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Making A Bunny Footprint Shadow Box

A Bunny Shadow Box with Painted Footprints

Step by Step Instructions for adding the name, and the free svg to get you started

The Easter Index
Free SVGS, Easter Crafts, Easter Recipes, Easter Books...

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Egg & Candy Holders, Without The Eggs & Candy

Ideas For Using Egg & Candy Holders
Without Using Eggs Nor Candy

Easter Recipes

Italian Easter Pie, Resurrection Cookies, Peanut Butter Eggs, and more

Recipes We Traditionally Use At Easter Time

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Peanut Butter Eggs

Our daughter used to make hundreds of these each spring. She bought herself a new laptop one spring, with her profits! We do not compromise on the peanut butter for these - for us, it's Jiff only.

My favorite melting chocolate were the wafers from A.C. Moore, before they went out of business. I have never liked the brand from Michaels quite as well, although they do work. Chocolate chips can be used in place of the chocolate wafers, too.

How to make an Easter Basket Card
With Free svgs, and Step by Step Instructions

Large Paper Bunny Flower - With Free SVG

Making a Large Paper Flower Bunny

I saw something similar to this year year or two ago, done by someone who sells large paper flower displays. I'm pretty sure theirs was a lot fancier than this, but here's how I made my (most likely) quicker and easier version.

Bouncing Bunnies - A Cricut Kids Craft with Free SVG

Where To Find Free Svgs For 3D Paper Crosses

Where To Find Free svgs for 3D Paper Crosses

Where To Find Free SVGS For Making Easter Baskets

This Easter Basket Opens in Layers, each layer having another selection of candy.

There's a free svg for making this, but I found that it's easier, and faster, to cut the majority of this by hand. All of my accessories were cut with cricut, and the handle, which is part of the svg, I also cut with cricut.

An Easter Candy Explosion Basket

On my desk this morning... the Easter Candy Explosion Box From Minor DIY . Trust me, it's easier than it looks to make this! Once you make one, it will be really quick to make more.

The explosion box svg is from:

https://www.minordiy.com/easter-candy-explosion-box/

It's made from Dollar Tree Posterboard, which cuts well on the medium cardstock, more pressure setting.

(I tried the posterboard setting and it did not work nearly as well)

For the rectangle cuts, I cut them by hand with an exacto knife. You have to cut the posterboard down to make it fit on a mat anyway, so since I was already cutting, I figured I might as well just cut to size.

I think it was a LOT faster than feeding all those mats into the machine.

I did cut all of the lids and the handles with the cricut. I changed everything to white, since I was using all white posterboard, and changed the mat size to 12x24. Then I cut posterboard down to 12x24 to fit on my 12x24 mats.

My machine made a weird extra cut in the handle. Just random - it doesn't appear in the svg. I have a strong love hate relationship with my new maker, it does a lot of odd things like this.

So I covered it with a flower that I had made when I was trying out a variety of free daisy svgs

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/06/making-3d-paper-daisies-with-cricut.html

All of the elements I added were things I had premade, near my craft desk. I was in a rush - so it was what I saw and could grab quickly. 🙂

The bunny card on top of the box was a limited time free svg - the card is no longer free, but the basic bunny is:

http://bit.ly/3IwEtdx

The Bunny Head free svg is from the slider card tutorial here -

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/03/easter-bunny-slider-card.html

The mandala bunny is a free svg from:

https://specialheartstudio.com/layered-easter-bunny-and-egg-cut-file/

The Flower on the smallest box is from the free flower card svg here:

https://www.ilovedoingallthingscrafty.com/2012/03/flower-pot-card-freebie.html

(I make this card a LOT - it's one of my favorites!)

I only used the extra insert support panels on the outside layer. I think it will depend on the candy you use, but that worked for me.

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NOT FREE

Dreaming Tree has a different version, here:

https://shrsl.com/4ez9n

Easter Pie (Pizza Gaina)

Years ago a friend brought us an "Easter Pie"

Her recipe, from her grandmother, uses Ricotta, Romano, Pepperoni, Salami, Hard boiled eggs, Acini di pepe (a pasta), and salt and pepper. (That is not what is shown here)

An Italian dish, this is also known as Pizza Rustica. There are dozens of variations of the recipe, and I make it a little differently every time. They are most commonly filled with ham, salami, prosciutto, ricotta, mozzarella, and romano cheeses.. Hard boiled eggs are frequently used as well.

Some recipes layer the meats, others chop them and mix everything together.

Some even add spinach, or artichokes. Much like a quiche, you can make endless variations.

Note - many traditional recipes use "basket cheese". Basket cheese is very similar to fresh homemade mozzarella, but many recipes offer ricotta as a substitute. Either works.

I rarely use a an actual recipe for much of anything, much to my daughter in laws dismay. In recent years I've made more of an attempt to write down basic recipes that are the "starting point" at least. This is the "starting point" recipe for my Easter Pie in 2020. I'm going to try to remember to come back each year and add the different variations as I try them, but it took me until 2023 to finish this 2020 post... so we'll see how that goes. :-)

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Basic Pizza Rustica - No Pasta Nor Ricotta

Ingredients:
1/4 lb slicing peperoni (sliced at the deli)
1/4 lb mortadella (bologna)
1/4 lb capicola or ham
1/4 lb genoa salami
1/4 lb prosciutto
4 hard boiled eggs
1/2 lb provolone (sharp or mild to your preference)
1 lb mozzarella cheese, fresh or regular or basket cheese if available
10 eggs, beaten
2 pk Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust (or make your own!)
THIS MAKES TWO PIES

Prebake the bottom crust. Layer the ingredients:

Pepperoni
Beaten Egg
Bologna
1/4 of the mozzarella
capicola
beaten eggs
provolone
sliced hard boiled eggs
prosciutto
beaten eggs
1/4 mozzarella
salami
rest of the beaten eggs
press down gently, top with pie crust

Brush the top of the crust with a beaten egg.

Some like to make this deeper, in a springform pan.

I like a deep pie dish for mine.

Cut vents into your top crust.

Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes, then either brush with more egg, or cover with foil, and bake for another 45 minutes.

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On My Desk 3/27 - The Bright Easter Shadow Box

Making the Easter Bright Shadow Box Design by Filigrind

The file is from: https://designbundles.net/store-filigrind/1808781-papercut-3d-picture-bright-easter-layered-design?ref=mno4va

On my desk tonight... an Easter Shadow Box. This one surprised me, because typically all downloads from Design Bundles are high quality files. This download was a little bit of a mess, but it all works and cuts great, you just have to use some of the png files.

Once you download and unzip, you upload part 3 (there is no part 1 or 2 for cutting) as a png, the svg will not work in design space, it errors out as too large of a file. Then you can upload the svgs for 4-8, but there are no svgs for parts 9-11 in the download. (I messaged the designer, but have not yet heard back) For 9-10, again I uploaded the png files. Because they are transparent pngs, and the nature of this design, there's no need to do anything other than upload and choose "cut" - there's nothing to clean up nor erase.

11 is actually just a square, you wouldn't have to upload anything, you can just use the shape tool to create your own square.

All of the pieces upload in the color white. Above is a screenshot of my design space screen, showing the colors I used for each layer, to get the finished design shown here. In order, they are:
3,4,5
6,7,8
9,10,11

For the pieces you upload as pngs, you will want to resize - they upload at very large sizes. This is set to be a 10x10 piece, but for shadow boxes, it's always best to resize to 9x9, or 8x8, especially if you want to make your own shadow boxes from 12x12 cardstock.

I forgot that, and cut it as 10x10. I was able to make my own shadow box using my scoring board, cutting just the "window" for the top part with cricut. It's not perfect, the frame is a little thinner than I typically like, but it was quick and easy to make.

Using two sheets of 12x12 cardstock, I cut a square out of the center of one, using my cricut.

Then I used my scoring board (I love this thing) to score just over half an inch around all 4 sides of both sheets of cardstock. This paper cutter/scoring board cost me around $20 on amazon, and I use it to score most of my cards. It's faster than using cricut, and makes a much nicer score line. Find it here: https://amzn.to/3wHRw7C

After scoring, at each corner, make one cut, on the score line, as shown above.

Then fold on the score lines, folding over the cut ends and gluing to form a box shape.

It's very lightweight. I normally keep a shadow box at this location above my desk - it covers a small hole from an old lighting fixture that was removed from this room many years ago. Normally I use 3m velcro strips to hang them here, but I was out tonight, so until I get more, I hung this with painters tape. It's light enough that that would likely hold it there just fine.

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Paper Crafting Easter Projects - And Where To Find Free SVGS For Them

Where To Find Free SVGS for Paper Easter Baskets, Layered Easter Mandalas, and more Cricut & Silhouette Easter Projects You Can Make With Paper

DISCLAIMER - NOT ALL OF THE DESIGNS SHOWN IN THE ABOVE PHOTO ARE FREE! These were just some of the ones I made in 2021. There are dozens of free ones on this list, but at the bottom there is also a section of NOT free designs.

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