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Easter Basket Card Featuring Stampin’ Up!’s Baskets & Blooms Bigz XL Die & A Give-Away…A Video…& Some Winners

Posted on: Monday, April 18th, 2011

I don’t know what it is, but I’ve been finding this school year just speeding by (i.e. from September on). Somehow this year I’ve really been feeling behind the eight-ball.  I was talking to Soph this morning and couldn’t believe that Easter is THIS WEEKEND!  I had such big plans and all sorts of cool projects to design and create planned out in my head, and now….it’s too late. I’m sure those of you that fall under the “really organized” category, are already ready LOL.

I guess, rather than saving my ideas for Easter next year, I may just re-think them a little and create them as spring projects.

Today’s card features Stampin’ Up!’s Baskets and Blooms Bigz XL die.  This card is based on a fantastic card by Betsy Veldman – scroll down to the second card on that post and you’ll see it. I used primarily Stampin’ Up! supplies for mine, and decided to fancy up the eggs.  I filmed a quick video for you all on how I created the eggs which you can see below (for Paper Crafter’s Library members I also included a video on how to do the rest of the card, including the dimensional basket – and that’s been posted on the private blog today).

Here are the supplies used:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (Stampin’ Up!)

Ink: Early Espresso (Stampin’ Up!)

Paper:  So Saffron CS,  Pretty in Pink CS, Baja Breeze CS, Nursery Suite DP, So Saffron DP (Stampin’ Up!); Spring Moss CS, White CS (Papertrey Ink)

Accessories:  flower punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack, foam mat from Mat Pack, stylus, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Basic rhinestones, 1 ⅜” x ⅝” Oval punch, Ovals Originals die, Baskets and Blooms Bigz XL die, Stampin’ Dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); Heat It Craft Tool, Matte Accents, mini mister (Ranger); White and pink ric rac, ⅛” Scor-tape, hot glue gun, Fabri-tac Adhesive (other)

You can watch the video here:

 

Also, do you remember the Faux Marbled & Stained Glassine Card?

I filmed and uploaded a video on how to create the Faux Marbled and Stained Glassine Flowers and inserted the video into the original post. To watch the video click HERE.

To watch the video on how to create Faux Glassine, click HERE. I do have to warn you though that for some reason, about four minutes into the Faux Glassine video, the sound goes wonky for about a minute.  I accidentally overwrote the original video file, so I haven’t yet had a chance to correct it and re-upload it.

The Winners of the Trees of Hope Class Planner:

I also realized that I forgot to announce the winners of the Trees of Hope class.  I have listed the 5 lucky winners below.  If your name was drawn, please email me at andrea@sunnystampin.com and put “Trees of Hope Class Winner” in the subject line.

1. michelle

March 29th, 2011 at 5:30 pm  

andrea…i am so glad that i’ve found you on line…i am a dedicated follower here..and on FB as well

thank you for the wonderful inspiration that you offer

2. Patty C

March 29th, 2011 at 10:40 pm  

My stamping buddy is always commenting on cards that would be appropriate to give to men. I love the look of these trees and your designs. We’d love to win a tutorial! Thanks for all your ideas & resources. =)

3. Ria Blackwell

March 30th, 2011 at 1:54 am  

Your tutorials are amazing! You have a talent for providing fool proof instructions for AMAZINGLY creative products! Thank you for all you do to help our businesses.

4. Melanie

March 30th, 2011 at 11:08 am  

Very nice Andrea, you’re right about how difficult it is to do masculine cards! I would love to win a planner from you too  I’ve bought from you before (multiple times!) and always love your planners.

5. Carla Perea

April 1st, 2011 at 4:20 pm  

You ladies always have wonderful ideas. I can’t believe how creative you are!!!! I wish I had your talent….thank goodness you are here for us design challenged people…LOL!

Blog Give-away 

 So, for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Sunny Stampin’ Store (digital tutorials only), answer the following question: what’s your favourite Easter Tradition (for those of you that celebrate Easter)?   Post your answer in the comments section below. The winner will be announced on Thursday.

71 Comments

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Our favourite easter tradition is the easter hunt, with my boys still been young enough to love to run around in the frost looking for eggs I will still keep doing it for them. Love their faces when they find a egg.

megan

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Chris R. from Iowa
April 18th, 2011 at 6:40 pm

I would normally say the chocolate bunnies but actually decorating eggs and then the egg hunt. I had to laugh, when I was in 5th grade we moved to a different house. When they moved an item of furniture – there was an egg and we had not hid eggs for several years! My mom was mortified as she always thought she was the greatest housekeeper!

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My favorite Easter tradition was when my kids were small, I would tie plastic Easter Eggs with fishing line to the lowest branches of the tree that was in front of our house at the time. after the kids were in bed on Saturday night and when they woke up on Easter morning they would wake up and see the tree. They couldn’t get any of the eggs down though until we came home from Easter church service. We would put pennies and little candies in the eggs. We didn’t have really any place to hide eggs because you could easily see them so this was our alternative. They loved it. It was their very own Easter Egg Tree.

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The Easter baskets. Fifty years ago when I was young Easter baskets were different. They were heavier, more substantial than the baskets you find today. My two older sisters and I each had our own Easter basket and we used the same basket every year. We would set our baskets in the same place by the front door the night before Easter and in the morning the Easter Bunny would have come. Each year the baskets would be filled with candy very artistically arranged and each basket would have a stuffed animal beside it. I was always amazed that the Easter Bunny knew whose basket belonged to who and just the kind of candy the owner of that basket liked. I always asked and wondered how the bunny got in the door with those baskets in the way and how in the world did he leave without disturbing them.

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Well I have three little kids and now I celebrate Easter, my favorite tradition is hide the plastic easter eggs filled with candy in the yard and they with other friends search for them.

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I grew up with a German family, so Easter & all other occassions, we celebrated a Canadian Easter with a huge egg hunt, breakfast at my home & then off for a German egg hunt & breakfast…..oh, the chocolate & memories, all so good & never to be forgotten!

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My favorite Easter Tradition is getting together with my family for a large meal. Thanks for all the inspiration.

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That’s a very thoughtful giveaway! It’s about time to get started on my petals class. I already have 2 people excited about this one!

I don’t know if I have a favorite tradition. I think I do love the Easter egg coloring and hunting. My daughter literally spent 2 hours last night coloring eggs – a dozen, mind you! She would have kept on if I didn’t make her stop to eat dinner!

I love seeing the new dramas each year for Easter at church telling the story of Christ’s resurrection, the reason for Easter, also!

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My favorite Easter tradition is dying hard boiled eggs, then watching the kids search for them on Easter morning. It’s such fun.

Thank you for the chance to win! Your blog, tutorials, ideas, and projects are just wonderful!

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Your Easter basket is awesome! Thanks for the video tutorial, too.
My favorite Easter tradition is getting together with all the extended family for a wonderful celebration and meal.

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My best memories of Easter was going to the big department stores looking for THE perfect Easter dress – complete with hat, gloves and shiny white shoes! We were so proud to walk into church looking all spiffy in our new Easter outfits. Seems like kids (or is it the parents?) don’t get into getting all dress up in their Easter finery anymore.

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My favorite thing about Easter is sticking my nose into the Easter lillies and smelling the great perfume. I, to this day can’t walk past a lily without taking a great big wiff!!

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Darlean Fitzgerald
April 18th, 2011 at 9:26 pm

Easter Traditions…when I was a kid- watching Davey and Goliath. Now…it’s easy- the easter egg hunt with my daughter. But of course I have to sneak out just before she gets up and hide eggs all over the yard. When there is no snow it’s best because I don’t have to worry about foot prints!

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Since moving to the beach, my favorite tradition is the Sunrise Service on a local pier out over the water!! I had never gone to a sunrise service until I moved here and now our church sponsors it every year. For some reason, you feel so close to God and the real reason for the Easter holiday when you are out on His ocean with the wind blowing and you are singing His praises! I really love this time!

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Rosemarie Menassas
April 18th, 2011 at 10:21 pm

My favorite Easter tradition is making our own Easter egggs, using yellow fondant and wrapping the “yolk” with white fondant and shaping it into ovals, then dipping them into chocolate. We have done this for about 45 years now, since my first baby was 5 years old and able to help out with Easter Bunny duties. Also nice to go to church on Easter Sunday and see a whole bunch of new people who only show up that one day of the year! This year we will making the Easter eggs with the grandkids; should be fun!

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My favorite tradition at Easter is coloring eggs with my gram and now my boys too. She’s 90 now so every year is a blessing!

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Our favorite Easter tradition is telling the story of Jesus with 12 plastic Easter eggs that each have a slip of paper inside that talks about a symbol of Easter along with a tiny object that represents that symbol. For example, two little toothpicks glued into a cross would be in one egg. Each of us in the family would take an egg and read our slip of paper and show the object to everyone.

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Awesome project! Love the tutorial and thanks for sharing. I will give this a try :-)

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We now have grandkids so we are back to hiding the eggs etc. I love the look in the 3yr old eyes when he finds one of those hidden eggs. And of course its a time our family is all together.

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My favorite Easter tradition is watching my 2 little ones search for Easter Eggs at 3 different Easter Egg Hunts (HOA Egg Hunt, my husband’s work Egg Hunt and of course, our own Egg Hunt with eggs hidden by the “Easter Bunny”). I just love seeing the kids reactions! It’s truly priceless. We also hide their Easter baskets with all of their goodies inside. Then, leave clues for them to search for them. This is a tradition I picked up from my own parents. They used to make my sister and I follow the clues to find our Easter baskets and Easter dresses on Easter morning. So happy to pass on such a fun tradition with my own kids!

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I loved packing up the kids and wrapping them in blankets and heading to a park at 6:30am to have a small service with mostly singing. Early morning and Easter just go together! Not sure if it was my kid’s favorite especially when it snowed!

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We love Easter, coloring eggs, making cookies, going to church in our best clothes, and then hunting eggs. My best memory is from a few years ago on Easter morning, when our son ran straight for the garage,hoping the Easter bunny brought him a snow mobile! He was so disappointed. We kept trying to explain the Easter bunny brings candy & eggs…not snow mobiles.

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We go out to our ranch in Luckenbach in our jeeps. We hide eggs along the trails and then have little egg hunts as we go. We then go up to a one room school house where we have dinner and sometimes a campfire if things aren’t too dry. We won’t have one for sure this year. Too many wildfires.

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Love this interpretation of basket and eggs! Love 3-D cards! Always enjoy learning new techniques from y’all! keep up the good work~

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Our favourite tradition is the Egg Hunt. Our girls are 9 & 6, and we love to see them search for eggs. The bunny always leaves the plastic eggs with goodies inside. Sometimes the eggs contain clues too – to find the next egg, and so on, until a larger item or Easter Basket at the end of the hunt. If the weather cooperates, the hunt takes place outside, but probably not this year. Spring has been very slow in coming :(
Thanks for sharing another beautiful project!

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I didn’t grow up celebrating Easter, but once I started, we made special breakfast with tons of options. I’d also get a new fancy toothbrush in my Easter basket every year and I always looked forward to that. It sort of complements the chocolate. :)

27

Your basket is beautiful. Our favorite tradition is getting together with family and having a huge feast, and of course, the egg hunt that follows. Happy Easter to you and yours.

Babe
youiesmom@att.net

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My favorite Easter Tradition is to have Ham for dinner. I don’t usually like ham but for some reason, Easter Ham is delicious. My daughter loves Ham more than turkey, and would rather have Ham for Thanksgiving but Turkey is my favorite meat…so that’s not going away..but I will concede that Ham is for Easter. :)

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Our family tradition is to have a lamb cake made in a cast iron cake pan. It is the full lamb and my Mom decorates it every Easter since I was very young…I’m 50+ now! At Christmas it becomes a little deer, again very cute. Thanks for the chance at the candy!

HappyHome43@msn.com

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My favorite Easter tradition is gathering together at my mother-in-law’s house to celebrate the holiday and watching the younger kids hunt for the hidden Easter eggs.

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EGG HUNT….it is fun to watch the grandkids….when they are toddlers they don’t want to touch the grass to pick up an egg…..as they get older they learn to shake the egg for quarters and only pick up the ones that rattle…..and then older ones help the toddlers….what a cycle

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Eggs, Flowers, Pastel colors… what more can you ask for ? This is a wonderful card.

C.

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Margaret Peltier
April 19th, 2011 at 7:32 am

My favorite memory is the Egg Hunts my Mom did for us growing up – which she still does for the grandchildren to this day – who are – 26, 22,20,17,16 yrs old – she thinks it is great…the grand kids go along with it……..myself I loved making my girls their Easter outfits!!! :)
Such a pretty card – will have to bookmark this one for next year!!

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I still love being the “Easter Bunny” and hiding the kids’ surprises for them to find on Easter Sunday. We are not Christians but we embrace many customs from all religions in our house. The “kids” are now almost 12 and almost 16, but they still love the Easter hunt!

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OMGosh this card is fabulous! Love the colors and soft petals and you really had to WORK hard girlfriend! Wow. Amazing.
My favorite thing to remember on Easter was the anticipation of a SOLID Sander’s chocolate bunny in my basket… then it is the Egg Hunt!
Hugs.

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Our favorite Easter tradition is going to church then meeting up with family for a big dinner. Then of course there’s the Easter egg hunt for the little ones!

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The bunny cake. I learned how to make it in junior high school, taught to my sister and now my girls are learning. Each year it is interesting to see how the bunny cake will turn out. One year my sister could not find mini jelly beans for the mouth and she used gigantic ones instead. We laughed about it for weeks.

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I love your blog Andrea! Such wonderful projects. I think our favorite Easter tradition has to be the Egg hunt in our backyard, the kids have so much fun! They also love dying Easter Eggs and Easter baking.

Thanks for the opportunity to win!

Chris L.

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I love the Easter Sunrise Service. One year when I was a child, it was held outside (we lived in a warmer climate!). We are getting 5″ of snow today (April 19) so the Sunrise service is always inside here. But it’s still my favorite part of Easter! Thanks for the opportunity to win the die!

Martha L.

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Fabulous card & eggs!

Growing up we always had ‘Easter’ bread for breakfast on Easter morning. It’s a braided ring with eggs on top. I always loved it.

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First of, I love the card! Thanks so much for the video. I already have ideas for cards and I must get home – working stinks – to get started!

Ok….My kids are late teens, but I still hide easter eggs. Ok I had to up the anti and now thee is cash instead of candy inside, but what the heck its only once a year!

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my favorite? The big cousins hiding the eggs for the little cousins at gramma’s house! (And gramma’s easter dinner!)

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My favorite Easter tradition was when I lived in Western New York (I now live in Florida) On Good Friday we would get up very early and drive to The Broadway Market in Buffalo. We would get lots of great things for Easter Sunday…special Easter bread with the whole eggs baked into it, big cinnamon buns and Challah bread. Then we would fight the crowd to get our butter lamb…I think it is a Polish tradition. There is one shop there that makes them and they are butter in the shape of a lamb and it is on the table on Easter Sunday. We would then drive to North Tonawanda to Platter’s Chocolates to get those last min. Easter candies, They have the most awesome orange chocolate. The shopping day would end with getting all the fixins for Easter dinner. This was a wonderful time I always had with my daughter when she was growing up and I will cherish them forever.

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Thanks for the video. Its a wonderful easter card!

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Our son LOVES to make an Easter hat and basket on Easter Saturday for the following day – my husband loves hiding the treats for the hunt and whilst that is taking place I make pancakes for breakfast

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My favorite Easter tradition is… well all of them… shopping for Easter clothes, shopping for the HUGE family dinner, decorating the eggs with the kids, hiding them, watching them find them, creating special baskets for each child (matching their personalities and favorite candies)cooking the delicious Easter ham with all the trimmings and of course the Easter service. This year is especially wonderful as my daughter is going to be an alter server.

Your project hits the spot again! Thanks for all of your great ideas.

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Super cute card, love those flowery eggs! Loved reading everyone’s traditions. Mine? Eating chocolate of course! Mostly I love celebrating the fact that Christ is Risen! When my son was little I loved making his Easter basket, some candy, some fruit, a book and some toys. One year I used a laundry basket and he thought he’d hit the mother lode!
Last year at church we loaded plastic eggs for the kids with candy, coins and scripture verses. My son, now 26, loves being the “hider” and helping the kids find them.
We’ve had a couple pet rabbits over the years, and one year as we were getting ready to bite into the chocolate bunnies, I told my son, you gotta start with the ears….our pet rabbit who was in the same room, immediately reached up with her paw, and pulled her ear down as if to protect it. It was priceless! Happy Easter to all!

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My favorite thing about Easter is getting together with family and enjoying a great meal together.

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The gathering together of family and attending church together.

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Great card and video.
Favorite Easter tradition is the Sunrise Service at church and the breakfast afterwards.

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Our favorite family tradition is our annual easter egg hunt followed by family games in the afternoon while waiting for our feast. When the kids were small it was total choas but now that they are older, it is so enjoyable to play games. I just hope our weather cooperates. There’s nothing like hiding 200 candy filled eggs in house because of snow or rain!

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As a young girl my favourite part of Easter was getting a new hat and white gloves to wear to church and gramma’s on Easter Sunday. Now that we have little grandboys my favourite part is twofold: hiding the easter eggs and getting the family together for the feast. So much to be thankful for. Thanks for the tutorial for the basket and all your other creations.

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I love making arts and crafts but i dont have cardstock

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My Favorite Easter tradition is scavenger hunting. While growing up my parents always created a scavenger hunt for my brother and I. We would have to solve cleaver clues to find our Easter present. Of coarse there were also Easter egg hunts, but the scavenger hunt always has been my favorite, I know share it with my boyfriend and his family, and am creating clues at the moment to help them find their gifts.

PS. love that egg technique! I have been following you for a few months now and love your work!

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Hiding Easter Eggs has always been the tradition that brings so much joy to the young. Children can hide and “hunt” eggs over and over and have so much fun doing it. I will never forget the time we had to hide eggs indoors at grandma’s when my daughter was little and an egg got placed into a silk flower arrangement. We found it a year later. Thankfully, it didn’t break.

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My favorite Easter tradition is having granddaughters over to color eggs the day before and then watch them look for them the next day in our back yard. I also did this when our children were younger. Of course our children now expect an Easter basket every year since they can’t hunt for eggs anymore. Kids (& grandkids)- don’t you just love them? Happy Easter Andrea & Sophia (and your families).
Lois from Michigan

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i love it I just wish i had half of your ideas !

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Besides the traditional dyeing and hunting for easter eggs, my kids like playing games with the eggs. We have a race where you hold the end of a spoon in your mouth the egg on the opposite side and you race down the yard and back but you can’t drop the egg. We also do a raw egg toss; if it breaks when you catch it you’re out. And lastly, we do a plastic egg toss into baskets. Whoever gets the most eggs in win! These games are great for young and older kids.

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Thanks so much for sharing how you made the Easter Eggs.
My favorite tradition is making a ham for dinner. The whole family loves when I bake it and also like the corn pudding I serve along with it
I still give easter gifts to my girls….no ore baskets just gift bags filled with goodies.

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I love these gorgeous eggs. My favourite tradition from when I was small (a while ago now!) is that our grandparents used to come and pick us up (myself and my younger brother) and take us out for a day trip somewhere fun. That coupled with lots of chocolates from our parents made for a very special day! Now I have my own children we always make sure there’s a big Easter egg hunt in the garden for them. With school finishing almost two weeks ago we’ve already had our lovely school Easter Chapel Service at which my 9 year old was singing.

Jayne

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Ohhh my goodness, what gorgeous cards!!!
My favorite Easter tradition would be the Easter egg hunt as soon as my brother’s and I woke, followed by toasted Hot Cross buns with loaded with butter. Even now with 2 teenage children a one toddler we still celebrate Easter the same way.
Wishing you a happy and safe Easter,

Cath

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My favourite tradition is our Easter Egg Hunt! It used to be us who were the kids hunting for the eggs – now it is our kids! We hide eggs all over the garden and include a dyed hens egg! Whoever finds the hens egg gets a special prize. We always go to church on Easter Sunday to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. I am so encouraged by our traditional greeting for Easter Sunday – ‘He is Risen’, ‘He is Risen indeed!”. It’s one of my favourite things about Easter! Thanks for sharing your beautiful card with us – Happy Easter!

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Definately the tradition of decorating the eggs. It’s such a great family time together and when a egg breaks we either all laugh or cry together.

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Love your basket card! I am attracted to dimensional projects like this one!
My favorite Easter tradition was always the Easter egg hunt! When I was a kid we had a nice backyard where my Dad would hide the eggs. One year, his most clever hiding spot was to place a yellow egg in our lemon tree! I think we had to have some help in finding that one! Very fond memories….
DeniseB

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Our Easter traditions, well, wel ike to color eggs and then hide them in the yard (if it’s nice out). From the spiritual standpoint, though, we always read the Easter story. My children are too little right now, but I would love to someday have a “watching” of the Passion of the Christ be something we do. I believe it is SO vital for them to understand our spiritual condition, and what Jesus did for us so that we could be in relationship with our Heavenly Father. We live in a world filled with sin, and He came to break the chains of bondage. It was painful and ugly, but He did it because of His great, GREAT love for us. They need to understand that and, one day, I hope they, too, will claim it as their own. Happy Easter Andrea and Sophia!!

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One of my favourite Easter traditions is decorating the Easter eggs in the Polish / Ukrainian traditional way with bee’s wax and food colouring. When I was growing up, my family gathered around the kitchen table on Good Friday after services and spent the better part of the evening designing beautiful eggs. The competition for the Best Egg was always fierce and produced some of the most wonderful designs. After all, on Easter Saturday, they would be in our easter baskets along with all the food (symbolic portions of course) that were taken to the Polish Church to be blessed. To this day, the 2nd generation gathers at my parent’s home on Good Friday to take part in this beautiful tradition!!

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One of our traditions for Easter is angel food cake, with a nest of green coconut and assorted jelly beans. Nothing fancy, but the kids always look forward to the nest. I also must go to Sunrise Services and help with the church breakfast afterwards. Thanks for the chance to win.

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Oh, definitely hiding the easter eggs and baskets. I enjoy hiding them almost more than I enjoyed finding them when I was a kid!

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This is a pretty technique. My Stampin Up friend Kirsteen did this on a couple of her cards a few weeks ago. She made Springtime Tags and a Mothers Day Hydrangea Card.

Springtime Tags: http://www.creatinwithkirsteen.com/other-stuff/tags/573-springtime-tag-swap.html

Hydrangea Card: http://www.creatinwithkirsteen.com/card-ideas/521-hydrangeas-a-hate-love-relationship.html

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Fabulous card! Love it! My favorite Easter tradition is actually going to church. Our church puts out crosses that are covered with chicken wire and everyon bring a flower or two to put in them. I love walking up and seeing the crosses all covered with flowers. It’s so beautiful!

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My favorite Easter tradition is one from my childhood. We always went to my grandmother’s for Easter and our baskets were always hidden. My grandfather would always help us look. It was so much fun and makes
Me smile when ever I think about it. I hope to carry on this tradition someday when I have my own kids. Happy Easter.

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