Easter Chicks

 

Use Stampin Up's Basket Bunch stamp and die set to create this chirpy Easter card

I have used stamps from the Basket Bunch Stampin Up stamp set to change plain papers into decorative papers. It's quite easy to do and means you can colour coordinate your papers and you do not have to have a stash of decorative papers to make your own cards.

This technique of stamping your own background papers can be done with any stamps, inks and plain papers/card. So do not limit yourself to this Easter card - you can make backgrounds of flowers, leaves, stars, characters - the list is only limited to the stamps in your stash!

I've used a stamping aid to stamp the lines of eggs that border the central white card. However it can be done without one of these, if you do not have one, just use your normal clear acrylic block and steady your hand!

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Lollipop flowers

 

Use Lawn Fawn's Reveal Wheel flower add on dies to make these cute little lollipop gifts

With Easter coming up, I thought these would make lovely little gifts. You can easily make a few to create a flowerpot of flowers.

I bought a packet of lollipops from my local cheap store. I've made two types of flowers, one on round lollipops and another sort on flat lollipops.  I'll show you how to make the basic lollipop flowers below and then you can decorate them to your hearts content.

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Hello Spring

 

Make this cheery card with cute smiley flowers

Spring is on it's way and this really cheery card could be used for a birthday, Easter or just to say Hi!

My flowers have white petals and yellow centres but you can make them any colour that your recipient will love. I've also used a 'Hello Spring' greeting but you can use whatever greeting that's applicable for the occasion.

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Hello Spring Tic Tacs

 

Make a lovely little spring gift by making a spring cover for a pack of tic tac's

On a recent walk, my son finished off some tic tac's from a snowman decorated box I made previously (Click here to see that blog). Anyway, he suggested I made one for Easter. I am up for a challenge so here is this weeks blog.

It was a little tricky to come up with a design where I could cut out part of the picture so the tic tacs could be seen through. I am pleased with the result and so was my son :)

My image of a bunny rabbit sitting in a pot came from Lili of the Valley. In the 'You will need' section below it shows you where you can purchase this from. However you may already have a stamp with a similar image you could use instead. The main reason for my blog this week is to show you how you can adjust the size of a computer image to print it for a project. I normally use publisher to do my picture adjustments but I know not everyone has access to this program, so I show you how to do the adjustments in Inkscape, a free package that you can download.

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Special Delivery Easter Card

 

Use Lawn Fawns Special Delivery stamp and die set plus the waving pull tab starter set to make this cute interactive Easter Card

I like to be able to use a stamp and die set for many different cards, so today I am using the Special Delivery stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn to make an Easter card. I previously used it to make a valentines card (click here to see this blog if you missed it).

How cute is that chick carrying his basket of Easter eggs? You can change what the bird is carrying and make it a birthday card or graduation card.

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Cute little Easter box full of chocs!

Using Lawn Fawn's Eggstra Special Easter stamp and dies to make a bakers box to hold your Easter gift

I found some really cute chocolates wrapped as carrots and they were perfect for my gift to my colleagues for Easter. I used Versamark ink pad to stamp onto a plain green card and then used Stampin Up's Bakers Box Thinlits die to cut the gift box.

My favourite bit is the chocolate looking Easter bunnies on the front - especially as one of the ears has been nibbled!

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Easter Magnolia

Make this 3d easel card for Easter using Stampin Up Magnolia paper and Magnolia Memory Dies

Easter doesn't have to be all about bunnies and chocolate. This Easter card was made with a spring theme of magnolia flowers. Part of the 3d magnolia flower was made with a hot air balloon punch!

This card ends up being quite deep and wouldn't fit in a normal envelope without squashing the petals flat. Instead make an envelope box for it. Click here to see my instructions.

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