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Last week, we participated in the “All About Easter” event at Kiki Creates. Thanks, Kiki, for letting us be a part of it, you did a great job!

I made a pretty white-chocolate Easter basket that was inspired by Bakerella’s Pudding Cups. She dipped balloons in melted chocolate to make little bowls (see her cute picture below).

I dipped a larger balloon in melted white chocolate, placed it onto a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper, and chilled it. After the chocolate had hardened, I popped the balloon, and peeled it off the chocolate shell. I was left with a pretty white bowl!

I dipped another balloon, aprox. the same size, in the chocolate, and chilled it as well. Then, with a butter knife that I warmed on the stove, I cut a strip to use as my basket handle, and attached it with melted chocolate.

Using a flat paintbrush dipped in melted chocolate, I painted on the woven design. I colored chocolate with pink and yellow candy coloring, and spooned each color into a plastic sandwich baggie. After snipping the corner, I piped pretty Spring flowers onto waxed paper, and let them chill. I attached the flowers to the sides of the basket with melted chocolate.

For the eggs, I wrapped plastic Easter eggs with homespun paper yarn (for my tutorial, click here), and filled my pretty basket! Didn’t it turn out lovely?

And guess what? We also have a lovely giveaway for you today! Haley from The Autocrat, and the haleydavis Etsy shop, has offered to give away a beautiful camera strap cover to one lucky reader!

Aren’t they beautiful?!

To enter to win, visit Haley’s shop, haleydavis, and come back and leave a comment telling us what camera strap cover you want!

Become a follower, blog, Facebook, or tweet about this giveaway (and leave additional comments) for extra entries. 

The giveaway will end Sunday Night, and the winner will be announced on Monday. Good Luck!

Linking to:

• Sew Much Ado
• Blue Cricket Design
• Night Owl Crafting
• Someday Crafts
• Seven Thirty Three
• House of Hepworths
• Paisley Passions
• What Allie’s Making Now
• It’s a HodgePodge Life
• Tatertots and Jello
• Be Different Act Normal
• The Creative Crate

I went back to Arizona this weekend to celebrate a dear friend’s birthday—along with Jamie and Christene. I met some of the sweetest girls on the planet! We will tell you all about it soon, but I wanted to say hi to my new friends, and thank them for being such an awesome support to WhipperBerry. I’m really starting to like it there!

The Friday Flair was fantastic this week, and it was so hard to choose our favorites! But here are a few:

Personalized Clay Easter Egg Tutorial by The Rachel Berry Blog

Large Dandelion Art by Cleverly Inspired

Just Sew Lovely by Home Sweet Home

Bunny Basket by Kiki Creates

Peter Rabbit Art by Craftberry Bush

Magnolia Floral Friday Pictures by Nifty Thrifty Things

Dictionary Pages Butterflies by Organize & Decorate Everything

Painted Rug by Midwestern Sewing Girl

Baby Shower Favor by Scissors and Spatulas

Beach Bag by Better Together

Rubber Stamped Easter Egg by Organize and Renovate

Bunny Pillow by Ameroonie Designs

Out to Eat Place Mat by Gwenny Penny

Easter Nest Wreath by Just Dream Jelly Bean

Butterfly Mobile by Nifty Thrifty Things

Subway Art Teacher Gifts by Did Someone Say Party

Thanks to everyone who participated! Grab a button if you’re featured in today’s post.

We have a fun giveaway tomorrow plus other great things coming up. It’s bound to be a great week!

I have been admiring today’s {Blog Love} for a LONG time now. Everything she touches turns to gold. I want you to meet Lucy from Craftberry Bush. It’s Creativity In Bloom!

Lucy is a true artist, and creates inspirational décor for her home. Here’s a little taste:

Go check out more of Craftberry Bush, and tell Lucy WhipperBerry says Hi!

Now, it’s time to let our hair down. Welcome to the Friday Flair at WhipperBerry! A place where you can link up all things tasty, fancy, and fun.

Show us what you have a flair for:

• Recipes
• Sewing projects
• Craft tutorials
• Dessert tables/events
• Photography
• Printables
• Gift ideas
• Décor/DIY Projects

We like to do it all—so we want to see it all!

Just remember these guidelines:

• Please link up only your own projects, and link to the specific post, not your blog home page. No Etsy shops or giveaways, please.
• You must grab a WhipperBerry button and include it somewhere in the post you’re linking, or on your home page (a text link is great too).
• Stay and mingle (remember, it’s a party!), and leave a couple comments for other guests!

We reserve the right to remove any link that we feel is inappropriate, or does not follow the guidelines. Thank you for understanding. 

Let’s get started…

I was at the store this morning at 5 o’crazy clock in the morning (don’t ask, yes I know it was too early, but I was rockin’ my Vintage Rose Wrap, so all was right with the world),  and I found these little gems as they were gently screaming my name…

“Heather we are destined to be on WhipperBerry, you must buy us and make us into something special.”  Well, when a marshmallow talks to you… YOU LISTEN!! 

So they came home with me and I thought and thought, what could we do with them to make them “special.”  And then it hit me, I LOVE speckled eggs, why not make my lovely EggMallows speckled!

I melted 1/3 cup of chocolate chips and added about 1 tsp. of vegetable oil to thin it out—and then, check out what I did…

I had my sweet husband stop at the store on the way home and get a brand spankin’ new toothbrush, and I commenced the speckling!!  I found that dipping the toothbrush into the melted chocolate, and rubbing it with a wooden skewer would produce the lovely speckled effect I was looking for.

By the way, my darling Little One posed in the pictures for me.  I do not sport silver nail polish, nor are my nails bitten down to the quick!!  Thanks my darling!!

Aren’t they fun?!  Let them sit for a little while for the chocolate to solidify and then you are in business!

Now to keep it real, here is what was happening behind the scenes while I was working on these little lovelies…

Yes, this is what happens when you give a one year old a marshmallow to keep him happy for a few minutes while you work!

Shhhhh, don’t tell Mom what I am doing!!  I even have it in my HAIR!!

Oh, but I am toooo darn cute.  She won’t mind!!

Gotta say, not too sure if I am liking this myself anymore!

We are Linking to…

• Tidy Mom
• Fingerprints on the Fridge
• Today’s Creative Blog {Get Your Craft On!}
• Blue Cricket Design

Spring is in the air here in Tulsa. The grass is turning green, the trees and flowers are starting to blossom, and the temperature is warming up. So, I thought it was time to get out with the old, and into a new season, with a Spring wreath.

What you will need:

-Plastifoam Wreath

-Burlap Ribbon

-Straight Pins

-Bird Template

-Raffia

-2 small pieces of burlap

-fabric choice ~1/2 yard

-small amount of batting

-button

First of all, I decided I wanted ruffles for this wreath. I had roughly ½ yard of fabric. I cut the fabric into 2 inch strips. I ended up with a total of 8 strips. Next, I proceeded to lengthen my machine stitch to the longest setting and sewed a straight line down the middle of the strips. This is where the magic begins: Ruffles! Carefully pull the bobbin thread gathering the cloth. When you have achieved the desired ruffle, tie the thread pieces together so the ruffles do not come unraveled.

Now that you have your ruffled strips of fabric, you are ready to wrap them around the Plastifoam wreath. I chose to pin the ruffles in the foam instead of gluing. We all know those things are pricey and I’m going to reuse my wreath for a future project.

For my bird template, I just did a Google search. I printed, and cut out, my desired template. Now trace the bird onto the small pieces of burlap. Cut those out together. Stitch, or sew, the two birds together, leaving a small opening to add the batting for your puffy birdie. After adding the batting, stitch it closed, and add your button on for the eye.

Now we need to hang the bird. I used the raffia to hang the bird from the wreath, with a small stitch to the back of the bird—then a knot (with a pin through it) to attach to the wreath.

To hang the wreath from my door hook, I used burlap ribbon. Have I mentioned I LOVE burlap?! And there you have it friends. My Spring wreath with a little birdie. I love Spring!!

Linked to:

• Someday Crafts
• MMM @ Craft
• Craftaholics Anonymous
• Tidy Mom
• Fingerprints on the Fridge
• The Shabby Nest
• Today’s Creative Blog {Get Your Craft On!}
• Blue Cricket Design
• Stories of A2Z