Trimcraft Christmas Village Bookatrix Easel card with floating snowflakes

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to my crafty nook! Wow it's been quite a while since my last blog post, it's taken me far longer than expected to get my crudy sorted after the electrics inspection - as it turned out the electrician took one look at what was left and decided it wasn't necessary to inspect every socket which I wish I'd known before half emptying it - still it gave me a good excuse to go through my stash and prune it down, I filled three massive bags with things for my youngest nieces which they loved. If I'm honest it hasn't made any difference, I'm still struggling to find homes for everything. *************************************** I have managed to do a bit of crafting amongst the chaos, there's been a couple of faux Bookatrix cards on YouTube well I say faux some of the Tubers have called the cards plain old Bookatrix cards but the fact of the matter is, Bookatrix is the copyrighted name of a Keepsake embossing board and calling a card a Bookatrix without using the actual board is a copyright infringement. I'm not going to name names but I did inform the first person to let them know after checking with the inventors of the boards (or at least one of them Kathy Mills, one half of the Glitter Girls) and they changed the title of their video to Bookatrix style card - apparently they were doing the video after numerous requests and didn't know anything about it and thought that Bookatrix was just the name of an open book style card. Bookatrix boards and cards have been around for a very long time but it doesn't hurt to do a bit of research if you are going to blog/vlog/put on any social media about a card style if you're not sure about it's origins - the worst thing you can do is to take credit for someone else's idea. It's fine to tweak a card fold etc and put it out there but you should always try to credit where you originally saw the idea. Obviously after a card fold/style has been in the public domain for a while it's next to impossible to credit the originator unless like in this case a copyrighted product came out first. ********************************************* Anyway I'm off my soapbox now so it's time to share the details of my card. I used my Bookatrix embossing board to make three open book pages in decreasing order, the outer pages were made using some holographic card from my stash. The other pages were made using Trimcraft Dovecraft's Christmas Village 12"x12" papers and I decorated the inner pages with die cut holographic snowflakes using dies from my stash on the left page and a decoupage scene taken from the 8"x8" decoupage pad from the same Christmas Village collection. I made the Bookatrix card into an easel card by folding an A4 sheet of card in half and then folding one of the halfs in half again. I added panels of paper to the bottom of the easel then stuck the Bookatrix down to the folded half (I think most people know how an easel card works). I trimmed around the bottom of the stuck down Bookatrix so that the bottom of the easel mechanism matched the edge of the card. I added some diecut snowflakes to strips of acetate using Dovecraft glue (very strong once it dries but takes a while on slick surfaces) and added them to the top right of the card so they appear to float. I added a pre-made sentiment from the Christmas Village collection onto the stopper and that completed the card. I need to make an extra large box for it but that's something I can do another day. ************************************** As usual I am writing this on my phone and it removes all my paragraphs (and sometimes changes words AFTER I've previewed it!!) I'm trying something new this time and have added rows of asterisks after each paragraph so hopefully you'll be able to see where new paragraphs start. Sorry it's been so long between posts, I should be adding a new blog challenge later this week and hopefully I'll get into a new routine soon. As always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting! ********************************************* Love and crafty hugs, Sarah xxxxxx