Scrap Paper Easter Eggs

Hi Everyone

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.  Yesterday was absolutely beautiful here!  We were even able to enjoy our dinner outside!  With it finally starting to feel like spring is coming I thought it would be a great time to post some Easter projects.  I had a blast doing this first project!  It turned how I pictured it would in my head...not always the case!  This project is a great way to use up all your scraps and impress your Easter guests with your creative skills!  It is also a great way to play with colour combination's!  I definitely found a couple of new combination's that I want to try on a card!  You could definitely adapt this for any holiday...balls for Christmas ornaments, little pumpkins for Hallowe'en/Thanksgiving...the possibilities are endless!   

Here is how I made the Easter eggs:

1.  You will need styrofoam eggs (My Mom found these ones for me at the dollar store, I think there were 6 large in a pack for $1 dollar and 12 small for $1 dollar.  There were also medium sized eggs available as well!), small sewing pins (the ones I used I had found at Wal-Mart, I wanted small metal heads but you could use ones with pearls or colours on top as well!), scraps of paper and small punches.
2.  Using your scraps of Stampin' Up! cardstock and designer series paper punch out lots of shape pieces.  For my eggs I used the 1/2" circle punch for some and the old style Boho Blossom punch.  If you have the new Boho Blossoms Extra Large punch this would work perfectly as well.  Other punches that would work well are the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and Heart Small Punch.
3.  Once you have your shapes punched out simply place one against your styrofoam egg and stick a pin through the middle.
4.  Continue assembling your eggs by adding more punched shapes to them one at a time overlapping to cover the white of the egg.  I found they turned out best if you placed some of you shapes slightly under some of your already placed shapes and some overtop of the shapes.

Hope you enjoyed today's project, check back later this week for another Easter project!

Lisa

Stamping Time!

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to find a time to get together with my new downline Tina.  Tina has years of stamping experience!  She has an amazing creative side.  Tina and I had a blast hanging out for the evening stamping and probably would have continued well into the night had the weather not gotten bad!  I strongly recommend for anyone to get together with a friend or group and stamp!  You will gain lots of inspiration, have fun stamping and stretch your boundaries as a stamper!  Today I just wanted to share with you Tina's blog.  Her blog can be found here.  I have also posted a link in the left hand column under creative links!

Check back this week for a couple of fun Easter projects!
Lisa