Quad Easel Card by DT Priyanka Thukral

Hello Everyone


Today I am over at Rainbow Craftykari Blog again with an inspiration post this time. This time I really wanted to try my hands at something new & different and something which I had never created before, thus I picked "QUAD-EASEL CARD" for my inspiration. I remember, when I saw this style of card for the very first time sometime back I got all itchy to try it but just couldnt work on it & with this inspiration post I knew I had to had to try my hands at this quad easel style.

This style gives you alot of flexibility to experiment with themes, combinations etc. I chose to go ahead with the love theme...! For the base, I began with taking a black cardstock in size 11"*11" for the base {ref: Picture(a)} & than cut out 4 strips in size 5"*10" and then folded them into half (scored at 5")  {ref: Picture (b)} I further scored one side of the folded cards diagonally {ref: Picture(c)}. Then I cut out 4 squares in the size 5"*5" {ref: Picture(d)}. I then took patterned papers from papericious & cut them accordingly to attach to the base of my easel card. For the base I cut the patterned paper into 10.5"*10.5" & the remaining 4 patterened papers in 4.8"*4.8". I adhered the patterened papers onto the black cardstocks of the respective sizes & then adhered the 4 cards onto the base {ref: Picture(e)} Our base is now ready to be embellished.

Picture (a) 

picture (b)

Picture (c) 

picture (d)

I embellished it flap by flap in a way that each flap coorinates with the other. (tip: it is important to think through how you are going to embellish the flaps because devaiting from the theme can kill the entire look of the card, thus it is very important that all flaps should compliment each other & be in sync) I embellished my flaps using Spellbinders Nestabilities Fleur De Lis Square die, resins, die cuts, flowers, heat embossed sentiment from fiskars stamp set, pearls, rhinestones. I didnt want to go overboard with my embelishments thus I kept them simple & light. Using a double sided foam tape I adhered the small sentiments on the inside of the cards to make an easel panel (with support of these our cards will stand to make an easel structure) our Quad Easel Card is ready! Check out some close up pictures:

Top view with the closed flaps 

aerial view of the quad easel cards

Some Close Ups: 

sentiment using heat embossing technique

Embellished with resin frame & flowers

Heat Embossed Sentiment using fiskars stamp

couple die cut using silhouette cameo

Material used:
- Black Cardstock
- Papericious: Its peach time patterened paper
- fiskars stamp
- resin frame, resin flowers
- mulberry flowers
- Spellbinders Nestabilities Fleur De Lis Square Die
- Die cuts (boy& girl) on silhouette
- Rhinestones
- Black Distress inks
- We r Memory keepers cut & score board
- Ranger embossing powder (copper)
- versamark embossing ink
- Heat tool

 Almost all these materials are available in the store with us at Rainbow Craftykari

Hope you liked my project & enjoyed it!
Dont forget to leave your feedback & suggestions & also tag us whenever you try it out. Would love to see your take on this.

 Hugs Priyanka Thukral

Pop Up Boxed Card Tutorial - DT Priyanka Thukral

Hello Everyone, Today I am over again at the Rainbow Craftykari Blog and this time I am here with a step by step tutorial on how to make a Pop-Up Box. I have been doing a lot of pop-up boxes in the last few months and I have always loved working on these..! Pop Up boxes are a flat card that opens up to a box with popping out elements.

To give you a glimpse of the project:

Let's begin: 

Step1 for the base: I picked up a 10.5*6" cardstock & scored it at 2.5",5",7.5",10". Then I rotated the cardstock & scored at 2.5" which makes my upper part of the card (2.5") and bottom half (3.5").The last flap left in the end will be glued to the inner side to make the box. Following which I cut the scored lines half way through till 2.5" from the top to make the flaps.

Step2: I then cut two strips measuring 3.5*1" and scored them at 0.5" and 3". These go inside the pop-up box to hold the embellishments in the center.

Step3: Now I picked out the patterned papers from my stash and cut them in the sizes same as each section on inside & outside and adhere them to the box.

Step 4: Then I took Clearly Besotted stamp & stamped the gorgeous little animals & sentiments and colored them using aqua water color pencils & fussy cut them.

Step5: Now using the acetate sheets (easily available in the local stationary shops) I cut these into thin strips. These are used to add the elements outside of the box which gives an impression as if the elements are hanging in the air because of the transparency of these acetate sheets.

Step6: And the final step I added all the fussy cut elements onto the pop-up box and on the acetate sheets using glossy accents.

 

And TADA!!!! the box is ready... :D :D

Isn't it looking very cute??? Enjoy a few more close up pictures.

 

Materials Used: 1. Black Card stock 2. Clearly Besotted Stamp set 3. Versa ink onyx3. Patterned Papers ( from the stash) 4. Tim Holtz Distress inks  5. Aqua Watercolour pencils 6. Glossy Accent7. Fevicol  8. Acetate Sheet Hope you all liked the card & enjoyed the tutorial. Until next time. ;) Don't forget to participate in our ongoing challenge. Link your projects here.

Priyanka Thukral