Easter Bakery Boxes

Made cookie boxes to share with a group of ladies with whom I've been friends with since high school. We try to get together once or twice a year to share a meal, touch bases and have fun reminiscing. There's a lot of conversations about travel, grandkids and especially, "Oh! Do you remember when...?"

With Easter just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to make Easter themed cookie boxes. I found a great tutorial for designing easy templates for hinged lid boxes of any size by Dr. Sonia SV on her blog "Cards and Crafts"  I created my template in Make the Cut to make boxes, 5" x 4.25" with a depth of 1.5" and a capacity to hold half a dozen medium sized cookies. I added an oval window on the lid to make them look like those bakery boxes that show the cookies inside.

I started decorating the box lid with a pastel plaid digital paper from the Happy Easter Digital Paper Pack by Printable-Cuttable-Creatables. Marianne Designs Eline's Chicken Family and Baby Bunnies Collectable dies were used to piece together the bunny and chick; and Happy Easter was die cut from Karen Burniston Easter Charms Set. The oval scalloped window frame was created in Make the Cut by welding circles around an oval shape.

Put together eight of these boxes, filled them with butter cookies and wrapped them in cello bags cinched with a tulle bow. These were fun to make! With Easter falling late in April this year, I had fun crafting to my heart's delight... more to come!