Create & Take: Cheepers Amazing Egg

Morning bloggers! It's the start of another week and today we have some Easter inspiration for you from last week's Create & Take featuring Cheepers the Chicken from the Elizabeth Craft collection.

So let's get started....

Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Design Cheepers the Chicken Die Set

Elizabeth Craft Design Easter Eggs Die Set

Marianne Banners XL Die Set

Taylored Expressions Burlap embossing folder.

Echo Park Easter Egg Hunt Cardstock

Distress Ink Pads - Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, Cracked Pistachio

Sponge Daubers

Tim Holtz Crazy Talk Stamp Set

Double Sided Adhesive Sheets

Bazzill Cardstock - White, Green, Black

Instructions:

1. Die cut the eyes, beak, legs and detailed egg from white cardstock that has been pre-stuck onto double sided cardstock. This will make it easier to stick down.

2. Die cut Cheepers detail body from white cardstock and add Scattered Straw to edges using a dauber. Trim off the little leg parts on the main body as you will be positioning the legs in a different way.

3. Die cut the shadow of Cheepers from black cardstock and trim off crest on the head and legs.

4. Die cut solid egg from white card and colour with bright colours using a sponge dauber.

5. Die cut grass from green cardstock.

6. Cut a piece of white cardstock measuring 10cm x 10cm and emboss with burlap embossing folder and swipe edges with Scattered Straw ink.

7. Cut a piece of patterned paper measuring 12.7cm x 12.7cm and stick onto card base.

8. Die cut banner from green cardstock and stamp 'Happy Easter' with black ink.

9. Assemble card as shown.

For more Easter inspiration make sure you check out our 'Crafting for Easter' board on Pinterest.

Create & Take: Wool Be Friends

Hi bloggers, it's the start of a new week and we want to get it going with some card inspiration from last week's Create & Take using some new Poppystamps stamps and dies.

So let's get started....

Products Used:

Poppystamps Wool Be Friends Stamp Set

Poppystamps Wool Be Friends Die Set

Marianne Grass Die Set

Karen Burniston Cloud Embossing Folder

Oval Die

Poppystamps Petal Ribbon Die

Black Ink Pad

Watercolour Pencils

Stickles Crystal Glitter Glue

Fossilised Amber Distress Ink Pad

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink Pad

Sponge Dauber

White Cardstock

Green Cardstock

Teal Cardstock

Polka Dot Cardstock

Gingham Cardstock

Instructions:

1. Cut the oval die from white cardstock and emboss using the Clouds embossing folder.

2. Gently swipe Tumbled Glass ink onto clouds using a sponge dauber.

3. Stamp the sheep onto white card and colour using watercolour pencils. Die cut the sheep using the matching dies.

4. Die cut the Petal Ribbon twice from white cardstock and once from teal cardstock. Cut the flowers out from both the white cardstock, shape and colour with Fossilised Amber ink.

5. Die cut the grass from green cardstock and position the first bit of the grass low on the oval shape and then add the second bit behind it.

6. Cut a piece of polka dot cardstock to fit the base of the card. Cut a strip of Gingham cardstock approx. 1" width x width of the card base and stick in place.

7. Assemble all the pieces as shown on the card and add some Stickles glitter glue to the centre of the flowers.

To view more dies and stamps from the new Poppystamps collection, click here.

Create & Take: Easter Gift Box

Hi bloggers, welcome to a new week! We have a lovely project for you today from last week's Create & Take using the dies that come with the New Big Shot Plus Starter Kit. After using this machine for a day to prep the kits for the Create & Take I can tell you that it is definitely a dream machine and worth upgrading your standard Big Shot machine, especially if you want to cut A4 dies. It makes cutting multiple dies a breeze as you can lay them all out with different cardstock and cut all those different elements with one pass - time saver!

The Big Shot Plus Starter Kit is definitely worth the extra money as the kit comes with a range of Bigz and Thinlit dies plus some great papers as well, take a little look below.....

Big Shot Plus Starter Kit - £159.99

Big Shot Plus Machine - £119.99

Get your Big Shot Plus here

Now on with today's project, the Easter Gift Box - using the dies that come with the starter kit.

Products Used:

A4 Kraft Card

Bazzill Basics White Textured Cardstock

Echo Park Orange Spring Dots & Stripes Cardstock

Echo Park Happy Easter Cardstock - Carrots

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit

Taylored Expressions Many Mini's Holidays Stamp Set

3D Foam Tape

Twine

Papermania Gold Shimmer Dome Stickers

Instructions:

1. Using the Big Shot Plus machine, kraft card and box die, cut out the box shape and then use scissors to cut away the lid.

2. Fold along the crease lines and then assemble using double sided tape.

3. Cut out the lid section again using white card and then cut away all but 2cm of the box, fold along the crease lines and assemble the lid using double sided tape. Adhere the back flap to the top of the back of the box base.

3. Using the Scallop Trim Thinlits die, cut out a white border and attach to the lid using double sided tape.

4. Cut out a strip of Carrots patterned paper measuring 2cm x 13cm and trim end into a 'V' shape. Use double sided tape to stick this into position on the lid of the box.

5. Using the Tag Framelits die cut out a tag shape from white card, stamp 'Easter Blessings' and attach to the box using some twine.

6. Die cut a flower using the Bigz die from Orange Dots cardstock and layer this with an intricate white die cut flower and two die cut flower centers.

7. Finish by adhering a gold shimmer dome sticker to the center of the flower and place the flower on the top of the box with double sided tape.

And whoalah, a beautiful Easter Gift Box, now just pop some eggs inside and your ready to give it to that special someone.

For more inspiring ideas for Easter, don't forget to check out our Easter Pinterest board here.

Easter Egg-exploding Box

Good morning bloggers! Today we want to share with you Jo's fabulous egg-exploding box from Saturday's class. Jo has used some beautiful Graphic 45 papers from the Botanical collection plus some of the new We R Memory Keepers acetate to create windows in the box. Check out some more pictures below....

We love this egg basket in the center of the box filled with some chocolate goodies!

If you want to see more of Jo's creations then why not come along to our Spring Demo Day on Saturday 11th April, Jo will also be hosting a short workshop where you will be making a small notebook decorated with some beautiful flowers. Workshop spaces are still available and only cost £5. Call us on 01293 863576 to book a space.

For more information about our Spring Demo Day, please click here.

Create & Take: Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Monday bloggers! We hope you have all had a creative weekend and getting into the Spring flow of things with the weather looking more cheerful! We have a lovely Easter card to share with you this week from Friday's Create & Take using the new Impression Obsession dies.

So let's get started....

Products:

A6 White Card Blank

Echo Park Happy Easter Cardstock - Easter Floral

Bazzill Basics Cardstock - White Smoothie

Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Lemonade

Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Parakeet

Impression Obsession Girl with Easter Basket Die Set

Poppystamps Woodland Border Die

Kirstie Allsopp Ditsy Dots Embossing Folder

Tonic Studios Oval Layering Die Set

Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities Die Set

Taylored Expressions Many Mini's Holidays Stamp Set

Pink Satin Ribbon 6mm

3D Foam Tape

Glossy Accents

Instructions:

1. Cut the Easter Floral cardstock 10cm x 14.5cm.

2. Die cut an oval from the Easter  Floral cardstock.

3. Cut the Lemonade cardstock 8cm x 12cm and emboss with the Ditsy Dots embossing folder.

4. Die cut the Woodland Border from Parakeet cardstock and the Girl with the Easter Basket from White cardstock. Start assembling all the elements in the middle of the card, using the oval die cut cardstock as a guide so everything fits within that oval frame. Start to adhere using glossy accents.

5. Die cut some Easter eggs from a variety of pastel coloured cardstock and adhere onto the basket and also on the woodland border.

6. Die cut two ovals from white and yellow cardstock . Stamp 'Happy Easter' on one and layer on top of each other.

7. Cut a piece of satin ribbon 14cm in length and wrap around the bottom of the Easter Floral cardstock and adhere the Easter sentiment in place.

8. Finally use 3D foam tape to adhere the Easter Floral cardstock to the card.

Make sure you pop back to the blog tomorrow to see Jo's Egg-exploding box, a wonderful creation, perfect for Easter!