Pink Elephant Challenge 9...

Yeah I used to hate Mondays but no more because it's Pink Elephant Day and that's got to be good. As I write this post and upload my card I'm singing 'chick chick chick chick chicken lay a little egg for me' so it's a good job nobody can hear me!!!

This week our challenge at the Pink Elephant is a recipe challenge. The ingredients to be used are rubber stamps, punches and embossing. Those ingredients sound like they may mix together to make some great cards - I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.

My card uses a whole host of rubber stamps including a hen on a nest and lots of eggs from an Easter Set by Rubbadubbadoo and there's also a cute chick from a Woodware clear stamp set sneaking in on the act.

For punches I used an egg (oval?) punch to add some eggs to the nest and a tiny butterfly punch to add butterflies to the background.

My embossing was done using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots - what would I do without that folder?

I can't take full credit for the design of this card as it is very, very similar to one that I was shown at a craft class many years ago. I guess it was time to try the card shape again and bring it more up to date.

To create my card I used a normal square card and cut half of the front away on the diagonal. Then I attached the piece I'd cut off to the rear of the front of the card. By only sticking the pieces together at the bottom edge and the side near the fold it meant that the top was able to be opened up to have that lovely tactile shredded paper pushed inside and left hanging to give a 'nestie' effect. Then I slipped lots of coloured eggs in to eggsaggerate the diagonal design.

Hope you like my card and will have chance to visit the Pink Elephant this week and maybe use our ingredients - I can't wait to see how everyone elses will turn out.