Easter Scrapbook Centerpiece

Welcome to your April!!!! Its also Friday!!!

Today is the DT Challenge day. This week's challenge was to create outside of the box. To make something that was NOT a card, NOT a layout, NOT album, and NOT a simple paper piecing. I guess "Non Scrap" lol! 


I decided to create an Easter table centerpiece =D I am "room mom" for my 
son Jayden's class and so I am planning the class Easter party. I thought this would be a cute decoration for the class and then after the party I would present it as a gift for his teacher. Jayden attends a Christian school and so it was neat to incorporate the "reason" for the holiday by adding the Christian Cross with a scripture 

This is how I constructed the centerpiece and what was fun is my son Jayden helped me make it using his toy tools =D I found some Styrofoam from packaging that we were going to throw away and used that to poke the craft sticks into...we glued Styrofoam side panels to create a box centerpiece. To glue we used a hot glue gun.

The grass around the centerpiece was cut from the free grass cut file I posted on a previous post yesterday =D 

Paper Piecing used: Little Scraps of Heaven "Feeling Froggy" HERE

Little Scraps of Heaven "Easter bunny collection" HERE

The EASTER banner title was a free printable that you can find at 

Autumn Leah Designs

Grass Free SCAL Cut File

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Toadally Cute Layout- Little Scraps of Heaven Design Project

Paper piecing used: Little Scraps of Heaven Feeling Froggy Collection CHECK IT OUT HERE

Papers Used: Piggy Tales The Frog Prince Collection 

Flowers: Prima

Chipboard blue letters and letter stickers: SEI

Happy Creating!!!

Spring Butterfly Free SCAL Cut File

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I Will Protect You Layout- Little Scraps of Heaven DT Project

I Will Protect You

I also entered this layout in the challenge over at Cooking with the Cricut...the Lion and the Lamb Challenge CHECK OUT DETAILS HERE

April is National Poetry Month so I also incorporated a poem into my layout

its titled "I will Protect You" by Rosemary Doyle

I will protect you no mater the trouble you face no matter the danger  i will be there always to protect you I will protect you from all your fears never will you have to shed a tear i will be there  always to protect you I will protect you no matter which road you choose i will lead you through i will be there always to protect you I will protect you from the hate you face no one will hurt you I will be there always to protect you I will protect you from pains you might face ill shield you i will be there always to protect you never fear I'm right here Always to protect you PRODUCT USED: Pattern Papers: Nana's Nursery Baby boy paper pad  Paper piecing for Lion and the Lamb: Little Scraps of Heaven CHECK OUT HERE Paper piecing frame for picture: Little Scraps of Heaven's Moon Bouncer pattern   CHECK IT OUT HERE Flowers: Prima Obsession flowers Vine: Storybook Cricut Cartridge then I embossed it with my cuttlebug using a cuttlebug embossing folder

My Boys with Easter Bunny Layout

I finally finished a layout of a picture of my boys two years ago lol! My mom made these adorable outfits for them for Easter to match. They were so excited to see the bunny....I was really surprised at little Ian not crying but actually laughing at the sight of the bunny =D 

Materials Used:

Paper piecing: Little Scraps of Heaven you can find the file HERE

White paper Lily flowers: Bazzill Basics Lily White

Pattern Papers Used: By Scenic Route Designed by Sarah Mine "Lynden Easter"

Chipboard letters: Scenic Route

Easter title stickers: K and Company Alpha stickers

Stickers on scallop circles: Scenic Route Lynden Easter Cardstock Stickers

Girls Just Want to Have Fun Container Card Tutorial

The inside of the card reads "Live, Laugh, Love" and "Let the journey begin here"...this container card could be filled with little gifts, candy or any other little gift you want to tuck inside =D Here is how I made it:

First I took 4 sheets of 8.5x11 pink cardstock paper and with either a scor pal or I used the Martha Stewart scoreboard....score lines every 3/4 inch then accordion fold the papers like this:

I then took a decorative edge punch...the one I used was from Martha Stewart...punch one side of each of the four sheets 

 After you have folded all four sheets then you take a hot glue gun

and glue the bottom fold and the top fold to the corners....creating into a square frame....meshing the folds together like this:

Then embellish =D and I hot glued the bottom of this frame to another

8.5x11 sheet and scored it at the bind and at the flap that hangs over to enclose. I used a Friskers edger punch to make the scallop on the flap.

Altered Project for Design Team

Wood Napkin holder

For my altered project...I purchased the top piece of wood at Joann's craft store and a 3/4 inch dowel wood rod. I purchased the bottom piece of wood at Home Depot and had them cut it to my size. I then used a drill to make the holes for my dowel rods and used ood glue to hold in place. I used tracing paper to make my pattern on the front and then used Delta acrylic paints to paint Trisha's bear design etc. on the front.

I made this as a napkin holder for when we go camping =D our napkins end up flying everywhere and we just put a pile of paper plates on top of them. 

Thought this would make a cute solution for them!

Effiel Tower Free Cutting File

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Join Us in a Recipe Card Swap

Come join us in the fun over at Little Scraps of Heaven! We are doing a recipe card swap. Today is the last day to sign up! The more the better! I joined and hope you will too! Click Little Scraps of Heaven Designs and head on over to the discussion board to join in the fun =D

CHECK IT OUT HERE

Here is an example made by Tricia owner of the Little Scraps of Heaven

How cute is this!!!