Welcome to the annual Papertrey Ink Scavenger Hunt! Hop to each DT blog and look for bunny graphics in the photo at the top of each post. There might be one, there might be none, there might be more than one. Visit Nichole's blog for all of the details on how to play along and comment to win.
Today is the first group post of the countdown/anniversary celebration. The team today is featuring a collection of fun and springy new products...
Polka Dot Parade by Melissa Bickford is a new series. The first installment features a cute dotted bunny, some spring/easter sentiments and a coordinating bunny die.
Mini Blooms by Maile is an awesome floral set filled with large clusters of mini blooms as well as individual blooms...all done in a small scale, perfect for embellishing sentiments and more. There are coordinating dies for several of the small individual flowers.
Favor it #9 die collection -- This is a super fun set of dies that will allow you to create two different sized baskets, perfect for small gifts.
All of these new products will be available from purchase from the Papertrey Ink website as of 10pm EST time on February 15th. You can read more details about each product on Nichole's blog.
Nichole challenged the team to find some inspiration from Pinterest or another sourse and create some projects based on that inspiration using the new products I mentioned above...'
I sort of have a weakness for soft, pastel-y Easter trees. I've never actually put one up in my house (yet), but they are so pretty to look at...
I adore this fresh, colorful card and the little flowers clustered around the sentiment totally reminded me of Maile's new Mini Blooms set and I knew I wanted to try to re-create this look using her stamps.
So, on to the projects. Up first is a cute little Easter basket which was created with the new Favor it #9 die collection. I used the larger basket for my project today. I diecut it from Sweet Blush cardstock and stamped on it with BB: Super Stripes. I chose to hold the basket pieces together with brads, but you could use buttons or any other fasterner of your choice.
My basket is filled with felt ornaments (for the Easter tree I might actually put up one of these years!) which were diecut from Papertrey felt using the bunny die from the new Polka Dot Parade set (more on that in a bit). The eggs were cut with the Egg die, which was released last year. I also tucked a stamped tag in the basket which was stamped using flowers from the new Mini Blooms set, inspired by the pretty card above. The sentiment is from Polka Dot Parade #1. The tiny flower and leaf dies from the Mini Blooms set were perfect for embellishing my bunnies and eggs.
Next up is a funny little card using Polka Dot Parade #1. I used a scallop scissors to munch away on the bunnies until just his tie and tail were left. :-)
The flowers along the top are from Mini Blooms and the "Happy Easter" sentiment is from Polka Dot Parade #1.
Thanks for stopping by to check out my projects today. Don't forget to hop around to the other DT girls to check out their springy projects and hunt for bunnies!
- Ashley Cannon Newell
- Danielle Flanders
- Jess Witty
- Maile Belles
- Nichole Heady
- Dawn McVey
- Melissa Phillips
- Cristina Kowalozyk
Love your sweet little ornaments and your sweet little Easter card totally makes me smile!! Poor Bunny, lol! You always inspire Betsy and I appreciate you!
Posted by: Kristii | February 13, 2013 at 06:05 AM
What a sweet way to start my day! Love these projects!
Posted by: Cammie | February 13, 2013 at 06:13 AM
100% totally completely adorable! Your basket and felt eggs and bunny are sooo AWESOME, love the tag inspired by the pinterest photo. Your chocolate bunny is delicious....all the way down to the last little morsel ;)!
Posted by: Kelly Schirmer | February 13, 2013 at 06:40 AM
Oh my! That bunny card made me smile! And the felt ornaments are just precious!
Posted by: Jill norwood | February 13, 2013 at 07:02 AM
Betsy I must have read your mind! I was thinking of the bunny as a felt brooch only last night and the egg is a purrrrrfect companion. So so pretty!
Posted by: Ann | February 13, 2013 at 07:31 AM
Such a fun assortment of projects! Love the bunny!
Posted by: Kristie | February 13, 2013 at 07:53 AM
The disappearing bunny is the cutest thing I've ever seen! Love it!
Posted by: lainey | February 13, 2013 at 07:56 AM
Wonderful projects! LOVE the chocolate bunny card lol. TFS!
Posted by: Ohhh Snap | February 13, 2013 at 07:58 AM
Adorable basket and card and oh so clever! Love it all!
Posted by: Cindy H. | February 13, 2013 at 08:08 AM
Your chocolate bunny card is so sweet and so clever!! Smiles all around!
Posted by: jan m | February 13, 2013 at 08:21 AM
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE EVERYTHING BETSY!!!!!!!! :) When I first saw what you had, my thought was "I want to make some of those FELT GOODIES!!!!!" :) SOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!! :) (I made felt valentine cookies one year & love them!) These little Easter Goodies are WONDERFUL!!!!!! :)AND I LOVE the little EASTER BASKET AND YOUR CARD!!!!!!!!!!!! :) LOVE those little NIBBLED BUNNIES!!!!!!! :)
Posted by: Becky Green | February 13, 2013 at 08:29 AM
So cute, Betsy! That chocolate bunny card is just too much. Love it!
Posted by: Kalyn | February 13, 2013 at 08:30 AM
TOOT SWEET! LOVE the felt bunny...bet he's glad he didn't get eaten:)
Posted by: Laura Jane | February 13, 2013 at 08:34 AM
So sweet and fun ..LOVE it!!
Posted by: Holly Saveur | February 13, 2013 at 08:35 AM
Those ornaments are awesome! I love them -- and I never gave much thought to an Easter tree, but I like the idea -- may have to give it a try! And the chocolate bunny card?? Fantastic! Thanks for the giggle this morning :)
Posted by: Tracey C. | February 13, 2013 at 09:07 AM
Beautiful cards! I love the one with the three in different stages of being eaten.
Posted by: Kim Swenson | February 13, 2013 at 09:29 AM
Betsy your projects are wonderful today. I just fell in love with your funny little card!
Posted by: Tracey McNeely | February 13, 2013 at 09:30 AM
Love the striped basket, with the looped edge and that bunny card, with the disappearing bunny, is SO CUTE!!
Posted by: Sue (suen) | February 13, 2013 at 09:39 AM
Great projects, Betsy! I love how you made the little felt bunny and eggs! And your card where the bunny is getting eaten is priceless!
Posted by: Leigh Penner | February 13, 2013 at 09:40 AM
LMHO = fantastic idea to have "munched on"bunnies :)
Posted by: janet wilson | February 13, 2013 at 09:51 AM
Those felt Easter ornaments are AWESOME!!! And I love the disappearing chocolate bunny card! CUTE idea!
Posted by: Lisa Petrella | February 13, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Such cute projects! Love your felt eggs and chocolate bunny! Your card is so adorable too! :)
Posted by: Mendi Yoshikawa | February 13, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Gasp!!! Betsy your felt chocolate bunny is out of this world adorable!!!
Posted by: Lisa | February 13, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Your bunny card is great fun! Love this idea!
Posted by: Gerdine | February 13, 2013 at 01:20 PM
Oh my gosh...your bunny card is SO DARN CUTE!! Love how that little bunn is being nibbled down!
Posted by: karenladd | February 13, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Love the bunnies! So cute.
Posted by: Chris K | February 15, 2013 at 01:59 PM
Your bunny card "forced" me to buy the set. I absolutely love it. PTI is so fortunate to have you on their team!
Posted by: kim n | February 19, 2013 at 06:24 AM
I came here from the newsletter . . . Thanks so much for making me laugh this morning! I love your sense of humor! Wonderful ideas!
Have a fabunny day!
Deb
Posted by: Deb | March 01, 2013 at 08:59 AM
I love the eaten bunny card so much there is a very good chance that I might do my own version on it using yours as inspiration
thank you
Chris
Posted by: christine pethers | March 06, 2013 at 02:52 AM
Your card is so adorable. I love the way you did the bunny. And the basket is cute too. TFS
Posted by: Tammy | March 09, 2013 at 07:54 AM
This is GREAT! I love it! I dont know your if you have rules for PIN'ing, but I just had too! I did place your information in the comments area and made sure your website was the link back! Please let me know if you want me to remove!
TOO CUTE!!!!
Posted by: Dorothy Kerr | March 09, 2013 at 05:47 PM
You are welcome to pin. Thx for asking though!
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Posted by: Betsy Veldman | March 09, 2013 at 08:30 PM