Baskets...

I thought it would be nice to get a few projects in before the Easter weekend, and decided that the ScrapzBiz 'basket' challenge would be a good place to start. I went with an Easter theme and made a little woven basket from strips of cardstock.

I pre-inked the edges of each strip before forming the basket and curved it a bit before attaching it in place for added dimension, then dressed it up with a handle made of twine, a cute little chick, a few embellished flowers and a printed sentiment stuck on a toothpick.

For the layout I scrapped about our traditional blessing of the basket on Easter Saturday.

The challenge was to use some non traditional scrapbook papers so I used a strip of paper doily layered over some tissue paper, and some more weaving - this time through the border strip.

Speaking of Easter, I have also been busy blowing out some eggs and have gathered a stack of twigs... can you guess what I'm making?

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More Easter crafting...

Hi again, I almost forgot to share a card set I made last week. I was planning on making just one card but couldn't decide between the egg and bunny designs so decided to do both.... then I started thinking that chicks would be cute and one card quickly turned into a set of three :)

The cards were really simple to make once I found images to use as templates, and just incase you'd like to make your own I found cute bunny templates here, here and here, some cheeky little chicks here and here and well there were eggs everywhere but I used mine from here.

To make the cards I scaled the templates down to the size I wanted then printed them in reverse on the back of white cardstock and used a craft knife to cut out the design. I added a little stitching a few simple embellishments before backing the cutouts with some matching paper and the cards were done... which left me plenty of time to whip up some pretty envelopes to match.

Happy Easter and thanks for stopping by!

Aga xx

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Rainbows...

I still had rainbows on my mind after Cayden's birthday when I created this happy rainbow card for a Scrapz Biz 'Melancholy' challenge.

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Papertrey Button Challenge...

I was feeling a bit crafty tonight and knew I found the perfect project when I stumbled across a fun button challenge on this awesome blog...

I decided to make a card featuring some fabulous chipboard buttons that I was lucky enough to be sent to play with by the lovely Michelle Jamieson of Chelley Bean Designs.

The buttons are such a great size to work with and made perfect centres for these Maya Road Kraft Doilies {which I adore} and the rest of the card just seemed to come together after that :)

You can check out these buttons and all the other gorgeous handmade goodies over at Michelle's Etsy store.

Have a great weekend

Aga xx

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