Easter Chick Waterfall

The sheet was printed onto patterned cardstock on the WHITE side. The 5 ducks, spar and mechanism were cut out, keeping the ducks in order. The mechanism was scored along the dotted lines, a narrow piece of double sided tape was attached on the back only at the top of each duck square, and the mechanism folded at the middle dotted line.

With the fold at the top, spar at the bottom front, white side outwards, stick each duck in reverse order just under each fold so that they can swing when the mechanism is pulled.

Cut out a piece of patterned card, in this case Dufex eggs, to suit the width of spar and height of whole mechanism. Position the spar and its top strengthening layer on the backing card, then punch holes for the brads. Punch a hole for the ribbon pull and thread a piece through. Attach the brads to hold it all together before sticking to a 7x5

I love the way that you can watch the chick progress from just breaking out of its shell to finally standing alone with its umbrella.

I chose to have the final stage on top of my waterfall and to have the chick go back to its egg - you could choose to have the waterfall show its progression by attaching the pieces in a different order.I printed the design on matte photo paper, creased where marked and cut out the pieces.

I used a circle punch for the space for the pull tag, double sided tape to construct the waterfall and metallic brads to attach the completed waterfall to my base card.