With Easter falling so late this year, it seems a little early for an Easter card. However, since the Backyard Basics framelits are in this week’s Weekly Deals (Sale $18.71/Reg $24.95) and Sweet Sorbet designer series paper (dsp) is available in the Sale-a-bration freebies through March 31, we may as well plan ahead! Click here to see yesterday’s post with the Weekly Deals.
This was inspired by Dawn Olchefske’s card which you can see here. She used the Crisp Cantaloupe print from the Sweet Sorbet dsp, and I used Pistachio Pudding. My pistachio dsp is cut to 2″x3″. These pastels are great for Easter cards, and the little prints are also perfect for the eggs.
Adding the chick took me on a trip down memory lane, more on that later. I used the bird punch to cut a body and a wing from So Saffron cardstock. Then, I aligned the body to punch the tail off as shown below (you could also just cut it!)
Then, I grabbed the wing with a post-it and punched the lower edge with my 7/8″ scallop circle punch.
I sponged the edges and assembled. I made the eye with my “eraser stamp”. I have mentioned this before – it is very easy to carve away a pencil eraser to create a circle stamp. I used an exacto knife to carve a rough circle, and then I filed it smooth with an emery board.
The grass is done with fringe scissors. And the greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes, punched with the Jewelry Tag Punch.
I think that’s all the parts! Now the memories…when I was growing up in Cleveland, Mom would get fertilized chicken eggs to hatch in an electric skillet. She was a Science teacher, and she had grown up on a farm, so projects like this just flowed from her!
There would be three weeks of anticipation each time we did this. We would carefully turn the eggs daily, mimicking the behavior of any good mother hen. This was followed by a few days of excitement as the chicks hatched. Oh my goodness, how thrilling it was to wake up on those mornings to see how many chicks hatched overnight!!
We always kept the baby chicks for a week or two before they went to live on my Grandma’s farm in Southeastern Ohio. The neighborhood kids would come over to play with them. On warm spring afternoons, we would take the chicks out to play in the backyard. If I can come up with some old pictures of this, I will post them for you.
So maybe this explains why I was determined to get a chick on my card! If I can figure out a card to go with Mom’s moth ball experiment, I can tell you that story another time.
Have a great day!!
