Today I kick off my new Fun / Fancy / WOW Folds series with an easy Tropical Easel card. Easels are probably the first cards you’ll have seen and gone – ooh that looks good, I wonder how I can make that?
My NEW VIDEO Tutorial will show you how you can make one of these at home today. The supplies are simply some cardstock and paper. You will need a Trimmer and something to put on top. I recommend the Tropical Oasis Memories & More card packs, but get them quick because they’re retiring soon!
Easy Tropical Easel Card
The step by step VIDEO tutorial shows you how to put the cards together and below the video you can find the measurements as promised! Algong with the sticker to send to people so they know how to correctly display your gorgeous card!
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Measurements
- The base card is A4. Put the short edge of the cardstock to the top of your trimmer & cut down at 10.5 cm. Turn the card 90 degrees and score at 14.9 cm.
- Top Easel layer is 14.9 x 10 cm
- Top decorative layer is 14.4 x 10 cm
- Inside layer is 14.4 x 10 cm
- Strip of cardstock 2.5 cm
- Strip of paper 2 cm
If you want you can copy this image and send it to your card recipient so they now how to put the card up on their mantlepiece. I got this label from a US demonstrator years ago, but I forget who – so if it’s you THANK YOU!
Tropical Oasis Memories And More Stickers make excellent toppers and motifs for your scrapbooking and card making! For instance, here I use one on the stopper inside the card. It adds some great colour and coordination without adding layers!
Add the stickers as motifs to your card fronts! They also give perfect coordination with the papers!
Tell me which is YOUR favourite folding card and I will try to feature it soon on my blog! Comment HERE and let me know!
I used ChatGPT for the conversion from cm to inches.
Here is your centimeter to inch conversions, rounded to two decimal places (1 cm = 0.3937 in):
Item Centimeters (cm) Inches (in)
A4 base card 21 × 29.7 cm (standard A4) 8.27 × 11.69 in
Cut at 10.5 cm 4.13 in
Score at 14.9 cm 5.87 in
Top easel layer 14.9 × 10 cm 5.87 × 3.94 in
Top decorative layer 14.4 × 10 cm 5.67 × 3.94 in
Inside layer 14.4 × 10 cm 5.67 × 3.94 in
Strip of cardstock 2.5 cm 0.98 in
Strip of paper 2 cm 0.79 in
✅ Summary:
A4 = 8.27″ × 11.69″
Cut at 4.13″
Score at 5.87″
Layers roughly 5.9″ × 3.9″
Small strips around 1″ and 0.8″ wide.
I don’t know how to convert cm to inches!
I have learned so much from your tutorials pip I made a lovely card with brayer background the first I’ve ever done I was so pleased with it.
It’s good knowing what goes with what water and alcohol so handy.
Ah Lesley, thank you so much! It makes me so happy when I know people are enjoying my tutorials and finding them useful! Good for you for trying something new! Keep creating and I hope you like my new series of videos just as much too! Hugs, Pip x
Super Pip, lovely ideas, thanks ?
Thank you Helen!! So glad you like them hugs Pip xx