I hope everyone had a lovely Easter Holiday! I spent the evening with my family enjoying a spring inspired meal. I forget how nice it is to have a home cooked meal at my parents house. Doesn’t happen often enough, that’s for sure!

Besides bunnies and chocolate I’ve had weddings on the mind lately; partly because I’ve been drooling over my latest Martha Stewart Wedding issue and mostly because I’ve been working on a few wedding pieces for a freelance client. It seemed fitting to start the week off with a wedding related post. I think you guys will find this project very charming and original.

This fabulous idea comes from the the lovely Ellie of Mint who happens to be getting married in less than two weeks! These pew cards will be passed out to guests that require a reserved seat so that they can simply show them to the ushers to make seating a little smoother. Be sure to check out Ellie’s blog for more of her great ideas and inspiration and you can see more pics of these pew cards here. Thanks Ellie for the inspiration and congratulations on your upcoming wedding!!!

This edition of Lost in ffffound is brought to you by spring, birds and love! It was a busy week here at Twig & Thistle with DIY Easter Basket and Bunny projects (plus the Peeps!). Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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This is a cool new trend I’ve been noticing: Tape as a design element. I particularly love this because it’s both functional AND cool! Here is an wonderful example of incorporating the tape into a broader design. This is from a great Norwegian design frim called Heydays.

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I wanted to thank the lovely Sarah of Jack & Izzy for featuring me in her weekly Spotlight column today. Sarah introduced me to her blog and amazing Etsy shop last week and I was completly smitten with her online stationary botique! She has the most charming collection of invitations, note cards and favors! I am so honored that she asked me to participate and I hope you’ll take some time today to pop over and read my mini interview.

Thanks so much Sarah!

Here is the last of my Easter DIY Projects, and what better place to put your homemade Bunny and Peeps than a home made Easter Basket! All you need is a printer, double sided tape and paper.

STEP 1: Print all four pages of template onto 8.5×11” paper and follow the enclosed instructions.

STEP 2: Adhere your template to a large sheet of art paper (at least 12.5”x12.5”) with low tack tape. If you need to, cut down the template so that if fis onto your paper. A thick watercolor paper or any color of craft paper would be a good choice. Using the template as a guide, score along dotted lines with a bone folder and a ruler. With an x-acto knife and a ruler, cut along solid BLUE lines. You now have the basket shape ready to fold!

STEP 3: Fold along each of the scored lines to create basket shape. Corner pieces fold inward while the top flaps fold down on the outside.

STEP 4: Cut four pieces of ribbon to 10”. Tuck ribbon under first flap and secure with a piece of double-sided tape adhered to the inside of the flap. Repeat process for all sides and tie ribbon into knots at each of the corners. Once all four sides are tied and taped shut you’ve got your homemade basket ready to fill with sweet treats!