These cute little dimensional birds were also from the packet my Mum-in-law sent me for my birthday. They are so cute and work well with the scrap backgrounds I've been using because they are also made up of different colours and patterns.
Saturday, June 27
Wednesday, June 24
Tutorial - Triple Easel Cards
Easel cards are wonderful display cards that are relatively easy to assemble. They are quite popular amongst card makers and there seems to be more and more variation as paper artists explore the possibilities of these great cards. Today I'm going to show you my take on a simple triple easel card.
1. Start with a piece of cardstock measuring 10" x 7". Lay it lengthways (landscape orientation) on your scoreboard and score at 5" and 71/2". Make mountain folds along each score line to create your basic easel card base.
2. Open your card and lay it flat on a cutting mat. You are going to make two cuts on the front of your card to create three sections, as shown below. The cuts start from the spine of the card and end at the opposite edge.
Measure and mark 11/2" from the left hand edge for the first cut. Measure and mark 11/2" from the right hand edge for the second cut. You should end up with two outside sections measuring 11/2" x 5" and a centre section measuring 4" x 5". Refer to the picture below.
3. Cut two pieces of cardstock measuring 11/2" x 5" and one piece measuring 4" x 5". These panels will be secured to the card base and will form the front of your finished easel card.
4. Decorate the panels as desired. I used some patterned paper, die cuts, pearls, ribbon and a sentiment stamp. Don't forget to add some decoration to the inside of the card, which will be visible when the card is standing open.
5. Secure the panels to the front of the card, adding adhesive only to the bottom sections. If you have never made an easel card before, click here for some basic assembly instructions.
6. Now you need to add some little embellishments to hold the card panels open for display. I used little oval die cuts secured to the inside of the card with foam tape. Since I wanted to make the three panels obvious when the card was open, I staggered the ovals so that the centre panel stands up further than the two outer ones.
Done!
Monday, June 22
New Release: Scooter Girl
Here's one for all those girls who love to feel the wind in their hair!
Scooter Girl
Anesha's Card
Astrid's Card
Christine's Card
Judy's Card
Petra's Card
Shirley's Card
Friday, June 19
Scrap Card #21
My Mum-in-law sent me some fabulous embellishments for my birthday in April, including a packet of the cutest little dimensional birds. I've used one of them on today's card along with a sentiment stamp from a new set I just purchased from Altenew.
Wednesday, June 17
Anesha's Fabulous Bag
Anesha has created this amazing calico bag using images from the Botanicals Set of digital stamps. I'm sure you'll agree that she's a very talented and inspiring artist, both on and off the page!
Monday, June 15
New Release: Botanicals Set
This set is based on the beautiful Russian style Zhostovo painting that is popular amongst folk artists. Traditionally, the flowers are painted in many layers on a black or dark background, which makes the colours very rich and vibrant.
Botanicals Set
Christine's Card
Judy's Card
Petra's Card
A tag from Petra
Shirley's Card
Another Card from Shirley
Anesha's Card
Saturday, June 13
Aqua Roses
Just a quick card share from me today...
Stamps by Sparkle N Sprinkle, Altenew and Just Rite
Friday, June 12
Rubber Stamps
Sparkle N Sprinkle has released two new sets of rubber stamps from my Dog Tales Too set. Both sets are available now for purchase. Click on the images to follow the links.
Wednesday, June 10
Scrap Card #20
It certainly feels like I've reached another milestone today with 20 scrap cards now under my belt! This is definitely the most successful I've ever been with a New Year's Resolution... it has helped to have all the backgrounds out on my desk, in full view, and taking up space that I could be using for my cuppa. That's definitely incentive to keep going!
Stamps by Stampin' Up
Monday, June 8
New Release: Dog Tales Too
I'm going to apologise in advance to all the people whose favourite breed of dog doesn't appear in this set of pooches, I wish I could draw them all!
Dog Tales Too
A set of three cute cards from Shirley.
Two gorgeous cards from Anesha... she even
created her own patterned paper for the first one!
Astrid's adorable card.
A celebration of colour from Christine.
Judy's gorgeous card... don't you just love the little bones?!
Two fantastic creations from Petra.
Thursday, June 4
Scrap Card #19
This month all my scrap card backgrounds will be blue, since I seem to have an abundance of them. Fortunately for me, blue is one of those wonderful colours that is easy to use and works well with lots of other colours, designs and images.
For todays card I've used a gorgeous Flourishes stamp and Prismacolor pencils.
The sentiment is from Sparkle N Sprinkle.
Monday, June 1
May Challenge Winners
Congratulations to Carla, Donna and Suzana!
You are the randomly chosen winners of the May challenge.
Please visit my online store and select either a full digital stamp set or three
individual images. Email your choice to me at beccymuir@yahoo.com.
June New Releases
Three new sets of images have been added to the shop this month, including some new doggie friends as well as some colourful, folk-art inspired florals.
Dog Tales Too
Scooter Girl
Botanicals Set
June Challenge - New Conditions!
PLEASE READ THE CONDITIONS CAREFULLY
PRIOR TO ENTERING THE CHALLENGE
Use any image you wish to create a paper craft or stamping project. Upload a photo of it to your blog and submit a direct link below. The challenge runs from now until midnight on the 30th of June 2015 (AEST).
Your project must be created during the month of June 2015. You can enter as many times as you like and you can submit your project to any other challenge you wish. At the end of the month five random winners will be chosen to receive their choice of digital image/s from my online store.
Winners who have used a Beccy's Place image may choose a digital stamp set of their choice as a prize. Winners who use other images (or no image at all) may choose a single digital image of their choice as a prize. All winners will receive a badge to post on their blog.
Want to join the challenge but don't have a blog? No worries!
Email a photo of your card or project to me at beccymuir@yahoo.com and I will post it on my Guest Blog and link it to the challenge for you.