Easter Basket

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It's Easter weekend. Our weather is starting to warm up and Easter Sunday will be a warm and sunny day. We will have my hubby's family here for dinner. 

They haven't come for a couple of years because my mother-in-law wasn't leaving the house. But she passed away in January at 95 years old. So having the family together for the first holiday without her is important for all of us. 

Ham, pierogis, sweet potato casserole, and glazed carrots are on the menu. My sister-in-law will bring deviled eggs and rolls and my brother-in-law dessert. I plan on making the sweet potato casserole ahead on Saturday and then bake it on Sunday. 

The pierogis are from an establishment here in the Pittsburgh area. They are the best in the city, and I was fortunate to get 2 dozen of them for my Easter dinner. 

Now onto my card for today. This one I made for the color challenge #1043 on Splitcoaststampers. I was the hostess, and I chose summer splash, petunia pop and azure afternoon for my color trio. Optional was to use any 4th color. I chose coastal cabana.

I just purchased this new to me Easter Basket die from Stamps of Life. It's part of their "Fold-It" line. So, the die makes an Easter basket fun fold shape. The die also included the egg shapes.

I cut the basket outline in pecan pie (allowed neutral). I used the two-tone cardstock from Stampin' Up. It gives a lighter shade of the same color. I cut the basket front with the lighter shade.

For the eggs, I used the challenge colors. The summer splash egg is where I used the coastal cabana designer paper. I also used designer paper on the azure afternoon egg. It's from the Stampin' Up "bright and beautiful collection. 

On the petunia pop egg, I blended some ink on white cardstock to get a lighter shade. The outline and decorations are cut in petunia pop cardstock.

My cute little peeking bunny is cut in pecan pie cardstock, and the ears are the ink blended petunia pie.

I sent this off to my precious grandaughter in California. She should be receiving it in today's mail. Well, that's my card for this post so until next time......God bless.

Card Details:  

Paper: pecan pie, petunia pop, azure afternoon, summer splash, basic white, coastal cabana dsp, bright & beautiful dsp (Stampin' Up), Bristol Smooth (Canson)

Paper Size: A2

Ink: petunia pop (Stampin' Up)

Accessories: Easter Basket Fold-It die (Stamps of Life), Double Trouble Bunny die, Bunny Kisses die (CottageCutz)

I am also entering:

1. Craft Rocket Challenges has a layer it up challenge.  

2.  Creative Knockouts #545 has a 2 or more-pattern paper challenge. 

3.  TTTC #268 - I have a shaped card, free space and ink blending. The blending is on my pink egg.

4.  Crafty Gals Corner is fill in the blank - adorable.

5.  Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday is anything goes.