Happy Easter - Easel Card

Happy Sunday to you all,

It's time for another Magnolia Down Under Challenge - This week we ask you to make an Easel Card, my very favourite, turning an ordinary card into an extrordinary card.

This week the sponsor is My Creative Classroom - wow a $25 Scholarship - Choose classes from Cricut to Copics to mixed media to rubber stamping to scrapbooking they have something for everyone.

Also entered in the following Challenges:

Just Magnolia - Sketch by Jay Jay - love the sketch Jay Jay (sketch rotated)

Pile it On - Flowers

Practical Scrappers - Flowers

Simon Says Challenge - Recipe Challenge, 2 patterned papers (hoping you can see the patterned paper under the ribbon & 3 embellies (ribbon, flowers & border punch) & 1 image.

The Pink Elephant - Ribbon
Paper Take Weekly - Ginghams & Checks
SophistiCat Challenge Blog - Stitching
Crafty Creations Challenges - Stitching
Everybody Art Challenge - Easel Cards

Card Recipe

Easel Card closed size 15cm x 15cm (6" x6")

Magnolia Stamps - Tilda Hugging Bunny & Sentiment - Happy Easter (Squiggly) from Easter Collection 2009, Loving Wishes - Winter Stamp Kit/Raising the Ceiling.

Paper - Pale Blue Spots by Bella - Ever After Collection, Pale Pink peeking out from under ribbon Kaisercraft - Hopscotch & the CS is by American Crafts.

Colouring - Copic Markers

Tools - Spellbinders - Rectangles, Scallops & Fancy Labels, Scor Pal, Martha Stewart Border

Other - Ribbon, Flowers, Stickles - Star Dust. Machine Stitching - straight & zig zag.

My finished card size is 15cm square (6")

supplies needed:
Cardstock 30cm x 15cm (12"x6")
Cardstock -15cm x 15cm (6"x6")
score tool/scor pal
Scor Tape/Red Tape or strong adhesive



Easel Card 15cm square cut 30cm x15cm piece of cardstock - score at 15cm & 7.5cm (6" & 3") vertically - valley fold both score lines.

Embellish card front - attach to card base, I find it easier to close the card, sticking the front to the closed card, it's easier to line up.  To hold the card in place you need to add a button, pop dot or some sort of dimension for the card to catch on to keep it from closing.

They are a lot easier to make than you might think and they come with a warning, they are very addictive. Easel cards can be made in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

To resize all you need to remember is score your card in half and then in half again.

Example of sizes: 12.5cm (5") square 

Cardstock 25cm (10") x 12.5cm (5") - score at 12.5 (5") & 6.25cm (2.5")

Hope you will stop by & see what the other Design Team Members have created for you, they are all amazing! Thanks for joining this wonderful challenge, I can't wait to see what you come up with & hope you will join us next week. Remember the Design Team have been split into 2 groups - this week it is Group 1 - Debbie, Kellie, Kristy, Jane, Jodie, Stephanne & Guests Christine & Nicole

Have a wonderful week & remember you only have a until next Saturday to enter, happy crafting.

Valentine's Day - Loving Wishes

Hello Lovlies,

I'mmmmmmmm back, we came home early, I was a little home sick. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Happy New Year to you all.

I am hoping to get around to visit all your wonderful creations soon & catch up on all the goss as I had limited access over the Christmas/New Year period via my iPhone, great for email but a little slow for blog hopping.

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to  stop buying DP, I bought 6 books of Christmas DP plus lots of loose sheets and I used a couple of sheets from one or two, but mostly they were untouched.

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #30

Valentine's Day (red, hearts, love, anything romantic)

The prize this fortnight is sponsored by Magnolia Down Under Store & is some yummy Magnolia papers  the Yummy for your Tummy paper collection.

I made this for my DH, our Wedding Anniversary/Valentine's Day are one week apart, hope he likes it.I    used my favourite colour combos, Red White & Kraft. Coloured with Copics. This adorable Tilda & Loving Wishes sentiment is from Magnolia's new Winter Stamp Kit, not available for individual sale but should be released soon.

Kellie's MDU Store will have them for preorder as soon as they are released.

GUEST DESIGN TEAM CALL - MAGNOLIA DOWN UNDER

for 6 months starting in March.

you until the end of January.

Hope you will stop by & see what the other Design Team Members have created for you they are all amazing! Thanks for joining this wonderful challenge, I can't wait to see what you come up with & hope to see you join us again next challenge.