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Good Bye 2025 Hello 2026

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #297 whose parameters were: a holiday card, forest colors, toy(s) element and wonky. I used Karen Burniston dies to create this card.

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

Cardbase: Score and fold a 7.75×8.5-inch rectangle in half to form a 3.875×8.5-inch slimline card.

Interactive Fireworks: Make three Playful Pop-Up from mid-weight black cardstock. (I had trouble being able to adhere glitter cardstock into my cardbase, and ended-up just using plain black cardstock.) Cut out a variety of fireworks from colorful glitter cardstock using the Fireworks die set. and decorate the inside of the card. (I didn’t end up using most of the internal mechanisms for the Playful Pop-Up, but did use all the pop-out arms.) The large fireworks inside and out are on wobbler springs.

Sentiments: I used the Happy New Year and shadow for the inside sentiment. The “Good Bye” on the card front was made by combining words and letters from three die sets. 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.

Envelope: This card fits into a #10 business size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • American Crafts – Core’dinations – 8.5×11 inch Textured Glitter Cardstock – Black Tie
  • DCWV – 6×6 Glitter Cardstock – Glitter Brights
  • Recollections – 4.5×7 inch Foil Cardstock – Yellow
  • Silver Matte Cardstock
  • Black Cardstock

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

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

Miscellaneous

  • Art Impressions – Action Wobbles

Stenciled Winter Holidays Card

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This stenciled street scene reminds me of a red tiled roof village. It uses Pinkfresh Studio’s Holiday Street press plate and coordinating stencils. All the sentiments are from Spellbinders and include the BetterPress plate and die Mistletoe Greetings set and the die-cut Happy Holidays (a Scrapbook.com exclusive.)

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

Cardbase: I used an A2 purchased brown kraft paper card base and envelope.

Press Plates: The Pinkfresh Studio’s Holiday Street press plate uses the BetterPress system to letterpress the street scene onto a cotton panel. See the video for the stenciling of the scene.  The banner sentiment was also printed using the BetterPress system. (I like to batch print and die-cut these sentiments to have on hand for making cards.)

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Spellbinders –Cutting Dies – Happy Holidays – S2-330

Press Plates

  • Pinkfresh Studio – Press Plate – Holiday Street – 252224
  • Spellbinders – BetterPress Press Plate & Die Set – Mistletoe Greetings – BP-199

Stencils

  • Pinkfresh Studio – Stencils – Holiday Street – 252124

Paper

  • Spellbinders – 5×7-inch 118 lb. Cotton Card Panels – Bisque
  • Target – A2 Card and Envelope – Brown Kraft

Ink

  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink – Amber, Blue Raspberry, Chiffon, Goldenrod, Juniper Mist, On The Lake, Rockin Red, Spruce
  • Spellbinders – BetterPress Ink – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • BetterPress
  • Stamping Blocks as Paper Weights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Best Ever Craft Tape
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Paper Tape
  • Gel Plate or Grip Mat
  • Blending Brushes

Pumpkin Spice Coffee

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There’s a new mini release of five new stamp sets from Karen Burniston. For this card I’ve used the new Fall Phrases and Coffee Chat sentiment stamps along with previously released die sets – Fancy Label Accordion, Haunted Tiny House Add-Ons, Tea and Coffee Pop-Up and Fancy Solid Frame.

Cardbase: Cut three of the accordion frames from a plaid cardstock and followed the the assembly video for the Fancy Label Accordion die set. (Assembly video is at the bottom of the linked page for the die set.) Glue the frames together using the long tabs. Cut three sets of the Fancy Solid Frame and adhere to the back side of the accordion frames to hide the connecting tabs.

Card Front: Using the decorator dies in the Fancy Label Accordion set, cut a large plaid label and a smaller white label. Stamp on the white label “Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about” from the Fall Phrases stamp set. Glue the labels together and them on to the back of the lead pivot panel. From orange and green cardstock, cut and emboss the small pumpkin from the Haunted Tiny House Add-On die set. Glue to the label.

Coffee Mugs: Cut three of the mugs from white cardstock and two from the plaid cardstock using the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up die set. Stamp coffee sentiments onto the white mugs using the Coffee Chat stamp set. Adhere the mugs to the front and back of the pivot panels.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Dress My Craft – 12×12 in Single-Sided Cardstock – Baby Brown Gingham Checks
  • Green, Orange and White Cardstock

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks as Paper Weights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Sweater Weather Pop-Up Card

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There’s a new mini release of five new stamp sets from Karen Burniston. For this card I’ve used the new Fall Phrases sentiment stamps along with previously released die sets – Cupcake Pop-Up, Coffee Charms, Tiny Trees Pop-Up, Border Blends – Trims, Bam Box Pop-Up and Display Helpers.

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 Phrases stamps 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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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Stamperia – 12×12-inches Double-Sided Paper – Winter Botanic
  • Stampin’ Up – 8.5×11-inches Cardstock – Tea Room
  • Orange, Red and White Cardstock

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Silk Ink – Bronze
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Rustic Wilderness, Vintage Photo
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Point – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Scissors
  • Riley and Company – Pick & Poke Tool
  • Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous

  • Trinity Stamps – Flat Glitter Confetti Spots – Black, Orange

Getting Skinny

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This card was made to celebrate Simon Says Stamp! Stamptember with Riley & Company’s The Dog Life stamp set and coordinating dies. It also uses pop-up dies by Karen Burniston.

Watch the video to see how this card was made.

Woven Basket: The base of this basket card that can fold flat, is Karen Burniston’s Woven Basket Box Card. The grass inside is also from the same set. For assemble see video above. A black alcohol marker was used on the coated gold cardstock to make the nail heads on the basket frame.

Sentiments: The main sentiment on the card was stamped in black ink and die cut using the coordinating dies in The Dog Life stamp set. It is on the round stem piece from the Bouquet Bits die set. The white fancy label on the basket back is for a personal message and is cut using the fancy label die in the Triple Platform Pop-Up set.

Tree: The tree was cut from some doubled-sided scrap patterned papers using the Tree Pop-Up die set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Simon Says Stamp! – Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – The Dog Life -3319ssc

Papers

  • Brown and Green Patterned Cardstock Scraps
  • Green and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Gold Shimmer Sheets
  • White 4×6-inch Catalog Envelope

Ink

  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils – Brilliantly Vibrant and Hair & Skin Tones
  • Pigma – Mircon 01Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • Brutus Monroe – Stick & Stamp Mat
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamp Shammy
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Waterbrush

Stenciled cards by the batch load

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Needing a lot of cards, I decided to stencil some A7 size card bases to make some special pop-up birthday cards for a card exchange.  Here are the 10 cards I made using purchased card bases with matching envelopes.

Watch the video below to see how I made these cards.

Cardbase: I used five white cardbases and envelopes by Park Lane and five kraft paper cardbases and envelopes by American Crafts.

Pop-Up Mechanism: The pop-up mechanism that lifts the “Happy Birthday” and balloons is Karen Burniston’s Katherine Label Pop-Up. (Watch an assembly video for it by clicking on the die name and scrolling down to the bottom of the linked page.)

Stenciling: I used three different stencils and two different colors of stencil pastes. First, I taped down the cardbase to a piece of packing paper (think brown craft paper/newsprint) next I taped the stencil to the scrap paper over the cardbase and applied the stencil paste using a disposable plastic knife left from a take-out meal. Between each card, I washed the stencil and knife.

Sentiments:  The “Hello” and “Happy Birthday” die cut sentiments, balloons and pop-up mechanism are all by Karen Burniston. The stamped birthday verse is by Craft Roulette and stamped in brown ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stencils

  • Angela Poole – A4 Plastic Stencil – Folksy Meadow
  • Honey Bee Stamps – 6×6-inch Plastic Stencil – Scattered Seeds
  • Picket Fence Studios – 4×9.5-inch Plastic Stencil – Slim Line Leaf

Stamps

  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – Funn Sentiments #01

Papers

  • American Crafts – A7 Cardbases and Envelopes – Kraft
  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11-inch -80lb Cardstock – Wheat
  • Park Lane – A7 Cardbases and Envelopes – White
  • Park Lane – 8.5×11-inch -Shimmer Cardstock – Gold
  • Matte Gold Junk Mail
  • White Cardstock

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Rich Cocoa
  • Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Stencil Pastes

  • Altenew – Artistry – Shimmer Relief Paste – Brass
  • Nuvo – Embellishment Mousse – Victorian Blush

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape

Tools

  • Taupe Satin Ribbon – 1/8-inch wide

Monster Slimline Birthday Card

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This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #279 whose parameters included a kid’s card, theater colors, picture(s) element, and half & half. I chose to make a monster themed slimline pop-up card using dies by Karen Burniston and stamps by Picket Fence Studios and Craft Roulette.

Cardbase:  The cardbase is a 110 lb. cream cardstock 8.5×7.5-inch rectangle scored and fold in the center to make a 3.75x 8.5-inch top fold card. Three 3.5×8.25-inch rectangles of an orange patterned paper were used to cover the front and two inside panels of the card base. Two off-cut squares of the same paper was used to cover the cardbase back panel.

Triple Platform Pop-Ups:  Two Triple Platform Pop-Ups are what make the monster pictures pop-up as the card opens.  Watch the assembly video on the linked page. (Video is at the bottom of the linked page.) The base piece was cut from thin cream cardstock, while the trim pieces were cut from the orange paper used as the decorative panels on the card.

Monsters:  The monsters were stamped on a thin creamy cardstock in black and the colored and die cut using the rectangle base dies from the Photo Collage Pop-Up set. The frames were cut from the same die set using shimmer cardstock.

Sentiment:  “Beware: Monsters like birthday cake” was stamped in black from Picket Fence Studios You Creep Me Out set. “Happy Birthday” and its shadow are dies by Karen Burniston. The white stitched label is from the Triple Platform Pop-Up die set. The slices of cake and streamers are from the Big Birthday Charms die set. The card back is stamped with “Inspired by Craft Roulette, made by” in blue ink on to a white rectangle from the Triple Platform Pop-Up die set.

Envelope:  The card fits into #10 business envelope (4.125x 9.5-inches) which was stamped with “HBD” on its back in red ink using the Craft Roulette Funn Sentiments #01 stamp set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – Funn Sentiments #01
  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – The Basics
  • Picket Fence Studios – Clear Stamps – You Creep Me Out

Papers

  • American Crafts – 12×12-inches Single-Sided Paper – 359971-Pink Sprinkles
  • My Favorite Things – 8.5×11-inch 110lb Cardstock – Chantilly Cream
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 Shimmer Cardstock – White Gold
  • Stampin’ Up – 12×12-inches Double-Sided Paper – Stargazing
  • Brown, Cream, Teal and White Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft

Ink & Pigments

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Paris Dusk, Rose Bud & Tuxedo Black
  • Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils – Brilliantly Vibrant
  • Sharpie – Permanet Marker – Ultra Fine Point – Black, Teal
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends – Light Daffodil Delight

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Water Brush Pen

2025 ATC Calendar – August

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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.

August’s card is made with Simon Says Stamp! dies and papers from it’s July 2025 card kit.

To see other months’ calendars go to click here.

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Materials Used:


Dies
• Simon Says Stamp! – Steel Dies – Window Trio – 1401sd


Press Plates
• Spellbinders – BetterPress Plates – 2025 DIY Calendar


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

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

Tools
• Die Cutting Machine
• Scissors

• We R Memories – QuickStick
• Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous
• Simon Says Stamp! – Stellar Embellishment Mix