Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023 and my crafty little corner of the web. Over the holidays I set some goals for myself for this coming year, and one of them is to be more active in posting and sharing the creations I have made. With that, I am here on this Wonderful Wednesday to share some fun cards I made to send to the wonderful Stampin' Up! demonstrators on my team. They are a group of sweet ladies that I am so glad to be able to call my friends.
Last week I got my first order in of items from our soon-to-be-released January-June catalog. (One of the benefits of being a demonstrator is being able to order before the catalog goes live to customers.) With that order I was able to get a pack of the Dainty Flowers 12 x 12 Designer Series Papers for FREE! Yes, believe it or not, Sale-a-bration has come around again. There are some wonderful products available this year that you can get for FREE, but my favorite, hands down, is this paper. It is simply gorgeous! I knew right away that I wanted to showcase this particular sheet of the paper with an easel card.
Easel cards are pretty simple to do. By simply putting an extra score line in the cardstock, it allows the front to fold and stand up, then you just need something slightly raised inside the card to hold the bottom of the front panel in place. This can be done with embellishments, or in this case, a strip of the DSP raised up on Stampin' Dimensionals (I did two layers of Dimensionals to line up the images). I love that the pattern of the DSP continues down to the supporting strip on the card base. Oh, and you can get 6 cards from one sheet of DSP with no left over pieces. Love that!
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| Cut the DSP like this and you can get 6 cards from one sheet! |
I used the Go To Greetings and Nature's Harvest stamp sets for the sentiments on my cards. I highly recommend using the Stamparatus for the sentiments to make sure you get them nice and straight every time. I finished each one off with a Bumblebee trinket. These are on clearance right now for less than half their original price! I think I'm going to need to order some more. Of course, you could also use the pretty Brushed Brass Butterflies on this instead.
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| There are two layers of Stampin' Dimensionals under the bottom strip to give it more heighth. |
Here are the measurements for the card:
- Card base: 11 x 4 1/4 scored at 2 3/4 and 5 1/2
- Card front: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 (make sure this is only adhered on the bottom half to the card base. See photo above)
- DSP front panel: 5 1/4 x 4
- DSP strip on card base: 3/4 x 4
- White panel inside: 3 x 4
What do you think? I think this particular layout would work really well with quite a few different pattern papers, especially our Awash In Beauty DSP from the Annual Catalog as it has a similar page with a flower border on opposite edges. I will link to that one below since the Dainty Flowers paper isn't available quite yet. Let me know in the comments below what you think of these cards.
I hope you have enjoyed today's post. If you decide to place an order through my website, if your order is less than $150, please use the Host Code listed above (on the right), so I can send you an extra free goody. If your order is over $150 don't use the code as you get to pick out the goody yourself when you place your order.
Till next time...
God's love and blessings!
