Spring Chickadee Card How-To

In the honor of the great American tradition of avoiding taxes, I opted to spend my Saturday making Spring and Easter cards for family members. The government can wait, cards can not!


First I used my Cricut cartridge 'Create a Critter' to make multiple little chicks and eggs. I colored the chick beaks and legs with an orange gel pen, and bordered the egg cracks with frosted lace Stickles

chirp chirp!

Then I texture embossed each of my cards using the 'Stylized Flowers' embossing folder by Cuttlebug. I needed more color and was feeling a crafty blank so I decided to color the embossed flowers with colored pencils

the vines and stems colored light green

colored the flowers a mustard yellow

I wasn't too crazy about the yellow flowers with a yellow chickadee together on the card...

much better!

Can you ever really go wrong with light pink? So I colored all of the cards like the one above. This took up the majority of my time...like I said, all in honor of avoiding taxes.

Then I just glued on the chicky and added the cracked eggs with foam adhesive.

all finished!

The completed card! On the inside I cut out the word 'Spring' to make the card more generalized to Easter as well as just the excitement of spring and sunshine! Can't wait to put these in mail for family and friends :)

<3 RWK