Thursday's Tip: Easter Candy Wrap

Make these simple and darling candy wraps in a matter of minutes.Perfect for classroom handouts, party favors or a little give away to your friends. So easy, even the kiddos could help!

Materials:
Patterned scrapbook paper (check out the new Hops and Tweets paper pack!)
Hops and Tweets Graphic Set
scissors
paper cutter
ruler
pencil
double-stick tape or glue gun
ribbon
cellophane bags


Begin by printing out your paper onto a lightweight cardstock. If you want to digitally overlay a diamond before you print it out you can ignore the next step. If not, take a ruler and lightly draw a diamond on the back of the paper. Then cut out your diamond shape.

Next roll your diamond shape into a cone by rolling along the widest sides. Adhere together with double-stick tape or a glue gun.

Print and cut out your Hops and Tweets graphic.

Embellish with ribbon and adhere the graphic. Then fill with your desired goody!

Drop the cone in a small cellophane bag and tie off with a cute ribbon!

How to Assemble the Hops and Tweets 3D Set

Begin by cutting out all the elements you plan to use from the Hops and Tweets 3D set. Adhere the features to the bunny head and breast. Also assemble the bunny saddle. The legs fit onto each side of the hip piece that has 3 slits. His body will eventually sit in the middle slit. Once the saddle is assembled, insert the harness rods and then glue saddle into place on his body.

You will then fold over the neck portion on the body and insert into the slit on the front legs. And insert the body into the middle portion of the hip. Glue his head onto the fold.

Assemble the cart. It's easiest to apply the embellishments and decor before you glue it together. 

To attach wheels to cart, begin by inserting the axles into the bottom layer of the wheel and glue flap down. Then adhere the top two layers of the wheel over the flap, centered onto the wheel.

Apply glue to axels and adhere cart.

Assemble the egg carrier and glue to the bottom center of the inside of the cart.

You will then assemble the flowers and stick into the slots on the ledges of the inside of the cart.  Assemble the chick by inserting the body into the middle of the legs. Attach embellishments to the wings then fold the top portion down and glue onto each side of the chick.

Lastly, insert harness into the cart!

Thursday's Tip: Locker Album

Make this darling locker album with our new Go Team Lockers Cut It Set. A unique school time memory keeper perfect for accenting the fun times you had there.

Add as many pages as you want! No memory is too precious, especially for these special times! This set contains enough images to emphasize each one.

Materials:
Go Team Lockers Cut It Set
Card stock
small hole punch
jump rings

Begin by importing the locker, the football and the apple Cut It images into Make-The-Cut. I sized the locker to 4 inches wide, then arranged the football and apple on top, sizing each one appropriately.

On the layers menu in MTC, click on the plus sign on each one to make each layer visible. We are going to first duplicate the bottom layer of the apple and the bottom layer of the football. Just hit cntrl + C to copy and ctrl + v to paste. Now merge one of each of the duplicate layers down to the bottom layer of the locker. You just do this by clicking on that layer and using the down arrow to move it down.

Select the 3 bottom layers (the apple, locker and football) by holding down shift and then selecting each layer. Weld the layers together by hitting control + W. This will be the back of your album.

Now you can stop here and cut, but if you would like to remove the knob on the side where the lock protrudes then follow then next couple of steps.

Begin by zooming into the area you are going to remove the nodes on. Click on the little wrench tool at the bottom and select "Nodes on Mat". Now go to the top menu bar and select View>Node Mode. When the node buttons pop up, select the one with the 3 nodes and the arrow. Now hover over the segment you want to delete till it changes color then hit "delete." Continue to delete any remaining segments.

Now we need to reconnect the missing segment. Select the little calligraphy looking pen. Now hover over the first point you want to connect and click then draw a line to the second point. Right click to release it.

Now go ahead and cut out the locker and any other images you want to used as embellishments. Assemble as desired. You can use ribbon, wire coils or any other means to bring the album together, but if you want to use jump rings, I begin by measuring off where I wanted to place them.

Then I used my mini hole punch and inserted the jump rings!

Finished product!

Thursday's Tip: Easter Egg Easel Shaped Card from I Love 2 Cut Paper

Today's fabulous tip comes from Joanna Wright at I love 2 Cut Paper. Check out Joanna's amazing blog and learn how to make this beautiful Easter Egg Easel shaped card with Joanna's step by step tutorial!

Thursday's Tip: Shake Your Shamrocks!

I stumbled across this rad shirt from Urban Outfitters, but unfortunately I was too late. It was all sold out!

Sold out?!? No problem! In less than an hour, with just a few cheap supplies. I was able to recreate it!

Materials:
T-shirt
black and green acrylic paint
Textile Medium
Freezer Paper
Charmed Life Cut It Set
LD This and That Font
Paint Brushes/Stencil Brushes
Iron

Begin by laying a sheet of freezer paper on your cutting mat, and cutting out the bottom layer of the shamrock from the Charmed Life Cut It Set using your favorite digital cutter. I sized them to about 3 1/2 inches wide and spaced them about 3 1/2 - 4 inches apart. I typed out "Shake Your Shamrocks" using LD This and That Font. The final size of the phrase was 10 inches wide by 3 1/2 inches tall. I also cut this out of freezer paper as well. If you don't have a digital cutter, you can also use and exacto knife to cut everything out.

Once everything is cut out, lay on your shirt and iron on using the highest dry heat setting.

The shirt is ready to apply the paint, just make sure you stick something inside the middle of it because the paint will leak through. My cutting mat was the perfect size! You need to mix 1 part of textile medium to 2 parts paint. (You can also just use fabric paint).

Apply the paint carefully, using a sponge or a paint brush. You can get different effects with each one. Make sure you are using straight up and down works strokes. The freezer paper works amazingly well, but straight up and down will help insure not getting any leakage underneath just in case you had a spot that didn't stick down all the way.

When its dry, you can remove the freezer paper. I also chose to do a little flecking because I liked the messy effect of the Urban Outfitter shirt.

And the finished product!

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