Tutorial: Creating A Window Card

Hi friends, Eloise here today to share a Easter themed card to share with you all. I’ll be using the brand new Bunny Friends set and Happy Easter Shaker Die to help create my window card today.

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTubeTo begin my card today I first stamped my images out from the Bunny Friends stamp set onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock using black ink. I then used my Copic Markers to colour in my images using a spring colour palette. Once I finished colouring in my images, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I then set them off to side and worked on my main focal point. I first used the Stitched Notes Dies and cut out the large stitched rectangle from some Watercolour Cardstock and then used the Happy Easter Shaker die and cut the die out of the center of the cardstock.  Once I had it cut out of my front panel, I laid the rectangle with the die cut egg over the top of a folded card base, adhered it down into the centre where I eventually want to adhere it and then laid over the egg die cut again, fit it into place where it fits perfectly, opened the card base up and ran it through my big shot machine again. Now I have all my layers to create my window card.

Copic Colours Used: W3, W0, W00, 0 / R24, R22, R21 / YG17, YG23, YG21 / BG23, BG32, BG10 / YR18, YR12, Y21 / R83, R81, RV10 / Y38, Y15, Y11

Next up, I cut a piece of acetate and adhered it down on top of my card base. Once I adhered this down, I realised I needed to ink blend on my card base, so I left the acetate on and also adhered my shaker die on top with some washi tape, then just ink blended some Twisted Citron Distress Ink over the top fading up to white like normal. Once that was ink blended on, I worked on my positive Happy Easter Shaker piece. I used an exacto knife and cut out the ‘Happy Easter’ wording and also the flowers and leaves at the bottom. This then leaves me the perfect frame. I then added adhesive onto the back and adhered it into place directly on my card base. I added foam tape onto the back of my rectangle piece, lined it up with the egg shape on the card base and adhered it down.

Now that my card base was ready on the outside, it was time to do the inside. I took some post it tape, cut it down to a hill shape and adhered the negative piece onto the inside of my card base. I then ink blended some Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress ink blending down into white, reversed the masks and did the same thing with the sky, only using Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean and blending, fading up to white. Now my background for my scene was ready, I could begin adhering. I added pop dots onto the back of my bunnies and adhered them down into place, making sure you could see all three from the front of the card. One they were adhered down I also adhered my flowers next to them using flat adhesive.

To finish up my card, I added some extra flowers from Bunny Friends onto the flowers on the die cut shaker piece and I coloured those in with coordinating colours I used earlier, then adhered them on with foam squares. Then, I also used the same greens as I did for all the leaves before and coloured in the remaining leaves. This would definitely be easier to do before I adhered it to the acetate, but for me it was an afterthought. Lastly, I replaced my front rectangle panel with another piece that I used some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on, to replicate the card base I coloured as well. I decided this card didn’t need a sentiment also, so I left it sentiment-less and I feel like it worked perfectly with the design of card. But again, you could add one if you feel like you wanted too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed and got inspired to create a window card. I love these designs so much especially for a card like this where you wouldn’t always need to write a long message. It works so nicely! Anyway, thank you again and I’ll catch you all next time!

Eloise