

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Here’s what I used to make today’s cards – all supplies from Stampin’ Up!:

cardstock: crumb cake or soft suede, whisper white, certainly celery, basic black, pretty in pink, daffodil delight, tempting turquoise, lucky limeade; stamp sets: teeny tiny wishes; inks: chocolate chip, pretty in pink, crumb cake, marina mist; punches: ornament, word window, modern label, extra large oval, large oval, oval, narrow oval (retired), ¾” circle; accessories: paper doily sizzlit, big shot, stampin’ write markers in basic grey and tempting turquoise, white gel pen, stampin dimensionals, tombow glue, glue dots, 1/4″ stitched grosgrain ribbon, paper snips, sponge daubers.

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A really sweet Easter …

We made an Easter cake in class this week … it’s a chocolate cake filled with chocolate buttercream, covered in chocolate flavoured icing, topped with a chocolate Easter egg covered in chocolate icing, filled with chocolate mini-eggs! Death by chocolate! But what a way to go!

 

Great fun to make – and the smell of all that chocolate was delicious!

Everything was edible, the ribbon, the bow and even the little primroses…

And, as it was our last cake class before Easter, I made little Easter gifts for each of the girls in my class.

I started by making some punch art bunnies …

Then added some sweeties – no chocolates as there was enough of that on the cakes!

Instead I added a few boiled sweeties wrapped it pastel coloured papers …

with punch art bunnies to top each one, and designer series paper for colour on each

whisper white bunny.

They looked so cute as a little bunch of bunnies!

All papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: chocolate chip, whisper white, certainly celery; punches: scallop circle, large oval, small oval, 1/2″ circle; inks: chocolate chip; accessories: soft subtles designer series paper, chocolate chip stampin write marker pen, crop-a-dile, sentiment stamp (retired).

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Punch art bunnies for a Happy Easter …

Look what we made in cake class for Easter … how cute!

The chocolate icing tastes like pure chocolate, and the smell is just delicious!  You can imagine what the classroom was like – now I know what the children who entered the Willy Wonka factory experienced!

 

I can’t wait to make some more bunnies – I just love this cake decorating! 

I saw the cutest punch art bunny on Pinterest recently and followed the tutorial to make bunnies for some Easter cards.  I was too late to enter the colour challenge over on the ColourQ website, but I just loved the colours for last week’s challenge – all bright and beautiful and so perfect for Easter! 

I added another colour – pumpkin pie – and made a card from coloured cardstock…

… and some more with polka dot designer series paper…

So no stamping this time, just a little sponging, paper piecing and loads of fun making them …

And I did resist the temptation to put “Hoppy Easter”… which is really good for me! 

 

All papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: chocolate chip, whisper white, pretty in pink, tempting turquoise, certainly celery, pumpkin pie, daffodil delight, regal rose; punches: extra large, large oval, small oval, 1/2” circle; inks: bashful blue, pretty in pink; accessories: blossom party die, cropadile, timeless type junior alphabet dies, chocolate chip stampin write marker pen, stampin dimensionals.

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