SIP #25 Cardmaker's Choice - Easel Card

Hello and Happy Tuesday!!!  I hope you had a fabulous weekend!  I had a craft fair on Saturday that I took part in and had a great day with some great friends!  That always makes for a wonderful weekend!    The Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge this week has me tickled pink.. yep, I'm a happy camper because it is a Cardmaker's Choice which means I can make whatever card I want to make! I hope you'll head over and link up a card of your own!

I decided to make a card that is a triple treat! It's a card, a post-it note holder, and a calendar all in one!  I sold quite a few of these at my craft fair and I had a few friends in the One Stamp At A Time Facebook group request instructions.  I'm planning on doing another craft fair in 3 weeks so I thought it would be a great time to make a few more and blog the super easy instructions!

I started out with a piece of 11" x 4 1/4" Blackberry Bliss cardstock that was scored at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2" so that it folds up like an easel.  I added a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" Blackberry Bliss and attached it with multipurpose glue to the back section of the uppermost part of the easel card base.  Here are two pictures that may be helpful with the fold and attachment of the 2nd piece of cardstock.

I used lighter cardstock for the pictures so they would be a little easier to see.  

Once I had the 2nd piece of cardstock in place, I used 4" x 5 1/4" Bohemian DSP layers for the upper and bottom portion of the card.  I attached my Post It Note Pad on the bottom with Tear Tape.  The 3 x 2 1/4"calendar on the upper portion was attached to 3 1/4" x 2 1/2" piece of  Blackberry Bliss cardstock with tear tape and then attached with tear tape to my card. Delightful Dijon Dotted Lace Trim was tied across the upper portion and knotted on the left side.  I stamped my sentiment from the Feel Goods stamp set in Blackberry Bliss Ink on Very Vanilla Cardstock and punched out with a 2" circle punch.  I backed that with a piece of Blackberry Bliss cut out with one of the Starburst Framelits and attached it with Dimensionals onto my card over the lace.  I stamped the Butterfly from the Papillion Potpourri Set with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Delightful Dijon Cardstock and punched it out with the Elegant Butterfly Punch.  I used my bone folder to curve the wings before attaching it with glue dots onto my card.  I also attached some pearl jewels to the butterfly as well as some pearls to some of the curly ends of the letters. 

I love that this card folds flat and can be mailed!

Here are the Stampin' Up Products Used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Other Products Used:  

Post It Note Pad (Staples)

Tear Off Mini Calendars (Taylored Expressions)

Thanks so much stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

CYCI 68 Sketch Challenge

Hello and Happy Sunday!  I hope you've have a nice weekend!  I had a nice relaxing Saturday and by the looks of things, Sunday will be a pretty chilled day too!  I have a card class planned for next Saturday so I will need to work on my cards for that at some point this week, just not sure if that is happening today! lol 

This week over at Can You Case It? we have a Sketch Challenge for you.  I really love sketch challenges.  It is so nice to have a starting point and to make it your own.  For this sketch I decided to turn the sketch on it's side for my card.

I started with a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Basic Gray Cardstock scored at 4 1/4" for my card base.  I layered on a piece of  the Moonlight DSP that I ran through my Big Shot with a Lil' Inker's Stitched Rectangles Die.  I heat embossing the "Sunshine" sentiment from the Feel Goods Stamp Set with Crushed Curry Embossing Powder onto Whisper White card stock. I then ran that through the Big Shot with a smaller Stitched Rectangle Die and layered that on the larger Rectangle.   I stamped a flower from the Crazy about You stamp set in Crushed Curry and punched out with the coordinating Scallop Circle Die.  I stamped two flowers from the Flower Patch Set, one in Cherry Cobbler and one in Smoky Slate and cut them out with the Flower Patch Framelits.  I glued down the Scallop Flower with Tombo and popped up the Cherry Cobbler flower with a dimensional.  The Smoky Slate flower was glued down at the base of the flower only.  I used some Doodlebug Mini Pearls in the centers of the two flowers layered on top.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll be sure to check out all of the cards that the Design Team has for you this week!

Blessings,  Tina

Here are the Stampin' Up Products I Used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

The Non-Stampin' Up Products Used:  Lil' Inkers Stitched Rectangle Dies, Doodlebug Mini Pearls