Easter Berry Basket... & Carrot

A clean and simple little Berry Basket for Easter..... dressed with a carrot! 

Just a bit of fun with leftovers from my earlier carrot cake project!

Basket as it comes from the Berry Basket die... 

Carrot base and top care of the Cutie Pie dies (aka the Cake Slice dies!)

 Bit too daft? Maybe... but it has caused a giggle or two here at The Craft Spa.... 

Berry Basket Round Up

Seeing as the Berry Basket die is on Weekly Deals with 25% off... so just £26.25... saving you a fantastic £8.75 off the retail price of £35... I thought it was high time for a round up of last year's projects using it... Most with an Easter theme... Most really simple in style... Just click on the photo to go to the original post...

But before I start... here is an overview of the other Weekly Deals on this week... all great buys!

Oh and here is a Stampin' Up! video for the Berry Basket die...

And whilst I am at it... here is one for the Hamburger Box die...

Now I am feeling inspired to use this die again... now where did I put that long list of Projects to do!!

But oh dear...the Hamburger Box just slipped onto my order today!

Garden Trugs using the Berry Basket die – and a Tutorial for an Extended Basket using less cardstock

Happy Easter to you all…I hope the Easter Bunny has been generous…
As my Easter Sunday Share - here is my Garden Trug range! With a tutorial for you too!
The extended double basket is slightly smaller than the previous double berry basket shared. I wanted the trug to fit my egg better so it wouldn’t roll around…but I kind of failed as the Egg is still slightly smaller than my trug! So much for my measurements!! But an oval aperture in an insert inside quickly fixes that!
But I did work out how to use less cardstock in the making of an extended basket! Details shared at the end of this blog post…
I also had a fail with the plant I bought for the single version too … the pot is slightly higher than the Berry Basket! So on the search for a lower pot….
So onto the extended Berry Basket…. see the link above for a video on a full Berry Basket…. but here are my tips…
Die Cut 2 Basket sides… Stamp as required…

Apply glue to one side of one Basket side ( I used Sticky Strip so you can see it!)

Adhere 2 Basket sides together… Note that I have positioned the sides so that all 6 slats are spaced apart equidistantly – which makes the basket narrower than the full Double Berry Basket version linked…

Cut 2 partial basket sides using 2 cardstock pieces of a minimum 3 1/2” Square size… I just used a scrap so it is slightly longer… Note I have just photoed one being cut so you can see what I am talking about…but you can easily do both at the same time (on top of each other or to each side of the die – or even cut one full side and then cut in half!)

Apply glue to bottom side of partial bases

Adhere one to each short Basket side. You could then even cover this base with a card piece (mine would be a piece 3” x 5 1/2”)

And to finish off… you will need 3 of the die-cut straight basket tops in total ….

The long Basket sides of my extended Basket were 5 3/4”.

Add 1/2” to allow for the overage on either side of the Basket when assembled… Which makes 6 1/4”.

Trim one Basket top length so that it is 6 1/4” long plus the small end tab. ( see RH length in photo)
Adhere the other 2 (folded on the score-lines as the die intended) using the small tabs.

Trim the other long side as necessary as the last part of your assembly..

You will notice that I assembled the short sides first and then the long… easier for me to eyeball that way!
One other thing to note… this was another project rejected for my production-line Easter Baskets class… this time because of the stamping…. lining up the Hardwood slats in bulk would have proven far too hard!!

MDS Berry Basket

Spotted this whilst spending some quality time on my favourite inspirational web site….yes you guessed it … Pinterest.

Jess Williams  at The Paper Caper - a very clever demo in Australia has produced and shared this great template she produced using My Digital Studio (MDS) that you just print and then cut with the Berry Basket die…

But the template bunny was chopped into by the slats… So a quick stamp, colour and fussy cutting of my favourite Happy Easter Bunny…and there you have it… open top Easter Berry Basket made easy!

Thanks for sharing your genius Jess… this project is just FUN! And SO clever….

Easter Egg Double Berry Basket Holder

Just popping onto share another version of an Easter Egg holder I created. Again I had to keep it simple as one of my crafting friends was making 12 at one sitting!!

But unfortunately this one had to be rejected…  as I think she would have thrown “stuff” at me if she had had to die cut & assemble 24 baskets… never mind the other 25 being made by the other ladies at the time… I don’t think one Berry Basket die would have gone round!!

  

Shame as it does look rather good surrounding the Easter Egg  so perfectly… even if this is just my prototype version… and in Elegant Eggplant so as to best match the Cadburys Easter Egg!!

Easter Egg Berry Basket

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Another Easter project kept simple due to the mass production going on this year…. nearly 50 of these were made here last week… that is a lot of Easter Egg & Treats going on!!
This ended up as a great sturdy little basket… not because of using the stapler to assemble but because there is both paper and card on all the sides – and the “spare” 2 x straight sided card strips cut out with the die were also glued together – and used as the handle.
Little thing – huge difference! Actually ended up strong enough for Cream Eggs etc or even Mini Eggs…

We also added a quick insert to the inside to hold up the Easter Egg… didn’t want them flopping over….
Just a 9cm card square (3 1/2”) – scored at 1 cm (3/8”) all round. And punched with the 1 3/4” Circle Punch ( tip – you have to fold over one scored side to get the punch to centre on the internal square!)

And just finished off with a Bow Builder Punch bow…simples… they all looked fab!!

But we did have a laugh…. at some point we realised that if you turned the egg over so that the thinner end is at the bottom… then you looked like you had bought a medium sized egg rather than a small egg!!! Frugal chocolate giving!!!
I hasten to add that the egg in the photo is the “right way up”
SU! Products Used
Dies -  Berry Basket
Punches etc – Handheld Stapler, Bow Builder; 1 3/4” Circle Punch;
Card & Papers – Painted Blooms, Rose Red

Berry Basket Planter… Work in Progress!

A few of you asked what Berry Basket project I had been originally plotting for my mothers’ Ferrero Rocher treats for Mothers Day…

Well it looked like this… but those heavy little chocolates just made it tip over… so I went back to the drawing board… but in the meantime some little blossoms from Indescribable Gift just made it in the planter…so I think you can get the idea…. definitely a work in progress….. though now not for Easter…. plotting for her birthday in July now!!

And yes…. the base is made from 2 Berry Basket die cut sides too… just an extra score 3/4”(2cm) down from the die-score-line…eh voila!

The “stand part” is added…simple little long box that goes neatly into the base through a punched square with tabs opened up underneath…

Double Berry Basket for Two! Keeping it Simple!

 

Sometimes things just have to be kept simple! And this really was for me… as I even had the wreath image from For The New Two left over and ready to go! But it was just SO perfect…

So here is a simple way to present 2 chocolate Easter eggs at one go… a double Berry Basket…

Want to make one for yourself… you just need the Berry Basket die and go to fellow US demonstrator, LeeAnn Greff’s blog here to see a video tutorial she has posted on how to double it up…

Loving my Berry Basket die… I have a long list of Things I Want to Make…wonder how far I will get down it! 3 made so far….

Berry Basket of Ferrero Rocher & Lindor chocolates

As long term followers of my blog will know – my mother is rather partial to a Ferrero Rocher or two!  So I had a plan for a project for my mother’s chocolates for Mothers Day.

So I got my Berry Basket die out – and set to work!

But the plan didn’t work – it looked just as I had envisaged – but it was not fit for function – which is code for … it fell over!! So a plan B was called for – with about 10minutes to go!!

So here it is… a simple Berry Basket full of Ferrero Rochers – and a few Lindor balls too – just for a bit of variety this year!

The decoration on the sides was by using the Rose die cut (from the Artisan Embellishments kit) as a mask – and sponging what I thought was Sahara Sand through – but I had actually used Crumb Cake by mistake!

Add a bit of Sahara Sand Lace Trim – and there you have it – a simple but pretty little basket. Fit for my mum!

Now Plan A will be revisited… as it is so perfect for my mother … maybe for Easter…time will tell!