Monday 30 March 2009

Easter Egg Card

For this you will need:

  • 1 apertutre card or plain card

  • Ruler
  • Polystrene oval shape (avaible to buy from here)

  • Decorations, jewels, paper, stickers

  • Felt tips

  • Glue

  • Scissors

To make:

  • Take one aperture card or make your own by cutting a square from the centre of a folded piece of card (grown up bit)

  • Colour the oval shape using felt tip pens and decorate with jewels, glitter or stickers


  • Decorate the front of the card

  • Glue the egg shape to inside the card positioned so the egg appears through the window




Finished Easter Egg Card....just add a message!!

Wednesday 18 March 2009

Mothers Day / Easter Basket

To make this basket you will need:

  • Scissors

  • Ruler

  • A4 thin card in assorted colours

  • glue

  • shredded paper

  • stapler


  • To make the basket:
  • Take one sheet of card and every 3cm along the width cut to half way down the depth. Do this for the entire width of the card.



  • Along the opposite length of the card cut little slits about 1cm apart all the way along the bottom of the card, these will enable the bottom of the basket to be attached.

  • Next wrap the card round into a cylinder shape and staple once at the bottom to secure and once half way up the cylinder.




  • Once you have created the basket shape, next pull down all the flaps except two opposing flaps and pull these up and staple to make a handle.



  • To make a bottom for the basket cut a card circle 8cm in diameter, fold up all the little slits and sellotape the bottom in place.


  • Next cut out flower shapes, to decorate the ends of the flaps. Click here for the pattern or make your own.


  • Glue the flower shapes to the ends of the flaps and across the handle.

  • Add stredded paper into the basket along with a gift. It could be mini easter eggs, chocolates or soap.