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Father’s Day Waterfall Pop-up

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This card was designed for a contest on Craftworld.com, but I had my own father in-mind as I created it. The mechanical action of the waterfall combined with the pop-up words make it feel like an early silent movie. Click here to see a short video of it.

To make the card you will need a 6 ½ x 5 inch card base, four 2 inch squares, one waterfall strip 1 ½ x 10 inches, one ½ x 4 ½ inches holding strip, and strong double sided tape 1/8 to 1/4 inches wide.

  1. Score waterfall strip at 2 5/16 inches, 2 15/16 inches, 3 9/16 inches and 4 3/16 inches. Place double sided tape below each score mark.2Ed Fathers Day- Main Strip
  2. Place tape on back ends of holding strip in such a manner as to have the center be 2 ½ inches free of tape. Adhere on card front 2 inches from bottom of card.1Ed Fathers Day-Holding strip
  3. Make a point at end of waterfall strip with out tape. Thread pointed end under holder strip making sure the taped side of waterfall strip face up when bent over as in photos and adhere all for squares to strip using tape under the score lines.

  • On a 1 by 2 ½ inch rectangle, score at 2 inches, 1 ½ inches, 1 inch, and ½ inch. Place a line of tape on one edge. Then cut into four even strips of ¼ inch wide by 2 ½ inches long. Fold into square rings adhering taped flap to form squares. You will need three of these pop-up rings or stands for the project, but if you are like me, these tiny rings fall on the floor and get lost so having an extra may come in handy.
  • Add double-sided tape to two sides of each ring. Peel tape and adhere to center of each flap as shown in photo. Slide the waterfall strip up and down to get folds and pop-up stands to work smoothly.

  • Decorate flaps using four copies of the same image on overlapping flaps, trim each image to fit each flap matching up where the image continues onto next flap. Use distress inks to “age” insides of flaps. Glue a word per pop-up ring to form “Happy Father’s Day.”8Ed Fathers Day-Pop-up Strips added
  • Compose on computer your own message for the waterfall pull strip (approximately 3 inches long) Punch a hole near point and added baker’s twine or ribbon as a pulling aid.
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    Inside of card you can add your personal message.

    © Sue Small-Kreider 2020

    Other Father’s Day cards on my blog

    A Tool Box Father’s Day

    A Fishing Father’s Day

    A Father’s Day Waterfall Pop-Up

    A Work Bench Father’s Day Card

    In-Vested Father’s Day Card

    Supplies:

    Dies

    Stamps/Images

    Papers

    Inks

    Miscellaneous

    Vintage Alice

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    Slider Easel CardIMG_7737

    When is an easel not an easel? When it is a flattened easel slider card. This card slides open to reveal two hidden messages.

    1. Stamp images onto white cardstock using a dark brown ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder to set ink.IMG_7706
    2. Using watercolor pencils color images and then use water and brush to blend colors. Let dry.IMG_7715 (2)
    3. Rough cut images and glue to heavy cardstock. Let dry and then fussy cut out images.IMG_7717 (2)
    4. Take one printed card front and on back side make lines 1 inch (25 mm) from all edges.IMG_7718 (2)
    5. Using a blade knife and metal ruler, cut three lines in card front to form a door flap.IMG_7720 (2)
    6. Using a score board, score door flap at ½ inch (12 mm), 2 ¼ inches (55 mm) and 5 inches (127 cm) from door flap bottom edge. Fold door flap with valley folds at ends and mountain fold in middle.IMG_7723
    7. Cut second printed card front down to 6 1/2 inches (170 mm) x 4 3/8 inches (110 mm). make a cutting template for top by folding scrap paper the is 4 3/8 inches wide in half and cutting out design. Trace template on to top of card and cut out. Punch hole in center top for pull ribbon. Thread ribbon through punched hole and tie off ribbon. This is slider card.IMG_7725 (2)
    8. Using a 1 inch (25 mm) wide circle punch, cut a half circle at top center edge. Place double-sided tear tape at edges on three sides of back of printed card with door flap leaving top edge with half circle untaped. Peel off backing tape and place a second layer of tape on top of first layer of tape. Place one layer of red backed double-sided tape on back of bottom tap of door flap.IMG_7724 (2)
    9. Stamp sentiment on top half of slider card using stamp platform.IMG_7726 (2)
    10. Peel off red backing on taped door flap tab. Place slider card face down on back side of door flap card so that it is inside the three taped edges and the ribbon pull is at the half circle end. Adhere taped edge of door flap to slider card. Turn over card front and test slider so easel comes up. Reposition or trim slider card to eliminate catchpoints.IMG_7727
    11. Position 5 x 7 inches colored cardstock over back of printed card front. Peel off backing tape and line up one edge at a time until slider pocket is formed.IMG_7728 (2)
    12. Using a stamp platform, place card with ease up revealing hidden space to be stamped. Stamp sentiment.IMG_7729 (2)
    13. Decorate the slider easel by laying out stamped images on flatten card and playing with slider to see how and where to place double-sided sticky foam squares to one side of easel or other. Decorate card front frame edges with sticky backed gems, but do not block easel slider.
    14. A simple sketch showing how the card functions may need to be included in the mailing envelope for good CRX (Card Receiver Experience).IMG_7730 (2)

    Materials:

    Printed Card Front – Anna Griffin 5 x 7 inches -Delicate Engravings

    Colored Lightweight Cardstock – 5 x 7 inches pale green (127 mm x 177 mm)

    Heavy White Cardstock – 8.5 x 11 inches

    Rubber Stamps – Stamperia – Alice

    Brown Ink-Stampin’ Up Classic Stampin’ Pad – Chocolate Chip

    Clear Embossing Powder – Recollections Detail Embossing Powder

    Watercolor Pencils – Prima Marketing Inc. Watercolor Pencils – The Basics

    Printed Sentiment – Anna Griffin-Delicate Engravings Card Toppers

    Ribbon – 8 inches

    Sentiment Stamp – Apple Blossom-Parisian Sentiments-Happy Birthday

    Foam Squares – Scotch Create Permanent White Foam Squares

    Sticky-backed Gems – Recollections Bling on a Roll

    Glue – Cosmic Shimmer Specialist Acrylic Glue

    Double-Sided Tear Tape – Scrapbook.com Clear Double Sided Adhesive Roll ¼ inch

    Super Sticky Red Backed Double-Sided Tape – Home Hobby by 3L Extreme Double-Sided Tape 1/8 inch

    Clear Tape – Scotch Magic Tape

     

    Tools:

    Blade Knife

    Sharp Pointed Scissors

    Metal Ruler

    Heat Tool

    Anti-Static Bag

    Stamping Platform

    Scoreboard

    1 inch (25 mm) circle punch

    Shake Your Snow Globe

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    Snow Globe Shaker-Front

    This snow globe is filled with pearlessense sequins and silver star sequins and a hint of snow glitter.  I was inspired by a number of snow globe stamp and die set project cards by a variety of companies, but in the end, I made the card with affordable alternatives that I had on hand.

    I stamped the pine boughs and red berry branches on a stamping platform, turning the card four times and then changing color ink and stamp for the next layer and once more for the final color and stamp change.

    Next, I cut out the opening for the plastic shaker globe from the stamped card. I then stamped and cut out the house, snow man and trees. Using white glitter paper to cut the two snowy hills, I attached the house, trees and snowman using foam squares.

    Assembling the globe: I added a few white and silver sequins and a hint of fine snow glitter. (I find the that glitter clings to most of the surfaces inside the globe and a hint gives a sparkle without fogging up the globe.) Using clear removable tape, I sealed the back of the globe with the house and hills which were attached to the stamped globe cut-out. Once the globe was sealed, it was placed into the stamped card with the globe cut out.

    The red and white background paper, heavy white card stock with the red sentiment stamped on it and the red globe base where all recycled from junk mail, and packaging. A ribbon was taped to the back of the pine boughs stamped card before it was adhered with double-sided tape to the card base. The “Magical Christmas wishes” and red globe base were attached using foam squares.

    Snow Globe Shaker -inside

    The inside sentiment is from an old Kaisercraft clear stamp set that I was unable to find a link for.

    SUPPLIES USED:

    Dies

    Stamps

    Paper:

    Miscellaneous:

    Ride the Birthday Train

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    train ride- inside

    Get on board the Birthday Train!  This was my first attempt at using Karen Burniston’s Train Pivot Panels and companion Train Elements.  Having made other of KB’s pivot panels I found it an easy assembly. (If you haven’t made a pivot panel card before, please look at her assembly videos.)

    train ride- front

    I used bright primary colors for the card using lots of scraps bits for the words and tiny decoration pieces. “Enjoy” and “ride” are double cut from red and blue papers and off-set to give a shadow effect.  The card base is from Karen Burniston’s Circle Tag Book Pop-up.  The red grosgrain ribbon hides the tiny portion of train’s “cow catcher” and tracks that show beyond the rounded edge.

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    Two pearl-like domed dots were used for the railroad crossing sign.(I removed these dots and replaced with red circles of cardstock when I sent the card to a two year old because of the fear he would try to eat them.) Bears are from KB’s Winter Animals die set.

    Watch a Video of card

    SUPPLIES USED:

    Dies

    Paper:

    • Cardstock scraps from my stash including black glitter cardstock for wheels

    Miscellaneous:

    Give Thanks

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    Pumkin-frontAutumn leaves are falling.  This simple shadow box card is made using Hunkydory -Moonstone Shadow Box Frame Die Set -MSTONE076, LDRS creative’s Happy Fall Sentiments stamp set, Fiskars Oak Leaf punch and Spellbinders Jack-O-Lantern die set. The finished size is 3 inches x 4 inches by 1 inch.Pumkin-side

    Using only one panel in the shadow box with the pumpkin cut twice from heavy cardstock and adhered with a strip of foam tape between each pumpkin to create dimension, makes for a simple decoration. The top pumpkin was lightly rubbed with Ranger Distress Ink -Vintage Photo and a the stem and vine cut from brown paper. The tiny oak leaves create a wreath on the front of the card. (Oak Leaves were cut from scrap paper using a Fiskars tiny punch.) A plaid paper from Authentique – Pioneer-Plaid THA005-355057 completes the front. The sentiments are stamped on white cardstock with Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip Ink Pad. American Crafts’ Sticky Thumb Double-sided Super Sticky Red Tape – 1/8 inch was used to assemble the shadow box while Tombow Multi Mono Liquid Glue wasused to adhere leaves and sentiments.

    12 Days of Christmas Trees – Day 11

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    Each day for 12 days, I have been showing card variations made with Karen Burniston’s Christmas Tree Pop-up die.  I recommend watching her assembly video before attempting to cut and assemble the pop-up tree.

    For all of these cards I started with an A7 size card base (10 x 6 ½ inches), but because my die cutting machine can only accommodate 6-inch-wide pieces of paper, I had to trim the cards down to 10 x 6 inches.

    Day 11 – White Christmas

    White Christmas front

    This card was inspired by my memories of the movie “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney and Danny Kaye (Yes, I had to look that one up and sure it wasn’t Bob Hope.) Every time I watch it, I keep wishing it would snow during certain scenes, but (SPOILER ALERT) it doesn’t really snow until the end of the last scene.

    So this card is bit like the old inn with it’s wooden rustic floors, cold New England nights, and a bit sentimental. The tree may have the allusion of blurred tiny lights, but it is really a Bo Bunny paper of succulent plants.

    White Christmas inside

    For the embossed tree skirt, used an older Karen Burniston die set from her Elizabeth Craft Designs time called Cup Pop Stand. I embossed the card base and then cut the circle in the wood grained paper (from the same Bo Bunny Garden Party Collection as the succulent paper). The die cut “Merry Christmas” and tree squiggles on the front of the card are also cut from the succulent paper. The mittens sticker and the front sentiment topper came from the Echo Park Home for the Holidays Collection.

    White Christmas inside cu

    Read the past posts of the 12 Days of Christmas Trees by clicking below on the list. Don’t miss the 12th post tomorrow.

    Day 1 – Give Joy -Plaid

    Day 2 – Home for the Holidays-Village

    Day 3 – Holly Joy

    Day 4 – Snowy Day

    Day 5 – Give Joy – Holly

    Day 6 – Gingerbread Joy

    Day 7 – Home for the Holidays-Joy to the World

    Day 8 – Nutcracker Greetings

    Day 9 – Plaid Joy

    Day 10 – Home for the Holidays-Let It Snow

    Day 11 – White Christmas

    Day 12 – Home for the Holidays-Peace and Joy

    Bonus Day – Tropical Christmas

    Click Here for video of all 12 trees

    SUPPLIES USED:

    Dies

    Stamps & Ink (on envelope)

    Paper

    Miscellaneous

    CRX – Card Recipient Experience

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    You create the most delightful card that moves went you pull a slider or you create a box card that folds flat, and the recipient of the card gets it in the mail and has no idea how to make it work.  This is not the ideal card recipient experience (CRX) you want.

    In the web designers world, they talk about User Experience (UX). For us in the not so digital field of card designers, we need to think about CRX or how we let our users know how to operate the card if the recipient is not use to receiving interactive cards.

    Arrows indicating direction to pull a slider tab are common.  Including a diagram of how a box card should look when completed is simple enough. Or you can get creative and string a “pull here” tag on a thread that can be removed once used.

    A great card is both beautiful to the eye of the beholder and easily explained if it involves moving parts.

    Dies/Stamps Used:

    You’re In My Thoughts Box of Flowers

    Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up

    Build -A-Bouquet Stamp Collection for Papercrafter magazine issue 118 

    Stamped in black ink and colored with Crayola Signature Brush & Detail Dual-ended Markers

    Tea and Tulips Box of Flowers

    Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up

    Stampin’ Up’s Tearoom Copper Vinyl Stickers

    Stampin’ Up’s Tea Room Specialty Designer Series Paper

    Tea Room Memories & More Card Pack.

    Shaded Tulip Stamp & Layer set by Susan Bates for Papercraft Inspirations magazine, issue 182

    CraftSmart and Hampton Art mini ink pads.

    Paris Easel Card

    Paris in the Springtime Die set from Die Cutting essentials  issue 49

    Karen Burniston’s Pop It Ups for Elizabeth Craft Designs 1104-Hanging Charm Pull Tab die set

    “Pull Here” stamp from Concord and Ninth’s Mail Drop Stamp Collection

    Two Fish, One Fish

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    Fish bowl 4

    Two fish, one fish, is that a cat I see?

    This is meant as a fun card. Ever since I saw the Die-cutting essentials magazine issue 36 Underwater Friends die set, I have been planning to make some sort of interactive card with it.

    Fish bowl 2 - Copy

    Finding the Karen Burniston Pop It Ups’ Oval landscape Accordion -1108 die set by Elizabeth Craft Designs gave me the idea on how to proceed to tell a story through a card.

    Fish bowl 1 - Copy

    First there are two fish. Then there is one fish. then there is a cat’s face watching intently.

    Fish bowl 5 - Copy

    Did the cat do anything beyond watching? What do you think happened?

    Fishbowl-envelope

    The cat’s face has a slit at the top and bottom so that it can slip off the pivot points and be signed or a greeting added.  I used Grafix Dura-Lar .005 Clear Film, an archival polyester film to die cut 3 of the accordion sections. I then die cut 6 of the blue cardstock accordion sections and then all the fish and greenery pieces. I used a combination of Tombow Aqua Mono Liquid Glue for around the blue oval frames because I could easily clean-up any messes with a damp paper towel. I used Tombow Multi Mono Liquid Glue for adhering the blue frames to the clear film because it needed to be a strong adherence for a sturdy frame.

     

     

     

    Stampin’ Up Cards – Easter

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    I went to a workshop this past week with Donna Butler, a Stampin’ Up demonstrator. I really enjoyed learning more about the proper way to stamp. I loved the feel of the cling stamps. They were soft and required a lighter touch than some of the stamps I have used before.

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    Here is one of the cards we made using Donna’s designs. Each card is designed with an interior panel that can be removed if the card needs to be repurposed. Note the envelope is also stamped on the back flap.

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    Donna’s list of supplies:

    Stamp sets:

    Cardstock:

    Inks:

    Stampin’ Write Markers/Blends:

    Accessories: