Easy Easter Folded Candy Holders
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Easy Easter Candy Treats
If you want to make some last-minute Easy Easter Candy Treats, these will work! These are quick and simple and you can vary the size according to the candy treat you have to put inside. You could even not cut an opening in the front and just decorate the front for the occasion and tuck your candy treat inside. You can make these taller or wider.
These candy treat holders are 2″ x 8 1/2″ to start with but depending on your candy, you can cut them down a little shorter. The 2″ width is so the piece of cardstock will fit into the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Cut the 2″ x 8 1/2″ strip of cardstock and punch each end in the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Then place one end at the 3 3/4″ inch mark on the Paper Trimmer and score, then turn and place the other end at the 3 3/4″ mark and score. That gives you the little space in which to place your candy treat.
Before you put the candy inside, decide if you want a different color background inside. The Daffodil Yellow treat holder has a Whisper White piece stamped with the little green leaves in Welcome Easter, although you really can’t see them! The Melon Mambo treat holder doesn’t have an inside layer. However, on that one, I stamped the little flowers in the Welcome Easter Stamp Set on the front. The greeting is stamped from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and punched out with the handy dandy Classic Label Punch. To decorate the Daffodil Delight holder, I just added some small Rhinestone Jewels.
I didn’t have any exciting Easter candy but these little chocolate bunnies which are pretty flat fit in just fine. So if you had a larger chocolate bunny, for example, you probably would need to make the base wider and therefore the strip longer in the beginning. Then you can die-cut or punch some kind of opening in the front. Just add a ribbon to tie the top together and you’re done!
Sometimes you need to give credit where credit is due so I must give credit to myself! I made a similar Easter treat last year but I had a cuter piece of candy to put inside! You can see that post HERE.
None of us will be having big family Easter dinners this year, so it would be easy to make one of these Easter candy treats to put at each place at the table for you and your spouse, or children, or whoever you are living with during this quarantine time.
Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card
Today I needed to make an Easter card for my son that was a little less frilly than the ones I already made and I had something in mind, but not this Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card. But once I started looking at my designer papers for the one I was going to use, I saw this Garden Lane Designer Series Paper and I thought that leafy pattern would go well with a bunny!
The card base is Garden Green but there are other greens that go with the paper. For the scalloped Layering Circle Die underneath the bunny, I chose Pool Party because it looked like it matched the bluish leaves a little bit.
The bunny from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set is stamped in Memento Ink and die cut with the Stitched Shapes Die. Then I had fun coloring him in with Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends.
The Easter greeting is from the same Welcome Easter Stamp Set and is just stamped on a strip of Whisper White. The bunny and the greeting are both popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
That’s all there is to this card! The Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card is an easy and fun card to make!
Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter
It’s been a long time since I have made a diorama card but it was fun to make this Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter. Diorama cards can be made in different ways, even fancier than this one. A diorama card is a 3D card with an opening on the front layer that lets you see a scene of any kind on the inside. Sometimes there is even a middle layer. But let’s start with this one!
You just need two pieces of cardstock, each piece 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. I chose Pool Party for my front piece and Whisper White for the back. On each piece, score 1/2″ and 1″ from each end.
Then you will crease those score lines so that your card front pushes out and the back piece pushes back. You can see which way these score lines go from this top view of the diorama card.
Now you will stamp or decorate that back piece before you assemble the card. But when you are ready to adhere the two pieces of the card together, use something like Tear & Tape Adhesive or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. All you have to do is adhere that end 1/2″ on the front and the back piece together.
For my Easter diorama card, I used the Welcome Easter Stamp Set. I stamped the three little characters, colored them with Stampin’ Blends, and cut them out with my Paper Snips. I also used the Happy Easter greeting stamped in Pool Party from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set.
On the front of the card in the center area, I die cut with a Layering Ovals die. You could use a circle die, punch, square, whatever you like. I played around with the placement of the bunny, chick, and lamb before adhering the two pieces together. You want to make sure that you can see what you want to see well enough.
You want to think about the background. I stamped a few leafy boughs from the Path of Petals Stamp Set. I didn’t want the rest of the background to just be white so I colored in lightly, just with kind of a scribble motion with a Pool Party Stampin’ Blend marker. And I drew in some sprigs of grass at the bottom.
The lamb and the chick are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals to give a little dimension inside the card. The bunny is also popped up on a dimensional on the front corner. I still thought the card needed a little something so I used some Iridescent Sequins on the inside and even the outside. Once I added the sequins, I was happy with the card!
Now the amazing part of this card is that you can fold it flat and it is the size of a normal card! It will fit in an envelope and can be mailed!
As I’ve said before, you can use the Welcome Easter Stamp Set to make baby cards with these cute images! You could change the greeting on this Easter card and make it one for a baby, like one that comes in the stamp set.
Here is another example of a diorama card that I made years ago, an oldie but goodie!
Easter is coming soon so try your hand at this Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter because it is easy enough to make and will the recipient feel like someone special!
Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper
This Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper is one of those cards for which I didn’t really have a design in mind until I made it but I knew what kind of paper I wanted to use. After it all came together I really loved it! I think I will make some more cards just like this one to send for Easter. And Easter isn’t far off!
I was seeing the Noble Peacock Specialty Designer Series Paper being used on some cards and it jogged my memory about having that paper! I have barely used it even though it is beautiful paper! I think products in the Annual Catalog get forgotten sometimes when we are mostly looking at the Mini Catalogs!
One of the coordinating colors with the Noble Peacock paper is Old Olive so I chose that for my card base. Then I just adhered the designer paper on the card base.
The bunny is from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set and is stamped in Memento Ink. Then I colored him with my Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends and a little bit of Flirty Flamingo for his ears, nose, and bottom of his feet. I even drew in some sprigs of grass with Old Olive.
The bunny was die cut with one of my favorite dies of all time, the Stitched Shapes Dies. Then in deciding what color and size scalloped circle to use as a layer under the bunny, I die cut one in Petal Pink Cardstock and one in White Glimmer Paper. As I layered them to see what size I wanted, I saw that both layers looked good together! I love the little bit of pink around the edge and the pretty glimmer paper bringing another texture.
Since I had just received some back-ordered ribbon, the Petal Pink 1/4″Metallic Edge Ribbon, I used that underneath the bunny and popped it all up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting was stamped on a narrow scrap I had of Whisper White and I just cut the flagged ends.
Such a simple card, fun to make, and beautiful! Here is a similar card but with a monochromatic design for Easter. Try your hand at either one of these cards and send them out for Easter or just for spring or to say hello. If you have it, dig in your stash for the fancy-looking Noble Foil Paper to make this Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper.
Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box
Which do you like better, the Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box or the chocolate bunnies?! Luckily, they go together so you can like both and not choose! Any time you need a quick and easy treat box, you can turn to the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog!
I intentionally made this Easter treat super simple. You can decorate these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes in many ways, of course. I started with the bunny in the Welcome Easter Stamp Set. It is stamped in Memento Ink and colored in with a Light Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend marker and a bit of the Dark for shading. For the little bit of pink in his ears and bottom of his feet, I used a Light Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blend Marker.
Since the area on the front of the Tiny Treat Box is fairly small, I just cut out the bunny by hand. I wrapped around a 3/4″ strip of Seaside Spray Cardstock, one of the current In Colors, around the box. If you put the ends of the strip on the front of the box, the junction of those paper ends will be covered up by the image you put on the front of the box. You could also use ribbon, but since I was going to tie ribbon around the top of the box, I just used cardstock. You could also use some pretty border dies to die cut a strip going around the box. You can apply a little bit of Snail Adhesive to hold the strip in place. Then the bunny is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals on the center of the box front.
Be sure to fill the box first with candy treats or a small gift and then tie with a ribbon. This is decorative plus holds the lid of the box closed for sure. The ribbon I used is the Seaside Spray 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon. It is very pretty with the linen and the light blue! I just tied it around in a bow. You could also adhere just the ribbon and then tie a bow separately to adhere to the top of the box if you wanted the bow closer to perfect.
Here is a very similar design with a Clear Tiny Treat Box that I made for Halloween using a strip of designer paper around the box and a Halloween image cut out from designer paper with a ribbon tied around the box.
That’s all there is to it! You could also stamp a “Happy Easter” greeting or a “Happy Spring” greeting. Maybe it would be a party favor at a baby shower and that would be cute with the bunny! Keep a stash of these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand to use for quick treats or gifts or order a quantity for a party or event. For a treat or even a little home decoration, try this Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box for this spring or Easter!
Monochromatic Welcome Easter Bunny Card
If you want to make a pretty quick and easy Easter card, this Monochromatic Welcome Easter Bunny Card is a good one to make! I really like the way this card turned out!
For this card, I stamped the bunny in the Welcome Easter Stamp Set in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. I stamped it in Highland Heather randomly on the Whisper White card front for a background and then on another piece of Whisper White that was die cut with the Stitched Shapes Dies for the focal point of the card. The card base is Highland Heather to match the ink and the scalloped circle layer under the center bunny.
The ribbon underneath the center bunny is the pretty striped Gorgeous Grape 1/4″ Mini Striped Ribbon. Although it is a slightly different purple color, it works just fine and the recipient of your card is still going to love it! I popped up the bunny piece on Stampin’ Dimensionals® and the ribbon’s fold sticks out the top and then tail ends hang out the bottom. Easy and cute!
The greeting is from the same Welcome Easter Stamp Set and layered on a piece of Highland Heather. To add a little something on the greeting I also stamped some of the little flowers in the stamp set at the ends.
A few years ago I made a similar card with a different bunny stamp. You can see it HERE. I stamped the bunny in one color randomly in the background and then colored in just one bunny and added a greeting. That card shows how you can use a bunny stamp to make an Easter card or a Baby card! Bunnies are so versatile!
There are lots of cards you can make simply by using only one color as in my monochromatic Easter card with the Welcome Easter bunny. Try one!
Fable Friends Bunny Easter Basket
Today is the first day of spring, the earliest first day of spring since 1896, so here is a Fable Friends Easter Basket to celebrate! These are so easy to make you could make a ton now in your “free time”!
This is the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper and I liked the Pool Party stripe paper for the basket. And then you can see the floral pattern on the inside of the basket.
The bunny is stamped from the Fable Friends Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog. I love that bunny! I colored his fur and jacket with Stampin’ Blends and then die cut him with a Layering Oval die, then layered on a scalloped oval die. Don’t think I picked the correct color for the scalloped oval to match the inside of the basket but it’s fine!
Just use a 6″ x 6″ square of paper and score at 2″ and 4″. Turn the paper and score again at 2″ and 4″. Then on opposite sides, cut up to the scored horizontal line. Round the four corners if you wish with the Detailed Trio Punch. In the rough (?) diagram below, you can see how you score all the lines like a “tic tac toe”, then cut on the red lines up to that horizontal score line. Then crease and fold on all the lines and begin assembling the basket.
Fold on the score lines and overlap the sides of the basket. You don’t have to be exact on the placement, just try to have both sides pretty much the side. Either adhere with strong glue or use Metallic Brads. Back in the day we were really into brads of all kinds so you probably have some in your stash, but Stampin’ Up! does also carry the Metallic Brads. You can see the sides of my basket in the photo below and I did not put a lot of effort into getting them into some perfect shape!
Last year I made several baskets in one post and you can see those ideas and directions HERE.
I think it just feels better to know that it is spring now! Spring is a happier season, things start growing and blooming, the weather is nicer, we are outdoors more. Look through your designer paper and make a few spring or Easter baskets to brighten up your home. You couldn’t have to put a bunny or anything on the side. You could use cardstock to make the basket and add designer paper on some of the squares. You could just tie on a tag or put a pretty bow on the handle. The handle, by the way, is just a strip of cardstock, probably cut about 1/2″ or 3/4″ wide and however long you would like it. It’s a simple project and would be fun and easy to make if you have kids at home now! Or just make it for yourself! Use larger paper for a larger basket! Maybe I will try that myself! Try your hand at a spring basket like my Fable Friends Bunny Easter Basket!
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Welcome Easter Yellow Chick Card
I just ordered the Welcome Easter Stamp Set recently and it is so adorable I had to make this Welcome Easter Yellow Chick Card. It’s actually a great stamp set that is not just for Easter, as you can see from the stamp set photo! It’s even got a greeting in the stamp set for a new baby and a friend. You could certainly make a lot of cute baby cards and projects with this stamp set, so don’t look at it as only for Easter.
In making this card, I wanted to use the new, beautiful vellum paper, available FREE during these last few weeks of Sale-A-Bration! It’s one of the new products available as the 2nd release during Sale-A-Bration. It is called the So Very Vellum Specialty Designer Series Paper. It comes in three colors: Pool Party, Purple Posy, and Soft Sea Foam.
I just used a card base of Whisper White and added a layer of the Pool Party vellum, sponging it on the back with Multipurpose Liquid Glue so the adhesive wouldn’t show through.
The chick is stamped in Memento Ink and colored in with Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends Markers and the beak and feet in Pumpkin Pie markers. It’s so fun to color with these Stampin’ Blends Markers! I just love to do it! I also colored in some green grass just for fun using the Granny Apple Green markers.
The chick was then cut out with the Stitched Shapes Dies and layered on a scalloped circle die-cut in Daffodil Delight. Then I thought it would be fun to use the Whisper White 5/8″ Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon placed back and forth on the back. I popped this piece up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting is stamped and then layered on a Stitched Rectangle Die in Daffodil Delight. It is just glued on with Multipurpose Liquid Glue or you can use Snail Adhesive.
That’s as easy as it is to make this Welcome Easter Card with the cute yellow chick on the front! Try your hand at making this simple card!
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One of the products that I think will be the most popular is the Painted Poppies Stamp Set. I made this easy card with just some basic stamping and coloring by stamping the group of poppies twice and then quickly coloring in the flowers and grass with the Stampin’ Blends markers. I didn’t color “carefully”, I just dabbed some Light Poppy Parade marker on all the flowers and then went back and dabbed on a little bit of Dark Poppy Parade. I used Granny Apple Green Blends on the stems and drew in some grass.
The greeting on this card is from the Sending Thoughts Stamp Set, FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration! You will find it under the Sale-A-Bration category in the Online Store and in the SAB brochure. I simply stamped it in Memento Black Ink right on the card front to keep things simple! Sometimes we forget “simple”! The card base is Poppy Parade with a bit of Granny Apple Green Cardstock showing under the stamped image.
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It’s Easter Sunday!
Happy Easter from my family to yours!
Hope the Easter Bunny is good to you!
Fable Friends Bunny and His Basket
There’s still a little bit of time for Easter bunnies, so here is the cute Fable Friends Easter Bunny and his basket! I wanted to make a gray bunny for a change and I found a way to make some small Easter eggs with a punch!
The other day I discovered that I could use the Christmas Bulb Builder Punch. I just punched out the bulb and trimmed off the little thing on the end. Voila! You have an Easter egg! I just grabbed some scrap cardstock and designer paper to punch out some eggs, even one stamped heart! Instead of laying in the scrap heap, it is now an Easter egg!
The card base is Pear Pizzazz to coordinate with the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper layer. I liked the look of the leaves as if the bunny is out in the forest with his Easter basket!
The bunny is stamped in Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Love those! I originally thought I would cut out the bunny, but then I thought he might not show up very well so I left him on the Whisper White paper and added the basket. The basket is just a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock embossed with the Basket Weave Embossing Folder. The grass is first stamped with a tiny little grass stamp in the Sheltering Tree Stamp Set. I have actually used this grass stamp a lot! Then I filled in with a Stamping Blends marker. I used Mossy Meadow ink with the stamp and Pear Pizzazz marker. I also sponged a little Balmy Blue ink in the background for some sky. The plain white looked too stark.
The greeting is in the Fable Friends Stamp Set, along with other greetings you can use for other occasions. I used the Tailored Tag Punch to finish off the ends of the greeting. I’m not sure that was the best choice but it’s okay. I used some Gold Faceted Gems for an embellishment. I’m so glad this stamp set is carrying over! It will be great for baby cards also!
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If you own the Fable Friends Stamp Set, make a fun bunny card today and give it to someone on Easter!
Chocolate Bunny Easter Joke
The other day I saw a card online that reminded me of this Chocolate Bunny Easter Joke! I knew I had the Chocolate Bunny Stamp from several(?) years ago and I was able to find it in my huge stash of old retired stamps! Even though it is retired, I couldn’t resist using it for a little Easter funny!
I suppose everyone jokes about which part of a chocolate bunny they bite off first—the rear or the ears! I think I eat the ears first! The important thing is that you HAVE a chocolate bunny to eat at Easter time! I suppose there are less solid chocolate bunnies nowadays than the “empty” ones. Either one is delicious as long as it is chocolate!
You might have noticed that the stamp has the bunny facing one direction, but my Easter card has one bunny facing the opposite direction. So how was this done? It is called “mirror image stamping”. There is a way to do this now with our Stamparatus and I was all ready to use my Stamparatus until I realized…..I had a wood-block stamp! So I went back to the “old-fashioned” technique of doing this.
To do this mirror image stamping, simply ink up the stamp well and stamp the image on a window sheet. Then use the window sheet like a stamp and place it on the paper. I was able to press and rub the image without smearing any ink underneath. The image will be slightly lighter than using the real stamp. On this particular mirror image, I was able to carefully, but not too perfectly, go over some of the lines with the Stampin’ Write Early Espresso Marker, the same color as the ink, just to make it a little darker.
The card is made with a card base of Early Espresso Cardstock with a layer of Pool Party. In order to make it stand out a bit more, I opted to add a layer of Whisper White Cardstock. The bunnies were stamped on Whisper White and cut out.
I had the Make a Difference Stamp Set out to use the letters to spell out the words I used, but I decided instead to just print out the words with the marker. The word bubble stamps are from an old Project Life stamp set. Once I noticed the spray of flowers stamp in the Make a Difference Stamp Set, I used that to stamp, with Versamark Ink, on the Pool Party background.
I have to say, even though I have been purchasing the clear-mount and photopolymer stamps since they came out, with rare exception, having that wood block stamp in my hand as I stamped the chocolate bunnies sure felt good! There is something very satisfying about holding that wood block, even though the other stamps have all their advantages.
I hope you got a laugh out of my Chocolate Bunny Easter card and this old joke that has been around for quite awhile!
Easy Easter Folded Candy Holders
If you are looking for some easy little Easter candy treats, these Easy Easter Folded Candy Holders might be just what you are looking for! The basic holder is so simple to make and then you can add whatever you want for the front design.
You can modify the measurements any way you like to suit what you are putting inside. Besides a piece of candy, you could put a tea bag or a small cookie or maybe even a gift card. As I said, just change up the dimensions.
My sample starts with a piece of paper 9 3/4″ x 3 1/2″. Mine uses the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper. I used the same piece of paper, just opposite sides for the front of the candy holder. When you use designer paper you get to see the opposite side of the paper on the inside. However, you could also use cardstock for the holder and use designer paper for a layer on the front or embellishment. Score the paper at 3 1/4″ from each end. This divides the paper into thirds. The end section on the right-hand side will have a diagonal cut. This piece will fold over and be adhered at the bottom to form a pocket. This is where you can put a piece of candy or tea bag or something. I used Tear & Tape Adhesive.
On my candy holders, I stamped images from the Fable Friends Stamp Set. These were each colored with Stampin’ Blends markers (although I almost used Watercolor Pencils for a change!) and then die cut and layered on cardstock.
In order to have the ribbon going around to tie the candy holders closed, I popped up the images on the front of the holder with Stampin’ Dimensionals at the top and bottom. That way I could run ribbon underneath, in between the Dimensionals, and around the back. I put a little bit of Snail Adhesive on the back underneath the ribbon to hold it in place. The ribbon is the Whisper White 3/8″ Classic Weave Ribbon. (One advantage of white ribbon is that you can dye it another color with reinkers or maybe markers to match something!)
If you want to see the same kind of candy holder made for Christmas one year, click HERE.
You can make these candy holders for any occasion, of course, and make them as simple or fancy as you like. These work particularly well for the square Ghirardelli chocolate candy. I had these Ghirardelli chocolate eggs, which do fit, but they are not flat like the squares. Use whatever you like or modify the measurements on the candy holder to fit your kind of candy or treat. Go have fun making a few of these easy Easter folded candy holders.
Easter Wood Crate Candy Holder With Chick
This Easter Wood Crate Candy Holder With Chick would be fun to make as a treat holder just using some dies and glue! Something a little bit different than a bunny! Make the paper crate, add some Easter grass or paper shred and put in some Easter candy! You have a little treat for someone or put it at each place setting on your Easter table for dinner.
To make the crate I used the Wood Crate Framelits Dies and the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack. Just cut two pieces with the wood crate die. The die scores the paper as it cuts so all you have to do is crease and fold and assemble with some Multipurpose Glue. If you don’t own the Wood Crate Dies just make some other little basket or box by scoring and folding.
The chick is copied from one I made many years ago on THIS little Easter basket. Back then we had a Scalloped Circle Punch, but you can use the scalloped Circle Dies. For the wings, I just cut a scalloped circle into portions. I sponged all the pieces. For the little feathers on top of his head and for his feet, I just found some shapes on some dies that would work or maybe you could use the Blossom Builder Punch. Whatever you have with something resembling the shapes you need! The little beak is just cut by hand. The eyes are punched with the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch and just colored with a black marker. The chick is adhered to the wood crate with a couple of Stampin’ Dimensionals.
You can use whatever color card stock you like or other designer paper. Make the chick with whatever shapes you can punch or die cut. You can also add an Easter greeting on the front. It’s just a cute little treat idea for holding some Easter candy treats or for a little home decoration. Have fun making your own Easter treats to give to some family members, friends or neighbors!