Craft an egg-cellent trio of Easter Cards

Get your die cutting machine cracking on these fun inked ideas

Gather your ink and card stash, here are three fabulous ways to enjoy a Hoppy Easter! The coordinating set features several ink techniques to try out, all using the same glitter card and base.

Kit List

◆ Brother ScanNCut

SDX 1200

◆ Stix 2: foam pads; foam tape; gold ribbon; red liner tape; PVA glue

◆ Stamps By Me: Dotty stencil; Confetti ink, Oyster; Confetti ink, Bluebell

◆ Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink: Tumbled Glass; Salty Ocean; Blueprint Sketch; Wild Honey; Carved Pumpkin; Lucky Clover; Ripe Persimmon; Cracked Pistachios; Pine Needles; Milled Lavender; Wilted Violet; Dusty Concord

◆ Card stock: white; gold glitter; white; scrap paper

◆ Paintbrush

◆ Acetate

◆ Spritz water bottle

◆ 7" x 7" card blanks, three

◆ Blending tool

◆ Tonic Studios sequins

◆ Mini pom-poms

◆ Glass mat

Egg wreath

1 Tear a piece of scrap paper to create a straight but torn edge that you can use as a stencil [1].

2 Using the blending tool and white card, add one of the green inks and swipe up over the edge of the torn paper, then repeat with the other two green inks lower down [2].

3 Repeat with the other distress inks to create four backgrounds in total [3].

4 Using the ScanNCut, add stored image AR-I024 (Part A) and resize to 2.45" x 1.98". Cut three eggs from each inked card.

5 Cut glitter card to 6.75" x 6.75" and white card to 6.50" x 6.50". Adhere the white to the glitter card. Spatter the white card with gold confetti ink using a paintbrush.

6 Again using the gold confetti ink and a brush, add splats to the eggs.

7 Glue the eggs in a wreath shape to the white card using foam pads, and add a ribbon and a bow at the top.

8 Using the ScanNCut, using font FO-A001 cut lettering for Happy Easter from glitter card measuring 0.75" x 8" and adhere to the egg wreath. Glue the topper to the card blank.

Hoppy Easter

1 Blend three blue distress oxide inks over a piece of white card, then ink through the Dotty stencil with the darkest blue. Repeat with the other three colours [4]

3 Using the ScanNCut, add stored image AR-I023 and resize to 11.76" x 8.34". Ungroup and weld together. Add a circle to the mat, resize to 1.55" and place over the top of the eyes. Add another circle and resize to 5" and place over the half circle on the bunny’s tummy. Weld all of the shapes together to create the silhouette [5]. Resize to 2.75" x 1.95" and cut three times, once from each of the blue, orange and purple inked cards.

4 Add stored image BO-A020 and resize to 1.50" x 5.75".

Helping Hand

◆ Use an anti-static powder tool on the acetate to prevent the sequins sticking to it

◆ Before cutting into a new piece of card stock, check your offcuts for a suitable size piece

◆ Ensure there are no gaps between the pieces of foam tape used to outline the chick for the Shaker card, or the sequins will escape!

Cut from the green inked card [6]

5 Cut glitter card to 5.75" x 5.75" and white card to 5.50" x 5.50". Glue the white onto the glitter card. Spatter the white card using the gold confetti ink and a paintbrush.

6 Glue the pom-poms to the bunnies then glue the bunnies and the grass to the card.

7 Glue the topper to the card blank. Using the ScanNCut and font F0-A001 cut the letters from glitter card for Hoppy Easter measuring 0.75" x 7.75" and adhere to the topper and card base.

Chick shaker

1

Add a little Blueprint Sketch distress ink to a glass mat and spritz with water. Then pick up the colour with white card. Then spatter the card with both confetti inks [7] yellow inked paper to 5.50" x 5.0" and adhere to glitter card measuring 5.75" x 5.75". Add the sequins to the centre of the yellow card. Stick the chick topper to the yellow background using more foam tape.

2 Repeat the distress inking process above with the Ripe Persimmon then again with the Wild Honey ink. Spatter with the gold confetti ink only.

Lastminute make

3

Add stored image AR-I107 to the ScanNCut, resize the egg to 2.25" x 2.89" and cut from the blue inked card. Add a square to the mat measuring 5.50" x 5.50". Resize the chick to 2.84" x 4.06", centralise the square and the chick vertically and horizontally. Cut from white card. Using the same chick, create an offset line at -0.15 and another at +0.12 and cut from the orange inked card. Add spatters to the white card with gold confetti ink. Adhere the chick and egg to the white card using PVA glue [8]

4 Cut acetate to 5.50" x 5.50" and adhere to the back of the white card using the red liner tape. Add foam tape to the back of the card around the chick shape. Cut the

5

Stick the topper to the card blank. Using the ScanNCut and font FO-A001, cut out letters from glitter card for Have A Crackin Easter measuring 0.58" x 10.50" and adhere to the card.

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