Easter Cargo Train: Craft Attitude Easter Blog Hop

Get out the violins: Do you know I never had an Easter basket growing up? When my teacher would ask the kids in the class what everyone got from the Easter Bunny, I would just make stuff up because I never got anything! I just assumed it was because I was bad, and I would try harder to be good next year. How sad. WHY AM I NOT IN THERAPY?

Anyway, this must explain why I love making things for Easter now. For the Craft Attitude Easter Blog Hop, I made this fun cargo train holding Peeps. It’s made with Craft Attitude printable film (of course) and Eileen Hull’s Sizzix box die.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Craft Attitude Printable Film, Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die – Box, Square, Mat board, ColorBox Archival Dye Ink, brown, Super 77 spray adhesive, Halcraft beads, Large Buttons, Glue gun, Easter grass, Peeps

STEP 1: To make three boxes, which will be the three box cars, die cut six pieces of mat board with the ScoreBoards box die.

STEP 2: Since the boxes will be open, cut off the top lid of three of the six sections. Then rub the edges of all the mat board with the brown stamp ink to distress it.

STEP 3: Assemble the boxes according to the package instructions using a glue gun.

STEP 4: I found Peter Rabbit illustrations, which have just entered public domain, online and printed them onto sheets of Craft Attitude film. The sides of the boxes are 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″, so I sized the images to those dimensions, placing four on each sheet. I sprayed the ink side of the Craft Attitude with spray adhesive, and then placed the images ink side down on the sides of the box, and then removed the protective backing. You may be wondering why I bothered to distress the boxes with ink before applying the Craft Attitude. Would the ink even be seen? Yes! The Craft Attitude is transparent wherever there is “white,” so the brown ink shows through.

STEP 5: I connected the boxes with Halcraft beads and fishing line, punching holes in the boxes to secure the beads.

STEP 6: Then I hot glued buttons to the bottoms of the boxes for the train wheels.

When the train was finished, I filled the box cars with Easter grass and bunny Peeps. I just love how it turned out. Hey, who needs the Easter Bunny when you’ve got Craft Attitude?

 

 

Disclosure: I am a designer/spokesperson for Craft Attitude, and the Craft Attitude links you see are affiliate links. But I was the number one fan of Craft Attitude before anyone else, so I would be using this stuff even if I weren’t the spokesperson. So there.