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Easter Party
Jo Davies shows you how some sweet stamped bunnies can go a long way
Time For Tea Designs has done
it again with this sweet stamp set – the rabbit designs look great in all sorts of projects, as Jo Davies demonstrates with her Easter- themed makes. The stamps are super simple to use, so why not get the whole family involved? Just make sure that you take care of all the cutting!
Happy Easter bunting
Kit List
Exploding card
Kit List
◆ Time For Tea Designs: Hip Hop Hooray clear stamp set; Box Clever die set ◆ Card: super smooth, white; general purpose, white ◆ Ink pads: Memento, Tuxedo Black ◆ Copic markers ◆ Gelly roll pen, white ◆ Scoring tool ◆ Glue, Cosmic Shimmer ◆ Tim Holtz distress oxide inks: Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron ◆ Paper, patterned ◆ Acetate, thick
4Close your box shape by adhering the free tab on your bottom box panel piece. Cut off the free tab from your top piece. Cut down the score lines of your top piece to where it meets the bottom piece. The top panels should now act as flaps that fold outwards from the exploding box.
◆ Time For Tea Designs: Hip Hop Hooray clear stamp set; Bee Happy hexagon stitched nesting die set ◆ Card: super smooth, white; coloured; general-purpose, white ◆ Ink pad, Memento, Tuxedo Black ◆ Copic markers
◆ Gelly roll pen, white ◆ Die cutting machine ◆ Glue, Cosmic Shimmer ◆ ScanNCut (or alphabet dies) ◆ Embellishments: flowers, buttons ◆ Twine
1Stamp six bunnies, three sentiments and several other designs from the Hip Hop Hooray stamp set onto super smooth card using Memento Ink. Colour the designs using Copic markers and a white Gelly roll pen, then fussy cut out, leaving a thin white border around the designs.
5Colour white card green using the Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron distress oxide inks, then cut into two strips using the long, straight die from the Box Clever set. Score and fold the ends, then adhere these strips to the inside of the exploding box near the top opening.
1Stamp six bunnies and several other designs from the Hip Hop Hooray stamp set onto super smooth card, using a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad. Colour using Copic markers and a white Gelly roll pen, then cut out, leaving a thin white border 2aroundthedesigns.
2Die cut and score four of the largest panels from the Box Clever die set from white card. Take one pair of the die cuts and stick them together along one of the score tabs.
Do the same to the other pair. You will now have two box panel pieces. Score a new line along the full length of one of your new box panel pieces. This will give you four new tabs. Attach the two box panel pieces together with the new tabs you created. As a result of yourscoring,thetoptwopanelswillbe slightly smaller than the bottom ones.
cut two of each shape from green patterned paper and two of each from yellow patterned paper. Use these to decorate the box’s flaps
and sides. Die cut a sun from yellow patterned paper and two cloud shapes from white card.
Cut thin strips of acetate to
Using the Bee Happy hexagon stitched nesting
die set, cut 11 hexagons from different coloured pieces of card using the largest die, cut seven hexagons from white card using the next size down and cut five hexagons from white card using the 3next size down.
varying lengths, and stick some of the cutout designs to them. Attach the bottoms of the acetate strips to the green strips on the inside of the box.Usetheadditionalcutoutsto decorate the rest of the box.
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Using the inner panel dies, die
Layer the white hexagons onto the coloured
hexagons in an alternating pattern of sizes, using Cosmic Shimmer glue – make sure that 4you don’t put two of the same colour side by side.
Cut out the letters to spell Happy Easter
from different coloured pieces of card, using 5a ScanNCut or alphabet dies. Alternatively, you can use 3D stickers or MDF letters instead.
Position the cut-out bunnies on the larger
white hexagons and the smaller cutouts on the smaller hexagons. Place the corresponding letter on each. Once you are happy with the 6placement, adhere.
Add small embellishments to some of the
hexagons. To finish, tape a length of twine to the back of each hexagon, leaving a small gap between each.
Party ready
“Nothing says Easter like these adorable bunnies and lovely
pastel shades! The stamps from this kit are really simple
to use and fun to colour in, so they’re ideal for crafting with the kids. Plus, they’ll love to see their handiwork on display at your Easter bash!”
JO DAVIES