This week we will be looking at a beautiful red shade called Poppy Parade, this share is from our Brights Colour family. This week I will be sharing how to make a wonderful, twisted easel card. This card template is slightly more advanced than the previous weeks tutorial.
Poppy Parade is a bright cheerful colour, it’s an off red colour with a nice Fuchsia, Magenta hue. This colour is marvellous for florals, it’s also amazing to include in Valentines Cards, Christmas and any card you want to bring cheer.
The card I am showing you is a twisted easel card, one that opens with a twist and stands in a 3D fashion. It’s a great card to send for many different occasions and brings a bit of fun to any celebration.
Today I will be using the Thankful Garden bundle (165534) this bundle is made up of 3 different components a 13 piece Photopolymer stamp set, a 12 piece die set and a 5 piece decorative mask, these masks allow you to stencil the images to easily colour the images in, there is a notch at the top to easily allow you to line up each layer to create a beautifully coloured image.
I have used Poppy Parade and Granny Apple Green Ink along with Poppy Parade and Basic White Cardstock to create this amazing card.
What you will need
- Thankful Garden Bundle
- 25 x 11-inch piece of Poppy Parade
- 25 x 4.25-inch piece of Poppy Parade
- Poppy Parade Classic Stampin’ Ink Pad
- Granny Apple Green Classic Stampin’ Ink Pad
- 2 blending brushes one for each colour
- Memento Stamp Pad
- Stamp Block
- 2 pieces of 4 x 5.25-inch Basic White Cardstock
- A piece of 2.5 x 1.5-inch Basic White Cardstock
- Tear & Tape or Stampin Seal+
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Iridescent Faceted Gems
- Paper Trimmer
- Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
- Embossing Folder
Instructions
- Take you piece of Poppy Parade cardstock and score along the 11-inch side at 4.25 and 5.5-inches fold over at 5.5-inch and fold back at the 4.25 inch.
- On the square from bottom left to top right create a score line diagonally to create your pop-up mechanism.
- Within the 1.25-inch section apply Tear & Tape or Stampin Seal+ and stick to back of the card.
- Adhere the Tear & Tape or Stampin Seal+ on the lower triangle on the card base and stick the piece of 4.25 x 4.25-inch card stick to it.
- Using one of the pieces of 4 x 5-inch Basic White cardstock and cut 1 inch off and emboss both these pieces through with the Embossing Folder using the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
- Adhere to the 1-inch embossed piece to the 1.25-inch strip on the card base, and the 4×4-inch embossed piece to the 4.25 x 4.25-inch part of the card base.
- Now for the focal piece, stamp the outline onto the other piece of 4 x 5-inch Basic White card stock
- Decorative Masks have a number in top left corner, follow these in order, the first 3 will create the florals and the last 2 will create the leaves.
- Line Up Mask 1, lightly blend Poppy Parade onto the cardstock within the Mask, it helps to rub some of the colour onto a scrap piece of paper or a paper towel.
- Line Mask 2 and follow the same process but press a little harder to get more colour concentration. When mask 3 is on load up your brush and lean harder to get a darker colour.
- Lining Mask 4 and 5 up using Granny Apple Green with a light soft hold and then heavier and darker with the last mask.
- Line the matching die up and run through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
- With the now cut image, apply this to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Stamp your sentiment on the 2.5 x 1.5-inch piece of Basic White in Poppy Parade ink, open the card so that it sits up and use Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop the sentiment on the base of the card so that the focal image looks like its propped up by the sentiment thus creating your easel card.
- Decorate with 3, 5 or 7 gems on the front of the focal image to your taste.
Voila, you have created your very own easel card.
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