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Masculine Twisted Easel Card Tutorial with Authentique Voyage & Reneabouquets

Hello, Friends! It’s Throwback Thursday, and this week I have a really fun Masculine Twisted Easel Card Tutorial to share with you. If you can keep a secret, I’ll let you in on one: this is Dale’s birthday card! His birthday falls right after the 4th of July, so I thought it would be fun to create a red, white and blue card for him. But, he also loves the beach. So that would be a good option, too. The perfect solution was found in this 2019 Authentique Voyage collection.

Once again, I limited myself to using only scraps to make this card. That is always a fun challenge for me, and y’all seem to enjoy it, too. Even the 6×6 card base is made with a 6×12 piece of kraft cardstock that I found mixed in with the papers.

Spicing Things Up with Mixed Media Techniques

Since my husband comes from the “less is more” school of design, I wanted to keep things more on the simple side. But simple does not have to mean the same thing as boring. I did two things to spice up this very basic card:

First, go for a fancier fold on your easel card. Instead of scoring the front panel in half horizontally, I scored it in half diagonally. I’ll show you how to do this in the tutorial below.
Next, add a little texture and visual interest with embossing powders. I’m of the opinion that embossing powders are one of the cheapest, quickest and easiest ways to add a little spice to a card design. I’ll share tips with you in the video tutorial.
Then, think about repeated shapes. The sailboat images has triangular sails. The twisted easel card design is triangular, too.

Line it Up!

Notice that the stopper or brake for this easel card follows the same line and angle as the easel front. This lends a cohesive feel to the card design. Then, see how I created a reverse triangle with the addition of the blue tag and button feature.

Add a few real shells and natural elements to your heat embossed Reneabouquets Starfish Beautiful Board to make the card come alive. All these simple elements come together to create an interesting card that is not too busy.