So, Easter is an optional twist on this week’s clean and simple card challenge over at AAA Cards. The main challenge is to use a shaped card that isn’t square or rectangular, with the suggestion that egg-shaped cards might be fun. Well, Easter celebrations, for me, are more than chocolate eggs, fluffy bunnies and cute chicks so I came up with this card instead:

I utterly screwed up this card by adding too much glitter glue. Though it looks better in real life, the glitter has obliterated the underlying ink patterns and rather than being a subtle highlight has dominated the card. Hey ho. Keeping the clean and simple aesthetic was hard to do as well.

I started with the cross shape, using a roll of masking tape as my circle template. Trim with a knife. I used the yellow/orange distress oxide inks blending through the swirl/spiral stencil in layers to get gradients and overlaps and build interest and depth. This is what has disappeared behind the glitter. Blend the brown/black distress oxide inks for the ground. Stamp the sentiment, cut it to form a banner and curl it to shape before glueing it down.

Used in this cross-shaped Easter card

• Stencil: unknown manufacturer
• Ranger / Tim Holtz Distress Oxides: Scattered Straw / Spiced Marmalade / Gathered Twigs / Black Soot
• Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue: Yellow
• A6 card blank