Easter's On It's Way

I found a pack of Jiffy Pots for around $2 for 22 pots. These are the peat pots for starting seedlings. I used some acrylic paints to cover them. And then with just a little bit of ribbon and a couple of products from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff and I had an inexpensive but cute Easter basket for holding little treats.

I used the Egg Basket Template to cut some bunnies with my Cricut and SCAL. I used this SVG set to cut the Easter egg in the center of the flower above and for the tag on the top Easter basket. The top Easter basket also uses a digital stamp from the LSS Cute Easter set.

It's getting much closer to Easter. Do you have your Easter projects all finished? Be sure to check out LSS for some great cut files and digital stamps which will make your Easter projects shine! Also, stop by Lindsay's blog to see more project ideas and to see if she's got a freebie for you today...she usually does!
Project Recipe
Paper: SU Mellow Moss CS, PTI Raspberry Fizz CS, Gina K White Pure Luxury CS. DCWV PP, scrap tissue paper
Stamps:LSS Cute Easter set
Tools: cuttlebug, Provocraft Swiss Dots Embossing folder, Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities, copic markers, Cricut, SCAL, Egg Basket Template, SU Scallop Circle Punch
Embellishments: Ribbon (Walmart and Hobby Lobby), SU Sweet Pea Stitched Felt, Paper Studio Flower brad, Folk Art Acrylic paints

Look, Ma! No Stamps!

Kinda weird to claim "no stamps" on a post about Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, but it's true. I didn't use any stamps for these two projects. I did use one of Lindsay's fantastic SVG Cut Files for the Cricut and Sure Cuts Alot. This one is called Egg Basket Template. It has this great egg basket cut file but there is so much more!

The egg-shaped basket alone is worth the price of the ticket, but see that cute little bunny. That is also included in the file. I used it to create a simple Easter card.

Isn't he adorable here with some embossing? I just grabbed some scraps from the scrap drawer ( I so need to use them up!), a piece of ribbon and the bunny. Simple, Easy, and Cute! You can grab this set today over at MyGrafico and it's on SALE! All items in the LSS shop at My Grafico are on sale for 30% off until midnight tonight!
Project Recipe

Paper: SU Pink Passion CS, PTI White and Dark Chocolate CS, My Mind's Eye Home PP, various scraps 

Stamps: NONE

Tools: LSS Egg Basket Template, Cricut, SCAL, cuttlebug, Swiss Dots Embossing folder, EK Success Corner Rounder

Embellishments: PTI Berry Sorbet Dotted Satin Ribbon, Paper Studios Pearl, Felt heart (unknown)

It's a Tough Job

Meet Henrietta Hen from Sweet n Sassy Digi Stamps. This is one hard working gal! She laid this giant egg for me to give to someone who's had a rough time lately. The inside of the card reads "And you thought you had a hard day!"
Growing up, we raised chickens for the eggs and my sister and I used to have to go out and find the eggs. I always felt a little guilty "stealing" the eggs from those poor chickens (plus, I've never really been crazy about eating eggs, anyway). Never had a hen lay one this big!
The challenge this week at the Sweet n Sassy SNR Digi Day was to use pink and yellow. There's still time to play and receive this digi stamp for free just for playing along before 10pm Eastern time Monday, March 8!
Project Recipe

Paper: SU Pretty in Pink CS, Neenah, PTI Lemon Tart CS, TAC Gentle Beginnings PP

Stamps: SNS Henrietta Hen, (the sentiment is my own)

Tools: Cuttlebug, embossing folder, SU Scallop Trim border punch, bow easy, copic markers, prisma pencils

Embellishments: PTI Lemon Tart Satin Ribbon

(egg)

SU Regal Rose Grosgrain ribbon, EK Success 2" Scallop circle punch (for flower), K&Co. Wild Raspberry Layered Accents

An Easter Parade

This started out as a can of peanuts, but you know I just couldn't bring myself to throw away a perfectly good container, so it got tucked away in a drawer until I came up with an idea for recycling it. A little Easter grass tucked inside the can and the chocolate bunny has a new home!
I did some paper piecing with the eggs which are part of the LSS Cute Easter set. I printed the eggs out on different patterned papers and then used my copics to add dimension to the swirls. Look! I even did some hand cutting (gasp!). I know it's just eggs, but "baby steps"! I made the tissue paper flowers all by myself by punching and scrunching. I love making those flowers.
Next up, I grabbed another image from the LSS Cute Easter set. This is an adorable Easter basket full of yummy eggs.

I colored this with my copics and prisma pencils. The sentiment is from a Close to My Heart egg stamp set that I've hardly ever used but thought it was really appropriate for the card. I just couldn't figure out how to design the card. Everything I tried seemed to look like every other card I've ever designed. Ever had those moments? So I gave up and went to Melissa Craig's Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge blog for the sketch for this card. This sketch really appealed to me and I was able to finish this up in a jiffy!
If you didn't come here from Lindsay's blog, be sure to stop on over there and see what digi delights she has for you and what freebies she might have on the blog today!Also, don't forget to visit the design team's blogs. Everybody's been super busy putting together some great projects with Lindsay's stamps.  It's definitely not too soon to be working on your Easter projects. Be sure to visit the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff shop to grab some digis for your projects. Easter will be here soon, though I don't know if the Easter bunny will be able to get in for a visit to all of you who have been buried under snow this winter.
Project Recipe

(can)

Paper: TAC Gentle Beginnings, PTI Bitty Dots Basics, SU Close to Cocoa CS

Stamps: LSS Cute Easter set

Tools: Fiskars paper crimper, SU Scalloped Circle Punch, copic markers

Embellishments: Michaels fringed ribbon, SU Stitched Felt Sweet Pea, Paper Studio brads

(card)

Paper: SU So Saffron, Green Galore, Tempting Turquoise CS, PTI White CS, TAC Gentle Beginnings PP

Stamps: LSS Cute Easter Set, CTMH Easer Eggs (sentiment)

Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities dies, Martha Stewart Arch Lattice border punch, SU Eyelet Lace border punch, copic markers, prisma pencils

Embellishments: Paper Studio flowers, Imaginisce Ring Around the Rosies flower, SU pink corduroy brads, Basic Grey brad