 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreateCrafts. In today's video, I will be showing you how to create these cute little paper Easter egg holders. They are so cute and so much fun to create. Make sure to hit that subscribe button if you haven't already as I will be creating more step-by-step craft tutorials. Now let's get started. All right, so to make these cute little guys, you have to start in design space, but I want to show you where I purchased these from. So I purchased the files from design bundles here. It was so cute. It was originally $8. They put it down to $5.20, so if you're interested in this, I would definitely grab it now before the price goes back up, but I just wanted to show you these really quick. It's so cute. You get the duck, the rabbit, the penguin, and the sheep. I absolutely love these. I actually made a different one like the duck here, and it was so easy to create. So you can see it's just a few pieces of paper and a little bit of glue, and then you just put in this cute little egg here. So I thought this was the cutest thing. It's so easy to put together. So I figured I'd show you a tutorial on how to do it. It takes just a few minutes. So I have them all put in design space right here. I did not change the size. I'm going to try it the way it is, and I'll let you guys know if you need to make it bigger or smaller. But the last one I did was perfectly the perfect size. So I'm going to show you something in here really quick that I noticed. So when you have all these guys, obviously, there's different colors, right? You have the yellow, the orange, and then you have yellow, black, so on and so forth. So if we were to cut this out right now, I'll show you what it looks like. So if I click at the Make It button, look on the side here how many colors there are to cut out. This is absolutely crazy. So if you can see here, there's like four different colors of this grayish color, whiteish color. Then we go down further and there's all these yellow colors. So instead of wasting your time and trying to find different colors like this, or maybe moving them individually, I'll show you the easier way. So I'm going to cancel this and I'm going to start with the first one. So I'm going to start with the duck. So as you can see here, there's several different colors on the side here. So we have the yellow, right? But as we saw when I click the Make It button, there was different colors, like three or four different colors of yellow. So the way I do this is I'm going to start over here. I'm going to click on this first one and you could see that it made it a little bit grayer. And I'm going to hold my Command button down. Yours might be the Shift key or the Control key. Every computer is different. I have a Mac, so I'm holding down the Command button. So once I have this one selected, I'm going to hold the Command button down and I'm going to click on the next one. And I'm still holding the Command button down and I'm going to click on the next one. So I have all the yellows, right? So now I'm going to go up here and I'm just going to find we'll use this yellow. It's a little bit darker here so we can remember which one we use. So now we changed all of these to the same color yellow. I'm going to do the same thing with this guy. So as I can see already, this is a little bit lighter than these guys. I'm going to do the same thing because I clicked on this image. It shows me it right here. So I'm going to do the same thing. So it's all selected here. All I want is the yellow pieces. So I clicked on this first one and I'm going to hold the Command button and I'm going to hold and select this next one. So now we have both pieces here. So if you can see up here, there's a little question mark. So it's like saying there's more than one color here. So I'm going to click that and I'm going to do the same dark color here as the duck. So when it cuts out, I'm still just doing a wonderful color of the yellow. So I'll show you really quick what I mean. So if I go to make it, I'll go down all the way at the bottom. And now there's just one yellow piece here. So here's all the yellow that's going to cut out. So I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing with the white part. This you don't have to do this if you don't want to, but it just makes it so much easier when I cut things out. So I'm going to do the same thing. So I'm selecting the little penguin guy again. So he hasn't selected on the side here. And I'm going to do the white because I can already see that these, this color and this one are separate here. So I'm going to take the first one, click on that, hold the command button and get the next one, hold the command button, get the next one. So now I have all three pieces selected right here. I'm going to go up here. Oh, but looks like it's already all white, but I'm going to change it to white. So now that will all cut the same. This one, I know that the little feet here are a little bit grayer. I'm okay if it's white. So I'm going to do the same thing and then I'm going to do the same thing with the bunny here, but I'm going to show you really quick and see if we have any more that we can change up. But now it should definitely take those down. So we only have one white. We have one black one. We have one brown or one for the bunny itself. And here's the pink pieces for the ears that we definitely cut it down much more. And then here's the feet color. So depending on how many colors you have, you can do this or you can leave it the way it is, but I'm going to cancel one more time and I'm going to leave it the way it is, but I just wanted to talk about really quick for each piece you need. OK, so this is going to make one per one little duck. This is going to make one little penguin and so on and so forth. So if you want to make more of these, you just want to select it and hit the duplicate button, but I'm just going to do one now just for the purpose of the video. So I just wanted to show you that really quick. I'm not changing anything on it. I'm not changing the size or anything else or the colors I like how it is. So I'm just going to click make it and then I'm going to go ahead and do each one of these. So this is all the white that it's going to cut out. So I'm going to go ahead and click continue. And then for this one for my base material, you really have to watch here. So I have this copy paper here that's 20 pounds. I have this heavy card stock here, which was 100 pounds. So I'm using two different kinds of paper. So one card stock that I have is 65 pounds. And then another one that I have is 110 pounds. So you need to watch out how you cut this out. So if you have the thinner paper, you can use the 20 pound here. Or if you have the heavier one, you do the 100 pound here. So depending on what kind of paper you have, I have thicker card stock. So I'm going to click this heavy card stock. I already have my fine point bladed and that's all you need because when you go to do the creases, let's see, on one of these, you can't really see it here. Let's see if I can find another one that might be able to show it. But when you do the creases on these, OK, like this, I thought you would have to use a stylus tool, but it actually just cuts it out. So the only thing you need for this is a really good blade in your machine. And I'm going to talk about this in just a second. I'm going to get off of here and I'm going to show you how I put this on my mat and which tools I use for this. All right, guys. So before I get started, I'm just going to show you a few things here. So this was the paper that I was talking about. I bought this from I think it was Hobby Lobby for 40 percent off. So six dollars and minus 40 percent wasn't too bad. So this is the 65 pound card stock. Then I have this other stuff that I bought from I think Hobby Lobby as well. I don't know the price of it, but there's multiple colors in here. This one is the heavier card stock at 110 pounds. And then I also have this other one. It's more of a Christmas color, but I bought it from Goodwill for five dollars. I didn't think it was that bad of a deal. I see these at Hobby Lobby and Joann fabrics for like over 20 dollars. So there's a few different colors in here as well that I'm going to be using. But besides that, I just wanted to talk to you really quick about what I'm using. So if you guys know me and you know my channel, I don't buy a lot of cricket brands. So I bought this huge bag of blades from Amazon. I'll leave the link below in case you're interested. This bag costs less than one of the cricket brand blades. So I got, I think there was 36 of them in here and I believe it was under 20 dollars. But I mean, that's crazy. There's different ones on here for card stock and for fabric and whatever else you're going to be cutting. So if you're interested in getting these, I'll leave the link below. Another thing I want to talk about is this mat that I bought. So I had a lot of cricket brand mats and I was washing them and washing them. I have a video on that in case you're interested in your new and you don't know how to wash your mats. It's so simple. I have a video on that. I'll leave that in the link below as well. But for those of you who don't know, you don't have to buy the cricket brand. I don't know. Oh, here's the brand name. Real like if I'm saying it right, but I bought it from Amazon. I don't remember offhand how much it was, but it was definitely a lot cheaper than the cricket brand and it's just a sticky. And I've had this and I've always bought that off. I've always bought the off brand one and it seems to work so much better than the cricket ones. So I just wanted to do a quick interruption with this. I hope this is helping you. If you guys like this, that I'm kind of teaching you how to do things. Give me a thumbs up and hit that subscribe button. Leave a comment below. I love reading your guys comments. I love it when you guys tell me I'm doing a good job. It makes me feel better inside and I just want me to keep going. So I hope you're liking these little tips that I'm leaving you here in there. And I hope it helps you. But just continuing, I'm just going to go ahead and put the card stock on here. This is just the regular standard grip. It is still kind of sticky, but it has a little bit less stick to it because you don't want your paper to completely stick to this. So you want it a little bit less sticky. So I'm using one that I have used a couple of times already and it works really well. So just the hard part of this is once it cuts out, you just have to keep things in different piles. But I'm going to cut everything out. I'll pull it off of the mat and then I'll show you what it looks like when it's finished. But I just wanted to give you a quick update and a tip on that. So I hope it helps. One more little tip. So I have some of the paper still stuck on the paper here, but for the ones that don't come off very easy and that are stuck on your mat, I just use this. It's just a little scraper. Believe it or not, I have this from my first cricket. I think it was the first cricket that they ever made. Like years ago, I have this tool and I never really used it until now. But it just makes it so much easier to be able to go underneath and grab it like that instead of using your fingernails and kind of like ripping it off. It just makes it so much easier just to grab this piece and pull it off. So it's just another little tip for you. If you have these little tiny pieces that don't want to come off like these ones right here, instead of me using my fingernail and trying to go under there and break the piece, it just makes it so much easier just to use it like a cookie and just pull it off here. Just like that, just makes it so much easier and you're not breaking your piece at all and you know where they're all going. So that's just another quick tip to get this off. If they're still stuck in your paper, that's fine. You just got to go ahead and go in and pull them off. And you just want to do it gently that you're not breaking anything. But just to show you, I have just a few more pieces in here, but you got to be careful when you're doing these that you're not losing any of these little pieces. So just another quick tip. Oh, my gosh, these guys are so stinking cute. So I did go ahead and make two of them really quick. I put an egg in here to show you what it looks like. So this is the duck. I missed the little piece here. I have to find it or recut it, but I am missing one, but I wanted to show you guys what they look like. So that is the front and then this is the back and then it has a little hole on the bottom so your egg can fit there. And then I also did the penguin here, which doesn't have anything in it, but I just want to show you what it looks like. Here's the inside of it and then here's the backside. So this was really simple to put together. I just put this together so I could show you what it looks like already made. It is a little bit difficult with the tiny, tiny little pieces. I would recommend having a weeder or something sharp with you. I just have this one here. I can buy these from Harbor Freight for a couple bucks. So it would definitely help out. And this is definitely a lifesaver. I bought this from Walmart. I just happened to see it. So one end has a little squeegee on it and then the other end has the regular glue head. So I was just using the top part of this because it's so tiny, but this stuff works amazing. So I would highly recommend something like this rather than the glue stick and trying to rub it on there. So this is pretty much self-explanatory. You could probably figure this out yourself, but with these you just want to bend them in one way and then just carefully do it, but you just want to bend them both in the same way. So it's just like that. So this is the bottom part, so that's it. So I'm going to do both of them really quick. So this is just the feet. Just bend them in the same way. And then those pieces are done. And then this guy, the one without the hole is the back of it, but you want to make sure that when you glue them together, because you're going to want to glue the head together so it stays together like this, you want to make sure that you put it on correctly. And I'll show you what I mean in just a minute. So starting with this first piece, it's not glued down, obviously. I wanted to show you guys how to do it and just go ahead and glue it on. So depending on how you want to glue it or what you have to glue it with, like I said, this really is helping me out, especially with these little tiny pieces. And just put it on there. And I honestly don't even remember where these pieces go. I'm just kind of putting it wherever I think it would be kind of cute for the ear pieces. I don't have my computer in front of me, but I'm just taking it and gluing it right there, wherever I think it would be kind of cute. And then take the eyes. So the eyes are two parts. You got the white part there and then you also have the black part. So I'm going to put the white part right down here. Just a little bit of glue and then push it on there. And then this is where this weeder would come in handy. So I'm just going to put a little dot right in the center. Like I said, this is more self-explanatory, but I just want to show you guys how I do it. So just take that and put it on there as well. This is so cute. Oh my gosh. The pieces are a little bit bigger. It'd be easier to do with kids, but it's a little bit more difficult because it's such tiny little pieces. So there's the first eye. And I'm just going to do the same thing with the next one. So this glue, I found out, takes a little bit longer to adhere and stick. So I'm just going to leave that stuff there for a minute and just continue working my way down. So I'm going to work on the nose next. And obviously, like I said, this is self-explanatory. Feel free to skip ahead to see what it looks like when it's all finished, but it's just kind of fun watching somebody put something together, I think at least. Got a piece of glue stuck on there. There, isn't that cute? So the last part to do is the little feet down here. Actually, not the last part. The last part to glue here is just the little feet. So I'm just going to put little dots of glue down here. You know, I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking maybe glue dots would even work. It would kind of give it like a 3D look to it if you can find little tiny glue dots. I'm just using my weeder to kind of help me put it on the spot. But this little pen, I have never seen anything like this before, but it works amazing. I saw it and I'm like, I gotta have that. I think that would be really helpful. And it sure is. So I'm almost done with this foot. Oh my gosh, that is so adorable. So I'm just going to finish this one up. Do the same thing. Just kind of sitting here talking to you guys. How you guys doing? You having a good time? You like in this video? I really love how this looks. And I really appreciate all the thumbs up and the likes and everything everybody has been doing. I love reading your comments, so please keep them coming. Really means a lot to me. I'm getting to my goal to 10,000 subscribers. So please, if you're not subscribed already, hit that subscribe button as I work very hard on these videos. And then try to show you step by step how to do everything rather than just rush everything. So while this is gonna dry, I'll do the next one. You guys don't have to stick around and watch this all fast forward this part, but it's just the same thing. Self-explanatory, where things go. So I'm just gonna take my little glue thing and just put everything on top. The duck and the penguin were the same way, but I have to admit they were a little bit easier. It's not as many pieces as this. So I'm gonna fast forward this part so you guys don't have to watch me, but then once it dries, I'll show you the next step. Okay, so I'm gonna let this one dry as well, but look at how cute that is. I think it's really cute. And work on this one. So basically the next step you have to do is just glue these next pieces together, but you wanna make sure that your actual piece goes in front of the bottom piece, just like that and like match it up with the circles up there. So I'm just gonna take a little bit more glue and then just hold it there. And you wanna have it up just a little bit higher here so it's not touching, but it's just like that. Then you wanna do the same thing with the other side. And this is where I said it comes important where you put it. So obviously you wanna make sure the ears are the same way. If it was going like this, it would be, if it was going this way, it would be the wrong way. See, like this doesn't work. So you have to make sure you put it on the correct way. So this would be the right way. So I'm just gonna take a little bit of glue. I think that would be the only way that you would mess it up, so to speak. So then just take your glue, put it on, and then just hold it there for a couple of seconds. And then the last part to this is you just wanna glue the head together, but I like to let this sit for a minute before I start working with the next step. So here is the front part. Isn't that cute? And then the same thing with the little lamb here. I just wanna take a little bit of glue and put it directly on the front of this, just where the feet are. So you're gonna just match it up here. You wanna match it all up and then just hold it there tightly. Obviously these are like a one-time use, but I thought these were really cute and I wanted to share with you guys. I did actually do a couple of the other ducks that I had and they turned out so cute. And then I found this file and I made those. So I just wanted to share with you guys how to make these. I'm just gonna take again. This one I don't think matters too much. I think it's gonna be the same thing with the way that the image is. So you can take a little bit of glue, stick it on here. And then once it dries, you just wanna glue the top part together so you wanna match them up and then glue up the tops. I'll do the backside with glue, just like that, and then you just wanna match them up really well. And you just wanna glue the head part because you wanna be able to open it up on the bottom here and put the eggs inside. So once this is completely dry, then I will go ahead and put the eggs in here. But I really love how this turned out. I think it's so cute. So just like that. So here's the bunny, here's the inside of it, and then there's the backside. You could even go more and use one of your Cricut markers and write a name on it if you want while you're in design space, but I just left it the way it was. I thought it was super cute. So then I'm just gonna take the lamb here for the sheep and then just do the same thing. But I think this is super cute. I think it would be fun to do with kids if you kinda help them along with the glue, or maybe they do the glue part and then you work on the little tiny pieces, but I think this is super cute. It was a really easy, fun project to do. I think it'd be really cute to hand out to classmates at school or something or give to teachers or just anybody, I think would really appreciate something like this because there's little eggs that come in it. These are my brother's favorite. He loves these Cadbury eggs, but it's just like this. I just bought the Cadbury eggs. I think it came in a package of five and it was like $4, so it wasn't too bad. So you just wanna, whoops, you just wanna put those right in the inside of here. Once it's dried, so that's what it looks like. Isn't that cute? I love how these turn out. You just gotta make sure that the guy stands up properly. Just like that, but it's all done. I love how these turned out. I had a lot of fun creating them. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you go out and make your own. But give me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button if you haven't already as I do more videos and more how-to tutorials. Happy crafting everyone.