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Easter Bunny Gift Jars & Labels

Last week, I shared with you these fun little Easter Gift Ideas. Today I want to share with you how I made them and provide you with the free labels and bunny ear patterns.

Since I know many of you will want to know where I got the jars, they are Starbucks Frappucino Bottles that came in a four pack from Target. I collect these jars and use them for all sorts of fun projects.

Then I wash them out and sterilize them in the dishwasher. I also usually spray paint the lids white. Since the weather has been so cold and snowy here, I was not able to spray paint the lids but had one spray painted lid laying around.

Then I cut out some bunny ears and attached them to the rim of the glass bottle. I used some pink polka dot cardstock to make the inner ear.

And I also made some cute Easter labels on my Silhouette and printed and cut them out and attached them to the bottles. I printed them out onto Silhouette’s white sticker paper. But you can also print them out on white cardstock, cut them out with scissors and then glue them onto the jar with a glue stick.

Fill the jars with some Easter candy or use them to serve Easter drinks in at your Easter Party or Easter Dinner. Click on the image or links below to get access to the printables. You will have to Like The Idea Room on Facebook. Then click on the “Get Your Free Gift” link and on “Previous Downloads”.

I apologize for the extra steps but I have had a lot of trouble with others posting my printables and the links to them on their own websites. I will also offer this printable free for a few days and then will move it into my Idea Room Store where it will then be sold. So if you want to use you be sure to get it now. I will be sharing a post later about why I have made the decision to start moving my printables into my shop after offering it free for the first couple of days.

Easter Bunny Gift Jar Labels

Easter Bunny Gift Jar Bunny Ears

I hope you enjoy these and would love to know if any of you end up making these this year. And…just in case you want to partake of the Silhouette Promotion this month, you can get it by clicking on the following link and using the discount code IDEAROOM.

By using your promo code, you can get any of these three offers:

(1) 1 Silhouette Portrait™ and the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $179.99

(2) 1 Silhouette CAMEO® and the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $269.99

(3) The Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $24.99

To order one of the Promotional Deals click on the exclusive link below and

use the code IDEAROOM:

Link—–> Silhouette March Promotion Deal

March 4, 2013 · Filed under: Easter, Free Downloads, Silhouette Projects Tagged with

Silhouette Portrait Giveaway

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This Giveaway is now CLOSED!

{click on image above to be taken to exclusive promotional link with the IDEAROOM code}

Yes…you read that right! Today I get to give one of you your very own Silhouette Portrait. I use mine all of the time for a wide variety of projects and I know there are a lot of you out there who would love a chance to have one for yourself if you don’t already own one.

For this promotion, I whipped up some cute little Easter gift ideas. I know…I have been a bit obsessed with these fun bottle gift ideas. But I love how they make a simple, but cute gifts. And they are so easy and inexpensive to make.

I printed and cut these fun labels with my Silhouette and made some simple bunny ears to add some extra cuteness to the bottles.

Give the bottles away to your friends filled with their favorite Easter candy or use them to serve your beverages at your Easter Dinner or parties.

I even added a cute little cotton tail on the backside of the bottles.

I will be sharing the labels and the pattern for the bunny ears in a later post, so be sure to come on back if you are interested in making some of these for your own personal use…But, for now, let’s take care of a little giveaway! I know we have had a few this week, but I am sure you won’t mind one more ;)!!

You can enter to win a Silhouette Portrait…or you can go ahead an take advantage of an awesome Silhouette Promotion with runs from now through March 8th, 2013 using my special code…IDEAROOM.

By using your promo code, you can get any of these three offers:

(1) 1 Silhouette Portrait™ and the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $179.99

(2) 1 Silhouette CAMEO® and the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $269.99

(3) The Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $24.99

To order one of the Promotional Deals click on the exclusive link below and

use the code IDEAROOM:

Link—–> Silhouette March Promotion Deal

To enter simply follow the guidelines in the Rafflecopter box below!

a Rafflecopter giveaway *Disclaimer–Entrants must be U.S. residents and 18 years or older to participate. This giveaway will close on March 4, 2013. The winner will be announced back here later on the same day. One winner will be chosen via Random.org and will have 24 hours to claim it or another winner will be chosen.

February 28, 2013 · Filed under: Giveaway Winners, Giveaways, Silhouette Projects Tagged with Silhouette Giveaway, Silhouette Portrait projects, sillhouette discount code

Valentine’s Day Crafts gift and milk bottles—Silhouette promotion

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I was recently sent some Double-Sided Adhesive paper from Silhouette and challenged to come up with a creative way to use it and make some Valentine’s Day Crafts. I have never used this before and I have to tell you, I was really quite surprised with how much I enjoyed it.

Before we get into my project and how I made it, let’s get the Silhouette February Promotion details out of the way.

This month Silhouette is offering a pretty good deal to The Idea Room readers…

If you need a Silhouette Portrait, you can get it and the Double-sided Adhesive Starter Kit for a great deal. Already have a Silhouette? Then use the code IDEAROOMand get the starter kit for $12.99. To take advantage of this deal simply click on the following link or the Silhouette Promotion image above and get started on your Valentine’s Day Crafts.

Order Silhouette February Promotion

Alright, now onto how I made these glittery milk and gift bottles.

Directions:

I found some fun heart shapes in the Online Silhouette Store and downloaded them.
Sized them in the Silhouette Software to 1.5 inches in width.
Cut them out according to the directions on the Double-Sided adhesive box.
My settings were: Speed: 3; Thickness: 33; Blade setting: 6 using my mat and a double cut.
Peel off the back yellow layer of paper on an individual heart.

Placed onto clean “milk” bottles (which are repurposed Starbucks Frappucino Bottles)
Peeled off the white top layer and made sure all the adhesive was pulled out of the negative space area where I did not want any glitter.
Dust glitter over the sticky adhesive and then using a clean brush, brushed away the excess glitter.

Then fill the bottles with your favorite drink. These bottles can be used at a Valentine’s day party in the classroom, or with your friends and family.

For Valentine’s Day we usually have a nice candle-light family dinner. I think I will be including these as part of the table settings this year!

Or you could gift the jars to a special friend as a nice little Valentine’s Day gift along with some VERY RICH chocolate sweets! Your friends will thank you!

For the fun Heart Shaped Cookies in the photos, I simply took a favorite Chocolate Drop Cookie Recipe and cut the cookies with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Then made a cookie sandwich by spreading some delicious Cream Cheese Frosting in between the two layers.

Cause seriously…if you are going to eat a treat…it might as well be a good one…right? All things in moderation of course. So limit yourself to 2…or 3 depending on the type of day your having…haha!

And just because I am obsessed with making labels lately…I made some fun “Bottled with love” labels.

You can download them here….

Bottle With Love Labels

You have to be a FB fan to gain access to the file. Click on “Get your free gift” at the top of the FB page and then click on “Previous Downloads”.

You can attach the labels as a fun gift tag, or attach it directly to the bottle itself.

Pretty fun little gift if I do say so myself. The best part? You can use this idea for so many different things…a birthday party, gifts, showers, bridal showers…etc.

Oh…where do you get the fun Hershey Kiss Valentine’s Day labels you ask? You can find them by heading here…

Hershey’s Kiss Valentine’s Day Labels

One last thing…be sure to use the code IDEAROOM get the Silhouette Promotion. The offer is good through the 14th of February. You also can only get to this special offer using this link…

Order Silhouette February Promotion

Have any questions about the Silhouette Promotion or Silhouette in general or any question…feel free to ask in the comments! Happy Crafting! xo

*Disclosure: I was given a Silhouette Double-Sided Adhesive Kit by Silhouette. However, all statements and opinions are mine.