You’re The Best – Thank You Card

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I’m here today with a 5×7-inch thank you card using Relatively Thoughtful digital papers – A collection called Overthinking in Colour by Karolina Osuchowska.

Watch the process video to see how I used the paper collection.

Cardbase: I used a white purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase and covered the front and back panels with mats of glitter cardstock. The largest mat/frame is 4 7/8 x 6 7/8-inches with a (4.2 x 6.2-inch rectangle cut out from it.) The striped glitter paper is 4 5/8 x 6 5/8-inches.

Card Front: I printed out the second page of the collection onto clear vellum on my ink jet printer, let dry and sealed it with a spritz of hairspray and then let dry again. Nextel, I cut the vellum into a 4 1/4 x 6 1/4-inch rectangle. I used glue dots and double-sided tape only for this card. (Watch the video above for how the card was assembled.)

Sentiments: The sentiments were all from my stash of sentiment strips and kit sentiments.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A7 (5×7-inch) envelope with its back flap covered in the decorative paper.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch – 1233

Papers

  • Relatively Thoughtful – Digital Collection – Overthinking in Colour
  • American Crafts – POW Glitter Paper – Black Stripes
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Cardstock -65lb – White
  • Silver Glitter Paper
  • Pre-Printed Sentiments – Pinkfresh and Waffle Flower

Inks

  • OLO Marker – Neutral Gray 9
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

  • Double-Sided Tape – 1/4-inch wide
  • Fun Stampers Journey – Glue Dots

Tools

  • Computer and Color Printer
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Paper Weights

Miscellaneous

  • Santoro – Gorjuss Girls – Large Ribbon Bow – Black & White Stripe
  • The Ribbon Boutique – Organza 1/4-inch -wide – Black

Guitar and Daisies Wedding Card

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This wedding card was commissioned for a couple who love the mountains, music and want to live a life in sync with nature.

Cardbase: I folded an 8.5×11 sheet of caramel-colored 65lb. cardstock in half to create a 5.5×8.5-inch cardbase. Next, I used the large guitar die from the Paper Discovery Music – Play On -Guitar & Violin to cut a shaped cardbase on the fold.

Outside of Card Open
Card Back Closed

Guitar Front: Using the guitar die from Paper Discovery Music – Play On -Guitar & Violin, I cut a single layer guitar from woodgrain embossed cardstock and stained it using the ink cube of Rusty Hinge Distress ink. Next, I cut the sound hole circle into the woodgrain guitar. The trim pieces of the circle were cut from black and the un-stained woodgrain cardstock. The pickguard and bridge pieces were cut from black. Clear vellum was used for the strings. (I found using a clear ruler with 1/8-inch grid helped with gluing the strings on straight.)

Card Front: Glued the finished woodgrain guitar to cardbase front matching up the curved edges and trimming off the excess along the fold. Then I cut a 5.5×8.5-inch rectangle of brown handmade floral paper and glued it to the inside of the cardbase as a backing to the card front. (I trimmed off the top left corner of brown paper following the guitar shape. I made white daisies in three sized using Karen Burniston’s Flowers and Bees die set and glued five daisies onto the brown paper along the guitar’s right edge.

Sentiments: Karen Burniston’s Word Set 12 – Anniversary was used for the front sentiment “Happy Wedding Day.” It was die-embossed from a shed-less glitter paper then a shadow was fussy-cut around the words. The words were cut again from the backside of the brown floral paper and glued onto the gold shadows. Inside, the sentiment of “Always take the scenic route” from i-Crafter’s Wonderful World was stamped in dark brown ink.

Envelope:  The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inches) size envelope with “Congratulations” (by Simon Says Stamp!) stamped in dark brown ink on the back flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • i-Crafter – Clear Stamps – Wonderful World
  • Simon Says Stamp! – Clear Stamps – Slimline Greetings

Papers

  • Memoryboxco.com – 8.5×11 Woodgrain Cardstock – Kraft
  • Park Lane Paperie – 12×12-inch Artisan Handmade Paper – Brown Gold Vining Flowers
  • Rainbow Splash – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Carmel
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Vellum – Clear
  • Glitter Cardstock – Gold
  • Black Cardstock
  • Catalog (6×9) Envelope – White

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Espresso Truffle
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Rusty Hinge
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • Pajama Crafters – Pet Pig Press
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Paper Masking Tape

Just Popping Up To Say Happy Father’s Day

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It’s time for the Karen Burniston Design Team June 2026 Challenge whose theme is Flag Colors – using the colors of each designer’s national flag. For me it is red, white and blue. I choose to make a star themed Father’s Day card.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase: I folded a 6×9-inch piece of pattern cardstock in half to make a 4.5×6-inch side fold cardbase. Next, I added two 4.125 x 5.375- inch mats cut with the largest die in the Rectangles – Crosshatch set. I added a star from the Label Charm Pop-Up die set to the back of the card.

Flip Frame Pop-Up: Inside the card is a simple pop-up mechanism made using the Flip Frame Pop-Up die set. (View assembly video by clicking on the die set and scrolling to the bottom of the linked page.) See the video above for how I installed it.

Sentiments: The front sentiment of “Just Popping Up To Say” is cut from two die sets – Word Set 4 – Just a Note and Word Set 15 – Just Because. The inside sentiment uses both the shadow and words from the Happy Father’s Day set. The white personal message label is a stitch rectangle embossed with a scalloped die – both from the Flip Frame Pop-Up set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A6 (4.75x 6.5-inches) size envelope with “Happy Father’s Day” stamped on the back flap from the Fishing stamp set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Divinity Designs – 6×9 Singled-Sided Coated Cardstock – Star Shaker Kit – Patriotic
  • Unity Stamp Co. – 6×6 Singled-Sided Coated Cardstock – Americana Vibes
  • White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – Cream

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Paris Dusk
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Tweezers
  • We R – Precision Press Mini – Stamping Platform

Monet Waterlilies Inspired Birthday Pop-Up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #321 whose parameters were: gatefold card, Monet colors, natural element and crinkle inkle (inking technique) random. I used Karen Burniston dies and stamps for this slimline (4×8 5/8-inch) card.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase: Cut a 12×8 5/8-inch rectangle of green cardstock. Score at 2-inches, 4-inches, 8-inches and 10-inches. Fold as shown in the video above. Using the fourth smallest die from the Circles – Crosshatch set, cut four circles into the double gate fold sides as shown in the video.

Crinkle Inkle: Using bubble wrap as an inking tool, add blue ink texture to the closed front of the card. (Make sure to put scrap paper inside the card to mask the back panel from ink.)

Window Frames: Cut four circular frames from blue cardstock using the fourth and fifth smallest dies from the Circles – Crosshatch set. Using double-sided tape, attach the frames to both sides of a piece of acetate and trim the plastic to fit frames. Glue frames onto card front as shown in video.

Flower Pop-Ups: (Watch the assembly video for the Twist Flower Pop-Up at the bottom of the linked page.) Cut two of the Twist Flower Pop-Up mechanism die from green cardstock and assemble as shown in the videos above. Cut two of the large flowers, centers and stitched rings. Assemble and attach to the pop-up mechanisms as shown in the video. From the Fun Flowers die set. Cut four green leaves and a variety of small flowers and flower centers. Decorate the large flower centers with a smaller flower and use the remaining small flowers for the belly band label.

Sentiments: The front, belly band sentiment “Wishing You Sunshine and Rainbows” and the inside “Happy Birthday” were stamped in black ink using the Rainbow Greetings stamp set. The Circles – Crosshatch dies were used to cut the labels for the sentiments.

Belly Band: Wrap loosely around the center of the folded closed card a 1 ½-inch x 8 ½-inch strip of yellow – green vellum. Making sure that the strip will easily slide off the card, trim and glue the ends together. Attach the sentiment circle decorated with tiny flowers over the band glued seam.

Card Back with belly band

Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business (4. x 9-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • American Crafts – Core’dination – 12×12 inch 80lb Textured Cardstock – Candy Shop (Green, Blue, Pink)
  • Grafix – 8.5×11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film
  • 8.5×11 Yellow-Green Vellum
  • Majenta, Pink, White and Yellow Cardstock

Ink

  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Bubble Wrap
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • We R – Precision Press Mini – Stamping Platform
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape

Miscellaneous

  • Trinity Stamps – Rainbow Sparkle Spots Confetti Embellishments

Father’s Day Card for a Navy Man

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I’m here today with a pop-up ship Father’s Day card full using Relatively Thoughtful digital papers – A collection called The Royal Navy Heritage Collection.

Watch the process video to see how I use the paper collection.

Cardbase: From the The Royal Navy Heritage Collection digital paper collection, I printed single-sided 65lb. lightweight cardstock of the blue neckerchief design. (When the neckerchief is cut out, it makes a 5.25×7.5-inch side-fold card.) Next I printed out on cardstock the blue & white striped page, and the small waves on thin white paper. Using the Karen Burniston Rectangle and Labels – Crosshatch die set, I cut two large crosshatch rectangles from the striped cardstock and two smaller rectangles from the wave paper. The rectangles were glued inside the cardbase as shown in the video above.

Card Decorations: I printed on thin white paper, the images of the ships used on the front and the back of the card from the The Royal Navy Heritage Collection. The small tag on the back is also from the same collection.

Ship Pop-Up: I used the Karen Burniston’s 1277 – Boat Pop-Up and 1296 – Cruise Ship Add-Ons dies to create the gray pop-up naval ship. (Watch the video above for assembly.)

Sentiments: Karen Burniston dies sets of Thank You, Happy Father’s Day, Greeting Labels, Thank You Shadow and Mini Alphabet and Numbers were used for all the card sentiments.

Envelope:  The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inches) envelope with “Thank you for always being there” stamped on the back flap in navy ink using Karen Burniston’s Thank You Phrases stamp set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Greeting Labels – 1312
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Cruise Ship Add-Ons – 1296
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Boat Pop-Up – 1277
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Thank You Shadow – 1282
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Rectangle and Labels – Crosshatch – 1233
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Mini Alphabet and Numbers – 1197
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Happy Father’s Day – 1164
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Thank You – 1066

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Thank You Phrases

Inks

  • Crafter’s Square – Matallic Marker – Blue Silver
  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Paris Dusk
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Papers

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Double-Sided Tape – 1/4-inch wide

Tools

  • Computer and Color Printer
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Stamping Platform
  • Tweezers
  • Paper Masking Tape

Groovy Vibes Tri-fold Junk Journal Birthday Card

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I’m here today with a pop-up junk journal birthday card full of the FAB FOUR using Relatively Thoughtful digital papers – A collection called Groovy Vibes.

Watch the process video to see how I use the paper collection.

Cardbase: I printed double-sided papers of the blue daisies with solid blue on the back and the crocheted granny squares with the pink sunburst on the back. from the blue daisies I cut a 6-inch square and a 6.5×6-inch rectangle. From the granny squares paper I cut a 6.5×6-inch rectangle. The two rectangles were scored and folded at a half-inch to form 6-inch squares with a tab. Follow the video above on how to glue the two tabbed pieces to the 6-inch square.

Waterfall Card Front: I printed double-sided paper of the pink daisies with the pink sunburst on the back, before cutting out the waterfall pieces using the Karen Burniston’s 1161 – Waterfall Card dies. Follow the directions in the video above to assemble. The Fab Four images were from the smaller images page of musicians while the song lyrics were from the larger rainbow page and the smaller hearts page.The square images were cut out using dies in the set. The title piece and birthday sentiment were fussy cut from the digital paper collection.

Photo Gallery Pop-Up: I used the Karen Burniston’s 1331 – Photo Gallery Pop-Up dies to create the pop-up gallery of head shots of the FAB Four. Follow the directions in the video above to assemble. The names were written on the white cardstock frames with a black fine-tipped marker before the clear packing tape was applied.

Sentiments: All the inside sentiments and images were hand-cut including the two white tags for a personal message.

Envelope:  The card would need a custom envelope and because of its thickness, it would be best hand-delivered.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Photo Gallery Pop-Up – 1331
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Waterfall Card – 1161
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Photo Collage Pop-Up – 1098

Papers

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Double-Sided Tape – 1/4-inch wide
  • Clear Packing Tape

Tools

  • Computer and Color Printer
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scissors
  • Circle Hole Punch – 1/4-inch wide
  • Paper Masking Tape

Hello, I’m Thinking Of You

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #319 whose parameters were: 4 Bar (3 5/8×4 7/8-inch) card, wedding colors, sweet(s) element and a touch of gray random. I used a Spellbinder’s 3D embossing folder and stamp sets by Karen Burniston and Scrapbook.com.

Cardbase: I took a 7×5-inch rectangle of lightweight cardstock and scored and folded in half to form a side-fold 3.5×5-inch card.

HELLO: The front panel of the card was embossed with the Spellbinder’s Beveled Hello A2 Cardfront 3D embossing folder. (I spritzed the lightweight white cardstock with water before I ran it through in the embossing folder.) NNext I trimmed it down to fit the cardbase and added a touch of gray by using a glitter gloss marker on the bottom bevel sides of the letters. Tiny polymer clay peppermint and swirled sweets were glued on for accents.

Sentiments: The inside sentiment and hearts come from Scrapbook.com’s A Little Reminder stamp set and were stamped in pink and gray inks.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) envelope with “Life is Sweet” stamped on the back flap in pink. Stamp is from Karen Burniston’s Sweet Treats set.

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Materials Used:

Embossing Folders

  • Spellbinders – 3D Embossing Folder – Beveled Hello A2 Cardfront

Stamps

Papers

  • White 65lb Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Gray Flannel & Rose Bud
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

Flower Power Basket Pop-Up Card

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I’m here today with a pop-up basket card full of flowers using Relatively Thoughtful digital papers – A collection called Groovy Vibes.

Watch the process video to see how I use the paper collection.

Prepping Basket Cardstock: I printed two copies of the page of colorful hearts without words onto thin white paper. After fussy cutting out the hearts, I laid them out on two sheets of white cardstock, gluing them down after the layout was decided. Next, I covered the colorful hearts with clear packing tape.

Woven Basket: I used the Karen Burniston’s 1080 – Woven Basket Box Card dies to create the basket and grass and stem pieces. (You can find an assembly video for the basket on her website.)

Sentiments: The sentiment tags were printed and cut out with the large tag cut once in blue and once in brown kraft and glued back to back. The “Happy Birthday” was printed on thin white paper and cut out and glued to the large tag.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope with a pink flower glued to the back flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Woven Basket Box Card – 1080

Papers

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Double-Sided Tape – 1/4-inch wide
  • Clear Packing Tape

Tools

  • Computer and Color Printer
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scissors
  • Craft Knife
  • Craft Mat
  • Circle Hole Punch – 1/8-inch wide
  • Tweezers
  • Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous

  • Yellow Satin Ribbon 1/8-inch wide

Quilted Square Interactive Birthday Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #318 whose parameters were: Ardyth’s Square (4.25-inch square) card, May garden colors, textile element and three layer random. I used Relatively Thoughtful digital papers as well as dies and stamps from Concord & 9th, Essentials by Ellen, Scrapbook.com, The Greetery & Waffle Flower.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase: I took an 8.5×8.5-inch square of lightweight cardstock and scored and folded at 4.25-inchs on each side and along one of the diagonal corner to corner. (See the video above for directions.) Decorate front and back with quilt blocks and the sides cover with 4.25-inch squares of colored paper cut in half diagonally.

Quilt Blocks: Using the Scrapbook.com Mini Quilt Block die set, cut six of all the die pieces from solid color decorative paper and another six sets from patterned paper. (I printed all my digital papers on thin computer paper.) Use a fine-tipped black marker to add stitching lines.

Sewing Notions: Using The Greetery’s Notionable die set, cut one pair scissors from silver foil cardstock. (I cut a second set from white as my silver cardstock was thin and tended to curl.) Cut the thimble, needle and seven pins also from silver cardstock. From white cut the three pieces for the spool of thread and color using a light brown for the spool and light gray for the thread. Leave the thread label white, but highlight the writing with a fine-tipped black marker. Cut the curling piece of thread from white and color light gray. (I used scraps of solid colored cardstock for the pincushion and pin heads.) The card of pins uses an image printed on cardstock from the Relatively Thoughtful Walter Crane In The Garden A4 digital paper collection.

Sentiments: The outside stamped sentiments of “You’re sew sweet” and “Made with love” are from Essentials by Ellen – Old Spool. The inside sentiments come from Concord & 9th’s Sew Lovely stamp and die sets as well as Waffle Flower’s Quilted Hug stamp set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) envelope with “What’s sewing on?” stamped on the back flap. Stamp is from Essentials by Ellen – Old Spool.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • OLO Marker – Natural Gray 3
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dark Wild Honey

Adhesives

Tools