Grand Easter Egg Hunt Game Tutorial Winner...

As part of the Easter Blog Hop at The Pink Elephant last weekend many of the Design Team did tutorials on Easter projects. There were Easter Baskets, candy dishes and all manner of great things - if you didn't get chance to look do pop over there as Easter is getting closer and you might pick up some great tips.

My tutorial idea was to make a treasure hunt game consisting of decorated cards with clues on them for children to follow to find their Easter goodies.

If you would like to see the whole tutorial and all the cards I made please visit The Pink Elephant or you can click on the appropriate link in the tutorials section in my sidebar.

Each of the clues was in the form of a rhyming couplet. I love creating silly rhymes and children absolutely love guessing the ending rhyme - especially when there is a treat at the end of it!

As a treat for visitors to The Pink Elephant and those who contributed a rhyme to the tutorial I had some blog candy on offer.

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed. There were some really great rhymes in the comments. I loved all of them, but I particularly liked ...

and the decision was so hard cause the contributions were fantastic but the prize has to go to...

Joni

who said...

'Wonderful Ann! Your teaching talent has shone through your tutorial and thoughfulness of the children's activity. I can't wait to do this little egg hunt with my own little ones this year! I love rhyming so I thought of a few:

"You're almost to the final treat!Your next clue is where you brush your teeth..."

"Great job! Now go and take a look - you'll find your next clue in your favorite bedtime book."

"I'm so proud of you! You make a great Easter bunny.

Now hop to the next clue where we keep all of your money." (piggy bank or little coin purse)

Okay, I'll stop!! Or this post will be a page long. haha! Now I'll get busy and start planning my own egg hunt. Thank you so much for the inspiring ideas!"

Thank you so much for your contribution Joni - it was quality as well as quantity. Well done.

I will leave my email address on your blog so that you can let me have your address to send your prize to.

All that glitters...

I do hope the glitter shows up on this card as it has been made for the challenge at ABC where we have reached the letter G in the alphabet and the design team have decided to go for 'glitter'. I have used glitter card embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder to create my background.

The main silhouette image was printed on to acetate and then attached to the glitter card using brads.

I love the effect of glitter card layed under acetate - it's magical which is ideal for this particular image. My card is also for the 'my favourite things' challenge at Charisma Cards . Silhouettes either in rubber stamp form or images to print out are definitely one of my favourite things and I love glitter card too!!

I've added black corner peel offs to draw the eyes in to the central image and ribbon embellishment just because...

Hope you like my card.

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Spring Quilt...

The challenge at Roses on Paper at the moment is to make a quilt card. As I was sorting out my craft stuff recently (well okay ransacking things to try and find something I thought I had) I found a Hot of the Press book on quilted cards. A book that I have had ages and not used because it seemed a shame to pull out any of the papers.

Anyway I still haven't used any of them, but I did use some of the ideas in the book to create my card for this challenge.

The papers I have used are from another HOTP and the beautiful stamp is one of the stamps in the Spring Set by Whiff of Joy. I wanted to get an exact colour match on her outfit to the quilting papers so I paper pieced.

My card is also for the challenge at Stamp Something where they want us to 'Think Spring' - strangely enough their challenge this week is being sponsored by Roses on Paper.