Easter Flower Cart

Hi folks its Angela here with you today with an Easter project.

I laid out the pieces of the Flower Cart to wipe them off (being laser cut you can get a little black sometimes as the laser burns through the material and causes soot)

This step also helps you to determine which bit goes where. I then painted all the pieces with Mowed Lawn distress paint.

 

Once painted I assembled to cart - ensuring the side pieces were in the correct way round, this picture shows the side piece with the handle off to the right.

Once assembled I touched up the bits where the tabs were with a paint brush.

I then chose which flowers I was going to use from the Flower Stackers (yours will come shipped as a sheet and it is easier to paint them before taking them out) I used several different distress paints to paint them, no need for gesso as the paint covers nicely.

I used the largest eggs from the Easter Egg set and applied Gesso to these as I wanted to paint them with lighter coloured Silk paints so I needed a white undercoat. Once covered I used a pokey tool to get the Gesso and paint out of the holes in the pattern on the eggs.

I glued the eggs onto plastic eggs as I want to put something inside them for Easter. The flowers are glued onto coffee stirrers (from a well known establishment) that I painted with the mowed lawn distress paint. I shaped the flowers slightly before gluing them together to give them a bit of dimension. I used a really dense foam block in the bottom of the cart to put my flower "stems" into and then I covered this with shredded crepe paper so you don't see the ugly foam.

Here is a close up of the flowers and eggs.

I hope you like my project and might think about making one yourself.

Supplies used:

Flower Cart

Decorative Eggs

Flower Stackers

Distress Paint 

ColorArte Silk paints

Plastic eggs

Felt bunnies

Vintage Easter Banner by Lynne

hi there...spring is just around the corner and so is Easter! I'm going to decorate a bit for Easter this year as my "baby" (22-year old daughter) is back home after over 3 years of living out west, and that makes me feel much more festive....in fact I will be hiding an Easter basket for her like I did every year up until she left home!

I had some adorable vintage images in my stash and used them as a theme for my banner, and I have been eyeing the cute chippie eggs for a while trying to decide how I wanted to use them. 

I covered four of the banner pieces with corrugate and inked the edges with a deep brown

.I cut the coloured banners just a tad smaller and distressed and inked those edges as well, then attached the images to those.

The eggs were painted with brown acrylic paint, then coated with FolkArt Crackle medium. When the medium was dry I painted them with pastel acrylics, then rubbed them with the stain to create an aged look. I added a layer of clear embossing powder afterwards. 

The flowers were made with the Martha Stewart hydrangea punch, although I added an extra layer of the larger size. These too were inked in brown, then put together with small brads. The foliage was made with the Martha Stewart branch punch.

The small embellishments on the upper right of each banner were covered with patterned paper, then sanded and inked. I attached them with foam adhesive for a bit of added dimension.

The banner was put together with jute. To fit the jute through the small holes in some of the eggs, I dipped the end of the jute into hot wax and then squeezed it together with my fingers. It worked really well. I used hot glue to seal the knots when I tied the pieces together.

Thanks a bunch for stopping by, and be sure to share your Easter creations on our craft group Facebook page-we'd love to see what you come up with!

GYPSY SOUL ITEMS USED

Banner Builder dovetail set

Decorative Eggs

Spring Shape Set

OTHER ITEMS USED

FolkArt Crackle medium
FolkArt Mixed Media transparent gel-Sepia
Versacolor Ink-Pinecone
Versamark Ink
Clear embossing powder

Easter 2 Ways by Pam Bray

Hi Pam today on the Gypsy Soul Laser Cut Blog showing how to use chipboard pieces to create 2 different projects using the same layout idea.

I first created an Easter Card using the Decorative Eggs and Damask Singles...

Begin by distressing the paper using a distressing tool; adhere to card base.

Give the Decorative Eggs and Damask Singles for both pieces a good coat of paint; dry.

Add paint color to the top of each piece for both card and tag. (Put tag pieces to one side when dry.)

Add prepared  Damask Singles to top of card front along with flower ribbon.

Adhere Decorative Eggs to top of pattern paper; fussy cut out.

Adhere prepared Decorative Eggs to front of card.

Make a pretty bow; add to front of card along with flowers. Add a few fussy cut butterflies from the pattern paper to the front.

Create one of the Chipboard Decorative Large Tags using the prepared Decorative Eggs

and Damask Singles. It is nice to see that each of these chipboard pieces come in sets of different sizes so they are easy to create unique projects using the same techniques. I hope you have fun making Easter projects using Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Supplies. Hugs Pam

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Supplies

Decorative Eggs

Damask Singles

Chipboard Decorative Large Tags

Other Supplies:

Prima Tales of You and Me

Ranger Distress Paint: Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo, Cracked Pistachio,

Frayed Burlap, Spun Sugar and Picket Fence

Paper Studio Poppies & Paperie Flowers

Xyron Tape Runner

Glue Gun and Glue Sticks

Teal Ribbon

Clear Gemstones

Pearl Gemstones

Distress Tool

5 1/2" x 5 1/2" Kraft Card Base

Easter Candy Dish

Hi everyone! Amylove here bringing you an Easter project. I used these amazing Easter pieces to create a candy dish from a paper mache egg.

 

It is so cute! I can't wait to display it this year. Please follow this link to my tutorial for this project:

Altered Egg Tutorial

Items used:

Build A Layout Easter

Decorative Eggs

Easter Tags

Hey there Peeps! Ginny here and I've got two sweet and vintagy tags to share.  I'm using Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments patterned papers and ribbon trims to join the gorgeous chipboard Eggs and scribble frame.  A few dimensional flowers and these tags are ready to decorate the house for the holiday.

 

Gypsy Soul laser Cuts~Decorative Eggs, Scribble Frames Hearts & Flowers.

Make sure you check out my dear friend Barbara's post too..more fabby inspiration on the GSL blog today!  Wishing you all a happy and productive day with lots of time to be creative : ) G

Holiday Cards

Top o' the morning to you all.  Barbara here.  Since today is St. Patty's Day, I thought I would make a couple of cards, but the first one is to wish you all a Happy St. Patrick's Day!  And since Easter is next week, I made an Easter card to wish you a Happy Easter!

So let's start with the St. Patrick's Day card. 

I cut a piece of green card stock to make a folded 5"x7" card base.  I next cut a piece of green print paper to 4-1/2" x 6".  This leaves some card showing at the top, so I trimmed the print border and added it at the top of the card.

Cut decorative tags and layer onto purple print paper cut slightly smaller.  Adhere to card, as shown.

I chose these GSL chipboard pieces to use for my card.  (TIP:  I like to lay them out and see just how many I might need and how they will look.)  

I used chalk ink pads, direct to chipboard, to color my chipboard pieces.  The shamrocks were colored with two greens and then highlighted with the gold ink pad.  The wishbone charm was colored with the white and bisque chalk ink pad, while the mini bookplate was colored with the wisteria ink pad.  For the horseshoe, I used the silver and black ink pads.  

I adhered the chipboard pieces to my card front, as shown.  Lastly, I tied a bow and attached the wishbone charm to the bow with a vintage safety pin.

Now, for the Easter card, I was going for a more shabby chic look.  I made an A2 (4-1/4" x 5-1/2") size card from purple card stock.  I found this pretty laser cut white paper in my stash and adhered that, along with the purple decorative paper cut to fit in the space.

Once again, I selected my chipboard pieces that I thought would work, and I laid them out to see how I wanted to place them on the card.

I mixed the chalk paints on my craft sheet and applied two or more colors to each piece, withe the exception of the "Happy Easter" piece, which was computer generated onto a piece of purple paper and adhered to the label center.

Each piece was adhered to the card front, as shown.  A pretty lavender bow as tied and adhered at the bottom of the eggs.  One last tiny sentiment from the decorative paper was adhered beneath the eggs for balance.

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Products Used:

Miniature Bookplates

4 Leaf Clover Set (coming soon)

Feeling Lucky Shape Set

Feeling Lucky Charm Set

Stackable Labels Shape Set

Decorative Eggs

Other Products Used:
Paper: Olive Green card stock; Graphic 45 Time to Flourish; Secret Garden
Ink: Colorbox Chalk (Lime Pastel, Olive Pastel, Wisteria, Alabaster, Bisque); Brilliance: Platinum Planet, Graphite 

Black, Galaxy Gold
Chalk Paint:  Paper Artsy (Smurf, Hyde Park, Snowflake, Vintage Lace, Rose, Vanilla)

Mini glue dots; foam dots

Seam binding: Green, Lavender

I hope you enjoyed my cards today and are inspired to at least make a few Easter cards before the holiday.  In the meantime, have a Happy St. Patrick's Day and a wonderful and very blessed Easter.

Thanks for stopping by.

Barbara

Easter Cards

Hello and Happy Spring to you.  Shanna here with some Easter theme cards to share. 

So for the first card I used the chick and eggs. 

They just got a coat of gesso and a coat of paint. 

The second card, was fun because I got to use the Decorative Eggs with the basket from the Easter Build A  Layout set. 

These just got a couple coats of paint. 

I had a blast pairing my chipboard pieces with some Graphic 45 papers. So grab you Easter pieces and have a blast creating. 

Items Used:

Decorative Eggs

Build A Layout - Easter