Easter cards for the grands...

I always make an Easter card for each of our five granddaughters and five grandsons. Here's what I made this year:

This is the card I made for each of our granddaughters. I die-cut the top layer with all the bunny ears inside the egg apertures. I measured to determine the size of the pieces of pastel cardstock I would need to back each egg aperture. Once I had them all cut, I taped them together (on the back side) and then tested this taped rectangle on my card to make sure it would fit correctly. This was such a good way to use up some scraps!

This method worked great, and by the fifth card, I could do it pretty quickly.

When I had all the colored pieces taped together and sized correctly, I adhered it to the front of the cardbase. Then I added thin foam strips to the back of the die-cut and positioned it over the colored cardstock piece.

I made sure I put a thin foam strip behind each ear so that it was supported. If you look closely, you'll see one of those foam strips peeking out from behind the ear in the yellow egg shape.

The sentiment was stamped, matted and glued directly to the card front.

I made one card using little pieces of DSP as backing for the egg apertures. 

I even made one card with a colorful backing made from leftover strips of pink and purple cardstock.

This photo shows how I stamped the sentiment on the inside and added two little eggs for embellishments. The eggs were always coordinated with the colors/papers I had used on the card front.

These are the cards I made for our grandsons.

Some of them had a bunny peeking around the trunk of a tree...

...and others showed the bunny peeking around a brick wall. Both the tree and the brick wall were created by using embossing folders on strips of brown or beige cardstock and inking them with a finger dauber and some brown ink.

The bunnies' ears and noses were colored pink with an alcohol marker and a little pink chalk was added to the cheeks.

The cloudy backgrounds were created with a stencil and a blending brush, and each sentiment was stamped, matted and popped up with foam squares. The image panels were matted with the same dark blue cardstock.

This was the sentiment stamped on the inside of each grandson's card.

I had lots of fun making these cards. I love using simple, but effective, die sets that help me make a memorable card.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl