Cardbase: I started with a purchased 5×7-inch kraft cardstock cardbase and covered all sides with leopard spots paper. The inside was covered with two 5×7 pieces. (I covered my inside after I had die-cut the stage and had to fold the stage flat, cut on the die-cut lines and then retrain the folds. This gives you a solid coverage of the stage, hiding the center cut.) I cut the stage pop-ups, before I covered the outside with one 7×10-inch piece so I could hide the stage pop-out.
Pop-up Stage: (Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for Explosion Pop-Up before starting.) Because the stage in the Explosion Pop-Up set cuts into the card, I had to mark the card center and then die-cut the two parts of the stage on either side of the mark.
Explosion Side Panels: (Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for Explosion Pop-Up before starting.) Use paper rather than cardstock for the best results. As many times as I have made these panels, I always have to refer to the packaging or the assembly video to fold them correctly. Glue into the card before attaching the keyboard.
Piano Keys Pop-Up: This is a glue-in pop-up with good written directions on the packaging. You glue the black keys to the fold side without a tab with the bottom bar edge of the black keys piece lining-up to the bottom edge of the white keys. I added a second set of keys but had to trim off two white keys and one black key to fit into the Explosion card. (See photo above.) If you connect the two sets of keys inside with leftover strips from cutting the black keys, it will be easier to glue into the card. Attach the keys to stage pop-up and then glue the tab to the cardbase.
Characters: Assemble the guitar charm from the Music Charms set twice. (I cut the base from a woodgrain cardstock and the neck piece from white cardstock that was then inked with brown and stenciled with a black marker using the die stencil feature. The knobs were colored black, and the strings are cut from clear vellum and ends colored with a black marker.) Attach wiggly eyes, legs and arms. (One guitar I used legs made from the L and F of the Mini Alphabet, and the other I used the cowboy boots from the Tiny Accessories 3 set.) Glue to a mini wobbler spring before attaching to card.
The trumpet and heart are also made with the MiniAlphabet limbs of F, I and L and wiggly eyes. The heart has a hand-drawn mouth, and the microphone is the “i” from the Go Wild! sentiment set. The heart and trumpet are glued to the pop-up cubes atop the stage. The heart was cut from the Candy Hearts Box set.
There is a tiny white paw print on the back of the card that was cut from white cardstock and the paw pads colored with a black marker. This die comes from the Doghouse Tiny House Add-Ons set.
Sentiments: “Wild Thing!” is cut from two separate die sets – Go Wild! and the larger Alphabet set. Both words were cut from black and a pale-yellow cardstock with the layers staggered to create a sense of a shadow and to make them stand out on the dark background. They are glued on a heart cut from the Hearts – Crosshatch set.
My trick for lining up the individual letters is to line them up on my grid mat and place low tack tape over them and then glue them in place while still on the tape. Attach to card and then once dry, peel off the tape.
The inside sentiments included a circle cut from the Circles – Crosshatch set that was stamped with a clear ink and then heat embossed with white detail embossing powder. The stamp is from the Music Sentiments clear stamp set. The die-cut “Happy Birthday” is cut from the Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Onsset with the shadow piece trimmed from its frame.
Envelope: The back flap of the kraft A7 envelope has spotted leopard paper glued to it.
Watch the YouTube video below to learn how the card was made.
Sailboat Pop-Up: This pop-up is made with two die sets – the base is the Boat Pop-Up and the sails, pendant, railing, life preservers and anchor are all in the Sailboat Add-Ons set.
Cardbase: The card base is made up of two rectangles On 4 x8 1/2-inches and the other 4 x 8 3/4-inches. The longer piece is scored at 8 1/2-inches for the tab to glue to back of the other piece. The card front scene is made from waving water paper brushed with glitter gloss and Distress Oxide ink and a large blending brush. The birds are hand-drawn. The porpoise is from the Set Sail Bordersdie set. On the card back is a border of shells from the Set Sail Bordersdie set and colored with alcohol markers.
Sentiments: The card front “waving hello” is die-cut letters from the Mini Alphabet and the “hello” is from the Just A Note Lorna Add-Ons. The stamped sentiments inside the card are from the Sail Awaystamp set. A white label inside is for a personal message and was cut from the Labels – Crosshatch die set.
Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business envelope stamped with “Always take the scenic route” from the Sail Awaystamp set.
Cardbase: Cut an 11x 6-inches rectangle of lightweight cardstock and fold in half to create a 5 1/2 x 6-inches card base with a side fold. Cover with decorative paper on the outside and inside of front panel before cutting with largest square die from the Squares – Crosshatch. Once the square has been cut, attach inside back decorative paper matching front design.
Accordion Frame: Die-cut two Fancy Label Accordion frames from a decorative print cardstock as directed in PDF instructions. Make sure you add the decorative label die inside the pivot panel before you die cut, so that you will make the pivot panel into a frame.
Attach to card base as directed in PDF instructions. Use tree trunk and hearts dies to decorate tree panel.
Tree-Add-On Panel: Replace the Trees Add-Ons for the Hearts Add-Ons in the PDF instructions. I cut out tree frames on the first and third panels by first die cutting the whole panel and then die cutting twice more with the cloud shaped tree leaves dies and tree trunk dies in the Trees Add-Onsset. I cut two more of the tree shaped frames to cover and reinforce the back side of the tree panel.
Attach to pivot panel and card as shown in PDF instructions.
Sentiments & Decorations: I used printed sentiments and border strips from the paper collection to finish decorating the card covering all of the green cardbase.
Envelope: Fits into a 6×9 catalog envelope with a back flap decorated with decorative paper strip.
(Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for the Fancy Label Accordion before starting.)
Cardbase: Three Fancy Label Accordion frames were cut from heavy black cardstock and the fronts were decorated with Fancy Solid Framecut from a one-sided paper of records with a definite top and bottom to the pattern. (I cut three sets of frames going horizontal on the decorator paper and three sets going vertical on the paper to have enough frame pieces to have the pattern work.) Don’t glue the back side frames on until the three frames are joined together.
Decoration of Fancy Labels: The labels were cut using the Fancy Label Accordion set’s frame and largest decorator label dies. I used printed vellum on all three panels. The end panels had an additional frame cut out so the vellum could be framed. My original plan was to let light go through them. (I later changed my mind and glued white labels on the back side for personal messages.)
See the photos for how I taped the frame and additional black cardstock label piece together and die-cut matching frame pieces. The center panel was decorated with a full-size label of vellum topped with a smaller label and music staff and notes from the Music Charms set.
Sentiments: There are three sentiments on the card – “Turn up the volume,” “You Rock!” and “Thank You.” The first two were stamped using the Music Sentiments clear stamp set with clear ink and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder onto a piece of vellum and a frame piece of cardstock. (The frame piece is hard to see in the photos. It is in the right-hand corner below the “Thank You.”) The Thank You is die cut using the new Shadow die for it. It is coated with a glitter gloss for more sparkle.
Watch the YouTube video below to learn how the card was made.
Cardbase: I used double-sided patterned paper and cut a 4 x 12-inch rectangle and folded it in half.
Trees Pop-Up: From coordinating patterned paper, I cut the Tree Add-Onsmain die and scored it at 6-inches from either end. The tabs created by this scoring are what will be glued onto the card. To attach the pop-up, train all the folds and flatten them out. Place the center fold of pop-up over center fold of card. Fold back tabs and glue in place. Decorate pop-up using dies in the set. A white fence was added to the center of the pop-out using a die in the Farm Edges set.
Sentiments: The “Happy Birthday” on the card front is from the new Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons die set. Inside is a stamped and heat embossed sentiment “It’s your birthday. Hope it is wonderful” made up of four different stamps in the Birthday/Belated clear stamp set. The middle size crosshatch die in the Labels – Crosshatch set was used to created the inside sentiment and personal message labels.
Envelope: This card fits into an A6 envelope which was decorated with a border strip from the patterned paper collection.
This card was made for Craft Roulette #220 whose parameters included for a card for a dude, dragon colors, basket(s) and chart(s).
I chose to make a fishing lure pop-up birthday card using stamp and dies by Stampin’ Up, HoneyBee Stamps, Karen Burniston and Waffle Flower.
Cardbase: I started with an A6 (4 1/2 x 6 1/4-inches) sized purchased cardbase with matching envelope.
Pop-up Mechanism: Watch the assembly video and tips video located towards the bottom of the linked page for Karen Burniston’s Photo Collage Pop-Up. These will help you understand where catchpoints can happen with this mechanism.
Today’s card is a simple one using Spellbinder’s BetterPress to create letterpress stamping elements.
I used press plates from two companies. The intricate zig-zag frames are from PinkFresh Studio and come with coordinating dies. I used the largest two printed frames in the set using Spellbinders BetterPress Ink in French Blue. (I ended up having to use bubble wrap packaging to get a good die-cut through the thick white watercolor paper that I printed them on.)
For the cardbase I used a purchased one with envelope from American Crafts. Stamped on the back flap of the envelope is a pincushion image from Fun Stampers Journey using Stampin’ Up Crumb Cake ink.
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