Llandrindod Card Club - Workshop! Easter Greetings!

Happy Easter All! Here is the Easter card I did at this months Llandrindod Card Club - many thanks to all that attended, I had lots of fun! Here I have used A Good Egg stamp set (IB&C p20), stamping the egg onto Naturals Ivory card stock (IB&C p87), and cutting round the outline. Then I continued with the basic black ink onto Delightful Daffodil card stock, (IB&C p82), colouring the dots in with Stampin' write markers, leave all this to one side, for the moment. We then stamped the Old Olive card stock with the same colour of ink and the flower stamp, then scallop punching the top border. Then place the Bashful Blue card stock at the top, and the old olive on the bottom of the card face to position the pivotal brad on the left side, hidden under the grosgrain ribbon.

As you can see the reason that you need a hinge if to reveal the Easter Greeting and tiny chick in the Egg :-) If you place the zigzag ribbon in your desired place, then move it up about 1cm to use the bottom as a cutting guide then when you glue the paper ribbon move it into the centre of the top half egg and then the cut edge of the egg will be hidden when the card is closed. Although hiding brads, positioning the ribbon knot and lastly gluing the egg halves is a bit fiddly, I still love the effect of this card - real Easter Egg-citement.

With the card done, we then got completely carried away with the Easter theme and utilizing the Marvellous Monica's

Easter Basket (see the video tutorial on her blog - Monica's

Many Passions, on my blog list).

Loving all things Old Olive I used this as a the base card stock and some of the DSP that was on offer in The March Frenzy Promotion, Greenhouse Gala (IB&C p89). Monica gives fabulous tips to make this basket very easily. I think the 5/8" Organza ribbon works really well. And just to finish off the look we added a little gift card to go with the basket, which should really have contained Mini Eggs, but they didn't make it into the photo - somehow! The scallop envelope in Daffodil Delight was prepared with my new Big Shot - whoo hoo! The square print is one of the hostess sets, punched out with the 1 1/4" Square punch (IB&C p 106) and placed onto the old olive scallop square punch (IB&C p105) and some gingham ribbon, I had lying around to keep the envelope together. Then a little card 2x3" with a little chick, greeting and DSP egg shells from the Brights pack (IB&C p91).