This card is for the Wednesday Challenge at the Cuttlebug Challenge blogspot. I am on the Cricut Design team but we sometimes do "cross over" to do other projects. Ironically, it wasn't until I finished that I realized that I had completely forgotten to use the Cuttlebug!
The Challenge was to make an Easel card. This style of card is just different enough to make people excited about receiving your "unusual" card, but really not much more work than making a standard A2 card. For the base, I cut an 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock in half vertically to create a piece 4.25 x 11 inches which is then scored at 5.5 inches to create the base card. The front of the card is then scored again at 2.5 inches from the bottom of the front side. An additional piece of cardstock cut at 4.25 x 5.5 inches is adhered to the lower part of the card front which then creates a hinge for the easel effect.
We were using paper from the My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Collection. I also used various shades of Core'dinations solid cardstock for the owl and sentiment.
I set up the file to cut all of the design pieces on one 12 x 12 mat in Design Studio. The file is actually set up on two 6 x 12 mats for users of the smaller machines.
The owl is from the Give a Hoot cartridge. I used "hide selected contour" so I could cut the legs and the flower circles for the eyes in different colors.
The flower and the sentiment are also from Give a Hoot. The scalloped rectangle is from Graphically Speaking and I altered the proportions slightly in Design Studio to fit the A2 card size. You can load the paper for each mat on the 12 x 12 - just turn the mat 180 degrees and load the paper in the proper positions to cut the second page of the file.
I keep all of the pieces on the mat to make it easier to assemble the image without misplacing a tiny beak or leg.
I cut a strip of paper 4.25 inches x 2.5 inches to decorate the bottom of the inside of the card. The I put the sentiment on the flower shape and raised it with foam squares to create a "stopper" to keep the easel top from falling down when it is folded.
The owl is also on foam squares so the wings can flutter a bit! With the owl background paper this made me think of ET "hiding" in the toy closet(!).
If you would like to use my file to cut all of the decorative pieces you can download it here.
Owl Easel Card
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