I have a crafty friend who loves Halloween. This card was made for her using Poppy Stamps Neighborhood Home Pop Up Easel set along with their Whittle Monsters, Whittle Creatures and Boo Poe Script dies.
It took just a morning to make. The die cutting of the Whittle creatures and monsters took the most time, but they went together easily and used up leftover scraps. For the house I had to make some decisions on open or pained windows. I decided some of the creatures should be outside rather than behind windows.
The easel stop is four layers of green and orange cardstock die-cut using the Boo Poe Script die.
I included a CRX sheet to show how to open the card. (You can download the CRX sheet for free.)
This card was made for Craft Roulette #185 whose parameters included a card a pocket, fresh and clean colors, element(s) that rhyme with “-ool” and columns.
These parameters suggested a Father’s Day card to me with a wood shop apron, tools in a pocket and plans for Greek columns. For the apron, I used the Country Apron Tonic Craft Kit with its stripe inset for both the pocket and apron.
Cardbase: Fold a 4 1/2-inch tall by 7-inch rectangle of brown kraft paper in half for a 4 1/2-inch by 3 1/2-inch cardbase. Using the die for the apron base die cut the folded cardbase with the left die edge just off the fold, but with the stitching part of the die on the fold.
Apron: The apron base was die cut from white cardstock and inked along the edges for wear. The neck loop was inked to resemble a leather strap. Holes were punched for the apron ties and linen string was also inked brown to imitate leather. The string ties around the back of the card and keeps it closed until untied. Once the apron was assembled it was glued to the front of the card base.
Tools and Column Plan: The tools are metal charms by Docrsaft Papermania/ West Design Products of UK. The Greek columns were digitally produced. A piece of kitchen towel is also in the pocket.
Sentiment: “Happy Father’s Day” was stamped in black ink inside the card using a stamp included in the kit.
Envelope: The card will fit in an A2 envelope.
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Materials Used:
Dies
Tonic Studios – Tonic Craft Kit – Country Apron
Stamps
Tonic Studios – Tonic Craft Kit – Country Apron
Papers
Photoplay – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Stars and Strips Collection – Soda Bottles
White and Kraft Cardstock
Ink
Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Rusty Hinge and Black Soot
Making a gingerbread house always involves candy and white icing. Half the fun of making a gingerbread creation is sampling the construction elements.
This Christmas card is one that I hope the recipients won’t try and taste the ingredients. I used Queen & Co.’s Holiday House Kit to make this shaker card. In the kit you get dies to decorate the foam shaker base with pre-cut acetate window cover as either a gingerbread house or a Victorian house. I chose to use polymer clay shaker elements that are from Queen & Co. but not included in the kit. (There are solid color shaker beads included in the kit as well as stamps.)
Cardbase: I used a purchase brown kraft cardstock and matching envelope in an A7 size. The card I cut it down to a 6×4 3/4-inch side-fold card so that there would be room in the envelope for the foam shaker. The front panel was covered with a 4 1/2×5 3/4-inch piece of patterned red paper from the Queen & Co. Happy Holly Days mat stack. The inside white panel is the same size cut from white copier paper.
House: Brown patterned paper from Queen & Co. Homemade Holiday mat stack was use for the gingerbread house and man. The white icing and candies were cut from white cardstock and made sparkly with a wash of a glitter gloss aqua brush. The stripes on the candy can were drawn on with a red marker while the round peppermint candies have a die to cut the red swirl. Gum drops on the roof ridge were cut using a die in the kit and brushed with glitter gloss. The tiny peppermint candies are polymer clay shaker elements from Buttons Galore More.
Once the house front is made, position the foam frame on the cardbase to allow for the gingerbread man and candy cane to hang off the house, but not the card. Adhere foam to cardbase. Add strips of leftover foam to the inside of the frame to section off areas where the windows are. Add shaker elements to the sections. Place the acetate piece over the foam frame to seal in the elements. Color the exposed sides of white foam with a brown marker. Using double-sided tape, attach the decorated house front to the acetate piece.
Decorations: Glue candy pieces to decorate the house. The gingerbread man is cut in two pieces – bottom white with glitter gloss and the top from the brown patterned paper. Attach the man with thin foam squares to fit over the polymer clay candies.
Sentiment: The inside sentiment is a clear stamp included in the kit stamped in red ink.
Envelope: A gingerbread man from a Joanna Sheen card making kit was stamped in dark brown ink and brushed over with glitter gloss on the back flap.
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Crisp, colorful leaves gently falling off tree branches sometimes bring bitter-sweet emotions. A.A. Milne’s characters of Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore the donkey are playful reminders that fun can be had even in the worst of times.
For this card I used stamps and papers from Impression Obsession featuring E. H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore along with leaves and sentiments designed by Dina Kowal. The images were stamped in black ink and then colored with watercolor pencils. (I elected not to water brush the coloring.) Next the colored images were fussy cut. Additional leaves were stamped on some of the matted papers used on the card front and fussy cut.
The design principle of three is floated with the leaves throughout the card. Notice that the heart shaped leaf is always pointing to where your eye should flow. Leftover paper scraps were used to decorate the card back.
For the envelope back, leaves and a quote from Elizabeth Lawrence about taking time to watch the leaves turn colors, are stamped in black ink and colored with permanent markers.
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Materials Used:
Stamps
Impression Obsession – Clear Stamps designed by Dina Kowal – Pooh Window – CL1138
Papers
Impression Obsession – 6×6 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Classic Pooh – PP004
Park Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – Ivory
Ink
StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Watercolor Pencil- Antique Linen, Barn Door, Fired Brick, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Spice Marmalade and Walnut Stain
Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Orange and Brown
This card was made for Craft Roulette #184 whose parameters included a card for a teacher, tartan colors, Autumn or Spring scene and wrap.
Everyone has influenced someone’s life. Teachers specifically help shape lives with their explanation of the way things work. This is a card to say thank you and offer encouragement to teachers who may feel under appreciated in public schools.
I used My Favorite Things Dry Erase, Whiteboard die set along with their clear stamp set Teach, Sleep, Repeat for this card along with Karen Burniston’s Little Label Pop-Up to make the inside sentiment feel like a special award.
To decorate the envelope, I glued strips of the plaid paper to the back flap.
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Materials Used:
Dies
My Favorite Things – Die-Namics – Dry Erase, Whiteboard -MFT-2532
Last week I went to a cardmaking class using stencils taught by Donna Butler and had a chance to catch-up with some crafty friends I hadn’t seen in a while. Here are the cards I made.
EMBOSSED FALL LEAVES CARD
We embossed the stencil first into the top panel and then inked the piece. Inside and on the envelope we masked off a portion of the stencil to single out various elements.
SUNFLOWER CARD
Using several shades of ink easily created these striking flowers with 4-part layered stencils.
SNOWFLAKE CARD
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Cart Drawer:The cart is based around the Slider Box. Watch the assembly video before die-cutting pieces. I used kraft brown 65 lb. cardstock for the box and drawer. A piece of striped satin ribbon was used as a drawer pull.
A Bam Box (see assembly video) is what pops up the green hands and message of “BOO!” which are from the Halloween Elements die set. There is space to place a special treat in the drawer over the pop-up. When the treat is picked-up the pop-up hands will make a grab at the gift recipient.
Cart Base:The cart’s frame made by die-cutting two of the Fancy Label Accordion panels and removing the center pivot panel and side tab to create a square frame. Fold in half. Glue the u-shape together. I took the two smallest of the off-cuts from the die cut to make the cart handles. (Glue the pieces back-to-back for stability.) Glue handles on to slider box at open end before adhering the u-shape frame to slider box.
Roof Frame: The striped roof awning is cut from some digital striped paper using the large scalloped edged rectangle in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set. It is held up by a frame made by die-cutting two of the Fancy Label Accordion in white cardstock and cutting off the center pivot panel and side tab. Fold each of the frames at 2 3/4-inches. Glue the frames on to the sides of the cart base, lining up the bottom edge of the white frame to the inside edge of the blue cart frame.
Cut two strips of brown cardstock 1 1/2-inches long by 1/2-inch wide. Fold each strip in half. Pinch the top halves of the roof frames towards each other to form triangular frame. Glue the frame together with the two strips.
Pumpkins:The Halloween Border die set has a row of pumpkins that are the right size to layer onto the cart sides with glue and foam squares.
Jack-O-Lantern: The four-sided jack-o-lantern lights up with an EZ-Light. I created a cube from two strips of clear packaging each folded in half and creased with a bone folder and then folding each half to the middle and creasing so that each strip has four sections to it. Weave one strip over the other to form a cube. Snake the coil of wires of the EZ-Light into the center of the cube.
Position the lighted cube and control piece onto the cart and secure with double sided tape or foam tape. Cut a rectangle of 1 1/2 x 7/8 inches from kraft brown cardstock, center over the control piece and stamp “push here” on the end that has the button.
The large pumpkin die from the Autumn Elements was used to cut out four pumpkins for the jack-o-lantern. The face was cut out using the face insert die from the Halloween Elements set. The pumpkins were inked blended and the ridges outlined with a thin black pen. A green marker was used to color the stems. To lessen light leakage, an orange square was attached to the top of the clear plastic cube and the pumpkin faces attached with foam squares. As part of the final decorations. A small pumpkin from the Skeleton and Bat set was added to the top of the jack-o-lantern.
Roof and Sign: For the roof, the scalloped rectangle from the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set was used with orange and white striped cardstock. (I created my own digital paper.) The sign was created by cutting two of the sentiment oval from the Halloween Charms from black cardstock and glued them onto orange cardstock and fussy cut around the oval frame.
A strip of white cardstock 5-inches long by 1/2-inch wide was folded in half and then the folded end was sandwiched between the two ovals and the ovals glued together. (You now have the equivalent of a large paper brad with two legs.) A slit was cut in the roof fold center for the legs of the sign to slide through and be glued to the underside of the roof.
Cut two of each of the bird dies in the Halloween Elements from black cardstock. Glue the bodies together leaving the legs free. Use the legs as the tabs to glue the birds to the roof ridge on either end of the roof.
Wheels: For the wheels I made a template using middle plain and crosshatched circles from the Circles – Crosshatch set. Cut the plain circle from scrap paper and the place the crosshatch circle die in the middle of the paper circle. Trace around the center of crosshatch die. Fold the paper in half, then half again and once more in half to come up with eight sections of the circle. Using a see-through ruler, mark and draw 5mm wide spokes interesting in the middle of the circle.
Die-cut from dark brown cardstock two plain circles. (Because my cardstock was thin, I cut four circles and glue two together before cutting the spokes.) On the back side of the circles use the paper template to trace the triangles that need to be cute out using a craft knife and straight edge.
Die cut two 1/2 inch circles from black cardstock. (I used the burner dies from the Oven Pop-up set because it was handy. You could use other dies to cover the wheel axle.) Adhere half rounded pearls over the black circles, glue each gem circle to the center of the wheels to make the axle caps.
Glue wheels onto cart’s front posts. Add large pumpkins to hide the cart leg behind the wheel. Additional pumpkins cut from the Autumn Elements (large pumpkin) and Halloween Elements (medium pumpkin) and two black cats from the Skeleton and Bat set, were added to the cart legs.
Finished Measurements: This is a card/gift box is designed to be hand-delivered and measures approximately 8-inches high, 6 1/2-inches wide and 3-inches deep.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #183 whose parameters included a card with ribbon, circus colors, September and hand cut.
I made this card for a family member whose birthday is in September using a fancy fold display template that I had seen in a Die-cutting Essentials magazine a few years ago. I modified the template for an 8.5×11 inch piece of cardstock and to allow for the Karen Burniston Stocking Pop-Up mechanism that I wanted to use in it.
Cardbase
Cardbase: I started with an 8.5×10 inch piece of heavy yellow cardstock. Using a pencil and a T-ruler to mark where horizontal slots need to be cut as well as vertical scoring for the various folds. See photo for measurements. Measure the various sections and cut decorative paper 1/4 inch smaller than the measurement for each section. Glue in place before moving onto the mechanism. (I forgot and had to remove and then re-glue the mechanism.)
Lower MechanismTombstone piece on lower mechanism
Pop-Up Mechanism: (Watch the assembly video for the Stocking Pop-Up located at the bottom of the linked page before starting this portion of the card.) Play with the placement of the mechanism and noise maker using a temporary tape runner before committing to permanent glue. Make sure the noisemaker doesn’t create any catchpoints with the cardbase folds. Add ribbon to the pop-up “tombstone” shape using liquid glue and glue dots before attaching the top cover piece.
Sentiments: I used Chloe’s Happy Birthday dies for the white shadow behind the script words. I sketched out the word “YAY!” on green cardstock and fussy cut the pieces out.
Envelope: The card, when folded, fits into a #10 business envelope but will require extra USA postage for the weight and thickness.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #182 whose parameters included a card with circles, vegetable garden colors, screen element and fuzz.
For this pop-up card for a crafting friend, I converted Karen Burniston’s new Oven Pop-Up and Small Script – Christmas, along with along with a number of her previously released dies into a laundry/crafting room.
Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 cardbase. Each of the inside panels are covered with papers from the Cosy Kitchen paper collection. The front of the card has a computer-generated panel while the card back uses scraps from the inside of the card including the lost sock.
Washer/Dryer:Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page before starting the card. Both the washer and dryer are made the same way with different shaker contents and knobs using the Oven Pop-Up.
I created a double platform by cutting two oven platforms from white cardstock and trimming the sides that come together to a 1/4 inch or less. These cut sections are glued together making sure the tabs are all aligned straight. (Fold on all the score lines with a bone folder before gluing.)
Mark with a pencil the center point of the card fold. Center the double platform and attach the back tabs with glue. Fold the platform and front tabs as shown in the photo and add glue to tabs, close card to attach the platform to floor of card.
Cut two circle frames by using the smallest circle dies in the Circles – Crosshatch set from silver foil cardstock. Cut one of the stove burners from the Oven Pop-Up set and cut it in half for the clasp on the washer/dryer doors.
Cut two stove pieces from glossy white cardstock. Trim off one of the side tabs from each piece as shown in photo. Tape the oven door and window piece in place using packing tape on the backside. Glue the silver doors with clasps onto clear plastic and cut them out. (I used a piece plastic that had been a window in packaging.) Take foam strips and snip along one edge to make them bend easily. Place the snipped foam strips around the edge of two white circles (cut using the larger of the silver frame dies.) Cut socks from the gnome boots in the Gnome and Santa set. Use gel pens to add details to the socks. Glue four socks to the back of each white circle. Add circle confetti to washer shaker and a single black sock to dryer shaker. Glue the silver framed doors to the shaker circles.
Side Tables:Once the stove is attached, you can add the side tables which are made with the cabinet and drawer dies from the Oven Pop-Up. Cut a narrow rectangle in the middle of the long section of the cabinet piece to create the legs. attach to the stove and platform as normal. Pink ink was lightly sponged onto the tabletops and drawers.
TV:The TV set from the Memory Charms die set has had its antenna and feet trimmed off and Nuvo Drops added for knobs. I screen shot a photo from the Craft Roulette episode #182 and resized it to a 1-inch rectangle, print on white paper and die-cut it with the TV screen die.
Decorations: Actual dryer lint fuzz is glued to the top of the blue trash can cut from the Coffee Charms tall coffee cup. The laundry basket is the picnic basket cut from white cardstock covered with clear packing tape and stenciled with a teal permanent marker. A piece of thin white felt is the folded laundry in the basket. Two wall decorations are threaded needle and scissors from the Sewing Charms set. A tiny sweet pea green birthday card is the right table.
Sentiments: The front of the card sentiment “My Head Says Laundry” is computer generated. Inside the “my heart says Craft!” is a combination of die cut letters and tomato red heart with a computer generated “Craft!” (For “my” and “says,” I did word surgery using the words “merry christmas.”) The oval rug with its white label for a personal message come from the Crosshatch Ovals set. Blue ink was used on the die-cut letters and rug to make them standout from their backgrounds.
Envelope: To hint at what’s inside, the sentiment stamp of “Crafting comes before housework in the dictionary. As it should” is stamped in red on the back flap.
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