Mini Holiday Christmas Tree Easel Card Embossed ~ For A Special Friend At Christmas

Hello bloggers today's card is an easel Christmas card featuring this gorgeous die cut tree.

This card began as an A4 sheet of green topsy turvy card stock that I cut and scored to make a 4x4 easel card blank.  Next I cut some more of the same card stock to 4x4 and adhered it to the front of the card.  Using a free embossing folder called 'Christmas patchwork' by Crafter's Companion I embossed a piece of the topsy turvy card stock.  This was  then cut down and adhered to the front of the card.  Next I die cut the tree with Spellbinders die d-lites 'holiday tree' die set.  This was then adhered to the front of the card.  I then added faux pearls using Cosmic Shimmer 'pearl' pva to the tree.  Using the same card stock I die cut a holly leaf using Spellbinders die d-lites 'holly twigs and leaves' die set.  This was adhered to the top right of the card

Inside the card I die cut a holly scroll using the same card stock as above and Spellbinders 'holly accents' die set and adhered it to the top right of the card base.  I then stamped the sentiment using a free stamp set and evergreen bough distress ink.  This was cut out with a circle punch and mounted onto foam pads to act as the stopper for the easel.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Nan ~ easel card

Hello bloggers well back to the beginning of the working week. I hope you managed to have a great weekend whatever you got up to.  Today's card is an easel card for a Nan.  This card could be used for a variety of occasions.

Easel card closed

easel card open

inside easel card

This card began as an A4 piece of Topsy Turvy card stock that I cut and scored to make a card 5.5" square.  Next using some more of the same card stock I cut a mat for inside the card and then adhered it in place.  Using some white glitter card I die cut a mat for my topper using Spellbinders 'grand scallop squares' die set.  Next using the same die set but a smaller die I die cut another mat using some green holographic mirror board.  The two mats were adhered to the front of the card.  Using some purple pearlescent paper I die cut another mat for the topper using spellbinders 'heart squares' die set.  When popping the waste from the die I saved the hearts into a plastic bag to save as confetti for putting in the card.  The last mat was then adhered to the front of the card.  Next I stamped two images and the Nan blocks using walnut stain distress ink and Hunkydory Golden Oldies 'waltzing surprise' stamp set.  The images were then coloured using ProMarkers.  The Nan was  fussy cut and then adhered to the front of the card in the bottom left corner of the mats.  The baby topper was die cut using Spellbinders 'ironworks accents' die set before being added to the card.  Next I fussy cut the blocks and added them to the card to finish the front. 

 Inside the card I added a mat die cut from lilac pearlescent paper using Spellbinders 'hearts squares' die set.  Using the same green holographic mirror board I die cut a smaller heart square mat.  These were added to the bottom right inside of the card to form the stopper for the easel card.  Finally I stamped my verse using the same stamp set as above and walnut stain distress ink.  This was cut out by hand and then adhered across the mats.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

New Baby Girl Easel Card - Congratulations

Hello bloggers for today's card I have made a new baby card for a girl.

This card began as an A6 card blank, I scored the front in half portrait to make an easel card.  To the front I adhered some pink gingham card and to the base of the card I adhered some pink glitter card.  On the base I adhered some strips of ribbon down each side edge with red line tape (strong stuff).  Next using silicone glue I adhered the three pram shaped buttons across the bottom front to form the easel card stopper.  A metal 'Congratulations' sentiment was also added to the base and attached with silicone glue.  Back to the top of the card I cut a mat of white card stock and onto that I stamped my sentiment 'New baby' using 'tattered rose' distress ink. The stamp set used on this card was a free one from a magazine.  Next I stamped the pram outline using 'Victorian velvet' distress ink.  Then I embossed and stencilled the pin, bottle, rattle and dummy images down the side using alternate inks of 'tattered rose' and 'Victorian velvet' and a metal stencil I had.  I tied some pink satin ribbon around the topper and then adhered it to the card top.  Finally I adhered two felt flowers to the card topper.

This card is being entered into the following challenges:-

ABC Challenge - N is for not just1 -  3 or more embellishments

You can check out the details here  http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/n-for-not-just-one.html

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 270 - Tied up

You can check out the details herehttp://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-270-tie-it-up.html

Moving Along With  the Times Challenge- Embossing

You can check out the details here http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/embossing.html

Crafty Catz Challenge - A fancy fold or two

you can check out the details herehttp://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-fancy-fold-or-two.html

Stampin for the weekend - Monochromatic

You can check out the details here http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/monochrome.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel