Botanical Eggs – The Greetery

Hello, friends!  It’s my turn to share a project today for The Greetery and I’ve got a fun one for you, in time for sending out some sweet Springtime cards.

I used lots of goodies from the newest release, starting with the new Golden Egg and Golden Egg Filigree Borders dies.

I started out by die cutting the eggs and the borders. Next, I die cut all the flowers in fun colors and assembled them before laying them out how I thought I’d want them on the eggs. I used the Bigger Botanicals: Mallow, Hawthorn and Soapwort dies to create all the flowers. Once assembled, I used my colored pencils to add some additional shading to all the flowers and leaves.

Next, I stamped the sentiments from Simple Spring Sentiments on each egg and then glued all the flowers in place.

PRO TIP: Using foam adhesive on the flowers and simple glue on the stems and leaves, gives your die cuts a bit of depth and interest, since they’re not all at the same level.

PRO TIP: When filling a die cut image with smaller die cuts, I like to let some of the small die cuts (flowers in this case) hang over the edge on one side of the large image (the egg, here). The coral flower is extending beyond the edge of the egg on the left, and I trimmed off the flower on the right.

In the case of the blue egg, I just positioned the flowers better so that they hung over the edge on the left and not at all on the right.

After the flowers were in place, I carefully added the filigree border. I was just mindful when glueing down the flowers, where I would need to be able to tuck that border under a flower/stem.

I hope this has inspired you to whip up a card or two to celebrate Spring and brighten someone’s day!

In the meantime, hope today is a bright one for you!  Be sure to visit The Greetery Blog today!

I’ll chat with you again soon!

xo,

{Golden Egg Cards supplies — click on thumbnails}

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