Abstract: The invention pertains to a decorative cardboard hollow shell to be filled with gifts such as Easter eggs, hearts, gift boxes, imitation fruit and the like, decorated outside and/or inside with pictorial elements and consisting of two half-shells with cuved surfaces. The half-shells have circumferential edges to which a non-pre-formed coatings are applied to form rim coatings that produces an inside and outside edge strip covering all rough transitions and cut edges of each cardboard hollow shell half, this rim coating forming a clean and decorative surface.