Happy Easter card

I have never created an Easter card before, and was a bit lost about what to do for this Practical Scrapper's feature, until this Easter egg chipboard banner came with my scrap-room kit. Isn't it yummy? 

I used glitter and clear embossing powder, a tip I read in this month's Scrapbook Trends magazine and I found really helpful, as the glitter sticks perfectly and you don't find scattered glitter every time you open the envelope!

Zoo animals

The LO I'm going to share with you today was created following Pia's February Sketch at Practical Scrappers. The sketch has big circles in the background, and I wanted to reproduce them in my layout, so I took this gorgeous Curio Pinking Shears paper and heat embossed the circles. The pics are not very colourful (pretty cloudy at the zoo), so I kept my colours quite muted. The result is quite different from what I usually create, and I like that!

I used my Silhouette to cut the titles and embellies, and embossed them to match the rest of the layout. Love that little lizard in particular (must be because I have so many lizards and iguanas in my backyard!).