11 April 2011

Another Easter project

I seem to be making more Easter projects this year than any other year... wonder why that is? Luckily I have no shortage of lovely people I can share them with.

This one is for the Design Dollies Elements Challenge - Adina-Dollie challenged us to use at least seven buttons on a project. This is what I made:



How to:
* Wash and dry a small recycled bottle - I have a heap of these cute iced coffee bottles in my stash, perfect for gift-giving.
* Punch a strip of patterned paper along both sides (I used Little Yellow Bicycle 'Love Notes', punched with Martha Stewart 'Floral Lace' punch).
* Cut the strip to length and adhere around the bottle near the base.
* Stamp out seven flowers on scraps of patterned paper. I used offcuts of: Bo Bunny Double Dot, Little Yellow Bicycle, Dream Street 'Bailee's Garden', K&Co 'Jubilee', Kaisercraft; two different flower stamps by Rhonna Farrer, from Autumn Leaves, Stazon black ink.
* Fussy-cut the flowers and add buttons to the centres.
* Arrange the flowers around the bottle, and adhere them to the paper strip.(Rubber bands are useful to hold them into place until the glue dries.)
* Add a ribbon, and alphabet stickers (Cosmo Cricket 'Tiny Type').
* Fill the bottle with goodies - these ones are little choc-mint eggs.

I did try to get some photographs from different angles, but it's tricky with round things!!



I'm entering my project at:
# Simon Says ~ Time for Spring Colours
# Allsorts ~ Week 98 ~ Anything but a square
# Stampin' for the Weekend ~ Challenge #7 ~ Easter

3 comments :

  1. WOW I love these, may have to "borrow" this idea ~ LOVELY
    Thanks for joining our challenge at ALLSORTS this week, Good Luck
    Hugz Fleur xXx

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  2. Oh such a fab project, Karen! Love the gorgeous flowers and the beautiful spring colours!
    Thanks so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Challenge!
    Hugs,t

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  3. What fabulous Easter treats karen.

    Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation and joining us at Allsorts Challenge this week, good luck and look forward to seeing you again.

    B x

    There's a Stampalot voucher up for grabs here

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