Twisted Sister

Ok, so this post has NOTHING to do with Sister's, but thought it sounded better than just 'Twisted Easel Card...Maybe it's just me.

I have spent another night, with no sleep, and this seems to be becoming a common occurrence. So again, I have used this 'normally useless time' to make another card. Not just any card...My very first Twisted Easel card. I really, thoroughly, enjoyed making this card! I love the effect, and the angle at which the finished card sits.

It took a while to decide on which style of card I was actually going to make, and to start with, I had started creating a 'normal' easel card...but I didn't like how it was going, it seemed to be lacking...

So eventually, I changed my mind, and started to do the twisted version instead.

I used one of my own background paper designs, which I named Cherry Lace. I matted and layered this, onto other matching papers, that I created to match the background paper, and printed them off onto 200gsm, A4, white, Poundland card stock. I added two, overlapping strips of purple ribbon, again, from a multi-pack, from Poundland, and created a double bow, which I attached with my glue gun.I made two roses, from scraps of the left over matching papers, and added these to the front of the card, with some ivory paper roses too, to add some contrast. I added a pearl into the middles of the purple roses, and edged the tips of the ivory roses with some iridescent, Dovecraft glitter glue. To create the lacy sides of the card, I used my X-cut, boarder punch, and punched out two rows of the design, in two strips of the matching card stock that I printed off. The butterflies were Robert Addams, All Occasion Dies, 82. I cut these out of the matching card stock, in the deep, cadbury-type purple. Using my glue gun, I added differing sized, ivory beads, down the length of the body, and added a Swarovski crystal to each of them. I stuck the butterflies onto my project with the glue gun.

I created the card blank, out of a generic piece of white, hammered card. 15cmx15cm, folded in half, then folding one side, on the diagonal, taking the top, left corner, and folding it down to the right, bottom corner, to line the edge up with the 'spine' of the card, to create the twist. On the 'inside' of the card, I covered it with the deep purple, matching card. With the card opened up in front of me, i folded the left corner back down, to create a triangular flap, I then added my topper to this, on the bottom half of my topper only. To create the stopper, to keep the card from folding flat, I heat embossed, using WOW gold embossing powder, a simple sentiment, onto a scrap of the white, hammered card, then used the X-cut circle cutter, to cut the sentiment out. I then matted and layered this onto the darker purple card, then again onto the lighter purple card. This was then layered onto more of the white, hammered card, which I had wrapped more of the two ribbons around, and attached to the inside of the card, using foam tape, to create the height needed for the stopper.

 The finished card.

XOXO