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.
August’s card is made with Simon Says Stamp! dies and papers from it’s July 2025 card kit.
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Materials Used:
Dies • Simon Says Stamp! – Steel Dies – Window Trio – 1401sd
Papers • La-La Land Crafts 6×6 Double Sided Paper Pad – In The City • Kraft Cardstock • Spellbinders – BetterPress – 5.5 x 4.25” (A2) Cotton Card Panels – Porcelain & Pebble
Ink • Spellbinders – BetterPress Ink – BetterPress Black
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.
July’s card is made with Stampin’ Up’s Notes & Totes dies and stamps.
Learn how I made this calendar by watching the video below.
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.
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Materials Used:
Dies • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Dies – Notes & Totes
Stamps • Stampin’ Up – Clear Stamps – Notes & Totes
Inspired by a new Graphic 45 paper collection – Sunshine On My Mind that features watermelon papers, I created this A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) sized card using Karen Burniston’s Ovals and Heart Collage Pop-Up die sets.
Cardbase: Fold an 8.5 x 5.5-inch rectangle of card stock in half to form a top fold 4.24 x 5.5-inch card (or use a purchased A2 cardbase.) Tape the largest oval die so that the top of the die overhangs the fold. Die cut to form an oval folded cardbase. With a red marker color the inside edges of the cardbase. Repeat with green marker to the outside edges.
Using the same oval die, cut two ovals from green watermelon rind paper and two more ovals from red and black watermelon paper. Glue one of the red ovals inside the cardbase, fold cardbase in half and trim off red paper at fold. Repeat with the second red piece. Glue one green oval to the back side of cardbase. Trim at fold. Glue the last green oval to front of card.
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The card front will be the only complete oval. All other panels should have been trimmed to allow the cardbase to fold. (Note in photo that a hint of red shows on the back of the card.)
Back of card
Decorate the outside of the cardbase with sentiments cut from the collection pack papers.
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Collage Mechanism: (Watch the assembly video for the Heart Collage Pop-Up located at the bottom of the linked page.) Cut the mechanism from red cardstock. Train folds and glue inside the cardbase. Allow the glue to dry before connecting the locking tabs. Cut sentiment panels from paper collection. Round the corners. Play with positioning of the panels onto the mechanism before permanently gluing in place. (I found that my side arms needed to be thin pieces and the top and bottom arms could handle larger panels.) Take the largest panel and fold in half before gluing over locking mechanism tabs.
Add other decorations to cardbase always checking for catchpoints to avoid.
Envelope: Decorated the back envelope flap with decorative strips from paper collection.
It’s time for the Karen Burniston April 2024 Design Team Challenge with the theme of Thirst Quencher. I chose lemonade as my thirst quencher and a card theme of a summer fete (festival or fair).
At a fete, there are generally small booths selling baked goods, drinks and other trinkets or handicrafts, so my card is a slimline (3 3/4 x 8 1/2-inch) card with three food booths using Karen Burniston dies.
Cardbase: Start with an 8 1/2 x 7 1/2-inch rectangle of a thick cardstock. (I used white.) Score at 3 1/2-inches and fold in half to create a top-fold 3 3/4 x 8 1/2-inch card base.
Booths: Cut three 6×3-inch panels of striped paper. (If you have longer than 6-inch striped paper cut them 7 1/2×3-inches.) Score and fold each panel at 3 3/4-inches. Using the pop-up center die from the Explosion Pop-Up, center the die on the fold of each panel. Train the folds as directed in the assembly video for the die set located at the bottom of the linked page. Glue pop-up panels inside card with the long side attaching to the inside top panel. Cover the bottom panel with grassy patterned paper. (I cut strips of the 6×6-inch patterned paper 1-inch wide to go through the pop-ups and cover over the striped paper.) I used a border print card layer to created the tablecloths on each booth table.
Posts and Banners: The posts are cut from glossy white cardstock using the Street Lantern die with the scrolling arms cut off. The pendant banners are made using the die from the Twist Panel Pop-Up set and threading them onto baker’s twine. The twine was wrapped around the knob top of a post before gluing it in place. (The two ends of twine can be taped to the front of the card to be covered over by the front panel.) The green bows that cover the looped twine on the posts are from the Street Lantern Pop-Up set. (I found it helped with the opening and closing of the card to place a small drop of glue at the top back center of each pendant to keep them from becoming catch-points, but still allowing them some dimension.) I used computer generated “Pies,” Lemonade” and “Cakes” printed on coiper paper and cut out with the banner label from the Lorna Label Pop-Up set.
Card Front: You will need to create a panel to hide the banner twine ends under. Cut a 3 3/4 x 8 1/2-inch of blue cardstock and a 3 3/8x 8 1/4-inch rectangle of dotted printed paper. Glue the dotted paper on top of the blue cardstock with an even border all around. Cut ten fishtailed banners from decorative paper using the die from the Twist Panel Pop-Up set. Cut the letters and shadows to spell out “SUMMER FETE” using the Mini Alphabet die set. Glue the letters onto the shadows and shadows onto the banners being careful not to cover the holes at the top of the banners.
Thread the two words on two separate pieces of twine. Die cut the “Enjoy the” from different colors using the Enjoy The Ride set. Once the placement of the words and banners have been established, tape the banner twine ends to the back of the panel. Glue the words and banners down onto the panel. Attach panel to cardbase front. (I used glue and double-side ½-inch tape.)
Pies: I created four pies using two different die sets. The top view lattice cherry pie and the key lime pie were created using the pie dies in the Baking Borders set. (I brushed the cherry pie red with a red glitter brush pen for some shine.) The horizontal pies were made with the pie die from the Picnic Elements set with the base piece cut from red and the crust cut from brown. All pie crust were inked with a light brown ink. The horizontal pie crusts had their slits inked red with an ultra-fine tipped red marker. I attached the horizontal pies using a foam square and a pop-up cube from a strip of white cardstock. (You could use the pop-up cube from the Oven Extras die set instead of making your own.)
Lemonade: The pitcher and glasses of lemonade were created from clear vellum with yellow cardstock behind. All the pieces were cut using the Picnic Elements die set. The pitcher is adhered to the pop-up base with a foam square and a drop of glue. The glasses are attached to a strip of clear packaging plastic with double sided tape all along the strip. The strip was threaded through the pop-up base and attached to the backside of the pop-up. (I covered the exposed adhesive on the strip with anti-static powder.)
Cakes: For these small cakes, I used the cupcakes in the Baking Borders set. I left the border base layer attached and trimmed off the excess behind the frosting. The bottom row has its center cake glued to the pop-up base while the upper row is attached to a pop-up cube.
Message Labels: The two white scalloped labels inside the card are for a personal message and are cut using the die from the Twist Panel Pop-Up set. (I did two to hide the seams of my patterned paper.)
Envelope: The card will fit into a #10 business size envelope.
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