Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate!

I made these two cards for my aunties as their Easter cards, but then our plans took a turn as the whole house has been poorly with a bad cold so they didn’t get posted in time to teach them for Easter but they should receive them next week instead! Better late than never I suppose!

For both I chose the patterned paper that I think was called Sycamore Street or something like that. It’s been on my desk for a while waiting to be used up after I used some for a scrapbook page I made … and the colours of those ‘&’ made me think vintage Easter so I went with it!

I started by embossing the wreath from Arrange a Wreath with a gold colour over the top of Distress oxide walnut stain – this gave it more of the vintage look than a bright gold.

Then I added speckled egg and the walnut stain onto the background more randomly so it is very vintage looking.

I did both backgrounds at the same time but one piece of paper was slightly larger than the other and so the positioning was slightly different for both cards.

I mounted the background onto the green cardstock for both which adds a little pop of extra colour.

Then I took the egg stamps from the set and stamped them six times on the leftover patterned paper – fossilized amber, worn lipstick and cracked pistachio. I then die cut them all out.

I then stamped the box image in speckled egg but decided it wasn’t quite bright enough so went over it with the cracked pistachio. I fussy cut out the box and edged it with the walnut stain.

I arranged the eggs in the box with one at the front of the box and stuck them together and added a piece of foam behind to add dimension.

Next I stamped and fussy cut the sentiment. I added some gold thread behind the sentiment and stuck it down onto the box.

So quite a fun pair of easter cards and a bit different for me in terms of going vintage … maybe watching Tim Holtz has worn off on me!

Joining in with the challenge of Spring at Stamping sensations and the Easter challenge at Daring Cardmakers

Happy crafting!

Catherine