How to Make a Cradle Easel Card with Boughs of Holly – Connect – Craft – Chat

Nov 2, 2022 | Christmas, Video

Hello Crafty Friends. I’m popping on here today to share a wonderful Cradle Easel Card with Boughs of Holly fun fold that I shared on my 250th Connect-Craft-Chat Facebook Live this week

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I started my twice weekly Facebook lives back during Covid and I can’t quite believe its clocked up to 250+ episodes to date!

The success of these sessions have been been mainly down to the fabulous peeps who join in week on week and have been a huge support.

We even have our covert group of Secret Squirrels – those peeps who are working from home, but still manage to tune in and contribute to the event. I am so thankful for those multitasking skills!

Boughs of Holly Suite

I have been using this suite non stop since it landed in my crafty space. You can find lots of other inspiration HERE

Cradle Easel Card with Boughs of Holly

During my live I often let the viewers decide some of the design elements. For this live event I had already designed the fun fold based on a similar design I saw on Mixed up crafts and they chose a festive traditional design so I just had to select this beautiful DSP

You can see exactly how I made this card on my Facebook Live.

This cradle fun fold as we named it looks great from the front, but the side view really shows it off its wonderful shape and its much easier to construct than you think.

How to Make a Cradle Easel Card with Boughs of Holly Measurements – Metric

Card: Real Red
- Easel – CUT TWO 10.5 cm by 10.0 cm – score on short side at 1.0 cm & 9.0 cm on each piece
- Stopper – 10.5 cm by 6 cm – score on short side at 1.0 cm , 3.0 cm and 5.0 cm
- Cradle – CUT THREE 10.5 cm by 8.0 cm -score on the short side at 4.0 cm
First Layer: Boughs of Holly DSP
- Cradle – CUT FOUR – 10.0 cm by 3.0 cm
- Easel Front & Back CUT TWO 10.0 cm by 7.5 cm
- Easel top CUT TWO 10.0 cm by 0.5 cm
Die cut Holly & Label: Old Olive – 10.0cm by 10.0 cm
Die cut holly background and Pine fronds: Mossy Meadow – 7.0 cm by 7.0 cm
Die cut Berries background: Real Red – 4.0 cm by 3.0 cm
Die cut berry highlights and Pine fronds – 6.0 cm by 7.0 cm
Sentiment: Basic White – Scrap

How to Make a Cradle Easel Card with Boughs of Holly Measurements – imperial

Card: Real Red
- Easel – CUT TWO 4″ by 4-¼” – score on short side at ½”, 3 ½”
- Stopper – 4-¼” cm by 2 ½” – score on short side at ½”, 1-¼”, 2″
- Cradle – CUT THREE 4-¼” by 3″ -score on the short side at 1 ½”
First Layer: Boughs of Holly DSP
- Cradle – CUT FOUR – 4″ by 1-¼”
- Easel Front & Back CUT TWO 4″ by 2 ¾”
- Easel top CUT TWO 4″ cm by ¼”
Die cut Holly & Label: Old Olive – 4″ by 4″
Die cut holly background and Pine fronds: Mossy Meadow – 2 ¾” by 2 ¾”
Die cut Berries background: Real Red – 1¼ x 1½”
Die cut berry highlights and Pine fronds – 2 ¾” by 2 ¾”
Sentiment: Basic White – Scrap

You can see how I assembled these pieces in my Facebook Live HERE

On my live I also shared these other samples and I will be back tomorrow with the dimensions for the 6″ by 6″ shape. How cute is that Squirrel?