Wanting a basket to put a hatching chick pop-up ball in, I came up with a collapsible basket card for Easter using several of the new die sets in Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release.

How to make this interactive card:

Chick: Make two Mini Pop-up Balls – one entirely yellow and the other half yellow, half white. Assemble chick following Karen Burniston’s assembly video located at the bottom of the Mini Pop-up Balls page. Cut six of the top and bottom eggshell jagged pieces and one hexagon for the top of the egg from white cardstock using the dies from the Animal Add-on 5 die set.

Basket: Cut four of the basket pieces from the Wide Woven Basket Box Card set and assemble as shown in the KB assembly video at the bottom of the linked page. Trim off the side tabs on the four basket pieces. Watch the following video. Cut two of the largest crosshatch squares from brown.

Closure Sentiment: Cut the Shadow from the Happy Easter word set from white. Cur the words from yellow and ink bled to a darker yellow. Die cut eggshell and chick pieces following assembly video for Spring Animals.

Glue assemble chick to sentiment.  Cut eight of the smaller eye circles and two of the larger eye circles from the Mini Pop-up Balls die set. Glue four of the small circles onto one of the large circles. Cut a piece of string at least 24-inches long and glue one end on top of small circle stack. Glue the last four circles on top of the string end, thus sandwiching the string in center of the small circles stack of eight. Attach to top of stack the last large circle. Once the stack is dry, glue to the back of the sentiment and then onto top basket flap. Let dry with a weight on top of it.

Envelope: This card would either be hand delivered or mailed in a bubble pack envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Animal Add-on 5 – 1265
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Happy Easter – 1263
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Wide Woven Basket Box Card – 1223
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Mini Ball Double-Ups – 1214
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Mini Ball Pop-Up – 1201
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Spring Animals – 1074
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Squares – Crosshatch – 1056

Papers

• Hot off The Press – Paper Pazazz – 12×12 Single-Sided Paper – Soft Tints Green Stripes
• Black, Blue, Brown, Orange, White and Yellow Cardstock

Ink

• Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Fossilized Amber and Vintage Photo
• Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

Tools

• Die Cutting Machine
• Craft Mat
• We R Memories – QuickStick
• Tweezers
• Craft Clips
• Sponge Dauber

• Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
• Scissors
• Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A

Miscellaneous

• 24-inches of Baker’s Twine