Easel card

Hello Friends,

I made an easel card for my eldest son's birthday, which is this Saturday. He never looks at my blog so I think I'm pretty safe to post this now.

I am going to show you pictures of my process in this design and explain with as few words as possible.

I started with a set of Bugaboo images that I dressed up with water colour pencils. I cut out the circle sentiment with my circle punch and die cut 2 scalloped circles from green card stock.

I held the main image onto green card stock and cut around it, slightly larger, but did not glue it down.

I cut a piece of thin gauge wire to suspend my circle sentiment above the card front like a balloon on a string.

I hot-glued the wire to the back of the scalloped circle with the sentiment.

Then I hot-glued the two scalloped circles together, sandwiching the wire between them.

Next I poked a hole in my main image where I wanted to insert the wire with the circle sentiment. I used a push pin.

I poked the wire into the hole and hot-glued it at the back.

At first I tried to hot-glue the green card stock to the back of the main image, but that was a mistake. I pull off as much of the glue as I could and decided to use my Aleene's Tack Glue. (love that stuff)

I wanted the main image to look like the sheep were leaning over this chipboard fence. I laid the fence along the bottom of the easel card base and placed my image just so. I lightly penciled along the bottom of the image since I would have to glue that first and then my fence.

Here is another sentiment from the set. I popped it up to hold the easel card in place, but decided I wanted a little something extra to make the card sit up a little straighter. This crocheted rose reminded me of a wooly sheep and, since I don't have to mail this card, I wasn't concerned about trying to mail a bulky design. I added three bobbles to complete the design.

And here is the completed card.

Side View

And folded flat. Well, as flat as it can be with that honking big flower on it. :)

Thank you for visiting my blog. I really appreciate you taking the time to drop by and see what I have been doing.

Blessing hugs,

Teresa

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