This card was made for Craft Roulette #265 whose parameters included gift card, train colors, science element, and add a flower. I used a Craft Roulette stamp set and three 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 oxidized blue mirror cardstock and two more from oxidized copper-colored mirror cardstock. The rectangular hinge die I cut once from white cardstock.
Pop-Up Panels: I glued my thin decorated paper to a piece of thin white cardstock and let dry before cutting out the Flower Pivot Panels piece. (Follow the assembly instructions in her video on the die set’s linked page.) The six small flowers are cut from solid colored cardstock scraps using the dies from the same die set as the panels.
Sentiments: The framed “Happy Birthday” on the tag front is from the Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons die set. The stamped “itty bitty gift” on the back tag pocket is in brown ink using the Craft Roulette Funn Sentiments #01 stamp set.
Envelope: The card fits into a purchased A6 (4.5x 6-inches) size envelope or larger.
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Materials Used:
Dies
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons – 1276
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Flower Pivot Panels – 1160
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Tag Book Pop-Up – 1023
Stamps
- Craft Roulette – Funn Sentiments Clear Stamps – #01
Papers
- Hunkydory – A4 Mirri Sheets of Cardstock – Oxidised Metals Collection
- Hot Off The Press – Paper Pizazz – 12×12 Single-Sided Paper – Burgundy Collage
- My Favorite Things – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
- Green, Orange, Red and Yellow Cardstock
Ink
- Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Rich Cocoa
- Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
- Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black
Adhesives
- Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
- Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
- Double-Sided Tape – 1/2, 1/4 1/8 inch wide
Tools
- Spellbinders – Platinum Die Cutting Machine
- Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
- i-crafter – Shim
- Paper Trimmer
- Stamping Platform
- LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
- Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
- Scissors
- Paper Masking Tape
- Tweezers
- We R Memories – QuickStick
Miscellaneous
- Cording or Twine 8-inches long
Using Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the images on white cardstock, I colored them with using watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. Once the colors were dry, I used a silver gel pen to color all the chrome trim on the bus and hubcaps. Using the matching dies, I cut the animals and bus out. I cut a second bus out to act as a backing for the bus. I had colored and cut a set of spare tires, so I cut away the tires on the colored bus so I could add dimension of the tires being beneath the bus.
Next I played with the placement of the animals in the bus and once satisfied with their placement, I glued them to the backside of the blue bus. For the cake rack and the monkey, I had to add small slips of cardstock for supports for the foam tape that adhered them to the bus frame. The koala bear was also foam taped to the back bus using the die cut door opening as my placement guides. The tires were glued flat to the backing bus’s wheels. (And while I toyed with the idea of making the wheels on the bus spin – mimicking the children’s song – I deciding against it.) Doubled sided foam bits from my stash were sandwiched between the two bus layers for dimension. Baker’s twine was taped to the back of the colored balloons and poked between the bus layers and glued.
Using Stampin’Up Dapper Denim blue ink I stamped both outside “For You on your birthday” sentiment on white cardstock and then the large “Happy Birthday” inside the card. The “For You” I heat embossed with sparkly snow embossing powder which added sparkle, but embossed clear.
On the top inside panel I added another Art impression’s stamp of a tricycle riding elephant that I had colored and fussy cut out with its hat flying off.
The completed card has the bus doors being able to be opened to shoe the koala bear.
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