Dollar Tree Easter Baskets

Hi there!

How about a cute little Easter basket to try!

These little pots I found at the Dollar Tree.

At my Dollar tree they come in green or creme.

They come in a pack of 4 for $1 so an easy 25 cents each.

These would be so cute to put at everyone's place 

at the Easter table or to give to friends or at work.

The cost to make them is minimal.

Look at the sweet design along the side of the little 

buckets (baskets)  No need to add anymore to the 

baskets with those cute details on them.

So what you will need to make these are as follows;

little baskets

twigs

candy for inside the baskets

chocolate bunny

The baskets are again from Dollar Tree

The twigs I got from outside in the yard, 

while your twigs are still green, you can bend and

shape them so they won't break.  So don't choose

twigs that have already started to dry out or they will break.

The Chocolate bunnies are by Russell Stover and can be found

at our local store Bartell's, for the rest of the nation be sure and check to see where they carry Russell Stover chocolates.   These bunnies

are milk chocolate and hollow, about 4 1/2" high and cost .50 cents

Then just choose any other type of Easter candy you like.

I have jelly beans and dove eggs in mine. 

You can see in the picture how fresh the twig is with

the greens just starting to come in.  In a week or so

it will become drier. 

This is what the buckets look like and the bunny.

Start by hot gluing in the twig on each side of the 

basket.  Then add any type of Easter grass you'd like.

I have the kraft colored brown one so I used that. 

All three of these things can be bought at the Dollar Tree,

once your grass and twig is in place then start filling your basket with 

candy. 

That's all there is to it!

These are very affordable to be used for Easter dinner or gifting.

I love to bring easy and affordable ideas!

Paper carrot garland

Look how cute this is!!

You can do this too!

Easter carrot garland

I promise it will be easy and fun, come on anyway,

do I ever give you things you can't make?!!

I hung mine from the floating shelves in my kitchen

but when you make yours decide where you will be putting it

and depending on where that is will determine what length you will want to make your jute. 

Okay,  let's get started on how to make these;

depending on how long you make your jute will determine how many carrots you make.  I made eight carrots on my strand.

Based on that, that will be how many pieces of orange card stock you cut.   In the image below I've shown you sizes to cut your card stock.

So if you were to use 8 carrots, cut 8 pieces of orange card stock each piece cut at 1/2" x 8"

For the stem, the center piece is longer than the two side pieces.

Cut the center piece of the stem as many pieces as carrots you cut.

Then for the two sides of the stem you will cut double of how

many carrots you cut as one carrot needs to side pieces. 

The center piece is cut at 3 1/2" x 1/2"

The two side pieces are cut at 3" x 1/2"

Just like you see below. 

Now with all your pieces being cut start with using 

an snail adhesive and putting some adhesive at the bottom of the green stem, put together all the stem pieces.  Once you have them adhered together take your orange piece of card stock and fold it in half.

Tucking the stem in the middle, take a stapler and staple it all together so it looks like the picture.

Once this is done bring down both sides of the carrot and staple the ends together,  you now should have a carrot!

Staple the carrots at the bottom as you see below,

they are coming together!

Aren't they cute!

Once all of your carrots are assembled, 

get your jute out and lay across your table or

counter and lay each carrot in place where you think

it should be.  If you like to measure things then

feel free to grab a ruler to measure each distance,

otherwise you can eyeball where you'd like them.

Using a glue gun add a little bit of glue to the jute press the carrot on

top of the jute.   I glued my carrots right at the end of the stem,

like below.......

And here it is!!

Sooo so fun and cute!

You can hang them from your mantle, a cabinet,

in the window or like I did across my shelves in the kitchen.

Send me your pics!

Easter is coming!

Here come's peter cottontail hopping down 

the bunny trail.... Easter's on it's way...

Just putting out a little decor early, 

anyone else decorating too?

Just one more.....

Just one more.......

I promise,  but hey,  now you have quite a few more

card ideas to add to your card collection. 

Are you a person that makes a bunch of cards

for different celebrations to have on hand?

I tend to do this,  that way I have them ready to go.

These cards are so subtle with the mix of the brown and blues.

I layered each of these cards with all the other pieces in the kit. 

You can see some of them I cut out angled them too. 

Take a look at each piece and see how you can use them. 

World of Good

Are you getting tired of seeing all the amazing

things you can do with the World of Good

suite kit?

If you want to take a look at the kit again

it's right  HERE  take a peek at all the different

products for this suite. 

The kit I keep showing you is towards the bottom

of the page, the Memories kit. 

Take a look at these ones, 

I love the color combo of the olive and black and white.

When you are using the memories and more card pack think out side

of the box and think about cutting the images out

to make for pieces that pop off of the card.

This kit has so many pieces with adventurous and travel patterns

and brass accents. 

I've shared with you many times that I try and use what I 

have on hand and use up what I have!

Most of what you see on these cards is in the kit

with the exception to a few brads I used. 

Alright now,  dream big and go create a whole

bunch of cards!

World of Good

Do you remember me showing you a few posts back the

World of Good suite set? 

Here are some more cards that I made with the kit I showed you.

I made at least 23 or more, I'll be showing you more in the 

posts ahead.  There's a little sneak peek below.....

These colors are so rich together.

love how all the pieces coordinate together.

Everything you see here comes in the kit.

These are great masculine cards to have on hand.

The papers are gold embossed and printed with some

beautiful images.  

As you can see each of these cards

are easy to assemble and each of these

pieces come in the kit. 

Bouquet of Hope

Happy tuesday!

Back with some more of the Bouquet of Hope

paper pumpkin kit alternative ideas.

For this card I ended up running the rose cardstock

through an embossing folder to give it some definition.

You can see it up close here how the embossing folder

created pretty little leaves on the paper.

The bouquet of flower was pre printed in the kit

and using glue dots just attach it to the front of the card.

The little tags were made with a mini tag punch that

I have had from Stampin Up!  

It adds the perfect touch. 

Just another super easy card for you to try!