Happy Easter with Excellent Eggs bundle. Easter is early this year. The first quarter of 2024 seems to have flown by. Today the clocks go forward by an hour for British Summer time. Fun and games re-setting the two oven clocks, the pendulum clocks, our watches because they’re not electronic and don’t do it automatically! I digress, back to the card.
This is a fun fold side step card, a way to show off the array of Easter eggs in the stamp set and dies. Excellent Eggs is retiring soon, so I’m taking the opportunity to use it one last time!
The side step card has been around for such a long time, but I still go back to it now and again. Here’s one I made a few years back with a nautical theme which you can see HERE. What’s useful is that there is a video tutorial in that blog post which you can follow if you’ve never made one before. Bear in mind this video was made way back in 2019. I have made some adjustments to the measurements for today’s card so the overall card size is different.
Excellent Eggs Dies
The dies which accompany the stamp set are fab. There are three sizes of eggs plus a smaller one which embosses and die cuts at the same time. I used a paper piecing technique and die cut one in Pool Party and the other in Lemon Lolly then interchanged the pieces as shown below.
There are some border dies too and you simply put it across the egg to cut them into separate pieces which you can colour as depicted in the large egg at the back.
You can interact with the egg on the left hand side of the card. I stuck a wibbly wobbly mechanism on the back so when you touch it, it wobbles.
The picture on the right shows the card lying flat and in the closed position, but because of the bulk, it doesn’t lie completely flat.
Cutting guide for side step card
- Card base : Petal Pink 8 ¼” x 5 ¾” (21 cm x 14.5 cm)
- Short side on top, align left edge on trimmer at 2 ¼” and cut from 2″ down to 7 ¼” (align at 6 cm and cut from 5 cm down to 18.5 cm)
- Rotate card stock anti-clockwise so long side is on top and the narrower cut section is at the bottom. Partially score at 2″, 3 ⅞”, 5″, 6 ¼”, 7 ¼” (5 cm, 10 cm, 13 cm, 16 cm and 18.5 cm) up to the cut line only.
- Without re-positioning card stock, score from below the cut line at 4 ⅛”(10.5 cm) to the edge of card stock at the bottom.
- Orient card stock so that the single cut line is on the left. First fold on the right is a mountain fold. Second fold is a valley fold, then a mountain fold, followed by a valley fold and the last fold should be a mountain fold.
- The single score line on the left is a mountain fold.
Side view
This is the side view. You can see the wibble wobble mechanism behind the egg in this picture.
To stop the side step card from collapsing, I cut a ½” x 5″ strip of card stock. Long side score at ½”, 2 ½”, 5″ folded in a”W” shape to glue inside. In metric cut it 1.5 cm x 13 cm. On the long side score at 1.5, 6.5, 11.5 cm.
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I hope you have a lovely Easter and are enjoying the easter break. Thanks for visiting.
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