Twisted Easel Congratulations Card

To celebrate my youngest's daughter's most recent accomplishment in the Navy (becoming a card signer who can help other sailors qualify for different watches now that she has earned "senior in rate"), I wanted to make her a special card. I thought a twisted easel card with one of her favorite kinds of flowers would be perfect!

Since daisies are one of her favorite flowers, I pulled out my Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Daisies die set and my Altenew Daisies 3D embossing folder and set to work! I die cut several daisies using watercolor cardstock I had sprayed and/or watercolored. Some layers have Altenew's Dark Cyan watercolor on them, some have Lindy's Tibetan Poppy Teal Shimmer spray, and some have Tim Holtz's Wonderland Distress Mica Stain. I had a fun evening getting out a bunch of watercolors, sprays, and stains to create some watercolor papers to match the teal blue in this month's Altenew Inspiration Challenge color palette. 

Once I had die cut the pieces for my daisies, I assembled them and set them aside. I also die cut some leaves out of the same teal papers, but I felt they didn't look quite right with the flowers being those same colors. I then tried them in creams and browns (the other challenge colors) but didn't care for that, either. So I went with vellum because you can never go wrong with vellum! 😂

I trimmed the panels for the stopper and the background behind the daisies and then embossed the larger brown panels using Altenew's Daisies embossing folder. I loved how that turned out on the brown cardstock! I don't typically use brown cardstock with floral embossing folders, but I think this turned out nice. 

I thought the bottom of the card was a bit too plain, so I trimmed another piece of cream cardstock 1/8 inch smaller than the base and stenciled it with Altenew's Scattered Tiles stencil set. I did the same for the triangles behind the flower panels. 

For the sentiment, I used stamps from Altenew's Billowing Peonies set that say: "congratulations!" and "so proud of you."  I stamped them onto the watercolor paper I had sprayed with Lindy's Tibetan Poppy Teal Shimmer spray. It has a lovely shine in person. 

Top view:

Side view:

Here's a look at the front of the card when the card is closed:

The back of the card when open:

Close ups:

Challenges I'm entering:

February Challenge | Textured backgrounds & sweet greetings: Ends the end of the month

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #100: ATG with a fun fold (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Snippets Playground: Congratulations on your 500th challenge! That's outstanding! Theme: Celebrations and snippets (my snippets were bits of vellum for the leaves and small snippets of cream and brown cardstock for the centers of the daisies) C10

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (2/6; ends 3/15/25)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 5/10 for the challenge; ends 2/26/25)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges**********: ATG (1/3; ends 2/24/25)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting: Thing 1: 3 embellishments (I have 4 flowers as my embellishments) 2 layers (I have a stenciled layer and then 3 layers for my easel stopper--fun foam, brown cardstock, teal watercolor paper) 1sentiment (on my stopper) Thing 3: include flower of choice (daisies in the embossed background and die cut daisies) (1/4; ends 3/1/25)

 Allsorts challenge blog: Shades of blue (1/3; ends 2/28/25)

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game!: ATG with stencils with optional twist of Pinks and/or Reds (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Can You Handle The Pressure?: ATG with option of something with an F (I used flowers on my card) (3/3; ends 2/19/25)

No more challenges.