Easter Blog Hop Stop Number 8!

If you have been with us all along, congratulations, you made it to the end of our blog hop - great job! If you are actually starting here please check out all of the other stops along the way because as usual, the Creative Memories Content Contributors have done a fantastic job coming up with fun new ways to embellish your pages and create beautiful gifts.

I am going to focus on one simple page design to end our time here together. I have used the Shades of Pastel paper pack (naturally) to create with, as well as a tape runner, a straight trimmer, a black pen, a hole puncher and the Shape Maker System's circle cartridge. Here you go!

I love baskets, always have, and you can cut strips of cardstock and "weave" them to give the appearance of a colorful Easter basket. All I did here was take two sheets of CM cardstock and a straight trimmer  - I quickly cut three even strips of each color and arranged them on the paper as shown below.

Once I did that I used my tape runner to hold everything down. Now on to the bunny!

If you have seen my creations before, you probably know I am a huge fan of Creative Memories' Shape Maker system. I used it here to make a pink circle and two white circles. I put one white circle to the side for the bunny's head, and used the circle cartridge to cut out the ears as shown below.

I did something similar (only smaller) for the insides of the bunny's ears. 

 The leftover pink became a bowtie! Perhaps you have done this exact pattern before with two round cakes :)

Using a simple hold punch you can make some eyes and a nose and draw on some whiskers and a mouth to complete the cute little rabbit!

Happy Easter everyone!

If you want to see all of the other fabulous ideas here are the other stops on this "hop"!

Where it all begins:) CreativeMemoriesBlog
Stop 1 Noreen Smith's OrganizedandCreativeMom
Stop 2 Sarah Fitzgerald's ClickWriteShare
Stop 3 Candace Bouldin's ScrappinJPEGs
Stop 4 Julie Tambrini's Julie'sCMBlogspot
Stop 5 Diana Miller Brinsley's DBrinsley'sBlog
Stop 6 Stefani Jones's CropwithStef
Stop 7  Lisa Brown Graham'sLisa's Workshop
Stop 8 YOU ARE HERE! Fran Allen Smitherman'sCelebratingYourBeautifulLife

For even more great ideas (not related to Easter) take a peek at our gallery of page ideas from this past weekend's Creative Memories Scrap-a-Sketch Virtual Crop. We have exciting plans for the next one so be sure and "like" Creative Memories on Facebook so you can get all the details as soon as they are announced!