Easel card – Pocket Thoughts Bundle. The Pocket Thoughts Bundle can so easily be overlooked. It’s a two-step stamp set. The images comprise a cup cake, wedding band, engagement ring, and a diploma, some simple sentiments. an arrow and a couple of hearts. There are 3 sizes of pocket dies with the finger hole and tabs incorporated.
I think this set would be perfect for making gift cards pockets but there’s so much more. I used the middle die to hold a pocket and also the Gone Fishing stamps. FYI The Gone Fishing stamps can no longer be purchased bundled with the dies, it can only be purchased separately because they were carried over to the annual catalogue.
I silver embossed the sentiment from Gone Fishing and die cut it with the 2nd smallest rectangle from Nested Essentials dies. There wasn’t any Smoky Slate ribbon, so I coloured the Iridescent ½” striped ribbon with Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends. For the tag layers, the bottom two corners were rounded off to make it easier to slide in and out, but this is optional because the corner rounder punches have been retired. Although there are dies which coordinate with Gone Fishing, I didn’t use them and just fussy cut the fishing fly to adhere to the right of the Easel Stopper.
The photos below shows different views of the card.
The easel card is a basic card with the front of the card scored in the centre. Then you fold this back and attach another piece of card stock (same size as the card base when closed) to the bottom half to create the easel.
Cutting guide
- Card base : Misty Moonlight 8″ x 5 ¾” (20 cm x 14.5 cm). Long side on top, score at 2″, 4″ (5 cm, and 10 cm)
- Easel mechanism : Misty Moonlight 4″ x 5 ¾” (10 cm x 14.5 cm). When adhering to card front, only apply adhesive to bottom half so that it will allow the card to stand upright freely.
- Inside card : Smoky Slate mat layer 3 ¾” x 5 ½” (9.5 cm x 14 cm)
- Basic White layer inside card : 1 ⅞” x 5 ⅛” (4.8 cm x 13 cm)
- Scrap Basic White for silver embossing sentiment and die cutting with Nested Essentials dies, fishing fly.
Easel stopper
- Misty Moonlight layer : 1 ½” x 5 ⅛” (4.8 cm x 13 cm)
- Smoky Slate layer : 1 ⅜” x 5″ (3.5 cm x 12.7 cm)
- Country Lace 12″x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) DSP : 1 ¼” x 4 ⅞” (3.2 cm x 12.4 cm)
- Once you’ve adhered the Easel stopper layers, attach to Smoky Slate layer inside of card at the bottom with dimensionals.
- Smoky Slate : Die cut medium size pocket from Pocket Thoughts Dies
- Cut medium size pocket with Country Lace 12″x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) DSP same pattern as Easel Stopper. Trim off tabs on 3 sides. Then trim ⅛” off on all 4 sides. Adhere to front of pocket.
Tag for inside pocket
- Misty Moonlight : 2 ¼” x 3 ¾” (5.7 cm x 9.5 cm). Optional : round off two bottom corners
- Basic White layer : 2″ x 3 ½” (5 cm x 9 cm). Optional : round off two bottom corners
- Adhere Basic White layer to Misty Moonlight layer before punching hole for ribbon.
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