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Bon Voyage and Smooth Seas

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s January 2025 release of eight new dies and four new clear stamps sets. For this Bon Voyage card I used several of the new sets including: Ocean Edges and Cruise Ship Add-On along with the previously released Boat Pop-Up and Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch die sets and the new Cruise Greetings stamp set. The new release will be available on January 27, 2025.

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

Cardbase: Using a 8.5×5.5-inch rectangle of double-sided patterned cardstock, fold rectangle in half to form a 4.25-inch wide by 5.5-inch tall side fold card. Decorate the inside with wavy ripples using the Ocean Edges dies. (I choose to let the cardbase paper pattern be one shade of the ocean waves while the other waves are cut from decorative cardstock with white water ripples on them. If you make several layers of waves the card will be very thick and hard to close. If this happens use the special die in the Cruise Ship Add-On set to cut two slots on either side of the fold to slide a paper clip through to hold the card open.)

Cruise Ship: Follow the directions to assemble the basic Boat Pop-Up (Assembly video at the bottom of the die set’s linked page.) Watch the video above for how to assemble the Cruise Ship Add-Ons. (I had an issue the first time I glued in the ship to the card. So, there are also tips on how to fix bent U-support pieces and ship’s tabs in the video.)

Sentiments: The inside stamped sentiments are from the Cruise Greetings stamp set and the fancy labels are the smaller label die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set. Decorative paper journaling cards are the outside card sentiments.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope with an anchor and chain glued to the back flap. The anchor is from the Cruise Add-Ons die set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Bon Voyage – Bouy Bash
  • Carta Bella – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Bon Voyage – Journaling Cards
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
  • Blue and Yellow Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

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

Miscellaneous

  • Cotton Ball

A Pop-Up Tag Card with a Nautical Theme

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #248 whose parameters included a tag(s) , Disney colors, January element, and branch (es) or (ing). I used a Craft Roulette stamp set and two Karen Burniston dies die sets.

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

Cardbase:  Using Karen Burniston’s Tag Book Pop-Up die set, I cut two of the large tag frames from heavy weight light blue cardstock and two more from darker blue lightweight cardstock. The rectangular hinge die I cut once from light blue cardstock. The dark blue pieces I trimmed a 1/16-inch off all edges and then glued the dark blue on top of the light blue. The hinge was glued onto the inside of the light blue panels. (Watch Karen’s assembly video for her Tag Book Pop-Up.) You can cut two of the large tags from patterned paper to cover over the hinge on the inside. (It is easier to do the patterned paper background now than after you’ve glued in the yellow pop-up piece as I show in the process video above.) There are a number of decorator dies that come in the Tag Book Pop-Up Set such as the chain rope and hole protectors.

Pop-Up Panels: Cut two of the inside die piece from lightweight yellow cardstock. Cut two sets of the decorating strips die from dark blue. Follow the assembly instructions in her video.

Nautical Elements: The nautical elements of a ship, life preserver, anchor and ship’s wheel are all die cut and stenciled using dies from Karen Burniston’s Cruse Charms. (You can watch Karen’s assembly video for these charms at the bottom of this linked page Cruse Charms.) The chain rope borders and dark blue background mats are all dies in the Tag Book Pop-Up die set. The tags have red and white baker’s twine tied to them.

Sentiments:   The “Happy Birthday” and HBD sign are stamps in the Craft Roulette Funn Friend #1 stamp set. The “HBD” letters and yellow shade were cut using the stamp set’s coordinating dies.

Envelope:  The card fits into a purchased A6 (4.5x 6-inches) size envelope or larger.

Below is the Craft Roulette Community Showcase show on which I originally made this card.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Craft Roulette – Funn Sentiments Clear Stamps – #1

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Harbor
  • Graphic 45 – 12×12 Double-Sided Pattern and Solids Paper – Let’s Get Cozy
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
  • Dark Blue, Red and Yellow Cardstock

Ink and Watercolors

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Watercolor Pencils – Hickory Smoke
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Red & Yellow
  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Ink Pad – Real Red

Adhesives

Tools

  • Spellbinders – Platinum Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Waterbrush

Miscellaneous

  • Red & White Baker’s Twine

Ahoy! A Nautical Hello

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I am enchanted with Sabrina Leavell‘s new nautical collection of pop-up stand cards. (See more pop-ups – Life Preserver and Ship’s Wheel by clicking on them.)

For this pop-up 3D card, I used products from Scrappy Tails’ new Nautical 2023 June Collection.

Base: Stamp on kraft paper the Caribbean Map Stamp. (To see the map colored with its coordinating layering stencils look at A Map To The Caribbean.) Cut two of the Pop Up Stand from the map. Train the folds on each piece and glue tabs with slot for rubber band together. Add rubber band. (I used a #12 band.)

Anchor: Cut two anchors from gold cardstock and two anchors from kraft cardstock using the large die from the Anchor die set. Trim the rope pieces from the gold anchors. Using the rope pieces in the die set, cut two sets of ropes from kraft cardstock. With a sponge dauber, ink the rope pieces to create shading. Glue the rope pieces to the kraft cardstock anchors. Next, glue gold anchors in place.

Sentiments: Three of the six hot foil banners in the Nautical Banner hot foil plates set were used – “Lets sail-ebrate!” and “Waving Hello.” (I usually do batch hot foiling with my Spellbinders’ Glimmer Foil System because it takes time to set-up, heat-up and cool-down.) The sentiment banners are attached to the anchors with foam squares after being cut out using the coordinating dies. “Ahoy!” was cut from navy blue cardstock from the Set Sail paper pad three times using a bonus gift die. Each “Ahoy!” was glued in place on the base and envelope. Gems and pearls from the Set Sail Card Kit were added to each anchor.

Envelope: The card folds flat to fit into an A7 envelope that I decorated the back flap with the the remaining “Ahoy!” and a scrap of gold rope.

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Materials Used:

Dies & Foiling Plates

Stamps

Papers

Foils:

  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil – Polished Brass

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Vintage Photo

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors
  • Spellbinders -Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders – Quick Trimmer

Miscellaneous