Very Versailles Easel Card for Make My Monday

Are you ready for a really fun challenge? I love the one that just starting today at Make My Monday – “Use the Baby Wipe Technique.” If you haven’t tried it before, this tutorial will help you but it’s not hard! I hadn’t done it in a few years so I really enjoyed doing it for this card, using some stamp sets that I just love. The branch of leaves in Very Versailles stamp set was the perfect choice to show just how stunning this technique is!

• My card wasn’t initially going to be an easel card but I stamped three panels to make sure I got a good one. I loved how the leaves turned out so much that I decided to use two of them.
• This card is a 6″ square easel card. To make the base, you just need to have a 12″x6″ piece of cardstock, and score at 3″ and 6.” The card front is just a 6″ square, which I decided to make with Whisper White instead of Cinnamon Cider to brighten it up a bit. (Secret: Don’t have 12″x12″ cardstock? You can easily make a square easel card by using 8 1/2″x11″ and cutting it to 5 1/2″x11″ and scoring at 5 1/2.”)

Card Details

• Baby wipe technique: I placed a few baby wipes flat into a plastic container, then added drops of ink from four colors (listed below) randomly around the wipes until it was adequately covered.
• Once I completed the stamping on the front panel, I cut it down to a 5″ square, then backed it with the In Good Taste DSP, then both were adhered to the new Color Velveteen paper in the new annual catalog. I had no problem adhering anything to it at all! Then, I adhered this to the Whisper White panel to complete the card front base.
• The sentiment was stamped in Cinnamon Cider ink and cropped out with the Hippo & Friends dies. I wanted something behind it but didn’t want to cover too much of the pretty leaves. So, I colored one of the vellum doilies with a Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends pen. I adhered two more doilies behind it with adhesive spray and placed it onto the card front.
• Still needing a little something on the front, I stamped the butterfly from Positive Thoughts with the baby wipes and cropped it out with its coordinating die from Nature’s Thoughts dies.
• To do the inside of the card, I made the panels just like the card front. Then, I stamped the sentiment from Best Year stamp set and cropped it out with Stitched Shapes and backed it with the designer paper cropped with the Ornate Frames die.
• The trick with an easel card is that something has to hold the card front panel up, so the inside sentiment is popped up with dimensionals.
• I cut two pieces of ribbon and adhered it under the sentiment and then added some enamel dots on both the front and inside.

Very Versailles Cling Stamp Set
Price: $23.00
Discover your inner rococo with the picturesque design of the Very Versailles Stamp Set! Stampin’ Up!’s cling stamps * Are premium rubber stamps. + Have deeply etched images so you get a superior stamped impression each time. * Are precut so you don’t have to trim. + Are repositionable; temporarily mount them on clear blocks for stamping, then remove them for storage. Quantity: 7 cling stamps

• Stamping Sensations Challenge: All Creatures Great and Small
• Penny Black & More Challenge: In the Garden
• As You Like it Challenge: Summer or Autumn and Why? (I absolutely pick autumn over summer! I can’t take the hot summer temps and the days are too long for me. Give me the cool night and mild daytime temps, with a good Honey Crisp apple and a pumpkin donut and I’m in heaven on earth!)

Very Versailles Cling Stamp Set [149275] $23.00	Woven Heirlooms Cling Stamp Set [149306] $24.00	Positive Thoughts Cling Stamp Set [151490] $21.00	Best Year Cling Stamp Set (English) [152568] $20.00	In Good Taste Designer Series Paper [152494] $21.00
Color Velveteen Paper Pack [153557] $10.00	2020–2022 In Color 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock Assortment [153076] $12.75	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $7.50	Cinnamon Cider Classic Stampin' Pad [153114] $7.50	Cinnamon Cider Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [153120] $3.75
Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [147171] $3.75	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [133651] $3.75	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [105225] $3.75	Cinnamon Cider Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [153105] $9.00	Hippo & Friends Dies [153585] $36.00
Stitched Shapes Dies [152323] $30.00	Nature's Thoughts Dies [153586] $29.00	Cinnamon Cider Ribbon [152482] $6.00	Square Vellum Doilies [152484] $5.00	Elegant Faceted Gems [152464] $7.50
2020–2022 In Color Enamel Dots [152480] $8.00