Tee-riffic Micey Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

For as long as I can remember (over 25 years) I have made my friend who loves to play golf a golf themed birthday card.  I am a little late getting her card to her this year, as making cards takes more time for me these days, but I did get there in the end!

When I was thinking about what type of card to make this year, I thought about a golf ball and decided it might be fun to make a golf ball themed Easel Card.

Sometime back I purchased some of the Meet the Mice dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs, including the golf themed die set. So I pulled them out to use for my card today. To make the mouse work for a female golfing card, I selected pink cardstock colours for the outfit.

To get the golf ball effect on the large circle panel I used the Bubbles Embossing Folder from Made To Surprise. The sentiment on the bottom portion of the card is also from Made To Surprise and is from the Go Sporty Stamp/Die Set. I actually cut the stamps apart a little, so I could customise the wording how I needed it to be.

Here is a look at my card when it is closed, ready to be placed in an envelope. My finished card is just under 6 inches in diameter. 

 

Let's Chat Soon

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing an Easel card I created using some of the products from Spellbinders December 2025 Club kits. I didn’t have much time in December to play, so I am making up for that now.

For the Easel portion of the card, I used the Gilded Rectangles die set from Chloe’s Creative Cards. It’s a die set I ordered late last year which I finally got to play with.

I used Spellbinders Stitching Die Set for December for the cups & sentiments, but I opted not to added any stitching. 

For the Embossed background, I used the 3D Embossing Folder for December, after embossing I added white ink over the raised areas. 

The “Let’s Chat Soon” is a die included in the Stitching Die set, but rather than die cutting it, I hot foiled it using white glimmer foil. 

Here’s a look at my card when it is closed ready to place in an envelope. It will fit in a 5 x 7 envelope.

Hello Emoji Easel Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a Circle Easel card using products from Trinity Stamps.

For the circle portion of the card I used the Circle Shaped die set. I then decorated the circle using the cards using the Basic Emoji Builder & All Hands Emoji Add-on die sets.

I added the sentiments using a die set from Lisa Horton Designs.

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

Cheesiest Birthday Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun Easel Card I created for a birthday card for my daughter celebrated her birthday recently.

This card uses stamps and dies from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott's Going Against the Grain Collection which was released a few months ago.

I die cut the cheeseboard die to created the easel portion of the card in white and brown cardstock. For the brown panels, I used the die as a stencil with brown ink to give a woodgrain look.

I stamped and die cut the images multiple times and added them to my cheeseboard.

I added the sentiments as a stopper to keep the card open.

I also added the two hands holding the wine glasses, doing a reverse image for the one of the left and added them to my card.

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

Here is the look at the inside of the card. The brown woodgrain base only goes partially up the base of the card. I then have some white space at the top to add a personal message.

Easel cards have lots of areas that can be decorated if you wish. So I decided to add another sentiment and some die cut cheese slices to decorate the back of the card.

From Our Home To Yours

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I have another fun Christmas card to share. This is another Easel Card, but this time around I created a 5 x 7 version.

For this card, I focused on Spellbinders Large Die of the Month for October which is Window Wonderland, this i s such a fun die set.

For the background of this card, I used the Brick by Brick 3D Embossing Folder.  I added two stamped sentiments to the card using the Clear Stamp set of the month.

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

For the base of my card, I only added the glitter cardstock to the part of the base which is visible when in the easel position. I kept the rest plain so I had a place to write a personal message. 

Build A Snowman Slimline Easel

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog. Today I am sharing a Christmas themed Slimline Easel card I created using products from Spellbinders. 

The theme for the Spellbinders October 2025 Club Kits is a Christmas/Winter theme and while it is Summer down here in Australia at Christmas time, I am loving all the new kits.

For the sky portion of my card, I used the Magic Wonderland Glimmer Plate to foil a panel of Malibu Cardstock with white foil. This was pretty easy to repeat on my slimline panel without any obvious lines.

I then used the Snow Day Friends which is the Small Die of the month to create my scene. I added two sentiments to the base of the card both of which are also included in the kits.

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

And the inside panel. I added glitter card to the base, so it looked like the snow used on the main image. There is still plenty of areas to write a personal message on this card.

Snowman Easel

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Christmas themed Easel Card I created while I was making Christmas in July cards last month.  Once  I got into that Christmas card making mode, it was hard to get out of it and as I still have cards to get made for Christmas this year I will pop a few on here each month.

For this card I used the North Pole Sentiments die set which included the snowmen, and the pole and sentiments on the pole ... it's such a fun set. 

I used Spellbinders Snowfall Shimmer Betterpress Plate to white glimmer foil the snowflake background onto a panel of blue cardstock. I am loving this plate!

I used Trinty Stamps Arch- Shaped Card die set to create the Arch Shaped Easel card.

I added white glitter cardstock to the base and also the main panel of the card for snow.

Here is a look at my card, when it is folded. It will fit into a standard A2 Envelope.

 

Unfrogettable

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

For my card today I am sharing a fun frog themed cards using dies and stamps from Spellbinders Jump for Joy Collection. I had lots of fun creating all the mushrooms/toadstools and the frogs.

A few weeks ago when Sam Calcott from Made To Surprise shared her May release products, she released her Winged Pop Up Card die set from the Showstoppers 3 collection. She also shared a number of new ways to use this die ... I love when you can use a die more then one way, so of course I got mine out and die cut it a few times from white cardstock and made up some of the different styles while they were fresh in my mind. For this one I added the extra panel at the bottom to make it a stepper easel card.

Here is a look at the inside and the bottom panel. While I did get the Spellbinders sentiment set that goes with the frog die set, I ended up using the Waffle Flower Crafts stamp set. I preferred the size and wording of these for this particular card.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Yeah ok … so it’s not beginning to look like Christmas just yet! It’s still seven months away, we can all keep breathing haha. 

I finally got my hands on a few Christmas themed die sets I have been after from last year, so I decided to pull one out to play. This one is the Festive Friends die set which was Spellbinders October 2024 Small Die of the month, I recently came on sale on the Spellbinders web site, so I grabbed one.

For my card I created a Centre Step Card which I turned into a Centre Step Easel Card, I used an old Cheery Lynn Designs die set, which has long been retired. I have linked to a couple of others, the Divinity Designs one is exactly the same, but I like the insert for the inside on the one I used. 

To add the panel to turn my card into an Easel Card, I cut a piece of Cardstock that was 5 1/2 inches x 6 inches and then scored along the 6 inch side at 1/2 inch, I then used the 1/2 inch tab to attach to the back of the card.

I went a little crazy with the penguins, making seven all up, I assembled two upside down, so that they were facing the opposite way, so they weren’t all the same.

I used glitter cardstock to create the snowy hill at the bottom of the card, the base is also glitter.

The sentiment is one from Mama Elephant, which I have used for the stopper of the card. I layered the sentiment using Spellbinders Essential Stylish Ovals.

For the polar bears jumper, after die cutting the piece, I used an embossing folder to add texture, rubbing white ink over the raised areas.

The card folds flat and will fit in a 6 inch square envelope.

Here is a look at the inside of my card and the easel base, 

The Merriest Christmas is a Spellbinders Betterpress plate which I stamped using black ink.