What an honor to be asked to participate on a global design team in a blog hop featuring Fancy Folds cards! My friend Patrice Halliday-Larsen from New Zealand asked me to be a part of this fun new team! Our cards today feature the Easel style card.
I am participating in a blog hop with 7 other Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world.. I hope you enjoy the tour and visit each blog for more Easel Card design ideas!
My card starts out as a 4-1/4" x 8-1/2" card. You can find full Easel Card instructions in the video below in this blog post!
BELOW: The great part about this card is that you can stand it up to display and enjoy the artwork on the card front, but also easily fold it flat to mail it!
Isn't that great that it just folds flat for mailing!?
Watch my video below for cutting and folding instructions for the Easel Card.
If you have trouble viewing the video, see it HERE on YouTube.
My 2 secret weapons for coloring this card are the Stampin' UP! AquaPainter and the Clear Wink of Stella pen. The AquaPainter helps flow the ink color on the pretty floral stamp from the Best Thoughts hostess set from Stampin' Up!, and the Wink of Stella pen gives a pretty shimmery shine to the finished artwork! I have a video tutorial for this type of watercoloring HERE.
I love the bold contrast of the Mossy Meadow "grid paper" pattern and the black and white script pattern, with the beautiful flower! Both paper strips were from the Going Places paper stack, found on pg 39 of the 2016 Occasions Catalog.
Remember, the hostess sets can only be purchased with hostess dollars. You can earn those with any order of $150 or more.
The squiggle border stamp is from the Tin of Card stamp set and the Thank You is found in the Rose Wonder stamp set. If you are in the US, all items may be purchased in my online store.. all Stampin' Up! product shopping links are at the bottom of this post.
Visit Monica Gale's Fancy Fold project by clicking the button below!
Our Fancy Folds Design Team Blog Hop Line Up:
Patrice Halliday-Larsen – New Zealand
Sandi MacIver – Canada
Patty Bennett – USA <<< you are here
Monica Gale – UK
Tanja Kolar – Germany
Delphine Lorelli – France
Martha Inchley – Canada
France Martin – USA
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wow Patty your card turned out beautifully, lovely color combos and perfect Wink of Stella highlights
Great directions and love this unique easel fold card. It is fabulous !
Stunning Card Patty! Your colour is amazing! Love it!
Great easel and sure love your coloring 🙂
Gorgeous card!! Love it! 🙂
Stunning card Patty 🙂 your watercolouring is amazing, adding the wink of stella makes it jump of the page, love it. So excited that you joined our blog hop design team.
Beautiful card Patty – beautifully coloured 🙂 x
Fabulous card and excellent video. Very easy to imagine making an easel card from your directions, Patty. Thanks!
What a great card Patty,
Hi Patty,
Congratulations on your global acknowledgement. What a beautiful card, but I would expect you to make a wonderful project. Just beautiful, Patty. Thanks again for sharing how to make this fancy fold.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Karren
Beautiful card and thanks for the tips and video
Good morning Patty,,,,, LOVE your card and thanks so much for the video…… I never knew how to make an easel card. Thank you soooo much. You are AWESOME. And what a privilege to be in a global design team. That’s awesome Patty,,,,, Have a great weekend.
Beautiful card. Well explained video – as usual. Thanks for sharing. Love this blog hop.
Hello Patty!
how I love this gorgeous rhododendron flower! your colouring skills are fantastic, it makes the flowers so sweet and the overall colour scheme is great… thanks for this cheerful card, it brings lights in this gloomy winter!