HOPPY EASTER | Easter Pop-Up Card with Curt

This year, the Easter Bunny has hidden your Easter basket in the last place you'd ever think of looking for it . . .

. . . INSIDE your Easter card!

Why should the outside of your card have all the fun!?!

The SVG cut file for this Easter Basket Pop-Up Card is available exclusively from Lori Whitlock.

After I cut and assembled the pop-up, I filled the Easter basket with Hoppy Easter Odds & Ends. Then, I layered two colors of Abigail alpha stickers on top of one another, Lily White and Bon Bon, to make my sentiment stand out! For a finishing touch, I added faux-stitching around the perimeter with an oldie-but-goodie, the Sew Easy rub-ons!

Doodlebug Design products used:
Hoppy Easter - Bunny 3 svg
6252 Hoppy Easter Odds & Ends
6269 Hoppy Easter This & That
6316 Easter Egg Hunt 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6320 Jellybean Plaid 12 x 12 double-sided
5442 Kraft Gingham-Linen Petite Prints 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6119 Limeade Dot-Stripe Petite Prints 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6093 Lemon Floral-Graph Petite Prints 12 x 12 double-sided paper
3383 Sunshine 12 x 12 textured cardstock
3407 Cinnamon 12 x 12 textured cardstock
3387 Limeade 12 x 12 textured cardstock
3367 Blush 12 x 12 textured cardstock
3370 Strawberry 12 x 12 textured cardstock
6147 Eye See You Shape Sprinkles
743 Lily White Sew Easy Rub-ons
5818 Lily White Abigail Cardstock Stickers
5819 Bon Bon Abigail Cardstock Stickers

Other products used:
Electronic cutting machine
White cardstock
Adhesive

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Visit my blog to see how the Easter Basket Pop-Up is made step-by-step.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CYNTHEA | Birthday Card No.6 from Curt

Happy Birthday, Cynthea! I hope you have a ROARING good time!!!

This card has a little inside joke associated with it. Here's a little backstory to clue you in:

I'm always bursting out into song! My random musical outbursts are always brought on by something someone has said or done. When I started working in-house at Doodlebug, I couldn't resist singing the theme song to the kid's TV series, Dragon Tales when I saw Doodlebug's Dragon Tails collection. I sing this song to Cynthea at least once a month, which she thoroughly "enjoys" since this ear worm gets stuck in her head.

In honor of her birthday, I thought it was fitting to make her a card with our favorite musical paper collection:

Dragon Tails, Dragon Tails!
It's almost time for Dragon Tails.
Come along and take my hand.
Let's all go to Dragon Land!

To make this card, I rolled strips of paper from the Dragon Tails collection with a piece of Doodle Twine in the center. The lettering and flames were cut out of the white paper with my Silhouette. And the yellow pull tab slides back and forth on a track behind the white, allowing Cynthea to "blow out" her candles.

Doodlebug Design products used:
5644 Dragon Tails 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5645 Sea Serpent Stripes 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5647 Hip Hip Hooray 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5649 Dragon Den 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5651 Dragon Dots 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5653 Cobblestones 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5654 Viking Plaid 12 x 12 double-sided paper
5431 Bumblebee Petite Prints 12 x 12 double-sided paper
3395 Blue Jean 12 x 12 textured cardstock
3391 Sea Glass 12 x 12 textured cardstock
4538 Limeade Assortment Glitter Sprinkles
4540 Blue Jean Assortment Glitter Sprinkles
2991 Swimming Pool Doodle Twine
3207 Blue Jean Doodle Twine
3210 Gray Doodle Twine

Other products used:
Paper trimmer
Electronic cutting machine
Ink jet printer
White cardstock
Adhesive

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NEW TEAM MEMBER | NEW PROJECT | NEW 3D CUT FILE

We are delighted to introduce a new member to our Doodlebug Design Team. So please make him welcome.

This may be Curt's first post on the Doodlebug Blog, but you're already familiar with his work. He works in-house at Doodlebug Design as a member of the product development team. And we are thrilled to have his talents extend to our design team.

CURT R. JENSEN:

Are you hosting Easter dinner or an egg hunt this year? One of my favorite things about hosting a get together is making party favors and table decorations! On Easter Sunday, our table will be embellished with these handmade Mini Easter Baskets.

And guess what? You can make them, too, with Doodlebug Design's new Hoppy Easter collection and my 3D basket design which is now an exclusive Doodlebug Design SVG cut file available from the Lori Whitlock Store.

Each of these Mini Easter Baskets were woven together, by hand, with strips of patterned paper. Visit my blog for step-by-step instructions on how to create your own Mini Easter Basket.

I love when projects serve a dual purpose. I wrote my family member's names on each of the eggs and voila, the Mini Easter Baskets are both a place card AND a party favor. If hand lettering isn't your thing, don't worry, use plastic, hard boiled, or chocolate eggs. Or, fill each Mini Easter Basket with candy! However you decide to fill them, these Mini Easter Baskets are perfect to put all your eggs in.

Doodlebug Design products used:
Mini Easter Basket svg
5442 Kraft Gingham-Linen Petite Prints 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6315 Hoppy Easter 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6316 Easter Egg Hunt 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6317 Carrot Patch 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6318 Sunday Dress 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6319 Bunny Babies 12 x 12 double-sided paper
6320 Jellybean Plaid 12 x 12 double-sided

Other products used:
Electronic cutting machine
Plastic, hard boiled or chocolate eggs
Easter grass or paper shred
Permanent marker
Adhesive

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