A Bunch of Bunnies • DIY

I was on a roll yesterday. I'd been thinking about this cute little bunny design that would slip over a wine cork and sit on the table, only when I made the first one the idea didn't work. I did design a cute little bunny in iDraw but when I cut it out, the plan just didn't come together. It was lumpy and awkward. So instead I made a built-in paper base and the next thing I knew I'd made 30 bunnies.

Three things kept me producing:

• This was so EASY to do!
• I had a wonderful stack of matching papers.
• These are bunnies - they reproduce fast!

I purchased one of those big books of 12 x 12 papers for scrap booking on sale last year. It had a perfect array of spring pastels in many prints and I went wild in the pink and purple section.

From each sheet I could cut a family of bunnies.

Here are some quick 'how-to" photos so you can see how simple this project is.

• I started in iDraw and sketched the one bunny which I then duplicated and flipped. 
• I connected the bases with a rectangle. 
• I duplicated it and reduced the size.
• My drawing is all in black to import into Silhouette but for those of you with out a silhouette, you can just print the patten and trace it onto paper to cut by hand.

• I explored this design as a pdf file and opened it in the Silhouette Software.
• I traced it and then cut it using my silhouette Cameo. As I noted above, this is certainly easy enough cutting to do by hand. Although the Silhouette made it faster, it isn't required.
• Note: This projects works better with paper not card stock.
• Once cut, I peeled them off the mat.

• I then pulled each ear over the sharp edge of my craft table to curl the ears.

• You pull each ear over the edge with the print side of the paper down.
• Fold the bunny along its base on each side. This forms the spacer and support for the standing bunny.
• I then applied a glue dot in the center of the head right below the ears.

• And pressed the two halves together.

And another bunny joins the bunch!

And hops off to join the others.

I think I need to make some tufts of grass for them!

Previous posts of Interest

• Ombre Colored Eggs • DIY
• Easter Egg Prep • filling the Holes
• Egg-centric
• Harlequin Eggs • DIY
• Meet My Easter Eggs

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