Sunday, March 20, 2016

Easter chick

Here is one if the cards I made for Easter this year - I made more of these, but they were mailed before I got to take a picture of them. I wanted to create something very flat and mailable, yet fun and interesting.
Not my original idea - seen it on Pinterest somewhere, but I had to figure out how to do it exactly :)
I started with stamping the chick from Honeycomb Happiness stamp set on Shimmery white card stock. Don't have any egg stamps, so I cut out an oval using Spellbinder die, then cut it into two "cracked" pieces. Lightly traced the egg pieces in pencil where I wanted them positioned then colored them and the chick using my mix of alcohol markers (blendabilities, copics and spectrum noir)
After it was done I use large Post It notes to mask the chick, egg and ground. Stamped the grass using Inspired by nature stamp. Then added couple extra free hand flicks with brush markers. Sponged the sky with Soft Sky and Marina Mist ink.
I tried to sponge the ground too, but couldn't get good enough coverage so I used copics to color it in. Traced the eggs with  thing journaling marker and added some cracks.
Sentiment and punched flowers are from Stampin Up.

Challenges:
Sweet Stampin - Easter
Allsorts - Easter
A Gem of a Challenge - Easter
Jo's Scrap Shack - Easter
Cute Card Thursday - Easter

8 comments:

Desire Fourie said...

Such a cute Easter card. Love the pretty spring colours.
Hugs
Desíre
{Doing Life – my personal blog}

Joyce Tompkins said...

Oh your card is so cute...I love it! Thanks for joining Fun~day Friday at Jo's Scrap Shack.

Kathleen said...

Really cute image and a great idea with the egg, great background too.
Thank you for joining our Easter challenge this week at Allsorts.

Kath

Unknown said...

Such a great project - I love what you have done with this SU chick! Thank you for joining in with us on the Cute Card Challenge blog this week. Lynn - CCT Design Team x

Jo Williams Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator said...

Oh this is such a beautiful card! I LOVE the way you colored in the egg and chick! So pretty! Thanks so much for stopping by and playing along this week in our Funday Friday Easter challenge! Have a great day!
Hugs,
Jo-owner
♥ Jo's Scrap Shack ♥

Marianne's Craftroom said...

So cute thanks for playing at agoac

Rachel said...

Super cute card!
Thank you for joining us at Sweet Stampin this week, Wedgie xxx

Maarit at Violets Corner said...

Gorgeous Easter card, thank you so much for sharing with Sweet Stampin'.

Love and hugs
Maarit

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