Hiding in Plain Sight

Since Easter is only a couple of weeks away, I decided to make an Easter-themed layout.  It was supposed to be my entry to challenge #15 at the Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog, but for some reason (and I'm sure the time on my computer is correct), I couldn't link up my entry anymore even if it was more than five minutes 'til midnight.  I was so disappointed because although I didn't think I would make the deadline (as I only started tonight), I was done with around 20 mins to spare.  All I had to do was take a picture of my layout, edit and then upload it here, and then submit my entry to FSCB.  But it wouldn't let me *sigh*.  Serves me right for leaving it to the last minute (yet again). 

In any case, this page was based on a a beautiful sketch by LG Belarmino.  I wanted to make something really happy and spring-y (the season, not the metal coil).

Since we have such a big family with little kids, we have an Easter egg hunt every year on Easter Sunday.  We've been doing it for some time now, but the one pictured here is the first one that my nephew, Dyllan, joined in.  He was the youngest among the kids being just a little over one year old at the time (2008) and needed some help from his Mama and Papa.  I think he had a lot of fun though, because he looks forward to the egg hunt every year.  

This year, we're planning to decorate our eggs because we missed doing it last year when we used plastic eggs.  Which were very bright and colorful and had candy inside it, but it took away from the fun of doing something crafty :)  Here are some eggs we decorated way back in 2008.  

We deliberately left them not-so-well-hidden, so the kids (half of them toddlers) would find them easily.  Can you spot them?  There is actually a good reason for having taken the pictures of the eggs we hid: in case they weren't found, we could still track them down (as we'd likely forget where they were all hidden).  The adults do not have as good a memory as we used to :-b

Materials:  Cardstock (Tuscany), pen (Dong-A), ink (Versafine), flower stickers (K & Company), pearl and gem stickers (All About Scrapbooking), others: butterfly and flower shapes, paper medallion (April Joy Lim via Lasting Impressino), ribbon (Carolina's).  Tools: border punches (Martha Stewart Crafts), alphabet stamps (Studio G).