Crafty As L

Having left my Easter makes until the last minute (i.e. yesterday!), I needed something quick to make.   After watching a few YouTube videos on this style of baskets, I realised that they would be quick to create and could be made in any size, subject to the available size of card to begin with. Start with a square of card, it can be in either cm or inches, it doesn’t matter.   Divide the measurement into 3 and score at 1/3 and 2/3 along one edge.   Next, turn the card 90˚, divide the measurement into 4, score at ¼ and ¾ and just make a little mark at the halfway point at the top and bottom.   Score from the mark to the intersection of the two score lines.   Here’s a template. This is what the card should look like when it’s scored.   Since I wanted to make my basket from a single sheet of A4 card, I began with a 21cm square, so scored at 7cm and 14 cm along the first edge, rotated the card, then scored at 5.25cm and 15.75cm, marking at 10.5cm. The b...

We don’t usually send many Easter cards but with the mad year we’ve had and not being able to see people in person for so long, it seemed a good way to let people know we’re thinking of them.  Since I don’t have a lot of use for Easter cards, I only have one stamp set and that has been sent to everyone already so I needed some fresh material! Hello Cricut! I found a free SVG file from Craft House, cut out some bunnies and tails and created this card. Whilst weeding the vinyl and seeing the outline of the bunnies, it occurred to me that I could make a stencil of the bunnies.  So, I created multiple bunnies in Design Space, arranged and sized them for my card and cut out two stencils from acetate – one for the bunnies and one for the tails! Using my new blending brushes, I added pastel colours to the bunnies through the stencil. Once the bunnies were complete, I added the tails using white pigment ink.  Unfortunately, this didn’t show up as much as I th...