Lisa Storms

egg baby announcements

With Easter on the way along with the birth of my newest adorable nephew, I was reminded of a baby announcement I made long ago that was featured on Fiskars' old website.  If you are looking for a very creative announcement, baby shower invitation, or card for new parents, stock up on plastic eggs now while they are in stores.

1.  Drill hole into each half of egg near center opening.  Feed ribbon through holes and tie in a bow on outside of egg to create pretty hinge.

2.  Use Ultra ShapeXpress with Ovals template on a cutting mat to cut out multiple eggs for interior pages.  Cut photos (this size works well with wallet-sized photos) and formatted text from white cardstock.  Format one oval to say "Just Hatched" and top with punched chick (this particular chick punch was a limited edition and no longer available).

3.  Stack all ovals together and nest (pun intended) into egg and close to complete announcement.

While we're talking baby cards, here is another fun one I had featured in Scrapbooks Etc. magazine.  Directions can be found here.

easter egg hunt party

With less than two weeks until Easter (wow!), I have a new article up over at Fiskars full of ideas for decorating an Easter Egg Hunt Party (or your home for Easter in general).  I have such a soft spot for egg hunts!

I went with a carrots ...

and bunnies theme ...

with lots of ideas for easily turning simple paper into something special and festive.

View the full party here ... including a creative way to make adorable bunnies using an unexpected punch shape you may already have!

easter egg holders

Happy Spring! Time keeps charging ahead, and Easter is less than three weeks away! I have some ideas for cute and easy Easter egg holders over at my new project at Fiskars.

These are fun to display your favorite eggs or use at place settings for a party or special meal.

Full photos and step-by-step directions can be found here.  I'll have more Easter fun soon!

zoo and easter lunches

This spring has been crazy busy in the Storms household, but I have managed to photograph a couple of particularly cute lunches to share. =)

This was for my son's zoo field trip.  I based the monkey quesadilla on the monkey valentines I made this year.  I like working with tortillas because they are so easy to cut.  He is made up of both wheat and flour tortillas cut from a bunch of different cookie cutters I had in my stash ... circles for the face and ears, an upside down pumpkin for the second layer, part of a rocket ship trimmed for the oval, and the eyes are the bottom of a mini candy cane cutter I had.  Being resourceful! I trimmed the eyes and mouth from bread crust for a dark color.  The layers are all "glued" together with shredded cheese baked in the oven. 

To finish off the theme I added animal cookies (I asked my husband to get them and I didn't mean frosted because it takes away all of the animal features!) and a little giraffe fork for the melons.  Why is the giraffe so sad???

Around Easter I made these bunny sandwiches with cookie cutters.  We had some large bread slices leftover from a camping trip so I got two bunnies from each sandwich.  I smooshed mini marshmallows for the tails.  To make sure they stayed on I added a drop of melting chocolates I keep on hand for stuff like cake pops.  The kids really liked these.

To round out the theme I added carrots, of course, and a little bit of Annie's Fruity Bunnies mixed in with almonds =).