Here is a fun little Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks, one you may have made in the past to fill with candy. Easter is late this year, but it will still sneak up on us! Now is the time to start having fun making Easter cards to send and maybe some little projects for your Easter dinner or home decorations!
This small little basket is made with just a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardstock and pieces of designer paper. Score at 2″ and 4″ on each side so it ends up looking like a tic tac toe board with six sections. Then on each corner, score diagonally. You can do it easily with the Stampin’ Trimmer by lining up the top and bottom corners on the cutting track of the Trimmer. Don’t score all the way down the paper, just in that corner. That center piece will be the bottom of the basket. See photo below.
This is what your paper will look like when it is all scored and creased.
After the scoring is done, be sure to crease on all the score lines and just see how it is going to fold up into a basket when assembled. Note where the bottom is and put an X on the bottom with a pencil just so you know. Then cut and adhere pieces of designer series paper (or stamp on the cardstock) to each area. The squares will be 1 3/4″ x 1 3/4″. Note that for the four pieces that will go on the corners must be cut diagonally in half and adhered on each half of that scored corner. You do not need a piece of designer paper for the bottom of the basket, that you have already marked.
To assemble the basket just fold up into a container shape, folding those diagonal corners in. The way the basket will stay together is by tieing the four corners together in the center. In order to do that, you will need to punch a hole in each corner. It’s probably best to do this after you adhere the designer paper, but you can do it to the plain cardstock and then just re-punch if needed. You can see the punched holes in the corners in the photo above if you look closely. Run some ribbon around through the holes and then pull and gather the corners to the center and tie the ribbon into a bow.
Add some shred or make your own by cutting very narrow strips of cardstock and crinkle with your hands or with a paper crimper. Then add your treats, like these chocolate Easter chicks!
I spotted this candy at Home Goods and thought it would be perfect for Easter projects…..and it tastes good too!
My basket is made with Pineapple Punch Cardstock and Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper. If you are using a paper with a certain pattern, make sure you have each piece going the way you want it to go on the finished basket. The ribbon is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon. The Easter greeting is stamped from the Fable Friends Stamp Set and die-cut with a die in the Stitched Labels Framelits Dies. If you didn’t have this die set you could just cut a rectangle or an oval for the front of the basket.
That’s how you make this Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks and anyone can do it, even with a larger piece of cardstock. Make one for a little Easter treat or decoration at your house!
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