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Make Easy Little Easter Baskets

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Storybook Moments Easter Baskets

It’s time to make some cute things for Easter and here are two quick and easy Easter Baskets! All you need is a 6″ x 6″ piece of paper to make the basket. You can make the baskets with either cardstock or designer paper or both. After that, just decorate the basket a little bit and add some “grass” and treats!

Start with a 6″ x 6″ square piece of paper and score like a tic tac toe. Score at 2″ and 4″, then turn and score at 2″ and 4″. Cut on the two vertical score lines up to the horizontal score line. Do the same on the opposite side. See the photo of the basket with designer paper below to see how the basket paper is scored and cut. Cut a handle of about 8 1/2″ x 3/4″ or whatever size you like.

Crease and fold all score lines. Round all four corners if you like or leave them as is. Form the paper into a basket and use brads, staples, or glue to hold the sides and handle together. Make sure you are putting adhesive so that it doesn’t show from the front. If you think of it ahead of time the handle goes in between the two side flaps and the center flap. That hides it a little bit on the inside. ! Or it can just be glued to the inside of the basket.

If you use cardstock for the basket, you can decorate with squares of designer paper as you see on this layout. Since each square is 2″ x 2″, I cut the Storybook Moments Designer Paper at 1 7/8″ x 1 7/8″.

Easter Basket layout

If you want to decorate the basket handle you can add a narrow strip of designer paper to the cardstock. You can even tie a ribbon on to the handle if you like.

Here is what the front and back of the basket looks like with the flaps folded in and adhered together.

Easter Basket Back Sides

The basket with the Storybook Moments DSP has a base of Old Olive cardstock. I love the strawberry design on this paper. The other basket (the one show above) is made with the Timeless Plaid Designer Series Paper. Each basket has a diecut character from the Storybook Moments Paper. The little mouse is layered on a diecut out of Old Olive. I just found it in my package of cardstock, it probably is a retired die but I liked it. You can use anything that fits the size of whatever decoration you are putting on the front and goes with the size of the basket. The plaid basket has a Calypso Coral die cut circle for a layer made from the Stylish Shapes Dies.

Just do whatever you like to make your basket and decorate it. These baskets only take about five minutes to make! So cute and so fun! Especially with chocolate candy inside!

Timeless Plaid Easter Basket

Storybook Moments Mouse Easter Basket

Easter Triangle Treat Box with Bunny

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If you have been around for a while, you know I have made MANY of these triangle boxes for various occasions and made them in multiple sizes! They are so easy yet look so cute! If you want an Easter treat box, try this Easter Triangle Treat Box with Bunny.

Here’s how to make one and then just decorate however you like!

Triangle Box Drawing

For this Easter triangle box, I used a piece of the Country Floral Lane Designer Series Paper. (It’s not just for Valentines!) It is cut at 4″ x 8″ but you can vary the size. Use the diagram above to see how to score, but it is simple! At each end of the paper, put a light pencil mark at the halfway point which in this case would be 2″. Score the paper in half at 4″. Then in that awkward manner, with your Paper Trimmer, score from that 2″ middle point at one end down to the middle score line which will be on a diagonal. Do that on both sides of one end, then turn the paper and score at the other end in the same way.

Now fold and crease all the score lines. You will see how it will fold together to make the triangle box. Determine which side will be the front or top of your box that you will want to decorate and how the flaps will go so that the top view of the box will have the fold of the flaps showing and not the open side. Pay attention to the pattern direction if it matters. Once you see how it folds together how you like, you can use any hole punch to punch holes in the sides near the top. You want the two holes on each side to align. This is how your paper should look creased and with holes punched.

Easter Triangle Treat Box with Bunny diagram

To decorate, I stamped one of the bunnies in the Easter Bunny Stamp Set in Memento Ink and colored with the Soft Suede Combo of Stampin’ Blends markers. I cut out the bunny and popped him up over a Balmy Blue scalloped circle die in the Layering Circles Dies. I already had some extra stamped and colored Easter eggs and a carrot from another project so I just adhered those to the front.

After adding some treats or a small gift inside the triangle box, just close it up and tie a ribbon through the holes you already punched. I used the White 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon because it’s white and it’s festive and pretty!

You can see what the triangle box will look like from the side.

I’ve made these triangle boxes for Halloween, Christmas, and just for fun! Here’s a Halloween one if you want to see another idea! You really could make an extra-long box, also, just follow the basic scoring directions – score in half and score diagonally from there to the middle point of the end, on each end.

If you want to do something different than an Easter basket, try making something like this Easter Triangle Box with a Bunny on the front!

An Easter Treat Easter Basket

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An Easter Treat Easter Basket

These little Easter baskets are fun and easy to make! Make them for a treat to give someone or for table favors on your Easter table at dinner. Decorate as simply or as fancy as you like.

This An Easter Treat Easter Basket is made with both cardstock and designer paper. What I meant to do was make a basket out of cardstock and glue on pieces of designer paper. But I accidentally cut and scored the designer paper first and then realizing my mistake, I just cut a piece of cardstock and glued the designer paper onto it. It worked out fine and made it sturdier than if I had just used designer paper.

This basket is made with Balmy Blue cardstock and a polka dot pattern in Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper. This designer paper was a free product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure with a $100 purchase and has all this great paper in it. I spotted the polka dot pattern and thought that would be perfect for my basket. Of course, you can use anything you like or even just cardstock.

The way you make a basket like this one is to cut a piece of paper (cardstock or designer paper) at 6″ x 6″. Then score at 2″ and 4″. Turn the paper and score at 2″ and 4″ This will look like a tic tac toe pattern so you know if you have it right! Then cut the two vertical score lines top and bottom to the horizontal score line. Crease all the fold lines. You can see the diagram below.

Fold the sides together at angles as you will see in the photo below. Have the basket handle ready to sandwich in between the layers. I cut my handle at 8 1/2″ x 3/4″. Or if you forget, just adhere it to the inside of the basket.

An Easter Treat Easter Basket back

Decorate the basket however you like! I stamped one of the bunnies in the Easter Bunny Stamp Set on Basic White cardstock and colored him in using Watercolor Pencils in both Assortments and smoothed out the coloring with a Blender Pen. I also stamped and colored one of the carrots for the bunny and cut it out by hand. The bunny was punched out with the Easter Bunny Punch. It was so popular it’s been out of stock for a while but more punches are due back in the week of May 15. I diecut a plain circle and a scalloped circle out of the Layering Circles Dies for the side of the basket. There was not enough room for a little Easter greeting, but I used this one in the stamp set and just cut it apart to fit it on the decoration in a way that it would fit! The bunny and the circles were all popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Since I hadn’t done anything fancy with the basket handle, I just tied on a bow with the Silver 3/8″ Metallic Edge Cotton Ribbon. Then just put some “shred” or tissue paper in the basket and add your Easter treats!

Here is a blog post from a few years ago showing three different Easter baskets I made!

Have fun trying out these Easter basket ideas for a cute Easter treat!

Easter Bunny Treat Sack

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Easter Bunny Treat Sack

Here’s a cute Easter treat bag or even an Easter decoration for your home….or both! Make this super easy Easter Bunny Treat Sack in minutes!

Use a lunch sack, either kraft or white. I would have used kraft but I couldn’t find any in my house! But I did have white and there are white bunnies, too!

To begin, fold the lunch sack in half lengthwise and simply draw the bunny ear from the top down a little way or as far as you like it. Then cut with scissors, keeping the bag folded and flat so it will cut both sides the same, just like when you cut a heart for a valentine.

Easter Bunny Treat Sack Pattern
Easter Bunny Treat Sack Cut

If you are giving it as an Easter treat, put the candy or gift inside, maybe adding some shred or tissue paper to fill up the space to shape the bag. If you are just using it as an Easter decoration for your house, stuff the bag with tissue paper or newspaper or whatever you have. Then tie a ribbon around the sack below the ears to make it look like a bunny. Add a cotton ball or pompom to the sack for the bunny’s cottontail. Add a Happy Easter tag if you wish or the name of the person you are giving the treat to.

This style shows the back of the bunny with his cute cottontail, but if you prefer you could draw on the bunny face and have it be the front of the bunny. Either way is cute!

Just a fun little Easter thing to make that is so simple you may as well make one!

Easter Bunny Treat Basket

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Easter Bunny Treat Basket

I was asked to make two Easter treat baskets for two little boys. I had kind of a normal little basket idea with a handle (made of cardstock, of course, not a real basket! but when I got home, I saw one of my Easter decorations on my fireplace mantel that I made years ago. I just copied myself and made these two Easter Bunny Treat Baskets! Plenty of room to put some chocolate candy and other treats inside!

To make these baskets, I pulled out a lot of my retired Stampin’ Up! products! The main thing I used was the Sizzix Scallop Envelope Die, I think it is called. It was one of those first dies we had with our Big Shot, the black thick platform kind of die with the cutting blades inside the die. I cut four pieces, cut off one tab on one side of the envelope piece, laid them side by side, adhered them together, and folded in the bottom flaps to form the basket. So if you have been die-cutting for a long time, you may have this die. We could make a lot more things than just an envelope with this die. The bunny on the back of the basket is simply a sketched bunny shape. There may be a template somewhere online. I traced the one I’d already made on my basket. The bunny feet on the front of the basket are made with the retired large oval punch, the 1″ circle punch, and some smaller punched circles. There were several punches I had that could make those, like the Owl Punch and the Gingerbread Man Punch (not sure that’s the correct name). For the ears, I punched oval shapes but you could color them in with a marker. The face can just be drawn in or just small circle punches for the eyes, a small heart, or a circle for the nose. Add a little blush to the cheeks! Draw on some whiskers or use some crinkled strips of paper or this crinkled shred that I happened to have.

If you do not have the Scallop Envelope Die, just make some little kind of square box. Just take a square piece of paper, score it like a tic tac toe board, fold and crease, then cut the flaps at the bottom and the top down to the horizontal scoreline. Fold in all the sides to form a box.

There are so many ways to make bunnies, too! If you are uncomfortable drawing a bunny like mine and cutting it out, just use some circle or heart shapes to put one together! Use dies or cut freehand.

Since these were boy bunnies, I tied bows and attached them to the bunny chins rather than on their ears! You could also make kind of a paper necktie if you wanted! Just have fun with the project! Nothing has to be perfect!

Here is my original bunny I made a few years back I guess!

Easter Bunny Treat Basket Pink

If you need one more Easter idea, this Easter Bunny Treat Basket might be just the thing to inspire you!

HAPPY EASTER!

Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box

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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!

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Easter Candy Chick Treat Holder

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Easter Candy Chick Treat Holder

If you need a cute and easy little Easter treat, try this Easter Candy Chick Treat Holder. You just need one strip of paper and a 3D piece of Easter candy that you can display inside. You can change the measurements to fit any size of candy. If you have a larger chocolate bunny you could make this a little wider and taller. You just can’t use the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch on paper cut wider than 2″. There are several variations can do with this project.

My sample starts with a strip of cardstock measuring 8 1/2″ x 2″. I used Flirty Flamingo just for something different. Stick each end into the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. If your paper is wider, then just leave the top as is, or round the corners, or simply punch a hole for the ribbon. Whatever you would like to do!

Using each scalloped end of the cardstock, put that end on the 3 3/4″ mark on the Stampin’ Trimmer and score. Turn it to the other end, line up the end of the scallop and score at 3 3/4″. Crease both score lines. Then using an Oval die or Oval Punch or another shape, cut out a hole so that you can see the candy later. If you want, put a hole on each side if you want a total see-through. I decided to add a piece of Whisper White 3″ x 1 7/8″, sponged with Pool Party ink and stamped some grass at the bottom. The grass was really a waste since you can’t see it anyway! But I kind of like the light blue background.

Adhere the candy chick, bunny, lamb, whatever you have to the bottom, in between the two score lines. I used just a short line of Snail Adhesive or you could use Mini Glue Dots. Just make sure any glue is not touching the candy!

The little greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set (a must have!). I punched it out with the Classic Label Punch and just trimmed off the banner ends since it was a little too long. Then I added a few little sequins but I’m not sure they look quite right. But I am going to leave them! I tied it closed with the Silver 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon.

I think this Easter Candy Chick Treat Holder is pretty cute, especially the chocolate chick! And it’s very easy, especially if you just copy mine and don’t have to think about how to make it! Have fun stamping!

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Don’t forget to order extra cutting blades for your Stampin’ Trimmer while they are available! There are two in a package and until April 15 you can order 3 packages. April 15 and after you can order 6 packages.