An Eggcellent Handcrafted Easter Greeting Card | Inside the Studio
- Shannon Cyr
- Apr 16
- 3 min read
A simple Easter egg design put to the test. Planned or random, every version of this handcrafted Easter Egg card design held up. Step inside the studio to see how the Benny Egg came together.
Last month, Michael and I spent an afternoon testing Easter egg designs. As we worked through a handful of early concepts, I started naming them to keep track of each design, and to make the process a little more fun. We chose the Sunny Egg to prototype, and by the end of the afternoon, we had created fifteen Easter egg greeting cards.
After those cards were created, I felt encouraged to keep going and create more handcrafted Easter egg greeting cards. I went back into the studio to try one of the simpler designs. The simplest in the group was Benny, named for Eggs Benedict, and that’s the one I worked on next.
Benny, an Easter Egg Card Design
Benny is a simple egg design made up of four horizontal paper layers, each one slightly curved with soft, wavy edges. The top and bottom pieces echo each other, while the middle bands widen just a bit, giving the egg a gentle sense of movement. It isn’t perfectly even, and that’s part of what makes it so easy to assemble.
I selected some of the same colored cardstock as the Sunny Egg design—pink, yellow, blue, and green—and added a polka‑dot paper for fun.
I thought a little pattern might bring some charm into the mix, but this wasn’t the right paper. The white with just a few colored dots disappeared as soon as I layered it on the card. The layer was lost against the other colors.
I set the patterned paper aside and stuck with the solids. I pulled one strip from each color and started building eggs. I wasn’t following a strict pattern—I just grabbed alternating colors as I went.
Handcrafted Easter Egg Greeting Cards
I made a monochrome egg in each color because I feel like this is a good test of the design. Can it stand on its own in one color? Plus, let’s be real: by the end of dyeing real eggs, you’re ready to dunk the whole thing and call it done.
After that, I kept mixing and matching. While the goal was to make the combinations look intentional, I also embraced the randomness. At some point I doubled a color and the rhythm shifted, but I kept going and used up every last piece I could.
By the time I laid them all out, it was clear Benny could handle just about any combination. Simple shape, forgiving curves, nothing fussy about it. I could swap colors, repeat them, or grab whatever strip was next, and the egg still came together.
Just like the classic Eggs Benedict dish it’s named after, it only seems fancy until you know how to make it.
Sharing the Benny Eggs
By the end of the session, I had twenty Benny Eggs ready to go, all donated to Wicked Good Cards. It felt fitting that a design this easygoing and approachable would head out into the world to brighten someone else’s day.
Up Next
Sunny and Benny each brought their own charm to the table, but there’s still more in the basket. Another design is already waiting for its turn.
From Maine,
Shannon
