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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