Baby Card

Special Delivery Pop-Up Card

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It’s Sneak Peak Week for Karen Burniston’s October 2024 release of new dies and sentiment stamps. These dies will be available for purchase on October 28, 2024 on the KB Riley LLC website.

For this baby card I used the new Postage Pop-Up die set and Special Delivery stamp set along with the previously released Baby Charms, Welcome and Mini Alphabet and Numbers die sets.

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

Cardbase: Cut a 7 1/2 x 5-inch piece and three 7 x 5-inch pieces of decorative cardstock. Score and fold the larger piece at 7-inches to form a tab. Glue the tab to one of the other pieces of decorative cardstock to form a horizontal or landscape side-fold card.  Glue the remaining pieces to the inside of the card.

Pop-up Blocks: From the Postage Pop-Up die set, cut four of the square block pop-up mechanisms from kraft cardstock and four of the tabbed pull strips from the decorative cardstock to match the inside of cardstock of the card. Install as shown in the video.

Decorations:  The bottle, onesie outfit and duck are all cut using the Baby Charms die set.

Sentiments:  “My heart soars with joy for you” on the card front comes from the Special Delivery stamp set as does the “Made with Love” circle stamp on the card back.  The “Welcome Baby” inside is all die cut using the Mini Alphabet and Welcome die sets.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A7 (5 x 7-inch) size envelope. The back flap is decorated with a yellow die-cut duck from the Baby Charms set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Farmhouse Living Collection – Farm Grown
  • Bazzill – 12×12 inch Cardstock – Sand Dollar
  • Craft Consortium – A4 Double-Sided Solids Cardstock – Little Red Robin
  • Craft Consortium – A4 Double-Sided Solids Cardstock – Tis The Season
  • White Cardstock
  • Recollections – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – Cream

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Fossilized Amber, Lost Shadow, Salty Ocean and Twisted Citron
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip –Light Green, Orange and Yellow

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Scissors
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Blending Brush
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Paper Masking Tape

Oven Cards in Review

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I have been collecting and making oven cards for several years now. Here is a collection of all my ovens blog posts. Click on an image to see details of the oven.

(Images are posted from the earliest release of dies/stamps/kits 2016 to newest 2023.)

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Potted Pets Baby Pop-up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette#206 whose parameters included Project type of card with a heart, vintage colors, plant(s) element and lace on the base.

In honor of Craft Roulette’s host Mary Gunn’s new grandchild, I made a new baby card using the parameters listed above.

Cardbase: I used a 5×7-inch purchase cardbase and covered all four panels with vintage green patterned paper. The decorative stripes and lacy decorations were scraps from the opposite side of the paper.

Potted Plants: I decorated the panels with potted animal planters that were made from solid color cardstock using My Favorite Things Potted Pets die set.

Pop-Up Twist Panel: I used Karen Burniston’s Twist Panel Pop-Up die set. Watch video below for instructions.

Sentiments: I used Karen Burniston Welcome and Baby Charms die sets to create the “Welcome Baby.” In the video above I explain how I used Karen Burniston’s Connectors word set dies to perform “word surgery” to create the phrase “oh baby.”

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Hot Off The Press – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper Pack – Spice Market
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Black, Browns, Greens, Pink and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase – White

Ink

  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Spectrum Noir – Tri-Blends – Orange Blend
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dark Daffodil Delight

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Craft Clips
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Corner Punch
  • Scissors
  • T-Ruler
  • Pencil

Bun In The Oven – Gender Reveal Card

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Want a fun way to do a gender reveal for expectant parents? Here is a “Bun in the Oven” (which I must credit Kelly Marie Alvarez for the original 2D version of this interactive card idea.)

The card uses dies from Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release including Oven Extras, Oven Pop-Up and the Rectangles – Crosshatch, Baby Charms and Birthday Charms which were previously released.

(I recommend watching the assembly video for the Oven Pop-Up before starting your card.)

Cardbase: I started with a purchased A6 (4.75×6.5 inches) cardbase and envelope. The front and back panels were covered using two 6×6 sheets of pink and blue gingham checked papers, cut in 1-inch strips, and adhered alternating the colors. The inside panels are covered with wallpaper-like patterned paper and terra cotta colored floor paper.

Oven/Stove: I was genuinely surprised at how easy the pop-up oven is to assemble. It has just two pieces -the outer shell which I cut from white glossy cardstock and the inner platform which I cut from gray metallic cardstock.

The platform attaches much like the Little Labels Pop-Up with the front tabs gluing to the floor of the card and the back tab gluing to the wall of the card. Before I attached the outer shell, I added two sentiments to the window of the oven door. (You can download these sentiments below.) and cut another oven door from white cardstock trimming the bottom 1/8-inch shy of the fold line. I also cut a 2-inch square of gray metallic cardstock and glued it to the back wall just above the pop-up platform. This will be the inside wall of the oven.

It is easier to add the items inside the oven before the outer shell is attached, but you can still add the two pop-up cubes – one for the oven rack and then the other for the bun. The bun cube is adhered to the rack cube sandwiching the rack in place. (I ended up using a foam square between the two cubes to get a strong bond.)

To attach the oven shell, glue the bottom to the center of the platform and then fold the oven flat and add adhesive to the back of the stove knob panel. Close the card and the top panel will be positioned on the card wall so that it forms the stove. On the tabs that come off the sides of the stove top add glue. Now position the cabinet pieces’ small squares onto the tabs. Glue cabinet bottoms to the top edge of the platform, so that there is a toe kick below the cabinets. The counter tops are glued on once cabinets are attached.

Cabinets and Vent Hood: Once the stove is attached; you can add the side cabinets of drawers. I cut the cabinets a pale brown cardstock. The drawer panels and knobs are part of the Oven Pop-Up set.  Decorative paper was used for the countertops. The upper cabinets are cut using the larger rectangles dies in the Oven Extras set. The vent hood is in the same set. All the over the pop-up oven cabinets and vent hoof were adhered to the card with foam tape.

Decorations: The rug is made using two mid-size dies from the Rectangle Crosshatch set. On the back of the card is a yellow duck cut from the Baby Charms set and markers were used with the stencil die feature to make the bill and eye. The tiny hearts and stars on the wallpaper inside the card are from the Oven Pop-Up set. The bun in the oven was made by cutting off the charm loop on the cupcake die from the Birthday Charms set. The oven rack is from the Oven Pop-Up set as are the oven mitts.

Sentiments: All the sentiments were digitally created. You can download them here.

gender-reveal-oven-sentiments-1Download

Envelope: An extra oven mitt was glued to the back flap of the envelope to set the tone for the card inside.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Divinity Designs – 6×6 Paper Pad – Baby Boy
  • Divinity Designs – 6×6 Paper Pad – Baby Girl
  • Paper Lane Paperie – Silver Holographic Cardstock
  • White, Black and Yellow Cardstock
  • Paper Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Computer Printer
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker –Fine Tip – Black and Orange

Adhesives

Tools

Rock-A-Bye Baby

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It’s time for the Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge for June. We were asked to use the theme of wedding or baby. I have chosen to welcome a new baby.

To create this pop-up cradle swing, the following Karen Burniston’s dies were used: Bam Box Pop-Up, Crosshatch Hexagons, Picnic Elements, Christmas Trees Pop-Stand, a rubber band and some embroidery floss.

Cardbase and Pop-Stands: Cut an 11×4.25-inch piece of pink cardstock and fold to form a 5.5×4.25-inch top fold cardbase. (Watch Christmas tree pop-stand assembly video at the bottom of the die’s page.) Cut two pieces of decorative paper as 5.25×4-inches and use clear tape on the back side for placement in card. Use the hexagon for the cradle stand to determine placement of the pop-stand die-cuts. Using decorative paper scraps, cover the four holes that pop-stands leave on back side of paper.

Cradle Stand: taping the largest two plain hexagons from the crosshatch hexagon set, die cut two from heavy pink cardstock. Trim bottom edge .25-inch so that it will measure 4.25-inches or less to fit into cardbase.

Cradle: From the two leftover hexagons, die cut the checker grid from the blanket in the picnic elements set. (Watch assembly video at the bottom of the bam box page.) Create a white bam box and cut four pieces of the checker grid to be the sides of the bam box cradle. Cut two 6-inch pieces of green floss or cord. Glue floss/cord to bottom of bam box. Tape square pink end pieces to bottom of bam box with the floss glued to checker grid pieces. (I would recommend cord as the floss unraveled on me. Also I would glue the checker grid onto thin white copier paper to make less catch-points on the cradle.) Glue longer pink sides to bam box sides to form cradle. Use a border from the party border blends to create a finished edge of the cradle from gold foil cardstock. Glue the floss between the top bar of the two hexagons. Pull floss to make cradle hang straight before glue sets. Trim off excess floss once glue has dried. Cut one bam box decorator side piece from pink speckled paper and trim to fit the cradle as a blanket.

To make the cradle close, flatten bam box and fold in the square ends with floss. Hold flat as card is closed.

Blanket and Bears: Cut from pearlescent paper the fringed picnic blanket and from cream paper the checkered grid. glue together. Cut three teddy bears from light brown cardstock using bear die from the holiday charms set. Using the stencil features in the bear die, ink in eyes, nose and mouth with a black gel pen and the ears with a pink gel pen. One bear is in the cradle and other is on the blanket. The last bear is on the envelope flap.

Decorations: Flower borders cut from pink speckle paper using the long nature borders 2 set, are used on the cradle stand frame and card front and back. (Front with yellow Nuvo drops centers and back with pink gel pen stenciling.) More of the party border blends borders,cut from white cardstock, are used on all card panels. (See assembly video explaining how to get the border on the card back.)

Personal Message Label: The largest crosshatch label die from the rectangles and labels die set was cut in white.The thin metallic pink frame was made by using the largest label frame and the crosshatch label dies taped together. (This was a leftover piece I had saved from another project.)

Sentiment: Two sentiments were used to create the “Welcome BABY” on the card front. Welcome is its own die set with word (white) and shadow (pink speckle) dies. BABY is from the baby charms set which was cut once each from white and from pink and blue speckled papers. The blocks base is cut from white. Some paper piecing was done using pieces from the different papers to created the colorful blocks.

Envelope: The card fits an A2 size envelope.with the back flap decorated with a strip of the decorative paper and the last teddy bear.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – Hackney & Co.- 6″x6″ Double-Sided 200gm Papers – English Garden
  • Lawn Fawn – 6″x6″ Double-Sided Paper Pad – Spiffy Speckles
  • Bazzill – 8.5″ x 11″ Heavy Cardstock – Cotton Candy
  • White, Cream and Cream Pearlescent Cardstock
  • Gold Foil and Pink Holographic Scraps
  • Staples – Invitation A2 Envelope – Pink

Ink

  • Gel Pen – Pink
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Craft Knife
  • Bone Folder
  • Kat Scrappiness – Telescopic Embossing Powder Tool with Retractable Brush
  • Quickstik Tool

Miscellaneous

Nativity Snow Globe

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A new babe is a joy. People came from far and near to see the sweet babe.

This card is made with the new Gemini Dimensional snow globe dies. Three layers for the nativity globe – a stenciled background, a stable middle layer and the Wisemen in front.

The background is inked using Distress Inks using the stencils that are included in the die set. The front and middle layers are colored with watercolor pencils.

The finishing touches are a gold foil star and covering the globe base with a solid blue card stock and gold label and letters.

The card fits folded into an A7 envelope which is stamped on the back with a scene stamp of the Wisemen entering Bethlehem.

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A Baby is Coming

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Baby is coming-Front envelope

Who doesn’t look forward to welcoming a new baby at Christmas? This card is the third house card in my series of “A Week of Christmas Houses” using Poppy Stamps 2020 Winter House Pop-Up Easel die set.

The house is cut from heavy card stock in a pale blue that has been in my stash from a card kit. The dark blue and pale yellow come from monotone color packs of cardstock by Recollections. Note that there is a pale-yellow outline layer of the house that provides the window inside color as well as framing the outside edge of the house. The card base is cut from heavy weight white cardstock.

This card goes together easily by looking at the photos on the Poppy Stamps packaging. It does involve a lot of die cutting as there is only one die of each window type.  (I cut lots of the small pieces and store the extras in a tiny plastic bags that I keep with the die set.) To add depth to the porch and dormer windows I cut those pieces twice and glued together. The snowy pieces are cut from glitter paper and some of the window frames and siding have Nuvo Glitter Drops used thinly to give the illusion of melted snow.

Baby is coming-Front open

I masked off the front door with sticky notes and used Salty Ocean Distress ink to darken the door and frame. A tiny drop of gold Nuvo Crystal Drops for the doorknob and a wreath cut with a Tonic Studios die set, complete the door.

The welcome mat, which acts as the easel stop, was stamped and heat embossed using a stamp from a retired Stampin’ Up set. I used a blend of Ranger Black Sparkle and Recollections Ebony Detail Embossing powders that give the welcome mat a snowy sparkle. Once heat embossed, the mat was weathered using Antique Linen Distress Ink on a sponge dauber and cut out with the coordinating die. Foam pads where used to adhere the mat to card and make it tall enough to act as an easel stop.

The windows all have a piece of pale blue organza ribbon taped behind the window frames to give the shine of glass and the rosy glow comes from some shading with Fossilized Amber Distress Ink on the pale-yellow cardstock. The rocking horse and woman decorating a Christmas tree that can be seen in the windows are from an older Tonic Studios Toy Emporium die set. Also from the Tonic set is the outside fir tree.

The ”Merry Christmas” is cut from heavy black cardstock glued down.  A personal message can be written behind the house

Baby is coming-Front envelope

I used two stamps on the envelope flap. I stamped Joy in green and then masked it with a sticky note and stamped the wishing you circle (which has a different sentiment in its center) in blue.

See the more the series of “A Week of Christmas Houses”

Day 1 – From Our House to Your House

Day 2 – Santa is Coming

Day 3 – A Baby is Coming

Day 4 – Keep the Home Fires Burning

Day 5 – Red Four Square

Day 6 – Santa Delivers to the Tropics

Day 7 – House Luminary

2019 – 12 Days of Christmas Trees

Supplies

Dies

Stamps

Paper

Ink/Embossing Powder

Miscellaneous

Sleepytime Dreams

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Front - CUI decided to play with one of my new stamps and dies set from Art Impressions Tryfolds collection called Welcome Little One.

Tryfold -from aboveI started by following the instructions that came with the set and cut an 4 ½ x 11 inches piece of yellow cardstock and scored it at 3 5/8 inches from two long ends to come-up with a trifold card that is 4 ½ by 3 5/8 inches. You stamp the large crib first to the outside panel and die cut out the slats and crib opening. Next, using a stamping platform, I lined up the teddy bear stamp with the opening in the crib onto the second panel. Stamped and die cut as with first panel. Again, using the stamping platform, I lined up the baby stamp with the card close seeing through the openings in both panels. I stamped using Tuxedo Black memento ink.

Panel 2 - CU

Using watercolor pencils, I colored all the images. I went back and stamped sentiments onto each panel. The card was cute, but lacked some pizzazz, so I trimmed the stamped images down some and adhered to Prima Bedtime Story journaling notecards. Because the middle 3rd panel was a 3 x 4 inches card, I had to fold the two larger 4 x 6 inches cards at 1 ½ inches and tape the middle panel to the tabs of the other panels. Final card size is 4 x 4 ½ inches.

Panel 3

Using the teddy bear stamp, I used the Dapper Denim inkpad to stamp the envelope flap and I then colored the teddy bear only in the image with watercolor pencil.

Front Cover - Envelope

If you enjoyed this tri-fold card, check out some of my other trifolds:

Supplies:

Stamps/Dies

Papers

Inks/Watercolors

Miscellaneous

  • 1/4 inch clear double-sided tape