DIY Easter cards – 7 charming ideas with designer paper
Greeting cards are traditionally sent on special occasions such as family celebrations and parties or presented to the hosts together with small gifts. A self-made postcard gives the greetings a personal touch and will certainly give pleasure to the recipient. Especially at Easter, crafts are a great fun: Cute motifs such as Easter bunnies, adorable chicks and colorful Easter eggs add to the happy mood. We will show you 7 ideas how to make Easter cards with colorful paper and even beginners can easily master the task.
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DIY Easter cards with bunny
Materials needed:
White Cardstock Paper
Yellow Cardstock Paper
Designer Paper
Mounting Tape
Glue
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
Craft Knife
Black Marker
Pink Marker
Directions:
- Fold the white cardboard in the middle.
- Cut a 16 cm long and 11 cm wide rectangle from the designer paper.
- Turn the rectangle over and draw a heart in the middle. Cut out the motif with the craft knife.
- Cut a square out of the yellow paper and stick it in the middle of the top of the white cardboard.
- Attach the rectangle with double tape.
- Paint a rabbit’s head on the rest of the cardboard and cut it out.
- Attach the head to the yellow paper with double-sided tape.
DIY Easter cards – how to make a bunny silhouette
Materials needed:
Designer Paper
Cardstock Paper (Coloured)
Pompon
Pencil
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Glue
Ruler
Black Marker
Directions:
- Fold the blue cardboard widthwise in the middle.
- Draw an Easter bunny silhouette on the designer paper.
- Cut out the Easter bunny silhouette.
- Glue the silhouette in the middle of the blue card.
- Glue the pompon
DIY Easter cards with colorful Easter eggs and chicks
Materials needed:
White Cardstock Paper
Designer Paper (different colors and patterns)
Pencil
Scissors
Black Marker
Yellow Marker
Blue Marker
Green Marker
Ruler
Double-sided adhesive tape
Directions:
- Fold the white cardboard widthwise in the middle.
- Paint three semicircles in different colors (green, blue, yellow) on the white cardboard.
- Draw three semicircles with a zigzag bottom line on the designer paper.
- Cut out the semicircles from the designer paper and glue them under the semicircles on the cardboard with double-sided adhesive tape.
- Paint the chick faces.
Materials needed:
Designer Paper – 20 cm X 20 cm
Buttons
Beads
Ribbon
Hot Glue Gun
Pencil
Scissors
Directions:
- Fold the designer paper in half widthwise.
- Draw an Easter egg silhouette.
- Cut out the silhouette.
- Draw a horizontal line with the pencil and the ruler at the widest point of the Easter egg silhouette.
- Glue beads and buttons on top.
- Cut a 15 cm piece from the satin ribbon. Tie a loop.
- Glue the satin ribbon over the buttons in the middle.
DIY Easter card with felt bunny
Materials needed:
Yellow Cardstock Paper 30 cm x 17 cm
Designer Paper 12 cm x 12 cm
White Felt
Pink Acrylic Paint
Black Acrylic Paint
Paintbrush
Black Marker
Hot Glue Gun
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors
Directions:
- Fold the yellow cardboard paper widthwise in the middle.
- Glue the motif paper in the center of the greeting card.
- Draw a rabbit’s head on the felt.
- Cut out the motif from the felt and attach it to the colored paper.
- Paint the face and ears with acrylic paint.
DIY Easter cards with paper basket and eggs
Materials needed:
Designer Paper (different patterns) 10 cm x 10 cm
Pink Cardstock Paper, 28 cm x 18 cm
Glue
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors
satin ribbon
Directions:
- Fold the pink cardboard paper widthwise in the middle.
- Cut out a 10 cm x 10 cm square from the remaining cardboard.
- Cut the designer paper into 1 cm wide strips.
- Arrange half of the strips horizontally and the other half vertically on the square.
- Weave the paper strips to resemble a basket.
- Fold the strip ends and glue to the back of the square.
- Glue the square in the center of the pink cardboard.
- Cut out 5 paper Easter eggs.
- Glue the Easter eggs over the basket.
- Tie a 20 cm long satin ribbon in a loop and decorate the greeting card.
Easter card with cute bunny ears made of paper
Materials needed:
White Cardstock Paper, 24 cm x 14 cm
Designer Paper (2 different patterns)
Pink Felt
Black Marker
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
Hot Glue Gun
Glue
Buttons
Directions:
- Fold the white cardboard widthwise in the middle.
- Cut out large rabbit years from the first sheet of designer paper large and small ones from the second sheet.
- Place the small rabbit ears in the center of the big ones and glue.
- Cut a heart from the felt.
- Glue the heart centered on the greeting card.
- Glue two buttons at the top for the eyes.
- Paint the face.
