 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these really quick and simple little kind of Easter baskets. I actually first made these which are just little nests with eggs in and there's a chocolate Kit Kat bunny in there as well and I was just going to drop these around to some of my friends and then I thought it'd be quite nice to have a little basket and that's when I saw that Trimcraft had put up their free downloads so I'll share the link to their downloads they're really really nice I haven't printed them all off because this is actually going to be my last Easter project. I might make some bunting and just post some pictures up on my Facebook page but in terms of tutorials that will be it but I have a huge amount of Easter tutorials so if you do still want to make some last-minute crafts then I'll share the playlist up here actually and there'll be links as well on the blog post but when they done the downloads I just saw this lovely gingham print and I just love the soft pastel colors and I thought it would work really well with these gorgeous brads that my friend Kimmy sent me a while ago. I still got a few left for some more projects but I've kept some for myself you know forever kind of thing and then the rest I'm going to be using on craft projects but they're just really nice but one of the toppers that you also get with this when you print it all off is this here. I actually scaled it down to five by seven because I liked the size of the Hello Spring so I just cut that out of there with my two inch circle punch but you've also got high thank you happy birthday just a note just for you so they're really nice things to just maybe you know leave on someone's doorstep so I've made these and if I take that out you can see how it is just really sweet this all moves they're just really cute so if you are doing you know you've got the children at home and you're doing like a little Easter egg hunt they would be quite sweet for that as well but nice as little table favours favours as well very very quick and easy to do so I'm just going to jump straight into this video so you just want one sheet of five seven and a quarter squared so this is what I've got here so this is seven and a quarter squared and you want to score it two inches on all four sides so two two two and two now when you cut this this was printed onto a piece of A4 300 gsm cardstock and I just run it through one piece at a time whenever you want to print onto cardstock obviously if you've got a much more robust printer than I do then you could probably put more pages in but a lot of people ask how I print onto cardstock and I just feed one in at a time and just print one at a time rather than multiple but when you cut it if you cut along the eight and a quarter side or the eight and a half side first you'll get this strip which is then the handle okay so yeah when you cut it you'll see there how mine was together something was at the other side you get what I mean anyway yeah there we go so it was something like that okay and then you've got that section as well which you can use for your mats and layers if you do want to decorate it a bit differently but this is all you need so you just now want to fold and burnish all of your score lines okay and then you want to pick a side any side and you're going to cut up both the score lines to the first score line okay so you've got that square piece there and then again you've got the square there and then just flip it to the opposite end and just cut up those two score lines again so these are you know this took me no time to do these I whipped them up very quick and then you just want to cut little wedges off of those four squares again just to make everything nice when we fold it all together okay so you want something like that it's a very simple box shape that's all we're doing and then we're just adding the handle to give it that basket look so now you just want to add some glue you can use your tape as well to one of the tabs bring it under the side piece and around to create one of the sides or the corners there of your box okay and then go to the next one and again bring up that side just so you get a nice finish there and then if you go to the opposite end and kind of do these at the same time because you'll be folding it inside that box so just cover that one and then that one there like so just bring them both in and then it's just much easier and less messy if you're using liquid glue to get those both in there and you can just you've got that wiggle room as well which is always good like so so it's now up to you where you want to punch your holes for the basket I'm doing them on the sides where we've got all this here because it's almost like it's reinforced so if you've got something that is a little bit heavy the handles will be able to you know hold against the extra layers of cardstock there so I'm just going to give that a minute to dry with the handle so it's the full length of my A4 but if you're using 11 inches and that's fine as well just put a nice curve in it and then you just want a hole punch it's entirely up to you how far up you go I probably say I'm going up three quarters of an inch so on that end and on this end you can follow the lines on your pattern as well if you're using something similar like so and then again this is the sixth one now so I kind of know where I'm going but I'm just in the center just pushing it in as far as I can again it's about three quarters of an inch down if you want to again mark it with a pencil just so you know you're getting it all bang on you can see there and then you just want to grab your brads you may not have you know brads you don't have to use these you could just stick the handles directly either inside with some glue there and you might want to put a decorative you know flower or something like a die cut or a stamped image you can do that as well and then just pop that through and you've got that little hinge kind of effect with your handle and again bring those two together and split that open just kind of shape it a little bit but there you have a very sweet and very easy little basket so now I'm just going to take my foam backing off of there and just pop that in the center and you're finished a basket and how quick was that so here's my last nest to go in this is number six and I'm just going to sit that in there and isn't that adorable love them I hope you've enjoyed this very quick little tutorial on just a nice little way to make these little baskets to hold some sweet treats like I said they're great for maybe a little mini Easter egg hunt in your back garden or to have as a little favor on your Easter table or doesn't even have to be Easter themed it can be a birthday anything you want you can put a candle in this as well but these are now going to be on their way and I'm going to be popping them outside people's doors knocking standing back and then seeing their faces when they open the door to see this little gift on the doorstep so yeah so thank you for watching today please give me a thumbs up if you have enjoyed the video consider subscribing if you haven't so you get to see more fun tutorials and I'll be back very soon thanks for watching bye