Thursday, October 22, 2020

Fairy Good Friend


Hi Crafty Friends,

t's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.  As challenge hostess for the month I continue to issue the challenges.

Our challenge this week is ... More than 1 Fold - Create a card that has more than one fold… Gatefold, Z Fold Card, Easel card etc. 


I had thought about creating a different style of card for this challenge. However I finally received my Hello Bluebird stamps & dies that I ordered way back in August a few weeks ago. Ever since getting them, I have been busy with Design Team stuff or the challenges I had to do didn't work with my new stamps/dies. 

Fellow Design Team member Lois Bak recently shared a Portrait style Slimline Easel Card she created.  I have made a Slimline Easel Card before, but that was a landscape one, so as one of the Hello Bluebird dies I was wanting to play with was this Fairy Glade Scene Vertical die, I figured this was the perfect opportunity to use it.


For the background of my card I created a colorful sky using Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick; Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet. I then splattered some Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust all over the background to add a little magical shimmer.

This Slimline die is a little like a jigsaw puzzle, so it was easy enough to add color to all the pieces using a variety of inks and Copic Markers.

I decorated the card using Hello Bluebird's Fairy Garden stamp set.


I used the mushrooms from Hello Bluebird's Fairy Glade Scene Horizontal Die to add the mushrooms to the bottom panel of my card.

I added a fairy themed sentiment to the top portion of this panel.


Here is a look at my card when it is closed ready to be placed in an envelope.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:



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5 comments:

Liz Williams said...

Love your choice of colors and how cool to see a slimline easel card.

Lynn McAuley said...

Love these adorable fairies and their toad stools on this tall easel design. Beautiful work, Frances!

jdmommy - Anne Harmon said...

Darling images on your colorful slimline easel!!

Lois said...

This is great, Frances! Those fairies are just too sweet! Glad your dies finally arrived.

Karen Aicken said...

Glad you finally got your dies ... so you could make this cute card.