Monday, March 30, 2015

Eggstra Special Easter.

Hi there!

Marlyn (of Montreal Confections) and I collaborated on a fun Easter egg party, devoid of any bunnies and carrots. We decided it would be all about the eggs and woven baskets:

eggstra special easter party

I scored a few giant craft Easter eggs from Target (before they close their doors in Canada - sob!) and decided to springboard the entire party decor from there.

eggstra special easter party

Lawn Fawn has the cutest Easter basket image that I used to decorate the pink-lemonade-filled bottles.

eggstra special easter party


Marlyn made the most beautiful giant Easter egg cookies. I love the stencil detailing she achieved!

eggstra special easter party

Marlyn also made a woven basket cake, with giant chocolate-covered-marshmallow eggs on top:

eggstra special easter party

The edible wafer paper is a fun alternative to creating the woven look with icing!

I matched her basket-weaving with my own cupcake wrappers:

eggstra special easter party

I have a quick photo tutorial to show you how I created the wrappers. It looks time-consuming, but since the cutting doesn't have to be perfect, it goes by pretty fast:

eggstra special easter party

Start out by fringing the cupcake wrapper from the bottom, but stopping before any of the scallop detailing at the top.

eggstra special easter party

Take a second wrapper and cut it into thin strips, lengthwise. You see now what I meant about the imperfect cutting, hee.

eggstra special easter party

Start weaving! I place a tiny piece of tape to hold each row as I went along, so that I didn't undo my progress so far.

I only wove in 2 or 3 rows per wrapper.

(Sidebar: you just got a glimpse of my newly-stained dining room table top!)

eggstra special easter party

You could leave it white, or sponge it for a more natural wicker look. That's all there is to it!

I hope you like our little Easter Egg party. I always love working with Marlyn!

eggstra special easter party

♥.

7 comments:

  1. Absolutely fantastic decorations!!! I love it all...everything looks so tasty! Thank you for the awesome tip on the woven basket.

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  2. Wow! This Easter party looks amazing! I love the woven cupcake wrappers-genius! The cake looks amazing too!

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  3. This is totally awesome Elena ! Love the fresh colours... It looks so yummy !!! Hugs, blessings and love from Catherine

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  4. Super cute Easter party! I absolutely love the egg-theme and the woven cupcake wrappers are genius!

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  5. So cute! Loving all those great baked treats, the woven cupcake baskets turned out amazing!

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