Easter Treats!

We were all commenting on the Papertrey Ink forum the other week about how expensive metal dies are getting to be.  Don't get me wrong I know they are a great value and it sure beats fussy cutting but still it is an investment.  So I wanted to create something to make for our church craft and bake sale that would use these dies.  This is what I came up with:

These little treats have a peppermint patty tucked between two card stock shapes.  I looked at soo many ideas on Pinterest for these treat and I actually combined several ideas to create my own shapes.  Click here to see some of the ideas I found.  Did you know that the York peppermint patty is no longer in foil round wrappers?  They are all square now.  I used the Pearson brand since they still are round.

I also made some pretzel sleeve ones and filled them with M&Ms and jellybeans.  Apparently we come from a chocolate loving town because everything sold but the jellybean ones!

I did these at the last minute.  So my friend helped me glue a lot of these together.  I was very happy to have her help!  She was frustrated with all the little pieces.  I didn't think it was too bad because being a paper crafter I was happy to use up some of my little scraps of cardstock.  Next year I will have to start these ahead of time so I don't have to bother her again!

I will just give you a basic idea of what I used for the shapes and if you need more instructions please let me know.

Chick:

• scallop circles (3)...wings are cut from a scallop circle as well but you can get several wings out of one.  I simply snipped a wing out of one with scissors and then traced around that shape to cut the others so all of my wings were the same.  I shaded the yellow pieces with distress ink to give them some depth
• flowers (3)...one for head and two for feet.  Don't cut flower in half for feet..it's too hard to glue (I used PTI flower fusion #3 die)  
• arrow for beak..fold in half and cut off extra that way you still have a pointed beak but also have the flat part of the arrow to glue to your chick

Bunny:

•  circles (2)

• hearts (3) (2 layering)...I didn't have any ovals that were skinny and long so I used hearts for the ears 1 pink and 1 white. You also need 1 small heart for the nose. I inked the edges of the white pieces with pink distress ink.
• small circle (2) for the cheeks  
• add whiskers with a black fine tip marker

Lamb:

• scallop circles (2) I embossed these with a swirl pattern embossing folder
• oval for face
• smaller oval cut in half for ears
• flowers (3) for wool on face (I used PTI's flippin' out die collection)  
• some sort of label or tag for the feet 

I used a label from Quickutz special delivery dies gift set which I don't think it available anymore.

The die is perforated  so I just cut at the fold and then cut in half long wise giving me enough legs for 2 lambs.  You could use a rounded rectangle or something similar.   Actually the feet aren't necessary for either the chick or the lamb.  I just thought they were cute and I'm a sucker for not knowing when to stop adding things to my creations!

Oh and I forgot to mention google eyes were used for all the animals.  I glued them on with multi-matte medium.  This step was a bit tedious as the eye are small and they kept moving around when gluing but once dry they were stuck on well.  I really didn't want to have to cut tiny pieces out of paper for the eyes.

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Easter!  Please come back again!

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