Altenew

Gilded Pop-up Birthday Cards

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Needing some birthday cards and wanting to try out some brass colored Shimmer Relief Paste from Altenew, I made these stenciled-with-paste, card fronts and embellished them with ribbon and a Karen Burniston“hello” two-piece die cut.  Inside is a Karen Burniston pop-up greeting and a Craft Roulette inspired verse.

Cardbase: I used purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbases that I stenciled the fronts with Shimmer Relief Paste and stencils by Honey Bee Stamps (Scattered Seeds) and Scrapbook.com (Hearts). The card backs feature a single balloon from the Big Birthday Charms die set.

Pop-Up: Watch the assembly video for the Katherine Label. Stamp the verse inside the card before adding the mechanism. (I found that gluing the bottom word onto the mechanism worked best to avoid catchpoints, including the two added balloons.)

Sentiments:  All the inside die cut sentiments used on the card come Karen Burniston designs including the Katherine Label mechanism that pops the “Happy Birthday” up with its Big Birthday Charms balloons. The stamped verse is from Craft Roulette’s Funn Sentiments #01.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A7 (5x 7-inches) size envelope stamped with “HBD” on the back flap from Craft Roulette’s Funn Sentiments #01.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stencils

  • Honey Bee Stamps – 6×6-inch Plastic Stencil – Scattered Seeds
  • Scrapbook.com – 6×8-inch Plastic Stencil – Hearts

Stamps

  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – Funn Sentiments #01

Papers

  • Blues and Orange Foiled Cardstock
  • Gold Matte Paper – Junk Mail
  • Black, Kraft and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 (5×7-inches) Cardbases and Envelopes – Kraft

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer Brush – Glitter Gloss
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

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

Miscellaneous

  • Artistry by Altenew – Shimmer Relief Paste – Brass
  • Ribbons – White & Gold 1/2  – 3/4-inch wide

Orange Ornament Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #219 whose parameters included an anniversary project, salad colors, “new” element and a folded corner.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Altenew – Die Set – Orange Blossom
  • Spellbinders – Cutting Dies – Fluted Classics Circles

Stamps

  • Altenew – Clear Stamp and Die – Mini Delight: Bee Kind
  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – The Basics
  • Riley & Co – Funny Bones – Rubber Stamp – Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun

Papers

  • Greens, Oranges and White Cardstock

Ink & Embossing Powder

  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitivity Saturated Ink – Sunbeam
  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

  • Green and White Gingham Ribbon
  • Florist Wire

Modern Holiday Hearth

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This is the third card in the Fireplace Christmas Card series.

Modern, clean and simple design are what this holiday card is all about. Inspiration comes from Altenew’s Modern Fireplace die set which creates a layered fireplace with a traditional mantelpiece, herringbone brickwork and an embossed firebox. An add-on set of Mantel Décor -Winter offers the wreath, bow and candlesticks. The burning logs and grate are part of the Fireplace set.

Cardbase: I started with an A2 size kraft cardstock base (4.25 x 5.5 inches when closed) and covered the outsides two panels with patterned cardstock.

Fireplace: For the fireplace mantel, I used a textured metallic gray cardstock, cutting the mantel shelf piece twice and the main piece once. The mantel shelf I also cut once from a heavy cardboard piece of junk mail. With the herringbone brick layer, I used a terra cotta piece of cardstock covered with clear packing tape to die-cut the piece. A dark gray piece of cardstock was used for the firebox which was distressed with white water-soluble crayon. To assemble follow the directions on the video on the link page. I glued a strip of white copier paper between the firebox layer and the brick layer just at the top, to give the mantel shelf piece an additional place to be attached to besides the top edge of the mantel base.

I cut the two flames and log pieces from white cardstock and colored them with markers and glitter ink. After coloring, I glued the layering pieces together and added the tiny black grate.

Decorations: The decorations on the card are minimal with two tall candlesticks in teal blue with white candles. All of these pieces were cut once from a heavy cardboard piece of junk mail and a second time from colored cardstock. The wreath was cut once from a heavy cardboard piece of junk mail and colored with a red marker. The bow was cut twice from teal with the knot being fussy cut out of the second piece.

Sentiments: I stamped the “Holiday Fun” before I assembled the card onto the card front. The sentiment was part of an Altenew stamp set that came in a crafting magazine from 2020. Inside the card I used the same teal cardstock from the mantel decorations to die cut “Happy holidays.”

Envelope: For the flap of the envelope, I used Altenew’s Mini Brownstone stamp set with two shades of red ink and two shades of brown ink to stamp the suggestion of what the outside of the home looks like. I finished off the scene with a .01 mm black pen to create a tree, windowpanes, sidewalk and fence.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Crate Paper – 6×6 Single-Sided Patterned Paper Pad – Cool Kid
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11 Cardstock 100 lb – Terra Cotta
  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock 80 lb – Mushroom
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Teal, White and Black Cardstock Scraps
  • A2 Cardbase and Envelope – Kraft

Ink

  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad – Cherry Cobler, Early Espresso, Misty Moonlight, Real Red, Soft Suede
  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink- Party Collection – All That Jazz\
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Crayon – Picket Fence
  • Recollections – Watercolor Crayons – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black, Brown, Red
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Spectrum Noir – Sparkle Glitter Brush Pen – Firefly

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Scor- Tape – Double-Sided Tape -1/8-inch wide

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth
  • Scissors