This card was made for Craft Roulette #216 whose parameters included for A2 project, baseball game colors, number(s) element and charm(s).
After I completed the process video I added thin strips of decorated paper to even out the borders of the front background paper as well as adding a second jump ring to the charm to have it hang more in the center of the frame.
Cardbase: Use a 5.5 x4.25-inch white piece of cardstock and cover front with confetti sprinkles patterned paper. Die cut half round notch from Waterfall Card die set at center bottom of short side of card.
Waterfall: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for the Waterfall Card. I cut the mechanism pieces (pull strip and base) from yellow cardstock. The largest square die was used to cut four double-sided patterned paper pages. Assemble waterfall as shown in video.
Food Pop-Ups: Cut and assemble the ice cream cone from the Sweet Treats Charms set. The slice of cake and large candle are made using the Big Birthday Charms set. Cut off the charm loops on both. Cake icing has Glossy Accents clear gel on it. Candle flames have glitter gloss on them.
Cut small strips of patterned cardstock and fold in half and then fold the ends to the center fold to form a pop-up cube to glue into the first two pages. Once these pop-up cubes’ glue has dried, attach the food elements to cubes. The large candle is popped-up with two strips of cardstock behind it.
Sentiments: “Celebrate!” and “Happy Birthday” are from Word Set 2. The balloons and streams are from the Big Birthday Charms set. The quote by Iris Murdoch was in the paper collection. The back of the pull tab was stamped with “Inspired by Craft Roulette. Made by” and signature and CR episode listed.
Envelope: The back flap of the envelope is decorated with leftover strips of patterned paper.
I got this cute bunny mug die set on sale after Easter from Teaspoon of Fun. This Pixi Dust Designs die set has 22 dies to make the bunny face mug, a carrot, a cake slice and a macaroon.
Cardbase: Use an A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2-inches) side-fold horizontal card base (I used a purchased kraft cardbase and matching envelope.) cover the four panels with double-sided papers.
Bunny Mug: Cut the mug, large ears, eyes, cheeks and teeth from white cardstock. Cut nose and two inner ear piece from pink. From black, cut inner eye and eyelash circles. Use a pale-yellow ink to color teeth. Glue pieces together. With a fine-tipped black pen, add dots for whiskers on cheeks Also use black pen to outline cheeks, teeth and mug shape. Glue mug to card front and trim away cardbase around top half of mug.
Carrot: Cut the two carrot dies from different shades of orange. And the carrot top from green. Assemble with whole carrot piece on the bottom and then the carrot piece with three vs and top off with carrot greens. Use a fine-tipped black pen to add fine lines to add rounded shaping to the carrot and greens. Make two carrots.
Carrot Cake: Cut cake from brown and three icing pieces and thin oval from white. Lightly shade the icing piece with a pale-yellow ink. Add orange dots to brown cake piece. Glue the two ripple lines first using makes on cake piece and then attach the top icing piece.
This card was made for Craft Roulette #214 whose parameters included for Project – appreciation, candlelight colors, “Leave it to ….” element and retiform.
Cardbase: My finished card only used two rectangles of 9×3 3/4-inches (scored at 1/4-inch) and 8 3/4×3 3/4-inches. (Skip making the small panel.) After decorating front of tabbed rectangle, glue tab to back of smaller rectangle. Cover the card base in patterned paper.
Dancing Letters Mechanism: (Watch Karen Burniston’s Designer Challenge video for my inspiration for my card.) I did not reverse the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up mechanisms as Karen did. I folded all of my mechanisms as they were designed. My strips of plastic were the equivalent of two of the mechanism arm die glued together. Use glue dots or double-sided tape when attaching items to the plastic.
Sentiments: The front sentiment was computer generated and printed on copy paper. Then fussy cut into two lines of words. And glued in place.
Envelope: This card would fit into a #10 business envelope.
A few times a year, I get commissions from a pair of cats for cards to their humans. For Mother’s Day this year they picked an Anita Jerem illustration of two cats sleeping in bed under a heart dotted comforter. They like to use every year the sentiments from a Simon Says Stamp set Happy Meowther’s Day.
Cardbase: I used a purchased A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2-inch) plaid printed cardbase and matching white envelope. The image panel was adhered with double sided tape and the sentiments were stamped directly onto the image panel or cardbase.
Alcohol markers, not chosen Watercolor markers, not chosen
Front Panel: The Snoozing Kitties stamp works best with a stamping platform. Because I used StazOn ink a solvent ink, I only got one chance at stamping the complete image. I stamped the image on three separate pieces of cardstock and watercolor paper. Some images were faint in areas, so I filled them in with a 01 black fine tip pen before coloring. I experimented with watercolor brush markers and alcohol markers. I had more control over the intensity of color with the alcohol markers as well as a wider range of colors to choose (80 alcohol markers to 12 watercolor brush markers.) My chosen panel was the first one I colored with alcohol markers. Yellow cat colored with 37 pastel yellow, 38 pale yellow, 163 green bice and 120 black. Gray striped cat used 120 black, WG3 warm grey and WG5 warm grey. The comforter’s hearts were colored with 70 royal blue, 144 pale baby blue and 185 pale blue light. The shadows on the bedding wrinkles is WG1 warm grey. 70 royal blue was also used for the wallpaper stripes, while 185 pale blue light was used for the headboard. “Happy Meowther’s Day” was stamped in black over the wallpaper.
Inside Sentiments: All the sentiments inside the card are from the Happy Meowther’s Day stamp set. They include “Thank you for feeding me, cleaning up after me, and loving me more than anything else in the world. The feeling is mutual.” And “from the cats” with tiny paw prints and a heart. The heart is stamped in red while all the words and paw prints are in black.
Envelope: “Happy Meowther’s Day” is stamped on the back of the envelope flap in black ink with a red heart underneath it.
It’s time for the May 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge with the theme of From the Vault. I used for inspiration a 2021 Thanksgiving card and made it into a spring card.
My new card uses a similar cardbase to the original, but I skipped the foundation and the fourth fold.
Cardbase: Cut from medium-weight cardstock three rectangles 6 1/4 x6-inches and one 6-inch square. Cut five 6-inch squares of decorative green paper Using double-sided tape on the back of four of the decorative panels adhere to both sides of two of the 6 1/4 x6-inches rectangles. Cut out windows from the center of these two covered panels using the largest Square Crosshatch die. Attach window panels to opposite sides of the 6-inch square. Adhere last 6 1/4 x6-inches rectangle to bottom of the 6-inch square. Cover the hinge flaps with a decorative paper. (This will be the back of the folded close card. On my card it is pink.) Cover the 6-inch square inside with green decorative paper and the bottom square with a grass like paper. On the back side of grass covered square cover with a stone wall patterned paper.
Trees: Use the tree and leaf dies in the Tree Pop-Up set to cut five of each die. Glue leaves to trees. Die-cut 16 times the flower die in the same set from pink. Using a tiny ball flower shaping tool, push each flower into stiff foam to shape petals. Top of trees will be glued to each side of window frame panels and tree trunk will be sandwiched in between the fence pieces. (You will use two trees per window panel.) Wait to glue onto cardbase until one layer of fence is adhered to cardbase.
Fence: From the Iron Fence Pop-Up set, cut eight of the fence die in black. Trim off the end post on one piece and then trim off just before the fifth pence post a section of fence from a second piece to made a fence that is wide enough to span the 6-inch cardbase panels. Made five of theses fence sections. Glue a section to the bottom edge of one of the window panels. Attach a tree. Glue a fence to other side of window panel matching all the scrollwork up. Adhere remaining tree and fence to 6-inch square panel.
Tulips & Tree Flowers: Add six dots of glue to tree leaves on one panel and place tiny pink flowers in glue using the pointed tip of QuickStik to firmly attached to leaves. Continue with each of the five trees until flowers are all attached.
Cut from green cardstock 25 of the tulip base die in the Garden Charms set. Trim off charm loop from flower bases. From yellow cardstock cut 50 tulip flower tops. Glue a yellow top to front and back of all the flower bases. To create the flaming streaks of color, use a red brush marker starting at the bottom of the yellow tulip and drawing up to the points following the curves of the tulip shape.
Sentiments: Both the shadow die and word die were used for the “Happy Birthday.” The inside sentiment of “Happy Spring” is a words-only die.
Envelope: The card will fit in a catalog envelope of 6×9-inches.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #213 whose parameters included for hello project, robust colors, workplace element and mixed media. It is intended for young children to give to their mother.
Box: From a 12 x12-inch square of cardstock, draw lines every 3 7/8-inches on all sides. Draw a 1/4-inch tab on one side flap. Cut as shown on video. On a 6-inch square of cardstock draw lines 1-inch from edge on all sides. Cut lid as shown on video. Assemble as directed on video.
Washing Machine: Cut from glossy white cardstock one washing machine from the laundry die set. Cut the knobs and buttons from black and silver and glue in place. For the box piece the forms the 3D washing machine, cut a piece 8 1/2 x 2-inches. Fold at 3 1/8-inches, 4 1/2-inches and 7 1/2-inches. Cut a piece that will cover the side of the box from glossy white cardstock. Cut another piece of glossy cardstock the width of the top of the washing machine and the length of the top of the box, plus 1/2-inch for the two 1/4-inch tabs. Assemble as shown in video.
Table: Cut a piece of white cardstock 1×6-inches. Score and fold at 1/4-inches, 1 5/8-inches, 3 1/4-inches, and 4 5/8-inches. Glue tab to other end to form cube. Glue onto washer side and floor. Die-cut, color and assemble laundry soap bottle and box. Using foam squares, attach them to wall atop table.
Basket: Cut four of the laundry basket from the laundry die set in green. Trim off the sides from two of the baskets, fold sides into tabs and glue onto sides of other two basket pieces to form a four-sided box. Cut fabric scraps and form into folded laundry. Glue laundry onto box base and then add glue to inside of basket before placing around folded laundry.
Sentiments: “Loads of Appreciation” and “Thank You” were stamped in black on a white die cut fancy label before being glued onto a box flap. “Happy Mother’s Day” was die cut from a scrap of the blue box cardstock. The “Greetings To My Favorite Domestic Engineer” on the box lid was computer generated.
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Materials Used:
Dies
Papertrey Ink – Wafer Thin Metal Dies – Happy Mother’s Day
This card was made for Craft Roulette #212 whose parameters included a card for a co-worker, kites in the sky colors, April element and sparkle.
I used products available from Craftstash – USA or –UK
Cardbase: I used thin papers to cover the four panels of the purchase A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase. The green paper is from the Hot off the Press Pretty Papers. The front mustard yellow paper is from the Hot off the Press Spice Market.
Sentiments: Stamps used on the card front and inside the card are from the Sentimentally Yours – Botanical Bees – gift set in Creative Stamping issue 99, August 2021. The stamps on the back are from Craft Roulette – The Basics.
Envelope: Stamped on the envelope back in black ink are a bee buzzing around a flower and the sentiment “Just bee-cause” from the Sentimentally Yours – Botanical Bees set.
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Materials Used:
Dies
Made to Surprise by Sam Calcott – Metal Dies – Pretty Blooms
Stamps
Sentimentally Yours – Clear Stamps – Botanical Bees – gift set in Creative Stamping issue 99, August 2021
Made to Surprise by Sam Calcott – Clear Stamps – Pretty Blooms
Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – The Basics
Papers
Keep It Simple – 6×6 Double-Sided Cardstock – Back to Basics Lemon Collection Pack
Hot Off The Press – 8.5×11 inch Single-Sided Papers – Pretty Papers
Hot Off The Press – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Papers – Spice Market
Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Gumdrop 5-5154
Gold Foil Cardstock
White Cardstock
Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White
Ink
Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitivity Saturated Ink – Sunbeam
I just got a lovely shipment from Craftstash of papercrafting tools. Included in the package were a layered tapestry stencil set by Lou Collins in her TEXT{ures} brand and a Creative Craft Products gift box maker scoring board with ball tool. Below is a stenciled pillow gift box that I made with these tools.
Stenciling: The four layering stencils in Lou Collins’ Ornate Layering A5 Stenciling Set creates a multi-color tapestry design in the William Morris style. Because I don’t have a stenciling platform or jig that works with the stencils, I taped the first stencil onto the center of my 8 1/2 x 11-inch piece of cardstock and used a marker to trace the jig holes at the top of the stencil onto the cardstock, so I could line-up the various stencils each time. I used a variety of small ink blending brushes to ink in each stencil. I found the small detail brushes worked well as did the larger surface brush on all areas of the stencils. (Sorry I don’t know the brands of the various brushes I used.)
Pillow Box: I used the stenciled piece of cardstock to create a pillow box for a gift card using the Creative Craft Products gift box maker scoring board with ball tool. First I trimmed the cardstock to the 15cmx15cm recommended size and then sandwiched the cardstock between the acetate and scoring board and taped the edges of the acetate at the corners. Next, I used the small end of ball tool to trace over the red pillow box template lines and then turn the cardstock 180 degrees to mark the opposite end’s eye shaped fold/cut lines. After trimming off the excess cardstock, I adhered the side tab to the other edge with double-sided tape.
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