Early Easter Card

Good morning everyone! It’s a cold and snowy day so I am sitting in my craft room making early Easter cards. It’s hard to believe that Easter is not that far away and I thought I’d get ready and be ahead of time. This is very unlike me, but I am determined to get these out on time. Do any of you have the same problem?

 I have Vinny cheering me on while

he naps in his dog bed next to my craft table.

Today we’re going to make a card using the Have A Spine and Bookish Holiday Frames dies and stamps from The Greetery. We are also going to use a sticker set called Easter paper crafting, by Parklane, that I got at Joann’s.

Your first step will be to take a cream 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 folded card, and use the die indicated below, to make it the appropriate shape for this card.

Your second step will be to cut out two 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 dark blue panels by using the die indicated below. 

In the Have A Spine set you will get the two dies below. These cut out the spine and the bottom part to look like pages.

This is what it looks like below. I cut my spine and page pieces out of light blue card stock that I’ve had in my stash for a while. I think, if I’m remembering correctly, it’s from Bazzil  

You take the small bottom page piece and glue it to the spine piece prior to adding it to the dark blue panel.

Once you glue that bottom piece on, you can now glue the whole spine and bottom page piece onto your panel. It should look like my example below.

I glue my spine and bottom onto the panel first, before stamping, so that I have an accurate picture of where I need to place my Bookish Holiday Frame stamp, to be centered. 

Once I got my frame stamped, I took the bunny sticker, from the Park Lane sticker set, and centered it in the middle of the frame

The final step is to cut one cream and two vellum panels at 4 3/16 x 5 7/16. This will be for the inside of your card to make it look like there’s book pages. I line all three of the panels up to all of the edges on the inside of the book and glue them to the cream card base with a very thin line of glue. You may have to trim two little pieces from the cream card stock and vellum to match the card front. It’s not that hard and you’ll see exactly where you have to cut.

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Now your card is done! You can stamp, or print, any saying that you would like inside on the cream panel. I think I’m gonna take a little snippet out of Peter Cottontail for mine.

Well, that’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed this card and if you have any questions, please leave a comment and I would be happy to answer it for you. 

I am working on a YouTube channel so I can do these tutorials in video form. I know it’s easier to watch a video, but if you follow the directions up above, this card really does go together easily.

Have a wonderful weekend and stay tuned for my next card. I think I’m gonna do a birthday card next.