Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends Bloggers Choice August Blog Hop

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Stamping With Friends Bloggers Choice August Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends Bloggers Choice Blog Hop as we share our fun, creative projects to help inspire you. You will be visiting with talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators as they share a project of their choice.

Today I decided to share this cute Easel Birthday card that has a wonderful Fall feel to it. I just love the new Nuts About Squirrels stamp set from the July-December 2021 Mini Catalog and I chose to combine it with one of the designs from the Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper from the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog. This adorable fun fold is simple to create using a standard card base but really does add a Wow factor to the card. It pops up to display the cute squirrel but lies flat to make it easy to mail in medium size envelope.

Products Used;

Nuts About Squirrels stamp set (item #156475)

Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper (item #155841)

Painted Labels Dies (item #151605)

Early Espresso Cardstock (item #119686)

Cajun Craze Cardstock (item #119684)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Early Espresso Classic Ink Pad (item #147114)

Soft Suede Classic Ink Pad (item #147115)

Crumb Cake Classic Ink Pad (item #147116)

Cinnamon Cider Classic Ink Pad (item #153114)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Gilded Gems (item #152478)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Cajun Craze Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4" and cut at 1 1/4" and 4 1/4" from score line to the bottom of the card. Score the center panel at 2 1/8")

Early Espresso Cardstock

2 Strips - 1 1/8" x 4 1/8"

Swirled Circle die cut with Painted Labels Dies

Sentiment Label die cut with Painted Labels Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Inside Base Layer - 5 1/4" x 4"

Stamped Squirrel fussy cut with Paper Snips

Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper

2 Strips - 1" x 4"

2 Pieces - 2" x 2 7/8"

This simple Easel card is easy to create and doesn't require a lot of extra pieces. You start with a standard card base and cut the front into three strips by cutting from the score line down to the bottom of the card at 1 1/4" and 4 1/4". The center panel is 3" wide and you score that panel at 2 1/8" and burnish the fold line so that it creates a mountain fold. I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment with Early Espresso Classic ink onto the Basic White layer and attached it to the inside of the card. Next, I attached the two side strips from the front of the card to the base of the card, lining them up with the outside edges of the card base. I attached the Early Espresso strips to the side panels of the card front and then added the two designer paper strips onto the Early Espresso cardstock strips. For the center panel, I attached the two designer series pieces above and below the score line. I heat embossed the sentiment onto the Early Espresso cardstock label with Gold embossing powder and attached it to the card base with Stampin' Dimensionals. To create the focal image, I stamped the squirrel image with Early Espresso Classic ink onto a piece of Basic White cardstock and used the solid stamp images to color the squirrel. I fussy cut the image and attached it to the Swirled Circle with Stampin' Dimensionals. I attached the Swirled Circle to the bottom section of the center panel, making sure not to apply adhesive to the top of the circle. To complete the card design, I added two Gilded Gems to the sentiment label for a touch of bling.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to try this fun fold to help step up your card designs. There are so many wonderful new products in the July-December 2021 Mini Catalog to explore and create with.

Now it's time to visit Linda's blog and see what wonderful project she has to share with us. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog or use the Roll Call List to find your way. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

Bloggers Choice Roll Call
Libby Fens
Tricia Butts
Linda Moore
Caron Bailey
Donna Schnees
Karen Egan
Melissa Seplowitz
Nancy Reynolds
Tina Hewett
Terry Montgomery
Jenn Hutt
Krissi Hannahs
Martinette Horner

Tracie St-Louis

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.