Easter Card - parchment

I am frantically getting projects made and things ready for the Sandown Show - see sidebar.  Have only  9 days left to get organised. 
I am concentrating on an Easter and Spring theme and to this end I have just finished a parchment Easter card  using a Gilly Howe pattern.  I love Gilly's patterns and have done a few.  The 'egg' itself was quite easy but as they say the devil is in the details.  I found it quite difficult - believe it or not - to get the parchment rainbow liner to fit perfectly.  I am pleased with it though.

Do you remember all those miniature handbags I made?  I have decided to use the open basket style ones and fill them with miniature chocolate eggs.  I hadn't got quite enough of that style so I have been busy making some more.  I then discovered that if I fill them with the eggs they are going to be too heavy to hang from my Fotofall thingie so off to Amazon I went and purchased a more substantial necklace tree.  Well a girl can never have too many of those and it will always be useful for future shows - if not I will have to buy more necklaces.
I am now planning some parchment butterflies and spring type flowers.

Fan - pattern by Gilly Howe

Gilly's pattern has two sizes for this fan and this is the larger one.  I made the smaller one some time ago.  I just felt the need to sit and do some gridwork and there is a lot of that in this pattern.  The finished size is almost 10" across and 5.5" high excluding the tassel.

Bookmark by Gilly Howe

Last May I posted a picture of a small fan that I had made using one of Gilly Howe's patterns. When I was looking through my patterns yesterday I found this included on her pattern sheet. I hadn't noticed it before so for my theme of bookmarks for the show I made it to add to the display.

Another Gilly Howe download pattern. There is a choice of two sizes for this Lacy Fan and this is the smaller size. A lovely pattern to do - simple and stylish.

This is a pattern I have had for some time but only just fished out of my 'library'.
This was designed by Gilly Howe and is available from her website. It is a lovely card to do especially if you love gridwork like me.