Happy Easter easel card, with altered egg tutorial

Hi guys, I wanted to make Tegan a Easter decoration that would hold a packet of small Easter eggs too, so I came up with an Easel box Easter card,

I used these adorable Magnolia Tilda's  Tilda with willow branch and Tilda with dotted boots, both are coloured with my distress re-inkers then fussy cut out,

I made the easel card box then layered up the background papers using the latest
 Sofiera collection  and also some Vintage spring from Maja Design which I got off Tracy at Noor Design Uk,

I distressed the paper edges and added a little vintage photo distress ink too, I then layered a fabulous Fantasy die - Magic Lace here and there, on the front piece I added a chicken wire die by Magnolia,

In front of that I added half an egg which started off as clear plastic, I will show you a small tutorial below on how I altered this, anyway back to the egg, once altered and after fixing them to the base with hot glue, I added some cheesecloth inside to soften and to give Tilda something to sit on, lol

I added some seam binding that I bought from Tracy on the end of the egg too,

I fixed Tilda with dotted boots by gluing some tiny strips of bent paper (shaped like a L) behind each leg and on the base of the box, so that she stood upright, then I covered up the strips with some feathers from my stash,

This is the drawer open for the edible eggs, lol 

Egg tutorial:

Take a clear plastic egg, I bought mine from The Range,then using one half and some torn up tissue paper, adhere the strips to the egg with some slap it on or Modge podge,

I went over the egg a little at a time first painting the slap it on on the egg then adding the pieces one at a time,

don't try to make it flat, the scrunched look is what your after, go over the tissue you've just added with a little more slap it on the repeat with some more pieces till all the inside and outside is covered,

leave to dry, 

sorry I've forgotten to take a picture of the finished egg, but hopefully I  think you get what it should look like when finished,

You can then of course paint it or decorate it in anyway you wish,

I painted mine with a little Antique Linen distress ink, on the outside only, but the colour way still shows through,

You may have noticed some Daffodil style flowers on my creation too, these I  made out of Foamiran and I have a tutorial on these too, which I will pop on my blog later this week, ( Friday)

See you soon,

Challenges
All about Magnolia - All about spring/Easter
Magnolia-licious - Anything goes with Metal
Marvelous Magnolia - Flowers
Simply Magnolia - Ribbon
Midweek Magnolias - Inspirational photoboard
Deep Ocean - Easter

Happy Crafting!!

Hugs Liz xx