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Last Minute Easter Ideas!
Here are some easy and fun ideas you can make for Easter at the last minute! And it’s really the last minute today, isn’t it?! Just click on the title below each photo to go to the blog post with directions!
Three Fun Little Easter Baskets To Make
This has always been a popular post because these little baskets are so easy to make! Just use a square piece of cardstock or designer series paper. You can see one is cardstock with stamping, one is just designer series paper, and one is cardstock with designer paper layers decorating it. Everyone needs an Easter basket, even a little one! Use them for party favors/decorations at your Easter dinner table.
Diorama Excellent Eggs Easter Card
This is a cute Easter card, but it could also be a home decor item, sitting out on a table! It’s easier to make than you would think. It is two layers of cardstock with the center cut out of the top layer and a little scene of any kind made in the background. The sides are scored and folded, then adhered so the card will stand up and you can see inside…..kind of like those old-fashioned sugar eggs with a hole to peek inside! Did you have one? I did and still have it!
Triangle Box Easter Bunny Treat
If you have followed me for quite awhile you may know that I like to make these triangle boxes for treats or small gifts. They are easy to make and you can make them smaller or larger. This one is cute for Easter! Diagram and directions in my blog post.If you have followed me for quite awhile you may know that I like to make these triangle boxes for treats or small gifts. They are easy to make and you can make them smaller or larger. This one is cute for Easter! Diagram and directions in my blog post.
And if you still need more ideas or ideas for Easter cards, just go to the side (or bottom if you’re on your phone) and find the Category box. Type in Easter and lots of Easter posts, new and old, should come up!
Happy Easter!!
My favorite chocolate Easter Bunny joke! Do you bite the ears off first or the tail?
Easter Joy Candy Treat With Bunny
It’s time to make some candy treats for Easter, like this Easter Joy Candy Treat With Bunny. This is an easy little treat to make, and you can change it up for any occasion or celebration. For Easter, you can’t make a project any easier than to use the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper! Not every paper pattern is exclusively for Easter, but some are. Even the ones that are not “Easter” are just so pretty with bright colors with a bit of a shiny look to the paper. You can use this paper even after Easter.
To make this little treat box, start with a piece of cardstock 5 1/2″ x 7″. Once you know how to make it, I’m sure you could modify the size. Putting the 7″ top of the paper at the top of the Paper Trimmer or Scoring Tool, score at 3″, turn and score at 3″ on the other side. Or you could say, score at 3″ and 4″, giving you a 1″ space in the center for the box that will hold the candy. Turn the paper to the 5 1/2″ side and score at 1″ on both sides in the same way. Crease and fold on all the score lines. From the top and from the bottom, cut on the 1″ score lines up to the center 3″ score lines. This will make the flaps that will form the candy box inside.
In the photo above, you can see how those side flaps fold inward and make the little inside box to hold the candy. I adhered the flaps together to make the box, being careful where one side was shorter than the other, not to get glue past where it will be exposed. OR you can glue these flaps to the front and back sides of the treat box. I did it the way I did it, but realized I could have done it the other way, too. You will see when you assemble it!
Then decorate the front at least, maybe the back, too, if you like. I added a piece of the Easter Joy DSP with tulips and daffodils. The sides are 3 1/2″ wide x 3″ tall, so I cut the DSP at 3 1/4″ x 2 3/4″. The bunny is stamped with Memento ink on Basic White using the Easter Basket Stamp Set. The carrot is also stamped and colored with Watercolor Pencils (simply because my husband was in the way of my Stampin’ Blends!). I cut it out and had the bunny hold it in his paws!
At the top, I punched a small hole through both the front and back and ran a ribbon through. It’s the Garden Green 1/8″ Chevron Ribbon. Instead of tying it in a bow right there, I left the ends loose, and tied another piece of ribbon around in a box to hold those loose ends. I don’t very often think about doing ribbon like this, but I think it is a cute way to do it. Before you tie it up, though, remember to put your candy treat inside! Or a small gift! Have fun making your treat box!
Slimline Easter Joy Easter Eggs and Bunny Card
Here’s another Easter card, the Slimline Easter Joy Easter Eggs and Bunny Card, made with scraps! Scraps of what? When you diecut the basket in the Easter Basket Dies, the part that pops out inside the handle is a scrap. But you can use it for an Easter egg! Especially when you use the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper, which has such pretty colors and designs. If I wanted to be perfect, I could have trimmed the edges of the “eggs” to remove the slight scalloped edges, but they are barely noticeable.
This is a slimline card which means it is long and narrow compared to what we usually make. I like to make slimline cards 3″ x 6″ so that they fit into regular small envelopes (not the business size) that you probably have around the house. I started with a 6″ x 6″ piece of Soft Sea Foam cardstock, scored and folded at 3″.
I cut a strip of Shy Shamrock cardstock for the grass and snipped it from the top to make it 3D grass. You can make it as high or short as you like. The diecut “eggs” from the basket are “hidden” in the grass. I fit in four, made with the Easter Joy DSP. You can use either side of the paper, or you can use plain or stamped cardstock, whatever you like.
The greeting is stamped on a strip of Basic White with Shy Shamrock ink. The Easter bunny is stamped in Memento ink with a little light pink inside the ears and nose. The little Easter eggs scattered on the front of the grass are cut out from the Easter Joy DSP except for the yellow one, which is diecut from the Pastels Shimmer Paper. When you are cutting or die-cutting certain things, if you make extras and save them, then they are handy to add to future cards or projects when you just want a little something more.
If you look in the Online Store at the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper and scroll through the photos of the paper and sample ideas, if you go to the very end, you will see the idea with an egg carton and these Easter eggs along the back in the “grass” and an Easter tag greeting with a bunny. It’s very cute! Save your egg carton, and you can make one too!
Easy-To-Make Paper Easter Baskets
These Easy-to-Make Paper Easter Baskets are not new ideas, but with new paper and stamps, it’s always fun to make new baskets for Easter! Nothing could be easier to make than these little baskets which will hold some “grass” and candy treats! They can be made larger or smaller depending on what you need. Just start with a square piece of paper!
This is a 6″ x 6″ square of Fresh Freesia cardstock. You can use designer series paper as well, as I did on the other basket. The cardstock is scored at 2″ and 4″, then turned and scored at 2″ and 4″ so it looks like a tic-tac-toe board. Fold and crease all the score lines. Cut vertically on the bottom score lines up to the first horizontal score line, then from the top down the same way. This makes the center sections, top and bottom, cut so that everything can be folded to make the basket. If you want to, round the corners with a corner rounder punch or just with your scissors. Also, cut a handle to match about 8″ or 8 1/2″ long and about 1/2″ or 3/4″ wide.
You can use the cardstock or designer paper as is after it is scored and creased, or you can use cardstock for the base of the basket and add designer series paper (or stamped images) to the sides to decorate. For this piece of Fresh Freesia cardstock, cut at 6″ x 6″, each square is 2″ x 2″, so to decorate, the designer paper is cut at 1 7/8″ x 1 7/8″ and glued on the four corners. The paper I used is the Lovely & Beautiful Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper has gorgeous, large flowers primarily on the pages with gold foil accents, but I also loved this paper with the very small flowers. I think it is perfect for an Easter basket!
Fold the sides in to form the basket. Be careful where you apply adhesive (I preferred the Multipurpose Liquid Glue for those seconds when you can move the pieces into place, but you can use Stampin’ Seal if you like) so that you don’t get glue where it will show or be exposed. If you think ahead, try to insert the handle ends between the flaps on each side. If you forget, it is okay; it won’t be noticeable once you put the treats inside.
Decorate the basket however you like. I stamped bunnies from the Easter Basket Stamp Set and cut them out with dies in the Easter Basket Dies. They are colored or shaded with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. For the background behind the bunnies, I diecut circles from the Stylish Shapes Dies on one, and the Spotlight on Nature on the other basket. I stopped there to keep it simple, but you could stamp and diecut other Easter images with the Easter Basket Stamp Set to go with the bunny, cut out carrots, flowers, or eggs from the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper. You could also add a ribbon and bow to the handle. Do whatever you like! Put some Easter grass or paper “shred” in the basket or even make your own by cutting up cardstock into very thin strips, crimping with a crimper or crushing in your hands.
You can also make the basket just out of designer series paper, as I did with this basket. These gold foil flowers are the other side of the Fresh Freesia print flowers on the first basket. The basket is usually a little stronger made with cardstock, but you can use either. These baskets are cute for little gifts, party favors, or maybe table decorations at each place setting at your Easter dinner. Change the decoration and make these baskets for any occasion for little treat or gift holders.
Here is a link to other baskets I have made and posted on my blog in other years. They are still favorites! And a couple of baskets from last year! These are all fun to make and go together quickly, especially after you make the first one and see how they go together. You can even just make one or more for your own home decor! Bet you can’t make just one!
Easter Card With Basket of Eggs
This Easter Card With Basket of Eggs was fun to make and has a slightly different design just to make life interesting! You may notice that the top flap of the card does not come all the way to the bottom of the card. That just makes it a little more fun to open up this card for Easter!
The card base is Pretty In Pink (although in the photo it almost looks like Melon Mambo or some darker pink). Cut the full sheet of cardstock in half vertically at 4 1/4″, then score at 5 1/2″. That will give you either a side fold or a top fold. This card design will have the fold at the top, although you could really do the same type of design with a side fold.
On the front flap of the card, cut off whatever measurement you would like to shorten it. I cut off 1 1/4″ from the bottom of just the front of the card. That leaves space showing from the inside of the card on the outside on which you can add decorative paper, stamping, or a greeting. Stamp the greeting either right in that empty space or stamp it on another paper and adhere it, as I did.
The background layer for the card front is just a whimsical design in the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. It has many colors, so you can choose any for your card base. I chose Pretty In Pink. This is a retiring In Color soon, so if you need more, perhaps you should stock up! This piece of DSP is cut at 4″ x 4″.
The Easter basket is cut from one of the papers with a basket weave look and color to it. Then I added a Crumb Cake scalloped edge to the basket. The Shy Shamrock green grass in the basket is also diecut. All of these dies are part of the Easter Basket Dies, which are currently unavailable. Hopefully, you have these dies already. I also diecut some Easter eggs out of the Pastels Shimmer Paper and put those in the Easter basket! At the top of the basket handle, I added a double bow tied with the Bubble Bath 1/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon. I love this ribbon even though it is not an exact color match. It is often just the right size to use when you don’t have space for wider ribbon.
On the inside of the card, I added a 4″ x 4″ Basic White cardstock piece. To the bottom of that, I added a piece of the Easter Joy designer paper in green, added a stamped, diecut, and colored tulip plus stamped a bunny right on the paper. He has a little color and shading with Stampin’ Blends.
At the bottom of the card, I added a “Happy Easter” greeting on a scrap strip of Basic White, which is adhered in that space. This is stamped with the Easter Basket Stamp Set in Pretty In Pink ink. It would also be pretty to stamp the greeting directly on the Pretty In Pink with Pretty In Pink ink plus some little image, too.
This is an example of how just one simple thing, making the front flap of the card shorter, makes for an unexpected, extra-special card design!
Easter Bunny Card
Here is just a quick and simple card, the Easter Bunny Card. It is mostly made with pieces I already had handy on my table. Sometimes when I am stamping, diecutting, or coloring, I either change my mind about what I am going to use or I make extras at the time. Either way, I save those pieces and if they are lucky, I come across them again and use them on another project!
This card comes from one of the cut-apart panels in the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. I love this paper for its spring colors and images. If you thought about spring and/or Easter, you would likely think of bunnies, flowers, baskets, Easter eggs, and soft pretty colors, and you would be imagining this paper. This paper is thicker than regular designer paper so it’s great for 3D projects, and it has a metallic shine to many of the pages. In other words, if you think about Easter paper, this is it! One feature is a couple of sheets have panels to cut apart and use separately, many of which are great for starting cards or using on scrapbook pages. Just build a little scene for a card on these panels. There are all different ones.
This card has a Shy Shamrock card base, one of the coordinating colors. The layer on that is one of those panels in the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper. The panel just has a green grass hill and pink flowers all in the background. It wasn’t my favorite, but I wanted to use it. I had an extra stamped and die-cut bunny so I added him to the hill with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I had been diecutting Easter Eggs with the Easter Basket Dies (wish they added more than one egg die!) out of the Pastels Shimmer Specialty Paper. I also fussy-cut some Easter eggs from the Easter Joy paper that is totally full of Easter eggs. Some I cut a little inside their border to make them a bit smaller. I glued an assortment of all these eggs on the grassy hill with the bunny, as if he is the “King of the Hill” with all the Easter eggs!
The greeting is stamped in Memento ink on Basic White cardstock from the Easter Basket Stamp Set. Rather than adhering the whole greeting in one piece on the card, I cut around each word to make it a little whimsical to go with the card.
With the card background already made with the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper with these panels, finishing it off as a card is pretty easy! Especially with these cut bunnies to stamp in the Easter Basket Stamp Set! I really love everything about this Easter Joy DSP! And there are patterns that you can use any time of year, not just for Easter. The colorful stripes would be good for a birthday card, the plaids and other generic designs are great for lots of cards or scrapbook pages. The bunnies cute for baby cards!
Easter is coming soon on April 5th so it is time to be making Easter cards, decorations, treats, whatever you like!
Easter Bunny in a Basket Easter Card
There are so many opportunities for making nice Easter and Spring cards using some of the products in the Easter Joy Suite Collection. For this card, however, I used the Pastels Shimmer Specialty Designer Series Paper for the background. You’ll find this paper in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives, but the Easter Joy Suite is in the Spring Mini Catalog.
Since I wanted to use the Pastels Shimmer paper, I used Pool Party cardstock for the card base after trying out a few other colors. The three colors of the Pastels Shimmer Papers are Bubble Bath (which I chose for this card), Lemon Lolly, and Pool Party. These pastels would be so pretty on cards or projects for other occasions. The paper has shimmer on both sides. I used the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder to add some texture to the background. (Right now this embossing folder is unavailable with no date given yet of when it might be expected back in stock. If you are interested, fill in your email on that page to be notified when it is back in stock, or you can check with me, and I’ll see when a date becomes available.)
The basket is diecut with die in the Easter Basket Dies, along with the scallop edge and bow. I used the pink shimmer paper for the bow and scallops. The grass is diecut from Shy Shamrock cardstock. The little tag on the basket is stamped from the Banner Sayings Stamp Set, stamped in Bubble Bath ink. The little pink twine bow is from the current Paper Pumpkin Kit.
The bunny in the basket, the little brown bunny, and the Easter eggs are all stamped with the Easter Basket Stamp Set in Memento ink on Basic White and then colored with Stampin’ Blends. They are diecut with the Easter Basket Dies. For this card, since I was coloring several eggs (I made extras), I just cut those out by hand with my Paper Snips. I thought it was quicker than positioning each egg die over each stamped egg and running it through the machine, since the eggs are so easy to cut out!
The basket is popped up with Dimensionals, and then the white bunny and the eggs are stuck in behind it, but glued flat on the card. I love how the handle is diecut attached to the basket, so we don’t have to deal with a separate piece that has to be attached. If you don’t want the handle, just cut it off.
Easter Sunday will be here in just a little over a month!
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Easter Joy Easter Basket With Flowers Card
This Easter Joy Suite Collection is one that I think is really worthwhile if you like Easter, Spring, or baskets! I am so thrilled with this basket on the Easter Joy Easter Basket With Flowers Card, and I only did the easy version! The die in the Easter Basket Dies cuts out the basket with the handle and it makes slits through which you can really weave other pieces, but if you don’t do that, the lines just look like a decoration on the basket so you can leave it plain. Such possibilities!
This card starts with a base of Crumb Cake cardstock. I put the fold at the top for a change. The green plaid paper is in the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. The designer paper is slightly thicker than usual and some of it is slightly shiny and some has some metallic foil for extra shine! I love the designs of stripes and other generic designs, bunnies, flowers, chicks, Easter eggs, and baskets. There are also some cut-apart panels on which you can make your own scene for a card or scrapbook item. I layered the plaid designer paper on Shy Shamrock cardstock to help it stand out.
The basket is diecut from a piece of the designer paper with the stripes, but I used the Crumb Cake colored side. That made the basic basket and attached handle. (Save the diecut piece from inside the handle. I think you could use it as a hidden Easter egg in the grass on another project!) I diecut the scalloped piece out of Crumb Cake card stock for the front of the basket and a grassy piece out of Shy Shamrock. The basket itself is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, with a teeny tiny one at the top of the basket handle.
I had already stamped, colored, and diecut the little chick and flowers in the Easter Basket Stamp Set. While you have your stamps and ink out, go ahead and stamp a bunch of these images on Basic White cardstock, then they’ll be ready to use on more projects! They are glued flat on the card behind the grass in the basket.
The greeting is also in the Easter Basket Stamp Set. It is stamped with Shy Shamrock ink just on a scrap strip of Basic White. Since the basket is popped up, I added a Dimensional under each end of the greeting and put a little glue under the middle that will go across the basket. For some fun embellishments, I used some teeny tiny pink eggs in the Easter Assortment. This package has 100 adhesive-backed pieces, dots and eggs. The dots are Lemon Lolly and Balmy Blue and the eggs are Pretty In Pink.
You will have fun making cards and scrapbook pages with this Easter Joy Suite Collection or even just the designer paper and Easter Basket Bundle. This is a good time to order any of the products while it is in stock before everyone starts rushing to buy Easter things.
New Stampin’ Up! Products Coming Your Way in 2026!
And not just the January-April 2026 Spring Mini Catalog will be available, but also new January Online Exclusives beginning January 6th! PLUS a new Product of the Month and three new Kits in the Kits Collection! Now that’s a day worth circling in red on your calendar! It’s all coming in the New Year on January 6th! At the same time, the Holiday Mini Catalog will end on January 5th, but now we have this new system of some carryover products being shown in the Online Exclusives and retiring products going in the Last Chance Category. I think I have that right, anyway!
Here are some sneak peeks of the new Mini Catalog and Online Exclusives products that I ordered before Christmas and barely got to look at until now.
These stamp sets are all in the new Spring Mini except for the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set is an Online Exclusive in the Lovely Blossoms Suite Collection. The Easter Basket Dies (part of the Easter Basket Bundle which includes the stamp set and dies) is next to the stamp set and says “Stampin’ Cut & Emboss” at the top with the name of the dies in tiny print above the images. Remember, these are all in the new packaging of the plastic sleeves rather than the cases for the stamp sets so if you want to, you can slide the dies in with the stamp set. I haven’t thought about yet how I will organize these sets with the new packaging.
Three new Spring Mini ephemera packs, the bottom one being vellum with gold foil. I have been loving using the ephemera packs for “quick and easy” cardmaking or other projects!
I didn’t open the packages, but here are the new designer series papers I ordered! Some floral, some Valentine’s, some Easter, and BUGS! Living in Houston, I’m not one to make any cards with bugs on them because we see too many of the real creatures in our daily lives living here in the tropics! But this Cute As A Bug Suite Collection is pretty cute so I did get some bug stamps and bug paper! However, the Cute As A Bug paper isn’t all bugs – it has strawberries and mushrooms on separate sheets as well so I can tolerate that! But these bugs are CUTE!
Some new ribbon and embellishments for all our fun projects!
The Product of the Month for December, True Blue Florals Designer Series Paper, is still available as I write this and can be purchased with a minimum order, after any Rewards or coupons, of $75. When the January POM comes out, if the December POM is still available, you can choose either one with your $75 order. One to a customer.
Beautiful Pastels Shimmer 12″ x 12″ Specialty Paper, perfect for springtime and Easter cards and projects! The colors are Bubble Bath, Lemon Lolly, and Pool Party.
The two photos above show both sides of the new Mixed Up Patterns 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. This paper coordinates with Suites and products in the new Spring Mini.
If Christmas is over, Valentine’s Day is not far behind! This cute Love Notes 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper in the Spring Mini is much like other paper we have had with cut-apart smaller images to use as parts of your cards or other projects and scrapbook pages. But other sheets are regular 6″ x 6″ designer series paper so you get both in one pack!
This may be a little difficult to see, but it is one sheet of diecut flowers and foliage. This is the Covered In Flowers Accents. The whole sheet is white so you can use as is or color the pieces as you see fit. It is called “paperboard” and is thicker than designer series paper. I used it on a card my newsletter subscribers will see tomorrow (so sign up in the red box if you want to receive my newsletters on Tuesdays!) and I liked using the flower very much. They are diecut so you just poke out the pieces you want. For that card I just left my flower as is. Another time I will try coloring and see how it turns out. The only thing is, as I said, it is just one sheet, so you may want multiples.
So this gives you a little peek into what is coming next week, January 6th, in the new Spring Mini and the Online Exclusives for January. Plus there will be three new Kits in the Kits Collection and new Product of the Month (POM). Always remember to check the Last Chance list as well before you place your order and try to find a bargain!
It’s Easter Sunday!
Happy Easter Everyone!
Enjoy this special day (and I hope the Easter Rabbit brought you some chocolate bunnies and eggs in your basket!)!
Old Easter Bunny Joke!
This old bunny stamp and this old Easter Bunny joke made into a card still makes me laugh! It wasn’t my original idea. I got it from someone else online at least six years ago if not longer! And I still have the stamp! And this card was made long ago, too!
It goes along with the talking point, do you bit off the chocolate bunny’s ears first or his butt? The ears would be the easiest, but if you want to keep the main shape of the bunny I guess you would go for the bottom!
In either case, I hope the Easter Bunny leaves you a BIG chocolate bunny to munch on whichever way you like!
Have a Happy Easter tomorrow!
PS: If you need last-minute Easter ideas (cards or treats!) just click on the drop down box under Categories on the right side of my blog, under the Annual Catalog, and choose Easter. You’ll find lots of things that I hope will give you some inspiration!
Storybook Moments Z-Fold Bunnies Card
I think this Storybook Moments Z-Fold Bunnies Card turned out so sweet, not because I made it, but because the paper and the bunnies are just irresistible. I didn’t even add a greeting because this was not meant to be an Easter card (although it could be!) and I wasn’t sure for what occasion I would send it or to whom I would send it. And I could have no sentiment and just write a personal message inside.
This is a Z-Fold card which I think always looks special and yet is simple to make. It is just the front of the card folded back on a center score line. The only tricky part is adhering the center panel on the front, centered properly, so that if you have a stamped greeting on the inside, it is completely hidden from the front because of how you place it.
This card starts with a base of Boho Blue cardstock. Cut the usual card size, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Score at 2 1/8″ and 4 1/4″. Or score the card at 4 1/4″ as usual, then score the card front in half. Half of 4 1/4″ is 2 1/8″. Or just fold the card front in half lining it up with the card fold. Then decorate however you like.
I used the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper for this card. I have liked this paper so much I have almost used all of it and that doesn’t usually happen! I just love the patterns with the strawberries and I got to use both on this card! One has a pinkish background and one has blue. My friend said she’d like to have the blue one for wallpaper! That would take a lot of packages of paper!
I adhered a piece of the pink strawberry pattern to the front panel. It is cut at 5 3/8″ x 2″. The main thing to think about is keeping margins the same wherever you place paper on the card. This measurement gave a teeny tiny margin around the edges. If you want the usual margin, then cut the designer paper a little narrower and shorter. But then so that with the inside layer and the strip on the right-hand edge of the card, IF you are doing those. The inside of my card has a Basic White piece cut at 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″. I played and played trying to decide on the paper design for the edge of the card and finally the blue background strawberry pattern looked perfect.
The Basic White paper on the inside of the card (for a stamped or written message or note) looked too stark white against the other papers so I used a Small Blending Brush (or you could use a sponge) to apply just a very light shade of Crumb Cake ink just around the edges and even a bit in the center. Very light! It’s just enough to match the background of the paper with the bunnies instead of looking so white.
The focal point of the card uses the Storybook Moments DSP pattern with the larger images of bunnies in a variety of poses and actions. I used the largest circle die in the Stylish Shapes Dies because that was the size I needed to get every bit of the bunnies in the die. That left me with nothing larger for the layer. After looking through my dies, I chose the Memorable Blooms Dies (which were on the Last Chance List and now must be discontinued). The octagon shape fit the bunny diecut very well and the Old Olive cardstock helped it stand out from the background.
The strip on the side of the card is 1″ x 5 3/8″, again, matching the same length of the other papers and margins on the card. You can vary this size or not even add it. For a finishing touch, I added a small bow under the bunny piece. I haven’t gone through my ribbons in awhile so this one may be retired as well. It was a Granny Apple Green in a Ribbon Duo Combo Pack. Use whatever you have. Linen Thread would look perfect on this card as well. Another important tip is to only put glue or adhesive on the half of the focal point panel so that it only is sticky on the side going on the Z-Fold and not sticking to the inside of the card!
Here is a photo of the card opened up so you can see how the Z-Fold looks.
As much as I like to add bling or sparkles, I felt this card was fine without anything else, just the bow!
Don’t forget about the Last Chance List! Some items are discounted but not all and once they are gone from there, they are gone. The Last Chance List of retiring products has now taken the place of the Clearance Rack. If a product in any retiring catalog is carrying over, if you don’t see it in the new catalog it is in the Online Exclusives category in the Online Store!
Also, remember that now you get Stampin’ Rewards in your account to spend on a future order any time you place an order of $20 or more in merchandise! In fact, I noticed that when you view a product in the Online Store, it will tell you what your rewards would be for that product!
Storybook Moments Just A Note Card
While Stampin’ Up! is updating the website with the new Stampin’ Rewards program, let’s enjoy another card, the Storybook Moments Just A Note Card, using the adorable Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. You could change the greeting on this card for another occasion, even a “Happy Easter” greeting if you need a last minute card! The Storybook Moments paper has two sheets designed with a variety of individual panels that you can cut apart and use separately, unlike normal sheets of designer paper. This chipmunk was one of those panels, as I call them, so I just cut it apart from the rest of the paper and mounted it on this card! Couldn’t be easier!
This card has an Old Olive cardstock base. The background paper is actually the “other side” of the paper with the separate panels. The other side of this chipmunk image is the background foliage pattern you see on the card. To help the chipmunk stand out better against the background, I layered him on a piece of Old Olive and popped that up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The chipmunk picture is 3″ x 3 3/4″ so the Old Olive layer is 3 1/4″ x 4″.
The greeting is in the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack in the Spring Mini Catalog on page 13. To keep it small, I cut around the words. I also sponged a little bit of Old Olive ink around the edges to take off just a bit of the “whiteness” of the ephemera paper since the rest of the card didn’t have any bright white. The greeting is layered on a small circle, diecut with the Stylish Shapes Dies. It has one Stampin’ Dimensional underneath the area that doesn’t layer on top of the already popped up chipmuch picture. You can put a bit of regular glue under the part that is flat on the chipmunk. I also tied a bow with a double strand of Linen Thread and adhered that to the greeting with a Mini Glue Dot. If you don’t own any Linen Thread, you should definitely get some because it is perfect to use when you just need a little something or don’t have the right color ribbon or twine. I have used it a lot through the years!
I still had a few of the retired Adhesive-Backed Hearts & Flowers, so I added a couple of the little white flowers on the green flower stems around the chipmunk. I think they look cute there!
That’s all there is to making this card! The characters on this Storybook Moments Designer Paper are so sweet and adorable! You can’t get enough of them and I have made lots of cards and treats with this paper. It’s not just for Easter, either. It is perfect for baby cards, scrapbook pages, and other projects, plus just any cards or scrapbook pages you want to make!
Remember, the Stampin’ Up! website should be down today for about six hours, but once it goes back up, the new Rewards system will be in place and you can start earning Stampin’ Rewards on any order over $20! Everyone will earn 10% in rewards on every order of $20 or more; no more accumulating an order of $150 so you can get $15 in free product. Now you can spend your reward on your NEXT order or save them up from several orders to add to a large order. The reward will expire one year from when it was issued and the system will know which ones are the oldest to take off your order first. I think this is a good thing for all customers. I know some stores offer “store cash” with purchases that you can spend the next time you shop, so this is modeled somewhat after that. If you have questions, just ask.
The only thing customers need to do is 1.) Have a Stampin’ Up! account, and 2.) Opt in to the Rewards program. There will be an Opt In box that pops up that will look like this:
If you don’t opt in, that’s fine, but you will not earn rewards although you can always sign up in the future. Demonstrators will no longer be able to take your order and use your credit card number for your order due to new banking and privacy laws. However, if you cannot put in your own online order, you can pay your Demonstrator directly (like with cash, Paypal, check, etc.). I think once we all figure it out the first time it will be fine and a benefit for every customer!
You should be able to order later today when the website is back up and running with the new Stampin’ Rewards program!
Three Fun Little Easter Baskets To Make
If you are looking for some easy and fun Easter baskets to make, here are Three Fun Little Easter Baskets To Make to help you get started! You can copy these exactly or make the basic basket and then choose how you are going to decorate it. These baskets are from five years ago apparently but they have been very popular through the years! I have made newer ones in recent years, including this year, but these just seem classic. Use whatever colors you like, use cardstock or designer series paper, decorate with stamping or punch art, whatever your creative mind comes up with!
This is some Gingham Gala 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper (retired) that I used back then. Since it was already 6″ x 6″ in size, it was perfect. Score at 2″ and 4″ on one side, then turn the paper and score at 2″ and 4″ so you have that tic-tac-toe pattern as I like to call it. All three baskets are made this way. Cut up on the two vertical score lines up to the horizontal score line. Do the same on the opposite side. If you like, you can round off the corners as I did on this basket if you have a punch that can do that. But it is fine if you don’t. Cut a matching handle of about 8 1/2″ x 1/2″.
Fold the paper into a basket and use brads or glue to hold the sides and handle together. The handle goes in between the two side flaps and the center flap. That hides it a little bit on the inside.
This gingham basket is decorated with a little punch art bunny face! So cute! I made the bunny face with a circle die and two oval dies. You could use punches. If you don’t have any ovals, you might have a leaf die or punch that would work or just cut something out by hand. I used the tip end of Stampin’ Blends markers to draw on the parts of his face and the little “stitching” around the sides of the face and ears. Adhere to the side of the basket with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
This basket is made with Melon Mambo cardstock, scored and cut the same way as the basket above. The paper is the retired Garden Impressions 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper (retired). Each section of the Melon Mambo basket is 2″ x 2″ so you can cut the designer paper just a “smidge” less than 2″ on each side or 1 3/4″ x 1 3/4″ if you want a little bit of margin showing.
Just fold the sides of the basket together, adhere with brads or glue, adding in the handle as well. Then decorate with a flower such as with the Daisy Punch or whatever you have and add a gem to the center.
This last basket is pretty enough with some floral stamping on the cardstock! It is Pool Party cardstock stamped with flowers in the Painted Glass Stamp Set (retired) with Pool Party ink. Just add a pretty ribbon like this Variegated Petal Pink and White ribbon.
Fill the baskets with Easter grass or paper shred and some Easter candy treats! These would be cute as a little favor at each place setting at your Easter table. Or make one for yourself for a decoration in your home! Complete with chocolate candy, of course!