With Easter right around the corner and so many cute things out there reminding you... a thought kept bugging me so I got busy last night and made my cute little bunny box... I love my bitty bunny. Inspired by other creative demonstrators as well as my own twist... I came up this my treat box.
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Here she is hanging on to her egg while she sits in a patch of Grass... sort of... LOL.
Instructions:
Photo showing the punches I used, with the exception of the boho flower punch... didn't use it, but someone might want to...
On the left: the Petite Purse Die for the body of the bunny, top: boho flower punch, small oval punch for feet, 3/4" and 1/2" circle punches for eyes, 1/8" hand held circle punch for pupils, bottom row: from left to right: petals builder punch: for feet, ears and nose, oval punch for egg and small scallop punch for hands and tail.
Feet:
Punch out the largest petal in the punch... then add a small strip of white behind the punched petal, so that you can insert the petal in the oval punch and hold it to creat the feet....
Center the top of the petal... or the peak... in the oval punch as shown here... you will have 3 toes when it's punched out... make 2 of these.
I then punched out in Pink Pirouette the little paw pads in 1/8" for toes and 1/4" for foot pad. Glue on with a tiny dot of a liquid glue... set aside for later.
EARS:
There are many ways to create ears... I like mine.. they look real... so, punch out the second largest petal in the builder punch... you'll need two in white or the color of your bunny. Then punch out two pink ones in the smallest petal for the inside part of the ear. Sponge all edges with a matching pink tone... including the white. I attach the inside part with a good adhesive to each ear, but before you do that refer to pic to the right... for making the curve on the ear tips...
Ear Tip rounded...
I took off the peaky side of the petal... see punch above... by inserting the petal into the 1/2" circle punch and removing... that's how I got the realistick looking ears above.... you could just leave it and use the pointy end, showing below as your ear tip.
Play with your ears until you come up with what you like and set aside...
HANDS:
I punched out a white scallop circle in our new 7/8" scallop punch
then, took the 1/2" circle punch and inserted the scallop into the circle as in the pick below...
Punch out two paws from the scallop and set aside....
Scallop inserted into 1/2" circle punch ... to creat paw...
Here's what you have so far..... and I've added the 3/4"x15/16" oval punch now to make an egg.
You have the hands, nose: from a small petal punched out in pink and clip off the tip by reinserting in to a circle punch... see pick for sample and guidance....
EYES:
I punched out two 3./4" basic grey eyes, 2 basic black eye centers in the 1/2" circle punch and using the circle punch from the bitty bunch trio (not pictured anywhere because I used it last minute it for the white) for the whites. Here's a tip from Kimberley Morris to make easy pupils... take the black eye color circles... place them one on top of the other... and insert into the 1/8" hand held circle punch... pictured here... and punch them both through close to the edge... then, all you have to do is stick the whit larger circle to the back of the black and then onto the largest Grey...
How cool is that??? Awesomely easy. No chasing missing pupils all over the place...
So, here is what you've constructed so far....
Ears, Eyes, nose, feet, hands and egg... almost there....
Once you have cut out the die... you are going to fold on the score lines to get the box ready... on the front of the box... pictured here... you are going to add a little of color on the cheeks of the bunny with a dauber and some matching pink.... do this next to the little slit in the box where the cover will close... in this pic...the nose is covering the slit... then with a marker... add some whiskers and freckles... now, with a glue dot... add the nose so it just covers the slit...
On the inside of the lid you can stamp a sentiment... I used the Easter Wishes one in Basic Grey
TAIL:
With the 7/8" scallop punch, punch 4 scalloped circles and score them in half... as shown. This will make folding them in half easier...
Then fold each in half and press them open well... add some adhesive to the back of each one and begin to stick each half to another half until you begin for form a ball of sorts... when you get to the last one... do not... close the ball together...
Ball of scallops ready to adhere to the back bottom of bunny... you can leave this step til last if you prefer... so that you can then just stick it on the bunny.
Set aside with care that it doesn't stick together...
Here is the basic assembly of the bunny...
At top: Bunny face and body, next is the blank bottom of the box, then the back section where the tail and Ears will be adhered to.... last, the closing flap that has the Eyes attached to it. On the side are the feet and egg with hands attached to the front ready to be adhered to the body once the box is assembled... I used dimensionals to make the egg and feet pop up.
On the two little 1/4" flaps on either side of box, use sticky strip to secure the box... assemble the box as per directions on die... and then add the egg and feet to the front of the box...
Tah! Dah! Bunny is complete...
For added details: I bent the ears forward for effect with my thumb and a rolled them a little on a pencil... I also sponged all white and pink body parts with the pink ink along edges so you can see them against the white body... and then, the egg has been embossed with the delicate lace embossing folder and then I sponged the embossed design to show it.
I hope you found this useful ... until nex time. I'll be busy!!
Sandra.
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