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Slimline Easter Joy Easter Eggs and Bunny Card

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Easter Joy Easter Eggs and Bunny Card

Here’s another Easter card, the Slimline Easter Joy Easter Eggs and Bunny Card, made with scraps! Scraps of what? When you diecut the basket in the Easter Basket Dies, the part that pops out inside the handle is a scrap. But you can use it for an Easter egg! Especially when you use the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper, which has such pretty colors and designs. If I wanted to be perfect, I could have trimmed the edges of the “eggs” to remove the slight scalloped edges, but they are barely noticeable.

This is a slimline card which means it is long and narrow compared to what we usually make. I like to make slimline cards 3″ x 6″ so that they fit into regular small envelopes (not the business size) that you probably have around the house. I started with a 6″ x 6″ piece of Soft Sea Foam cardstock, scored and folded at 3″.

I cut a strip of Shy Shamrock cardstock for the grass and snipped it from the top to make it 3D grass. You can make it as high or short as you like. The diecut “eggs” from the basket are “hidden” in the grass. I fit in four, made with the Easter Joy DSP. You can use either side of the paper, or you can use plain or stamped cardstock, whatever you like.

The greeting is stamped on a strip of Basic White with Shy Shamrock ink. The Easter bunny is stamped in Memento ink with a little light pink inside the ears and nose. The little Easter eggs scattered on the front of the grass are cut out from the Easter Joy DSP except for the yellow one, which is diecut from the Pastels Shimmer Paper. When you are cutting or die-cutting certain things, if you make extras and save them, then they are handy to add to future cards or projects when you just want a little something more.

If you look in the Online Store at the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper and scroll through the photos of the paper and sample ideas, if you go to the very end, you will see the idea with an egg carton and these Easter eggs along the back in the “grass” and an Easter tag greeting with a bunny. It’s very cute! Save your egg carton, and you can make one too!

Easter Card With Basket of Eggs

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Easter Card With Basket of Eggs

This Easter Card With Basket of Eggs was fun to make and has a slightly different design just to make life interesting! You may notice that the top flap of the card does not come all the way to the bottom of the card. That just makes it a little more fun to open up this card for Easter!

The card base is Pretty In Pink (although in the photo it almost looks like Melon Mambo or some darker pink). Cut the full sheet of cardstock in half vertically at 4 1/4″, then score at 5 1/2″. That will give you either a side fold or a top fold. This card design will have the fold at the top, although you could really do the same type of design with a side fold.

On the front flap of the card, cut off whatever measurement you would like to shorten it. I cut off 1 1/4″ from the bottom of just the front of the card. That leaves space showing from the inside of the card on the outside on which you can add decorative paper, stamping, or a greeting. Stamp the greeting either right in that empty space or stamp it on another paper and adhere it, as I did.

The background layer for the card front is just a whimsical design in the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. It has many colors, so you can choose any for your card base. I chose Pretty In Pink. This is a retiring In Color soon, so if you need more, perhaps you should stock up! This piece of DSP is cut at 4″ x 4″.

The Easter basket is cut from one of the papers with a basket weave look and color to it. Then I added a Crumb Cake scalloped edge to the basket. The Shy Shamrock green grass in the basket is also diecut. All of these dies are part of the Easter Basket Dies, which are currently unavailable. Hopefully, you have these dies already. I also diecut some Easter eggs out of the Pastels Shimmer Paper and put those in the Easter basket! At the top of the basket handle, I added a double bow tied with the Bubble Bath 1/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon. I love this ribbon even though it is not an exact color match. It is often just the right size to use when you don’t have space for wider ribbon.

On the inside of the card, I added a 4″ x 4″ Basic White cardstock piece. To the bottom of that, I added a piece of the Easter Joy designer paper in green, added a stamped, diecut, and colored tulip plus stamped a bunny right on the paper. He has a little color and shading with Stampin’ Blends.

Easter Card With Basket of Eggs Inside

At the bottom of the card, I added a “Happy Easter” greeting on a scrap strip of Basic White, which is adhered in that space. This is stamped with the Easter Basket Stamp Set in Pretty In Pink ink. It would also be pretty to stamp the greeting directly on the Pretty In Pink with Pretty In Pink ink plus some little image, too.

This is an example of how just one simple thing, making the front flap of the card shorter, makes for an unexpected, extra-special card design!

Easter Bunny Card

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Easter Joy Bunny

Here is just a quick and simple card, the Easter Bunny Card. It is mostly made with pieces I already had handy on my table. Sometimes when I am stamping, diecutting, or coloring, I either change my mind about what I am going to use or I make extras at the time. Either way, I save those pieces and if they are lucky, I come across them again and use them on another project!

This card comes from one of the cut-apart panels in the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. I love this paper for its spring colors and images. If you thought about spring and/or Easter, you would likely think of bunnies, flowers, baskets, Easter eggs, and soft pretty colors, and you would be imagining this paper. This paper is thicker than regular designer paper so it’s great for 3D projects, and it has a metallic shine to many of the pages. In other words, if you think about Easter paper, this is it! One feature is a couple of sheets have panels to cut apart and use separately, many of which are great for starting cards or using on scrapbook pages. Just build a little scene for a card on these panels. There are all different ones.

This card has a Shy Shamrock card base, one of the coordinating colors. The layer on that is one of those panels in the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper. The panel just has a green grass hill and pink flowers all in the background. It wasn’t my favorite, but I wanted to use it. I had an extra stamped and die-cut bunny so I added him to the hill with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I had been diecutting Easter Eggs with the Easter Basket Dies (wish they added more than one egg die!) out of the Pastels Shimmer Specialty Paper. I also fussy-cut some Easter eggs from the Easter Joy paper that is totally full of Easter eggs. Some I cut a little inside their border to make them a bit smaller. I glued an assortment of all these eggs on the grassy hill with the bunny, as if he is the “King of the Hill” with all the Easter eggs!

The greeting is stamped in Memento ink on Basic White cardstock from the Easter Basket Stamp Set. Rather than adhering the whole greeting in one piece on the card, I cut around each word to make it a little whimsical to go with the card.

With the card background already made with the Easter Joy Designer Series Paper with these panels, finishing it off as a card is pretty easy! Especially with these cut bunnies to stamp in the Easter Basket Stamp Set! I really love everything about this Easter Joy DSP! And there are patterns that you can use any time of year, not just for Easter. The colorful stripes would be good for a birthday card, the plaids and other generic designs are great for lots of cards or scrapbook pages. The bunnies cute for baby cards!

Easter is coming soon on April 5th so it is time to be making Easter cards, decorations, treats, whatever you like!

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Easter Joy Easter Basket With Flowers Card

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Easter Joy Easter Basket With Flowers Card

This Easter Joy Suite Collection is one that I think is really worthwhile if you like Easter, Spring, or baskets! I am so thrilled with this basket on the Easter Joy Easter Basket With Flowers Card, and I only did the easy version! The die in the Easter Basket Dies cuts out the basket with the handle and it makes slits through which you can really weave other pieces, but if you don’t do that, the lines just look like a decoration on the basket so you can leave it plain. Such possibilities!

This card starts with a base of Crumb Cake cardstock. I put the fold at the top for a change. The green plaid paper is in the Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. The designer paper is slightly thicker than usual and some of it is slightly shiny and some has some metallic foil for extra shine! I love the designs of stripes and other generic designs, bunnies, flowers, chicks, Easter eggs, and baskets. There are also some cut-apart panels on which you can make your own scene for a card or scrapbook item. I layered the plaid designer paper on Shy Shamrock cardstock to help it stand out.

The basket is diecut from a piece of the designer paper with the stripes, but I used the Crumb Cake colored side. That made the basic basket and attached handle. (Save the diecut piece from inside the handle. I think you could use it as a hidden Easter egg in the grass on another project!) I diecut the scalloped piece out of Crumb Cake card stock for the front of the basket and a grassy piece out of Shy Shamrock. The basket itself is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, with a teeny tiny one at the top of the basket handle.

I had already stamped, colored, and diecut the little chick and flowers in the Easter Basket Stamp Set. While you have your stamps and ink out, go ahead and stamp a bunch of these images on Basic White cardstock, then they’ll be ready to use on more projects! They are glued flat on the card behind the grass in the basket.

The greeting is also in the Easter Basket Stamp Set. It is stamped with Shy Shamrock ink just on a scrap strip of Basic White. Since the basket is popped up, I added a Dimensional under each end of the greeting and put a little glue under the middle that will go across the basket. For some fun embellishments, I used some teeny tiny pink eggs in the Easter Assortment. This package has 100 adhesive-backed pieces, dots and eggs. The dots are Lemon Lolly and Balmy Blue and the eggs are Pretty In Pink.

You will have fun making cards and scrapbook pages with this Easter Joy Suite Collection or even just the designer paper and Easter Basket Bundle. This is a good time to order any of the products while it is in stock before everyone starts rushing to buy Easter things.