Fresh ground coffee smells amazing and to share it with a friend is even better.

This slimline card features mice making coffee as drawn by Anita Jeram. These delightful illustrations are popped-up on dies by Karen Burniston.

I did some test layouts with the stamps and dies before stamping the images on to white 110lb. cardstock with permanent black ink. I find stamping several of the needed images is useful to test colors. The images were colored with watercolor pencils and then water brushed to blend. Using fine-tipped surgical scissors, I fussy cut the images out. For delicate cuts and enclosed spaces, I used a craft knife to cut away excess cardstock.

I covered the four panels of 7×8 1/2-9nch white cardstock cardbase that was folded in half with 3 1/2×8 1/2-inch rectangles of tan plaid paper.

Watching the assembly video for the Little Labels Pop-Up die set before I determined what cardstock to use saved me time. I die cut the largest of the fancy labels that are in the pop-up set from blue plaid cardstock and then glued them onto the brown pop-up mechanism. I also cut out the three ribbon pieces from blue plaid paper and adhered them to the lower half of the mechanism before attaching the mechanism to the card base.

Decorating the card with the images was the fun part, but feeling the card was lacking some grounding lines, I cut from the same brown cardstock as the mechanism some of Karen Burniston’s ribbon borders from her Border Blends Trims that also include tiny hearts. These ribbons were glued to the top and bottom of the card front and inside with the tiny hearts scattered along the ribbon. Additional tiny hearts were added to the mechanism and labels inside.

Because I didn’t like the look of the brown top arms of the three mechanism labels, I cut pieces of tan plaid paper to cover them and added a tiny heart to each.

Two Bam Box, rubber band powered, pop-up mechanisms were used to animate the Coffee press image and a second coffee cup. (Go to assembly video on Bam Box shop page.) Because the coffee press image is almost 3×3-inches, I had to install the Bam Box at almost a 100-degree angle from the label pop-up mechanism to fit the image inside the card. To fix some catchpoints with both Bam Box images, I glued tails to the labels and trimmed the coffee press handle some. The bottom mouse tail of the coffee press is folded against the label pop-up platform, but not glued.

A white label from the crosshatch labels die set was adhered to the center of the inside of the card for a personal message. The stamped sentiments came from the coffee stamps and one was fussy cut with scissors while the other used a circle die from the crosshatch circles set.

For the card back, I used off-cuts from the ribbon borders and stamped Anita Jeram’s name onto white cardstock and then die-cut a heart around it using a heart from Karen Burniston’s Hearts – Crosshatch set. Using a black pen, I credited Karen Burniston on the heart and added my initials and the year to the heart.

As is my style, I glued a leftover piece of ribbon border and three hearts to the envelope flap to hint at what is inside.

I like to enclose instructions on how to close the Bam Box. You can download the instructions below.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Bam Box Pop-Up – 1222
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Hearts – Crosshatch – 1191
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Border Blends – Trims – 1186
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Labels – Crosshatch – 1184
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Little Labels Pop-Up – 1183
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Circles – Crosshatch – 1057

Stamps

• Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps – Coffee House by Anita Jeram – AJ483

Papers

• Crafter’s Companion – NitWit Collections 12×12 Double-Sided Sheets – Paws-itivity
• Graphic 45 – 8×8 Paper Pad – Double-Sided Cardstock – Life’s A Bowl of Cherries Collection -Homemade Goodness
• My Favorite Things – 8.5×11 Smooth 110lb. Cardstock – White
• Brown Cardstock
• #10 Business Envelope – Brown

Inks/Pens

• StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
• Rangerv- Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils – Sets 1-3
• American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver – 62212
• Pigma – Mircon 01 – Black

Adhesives

• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
• Scrapbook.com – Double-Sided Tape – 1/8-inch wide
• Foam Squares

Tools

• We R Memory Keepers – Quickstik
• Die Cutting Machine
• Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
• Bone Folder
• Scissors
• Craft Knife
• Water Brush
• Stamping Platform
• Stamping Block