Handmade Easter Cards

Let's use this Easter to reconnect with friends and family by sending cards whatever your beliefs.

Handmade Easter cards ideas include Easter bunnies and chicks as a symbol of new life.  As well as traditional Easter crosses, eggs and flowers in light pastel colours.

And making Easter cards with children can create a treasured heirloom for grandparents to cherish for years to come.

Check out my selection of cards for Easter card making ideas......

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My Favorite Easter - Echo Park

I started by making at batch of Easter cards with the My Favorite Easter 6" x 6" paper pack from Echo Park.  The colours are so pretty it was difficult to know which sheet to start with first!

To make life easier I supplemented this with the matching ephemera pack of die cut pieces and a pack of Echo Park's My Favorite Easter 12"x12" Solids Paper Kit.

With this I created 14 cards using card making sketches to help with the card designs and I had enough scraps left over to make several more cards.

Whenever I make a batch of cards I prepare all my kit before hand to save time later.  So, I started by preparing all my card bases and background layers from the solids paper pack.

I also die cut multiple flowers and tiny easter bunnies and chicks to use as embellishments.  I've been trying recently to be more eco friendly with my choice of embellishments.

I used some odd dies from different sets and new purchase from Poppy Stamps called Potpouri Flower set.

With my last three cards as I was running out of large pieces of patterned paper I used my cover dies from Whimsy Stamps to use up scraps.

Bunny Spring Squares - Whimsy Stamps

These sweet bunny images from Whimsy Stamps is one large stamp with four square images.

I stamped the images in brown ink for a more delicate outline.  Some I coloured with alcohol markers and others with coloured pencils.

Out of the two mediums I prefer the coloured pencils as the effect is softer.  Which one do you like best?

I also used some patterned paper and a cover die from Whimsy Stamps and a Happy Easter Die from Paper Rose.

Duck Couple - Whimsy Stamps

The final card features two cute ducks from a Whimsy Stamps.

It was coloured with Polychromos coloured pencils and die cut with the pretty Spring Oval die set also from Whimsy Stamps.