Funkie Junkie Focus – Spring Frolic

Hello there crafty peeps! The weeks keep flying by and spring is getting closer and closer. The theme this time around is "Spring Frolic". Everything is still grey and brown here so it was fun to create a bright and cheerful spring project. I am in love with the seasonal Idea-ology Tiny Eggs and Salvaged Rabbits (stock up!) so I knew they had to make an appearance in my project.

The base is a vintage silver plate basket I had in my stash.

Tim Holtz did a great live demo last month covering several ways to alter the Tiny Eggs and Salvaged Rabbits. (Hot tip: he now divides the videos into time stamped sections so with a single click you can get right to the part of the video you want to review. So handy!) I wanted to make a chocolate bunny and try making foiled eggs. They turned out so cute!

I also decorated the back so it's interesting from all sides. The Bunny Stitch Die Set is a new one that I love. Those bunnies will be showing up in future projects too!

Love the foiled eggs!!

The carrots are from the Bunny Stitch Die Set too and I incorporated one of the Collage Layer Frames to make that panel. Flowers are made using the Tiny Tattered Florals Die Set.

Here are a few "in process" steps.

1) Base - I hot glued a chunk of styrofoam into my vintage basket to form the base. I then hot glued some Vintage style Easter Grass over that.

2) I created a little layered collage on the back using a label from the new Idea-ology Transparent Things 2, stamping and Curator Snippets pieces with the bunny die cut. I like the effect of things underneath the transparent pieces showing through.

3) Assembling - Memo Pins hold the cards in place and stuck easily into the foam. I arranged the bunny, eggs, flowers and spun cotton mushrooms and glued them in place. This was a fun little project!

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Supplies used:

Tim Holtz Thinlits Die Set - Bunny Stitch
Tim Holtz Thinlits Die Set - Tiny Tattered Florals
Tim Holtz Stamp Set - Field Notes
Tim Holtz Stamp Set - Stitches

Distress Collage Medium Matte

Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Tiny Eggs

Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Salvaged Rabbits
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Layer Frames, Collage
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Transparent Things 2
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Flash Cards
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Memo Pins
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Ephemera Snippets, Curator
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Chit Chat Seasonal
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Worn Wallpaper
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Holiday Woodgrain Cardstock, Gray

Distress Paint - Walnut Stain
Distress Rock Candy Dry Glitter
Stampers Anonymous Glitter Duster
Ranger Alcohol Ink - Stream, Purple Twilight, Sunshine Yellow, Raspberry

Vintage style Easter Grass
Vintage silver plate basket
styrofoam
foil candy wrappers