Bike Ride Easel Card

Hi Crafty Friends,

Tomorrow we are celebrating a special friend's birthday.  I love my extended crafty family and always try to give them something that they will cherish.  This is the card that I made for her.  There is a tutorial for this available here.

Below are the steps for this card. I hope you like it and give it a go yourself.

My fur babies are growing so much every day.  They are now able to walk a little and are starting to want to venture the outside world.  I just love them so very much.  One look into those beautiful round eyes and I'm gone.  We will be adding to our Fur Family at the end of January.  My daughter is going to get her very own fur baby and we can't wait.

Until next time,
Stay crafty,
XO Tan

Ingredients:

Cardstock –

Whisper White  – 6 x 12 (15.3 x 30.5)

                                    5 ¾ x 5 ¾ (14.6 x 14.6)

                                    Plus scraps for stamping

Old Olive  -     5 ¾ x 5 ¾ (14.6 x 14.6)

Silver Foil  -    6 x 6 (15.3 x 15.3)

Inkpads –

Memento Tuxedo Black

Soft Sky

Old Olive

Sahara Sand

Soft Suede

Real Red

Smokey Slate

Dapper Denim

So Saffron

Calypso Coral

Stamp Sets & Dies –

Bike Ride S/S

Sheltering Tree S/S

Birthday Banners S/S

Bunch of Banners Framelits

Layering Ovals Framelits

All the other bits and pieces –

5” Mini Sequin Trim (Silver)

Mini Dimensionals

Stamp N Pierce Mat

Tombow

Sponges

Snips

Trimmer N Scoreboard

Bigshot

Copy Paper

Washi Tape

The Simple Steps –

1.     Score the 6” x 12” Whisper White piece at 6” & 9” on the long side.  Fold piece in half and the half again on one side.

2.     Take the 6” x 6” piece of W/W and secure to your work surface with a small amount of snail on the back.

3.     Tear the copy paper in a curve so that it looks like a hill.

4.     Secure the lower portion of the hill on the lower third with washi tape.

5.     Use a section of sponge and blend Soft Sky ink in a gentle swirling motion.

6.     Remove the lower section of copy paper and place the other piece over the top of the sky you just created.

7.     Repeat this process using Old Olive ink for the grassy area.

8.     Stamp grassy areas with the stamp from Sheltering Tree in Old Olive  randomly throughout the hill.

9.     Gently remove the inked panel and centre on the Silver Foil panel.

10. Place the largest Scallop oval die in the centre of the panel. Run through the Big Shot together.

11. Take only the inked panel and place the largest oval die and centre it over the previously cut scallop oval. Cut in the Big Shot.

12. Adhere the sponged piece to the foil piece.

13. Place sponged image on top of the folded easel piece.  Using a pencil, trace the aperture. Using the same scalloped oval that was used on the foil piece, cut out this folded piece.

14. Adhere the sponged piece to the cut easel piece using Fast Fuse.

15. Take the scrap pieces of Whisper White and stamp the bicycle parts using Memento Tuxedo Black.

16. Stamp the highlights for the bicycle using Soft Sky

17. Stamp the basket and dog using Sahara Sand

18. Stamp the apples and any other items you want to include in your card.

19. Put your bicycle together using Tombow Mono.  Adhere the bicycle using dimensionals in the centre of the card so that it rests just under the oval aperture.

20. Add the front and back baskets using extra dimensionals.

21. Stamp a banner from Birthday Banners using Dapper Denim Ink.

22. Stamp the ‘Happy Birthday’ greeting in Real Red, curving it as needed to fit within the banner. Attach with Dimensionals.

23. Adhere the Old Olive piece to the large open square of the easel piece using fast fuse.

24. Stamp a greeting onto the bottom half of the Old Olive piece.

25. Place some stamped and die cut flowers on either side of the stamped greeting.

26. Place 3 gems above the greeting to function as a stopper for the easel.

Enjoy!