Here we’ve got a wonderful step-by-step photo guide for PaperCrafter reader Barbara Kozyra’s pretty Easter basket — made from heavy crepe paper. We’d like to thank Barbara for sharing it with us and providing such a fab guide.
White paper, Crepe paper, Compass, Embellishments
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• To make an Easter basket you need a base, main body, hoop and handle:
Base: create a 22cm diameter circle from white paper. In pencil, lightly mark a 18cm diameter circle over this, allowing a 2cm border around the entire shape.
Main body: cut a 15cm x 57cm piece of white paper.
Hoop: with a compass, draw a circle 18cm in diameter onto white paper and with the same centre-point, a circle 22cm in diameter around it. Cut out the inner blank space so you're left with a hoop shape.
Handle: cut a piece of white paper to 3cm x 57cm.
• Take the Main Body section and stick together the two 15cm lengths to shape it into a ring, allowing 0.5cm for each side to glue it together.
• Select the Base and with a pair of scissors, snip into the paper until the pencil-drawn circumference. Stopping here, make a cut 2cm along and crease this piece upwards to make a tab. Make a cut 2cm further along the circumference, remove this and make two more cuts at 2cm intervals to create another tab. Continue in this way around the circumference.
• Apply glue to the outside of the tabs and position the Main Body cylinder on top of this, securing the tabs inside it at the bottom so it slots together comfortably. Take the hoop and position it over the cylinder shape so it rests at the middle, tacking in place if you need to.
• Cut lengths of crepe paper into 6cm x 18m pieces and start wrapping around the body of the basket, gluing the lengths inside the basket and taking them over the hoop shape and tacking in place at the bottom.
• Continue in this way until the entire basket is covered with paper.
• Take the handle and wrap with crepe paper as pictured.
• Glue each end of the handle inside the basket.
• Make in various colours and have fun embellishing!
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