Holiday House Easter card- designer challenge

I was so excited when Karen Burniston chose this challenge for the September Design Team Challenge. The challenge was to chose a Holiday and add the Holiday House. She was hoping we would chose different holidays to show how versatile this cute little house can be. I chose to make an Easter card. The design changed in my mind several times but I knew I want to have an Easter egg hunt with pretty spring colours and this is what I came up with.

All the fun is in the reveal, to see this card in action please check out my FACEBOOK page, feel free to join if you would like to share your own crafty creations. You can also see a video of this card on my INSTAGRAM page.

I started with the star of this challenge the Holiday House this die set has all the piece to make a house and to decorate it for both Chistmas and Halloween.

1- I used card stock from my scrap bin, I chose to use light neutral colours to make the house and have the door be a pop of colour. I used Crumb Cake ink from Stampin Up to add shading to the bricks and the trim pieces. I didn’t decorate the entire back but I did add the roof and trim so it would look neat and tidy from the back.

2A- I die cut 2 sets of trees from the Tiny Trees Pop up, I used Chameleon markers and a white gel pen to add shading and highlight.

B- to make spring trees I decorated leaves and flowers with Chameleon markers and a white gel pen. And added and assembled the trees (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ ) .

3- cut the card base and panels as shown ⬇️

Ooops these photos are out of order

4A- add the card base panels as shown

B- cut out the pieces of the Long Flaps and Closure (in the photo the sides of the green piece and the flower piece are cut on an angle, I ended up trimming them straight) add the add the closures (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

5A- add the inside panels as shown. Do not do this step until AFTER the closures are added to the front as these panels will cover the brads used to attach the closures from the previous step.

B- add the mechanism from the Tiny Trees pop up

C- add the trees to the mechanism

6A- sorry, not shown is that I made a Bam Box and added it to the house. I added it to the card with the Bam Box folding to the back

B- using some scrap strips I made 2 borders. I didn’t measure

C- Add them to the top and bottom of the inside of the card. I also used the clouds from the Castle Pop up to make bushes in front of the house and around the trees.

7A- I layered the largest Circles Crosshatch and cut as shown

B- I assembled the rabbit from the Spring Animals, and added the little Easter eggs all over the yard, and the large eggs with the rabbit to make a border along the bottom of the circle.

Ooooops I got a greasy finger print on the card 🤦🏻‍♀️

8- I made a bush using the same clouds as the others and I added them to a Bam box from the Small Scenes Bam box I also sprinkles little gems around the rabbis trail.

9A- the small frames are from the Memory Charms, the large frames are from the Slim Frames

B- I decorated the frames with die cuts from the Easter Charms the basket is from the Sprin Animals (sorry I forgot which one the heart is from) I added some itty bitty gems here as well.

Other Tools used

Fine Tip bottle

Lineco Neutral PH Adhesive 

Quick Stick Tool

White Gel pen

Fiskars Trimmer

Gems