Welcome to week eight of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring a lovely soft blue colour called Balmy Blue and I’ve created a duck pond scene card using the Lily Pond Lane suite.
The colours in my duck pond card are the colours from the Lily Pond Lane DSP: Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Gray Granite, Peach Pie, Pretty In Pink, Pretty Peacock.
Call me Cathy or call me crazy (most people do!) for this week’s card I decided at the very last minute to make a fancy fold that I had no instructions for. This fancy fold is called an easel block card, a block easel card or a pop-up block easel card.
Here’s a video that show how this card opens up and looks from the side.
The easel card base is a 6 x 12 piece of Basic White cardstock, scored and folded at 6 inches and 3 inches.
A 6 x 6 piece of Basic White cardstock attached to the front 3 x 6 part of the easel card becomes the card front, decorated with a piece of Lily Pond Lane DSP ( 1/4 inch trimmed off the top and one side) and the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Lily Pond Lane stamp set .
Here’s what it look like when opened up to reveal the inside. You can write your message on the top half of the inside of the easel fold. I’ve just laid a couple of extra ducks here for this photo.
This top view (with easel folded over) shows how the blocks in this fancy fold hold the different elements at different depths. This is why this is such a great fancy fold for creating scene cards – you simply slot them in and adhere them.
To make the blocks at the base I used a 12 x 12 sheet of the Delightful Florals DSP in Pretty Peacock. Each block measures 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, scored and folded at 1, 2, 3 and 4 inches.
I folded each piece of DSP along the score lines to create a 1 inch square block adhered with Tear-n-tape and then laid them side by side inside the card base, adhered again with Tear-n-tape.
I used scraps of Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Gray Granite, Peach Pie, Pretty In Pink and Pretty Peacock cardstock to die cut the ducks, ducklings and vegetation, as well as Stampin’ Blends for colouring in the stamped and die cut ducks and duckings.
The lily pads were adhered to the front of the card and these blocks all fold back to lie flat so the card can be placed into an envelope.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent – I can’t wait to see what Andrea has made this week!
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Catherine Proctor – you are here!
We’ll be back next Wednesday, 26th June, showcasing Basic Gray.
I hope you can join us then!
have you ever made this card using the one horse sleight and the dsp to go with it. What I saw was only 2 blocks.
You are the best. You told me you were making a fancy fold last minute but you did not say without instructions. I love it. Another bundle my daughter wants me to get. I can’t show her this card or I won’t be able to resist. Love it so much. ❤️❤️❤️
Wow, this a cool card!
What a cute card, Cathy, I love this bundle. This is a great design, I remember making one back in 2015 with all these candles popping up. I love your design though, with those little ducklings and the lillies and reeds. So adorable!
Such a cute and well constructed card Cathy (not crazy!). All those mother ducks and her ducklings are super cute in a row. How you did it without instructions amazes me. Well done.
What an awesome card and very clever of you! I love your arrangement especially the lily pads and flowers with the reeds dispersed around the ducks.
Fantastic card Cathy, well worth the effort! I love the combination of stamped and die cut ducks.
Oh wow oh wow – I love, love, love your card Cathy. The mix of die cut and stamped & coloured ducks and ducklings is gorgeous. I love the die cut lily pads and reeds. Your arrangement is perfect. It’s a wonderful fancy fold and you are brilliant to work out the dimensions. Very impressive. xxx
Yes, you may be a little crazy, but you worked it out! Kudos to you! This is a delightful card, Cathy. I love the little ducklings in Balmy Blue and Gray Granite, and the sentiment is adorable.