Hello there. I’ve got a card for you today using the ‘caravan’ stamp from last February’s Clarity Craft Club as part of my little series working through the 2025 Club stamps. It’s a bit of a change from my usual CAS style – very full-on for me with an easel card base and die cut topper in addition to the stamp!

My starting point was an opportunity to play with one of my Christmas presents – one of the Colour Cubes by Sarah Renae Clark, from my son & his partner. I’d put this on my wish list, expecting to get one box, but they bought me the whole collection of four boxes so I now have 1,000 colour combination cards to work through (I may be some time…!)

The first thing I did was cut the panoramic vista die from dark green card and back it with a piece of Antarctica designer paper. I found one of the colour cards that gave me a good combination of colours for the caravan.

So, having stamped the caravan on a scrap of white card, I shaded it in with Polychromo pencils, smoothing out the pigment with Dorso oil and a blending nib. Picking out the tones from the colour card, I used ‘permanent green olive’, ‘bluish turquoise’, ‘light cadmium red’, ‘cadmium orange’ and ‘cold grey III’. I then fussy cut it, although I detached most of the external twiddly bits, including the bunting & chimney.

It was then a case of layering everything up. I took an A6 card blank, scored the front in half so it would fold down, covered it with an offcut of the Antarctica paper and attached the die cut panorama to it. I mounted the caravan on a piece of scrap card and glued it over the die cut. I had another piece of the Antarctica left over, so trimmed that to size and glued it to the insice of the card for the base. Finally, I mounted one of the Pinky Gray greetings stickers onto a bit of the dark green card, popped two pieces of scrap card on the back and glued it into place to act as the stopper for the easel when it’s opened.

The great thing about easel cards is that they fold flat for posting, so don’t need a box. I’m happy with how this little scene turned out (in anticipation of warmer days in the spring) – off to share it as a final offering in the gallery at Allsorts challenge