My friend and former co-worker's birthday falls right after Christmas, and here is another example of missing birthday cards due to my loss of creative mojo during Covid! I was determined to make a card for her this year as I've finally gotten myself been back to my craft table after an 18 mos. hit & miss hiatus! It was definitely time to get out of my funk!
My friend and I worked together as a team for 13 years as elementary school office staff. One of our major functions each year was school start-up in my role as the elementary school office manager and she as the student registrar. A favorite fun thing we looked forward to each year was welcoming our new little kindergarteners with their smiling, happy little faces and cute antics.
With this in mind, I thought she would really enjoy a kindergarten art easel shape for her birthday card. I remembered an easel template that I've had in my stash for several years, but it was smaller than I wanted as I prefer cards that are 4-3/4 x 6-inches. Before getting started, I enlarged the template dimensions. I am really please with my finished easel card. Take a look below at my finished card with its inside design and my verse completed on the computer!
Ingredients: Stampin' Up Products: Cardstock--Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky. Stamps--Yippee Skippee (sentiment), Hardwood BG. Dies--Floral Fusion Sizzilit. Ink--Baked Brown Sugar, Staz-On White. Patterned Paper--scraps. Punch--Banner. Linen Thread. Basic Pearl--minis. Other: EK punch--Victorian Corners
A very cute card. Love the chalkboard easel and the colorful banner.
ReplyDeleteThanks Shirley! It was a fun card to make, but I wanted it bigger than template instructions so had to adlib (but I made careful notes in case I wanted to do it again)!
DeleteI came over to your blog from SCS and when I saw this little easel card I had to stop to ooh and aah. This is just adorable and so clever. I think I need to do a search for an easel template and make my own version. LOVE this so much!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting, and so nice of you to leave a comment! I wanted it bigger than template instructions so had to adlib (but I made careful notes in case I wanted to do it again)! To explain, I like my cards to be 4-3/4" x 6" and not the standard A2 size (4-1/4" x 5-1/2").
DeleteI tried to find your SCS gallery under Karenladd...it wasn't there...wanted to visit and comment!