spring...
I finally put my ATC making procrastination to an end last night! I narrowed down my ideas, decided on course of action and got to work.
I began by making the envelopes. I used some of my new paper, attached ribbon to tie them closed and sewed two layers of handmade paper on the inside to simulate grassy fields into which Easter eggs could be "hidden." My next step was to paint up some robin's eggs. From there my original plan was to draw or collage chicks on the other side of the eggs and sandwich a pull-out pennant that would host the pertinent ATC information in between the two. Well, I began to think the idea of the chick on the flipside of a robin's egg was silly and incongruous. Logically, it should be a robin! So I pulled out some of my animal clipart, looked for robin references, found the one I ended up using on the cards and then went to town.
I printed Mother Goose's "Little Robin Redbreast" on some chartreuse cardstock, cut out the egg shape from the cardstock, cut out the robins, attached their little daisy bonnets and mounted them onto the eggs with foam tape. The robins where just floating there on the cards...I knew what they needed, but I was trying to keep the cards relatively flat so I could "hide" them in the grassy fields of the envelopes. Flat cards were not meant to be this round. I pinched wads of excelsior and twisted them up into nest-like shapes and handstitched them onto the eggs. By this time I was getting tired and the idea of the pull-out pennants wasn't so clever to me anymore so I rubber cemented the backs of all the eggs, smacked them together and cleaned up the edges. Voilà a nice set of cards! The only thing I would have done differently would have been to print my info tags and sew them to the robin's eggs before I glued the cards together, because as it stands, I am still waiting for the glue I used to attach the tags to the cards to dry.
I began by making the envelopes. I used some of my new paper, attached ribbon to tie them closed and sewed two layers of handmade paper on the inside to simulate grassy fields into which Easter eggs could be "hidden." My next step was to paint up some robin's eggs. From there my original plan was to draw or collage chicks on the other side of the eggs and sandwich a pull-out pennant that would host the pertinent ATC information in between the two. Well, I began to think the idea of the chick on the flipside of a robin's egg was silly and incongruous. Logically, it should be a robin! So I pulled out some of my animal clipart, looked for robin references, found the one I ended up using on the cards and then went to town.
I printed Mother Goose's "Little Robin Redbreast" on some chartreuse cardstock, cut out the egg shape from the cardstock, cut out the robins, attached their little daisy bonnets and mounted them onto the eggs with foam tape. The robins where just floating there on the cards...I knew what they needed, but I was trying to keep the cards relatively flat so I could "hide" them in the grassy fields of the envelopes. Flat cards were not meant to be this round. I pinched wads of excelsior and twisted them up into nest-like shapes and handstitched them onto the eggs. By this time I was getting tired and the idea of the pull-out pennants wasn't so clever to me anymore so I rubber cemented the backs of all the eggs, smacked them together and cleaned up the edges. Voilà a nice set of cards! The only thing I would have done differently would have been to print my info tags and sew them to the robin's eggs before I glued the cards together, because as it stands, I am still waiting for the glue I used to attach the tags to the cards to dry.
posted by Amy at 9:50 AM
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