Artful Thursday: A Sweet Bunny Gift

I've been preparing for Aidan's classroom Easter party..making cupcakes, treat bags, getting craft supplies together and making my Artful Thursday project which happens to be Aidan's kindergarten teacher's Easter gift.



It's a box of See's chocolates, yummmmm who can resist chocolates....not I! Anyways, I've had my share of Easter chocolates already and it's not even Easter yet, yikes!! We won't talk about that anymore (wink!) So back to the project, I wrapped the box of chocolates with a pink woodgrain patterned paper from Martha Stewart that I first trimmed with a scalloped edge. I then wrapped a piece of pink raffia around the box and embellished the box with this sweet easter egg I made using vintage sheet music, paper ribbon, pink raffia, bunny stamp and a fun ticket embellishment that I wrote "Happy Easter" on. It was a pretty simple project and I'm really pleased with the way it came out.

Artful Thursday: Happy Spring

Today was a gorgeous day. I think it may have hit 80 degrees here. I picked up the boys from school and we zipped on over to the park to soak up some sunshine and just played for 2 hours. It was such a refreshing moment after all those dreary days of gray skies and rainfall. We definitely were thrilled with the day's warmth. After leaving the park the boys wanted to go for a ride with the windows down and sun roof open to let the warm air just whip through their hair...It was sweet to look in the rear view mirror and see them all with huge grins on their faces, a look of glee. A "Happy Spring" moment for sure.




"Happy Spring" was the theme for today's Artful Thursday project. I pulled out a bunch of items (vintage sheet music, spring themed scrapbook papers, vintage bunny illustrations, German glass glitter, flower shaped chipboard, bright colored inks, felt adhesive letters) that gave me some spring inspiration.



With a bit of glue, a pair of scissors and a black brush tipped PITT artist pen I suddenly had this spring themed collage. I was going to put some grommets on the top corners to hang this with ribbon but,I think I may put it in a 12 x 12 frame. Here's wishing you all a "Happy Spring.