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So much cutness! Swap Images :-)

Oh gosh, you are all soo talented and creative! I'm amazed by all the beautiful items made for the swap, and still several of you have not sent me photos of your creations! I'm soo eager to see what ALL of you came up with for this swap, so please send me photos of your creations (Email adress in left column)!

Take a closer look at the creations here !! I'll add more when I receive the rest of the photos!

My swap partner Kecia sent me this beautiful easter egg! Love the colors, the florals and all the cutness she has put into this! Thank you Kecia !!

I hope you all during this swap has met wonderful, creative new friends, discovered new blogs and had lots of fun crafting!

Calling all swap chicks!

Remember to send me photos of your creation, and a note when you receive your parcels! I do not want to spoil any suprises, but on Easter Eve I'll post all the swap images I have received, ok? :-) Hopefully everyone will receive their parcels during next week, but keep in mind international postal service!

Easter preparations

Please drop by Poppins Tradgard and take a look at her beautiful Easter Preparations! I love the beautiful easter eggs she has created!

Thanks for the tips Poppins!

To All The Easter Bunny's Chicks! Remember to send me links to your beautiful easter posts, and images if you'd like me to show it here :-)

Puuhh!!

  Sorry for the lack of posts, and visits to your blogs these days! Hosting The Easter Bunny's Chicks Easter Swap has been quite a lot of work!  I was imaging we would be around 10 swappers, but suddenly there were over 30 talented and creative chicks participating! ;-) And on top of that my Yahoo mail has been sooo weird for the past month...so I got abit confused... You'll find a link list to the Swap Chicks here !

I've made a list, and randomly drawn swap partners, and sending out mail during the weekend. Since the majority was living in the US I made one box with their names on, and one box with the International participants in.That way I ensured that most US participants only got one Int. swap partner each, since Int. shipping is more expensive than domestic.  I really hope everyone is satisfied! The diversity in the participants style is huge, and personally I think that is half the fun! Getting to know creatives from all over the world, with all the different aesthetics :-)

Still have some mails left to send out, as there are some late chicks!! ;-) (If you have not yet sent in your address please do so now so that I can send it to your eagerly awaiting swap partners!! )

Oh ... and one more thing!! Have you visited Blümchen lately? Their easter shop is filled with decorations and old-time crafting supplies! For my Norwegian and Swedish readers this is like Panduro just with a vintage aesthetics. And they ship internationally too! (No I'm not payed to say this ;-)!! Only a big fan!)

The cute picture to the left is of one of the super cute easter decorations from Blümchen!

Enjoy the remaining hours of the weekend!! I will, as I know I have a busy week at work ahead of me ;-)

Chatrine gave me this sweet award today! I must say I'm thrilled and it could not have come on a better day! I soooo appriciate this, and it really keeps me motivated to know that a super sweet, and talented girl like Chatrine is appriciating my blog!

Last Chance to join in on the swap!

Remember today is the last day to sign up for The Easter Bunny's Chicks Easter Swap! And for all of you who have already joined please remember to send me your adress details today (If you have'nt already done so ;-)! I'll send out the swap partners 1st of March, and I'll also update The Easter Bunny's Chicks site with the participants!

Have fun and enjoy crafting!!

The Easter Bunny's Chicks Easter Swap 2008

I'm hosting "The Easter Bunny's Chicks Easter Swap"! Read all about it here and join in ! :-)

Easter Chick

Yesterday I made this little easter chick decoration. I like the combination of glitter and natural tree branches. The wreath is just made of whatever tiny tree branches we have in our garden, made into an untidy wreath  ;-)

So many have joined The Easter Bunny's Chicks by now! The Flickr group counts 27 of The Easter Bunny's Chicks by now, and several bloggers have joined by leaving comments here ! Please remember to let me know when you plan easter posts on your blogs so I can mention it here, so everyone can see your easter loving! In the meantime check out all the cuteness on the Flickr group!

Anyone interested in an easter swap? Please let me know and I'll try to get things going! I've never hosted a swap before so I'm happy if anyone would like to mentor me abit on this :-) I'm thinking we should do it the "give along" style since we're on different continents?

The Easter Bunny's Chicks

Want to join? Only criteria is that you love easter, and that you will have at least one post with easter inspiration from now until easter 2008. This could be home decoration, art, craft or whatever suits you. If you send me a link to your post, I'll mention it on this  blog :-) Just grab one of the banners I've made, and you're one of The Easter Bunny's Chicks!

Myself, I LOVE everything easter and I thought it would be great if we can create a network of likeminded, easter loving, creative chicks :-)!!

Ps! This is supposed to be FUN so no pressure! If you don't manage a post with easter inspiration before easter you may still join!! ;-)

I've made a The Easter Bunny's Chicks Flickr group. I would LOVE it if you add your own easter images, or if you just drop by for some inspiration :-)

Here is two smaller versions of the banners:

   

The easter bunny has arrived...

Seems like the easter bunny was hatched abit early this year....  As I've told you earlier I love crafting for holidays so I started early with easter this year. I'm planning to make a lot of these to hang on a small tree.

Its quite easy but abit time consuming since you have to be careful not to brake the egg. This is how I did it.

1. Make a hole in the egg with a sharp knife. Remove eggshell so that you get the opening that you want. Be careful when doing this.

2. Laquer the egg several times inside and out to build up durability. Dry between layers.

3. Even tough you do'nt see it on the picture the egg is covered in Ice glitter. I add decoupage glue and srinkle glitter on top. I build up several layers to get the right look.

4. With a needle make a small hole on top of egg. Careful!! Enlarge hole with needle. Insert ribbon. Tie knot on the ribbon inside the egg.

5. Glue a piece of white floral oasis on the bottom of the egg. Glue White feathers on top.

6. Print any image you like on thick paper. (Or as I did, use sprayglue to mount normal paper onto cardbox)  Cut out.

7. Glue a match stick to the back of the bunny. Stick match into oasis. (If you make several figures in different sizes you can create a layered effect.)

8. Decorate with fake flowers, pearls etc around the opening. (I did'nt have any white flowers like I wanted...so I just kept it simple with feathers)