Laundry vs. Crafting Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #182 whose parameters included a card with circles, vegetable garden colors, screen element and fuzz.

For this pop-up card for a crafting friend, I converted Karen Burniston’s new Oven Pop-Up and Small Script – Christmas, along with along with a number of her previously released dies into a laundry/crafting room.

Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 cardbase. Each of the inside panels are covered with papers from the Cosy Kitchen paper collection. The front of the card has a computer-generated panel while the card back uses scraps from the inside of the card including the lost sock.

Washer/Dryer: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page before starting the card. Both the washer and dryer are made the same way with different shaker contents and knobs using the Oven Pop-Up.

I created a double platform by cutting two oven platforms from white cardstock and trimming the sides that come together to a 1/4 inch or less. These cut sections are glued together making sure the tabs are all aligned straight. (Fold on all the score lines with a bone folder before gluing.)

Mark with a pencil the center point of the card fold. Center the double platform and attach the back tabs with glue. Fold the platform and front tabs as shown in the photo and add glue to tabs, close card to attach the platform to floor of card.

Cut two circle frames by using the smallest circle dies in the Circles – Crosshatch set from silver foil cardstock. Cut one of the stove burners from the Oven Pop-Up set and cut it in half for the clasp on the washer/dryer doors.

Cut two stove pieces from glossy white cardstock. Trim off one of the side tabs from each piece as shown in photo. Tape the oven door and window piece in place using packing tape on the backside. Glue the silver doors with clasps onto clear plastic and cut them out. (I used a piece plastic that had been a window in packaging.) Take foam strips and snip along one edge to make them bend easily. Place the snipped foam strips around the edge of two white circles (cut using the larger of the silver frame dies.) Cut socks from the gnome boots in the Gnome and Santa set. Use gel pens to add details to the socks. Glue four socks to the back of each white circle. Add circle confetti to washer shaker and a single black sock to dryer shaker. Glue the silver framed doors to the shaker circles.

Side Tables: Once the stove is attached, you can add the side tables which are made with the cabinet and drawer dies from the Oven Pop-Up. Cut a narrow rectangle in the middle of the long section of the cabinet piece to create the legs. attach to the stove and platform as normal. Pink ink was lightly sponged onto the tabletops and drawers.

TV: The TV set from the Memory Charms die set has had its antenna and feet trimmed off and Nuvo Drops added for knobs. I screen shot a photo from the Craft Roulette episode #182 and resized it to a 1-inch rectangle, print on white paper and die-cut it with the TV screen die.

Decorations: Actual dryer lint fuzz is glued to the top of the blue trash can cut from the Coffee Charms tall coffee cup. The laundry basket is the picnic basket cut from white cardstock covered with clear packing tape and stenciled with a teal permanent marker. A piece of thin white felt is the folded laundry in the basket. Two wall decorations are threaded needle and scissors from the Sewing Charms set. A tiny sweet pea green birthday card is the right table.

Sentiments: The front of the card sentiment “My Head Says Laundry” is computer generated. Inside the “my heart says Craft!” is a combination of die cut letters and tomato red heart with a computer generated “Craft!” (For “my” and “says,” I did word surgery using the words “merry christmas.”) The oval rug with its white label for a personal message come from the Crosshatch Ovals set. Blue ink was used on the die-cut letters and rug to make them standout from their backgrounds.

Envelope: To hint at what’s inside, the sentiment stamp of “Crafting comes before housework in the dictionary. As it should” is stamped in red on the back flap.

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

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Riley & Company – Funny Bones – Crafting Comes Before Housework -RWD-1037

Papers

  • Paper Discovery by Olga Direktorenko – A5 Paper Pad – Cosy Kitchen
  • White Glossy Cardstock
  • Silver Foil Cardstock
  • White, Black, Pink, Red, Green, Blue and Cream Cardstock
  • Clear Plastic Packaging
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad – Cherry Cobbler
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Salty Ocean and Saltwater Taffy
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black and Teal
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Gel Pen – White and Yellow

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Bone Folder
  • Ruler
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors
  • Paper Cutter
  • Computer and Printer
  • Pencil

Miscellaneous

  • Nuvo Crystal Drops – Simply White
  • Nuvo – Pure Sheen Confetti – Crystal Cloud Circles
  • Dryer Lint Fuzz
  • White Felt

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