Halloween

Haunted Woods Pop-Up Halloween Card

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It’s the Karen Burniston design team challenge for October 2025 using the theme of PEEK-A-BOO!” – What is hiding in your card? I chose to make a Halloween card with a haunted woods using the Arch Pop-Up, Tree Pop-Up, Halloween Elements, Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders and Ovals- Crosshatch die sets and the new Halloween Phrases stamp set.

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

Cardbase: Start with a white, purchased A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) cardbase. Covered the four panels with decorative papers.

Arch Pop-Up: Watch the assembly video (located at the bottom of the linked die set page) for the Arch Pop-Up. For details on how I decorated the arch with nine trees cut from the Tree Pop-Up die set, watch the video above. (Four of the trees are glued onto the arch side pop-ups and the remaining five are cut up for their branches which are glued onto the arch and the back pop-out strip. Orange leaves were cut also from the Tree Pop-Up set.)

Decorations: Three ghosts were cut from pearlescent vellum using the Halloween Elements dies. The dangling spider is made up of two spiders cut using the Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders. (You can use the spider from the Halloween Scene set as well.) Sandwich a piece of white thread between the two spider die cuts and tie onto back pop-out strip behind the arch.

Sentiments: Pearlescent vellum was using again to cut the “Boo!” (Halloween Elements) and the larger oval for a personal message (Ovals-Crosshatch). Graphic 45 Midnight Tales papers and ephemera are used for their sentiments on the card front and back. The “Happy Haunting” sentiment is from the newly released Halloween Phrases stamp set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope with its back flap decorated with more of the Graphic 45 papers.

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Materials Used:

Dies
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Arch Pop-Up – 1308

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders– 1207

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Ovals – Crosshatch – 1055

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Scene – 1014

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Elements – 1013

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Tree Pop-Up – 1005

Stamps

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Halloween Phrases

Papers
• Graphic 45 – 8×8-inch Double-Sided Paper – Midnight Tales

• Lawn Fawn – 8.5×11 Vellum – Pearlescent

• Black Cardstock

• A2 Cardbase – White

• Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Husk Smooth


Ink
• Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives
• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

Tools
• Die Cutting Machine

• Paper Trimmer

• Stamping Blocks

• Scissors

• Paper Masking Tape

• Tweezers

Miscellaneous

• White Thread

2025 ATC Calendar – October

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I started a new challenge for 2025 – the ATC calendar challenge. With a group of crafty friends, we are making a new image on a 4.25×5.5-inch calendar card for each month.

October’s card is made with Spellbinders Boo Crew by Simon Hurley dies and some light gray ink on the ghost.

To see other months’ calendars go to click here.

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Materials Used:


Dies
• Spellbinders – Cutting Dies – Simon Hurley’s Boo Crew


Press Plates
• Spellbinders – BetterPress Plates – 2025 DIY Calendar


Papers
•Black, Orange, Teal and White Cardstock
• Spellbinders – BetterPress – 5.5 x 4.25” (A2) Cotton Card Panels – Porcelain & Pebble


Ink
• Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Lost Shadow
• Spellbinders – BetterPress Ink – BetterPress Black


Adhesives
• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

Tools
• Die Cutting Machine
• Scissors

• We R Memories – QuickStick
• Paper Masking Tape


A Halloween Pop-Up Fence Card

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This Halloween card is based off a pop-up picket fence card that Karen Burniston made for her design team challenge for April 2025. (You can see her video here.)

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


Cardbase: Start with an 8.5 x 11-inch piece of patterned cardstock and fold in half to form a side-fold A9 (5.5×8.5-inch) card. Mark on the inside fold 4.75-inches up from the bottom edge.


Iron Fence: Cut two of the fence piece, using the Iron Fence Pop-Up die set, from heavy black cardstock. Watch the video below to see how to cut the two fence pieces into the gate, and the left and right fence pieces.


Pop-Up Mechanisms: Watch the assembly video above on how to cut-out, fold and attach the three mechanisms. Cut two of the Katherine Label Pop-Up L-shaped mechanism and one of the smallest angle pop-up from the Mini Pops Pop-Up die set.


Decorations: The Halloween Borders die set was use for all the outside decorative borders as well as the bats inside the card. The raven is from the Iron Fence Pop-Up die set. The hands are from the Halloween Elements die set.


Sentiments: “Boo!” on the card front is cut using the Halloween Elements die set while the “Happy Halloween” inside is from the Halloween Charms set.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inch) size envelope stamped with sentiments from the Queen & Co. stamp set. The cobwebs are from the Tim Holtz stamp set and the dancing skeleton is from Riley & Company.


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Materials Used:
Dies
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Borders – 1247
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Fence Add-Ons – 1240
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Iron Fence Pop-Up – 1172
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Mini Pops Pop-Up – 1146
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Charms – 1058
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Elements – 1013
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Katherine Label Pop-Up – 1011

Stamps
• Queen & Co. – Clear Stamps – Fright Fest Kit
• Riley & Company – Funny Bones Red Rubber Stamp – RWD-492 Dancing Skeleton
• Stampers Anonymous – Tim Holtz Collection – Clear Stamps/Stencils – Halloween

Papers
• Martha Stewart Crafts – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Paper – Gothic Manor
• Black, Oranges and White Cardstock
• Catalog Envelope (6×9-inch) – White

Ink
• Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
• Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives
• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
• Double-Sided Tape – 1/4-inch wide

Tools
• Die Cutting Machine
• Paper Trimmer
• Bone Folder
• Score Board
• Stamping Platform
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Paper Masking Tape

Halloween Tri-Fold Pop-Up Card

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I recently purchased some new Scrappy Tails Halloween dies to make some pop-up tri-fold cards. Here is my first go at making one of Sabrina Leavell’s tri-fold cards. I watched a few of her YouTube lives before I began.

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

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Materials Used:

Dies
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Ghost Gallery
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Ghost Study
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Halloween Tri-Fold Window Add-On

• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Spooky Fireplace
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – A7 Tri-fold Pop Up Card Base


Stamps
• Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps – Scary Pumpkin – BB704


Papers
• Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002

• Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers – Midnight Tales– Full Moon

• Grafix – 8.5×11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film

• Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Mushroom

• Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tin Pail

• Black, Browns, Oranges, Tans, White and Yellow Cardstock

• #10 Business Envelope – White


Ink
• Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Pigma – Mircon 01Fine Tip Pen – Black
• Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
• Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dual Tip – Dark Copper Clay & Dark Wild Wheat


Adhesives
• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

• Scrapbook.com – Double-sided Tape – 4-inch wide



Tools
• Die Cutting Machine

• Paper Trimmer

• Stamping Platform

• Scissors

• Pencil

• Paper Masking Tape

• Riley and Company – Pick & Poke Tool

• This Calls For Confetti – It’s No Secret Anti-Static Powder Brush

• Microfiber Cloth

A Gothic Classic Pop-Up Book

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #237 whose parameters included a pop-up card, Trick or Treat colors, boutique, and jewelry.

I chose to make Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein as a pop-up book card using dies by Scrappy Tails.

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

Cardbase: The card base is made using the Scrappy Tails A7 Pop up Book die set. (I apologize for not having included video of the frame assembly.) The accordion fold pages frame that goes inside the book card can be seen in an assembly video by the designer by clicking here.

Sentiments: The “Halloween Greetings” is a stamp from PoppyStamps. The “Boo-tique Books specializing in Gothic Novels” was computer generated and die using a label die from the Scrappy Tails Life is a Story die set.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inches) size envelope. “This book belongs to…” is stamped in black on the envelope flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – A7 Pop up Book – Parts 1 & 2
  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – Frankenstein Tomb Stone
  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – A7 Frankenstein CP
  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – Life is a Story CD 

Stamps

  • Papercraft Essentials Magazine Issue 183, January 2020 – The Next Chapter
  • PoppyStamps – Clear Stamps – Bugs and Hisses -CL512

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Dove
  • Craft Perfect – 8.5×11 Pearlescent Cardstock – Glazed Chestnut
  • Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tin Pail
  • Recollections – 12×12 inch Glitter Cardstock – White Marble
  • Recollections – 12×12 inch Embossed Cardstock – Kraft
  • The Paper Studio – 12x12Faux Leather – Football
  • Clear Plastic Packaging
  • Black, Blue, Brown, Greens, Purple, Red, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • Catalog (6×9) Envelope – White

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitivity Saturated Ink – Aegean
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Dried Marigold, Forest Moss, Hickory Smoke, Mowed Lawn, Rusty Hinge, Seedless Preserves
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black, Yellow
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip –Blue, Greens, Orange, Red,

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors

A Haunted Chair In The Pumpkin Patch

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It’s time for the October 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge with the theme of a haunted location. I chosen an Adirondack chair in a pumpkin patch to be haunted.

Watch the process video to see how the card was assembled.

Cardbase: Cut two 5 1/2 x 11-inch rectangles from black cardstock. Fold each rectangle in half to form two 5 1/2-inch square top fold cards. Two pieces of patterned paper from Graphic 45 were used to cover the inside floor and front card cover.

Adirondack Chair: Watch the assembly video for the Adirondack Chair located at the bottom of the linked page.

Ghost Mechanism: Watch the assembly video for the Spinner Square Pop-Up located at the bottom of the linked page. The ghosts are from the Halloween Charms set and were cut once from white cardstock and had their eyes and mouth stenciled on using the die. They also were cut from glow-in-the-dark paper for their backs and to hide the black mechanism arm.

Decorations: The large pumpkins are from the Autumn Elements set and the smaller jack-o-lantern and green hands are from the Halloween Elements set. The background pumpkins were cut from the Graphic 45 papers. The black cat on the chair is from the Skeleton and Bat set. The Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders was cut from pearlescent vellum and the spiders colored black. Then it was placed on the diagonal on the card front.

Sentiments: The card front uses the “Happy Halloween” from the Halloween Charms set while the inside uses a Spellbinders BetterPress “Happy Haunting” sentiment. Other inside sentiments – “Boo!” “Sit for a spell” and “Hey Pumpkin” – are cut from the Graphic 45 papers.

Envelope: The card will fit into a 6×6-inch square envelope or a 6×9-inch catalog envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Press Plates

  • Spellbinders – BetterPress Letterpress System – Press Plate & Die Set – Halloween Icons

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Paper – Charmed
  • Lawn Fawn – 8.5×11 Lawn Fawndamentals – Pearlescent Vellum
  • Stampin’ Up – 6×6 Specialty Paper – Glow-In-The-Dark
  • Thin Clear Cello Packaging
  • Black, Orange, Purple, White Cardstock
  • 6×6 Brown Envelope

Ink

  • Spectrum Noir – Shimmer Gold Series Pearlescent Pigment – Peach Terracotta
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Gathered Twigs
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Green
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Metal Ruler
  • T-Ruler
  • Glue Eraser
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Blending Brush
  • Paper Masking Tape

A Peanuts Pumpkin Patch Pop-Up Card

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After making a card in Karen Burniston‘s Virtual Card class for September 2024, I made a Halloween version of the card using papers from http://www.Craftstash.us.

Watch the assembly video below.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Craftstash – Ephemera Pack – Peanuts Halloween
  • Craftstash – 8×8 Single-Sided Cardstock – Peanuts Halloween
  • Black and White Cardstock
  • A7 White Envelope

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Paperweight
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Metal Ruler
  • Craft Clips
  • Paper Masking Tape

Fireplaces in Review

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

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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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