869 Baby EaselCompleted by Glenys Linehan

Uploaded the file to Design Space and ungrouped the items. Changed the cut lines to score lines on the easel and regrouped the items.

Decided to cut a coloured circle for the top part of the easel so ungrouped and duplicated the one for the bottom part. Changed the card colour to a pink for the inner circles of the card and for the centre of the rattle and the tops of the shoes (when I did the blue I simply changed the colour of the card that I was loading) After regrouping the main card I moved the shoes and rattle grouped items over the top of the actual easel part so I could see the size and then resized them down smaller to fit. When I had done this I moved them away again and then regrouped all the items together so that I would not have to change the sizes again.

Finally down to cutting (next time its all ready and waiting). Cut out the easel and other white elements such as for the shoe soles and rattle on 260 gsm white cardstock. Cut out the coloured items on pearlised paper 120gsm.

Once everything was cut out both cards were assembled in the same way. Folded the top easel at the score lines and then laid it flat again so that I could attach the white circle to it using glue making sure that I did not go over the fold line and attached the white circle. I then glued the pink circle to this while laid flat. I used glue again to attach the bottom pink circle to the base of the easel and that was the card part done.

I layered up the pieces of the rattle using glue and added a pink ribbon through the handle. I bent over the edges of the shoe straps slightly so that I could put those under the shoe tops and then added glue to the shoe tops and placed the straps over before putting them over the white bases.

I attached the rattle and shoes to the easel top using foam pads.

I used a peel off button on the centre of the pink rattle and added white bows to the fronts of the shoes.

I cut out a duck peel off for the centre of the blue rattle and attached blue button peel offs to the fronts of the shoes