A Laundry Explosion Box Card for mother’s Day

May 5, 2024May 5, 2024 | ullycatdesigns

This card was made for Craft Roulette #213 whose parameters included for hello project, robust colors, workplace element and mixed media. It is intended for young children to give to their mother.

I wanted to use a new Craft Roulette inspired laundry die and stamp set from Trinity Stamps called Loads of Fun.

Box: From a 12 x12-inch square of cardstock, draw lines every 3 7/8-inches on all sides. Draw a 1/4-inch tab on one side flap. Cut as shown on video. On a 6-inch square of cardstock draw lines 1-inch from edge on all sides. Cut lid as shown on video. Assemble as directed on video.

Washing Machine: Cut from glossy white cardstock one washing machine from the laundry die set. Cut the knobs and buttons from black and silver and glue in place. For the box piece the forms the 3D washing machine, cut a piece 8 1/2 x 2-inches. Fold at 3 1/8-inches, 4 1/2-inches and 7 1/2-inches. Cut a piece that will cover the side of the box from glossy white cardstock. Cut another piece of glossy cardstock the width of the top of the washing machine and the length of the top of the box, plus 1/2-inch for the two 1/4-inch tabs. Assemble as shown in video.

Table: Cut a piece of white cardstock 1×6-inches. Score and fold at 1/4-inches, 1 5/8-inches, 3 1/4-inches, and 4 5/8-inches. Glue tab to other end to form cube. Glue onto washer side and floor. Die-cut, color and assemble laundry soap bottle and box. Using foam squares, attach them to wall atop table.

Basket: Cut four of the laundry basket from the laundry die set in green. Trim off the sides from two of the baskets, fold sides into tabs and glue onto sides of other two basket pieces to form a four-sided box. Cut fabric scraps and form into folded laundry. Glue laundry onto box base and then add glue to inside of basket before placing around folded laundry.

Sentiments: “Loads of Appreciation” and “Thank You” were stamped in black on a white die cut fancy label before being glued onto a box flap. “Happy Mother’s Day” was die cut from a scrap of the blue box cardstock. The “Greetings To My Favorite Domestic Engineer” on the box lid was computer generated.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papertrey Ink – Wafer Thin Metal Dies – Happy Mother’s Day
Spellbinders – Cutting dies – Essential Labels
Trinity Stamps – Die Set – Loads of Fun

Stamps

Trinity Stamps – Clear Stamps – Loads of Fun

Papers

American Crafts – 12×12 inch Single-Sided Papers – 341467
Core’dinations – 12×12 inch Textured 80lb. Cardstock – Candy Shop Canvas
The Paper Cut – 8.5×11 Glossy 10 PT Kromekote Cardstock – White
The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Printed Paper – Random Dot – Robin’s Egg Blue
Silver Matte Cardstock
Clear Plastic Packaging
Black, White and Yellow Cardstock

Ink

StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
Scrapbook.com – Glitter Brush Marker –Deep Blue, Frosty Blue, Red Shimmer
Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black
Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black, Green, Red

Adhesives

Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
Double-Sided Tape – 1/8-inch wide
Foam Squares
Clear Tape

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
Bone Folder
Stamping Blocks
Scissors
Pencil
We R Memories – QuickStick
T-Ruler
Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A
Craft Clips

Miscellaneous

Red & White Checkered Ribbon

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun

April 21, 2024 | ullycatdesigns

This card was made for Craft Roulette #211 whose parameters included good tidings, summer colors, mechanical element and tie closure.

This is a retirement card for someone who loves working with mechanical action.

(Please note that the Tonic Craft Kit 59 used in this card is no longer available. The Karen Burniston dies however are still available and links are provided to them.)

Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase and matching envelope. Each of the four panels were covered with coordinating papers in either watermelon pink or rind green. The circle was cut thru the front panel using the clock dial circle die.

Clock: Using three different green cardstock, they were cut with the main clock base die from the Tonic Craft Kit 59. The darkest green was trimmed to just the bottom and side trims, while the green patterned paper had the clock dial circle cut out and two bottom art-deco corner die-cut as well. Matching up the patterned green piece with the light green piece, the clock dial circle was cut in the light green piece. The dark green trim was attached to the patterned green piece before having a piece of clear plastic packaging adhered with thin double-sided tape to its backside. Sandwiching the plastic between the patterned green piece and light green piece by using double-sided tape again. The clock was glued onto the card front matching up the circle apertures.

Moving Gears: I watched Karen Burniston’s Double Spinner video at the bottom of her Mailbox Pop-Up page before adding the spinning gears pop-up to my card. I switched out gear dies from the Tonic Craft Kit 59 set for her fancy labels and gardening charms, but I followed her technique exactly to create the spinning gears. Gears were cut from steel blue and cooper oxidized foil cardstock.

Sentiments: All the sentiments on the front of the card “Time flies when you’re having fun,” and “Happy Retirement” are from the Tonic Craft Kit 59. All stamped in black ink. The sentiments were stamped before the inside mechanical pop-ups were added. The personal message circle uses a large gear cut in blue oxidized metal foil cardstock (Tonic Craft Kit die) and a circle of pale gray cardstock using Karen Burniston’s Crosshatch Circles die set.

Envelope: The back flap was stamped in black ink “TIME to celebrate.”

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Mailbox Pop-Up – 1192
Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Circles – Crosshatch – 1057
Tonic Studios – Tonic Craft Kit 59 – Clocks & Cogs

Stamps

Tonic Studios – Tonic Craft Kit 59 – Clocks & Cogs

Papers

Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Easter Grass and Gumdrop
Core’dinations – 12×12 inch Single-Sided Paper – Light Green Crosshatch
Craft Consortium – A4 Solid Colour Double-Sided Paper – Gardener’s Delight
Hunkydory – A4 Single-Sided Mirri Cardstock – Oxidised Metals Collection
Keep It Simple – 6×9 Double-Sided Cardstock – Back To Basics Collection Pack – Ruby
Keep It Simple – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Jade Collection Pack – Spearmint: Linen
Gold Foil cardstock
Green Cardstock
Plastic Packaging
Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
Scrapbook.com – Glitter Brush Marker – Key Lime Green and Pretty Pink
Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
Double-Sided Tape -1/8-inch wide
Foam Dots
Glue Dots

Tools

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

Miscellaneous

Organza Ribbon – 1/4-inch wide – Green

Autumn Blessings

October 8, 2019October 31, 2021 | ullycatdesigns

Autumn in much of North America is characterized by the browning, yellowing and sometimes reddening of leaves. The muted, earthy tones are part of the season. Inspired by the “over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go” tune and by a Karen Burniston video on double pivot panel card, I made this Thanksgiving card.

To see video of this card, click here.

The card is designed to be displayed open. The personalized message can be written on the back cover.

To see video of this card, click here.

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies

Paper:

DCWV Textured Cardstock Stack – 12 x 12 inches

Miscellaneous:

Butterfly Halloween

October 1, 2019August 23, 2020 | ullycatdesigns

Angela Poole’s Flutterings -Butterfly die set is the basis of this card. This was the first time I had made this die set. I used a heavy black cardstock from my stash to cut the main pieces of the butterfly mechanism and lightweight orange cardstock scrap for the backing pieces. I watched Angela’s two videos on the assembly of the butterfly card, before attempting my assembly. I used red double-sided tape to adhere the main mechanism piece to the card base. (I cut out a rectangle in the glitter card so that the tape could stick to a smooth card base for a stronger hold.) The lacy wings kept getting caught-up in the movement, so I used tiny dots of glue to adhere them to the orange backing of the wings.

The orange ribbon was added to make the pull tab easier to pull. It opens the wings to reveal a Happy Halloween with tiny pumpkin, both stamped from an older planner stamp set in my stash.

All-in-all a relatively easy interactive mechanism to assemble, but possibly the placement of the body hinders the closing of the wings, a long with their catching on each other’s lacy edges. I’ll have to experiment some with the die set and assembly.

You can view a video of the wings in motion by clicking here.

Simple with a Twist

July 26, 2019November 3, 2019 | ullycatdesigns

Inspiration can be as simple as seeing something that reminds you of another thing. It was a simple as that when I looked at the 6 x6 paper pad in Prima’s Spring Farm House collection. I saw the 12 rectangular images on one page and my mind wondered if they were the same size as the photo frames in Karen Burniston’s Photo Collage Pop-Up die. They were close enough in size to make the mechanism work.

The mechanism is where the twist comes in to play. It has four arms that you can attach flat images to that explode out as you open the card. From the folded close position, the mechanism twists out to display the images. (I watched KB’s assembly video several times to understand how the mechanism works and its assembly before I made my test mechanism to play with and keep stored with the die set.)

It was trial and error when placing the images on the four arms. I used a tape runner as recommended in the assembly video to place the images, test the placement when folded up, move the image several times, rub off adhesive and start over with the placement.

For the front of the card I used on of the journaling postcards that I trimmed down and glued a die-cut “Happy Birthday.”

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Little Things Cling Stamps

Paper

Miscellaneous

American Crafts’ Sticky Thumb Double-sided Super Sticky Red Tape
Tombow Aqua Mono Liquid Glue
½ inch white double-sided score tape
Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive Tape Runner

Bendi-Shadow Boxes

July 22, 2019November 3, 2019 | ullycatdesigns

Bendi-Shadow Boxes are quick to make when using a scene building die set. I built this tree swing example in under 2 hours from design, locating materials from scrap paper stash to die-cutting all the pieces to assembly, using the Xcut “Make Me” die set included in the Homemaker Die Cuts & Digi Stamps All-in-one Die & Digi Stamp Kit.

I cut two pieces of card stock 5 1/2 inches x 4 1/4 inches for the outside pieces and one piece 5 inches x 4 1/4 inches for the inside layer. Next I scored the two outer pieces at 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch, 5 3/8 inches and 5 1/4 inches on each piece. The score marks closest to the inside are mountain folds and the score marks closes to the outside are valley folds.

Next I laid-out my two rectangular nesting dies and decided on the size cuts I wanted for my shadow box openings on one of the 5 1/2 inch outer pieces and the 5 inch middle piece. I used the largest die on the front outside layer. After cutting the front layer, I used it as a template to place the next size smaller die on the 5 inch middle layer.

I decorated my layers before I assembled the layers together. (I did use some foam tape for the grass in front of the fence for an extra layer of dimension.)

Using 1/8 inch red double-sided sticky tape, I ran strips down the inside edges of the outer two pieces.

Peeling only the left back layer red tape, I lined up the inside layer left edge to the back piece left edge and pressed together. I did the same for the back, right edge and the front edges – doing one edge at-a-time for the most control over alignment of edges.

Because the outer layers are longer than the inside layer, they bow out some which allows the card to stand-up.

Here is another example of a bendi-shadow card.

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies

Paper:

Shadow box layers –Bazzill Basics dotted cardstock in two colors – Tahitian Princess and Julep
Flowers and tree leaves DCWS Everyday Essentials Stack of printed paper

Miscellaneous:

Be Adventurous!

May 16, 2019November 3, 2019 | ullycatdesigns

Say yes to adventure. Chase your dreams. Who knows where it will lead you? This is a card that tries to capture all these sentiments and to celebrate achievement.

The inspiration for this card comes a desire to use all of my bicycle dies, but morphed into a card trying to only use one paper set (Chasing Dreams by Maggie Holmes for Crate Paper). The bicycle die set is by Simon Says Stamp and has the wheel as a separate die so you can cut the perfect tire from a separate color and has a separate basket die as well. The balloons, string of lights and banner flags are from one of my favorite die sets by Sizzix and Courtney Chilson. A fine tipped black marker was used to color the bike’s handles, pedals and balloon strings. A white gel pen was used to color in the balloons’ highlights.

While the outside of the card is to suggest the current moment, the inside is to suggest how pleasant the future will be if you chase your dreams and say yes to adventure.

All of the pop-up, stamped, watercolored and die cut images come from the Hero Arts January 2019 My Monthly Hero kit. I had to cut off the top awning of the flower stand and lower it to fit inside the card. I reinforced the back side of the stand with strips of scrap paper before attaching with double-sided tape.

The tiered stand was inspired by a tiered pop up cake by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. Since the die is no longer available, I had to improvise to create the right proportional shelves.

The outside sentiments come from the paper stack while the inside sentiments are from two separate sets. The “you’re wonderful” is stamped and embossed from the Hero Arts set and the ”Celebrate” is die-cut from Momenta Firefly’s Celebrate Happy Birthday die set.

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies

Stamps:

Hero Arts January 2019 My Monthly Hero kit

Paper:

Chasing Dreams by Maggie Holmes for Crate Paper

Miscellaneous:

Potted Flowers Greetings

May 9, 2019September 2, 2021 | ullycatdesigns

A colorful archway of potted plants looking into shaded shelves of plants. What could be more inviting on a hot summer’s day than the cool retreat into a shaded, colorful paradise?

The shadow frames were die cut using the three rectangles from Sizzix’s Courtney Chilston’s Birthday Shadow Box Thinlits set from a set of blue cardstock that progressively gets darker as it goes backwards, just as the light and shades would looking through a doorway on a sunny day.

This card was created using Poppy Stamps’ Spring Pots Shelves, Spring Pots Frame and Tiny Frogs dies. Two full die cuts were made from each of the pots dies – one in white/cream cardstock and one in green. The green die cuts had the rectangular frame cut away from the vine on the frame and the green shelves had the two shelves separated. Using colorful scrapes, additional dies cuts were made of pots and flower blooms. (Hint: Use wax paper over these intricate dies. They will peel off from the back side of the cardstock and take many of the tiny dots and squiggles with them as you peel. Use a poking tool for the rest.)

The green die cuts were glued onto the white/cream die cuts and the colorful pots and blooms were glued down. Using some scrap brown kraft-paper, two narrow strips were cut and glued over the separated pots to form two new shelves that were a quarter of an inch longer on each side.

Stampin’ Up’s “Hello There” stamp and coordinating corner stamp complete the front of the card. (I suggest stamping first before assembling the card.) The inside sentiment is die cut from a Karen Burniston Word set.

Foam tape was used between the four layers placing the tape near the cut out rectangle so that foam layers are not directly above each other so that the card will meet the .25” maximum thickness of U.S. Postal Service.

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies

Poppy Stamps 2174-Spring Pots Shelves

Poppy Stamps 2173 Spring Pots Frame

Poppy Stamps 1781 Tiny Frogs

Sizzix 663581 Courtney Chilston’s Birthday Shadow Box

Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley & Co. 1002 Word Set 1- Greetings

Stamps:

Stampin’Up 147464 Around The Corner

Miscellaneous:

Wax Paper

Scotch Foam Tape

Tombow Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

Crayola Signature Brush & Detail Dual-ended Markers

Paris in Springtime

May 3, 2019November 3, 2019 | ullycatdesigns

What a romantic image of Paris ! When I received the two dies that I used on this card, I looked at the packaging images for ideas for colors and layout and then did some modification to the easel mechanism.

Changing the frame from a hanging charm to a larger flat panel on an easel was as simple as using ½ inch wide, red-sticky-permanent double-sided tape to hold in place the rectangle piece that was cut out for the frame. And adhering the flat panel to the easel.

Because the flat panel is larger than the original frame pull tab, I had to add an extension tab. I used clear removable tape to smooth over the catching point where the extension level changes. In order to be able to fit the card in an A2 envelope, I punched a hole and tied a ribbon to the tab as a pull grip.