Pretty Piano
Whilst surfing around on Pinterest the other day, I saw a really cool easel card in the shape of a grand piano. I was looking for ideas for an anniversary card for Mr L and was planning on using Stampin’ Up! Music From The Heart so this fancy fold was the perfect match. Most grand pianos I’ve seen are black but I made mine cream, well Vanilla actually! After I’d cut out my card base and a 5½” square piece for the piano lid, I set to work making the keyboard. I cut 10 pieces of Whisper White card ½” wide for the white keys and 7 pieces of Basic Black card ¼” wide for the black keys I glued the white keys onto a piece of black card and then fixed the black notes on with foam strips as these would form the ‘stopper’ for my easel. Next, I repeat stamped the wavy keyboard image onto the top of the front section of my easel card base. This would only really be visible when the card was closed. I stamped the treble clef, stave and some notes on a scrap...