Month: November 2024

A Christmas Pop-Up Card – A Great White Shark

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This card was inspired by a pun on the Bing Crosby classic “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” song. It uses dies by Karen Burniston and stamps by Riley and Company.

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

Cardbase:  Cut an 8.75 x7.5-inch rectangle of 65lb. white cardstock and score and fold in half to form an 8.75 x3.25-inch top-fold slimline card base. Cover using decorative papers.

Pop-Ups:  Watch the assembly videos for the Lorna Label Pop-Up and the Piano Keys Pop-Up by click on the links and looking for the videos at the bottom of each link’s page.

Decorations: For the musical notes and piano are from the Music Charms set while the shark inside is from the Sea Animals set. The shark border on the card back is from the Beach Borders set. The sharks were cut in white and colored with a gray marker.

Sentiments: The Lorna Add-Ons of  Merry Christmas and Just A Note were used along with the shark sentiments from Riley and Company.

Envelope:  The card will need to be mailed in a bubble wrap envelope because of its size and thickness.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Funny Bones – Advice From A Shark
  • Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Shark Puns

Papers

  • Recollections – 8.5×11 inch 65 lb. Cardstock – Christmas – Noel
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11 100 lb. Cardstock – Raindrop
  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Printed Paper – Christmas Sheet Music
  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Printed Paper – Classic Snowflakes – Blue
  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Printed Paper – Red & Cream Diagonal Stripe
  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Printed Paper – Red & Cream Diagonal Stripe
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
  • Black Cardstock

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Creative Craft Products – Alcohol Markers – Dual Tipped – WG 1 Warm Grey
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape

Thanksgiving Pop-Up Room Scene Card

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It’s time for the November 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge of Autumn or Christmas Cheer celebrating the season.

I’ve chosen to celebrate Autumn and Thanksgiving harvest foods with another 6×6-inch pop-up kitchen scene card featuring the new Sweet Treats clear stamp set along with the previously released Oven Pop-Up, Oven Extras, Baking Borders, Explosion Pop-Up and Bitty Ball and Mini Ball Double-Ups die sets.

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

Here is a link to my Trimming the Christmas Tree room scene card similar to this kitchen card.

Cardbase: From 100 lb. cardstock cut two 6 x 6 1/2-inch rectangles, one 6 x12-inch rectangle, and one 6 x 5-inch rectangle. Watch video to see the order of assembly of pieces and when to cover pieces with decorative paper.

Windows: Using the Bitty Ball Double-Ups large die, cut windows into the two 6 x 6 1/2-inch rectangles of the card base. Use the Mini Ball Double-Ups to cut the rear window in the 4 1/2-inch tall wall panel. The door uses the Rectangles–Crosshatch and the Long Rectangles–Crosshatch as well as the leftover rectangles from the oven rack and black circle from the oven burner in the Oven Pop-Up set.

Oven: Cut two of the Oven Pop-Up base and cut one in half and assemble the base pieces as shown in the tutorial video above. Complete as shown in Karen Burniston’s assembly video. (Watch assembly video on the dies’ linked page.)

Cabinets: Cut eight of the cabinet doors from the Oven Extras set. (Watch assembly video on the dies’ linked page.) Add to the scene as shown in the tutorial video above. The double cabinet counter tops are cut using the second smallest rectangle in the Short Rectangles-Crosshatch. (While the tutorial video shows using the Explosion Pop-Up for the base of the island cabinets, you could just use a cut down oven base for this island.)

Decorations: The pies come from the Baking Borders set while the oven mitts are from the Oven Pop-Up set. The turkey in the roasting pan in the oven as well as the orange pot on the stove are from the Oven Extras set as is the pop-up cubes that animate them as the card opens. The pumpkins and leaves on the outside panels are from the Autumn Elements set.

Sentiments: The card uses two sentiments from an American Crafts journaling card paper sheet as well as the Sweet Treats stamped sentiments. Die-cut “Happy Thanksgiving” and “Welcome Autumn” come from Word Set 7- Autumn.

Envelope:  The card is thick, so a special padded envelope is needed to mail it.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • American Crafts – 12×12 inch Singled-Sided Paper – AutumnSentiment Squares & Autumn Trees
  • Bazzill – 12×12 Cardstock – Avalanche
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Grafix – 8.5×11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film
  • DCWV– 4.5×6.5 Cardstock Matstack – The Spooky Time
  • Memory Box – 8.5×11 inch Textured Cardstock – Woodgrain – Kraft
  • Hot Off The Press – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Papers – North Country
  • Stampin’ Up – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Copper Clay
  • The Paper Cut – 8.5×11 Glossy 10 PT Kromekote Cardstock – White
  • Silver Foil Cardstock
  • Black, Brown and White Cardstock

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Simon Says Stamp – Preium Pigment Ink – White
  • Crafter’s Squares – Metallic Markers .05 in – Silver
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Yellow
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • T-Ruler
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous 

  • Autumn Themed Satin Ribbon 1/4-inch wide

Reindeer Farm Winter Holidays Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #239 whose parameters included an interactive card, picnic colors, farm element, and paper strips.

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

Cardbase:  I used a purchased A6 (4.5 x 6.25-inch) cardbase and envelope.

Stable & Reindeer:  Using the Reindeer Stable die set by Scrapping Cottage, cut the stable base from red cardstock and inked the edges with brown ink. All the other pieces were cut from white cardstock and colored. The weathervane was cut twice and glued together to reinforce the tiny piece. I made my own wire wobbler springs using thin florist wire and gluing them in place.

Flying Reindeer Mechanism:  Using dies by Whimsy Stamps kinetic collection, I eventually figured out how to make the reindeer fly over the stable using the die cut paper strips and foam dots. (Watch the tutorial to see how I made it.)

Snow:  Avry Elle white ink spray was used to cover the card with splatters of snow. (I had to color over the facial details and shading on the reindeer after spraying.) The trees have white gel pen to place snow accumulation at the end of the branches.

Sentiments:  All the winter sentiments stamped in black ink are from Waffle Flower. The “Pull” and arrow are tiny stamps from My Favorite Things.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A6 (4.5x 6.25-inches) size envelope With “Let It Snow” on the back flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Scrapping Cottage – Cottage Cutz – Reindeer Stable
  • Whimsy Stamps – Metal Craft Dies – Kinetic Curved Hills
  • Whimsy Stamps – Metal Craft Dies – Kinetic Curved Basics
  • Whimsy Stamps – Metal Craft Dies – No See Kinetic Basics

Stamps

  • My Favorite Things – Clear Stamps –  Interactive Labels
  • Waffle Flower – Clear Stamps – Star Snowflake Sentiments

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – A4 Double-Sided Solid Colored Cardstock – Little Robin Redbreast
  • Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Cranberry Bliss
  • Black and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Avery Elle – White Spray Ink
  • Memento – Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Gathered Twigs
  • Creative Craft Products – Alcohol Markers – Dual Tipped –WG 3 Warm Grey
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black, Green
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black, Red
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends – Dark & Light Daffodil Delight
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Write – Chocolate Chip

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Craft Clip
  • Scrap Paper to color on
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Circle Hole Punch – 1-inch wide
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

  • Florist Wire – Brown

A Christmas Pop-Up Card – Poinsettia and Candy Canes

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This card was inspired by a 3D embossing folder that features poinsettias and candy canes by Spellbinders. It also uses some new dies by Karen Burniston and paper by Graphic 45.

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

Card Back

Cardbase:  I used a purchased A7 (5×7-inch) side fold cardbase with matching envelope. (Color the fold both inside and out using markers that are close in color to the papers, so that the white fold line is less seen.) The cardbase was covered using decorative papers.

Embossed Front: The Spellbinders 3D embossing folder of the month for October 2024 embosses a 5 1/2×8 1/2-inch surface. I used gold foil cardstock to emboss and colored the image with fine tipped alcohol markers. (I found the smaller tipped makers got brighter coverage, but I went over most of the images two or three times to get my desired color.)

Poinsettia:  Using the Karen Burniston Poinsettia die set, cut one large poinsettia petals from green and another from red cardstock. Cut two of the small petals from red. Cut one red center and a second center from yellow cardstock backed with double sided adhesive tape to make stickers. Assemble the flower as shown in video. Cut berry branches and fir branches from green and berries from red cardstock covered with clear packing tape. Use berry die as a stencil to add white gel pen highlights to berries.

Fan Pop-Up:  Using the Photo Fan die set, cut one of the fan mechanism piece from decorative paper matching the card inside paper. Cut off arms and save arms. Glue two arms together and attach to fan with arm edge butted into the center fold of the fan. Install fan into card as directed in the video.

Sentiment:  Cut one of the Merry Christmas Lorna Add-on large die from red cardstock and the words from gold foil cardstock.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope. I decorated the back flap of the envelope with candy canes from the Christmas Borders 2 die set.

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Disclaimer: Karen Burniston products are provided free of charge by the manufacturer for review and use. All other items were personally purchased. Compensated affiliate links used where or when possible, meaning I will receive a small percentage commission from these manufacturers at no cost to you. This will allow me to add more content to my YouTube channel and help out a lot. Thank you.

Materials Used:

Dies

Embossing Folders

  • Spellbinders – 3D Emboss Folder – Joyful Candy Canes -3EOM-Oct24

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8-inch Double-Sided Paper – Enchanted Forest
  • Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Cranberry Bliss
  • Gold Foil Cardstock
  • Green and Yellow Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Crafter’s Square – Metallic Marker – Gold
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black, Red and Yellow
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Green and Red

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Tweezers
  • We R Memories – QuickStick