Allsorts - Easter

Morning all,
we're in the middle of the Easter holiday so an Easter challenge at Allsorts sounds just about perfect! I made an Easter egg by taking a cheap store-bought egg (you know the ones with the horrid colours and pattern), painting it with my home-made gesso* and decorating it with flowers and lace.

*Home-made gesso:
1/4 cup Talcum Powder, 1 tablespoon White All purpose School Glue, 1 tablespoon White Craft Paint Add some Water if you want it thinner.

Allsorts - Spring has sprung

It's Saturday and the Easter holiday is soon over :(
But it's also time for another challenge at Allsorts, at least something to be happy about :)
The theme is Spring has sprung, which is sorta true up here in the north (sunny but lots of snow still left) and I used a Magnolia image and combined the colours orange, yellow and pink to make it spring like. I handcut the shape of the card, took forever but the effect is nice I think.

other challenges:
Crafty Catz - anything goes
Crafts4eternity - colour combo
Deep ocean challenge - photo inspiration
Marvelous Magnolia - anything goes
Creative Inspiration - anything goes
Crafty ribbons - anything goes with ribbon
Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia - butterflies
Totally Tilda - shaped car
crafty creations challenge - flowers or fairies

Pretty boxes

E-A-S-T-E-R spells CANDY and the sugar rush will start right about now and last for about a week. Instead of just stuffing my offspring with sugar in various forms I wanted to add a necklace in each of the Easter eggs for my daughters but they will of course need to be charmingly gift wrapped - well the necklaces, not the daughters...
so I decided to make a small gift box with a paper band round - a belly band. They turned out rather neat and they are so easy to make. Just need to measure the item's height, length and width and use those measurements.