How to Easel Cards and A Halloween Twisted Easel Card with Petaloo

Hello My dear friends:

**First the project...**

A Halloween Twisted Easel card...
fun shape to display the gorgeous "Petaloo" Flowers paired with some die cuts....

I die cut the "midnight witches brew" frame into a patterned paper, secure it to the rectangular front panel and embellished with black cotton paper flowers and "Kraft" burlap flowers and butterflies  from "Petaloo"

NOTE:
On the folded card, the front panel was cut into a square shape from where the front rectangular panel will be adhered.
I made some loops with the burlap cord/trim...and overlap the flowers...

loops..

details of the flowers...

Side view of the twisted easel card

Front panel...

Base...

**Now onto the tutorial...**

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101 on how to make ANY EASEL CARD

Easel card cards are very easy to make...once you master the main folds....
General rule:
1- from a  folded card, (any shape: rectangular, square, circle, octagon etc...)
2- Fold in half the front panel of the card (to make a support: the easel) 
3- into which a separate front panel (of the same shaped used for the base) will be affix...

To make ANY "shaped" folded card ...
Fold you paper and place underneath a "desired shaped " die onto the cutting machine.
Cut below the top of the die to make hinge...see photo

The folded card is cut....

Below  are some samples of a heart, a pinking edge circle, an octagon shaped folded cards, cut following the same process as above...

Fold in half the font panel
Note: if you desired a "twisted" easel, make that fold in a diagonal direction

affix a separate single shape to this "easel"...of the same shape as you main card....

view from the side

samples of several shaped easel cards....

when folded flat...

In today's case, I wanted a "rectangular" front and base card...
 (usually these type of cards are square)....

For this,  The base/front panel NEEDS to be cut in a "square"
then folded diagonally to place the rectangular front panel in a diagonal way and make a rectangular "Twisted Easel Card"....

Note: You can make a "square" folded base and attach the rectangular panel to this square...
you will have then a 'square' base with a rectangular front panel...
in my case I wanted BOTH base and front panels to be "rectangular"

folded to send flat

A last View...

Ok, my Friends thanks for the visit 
See you soon for some other craft projects...

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Easel card with Petaloo

Hello My dear Crafty Friends:

Today, for My DT (Design Team) assignment,  I am featuring "Petaloo" flowers from the "Botanica" collection paired with "Authentique" papers from "the Beauty" collection.

I made an easel card.

These are the supplies used...
"Petaloo" flowers in yellow and gray;
"Authentique" die cuts, 3x4 journaling cards and 12x12 two sided paper

To make the easel;
- Step 1: Fold (in my case) a square card (it can be any shape). The front is fold in half again, like a mountain fold.
- Step 2; Prepare a single square panel and attach it to the mountain valley
- Finished: glue this last one to the front half panel, to make an easel.

I used the gorgeous New flowers from "Petaloo" in yellows and grays...and pearl clusters

My favorite are the grays; I found them so unique ...and these particular flowers come in velvet and tulle with beads for the pistils

The color combination was determine mostly by the "Authentique" papers.
When using Designers, printed papers, the work here is half done for you, because you do not have to guess in what color combinations you are going to be working with.

I used 1 journaling card and 2 different die cuts (a circular scalloped one for the front and this oval one)
and Some cream berry clusters from "Petaloo"
I like very much the sayings......

I love this "unique" color combo, it is the first time that I used it  yellows and greys and I like them very much

A last view

 

Ok my friends, I hope you like this easel card 

Thanks for the visit 

and see you soon 

for another project featuring another technique

Supplies

note: BlueMoonScrapbooking is now carrying the whole line of "Petaloo" products!

 

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