Saturday, March 12, 2011

Feeling Green? Twisted Easel Card

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20110312_2  Janis at Pause Dream Enjoy is having a Fun Fold card challenge on her blog and a chance to win a set of Peachy Keen stamps. I wanted to play along and just recently heard about a twist on the Easel card. It is a Twisted Easel card and thought it would work great for this challenge. While blog hopping recently I saw a really cute St. Patrick’s Day card with some frogs and the saying Feeling Green. I just thought it was so super cute and wanted to make my own version of the card and knew it would be perfect for this challenge.
To make the card I followed the tutorial on Pam Sparks blog. I can’t take credit for finding the tutorial Bob at Happy  Cardmaker posted the link and was my inspiration to give this a try.
My finished card is a 6” X 6” Square card.  I started with a piece of card stock cut 6” X 12” and scored it at 6”, then scored one side from corner to corner diagonally.  I used some dark green card stock I had in my stash for the card base. The patterned paper on the card is from a K & Co paper stack.  I used my Cricut Imagine and the Audrey cartridge for frog. The frog cut was cut at 2.7” and is  from the Once Upon a Princess cricut cartridge. The shamrocks on the inside of the card are cut at 2” and are from the Celebrate With Flourish Cricut Lite cartridge and I again flooded the layers with colors and patterns from the Audrey Cricut Imagine cartridge.  I ran the frog's stomach through my Cuttlebug and embossed it with the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder. I printed the Feeling Green sentiment out on my computer.
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20110312_6I am really pleased how this turned out. I hope you give this card a try, it was a lot of fun to make and actually very easy. Thanks for visiting

10 comments:

  1. This is fabulous, I love easel cards and this is great!!
    Cindy

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  2. Now I just love easel cards but this is a great twist on them!! :) Love it! Great job on the challenge and thanks for sharing! :)

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  3. Love the card, never seen it done this way.

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  4. Hi Deanna;
    You did a great job on the twisted easel card. Making the card with the I was a great idea. Now I will have to do the update on my Imagine. Thanks for sharing.
    Have a GREAT DAY!!!
    Bob L.
    www.happycardmaker.blogspot.com

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  5. I'm so glad you played along. I've never heard of this twisted easel card. Thanks for sharing! :) Janis

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  6. Fabulous card, I've never heard of a twisted easel card! Love it! TFS!!

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  7. Cute cute card Deanna! It was very clever to run the little guy through the Cuttlebug. I love the texture it added to him!
    Thanks for sharing,
    Judy Garrelts

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  8. Oh gosh! This is just great!! I'll be checking out the tutorial for sure!!! :)

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  9. such a cute froggie Deanna! So glad to hear you found my tutorial and it worked for you! yay! I'll probably be the last person to get the Imagine, for now I love my rubber stamps and use the Cricut now and then... so fun to see what you all are doing with the "I" though! So creative!
    Pam Going Postal

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  10. Super card Deanna and thanks for the tutorial - That frog is cute as punch!
    Sandy

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