Double Easel

 A little while back (for the life of me I can't find the post)  Jill had sent me a card and then the goodies to make one myself, she had mentioned that she and another lady do this as a surprise for one another every now and then and that I didn't have to do it she just thought she would share, I told her when I have free time I would like to do it.  I have so many that I send birthday cards to and then I send those unexpected get well, sympathy ect.  

Well I had caught up with all of that so I decided I would make her a double easel card and cut the same things out that I had used on her card so that she could make one for herself.  I have seen these double and even triple easel cards and so I wanted to figure out how I could make one using the dies I already have, and I wanted it to fit in an A2 size envelope.  I found these dies to give it a try, and it actually worked :)

Instead of me trying to explain how to do the fold I am sure if you google Easel cards you can figure it out.  I had done a regular easel card before so all it was I did was made two one smaller than the first and set them inside one another, a triple would be just adding a smaller one but like I said I wanted her to be able to send it in an A2 size envelope.

I popped up the sentiment tag so that it would easily hold up the 2nd easel.

I glued the flowers onto yellow paper and then added a little shading with my markers, and cut them out. 

• Spellbinders - Curved Rectangles die
• Graphic 45 - Le Cirque paper
• ODBD - Mini tags and mini tag sentiments stamp
• Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Crochet die
• Memory Box - Pennington Rose Blossoms die
• Martha Stewart - leaf punch
• Crafters Companion - White pearls

Here is how it looks closed.

The funny thing is that we must have been thinking about each other about the same time because she had sent me another sweet card and they had to have passed in the mail because we received each others pretty close together :)  So I will be sharing what I do with that one soon :)

We are supposed to get more snow tonight but only 1-3 inches so not too bad.  To all my East Coast friends I hope you stay safe through the next storm!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

XOXOXO

 I can only share the card I made for my daughter before Valentines because hubby looks at my blog :)  I usually only do two every year.

I had bought a bag full all of all kinds goodies at my stamp stores yard sale and in that bag was a sheet of hearts that you could color, well I have had it for a few years and thought I would get it out and figure out what to do with them.

Colored a couple of them, applied them to cardstock that I die cut into an oval, layered that onto a scalloped oval from black cardstock to go with the black strip of paper I put down the center.  Added a few stickles for some shimmer. It all seemed a little bare so I added a few rub ons with hearts and XO's.

• Jot - Color me heart stickers, colored w/markers
• Spellbinders - Classic ovals and Lacey ovals dies
• BasicGrey - Picadilly Paper
• Colorbok - Rub on hearts and XO's

It's hard to believe we are almost to Valentines day.  Hope you all north and east of us stay warm over this weekend, sounds like it is going to be a very chilly weekend.

I would like to share my card today with

 Simon Says, Love is in the air challenge .

And Simon Says Love/Heart Challenge

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Got Game

 I broke out this die once again for my great nephews birthday, if I keep this up they will all have had a card using this die.  This time I combined it with an embossing folder, which I sanded down the raised areas to reveal the white core.

I cut the main screen out of metallic paper and then cut the die again and trimmed out the screen to be black, the words looked much better against the black.  I used some metallic markers to color in the controls along with a white gel pen.  Finished with brads.

• Spellbinders - You've got game die
• Sizzix - Cracked Embossing folder, sanded
• Recollections - Brads

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Miss you

 The two cards I made for the last zoom meeting we had went to two older ladies in our church that are staying home to be safe at this time and not coming to church.  These two cards are going to a couple gentlemen that are staying home from church also.  I made them all cards last year to let them know they are missed and I thought I should do that again.

I decided to stamp one layer cards on pattern paper, using them in a little different orientations. 

• Cardmaking and papercraft magazine - Summer meadows stamps w/grey inks
• Gemini - Dragonfly stamp
• Spectrum noir - clear sparkle pen on wings

• Cardmaking & papercraft magazine - Summer meadows stamp set w/brown ink
• My Favorite things - More Essential sentiments stamp

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Caring thoughts

 I was looking through my stamps and dies for a butterfly and I couldn't find what I wanted so I went and looked through my coloring calendar images and found this pretty butterfly, and it was just the right size for the card I wanted to make.  I tried to use the colors that were in the paper I had picked out and I went to town coloring with pencils.

I tried using the glue with foil technique on this card before I did my nativity cards and I used bigger amounts of glue, still need to find just the right amount to use but it gave a little bit of shine to the background.  at the bottom of the paper they have a little collage and I added a button brad to it to give it some dimension as well as lifting the butterfly with foam tape. A little bit of sparkle pen added to the butterfly.

• Coloring for calm 2017 coloring calendar, color w/pencils
• Sassafras - Mix and mend papers
• Recollections - button brad
• Deco foil and glue
• The Greetery - Thinking of you stamp set
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die
• Spectrum Sparkle pen - clear

I hope your week is off to a good start, my daughter is out east and she said they have a lot of snow, but doesn't sound like anyone is without power so that is a good thing.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie