A simple circular easel card up-cycling an old encyclopaedia
I found a really old World atlas encyclopaedia which I didn’t
particularly want any more, and I turned to a few pages in and saw these
small circular maps of the world showing both sides. They were showing
different things such as population etc… And I thought they would look
perfect as a circular easel card, and just by luck, the largest Xcut
nesting die fitted perfectly :D So firstly to get the base easel card I
placed my largest circle die on a pre-folded A6 card blank, hanging the
edge of the die off the card so that a spine would be left attaching the
two sides. I then used the same size circle to cut out the globes from
the pages of the atlas, and then cut another circle out of a further A6
card blank to stick to the back of the map for the top globe so that it
was sturdier as the upright part of the card. I also inked the edges of
the globes just to get rid of the harsh edge (on one card I used green
ink and on the other card I used blue). I scored across the middle of
the top circle of the card parallel to the spine to create the easel,
and then I attached the strengthened globe to the folded circle and the
second globe to the base of the easel card. Then I spelt out my
sentiment ‘Enjoy your Trip’ curving the letters on an acrylic block and
stamped it onto a scrap piece of some happy days paper and I cut around
the letters in a curved forked tail banner shape. I then used another
scrap of paper for a butterfly, which is from one of the bookprint stamp
sets (it has to be my favourite butterfly ever!) Then I finished it off
with a few gems for the body of the butterfly, a single tiny gem to
prop up the easel and a trio of tiny gems to balance the top right of
the circle :D I really love the final look of these cards, I just need
to find someone to give them to :D Also on one of them, it looked a bit
empty, so I used a couple of the docrafts all abroad stamps :D
