easter treat bags

Hi there!

I'm here and on the Lawn Fawn blog today, with little treat bags that can decorate your Easter table, or even work as little place-card favors.

I used the basket image from Eggstra Special Easter, and the egg and bunny hat from Chirpy Chirp Chirp to decorate the tote bag.



Hanging from each, I attached a banner flag that reads happy easter, but you could always attach a name instead.



For a quick tutorial, and to find out which teeny tiny stamps I used to make the bunny's face, click over to the Lawn Fawn blog today!

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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:

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.



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

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



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



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:



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:



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



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



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!)



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!



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layered grassy cupcake liners {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there! Lawn Fawn inspiration week continues! I'm showing off an idea for the grassy cupcake liners: layer 'em!



Double, or triple layered?

And, for Easter, or for a woodland party?

I have had those sugar gnomes for YEARS. Now that this photoshoot is done, I finally used up my stash of them. I featured them 2 other times, just on my blog. ha. If you could find them, I'd give you a virtual high five.

Here's a quick look at how to layer the cupcake liners:



The top 2 layers fit together with no explanation, but if you would like it tripled, you'll have to pencil in the curve of the cupcake liner and cut away the excess. Also, cut away a bit on each side, so that the slot and tongue are free to connect.

As you can see, it doesn't have to be perfectly cut out to look perfect around a cupcake.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog today - click!

Eggstra special {lawn fawn}

Hiya!

The Lawn Fawn girls are teaming up with Scrapbook Adhesives this week. It was like Christmas morning when I got my box of tape runners, foam squares, and adhesive sheets in the mail. Thank you, generous Scrapbook Adhesive folks!

I made an eggstra special eastery card:

I gave some eggstra extra dimension to the basket by hand-cutting a second handle and propping up just the bow.



The open egg with the jellies spilled out is also propped up. Now that I'm looking at it, I'm wondering why I didn't color the inside of that egg. The plastic eggs aren't usually white inside, are they? Let's pretend this is a fancy egg with a white enamel interior. More Pottery Barn than Target...mkay?

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the Lawn Fawn blog - click!

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Earresistible! {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Lawn Fawn's February inspiration week. Today, we're showing off the Easter-themed set, "Eggstra Special Easter."

I love the bunny with the bite taken out of his ear!

I want to make a sort of wreath around him, so I bent the tulips and framed it out at the top and bottom with the sentiment.

To fill in the gaps at the top, I found the little squiggly line image in the new "Flirty Frames" set. perfect!



He looks so chocolately.... mmmm....

I kept the colors springtime-fresh, with the yellow gingham background. I can't stop using the new "Gingham Backdrops" set. It lines up so easily!

There's more to see on the Lawn Fawn blog this morning - click!