Warning - photo heavy.
I know I am a little late posting this, but perhaps it can be filed for next year.
I usually send my teenage grandsons some money for Easter. If they want to buy a chocolate egg, they can, but if they want something else, at least they will have something to put towards it. I was a little late in getting down to the shop, to get an Easter card. They were all gone, so I came home and made cracked eggs to hold the notes. Here is how to do it.
1. Find a nice picture of an egg on the Net, and print it out.
2. Cut it out roughly and paste it onto card.
3. When dry, cut it out to make a template.
4. Pick out some pretty card for your eggs. (This is Laura Ashley card I got at the Glasgow Exhibition).
5. Fold the card in two, and draw round your template.
7. From a scrap of the left over card and using the template, draw the top of the egg and some cracks. Use a ruler to help you do this. Cut this out and use as a template to draw on your egg.
8. Cut the egg in two, on the crack. Make a small hole using a punch and hammer in a brad. (my brads were so tough, I had to use pliers. They are a bit squidged as a result.)
9. Join the two parts of the egg with ribbon, through the holes of the brad. Add the money or note. Enjoy!
Happy Easter to Everyone!!tich
