Craft Spring Candy Baskets

Learn to craft a whimsical candy baskets decorated with cute animal figures reminiscent of yesteryear, perfect for celebrating the season of renewal. We'll combine charm with cute vibes, ensuring you have the sweetest candy basket this Spring season.

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Materials to Make Spring Candy Baskets

Cardstock - 65# cardstock like this works best (65# is equivalent to 176 gsm)
Glue - Bearly Art Glue is my favorite
Cutting machine:
Cricut Maker
Cricut Explore Air 2 or
Cricut Explore Air 3
Cricut Joy Xtra
Cricut Joy
Fine point blade
Scoring Stylus or Scoring Wheel
If using Cricut Joy or Cricut Joy Xtra, you need the foil tip for scoring
Light Grip Mat or Standard Grip Mat
Fine point blade
Paper grass

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How to Make the Spring Candy Baskets

1. Download the Spring Candy Baskets SVG file - Design No. 151 - in the Paper Glitter Glue library.
2. Cut out the pieces with your cutting machine.
3. Assemble and glue together the layers of the animal figure.
4. Fold along the basket score lines, then glue the basket overlay pattern to the surface of the basket pattern.
5. Assemble the basket by gluing the side tabs to the angled sides of the basket. Adhere the handle.
6. Glue the grass pieces to the base of the basket.
7. Glue the animal figure to the front of the basket.
8. Fill with paper grass and candy or other treats!

1. Download the Spring Candy Baskets file - Design No. 151

To get the files for the Spring Candy Baskets, go to the Paper Glitter Glue library, click the big orange button on the page. That will take you the password page. Type in the password and then the library will open. The Spring Candy baskets file is Design No. 151 in the January 2024 section of the library.

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The files are available in 2 formats - SVG cut files for cutting machines and printable PDF files.

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2. Next cut out the pieces for the candy baskets

I recommend that you use a lighter weight card stock like 65# card stock (176 gsm) because some of these pieces are fairly intricate. In addition, they are much, much easier to cut out with a cutting machine like a Cricut or Silhouette.

Here's how the file looks when uploaded to Cricut Design Space.

Deer candy basket in Cricut Design Space

In order to cut out the file with a cutting machine, it is important to designate score lines on the basket piece.

First ungroup the design. Delete the one inch square.

Spring Craft basket ungrouped in Cricut Design Space

Now, select on the score lines. Notice that the color box next to the operations menu is red. I always draw score lines in red to help you know that these lines are score lines. You can see that in the photo below on the upper left hand corner.

Under the operations menu, scroll down and choose score. The lines will now show up as dashed lines.

Select the entire basket piece so you can attach the score lines to your piece.

Finally click attach at the bottom right of the screen so your Cricut machine knows that this set of score lines belongs to the basket shape.

Attach the score lines to the basket piece

Now you can cut out the design. Remember I use 65# card stock because the details are much easier to cut out in thinner card stock.

3. Assemble the animal figures

Glue the animal layers together. I've tried to minimize the small pieces that you have to glue on to make it easier to construct. You can see the layers in the PDF files.