Easter Cards

Well the weekend was a total washout with all the rain, creating two very board and very frustrated little girls. So some form of activity had to be organised to stop them (and me) going stir crazy!!

I have been wanting to make Easter cards for my Niece's and Nephews, but have not seen any craft packs that I liked in the shops. So I decided to look on line for free downloadable stamps that the girls would be able to colour in and attach to Easter Cards for their cousins.

I typed 'Free Easter stamps' into the Google image site. There are a plethora of sites which will allow you free access to some of their stamps.

Here are a few examples:

Easter Bunny

Little girl holding easter chicks by deariedollsdigis.blog

Cute little girl and boy bunny in basket- The Greeting farm

deariedollsdigis blog

I then needed papers to back the images onto. So again I searched on Google for 'Free Easter papers' and found this lovely little lot:
http://papercraftinspirations.themakingspot.com/blog/free-egg-citing-easter-papers-to-download-from-issue-85

I gave the girls my Promarkers (very brave thing to do) and they used them to great effect to colour in the different stamps.

Rona got a little angry as the colours kept bleeding over the line so she left the colouring to Isla and helped me choose the different papers for the different cards. We mounted some of the stamps onto tissue paper and gently ripped around the edge of the image. I cut out some of the sentiments, from the above paper collection, and Rona added the sticky pads to the stamp and the sentiment. These cards are A6 in size.

We made the next card into a gatefold card out of A4 card and added buttons to finish it off.  (Beautifully coloured in by Isla)

The next 2 cards are again A6 in size and I cut the rabbits out so the beautiful papers can be seen behind.

The card on the left is finished off with small buttons and the card on the right has 2 flowers cut from the papers above and finished off with cardcandi in the centre (buttons could be used too)

These 2 were for my nephews.

 

 

The striped backing paper on the card above was not part of the papers in the link above, I bought this separately.

I got the girls to sign the pictures they coloured in and as far as possible I tried to leave the signature on.

The girls spent about 2 hours doing these, and although I had to finish some of the cards off all the colouring and some of the arrangements were completed by the girls. These cards are easy to make and cheap, needing only a printer, paper/card, scissors, glue, and pens. It was a fun activity to keep the girls away from the tv on a dull and dreary Sunday morning. x x