Beautiful Day Butterfly - Fun Fold Easel Card

This birthday card is for a young great-niece - I thought she'd like a colourful butterfly.

An Easel Fold card featuring the butterfly image from the Beautiful Day stamp set

I stamped the butterfly image onto Window Sheet (acetate) with Stazon ink and then used some Stampin' Blends alcohol markers to colour it in .... on the back.  As it turned out, I decided it needed a piece of white cardstock behind the image to make it pop more and to obscure the easel fold.

To make the easel fold - I cut my base card to 11" x 5 1/2" and scored at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2".

A side view of the easel fold

I used the method shown at the bottom of this post to "resize" the Stitched Rectangle with the greeting.  The butterflies were cut with the Butterfly Beauty dies from Lovely Lipstick cardstock and adhered to So Saffron cardstock before trimming around the butterflies.  I find this quicker and easier than paper piecing when I'm time-poor.

I coloured Basic Rhinestone Jewels with the alcohol markers so that they would match.

I wanted to ensure that I cut identical frames for the back and front of the piece and so I used some old washi tape to keep them in the correct position, allowing for multiple identical frames to be cut.

I use my cutting mat to help align the dies for my frame

I then use washi tape to keep the frame in the correct position for cutting multiple identical frames

The closed easel card

I also made a variant of this card for a sympathy card.  This butterfly is stamped onto vellum but I still added the piece of white behind it to make it pop more.

Looking back at these photos has been really interesting.  Believe it or not, both cards were made with the same Bermuda Bay cardstock but I photographed one with my phone and the other with my Canon camera - they look quite different.  I do apologise for that!

Beautiful Day butterfly stamped onto vellum and coloured with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers

The view of the closed card

To make the die cut narrower, I positioned the die as required and then placed the top cutting plate only over the area to be cut - as shown in the image below. TIP:  I "wiggle" the die gently until I can feel the blade of the die fitting into the die cut to match what has already been cut.

This is how I resized / reshaped the die cut.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase from my online store

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.00

Window Sheets

$8.75

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

$17.50

Lovely Lipstick Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

$7.75

Bermuda Bay Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

$7.75

Mango Melody Dark Stampin' Blends

$7.75

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

$15.25

Lovely Lipstick A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$17.00

So Saffron A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Stitched Rectangle Dies

$61.00

Butterfly Beauty Dies

$68.00

Merry Christmas Dies

$49.00

Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$17.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$8.75

Foam Adhesive Strips

$14.00

Pun Intended - Hostess Stamp Set

I had a very strange experience this morning!

I was quickly flicking through my social media when I was stopped in my tracks by a very familiar-looking card using the Pun Intended and Thoughtful Banners stamp sets and Pop of Pink DSP.  It was very confusing because whilst I had made and photographed my card, I knew that I hadn't yet posted it anywhere!

Then I looked again, saw the subtle differences and realised that Bille Moan and I are clearly on the same wavelength because it was her card that I was looking at, not mine!

So then I was in a quandrary - do I still finish and publish my post or not?!  As you can see - I decided to post.  If at least two of us have had a similar idea at the same time, it must be a good idea - right?!

It's a bit busy but I think it holds together

The layers are all Pop of Pink DSP.

The stamp set is one of the new hostess sets - Pun Intended - stamped in Basic Black onto Whisper White cardstock.

The camera panel and Basic Black Matt for it are cut with two of the Tags & Labels framelits.  I trimmed the end of a dark strip of DSP with the Banner Triple Punch and stuck it to the back of this layer.

The Picture Perfect greeting was stamped onto a narrow strip of Whisper White cardstock and then I used one of the Project Life Cards & Labels framelits to trim each end (separately).

I stamped two of the banners from the Thoughtful Banners stamp set, curved the greeting Snappy Birthday to fit and stamped it into one of the banners.  I hand cut just inside the lines of that banner and then trimmed the ends to a bit of a curve.  The other banner I cut with the matching punch (I bought both as a bundle and saved 10%), sponged with Melon Mambo and then attached the greeting.



The picked out some pink sequins from the Brights Sequins Assortment and adhered three of them directly to the top panel (which is more white than black) with the Fine Tip Glue Pen.

I stuck White Perfect Accents onto the panels that were more black than white and then used the Fine Tip Glue Pen to stick the sequins (upside down) to the top of those white accents.  I felt the sequins would get lost if I glued them directly to the dark DSP.

I didn't have any Melon Mambo ribbon, although I thought I did!  I really wanted to add a Melon Mambo bow above the camera.  So I broke off a length of Pop of Pink washi tape, folded it into a very narrow strip and made a bow with that.

'Til next time
Stephanie


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Tags & Labels Framelits Dies

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Banner Triple Punch

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Brights Sequin Assortment

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Fine-Tip Glue Pen

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White Perfect Accents

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Basic Black 12" X 12" Card Stock

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Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

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Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

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