Friday 17 September 2010

My First Easel Card

What a lovely sunny morning for my day off ,I spent the afternoon ironing yesterday so that I could craft guilt free today and this is what I've made so far. I have never made an easel card before but wanted to make something different for an 18th birthday.
I used Dreamy by Sugar Nellie,I cut the image keeping her feet out of the circle,I'm sure most of you know how this is doesn't but if not,check this out for the link. I mounted this onto a glittery paper scalloped circle,I haven't used this for ages but found this and the paper I used for my butterflies in the back of a drawer. Don't forget there's a Scalloped Circle challenge on over at Scrapbook Sister's this week! Now,looking at this photo the papers look turquoise but they are more of a minty green,I think the sunshine was playing tricks through the blinds lol!


I'm using this card for several challenges:-
Alphabet Challenge,U for unused stash,
Polka Doodles 37,Easel Card,
Crafty Catz 50,chocolate and green,
ASC 25,sparkley and glittery,
Paper Sundaes 35,Use 3 + embelishments,
Daring Cardmakers,There's something in the air,
Cute card Thursday 130,tweet of flutter,
and I think that's it!
Now I need to get cracking I'm at the Scrapbook Sister's Crop tomorrow so need to try for once to organise myself enough so that I don't end up taking the kitchen sink as I usually do.
Have a crafty weekend,thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

27 comments:

Lynda said...

A very pretty card - thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.

Lynda xxx

MauMau88 said...

Wonderful card!

Inken
Alphabet Challenge

Fiona said...

beautiful card and great use of embellishments. Thanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week.

Fi

Tami said...

How cute is that. Thanks for sharing at Aly's

Di said...

This is so lovely Julie.Sweet image and pretty papers.Love the colours together. I've never made an easel card either, just never got round to it.I know they're easy so i'll have to do one soon. Di.xx

Cardmaking Galore said...

Wow - great job for your first easel card. I've been putting it off for ages. have to give it a go

Alica said...

fabulous easel card - it came out really well!
Thanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week!

CRAZYCRAFTSHED said...

Hi Julie
A gorgeous card,thankyoufor joining us on this week's challenge at CraftyCatz,
Hugs Dianne xx

Lisa said...

Oh what a sweet card and lovely easel card for your first attempt! Well done and thanks for playing along at Polka Doodles this week!

Unknown said...

Beautiful card - love the image & colours. Thanks for joining the Alphabet Challenge x

Jeannie said...

Great card Julie - I love the colour combination

Julie said...

A fab card Julie, very sweet with great colours.

BondGirl said...

Love the colour combo on your pretty easel card. Thanks for joining us over at polkadoodles

Wendy Ramlakhan said...

Just beautiful. What a great 1st easel card!!! Thanks so much for joining us this week for our 3 or more embellishment challenge at Paper Sundaes.

Hugs,
Wendy

carol said...

oh my your first easel card is super, gorgeous, x carol....craftycatz

Sue U said...

Congrats on a very successful first easel card!! Love the colours Sue xx

Annika said...

I love easel cards - se esy to make and they look gorgeous. Beautiful image and wonderfully coloured!
xxx

Suzanne said...

A gorgeous card. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Crafty Catz this week x

brenda said...

What a great card, thank you so much for joining is my easel card theme at Polkadoodles this week and good luck.

B x

Tracy said...

Gorgeous creation, thanks for joining Polkadoodles challenge, good luck.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Unknown said...

What an adorable card.. I love it..

Nancy in Iowa said...

An easel card. I think about them and think about them and then think...naaaa... I'll pass. And I'm not sure why I pass. I think they scare me! Me? Follow directions?! That's the REAL reason they terrify me!
I may just have to join the easel crowd and give them a try.
The image you selected is so perfect for a teen card and the coloring is lovely!

Vanja said...

Such an adorable image. I love the colour combo, beautiful card!
Thank you for joining us at CCT this week! :)
Hugs, Vanja

made by fifi said...

beautiful card - thank you for joining in the alphabet challenge x

FauxPainter - Dee Paramour said...

Such a sweet card, thanks for taking part in the Polka Doodles challenge.

Tip Top said...

Wow! Much better than my first attempt! Thanks for entering the Polkadoodle Challenge - hope you can join us again next week!

Jenny said...

Such a great 1st attempt! Love all the details on here, especially the butterflies. Thanks for sharing your creation with us at Polka Doodles this week.