Thinking of You

2027 New Year Card

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Using Waffle Flower Postage Collage collection of City Sunset stamp set, Postage Collage dies Windows Die and Coloring Stencil, I made the inside of this New Year 2027 card.

Cardbase: I created an American size A2 (4 1/4×5 1/2-inches) top-fold, vertical cardbase from thick black cardstock.

Postage Stamps: I used a blending brush with the Catherine Pooler ink of Tranquil for the sky with the Postage Collage Coloring Stencil. The buildings and fireworks are from the Postage Collage City Sunset and stamped with Memento inks of Paris Dusk, Rose Bud and Tuxedo Black. The blue window frames are die cut using the Postage Collage Windows Die.

Sentiments: All the sentiments are by Karen Burniston. “Happy New Year” is from her Season of Cheer set stamped in red ink and then using her smallest banner die from the Greeting Labels die set to cut it out as shown above. (I cut the banner twice – one to get the long banner – twice to trim it to size.)

“Good Bye 2026” is die cut using the “Good” is from Good Luck The “B” is from Happy Birthday while the “ye” is from Happy Easter. The years are cut using the Numbers die set. The scalloped edges rectangle of vellum is a die cut from Emily Moore’s Decorative Sentiment Dies.

“Hello 2027” uses Hello the Numbers die sets.

Envelope: The panel card fits into an A2 (4 1/4×5 1/2-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Stencils

Papers

  • Black and White Cardstock
  • Matte Gold Cardstock and Gold Junk Mail
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 – Clear Vellum
  • DCWV – 6×6 Glitter Cardstock – Glitter Pastels

Ink

  • Catherine Pooler- Mini Ink Pads – Tranquil
  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Paris Dusk, Rose Bud &Tuxedo Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Bee-utiful Square Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #332 whose parameters were a square card, excited colors, country element and frame(s) as random. I used Relatively Thoughtful’s Craft Challenge – The Wonderful Life of Bees free digital papers and Paper Discovery Card Builder Die Set to create this card.

Cardbase: Print the two pages of Relatively Thoughtful’s Craft Challenge – The Wonderful Life of Bees free digital papers onto two sheets of white cardstock. (I printed the two pages back-to-back on one sheet of cardstock as well as a single-sided page of elements.) Cut the three decorative patterned paper apart. Fold the blue sunflower paper in half and trim down to 4×4-inch cardbase. Cut the striped paper to fit the front and back card panels.

Lattice Framed Square & Decorations: Using the Paper Discovery Card Builder set’s smallest lattice square die, cut one square from the yellow paper. Glue to card front. Fussy cut two sunflowers and one bee from element page. Adhere large sunflower and bee to card front and smaller flower to card back.

Tag In Pocket: Cut the two tags from the element page and glue together. punch hole and add some ribbon.Cut a 1×3.875-inch piece of clear plastic (I up-cycled some packaging). Using .25-inch wide double-sided tape on three sides of the plastic, attach pocket to left inside panel of the card.

Sentiments: The “Bee Sweet” sentiment is from the element page of the paper collection. Fussy cut the sentiment and glue to tag.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Paper Discovery Card Builder Die Set

Papers

Ribbon

  • Teal Satin Ribbon .25-inch wide

Adhesives

Tools

  • Computer Printer
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
  • Scissors
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape
  • Tweezers
  • Stamping Blocks as paper weights

Golf Postage Stamp Thinking of You Card

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Just got the new Waffle Flower golf themed collection of Gone Golfing Dies, Postage Collage Airmail Stencils, Golf Puns and Postage Collage Golf Silhouettes stamp sets.

Cardbase: I created an American size A2 (4 1/4×5 1/2-inches) top-fold, horizontal cardbase from Spellbinders Island Blue cardstock.

Postage Stamps: I used Catherine Pooler inks of Oyster for the clouds and Fiesta Blue for the sky with the Postage Collage Airmail Stencils. The female golfers are from the Postage Collage Golf Silhouettes.

Sentiments: “Swinging by to say hi” is from the Golf Puns set stamped in red ink. The circle cancellation saying “Sending Hugs” comes from Postage Collage stamps set.

Envelope: The panel card fits into an A2 (4 1/4×5 1/2-inches) size envelope with the back flap stamped with “Wishing you a hole-in-one kind of day” is from the Golf Puns stamp set and a golf bag with clubs from the Postage Collage Golf Silhouettes in black.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Waffle Flower – Steel Craft Dies – Postage Collage

Stamps

  • Waffle Flower – Clear Stamps – Golf Puns
  • Waffle Flower – Clear Stamps – Postage Collage
  • Waffle Flower – Clear Stamps – Postage Collage Golf Silhouettes

Stencils

  • Waffle Flower – Plastic Stencils – Postage Collage Airmail Stencils

Papers

  • Heavy White Cardstock
  • Spellbinders – Color Essentials 100lb Cardstock – Island Blue
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

Paper Knit Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #331 whose parameters were a 4×8 project, excited colors, cold or chilly element and stitch(es) as random. I used the i-crafter Slimline Knit, Knots & Stitches die and a Karen Burniston stamp to make this slimline card.

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

Cardbase: Follow the video above to create the 4×8-inch slimline cardbase from an 8.5×11-inch sheet of 65lb. white cardstock.

Knitted Rows: Watch the video above for how to knit the paper ribbons together using seven ribbons die-cut from various shades of lightweight cardstock ranging from orange to yellow to a creamy, flicked blue.

Sentiments: The “You’re so cool” sentiment is from Karen Burniston’s Winter Hugs stamp set..

Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business sized (4×9-inches) envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • i-crafter – Die Set – Slimline Knit, Knots & Stitches

Stamps

Papers

  • Silver Glitter Paper
  • Blue Flick, Cream, Oranges, White and Yellows Cardstock

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
  • Scissors
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape
  • Stamping Blocks as paper weights

Watching Fireworks Pop-Up Card

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Using Karen Burniston‘s new July 2026 release Paper People Summer Styles, Little Bench Pop-Up, Gazebo Stage Add-Ons as well as previously released Grass Stage Add-Ons, Stage Pop-Up, Display Helpers, Fireworks, and Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch, I made a 5×7-inch card that celebrates watching fireworks from the back deck with your family. It uses alternative methods for using the dies.It also uses two new stamp sets – Beer and Soda Sayings and Garden Greetings.

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

Cardbase: Cut a 5×7-inch rectangle and a 5×7.25-inch rectangle scored at .25-inches. Fold and glue tab to back of smaller rectangle to form a top-fold A7 size cardbase. Cut four of the largest crosshatch rectangle die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch from patterned paper and glue to the four panels of the cardbase.

Paper People: Cut three figures using the body die in the Paper People Summer Styles set. Stamp faces on them using the Fun Faces1 stamp set. Watch the video above to learn more about how I styles this family of three using just the dies in this die set. (I accidentally mixed up my body dies between the original Paper People set and the new one and so the original body shape with the very thin waist was used for the little girl. The feet are a bit different so the flip flops look big on her.)

Deck: (My original idea was to have a half gazebo on this card, but the roof and side panels only work for a free-standing gazebo, hence the deck.) Cut one base piece, one side piece and one polygon decorative piece from the Stage Pop-Up die set. Cut one grassy side piece from the Grass Stage Add-Ons set. Cut one railing from the Gazebo Stage Add-Ons. (In hindsight, I would recommend gluing the grass strip whole to the brown side strip, but not to train any of the folds. Add railing as shown in the video. Also cut a rectangle the size of the deck instead of the polygon decorative piece. Trim the siding piece to the size of the rectangle.) Add two Display Helpers to either side of the deck to keep the card open.

Bench Pop-Up: This is an alternative way to use the Little Bench Pop-Up. Cut one bench and trim off the table strip as shown in the video above. Assemble as shown in video. Add glue to bottom of legs and to the back of bench to attach bench to deck and blue background. (Suggest bending Paper People bodies to fit bench, before styling them with clothes. This will allow you to avoid bending through three layers of clothing having to do “knee surgery” to get them to fit and bend up when card is closed.)

Sentiments: The front sentiment “Hope your day pops” comes from the Beer and Soda Sayings stamp set. Using the fancy label die from the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch for the inside sentiment of “Sitting here thinking of you” which comes from the Garden Greetings stamp set. The fireworks on the card front and inside are cut from glitter cardstock using the Fireworks die set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5×7-inch) envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • DCWV – 6×6 inch Glitter Stacks – Brights & Pastels
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – Kraft
  • Simple Stories – 6×8 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Simple Vintage Linen Market
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White

Ink

  • Catherine Pooler – Bottled Ink – Pearl Shimmer
  • Hero Arts – Acrylic Spray – Opaque White
  • Hero Arts – Silk Ink – Bronze
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • OLO Marker – N-G9 Neutral Gray & RV 0.2 Bubble Gum
  • Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Scrapbook.com – Shimmer Glitter Brush Marker – Frosty Blue
  • Spellbinders – Splatter Effects – Raven
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Light Copper Clay

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Paper Masking Tape

Italian Restaurant Card Sneak Peek

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It’s time for Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston‘s July 2026 release of ten new die sets and five new stamp sets. This card features the new Cascade Pop-Up, Mealtime Elements and Dessert Elements die sets as well as the new Mealtime Phrases stamp set. New dies and stamps will be available on July 23, 2026 on Karen Burniston’s website.

Cardbase: I used a purchased (4×5.5-inch) cardbase and covered the four panels, inside and out, with rectangles of patterned paper.

Food: The two plates of food come from the Mealtime Elements die set. Cut two of the large plates from white cardstock and use the embossing feature of the die to get the ridged rim of the plate. Cut one of the large slotted circle from the Cascade Pop-Up die set and then cut and emboss the large plate from the slotted circle making sure to leave enough space around the slot. Use a blue fine-tipped marker to mark the inner circles of the plates. (I cut all the food from white cardstock and then colored them with alcohol markers. The parmesan chicken uses the die stencil feature for the grill marks and some Nuvo Drops for the cheese slice. The trick to coloring broccoli is to color the top florets a yellow green and then add dots of the darker green so some of the yellow green shows.) Glue food to plates. Stamp sentiments before gluing in place.

Cascading Circles Pop-Up: From gray cardstock, cut one of the large mechanism piece, and one of the small strip using the Cascade Pop-Up die set. (I cut these pieces from white and colored them with a gray marker.) Following the directions on the packaging, install the mechanism and the three plate circles with the slotted circle on the middle platform with the strip going through the slot.

Card Front: I cut six of the smaller square plates from the Dessert Elements die set using thin, white paper and then cut on the diagonal to make triangles. These triangles cover the edge of the plate that over-hangs my cardbase because the cardbase is .25-inches less than a traditional A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) cardbase. The two wine glasses and wine bottle are cut from clear vellum using the Wine Charms die set. Alcohol markers were used to color the bottle and glasses.

Sentiments: The “Ristorante Italiana” menus were computer generated using a script font. “You are pasta-tively amazing” and “You have great taste” are from the Mealtime Phrases stamp set. All the circles were cut using the plate dies in the Mealtime Elements die set.

Envelope: This card fits into an A2 size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Simple Stories – 6×8 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Simple Vintage Linen Market
  • Clear Vellum
  • White Copier/Computer Paper
  • White Cardstock
  • The Paper Studio – 4×5.5-inch Cardbase – White

Ink

  • OLO Marker – Neutral Gray 3, Dragon Fruit, Muscat Grape
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Green
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Blue
  • Stampin’ Blends – Markers – Light & Dark Copper Clay, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Pebbled Path

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

  • Nuvo – Crystal Drops – Ivory Seashell

A Burst of Color Fun Fold Card

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I’m here today with a 4-inch square card using Relatively Thoughtful digital papers – A collection called Overthinking in Colour by Karolina Osuchowska.

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

Cardbase: I printed on both sides of an 8.5×11-inch of lightweight cardstock using one graffiti wall design and one colorful design. Next I cut it into an 8.25×8.25-inch square and scored and folded at 4-inches on each side and along one of the diagonal corner to corner. (See the video above for basic directions.)

Card: Once the card was folded, I added hearts and sentiments cut from the paper collection. Next I colored some of the hearts in with a pink marker and added white lines around the outside edge of the paper.

Sentiments: All the sentiment strips I added talk about art, inspiration, love, peace, happiness and encouragement. The outside sentiments are part of the printed paper design.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) envelope with its back flap decorated with hand-drawn hearts and a sentiment strip.

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Materials Used:

Papers

Inks

  • OLO Marker – Dragon Fruit
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives

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

Tools

  • Computer and Color Printer
  • Scissors

Hello, I’m Thinking Of You

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #319 whose parameters were: 4 Bar (3 5/8×4 7/8-inch) card, wedding colors, sweet(s) element and a touch of gray random. I used a Spellbinder’s 3D embossing folder and stamp sets by Karen Burniston and Scrapbook.com.

Cardbase: I took a 7×5-inch rectangle of lightweight cardstock and scored and folded in half to form a side-fold 3.5×5-inch card.

HELLO: The front panel of the card was embossed with the Spellbinder’s Beveled Hello A2 Cardfront 3D embossing folder. (I spritzed the lightweight white cardstock with water before I ran it through in the embossing folder.) NNext I trimmed it down to fit the cardbase and added a touch of gray by using a glitter gloss marker on the bottom bevel sides of the letters. Tiny polymer clay peppermint and swirled sweets were glued on for accents.

Sentiments: The inside sentiment and hearts come from Scrapbook.com’s A Little Reminder stamp set and were stamped in pink and gray inks.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) envelope with “Life is Sweet” stamped on the back flap in pink. Stamp is from Karen Burniston’s Sweet Treats set.

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Materials Used:

Embossing Folders

  • Spellbinders – 3D Embossing Folder – Beveled Hello A2 Cardfront

Stamps

Papers

  • White 65lb Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Gray Flannel & Rose Bud
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

Pop-Up Mug of Coffee

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It’s time for the Karen Burniston Design Team May 2026 Challenge whose theme is CAFFEINATE! – using a coffee, tea, soda or chocolate theme. I used the Stage Pop-Up, Tea and Coffee Pop-Up, Cake Pop-Up, Leaping Animals and Tea and Coffee Borders die sets and Fun Faces 1 , Stage Scenes and Coffee Chat stamp sets to make this energized morning mug of coffee – a perfect gift for a co-worker.

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

Pop-Up Stage Base: (Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for Stage Pop-Up.) Cut two base pieces and two side pieces from the Stage Pop-Up die set. (I cut my stage base pieces from heavy green cardstock and the sides from thin decorative cardstock. I found that the heavier cardstock works best for this card and its pop-up mechanism.) Cut three decorative rectangles from the Stage Pop-Up set. (It may be easier to stamp these small rectangles and then die-cut them.) Cut two of the base polygon decorative pieces from white cardstock and another two from decorative paper. Save the white pieces to be stamped with a sentiments before gluing to the bottom and side of the stage base. Cut three border mugs and hearts from the Tea and Coffee Borders die set. Glue one side piece tab to the straight edge side of the other side piece and then decorate with the sentiment rectangles and heart mugs.

Frog Mug Pop-Up: Using the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up die set, cut two mugs from mid to light-weight white cardstock. Cut a 2×6-inch piece of copier paper and color coffee brown with a marker. Cut two frogs from green using the Leaping Animals die set. Add white gel pen dots to all the tips of the frogs’ hands and feet as well as the raised dots and mouths. Decide which piece will be decorated on its back side. Following the instructions in the video above on how to stamp the eyes onto mug using the Fun Faces 1 stamps before gluing the frogs onto the mugs. Add clear packing tape over the mug fronts as shown in the video. Connect the two mug shapes together using the brown copier paper as shown above in the video.

Steam Pop-Up: (Watch the assembly videos at the bottom of the linked pages for Tea and Coffee Pop-Up and Cake Pop-Up.) From heavy weight white cardstock cut one curling steam and 2-inch support strip from the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set and two of the top tiny cake tier pieces from the Cake Pop-Up set. Color the cake top and support strip pieces on both sides, coffee brown. Trim the base of the steam into a point as shown in the video above. Assemble into the mug and onto the stage pop-up as shown in the video above.

Sentiments: On the bottom side of the Stage Pop-Up, I stamped on the top white decorator panel with “Drink coffee and conquer the day” from the the Coffee Chat stamp set. The “Push” with arrows comes from the Stage Scenes set. Three small stamps from Coffee Chat were used on the side decorator panels – “Brewed with love,” “Love at first sip” and “Coffee fuels my happy.”

Envelope: The card fits into 5×7-inches A7 size envelope decorated with “Hot coffee, warm heart” stamped in dark brown from the Coffee Chat stamp set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Echo Park – 12×12-inch Cardstock – Coffee and Friends – Coffee & Sunshine, Morning Latte
  • Heavy 100lb Pale Green Cardstock
  • Heavy 100lb White Cardstock
  • Mid-weight 65-80lb White Cardstock
  • A7 (5×7-inch) Envelope – Ivory

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Pencil
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Block
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • We R – Precision Press Mini – Stamping Platform