I needed a Thanksgiving Day card and had just found in my stash the Spellbinder’s Autumn Wishes Stamp + Die of the Month -September 2024. So I made this layered card.
Cardbase: I used purchased side-fold A2 cardbase and matching envelope. The images were stamped onto a 4×5.25-inch piece of white cardstock. The main pumpkin image was stamped, die-cut and adhered to the front panel with 1mm thick foam tape.
Sentiments: The front sentiment βAutumn Wishesβ and the inside one of βHappy Thanksgivingβ are part of Autumn Wishes stamp set. I rubbed my orange ink pad onto the white cardstock I was going to stamp the front banner sentiment onto before stamping the words in a dark brown ink. There is a banner die in the set to cut out the phrase.
Envelope: Β The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope stamped with the main pumpkin image in orange.
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Materials Used:
Stamps & Dies
Spellbinder’s – Stamp + Die of the Month – Autumn Wishes – CDOM-SEP24
Papers
White Cardstock
Spellbinders Merry Moments Holiday Kit β A2 Cardbase and Envelope β White
Having just received the new Stampin’ Up Flourish & Frames Hot Foil Dies, I wanted to play with them and made this greeting card with an Autumn theme.
Cardbase: I used purchased side-fold A2 cardbase and matching envelope. A 4×5.25-inch rectangle of pumpkin themed decorative paper.was glued to the front of the cardbase.
Hot Foil Labels: The largest label with striped half circles was foiled in gold along with the long narrow banner in the Stampin’ Up Flourish & Frames Hot Foil Dies set. The sentiment banner was stamped in a brown ink. The autumn squash from the Stampin’ Up Autumn Goodness stamp set was stamped in orange on the large label. Both labels were adhered to the card front with 1mm thick foam tape.
Sentiments: The front sentiment βThankful for youβ and the back one of βAll good things come from aboveβ are part of the Stampin’ Up Autumn Goodness stamp set. The cornstalk stamped on the back is also from the same stamp set.
Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope stamped with “Plant kindness, harvest Love” from the Stampin’ Up Autumn Goodness stamp set.
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I needed an Autumn themed Thinking of You card and looked through my stash to find Spellbinders Pumpkin Patch 3D embossing folder and Studio Light’s Everlasting Autumn Scarecrow stamp set. This is the 5×7-inch card I made with these items.
Cardbase: (I used a purchased side-fold A7 cardbase and matching envelope.) Using Spellbinders Pumpkin Patch 3D embossing folder, mist the orange cardstock before running the folder and cardstock through a die cutting machine. Trim down embossed panel to 6.75x 4.625-inches. Adhere to front of card base with double-sided tape. Color sunflowers with yellow marker and flower centers and pumpkin stems with black.
Card Front: The Studio Light’s Everlasting Autumn Scarecrow images were stamped onto a piece of white cardstock, colored with alcohol markers, fussy cut and adhered to the front panel with 1mm thick foam tape.
Sentiment: The front sentiment βThe colors of Autumn make my heart smile” comes from the Studio Light’s Everlasting Autumn Scarecrow stamp set, stamped on white cardstock and fussy cut. It was popped-up on the card front with 1mm tick foam tape.The inside of the card is blank.
Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5x 7-inches) size envelope stamped with the scarecrow image on the back.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #335 whose parameters were include a gatefold project, vacation colors, CAS (copy and sample) from last week’s gallery as element and paper strip(s) as random. I used Karen Burniston dies and stamp set to CAS Megan Francis’s leafy card from Craft Roulette’s #334 galley.
Watch the video below to learn how I made this card.
Cardbase:Watch the video above for how to cut and score the cardbase. Cut an 8.5×11-inch sheet of white 65lb. cardstock down to 8.5×10-inches and scored at 2.5-inches and 7.5-inches along the long side and then flipped the cardstock sideways to score at 7-inches. Cut away the small rectangles at the sides of the long rectangle.
With the gatefold flaps closed, begin drawing the window aperture over the two flaps. Using a 2.5×3.5-inch rectangle of scrap paper, find the best placement for the ATC cut-out. With a T-square ruler, drawn in the lines to cut out with a craft knife as shown in the video. (My border measurements are 1.75-inches at the top, 1.25-inches at the sides and 2-inches at the bottom.)
Card Back
Background: Using torn strips of decorative papers, create the 4.875x 6.875-inch background for the inside of the card. Cover the bottom flap on both sides with your grass-colored paper. (I ended up using scrapes for the flap, and some extra leaves to decorate the side of the flap with the βPullβ and arrow stamped on it. I used My Favorite Things Interactive Labels stamp set.)
Tree: Cut six trees from brown using the Tree Pop-Up die set. Glue three trees together twice as shown in the video above and adhere them to the card. Add leaves cut from the same die set. (I cut three sets of leaves and colored some of the leaves to get three different shades of redusing two shades of cardstock – kraft and red.)
Cat Swing: Cut two black cats from the Skeleton and Bat die set. Glue together. Use die stencil to color eyes. (Yes, the eyes on this cat can look like four eyes or very large cat eyes. Which did you see first?) Add bow tie also in the same die set. Cut two seat pieces from the Tree Pop-Up set and glue together. Glue cat to seat and add orange twine as shown in video above.
Leaf Pile with Pop-up Dog: Cut a squat arch large enough to cover the Parcel Pop-Up mechanism and cover it with die-cut leaves. Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for the Parcel Pop-Up. Cut the three pieces for the mechanism from white cardstock and assemble as shown in video above. Cut the upper half of the largest mechanism piece from grass colored paper. Trim and adhere it to the mechanism as shown in the video above. Cut two of the dog from Doghouse Tiny House Add-Ons set. Use die stencil to color eyes, nose and belly. Color ears black. Use bow tie from Skeleton and Bat die set in orange as collar. Glue dog onto pop-up strip.
Sentiments: Stamp βWarm Autumn Wishesβ from Karen Burnistonβs Fall Phrases stamp set onto a 1.5-inch circle of yellow. (My circle die slipped when cutting it out and so my moon goes was placed at the top edge of the card.)
Belly Band: Using a sheet of 4×6-inch decorative paper and a scrap piece of clear vellum, I made the belly band to keep the card closed. Again, stamping the βPullβ and arrow using My Favorite Things Interactive Labels stamp set.
Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5x 7-inch) size envelope.
Above is my pop-up card in the left two photos and Megan Francis’s card that I CAS’ed on the right. Can you see what elements from her card that I sampled?
Itβs time for the Karen Burniston Design Team August 2026 Challenge whose theme is MEALTIME. I chose to make a pop-up Thanksgiving Day card in the form of a cascading feast using double Cascade Pop-Up mechanisms and the Dessert Elements and Mealtime Elements. The stamped sentiments come from the new Mealtime Phrase stamp set.
Watch the process video to see how I made this card.
Cardbase: Fold a 10×7-inch piece of cardstock in half to make a 5×7-inch top fold cardbase. Using the largest rectangle die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch, cut four panels to cover the cardbase inside and out. (I had to use scraps of my decorative papers to cover all of the back panel.)
Cascade Pop-Up: Watch the video above for the assembly of the two Cascade Pop-Up mechanisms. Cut two each of the large die and small strip dies from gray medium weight cardstock. Cut from heavy white cardstock, four large plates using the large plate die in the Mealtime Elementsset. Cut two large slotted circles from the Cascade Pop-Up and then position the large plate die so that the plate has the slot still cut in it. Cut the two slotted plated from heavy white cardstock.
Card Front Kitchen: (Follow the instructions in the video aboveto assemble.) From the Oven Pop-Up, cut one oven piece from a white coated cardstock. Cut from silver foil cardstock one oven handle, four stove knobs and eight cabinet knobs. Also cut from silver cardstock, using the Oven Extras, one hood vent, two pots and one pan. From woodgrain cardstock, cut eight sets of the cabinet panels using the Oven Extras. From black cut two 1/2×1-inch strips for the stove burners. from gray metallic textured cardstock, cut a 2-inch square for inside of the oven and a strip that is at least 1/4×6-inches for the kick-plate at the base of the cabinets. (I used three different silver metallic cardstock/paper – one was mirror cardstock packaging, one was a matte silver envelope and the last was a textured, shimmer, gray cardstock.) Cut one turkey leg bone piece from white and one turkey from kraft cardstock using the Oven Extras. Color and shade with Distress Inks and markers.
Sentiments: The front βWhat’s cookin’?” and the inside “Hope your day is delicious” are from the Fall Phrases stamp set with the fancy labels cut using the Greeting Labels. “Happy Thanksgiving” inside the card uses Word Set 7 – Autumn die set. “Hope your day is Delicious” is from Mealtime Phrase.
Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5x 7-inches) size envelope with “Thankful, Grateful, Blessed” stamped on the back flap from the Fall Phrases stamp set.
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Itβs time for the Karen Burniston Design Team November 2025 Challenge whose theme is FUN FACES. I made a slimline Thanksgiving card using two new stamp sets β Fall Phrases and Fun Faces 1.
Watch the process video to see how I made this card.
Cardbase: I cut a 7 1/2×8 5/8-inch rectangle from white 65lb. cardstock. Then I scored and folded in half to create a 3 3/4×8 5/8-inch slimline cardbase.
Animals: Using the Woodland Animalsand Winter Animals die sets make two bears, one raccoon, one fox and one squirrel. Use the Fun Faces 1 to stamp on the animals eyes, noses and mouths. Make four red apples from the Tiny Fruit set and add to all the animals except the squirrel. Make an acorn for the squirrel using the tiny acorn die in the Woodland Animals set.
Leaf and Acorn Border: Cut eight oak leaves from the Tree Pop-Up set and seven acorns using the tiny acorn die in the Woodland Animals set. (I cut a bunch of leaves from orange and brown cardstock and four more acorns knowing I would use the leftovers to decorate the inside of the card.) adhere to front border strip as shown in the photos and video.
Pumpkins: Cut three pumpkins from orange patterned paper. Dry emboss them using the pumpkin die from the Autumn Elements set in your die cutting machine’s embossing sandwich. Cut two of the pierced labels for the Little Labels Pop-Up side labels from green patterned paper. Layer together a pumpkin onto the green label and decorate with leftover leaves and acorns. Adhere the remaining pumpkin to the card back.
Label Pop-Up: Cut one of the large die in the Little Labels Pop-Up set from green cardstock. (Watch the assembly video located at the bottom of the linked page.) Assemble as show in the video above.
Sentiments: The inside stamped sentiments are from the Fall Phrases set. The die cut βHappy Thanksgivingβ is cut from orange pattern paper using the Word Set 7 – Autumn set. From white cardstock, cut two medium sized labels from the Labels – Crosshatch, the center label and three banners from the Little Labels Pop-Up set to stamp. Adhere the largest two labels as places to write a personal message.
Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business size envelope whose back flap was stamped in brown ink βThankful Grateful Blessedβ from the Fall Phrases stamp set.
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This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #287 whose parameters included “saying hi”, crisp colors, sun/sunny(ies) element, and pennants. Todayβs card uses Karen Burniston dies and her new Fall Phrases stamps.
Watch the video below to see how this card was made.
Cardbase: (Watch the assembly video for this die set located at the bottom of the linked page.) Cut three of the Landscape Rectangle Accordionframes from brown cardstock. From one frame die cut two apertures in the pivot panel using the stitched rectangle die in the set. Decorate the panels first and then glue the frames together as shown in the assembly video.
Leaf Pennants: From the Tree Pop-Up die set cut two sets of oak leaves – once from yellow and one from brown. Daub the leaf edges with brown ink and then splatter with white paint and bronze ink to age them. Sandwich a piece 8-10-inches of black sewing thread between two leaves (of the same color) and glue in place. Repeat with remaining leaves. (Note: I lost one of my leave pairs, so I only added five dangling leaves to my card.) Using a thin sewing needle, piece a hole into the top of one of the window apertures panel and pull the thread through the hole, adjust length of leaf thread and tie off the thread. (Make sure to only wrap thread one the window frame below the hole as any thread above the hole will be seen and won’t be covered by the decorative frame.) Repeat with other leaves. Cut four picture frames from dark brown using the wood embossed picture frame die in the set. Glue picture frames over the openings to be centered on panel and cover the thread knots.
Gourds and Leaves: Cut two of each of the leaves and pumpkin dies in the Autumn Elements die set. Daub the edges with brown ink and then splatter with white and black paint to age them. (Note: I cut the yellow leaves from a scrap of paper I had inked with red to get that orange mottling effect.) Cut two tiny pumpkin gourds from orange or white with brown stem vines using the dies from the Haunted Tiny House Add-Ons set. Decorate the first and last panels on both sides using the leaves and pumpkins and gourds.
Sentiments: Using the new Karen Burniston Fall Phrases stamp set, stamp “Hello Gourd-geous!” “Warm Autumn Wishes” and “May your fall be crisp, cozy and colorful” onto white cardstock. Die cut using the last two phrases using the two smallest label dies in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set. Using a paper trimmer, cut the first phrase into a .8-inch wide stripe and cut a triangle from each end to make it into a fishtail banner. Using the Tropical Scene die set, cut the sun rays from orange and the circle from yellow and glue together to illustrate “Warm Autumn Wishes.”
Card Assembly: Line up the accordion frames in the order you desire after decorating the panels front and back. Train the folds on the frames and panels. Glue the large frames tabs first. Trim off the unused tab. Once the glue has set on the tabs, train the pivot panels movement. Decide which way the panels will move when open and closed. Glue the panels together having one connection behind the joining frames and the other connection going in front of the joining frames. Trim off unused panel tab.
Envelope: The card fits into a mini slimline envelope.
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Watch the video below to learn how I made this card.
Cardbase: Start with an 11×4.25-inch rectangle of cream colored cardstock. Score and fold at 5.5-inches to form an A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) side-fold card. Watch video above for how the four panels are covered.
Card Back
Card Front: Cut a 4.125×5.25-inch rectangle of cream cardstock. Cut .5-inch wide stripes of decorative paper to be used as a mat behind the rectangle above. Adhere strips as shown in video above to the front panel of the cardbase.
Watch the assembly videos at the bottom of each of the dies’ linked pages. Die cut from red and orange cardstock backed with double-sided tape (I had scraps from cutting rainbows) lots of the two types of leaves in the Tiny Trees Pop-Up set. Use brown ink to age the leaves.
From the Border Blends – Trims die set, cut six of the wave strands in die #1. Weave/braid two strands together as shown in the video above. Repeat with rest of strands to form the three cable sweater stripes that are on the front panel. Glue in the center of the cream panel. trim as needed.
Cut and assemble two coffee cups-to-go from the Coffee Charms set. (I used the package design to make mine.)
Once the leaves were added to the panel, I splattered some bronze ink onto the panel and then added some flat glitter spots. My leftover leaves were used to decorate the card back and the inside of the card.
Pop-Up Platform: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the Cupcake Pop-Up linked page. Then follow the steps in the video above for how I glued the pop-up platform into the card. I added a display helper to keep the card open. Watch the assembly video for the Display Helpers to see how the “LIFT” piece is installed. (Circled in photo below.)
Card Front
Sentiments: All the sentiments were stamped in black ink using the Fall Phrasesstamps set. They were cut and embossed using various dies in the Bam Box Pop-Up set. See the video above for how the labels were embossed.
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This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #285 whose parameters included a square card, birthday dairy aisle colors, leaves element, and hexagon. Todayβs card uses Karen Burniston dies and stamps.
Watch the video below to see how this card was made.
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Materials Used:
Dies
Elizabeth Craft Designs – Steel Cutting Dies – Accordion Star by Karen Burniston