Tutorial - Easel Card
Past DT Member - Amanda
Easel Card - Amanda
The instructions below will show you what you need to make a
4x4 easel card.
The measurements given can be altered to make larger cards if
you wish.
This is the completed card - using Butterfly Spiral, by Karen
What do I need?
1 x 8x4 piece of
card stock in desired colour
1x 4x4 piece of
card stock in matching colour
1 piece of design
paper cut to just under 4x4 (we will be mounting this later so leave room for
that)
1 piece of design
paper measuring 4 x 2.5
1 Butterfly Spiral image (this is a digi available here on the website)
1 Sentiment Mine is
a freebie from DewDrop craftz- found here
1 x 3x3 piece of
white card stock
Some silver miri card
The first thing you
will need to do is colour your image. I chose to colour mine black and red to
go with the design papers.
You then need to
mount the image on to some silver miri card.
Now take the piece of
design paper (slightly less than 4x4) and mount that on miri card also.
Once you have done
this you can stick them on to the piece of 4x4 card as shown below. I always use double sided
tape as it doesnt make the paper bobble.
The next step is to
take your 4x8 piece of cardstock and score it at 2 and 4 as shown below.
You now need to then fold
it as shown below
Now we will put
double sided tape on the top fold I have drawn an arrow to show you which
part.
Now take your 4x4
piece of cardstock with your image etc already on and stick it so that the
bottom of the 4x4 piece of card is flush with the bottom of the top fold you
should have the top half of the 4x4 piece of card overhanging (not stuck
down)
You can now stick
down the smaller piece of design paper on to the bottom of the larger piece of
card. Mount the sentiment on to miri card and stick this in the middle. You can
then stick down two buttons where you want the card to rest. This is all shown
in the picture above sorry I am not the best at explaining things so
hopefully the pictures will show you better than I can.
Once the glue has
dried on the buttons you can rest the top of the card as shown.
When you want to post
the card it will fold flat.
So.. we hope you enjoy the tutorial.. and would love to see what you make using it.
