Hopping Along . . . (plus, the Cutest Easter Cupcakes I've Ever Seen!)

Yesterday, I had the second of my two Easter kids classes.  We made two projects during that, a mini basket and an egg-shaped easel card, transformed with some punch art into either a chick or a bunny.  Here is the basket:

The basket was created using Crumb Cake card stock, die cut using the Perfect Setting Bigz XL Die and the Big Shot.  The basket's base was created using a flower from the Flower Folds Bigz XL Die, and the handle was a strip of card stock, punched using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch.  The bunny image is from the Forest Friends stamp set, and was stamped in Chocolate Chip on Whisper White.  I layered that on a circle of Pretty in Pink and a 1-3/4" Scallop Circle of Chocolate Chip.  Underneath those is an image stamped from the Four Frames set (part of this month's Spring is Blossoming special, and a sneak peek from the 2011-12 Idea Book that will come out this summer!) in Marina Mist, and punched with the Decorative Label Punch.  The sides of the basket have sprigs of Certainly Celery leaves, punched using the Two-Step Bird Punch, and Pretty in Pink rolled paper roses.   Here's a better view of that:

This basket is an adaptation of my rose-covered Easter basket I first showed you in this post.  I was inspired to add the bunny medallion after seeing this cute bookmark on my friend Laura's blog here.

And, here are the chick and bunny cards:

These easel-style cards were both created using the Oval Scallop Frame Bigz Die for the card base and body.  We used the Boho Blossoms, 5-Petal Flower, 1-3/4 x 7/8" Oval, Blossom Petals, Trio Hearts and various circle punches on these as well.

I was inspired to create these egg-shaped cards after seeing some beautiful butterfly easel cards like this one on my friend Robin's blog!  If you can do this with a butterfly, I figured it would work for an egg, too.  And, so it did!!!

In fact, I have another egg-shaped easel card to show you, but I'll save that for another day because I also wanted to show you the cutest Easter cupcakes I've ever seen . . . I found these when I was at Safeway yesterday shopping for some snacks for the card class.  My littlest guy was with me, and we agreed that we just had to get these as soon as we saw them.  Here they are:

In fact, they make me want to design a cute little Easter card.  How about you?  Shall we make it a challenge?  If you are inspired to make something by these, please be sure to leave me a comment (and a link so we can see your creation!)

Thanks for stopping by!

- Michelle