I’m obsessed with chocolate trays!

    He is Risen! Happy Easter!! May the glory and promise of Easter bring peace, ,joy and happiness to you all.

    Early this year, my BIL was here from Canada with a variety of chocolates and each time we finished a box, I used to stare at a chocolate tray and think of ways I could put them to use and save the box with the tray. Seeing the stack I’ve collected, my daughter told me that I’m obsessed with chocolate trays. Perhaps she’s right. HERE’S my first project using the Lindt chocolate tray for the flower. Now, can you figure out which tray I used to make this top fold card?

    After coloring the sky with soft pastel, I added the cross cut out from the Brandy Beans tray. I used 3D foam tape to fill in the hollow and adhere it. The tulips are cut out from a 1cm small punch from green and mauve paper then had a tedious job of joining them both together.(I know I could have used white and colored. But, I wanted to do it this way. That’s me.) I shaped the tulips and leaves for dimension. As for the grass, it’s recycled again. See the paper wasted after punching a fern…

    This wasted paper and a few punched ferns were used as grass, in three layers using bits of 3D foam. The sentiment is printed and a strip of the same mauve paper was glued on the lowermost part of the inner card. The front was cut shorter to reveal the same.

Here’s another card which I’d made before the one you just saw.

    I’d liked this circular sentiment freebie from HERE and printed the 8 cards I had to send to family. I added the cross etc. but it looked quite blank. So, my critic (my husband) suggested I add color to it as in the color scheme above. My daughter did the coloring with soft pastels and as she wasn’t happy with it, she tried different color schemes. Overall, we weren’t happy with the result, but as time was running short we had to send them off. It’s a pity I came up with the first simple card much later. Don’t you think it’s better?

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:

Cards for men - Easter

Papercraft Star- Recycle

Try it on Tuesday - Up-cycling

Creative Card Crew - Recycled

Crafty Chicks - Easter

Moving Along With The Times - Recycle

PaperPlay Challenges - Easter