Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Owl Easel Card


This card is for the Wednesday Challenge at the Cuttlebug Challenge blogspot.  I am on the Cricut Design team but we sometimes do "cross over" to do other projects.  Ironically, it wasn't until I finished that I realized that I had completely forgotten to use the Cuttlebug!


The Challenge was to make an Easel card.  This style of card is just different enough to make people excited about receiving your "unusual" card, but really not much more work than making a standard A2 card.  For the base, I cut an 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock in half vertically to create a piece 4.25 x 11 inches which is then scored at 5.5 inches to create the base card.  The front of the card is then scored again at 2.5 inches from the bottom of the front side. An additional piece of cardstock cut at 4.25 x 5.5 inches is adhered to the lower part of the card front which then creates a hinge for the easel effect.

We were using paper from the My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Collection. I also used various shades of Core'dinations solid cardstock for the owl and sentiment.


I set up the file to cut all of the design pieces on one 12 x 12 mat in Design Studio.  The file is actually set up on two 6 x 12 mats for users of the smaller machines.


The owl is from the Give a Hoot cartridge.  I used "hide selected contour" so I could cut the legs and the flower circles for the eyes in different colors.


 The flower and the sentiment are also from Give a Hoot.  The scalloped rectangle is from Graphically Speaking and I altered the proportions slightly in Design Studio to fit the A2 card size.  You can load the paper for each mat on the 12 x 12 - just turn the mat 180 degrees and load the paper in the proper positions to cut the second page of the file.


I keep all of the pieces on the mat to make it easier to assemble the image without misplacing a tiny beak or leg.


I cut a strip of paper 4.25 inches x 2.5 inches to decorate the bottom of the inside of the card.  The I put the sentiment on the flower shape and raised it with foam squares to create a "stopper" to keep the easel top from falling down when it is folded.


The owl is also on foam squares so the wings can flutter a bit!  With the owl background paper this made me think of ET "hiding" in the toy closet(!).

If you would like to use my file to cut all of the decorative pieces you can download it here.

Owl Easel Card

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16 comments:

  1. OMG!! this is super cute! Love the paper

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  2. I love easel cards. Thanks for the easy to follow directions. You card is very cute!

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  3. I was looking in my paper tonight I have a friend who loves green and owls. My only problem is I have no carts with owls. I thing their is one on the "Just Because" which I do have. I love the owl paper. Great Job. I will have to see if can find some things to use on the carts I have. Great job and love the colors and paper.
    Blog:http://lovethatexpressions.blogspot.com/
    E-Mail: davidbayles@sprintmail.com

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  4. Fabulous card!! I love those papers and colours together!

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  5. just beautiful. I need to learn how to make these. they are very popular right now.

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  6. Oh how Pretty! Love that paper too! Lovely! :)

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  7. I am loving all the owl creations out there right now. This card is terrific! Great colors.

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  8. That is an adorable card, and the technique you explained makes it seem easy to adapt to other shapes,too. Thanks for the neat ideas. BethAnn M.

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  9. Another great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

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  10. Thanks, Diane! I've been wanting to make an easel card for the longest time. Now I can!

    TFS your file too!

    Carmen L

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  11. I've never made an easel card so I wrote down your instructions and plan to make one tomorrow. Your owl card is so adorable. I don't have that cart so will search the ones I have to try and find an owl.
    Mary Ann

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  12. Thanks for giving the directions for this type of card. I've never made one before and I'm looking forward to trying my hand at this. tfs

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  13. Cute owl card and thanks for directions for an easel card. I'll have to try this sometime.

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  14. Cute owl paper and card! I love owls and this is really cute :)

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  15. Thanks for the "how to" on making an easel card. This is something I'd like to try. What a cute owl card.

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  16. I know you posted this card months ago but I just wanted to let you know I made my first one using your tutorial. I changed the owl to a penguin. I absolutely love it! Thank you so much!

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