Hello dear friends,

As Easter holiday draws near, I invite you to bring your pastels, colored pencils, watercolors and let's paint together this year's Easter cards.

You can pick any motif that you find appropiate for the occasion. I also want to share some my photos as a source of inspiration in case you want to use some ideas.

Let's do this activity together in this thread and share some greeting cards art that we can mail to our friends and family.Please share here other ideas for greeting cards you have for this Easter holiday.

Here are my photos taken with my Easter arrangements for photo greetings that I send as cards.You may wish to draw the whole picture or just parts of it on a quarter of a 9x12in drawing pad that you apply with glue to a blank greeting card.

The bunny in the photos visited my garden on Easter Sunday 2004. I suspect that one of our neighbors bpought it for an Easter gift to children and he came to my garden to look for hidden eggs.

Please ignore my copyright on the cards.

If you want a cartoonish twist to your cards or send Easter cards to children here are some ideas from my Easter flash ecards.These e-cards are made with a flash program and you can also send them electronically They are musical.

oh my goodness...those are simply lovely elena..i shall def pop in and make some. i have my pencil out for the challenge but i cant seem to put it to the paper at the moment..but i will be here

Lovely cards Elena

Are those real eggs? I used to paint real eggs when I was in my teens, I would make a little hole with a needle and empty the eggs, then I would paint them I wish back then I would have taken photos.

Hi Kay, Clara.
Yes, in our Orthodox Christian tradition real boiled eggs are painted some times with many wonderful motifs. Ukraine is famous for dyed eggs with an elaborate motif in colors.
Those eggs are for eating at the festive Easter table, each person takes an egg and cracks it against another person's egg saying Christ is Risen. The other answer: Indeed Is Risen. It's a tradition that was passed on from primitive Christianity in the East, before the religion became official.

Here are some Romanian hand painted eggs. It also common to decorate wooden eggs that are kept as art pieces for collectioners.

And this is a greeting card I made on fabric for Easter, a few years ago.I guess I will repeat this motif this year also. The idea is Russian but I like it very much, being so colorful.

And here is the address of the Easter cards site. In English and Romanian. Just regular e-cards. No flash, no music. Just my photos and Easter arrangements.

Thanks Elena, that is a nice tradition.
I have seen those Russian eggs before, and they are very beautiful.

Had to get in the Easter spirit.. I made this card for my Drawspace friends in the Music Card Trade..Thanks to Picture It for the wording and outline.. Decided I would use them to house those little cards .
Elena ,Thanks for the inspiration .. The colors sure brighten up that long winter we had.. I think we all start to come alive when the flowers bloom and the trees turn green again.. Wish it would last forever..
Big Hugs .. Carol ..

wow, Carol, it's sure your day for painting. Good job!And you are so fast!I wrote in your challenge the misery that fell upon me today with my drawing and PC. So Thanks to your card I am better now.Thanks for posting this. It surely is joyful.

Thought I better take advantage of my time off.. Last day until next week.. May get lucky and I'll have a sleepless night in Texas and get my Indian Gallery started back up again .. Still have 7 cars I have to get done before July.. How do I get myself in these messes.. ?
Misery Loves Company ?
Glad you are happy with the Card .. you're getting one soon.. !!

Very cute. They look like the maracas I did for the music trade. We had a spring day on Saturday and winter on Sunday with hail. Weird weird weather.

First attempt at a card with awfull results.I am now sure i cannot work on small size art. this is a 3.5x5 in. card.

I used watercolor, paint pen and gold marker.

it is difficult to work in a small format and just takes practice, it was very hard for me to do at first as well.
here is a bunny for you

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how sweet, Kay! Thanks a bunch. he is lovely and huggable

Yup Kay I see you're back to our Kay again .. !! I have heard of so many this time of year catching that dreadful BUG !!
Cute Little Bunny !!

yes thank you carol..I am much better..i had to catch up on housework today..thanks to you guys for well wishes

Two cards in watercolor, medium in which I still have a long way to go before I do any decent work.Please give me your feedback as i am very sad about my performance and don't know if it's my feeling or I do paint like a child.

Made an easter card for my brother and his girlfriend who is expecting a baby soon.

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very sweet, Kaliga. Where did you get the inspiration? Is it from imagination or a cartoon inspired you?

Thank you Elena. It's from my imagination. I'm gonna try and do more personalized cards for family and friends, it was fun to do!

some tempera and paint brush pen tulips.

So I dyed my eggs today using food and egg dyes. 1 cup boiling water + 1 tblspoon vinegar+ egg dye more drops for vivid colors.The eggs were boiled hard already. Here they are. They are great in salads.
Happy Easter everyone!

Some photos I took on my village a few days ago...

Here in Greece easter is related to Spring and nature in blossom... and so as our Easter Cards!!

I will upload some photos of my easter eggs but I will have them done by Tuesday !!!

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Garyfallia, your photos are lovely. Do you have lilac in your village. I love lilac and in california is too warm the climate for it.