Ten Days, Ten Mockups, One Very Good Easter

A recap of Creatsy’s Happy Easter Fest - ten free Easter PSD mockups, the 130 designers who showed up, and the forty winners who walked away with store credit.

There’s a particular kind of energy that shows up on Instagram in the days before Easter. The feed fills with spring color, fresh patterns, and that specific combination of botanical illustration and egg-shaped geometry that somehow never gets old. This year, we decided to lean into it - with ten days, ten free mockups, and a challenge that turned out to be genuinely more fun than we expected.

This is a recap of Happy Easter Fest. But really, it’s a recap of what happened when a community of designers got ten new tools and ten days to do whatever they wanted with them.

10 Free Easter Mockups: What We Released and Why

Starting on March 27, 2026, we ran a simple but deliberate format: one new free Easter mockup released each day for ten consecutive days. Download it, use it, keep it.

The ten mockups covered a range of scenes and moods. Eggs nestled in carton packaging. Ribbon-tied eggs in an open box, surrounded by cotton blossoms and olive branches. A cracked egg steaming on a ceramic cup. Eggs on natural linen with spring botanical sprigs. Greeting cards flat-laid alongside Easter eggs with dramatic typography. A modern scene with three blue chicks moving through a geometric archway. An egg displayed inside a deep shadow-box frame, gallery-lit. A wide spread of eggs and white flowers in natural light. Wrapping paper rolls tucked into a tote bag alongside white tulips. And on Day 10, a wooden crate sitting on real grass, daisies in the frame, Easter card resting against the eggs.

Each one was a different visual register. Some were editorial. Some were warm and domestic. A few were genuinely unexpected. The format was deliberate - a single drop would have been a giveaway; ten drops in ten days was a rhythm, something to wake up to. As one designer put it, it “feels like Christmas every morning, discovering the new free mockup” (- @salty.cove.studio) - which is more or less exactly what we were going for.

The Easter Mockup Challenge: 130 Designers, 400+ Entries

Running alongside the daily freebies was the Easter Challenge, tagged under #CreatsyEasterFest. To enter: download any of the free mockups, apply your own design, post to Instagram, tag us.

The challenge ran for the full ten days, with four winners chosen each day - $200 in store credit for first place, $100 for second, $50 for third, and $20 for fourth. Across the ten days, that came to forty winners total, plus features on the blog, in our Instagram Stories and Highlights, and in the Made with Creatsy gallery. The full list is at the bottom of this post.

The numbers are clear: nearly 130 people participated, and more than 400 works were submitted. That’s an average of more than three entries per participant - which means people weren’t just ticking the box once and moving on. They kept coming back.

Some made it all ten days. For a few, that was a personal milestone - “I’ve never been able to make it this far in these challenges” (- @patriciasodre.patterndesigns). A few were proudly late to the party and posted anyway. That kind of participation doesn’t happen because of prize money. It happens because the format is genuinely enjoyable to be part of.

A few entries from Day 6 - the chick scene mockup, in as many directions as there were designers.

What the Community Brought to It

The variety in the submissions was one of the things that stood out most. The same mockup - the same PSD, the same Smart Object - would appear across dozens of posts, and each one looked like a different world. Botanical patterns. Optical illusions. Geometric constructions. Plaid eggs. Lemon motifs. Japanese garden aesthetics. One designer wrapped the chick-and-archway scene in a repeating pattern celebrating the story of the Frog Prince.

Day 2: the same carton, five different moods.

There were people who found their Easter groove immediately, and people who surprised themselves - “I didn’t think this mockup would fit my style… but I was wrong” (- @miadaniela.patterns). Several mentioned it pushed them past a creative block they’d been sitting with: for one designer, the first freebie drop was “just the creative push I needed” to get unstuck (- @festivefetti). The constraints of a themed challenge with a specific format and a deadline, it turns out, are often more useful than total freedom.

The egg cup mockup (Day 3) drew some of the most expressive work of the whole event.

The comments below those posts carried the same energy. People were paying attention to each other’s entries - noticing wrapping details, commenting on color choices, pointing out quality of light in each other’s renders. More than one designer noted what the mockups themselves made possible: “they aren’t just tools, they’re part of the creative process” (- @nicola.liza.designs).

What We Loved on Our Side

We went through a lot of posts. We commented on all of them.

Not as a social media obligation - just because the work warranted it. And it was noticed. One participant mentioned at the end of the challenge that Creatsy “made sure to put a like and a comment on each and every post - that’s commitment, and something I wish more hosts did” (- @art_by_three_cats). Fair point. When someone names their optical illusion submission “Shellusion” and posts it with genuine delight, you respond. When a designer writes that seeing their pattern on a Creatsy mockup is “like falling in love with them all over again” (- @evelynroseblossomstudio), you notice that.

Day 1 entries: three eggs in carton. The range here set the tone for everything that followed.

What we didn’t quite expect was how much the submissions would pull us into the work itself. The framed egg mockup - the most editorial piece in the collection - generated some of the most conceptual entries of the whole run. The chick scene, which we thought might be too specific, became a canvas for everything from restrained graphic work to genuinely playful and strange compositions.

Designers didn’t treat the mockups as backdrops. They treated them as collaborators. As @nicigabrieldesigns put it: “the mockups you share make such a difference… you make us look good.” That’s what we build them for, and it’s still a good thing to see in practice.

The final stretch of #CreatsyEasterFest — wrapping paper and wooden crates that went everywhere from maximalist to minimal.

The Easter Mockup Challenge Winners - Day by Day

Forty designers, ten days, one shared feed. Picking favorites was difficult by design - across more than 400 submissions, the question was rarely whether work was good and almost always which kind of good we wanted to recognize on a given day. Here’s the full list.

Day 1 — Three Eggs in Carton

1st place — Giorgia (Jofolies) (@jofolies.studio) — $200 store credit. What won us over was the consistency of it all: the hand-drawn motifs flow from the eggs into the background, and the pastel lilac, butter yellow, and blush pink palette feels instantly memorable. It’s playful, polished, and full of Easter character without ever feeling overloaded.

2nd place — Natalie Saban (@natalie_art_saban) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Christine Scyth (@zenberill) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Susy Stella (@susy_stella_design_studio) — $20 store credit.

Day 2 — Ribbon-Tied Eggs in an Open Box

1st place — Jen Baumann (@flourishmoonstudio) — $200 store credit. What made this design stand out was its quiet elegance: the soft sage and lilac palette, the delicate floral patterns, and the ribbon details all feel beautifully balanced. Fresh, refined, and thoughtfully styled - the kind of Easter design that feels both gentle and instantly memorable.

2nd place — Mia Daniela (@miadaniela.patterns) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Ana Goldar (@anagoldardesign) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Gwenann Stewart (@gwenanndollye) — $20 store credit.

Day 3 — Egg Cup, Steaming

1st place — Olena Kovalova (@al_kovalyova_design) — $200 store credit. A full story in one frame: the dripping yolk, the buzzing bees, the steam rising. Olena didn’t just mock up a product, she built a world around it. The lavender-and-amber palette, the hand-drawn botanicals, the way the 2D illustrations melt into the 3D scene. Pure craft.

2nd place — Giorgia (@jofolies.studio) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Amy Severino (@amysevarts) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Iulia (@iuandlia) — $20 store credit.

Day 4 — Eggs on Linen with Botanical Sprigs

1st place — Bianca Carias Oliveira (@artybeestudio) — $200 store credit. Bianca created a gentle little world in one design: soft colour, playful character, and a style that feels instantly complete. The delicate pink palette, the hand-drawn geese, and the balance of charm and polish made this one stand out right away. Sweet, cohesive, beautifully done.

2nd place — Tracy Knapp (@corner.studio.designs) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Jen Baumann (@flourishmoonstudio) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Iryna Barysevich (@borysevich.irina) — $20 store credit.

Day 5 — Greeting Cards with Easter Eggs

1st place — Nicola Giambuzzi (@nicola.liza.designs) — $200 store credit. Nicola created a design that stood out instantly with its confident use of colour and strong graphic rhythm. The retro-inspired palette, the bold geometric composition, and the way every element feels so clean and intentional made this piece impossible to overlook. Fresh, joyful, beautifully balanced.

2nd place — Giorgia (@jofolies) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Anette Heiberg (@anetteheiberg) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Mia Daniela (@miadaniela.patterns) — $20 store credit.

Day 6 — Three Chicks and an Archway

1st place — Patricia Sodre (@patriciasodre.patterndesigns) — $200 store credit. This one stood out for the way it builds a whole little Easter world around the pattern. The soft pastel palette, playful bunny motifs, and mix of structure and sweetness gave it a look that felt both imaginative and beautifully refined - and Patricia brought it all together with real charm.

2nd place — Hanna Symonovych (@hanna_symo) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Vasiliki Kovalengou (@calithina) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Bela (@belac.reative) — $20 store credit.

Day 7 — Framed Egg in a Shadow Box

1st place — Ana Despotovic (@art_by_three_cats) — $200 store credit. A whole little world in one frame: the pink walls, the blue cats, the dramatic green tape cutting through the scene. Ana didn’t just place a pattern on an object, she turned it into a statement. The candy-and-slate palette, the vintage feel of the illustration, the way the 2D pattern plays against the gallery-style display. Bold taste.

2nd place — Maritza Lisa (@maritzalisa) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Daniella de Lopes (@danielladelopes_studio) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Susy Stella (@susy_stella_design_studio) — $20 store credit.

Day 8 — Eggs and White Flowers in Natural Light

1st place — Mary Jackson (@lambe_lane_designs) — $200 store credit. A quiet story in one frame: soft florals, faded stripes, and a palette that feels almost like spring light itself. This design didn’t need boldness to stand out — it won us over through restraint. The muted grey-and-cream tones, the delicate vintage-inspired pattern work, the way every egg feels part of one calm, cohesive world. Pure elegance.

2nd place — Iulia (@iuandlia) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — LaVonne McCamley (@lavonnemccamley) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Nina Hansen (@designerbyheart) — $20 store credit.

Day 9 — Wrapping Paper Rolls and White Tulips

1st place — Cathy Shepherd (@_louimond_) — $200 store credit. What caught our eye here was the way the whole collection feels curated rather than simply displayed. The warm ochre tones, the mix of bold florals and quieter supporting prints gave it a look that feels natural, stylish, and very complete. Thoughtful, tactile, effortlessly elegant.

2nd place — Sandra Rey (@sandrareystudio) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — CJ (@salty.cove.studio) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Olena Kovalova (@al_kovalyova_design) — $20 store credit.

Day 10 — Wooden Crate on Grass

1st place — Silvia Palmero (@sylvelystudio) — $200 store credit. There was something instantly inviting about this design. Silvia combined dusty lilac, butter yellow, and cream tones with delicate floral details to create a piece that feels soft, cohesive, and full of gentle spring charm. The whole composition has a calm, nostalgic sweetness that makes it feel both beautifully styled and emotionally warm.

2nd place — Tabitha Kerbabian (@tabithascraft) — $100 store credit.

3rd place — Gwenann Stewart (@gwenanndollye) — $50 store credit.

4th place — Mia Daniela (@miadaniela.patterns) — $20 store credit.

Thank You - and What’s Next

To everyone who participated in Happy Easter Fest - whether you entered every day or just found one mockup that fit something you’d been working on - thank you. You made this better than it would have been without you.

If you’d like to keep the full collection close, all ten Easter Fest mockups - plus seven additional files - are now available together as The Ultimate Easter Mockup Collection. That’s 17 PSD files at 300 dpi, with commercial licenses for design presentations, listing previews and brand visuals. The freebies did their job. This is for the ones who want to go further.

You can also browse the full Easter mockup collection on Creatsy - layered PSDs, 300 DPI, Smart Objects, ready for your next seasonal release.

We’re already planning what comes next. Stay tuned.