HAPPY EASTER

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Today I am sharing my April Eclectic Ellapu design team inspiration project.  The theme for April is to Create a Box and Fill it with Goodies!  This challenge is just perfect for the occasion.  I absolutely love, love, love Easter!!!  It is my favorite holiday and time of the year.  I couldn’t wait to get started on my project.   This year instead of doing the traditional baskets for Easter, I decided why not make it a box??  It just so happened that I had some orders for Easter goodies, so these boxes were right on point.   To create the project I started with decorative boxes from Tuesday Morning, one for a boy, a girl, and an adult female.   I filled each box with shredded paper in a coordinating colour (also from Tuesday Morning).  You can find the same supplies at your local big box craft stores like Michaels, Hobby Lobby, and JoAnns.   I made sure to ask the ages and likes of the recipients including colours (you’ll want to cater the box to the recipient).  I try to get as close to the likes as I can.  Let me just say, I had a blast picking out things to add to the boxes.   But be careful not to overdo it, most of the boxes come with the magnet closure that is not very strong, so you may have to reinforce the closure if you overdo it. One of the recipients is a 2 year old, so I thought she should be starting to write or want to anyway.   At that age a standard crayon is actually too small to help fine-tune their dexterity, so I got the jumbo crayola crayons instead.  One of the recipients is 6 years old and probably starting to discover the icky adventures of picking up insects and other eeeky things.  For him I found this neat little magnifying container.  You put the insect in the container (it won’t hurt the insect) and you can view it up close; doesn’t that just scream “boy stuff”!  For the adult, the one thing I know is that she lovvvvvvvves candy (I think more than her grandkids).  She was also retiring so I got her things that she could do while retired.  There is a beautiful peacock mug, a peacock covered journal, and some peacock inspired note cards and envelopes.  She’ll have plenty of time to sit on her porch, drinking tea, while writing thank you cards and memories in her journal; oh yes and eating her candy.  For the two little people boxes, I finished the packages off by putting them in Michaels Celebrate-It clear cellophane gift bag, created a hand stamped tag using one of their dollar stamps (Happy Easter) , some colourful oval shaped tags, and balloon streamer ribbon.  Now talk about an easy and fun project, this is it!   Well, thanks for stopping by; I hope this inspires you to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a sweet way.  Until next time…

 

 

 

Of course I forgot to take a picture of the boxes all packaged up so I had my customer send me a snap shot.

 

 

Joyce Ann