Monday 4 December 2017

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!

2 comments:

  1. Hi Tanya, your friend is going to absolutely love this card for her birthday. Easel cards are one of my particular favourite fun folds for cards. They give you so much scope to work with. I love the way your have integrated so many different techniques into this card though. When you are starting out to make a card - do you draw a design? Do you know what stamp sets/die sets you are going to use straight away or do you have to go through all your stash until you decide? Great card though Ann, thank you for sharing it with us crafters. :O) I love the photos of your puppies.

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  2. Hi Tanya again, just watched your video tutorial regarding the Tool Bench Fold Card. I wanted to send you a photograph of one of my bench fold cards. How can I do this as I can't get an email address? Am I correct in saying that your live in Australia, if so, how lovely I wish I lived somewhere warm it may help with my health issues. :O)

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