Hello Creative Friends,
I’ve seen these easel cards all over and had to try one.   I used the easel card directions at Splitcoast and adjusted the  size.  For this I dug out one of my favorite stamp sets, Friends 24-7 (Stampin’ Up!).

I wanted to give it just a little vintage touch  so I chose some K&Company paper from my stash that I thought would work and used a little distress ink on the edges of the image.  I purposely left the bird image all one color and didn’t fill in the branch.

I used a brad for my card “stop” and some pearls, flowers, and satin ribbon to decorate with.  The flowers and leaves are made with Sizzix Sizzlit dies.

These cards do fold up to put in envelopes (you may want to pad them to mail because of what you choose for your “stop” embellishment but I always have cards that need padded to mail).  I know it’s hard to see the true color of the card stock base but it’s Papertrey’s Scarlet Jewel, which I think is so pretty.

I brought my ‘fridge’ page over to my new blog.  Of course when you move you have to bring your appliances with you! Ha!

See my Gallery to browse through projects from my old blog.