Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another Easter card to share with you today, inspired by the challenges at Global Design Project, Creative Colour and Atlantic Hearts and featuring the ‘celebrate your day flowers’ from ClarityCrafts

I decided to rotate the sketch from AHSC, so that I could use a cross as the basis for my design. I wanted a wood effect, so simply dragged a ‘rustic wilderness’ Distress Oxide pad across an offcut of white card – it’s so easy to do! I cut two strips and glued it to a piece of card cut to fit a 5×7 card blank. I stamped the flowers onto another scrap of card and coloured them with Pergaliner pencils in light green, dark green and yellow before fussy cutting it and gluing to the centre of the cross. Top tip – I didn’t want to elave a white background in the centre of the flowers, so just scribbled the dark green pencil to mimic the effect of the wood.

Now regular readers of this little blog will know that my favourite style is best described as ‘evolving’ – I’m not always very good at planning everythign before I start! That’s what happened here and I felt I needed a background for the cross, so reached for Clarity’s ‘hills’ mask. I ran masking tape down the cross and then brushed ‘rustic wilderness’ across the mask – as the hymn says ‘There is a green hill far away’ (or several!) I then simply added the sentiment (from the ‘essential’ set) in ‘watering can’ Archival ink and attached the topper to a 5×7 card blank.

It’s only 3 weeks to Easter now and I need to get on to finish my cards!