Handmade Easter Baskets with Video by Sara Cook

Hello everyone. I have an Easter basket project today using the Spring Plaid Slim line paper pack. This is an easy and fun project you can your kids can do together. Check out the YouTube tutorial, link below.

Basket:

Cut 2 pieces of matching slim line papers to 8 1/4" in length, removing the hole. Choose what side is inside of the basket and what is the outside. Score 1/4" along the top of the inside of the paper and score at 4 1/4". Turn paper and score 1/4" from edge of paper down the longest side at 3 1/4".. Score the 2nd paper the same way. Fold along the score lines. This will create 1/4" flaps along top and along 1 side of the paper. Cut the corners of the each flap. Then cut the long flap at the 4 1/4" score only up to the flap. Cut the corners on each flap. Glue the short flaps and adhere to the other side of the paper to form a box. Cut a base out of matching paper to 4"x4". Add glue to the flaps from inside of the box and put the 4"x4" paper over the glued flaps. To make the handle cut a strip of paper 11"x1". Shape to form a curve. Add glue to bottom 1/2" end of the strip and adhere to inside of the box. Add glue to the other end and adhere to the other side of the box.

Now for the fun part, decorating! This is where you use your creativity to embellish the basket how you want. Below are some ideas to get you started.

I used Wild Glass Boarder die to make a a grassy board around a basket. Added eggs die cute out of Delicate Pastel Glitter paper using the Half Dozen Eggs die and and bunny die cut out of white paper using the Gentle Bunny Die.

I die cut the smaller flower of the Layered Cosmos craft die out of white paper and colored it with Pan Pastels. Each flower used 3 layers of flowers. Added a matching butterfly using the Glade Butterfly die. Colored the base using Copic markers. Cut out the top layer out of gold paper from the Polished Foil pad and glued it on top. Arrange the elements on the basket.