2010-06-09 Easel Card & Desktop Calendar & links to other samples

For the next swap card I’m working on the theme is an easel card.

I’ve made these before and really enjoyed them. If you’d like to see my first try…LOOK HERE. And a remake of pretty much the same card but using flower soft HERE. And the over-the-top Christmas Card I mailed out to family and friends for Christmas 2009 card. The photo tutorial on a basic easel card is just below the family Christmas card if you need it. So yep, I’ve made my share of easel cards.

Here are the general supplies I used to create the card I finished up making today. It took me two mornings to complete this one. I get up early before work, have my coffee and spend about 1/2 hour at my desk before heading off to work for the day.

I think I went pretty over-board with the embellishments, but I had this stuff laying around and I just kept piling it on until I didn’t think more would fit.

I took an angle shot so you can see the easel part of the card. It also shows that I built up the punched layers. I made sure to use full sheets of fun foam under each layer, so it has a solid feel and won’t waffle up when it’s mailed to my partner.

Don’t you hate it when you get a card in the mail, that you know someone worked on just for you and it comes all bent up just from using to few pop dots? Waffle City! The card maybe wonderful, but mostly I can’t get past the pitiful waffling. It’s probably just one of my many quirks! I for sure am going to have to load up with bubble wrap and hope that the crystal effects I used to hold all the pearl seed beads will hold together through mailing.

and a couple of close ups. This one shows the two stamps I used. The bookplate is by River City Rubber and the Verse by Stampendous.

Did I go over-the-top with too much “STUFF” on this one, or not? Hopefully not. Speaking of STUFF, I nearly forgot to tell you what I used the nail polish on…the home made dew drops.

Tutorial HERE if you want it, on homemade dew drops. I also thought the punched leaves looked to “one color” So I swished the nail polish along random leaves just to give a change of color. It doesn’t really add shine like it did on the dew drops. And shine? The whole background is glittered DSP from the First Blush Collection by Studio D

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6-29-10: Edited to add: I talked to my girlfriend who gave the mini calendar to me. She tells me that she orders them from a place on line called Sky Blue Pink. Here is the direct link to the page that shows the calendar for 2011: mini calendars!