Craft Roulette

Monet Waterlilies Inspired Birthday Pop-Up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #321 whose parameters were: gatefold card, Monet colors, natural element and crinkle inkle (inking technique) random. I used Karen Burniston dies and stamps for this slimline (4×8 5/8-inch) card.

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

Cardbase: Cut a 12×8 5/8-inch rectangle of green cardstock. Score at 2-inches, 4-inches, 8-inches and 10-inches. Fold as shown in the video above. Using the fourth smallest die from the Circles – Crosshatch set, cut four circles into the double gate fold sides as shown in the video.

Crinkle Inkle: Using bubble wrap as an inking tool, add blue ink texture to the closed front of the card. (Make sure to put scrap paper inside the card to mask the back panel from ink.)

Window Frames: Cut four circular frames from blue cardstock using the fourth and fifth smallest dies from the Circles – Crosshatch set. Using double-sided tape, attach the frames to both sides of a piece of acetate and trim the plastic to fit frames. Glue frames onto card front as shown in video.

Flower Pop-Ups: (Watch the assembly video for the Twist Flower Pop-Up at the bottom of the linked page.) Cut two of the Twist Flower Pop-Up mechanism die from green cardstock and assemble as shown in the videos above. Cut two of the large flowers, centers and stitched rings. Assemble and attach to the pop-up mechanisms as shown in the video. From the Fun Flowers die set. Cut four green leaves and a variety of small flowers and flower centers. Decorate the large flower centers with a smaller flower and use the remaining small flowers for the belly band label.

Sentiments: The front, belly band sentiment “Wishing You Sunshine and Rainbows” and the inside “Happy Birthday” were stamped in black ink using the Rainbow Greetings stamp set. The Circles – Crosshatch dies were used to cut the labels for the sentiments.

Belly Band: Wrap loosely around the center of the folded closed card a 1 ½-inch x 8 ½-inch strip of yellow – green vellum. Making sure that the strip will easily slide off the card, trim and glue the ends together. Attach the sentiment circle decorated with tiny flowers over the band glued seam.

Card Back with belly band

Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business (4. x 9-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • American Crafts – Core’dination – 12×12 inch 80lb Textured Cardstock – Candy Shop (Green, Blue, Pink)
  • Grafix – 8.5×11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film
  • 8.5×11 Yellow-Green Vellum
  • Majenta, Pink, White and Yellow Cardstock

Ink

  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Bubble Wrap
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • We R – Precision Press Mini – Stamping Platform
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape

Miscellaneous

  • Trinity Stamps – Rainbow Sparkle Spots Confetti Embellishments

Hello, I’m Thinking Of You

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #319 whose parameters were: 4 Bar (3 5/8×4 7/8-inch) card, wedding colors, sweet(s) element and a touch of gray random. I used a Spellbinder’s 3D embossing folder and stamp sets by Karen Burniston and Scrapbook.com.

Cardbase: I took a 7×5-inch rectangle of lightweight cardstock and scored and folded in half to form a side-fold 3.5×5-inch card.

HELLO: The front panel of the card was embossed with the Spellbinder’s Beveled Hello A2 Cardfront 3D embossing folder. (I spritzed the lightweight white cardstock with water before I ran it through in the embossing folder.) NNext I trimmed it down to fit the cardbase and added a touch of gray by using a glitter gloss marker on the bottom bevel sides of the letters. Tiny polymer clay peppermint and swirled sweets were glued on for accents.

Sentiments: The inside sentiment and hearts come from Scrapbook.com’s A Little Reminder stamp set and were stamped in pink and gray inks.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) envelope with “Life is Sweet” stamped on the back flap in pink. Stamp is from Karen Burniston’s Sweet Treats set.

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Materials Used:

Embossing Folders

  • Spellbinders – 3D Embossing Folder – Beveled Hello A2 Cardfront

Stamps

Papers

  • White 65lb Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Gray Flannel & Rose Bud
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

Quilted Square Interactive Birthday Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #318 whose parameters were: Ardyth’s Square (4.25-inch square) card, May garden colors, textile element and three layer random. I used Relatively Thoughtful digital papers as well as dies and stamps from Concord & 9th, Essentials by Ellen, Scrapbook.com, The Greetery & Waffle Flower.

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

Cardbase: I took an 8.5×8.5-inch square of lightweight cardstock and scored and folded at 4.25-inchs on each side and along one of the diagonal corner to corner. (See the video above for directions.) Decorate front and back with quilt blocks and the sides cover with 4.25-inch squares of colored paper cut in half diagonally.

Quilt Blocks: Using the Scrapbook.com Mini Quilt Block die set, cut six of all the die pieces from solid color decorative paper and another six sets from patterned paper. (I printed all my digital papers on thin computer paper.) Use a fine-tipped black marker to add stitching lines.

Sewing Notions: Using The Greetery’s Notionable die set, cut one pair scissors from silver foil cardstock. (I cut a second set from white as my silver cardstock was thin and tended to curl.) Cut the thimble, needle and seven pins also from silver cardstock. From white cut the three pieces for the spool of thread and color using a light brown for the spool and light gray for the thread. Leave the thread label white, but highlight the writing with a fine-tipped black marker. Cut the curling piece of thread from white and color light gray. (I used scraps of solid colored cardstock for the pincushion and pin heads.) The card of pins uses an image printed on cardstock from the Relatively Thoughtful Walter Crane In The Garden A4 digital paper collection.

Sentiments: The outside stamped sentiments of “You’re sew sweet” and “Made with love” are from Essentials by Ellen – Old Spool. The inside sentiments come from Concord & 9th’s Sew Lovely stamp and die sets as well as Waffle Flower’s Quilted Hug stamp set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) envelope with “What’s sewing on?” stamped on the back flap. Stamp is from Essentials by Ellen – Old Spool.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • OLO Marker – Natural Gray 3
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dark Wild Honey

Adhesives

Tools

Giant Birthday Cake Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #317 whose parameters were: A9 project, florist shop colors, birthday(s) element and something from your MESK (messy desk). I used This Calls for Confetti stencils, dies and stamps for this 5.5×8.5-inch card.

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

Cardbase: I took an 8.5×11-inch sheet of single-sided floral cardstock (110lb) and scored and fold it in half to form a side-fold 5.5×8.5-inch A9 card. Next, I glued two solid pink 4.5×7.5-inch mats to the center of the front and back panels. On top of these two panels I glued pink floral 4×7 rectangles.

Sentiments: The sentiments are all on a single stamp (Alice’s Story Birthday Sentiments) that goes on over the stenciled cake layers. Then the cake is die-cut using the Three Tier Cake Layering Stencils & Die.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inches) envelope with some of the cake sentiments stamped on the back flap using Alice’s Story Birthday Sentiments.

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Materials Used:

Die & Stencils

Stamps

Papers

  • Park Lane Paperie – 8.5×11-inch Single-Sided 110lb Cardstock – Roses
  • Pink and White Cardstock
  • Catalog (6×9-inches) envelope – White

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Pinkfresh – Metallic Pearls – Gold
  • Trinity Stamps – Sparkle Hearts – White

Happy Mail Pop-Up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #316 whose parameters were: diagonal cut project, calm colors, post(er)(s) element and hexagon. I used Karen Burniston dies and stamps for this stage pop-up card.

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

Pop-Up Stage Base: (Watch the video above for assembly instructions.) Cut two base pieces from the Stage Pop-Up die set and two side pieces from the Grass Stage Add-Ons set.

Mailbox & Fence: (Watch the video above and the video for Love Notes – A Pop-Up Valentine for assembly instructions.) Uses Karen Burniston’s Mailbox Pop-Up and Fence Add-On die sets.

Sentiments: The sentiments are stamped on 1-inch squares of thin white paper using a variety of ink colors and the sentiments are from Karen Burniston’s Love Notes and Photo Memories stamp sets as well as Concord & 9th’s Happy Mail set. The pop-up’s bottom sentiment is from the Concord & 9th set while “PUSH” is from Karen Burniston’s Stage Scenes.

Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5×7-inches) envelope with “Happy Mail” stamped on the back flap using the stamp from Concord & 9th’s Happy Mail.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Simple Stories – 12×12 inch Double Sided Cardstock – Garden Party Collection – Tea Garden
  • Brown, Green, Reds and White Cardstock
  • White Copier Paper
  • Silver Matte Cardstock
  • A7 (5×7-inches) Envelope – Ivory

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Espresso Truffle, Gray Flannel, Paris Dusk, Rich Cocoa, Rose Bud & Tuxedo Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Craft Clips
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Stamping Platform
  • Scissors
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape
  • Tweezers
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Pop-Up Hello Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #315 whose parameters were: “hello” project, strawberry field colors, hop(s) hopping element and big letter(s). I used Karen Burniston dies and stamps for this stage pop-up card.

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

Pop-Up Stage Base: (Watch the video above for assembly instructions.) Cut two base pieces from the Stage Pop-Up die set and two side pieces from the Grass Stage Add-Ons set.

Hopping Bunnies: (Watch the video above for assembly instructions.) Cut four of the hopping bunnies from brown using the Leaping Animals die set. Two of the four bunnies will be reversed. Cut two of the underbelly die from white. On the two front facing bunnies, use the stencil feature of the bunny die to ink in the facial features in black and the ears, tail and highlights in eyes with white gel pen. On the back two bunnies only color the tails.

Sentiments: “Hello” is die cut in red and pink using the Hello die set and dots added using a fine tipped pin. Stage Scenes stamps set was used for the “Push” on the bottom of the stage. “Just a little note” comes from the Music Sentiments stamp set. “Hop Hop Hooray!” is from the Bug Greetings stamps.

Envelope: The card fits into an A6 (4.75×6.5-inches) envelope with “Miles apart but close in Heart” stamped on the back flap using the stamp from Stage Scenes.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Ciao Bella – 6×6-inch Double-Sided Paper – Aesop’s Fables
  • Keep It Simpe – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Jade Collection Pack
  • Red and White Cardstock
  • A6 (4.75×6.5-inches) Envelope – Cream

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Stamping Platform
  • Scissors
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape
  • Tweezers
  • We R – Precision Press Mini – Stamping Platform
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Which Came First The Chicken or The Egg Birthday Card

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I like discovering new craft companies by perusing the Spin Sponsor section of Craft Roulette. That’s how I found this amusing stamp set of snarky birds from The Rabbit Hole Designs. I pared it with a nested egg shaped die set from Simon Says Stamp!

Watch the video below to see how the card was made.

Cardbase: I used a 65lb sheet of white cardstock folded in half and die-cut the largest egg in the Simon Says Stamp Basic Shapes Nested Eggs die set. The die was placed with fold on the left side and the left edge of the die was slightly over the fold. I cut two eggs from decorative paper to cover the front and back of the card, gluing the back on first, trimming off the edge that extended over the fold before gluing the front egg onto the cardbase. (I stamped my inside sentiments before gluing the outside pieces onto the cardbase.)

Birds: Using black ink and The Rabbit Hole Designs Squawk Talk set, I stamped the images and front sentiment on to white cardstock. Next, using Nuvo Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils, I colored the images and used a water brush to smooth out the pigment. The images were then fussy cut out. I used 1mm thick foam tape, to pop-up the images and the sentiment on the card front.

Sentiments: From The Rabbit Hole Designs stamp set, “Happy Bird-day” and “I’m sorry did I roll my eyes out loud?” are stamped in black ink onto the inside of the cardbase. (I find it easier to do this stamping before finishing the outside of the card.)

Envelope: Using a A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) envelope I stamped “you’re egg-cellent” on the back in brown ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Simon Says Stamp! – Steel Dies – Basic Shapes Nested Eggs – 1579sd

Stamps

  • The Rabbit Hole Designs – Clear Stamps – Squawk Talk – TRH-259

Papers

  • Laserowe Love – 12×12-inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Vintage Trip by Renata Maslyk
  • White Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Hero Arts– Alcohol-marker friendly ink – Intense Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Scrapbook.com – Foam Tape – 1mm thick

Tools

  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Water Brush

Zoyfold Christmas Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #314 whose parameters were: a zoyfold (z-fold with joyfold) card, Easter egg colors, seal(s)(ing) element and 4-square. I created this 5-inch square card using Emily Moore Designs dies.

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

Cardbase: Watch the assembly video above for how to create the zoyfold card base. The z-fold is made from an 111×5-inch sheet of white cardstock, scored and folded at 3-inches and 6-inches. The triangular joyfold card is a square cut using the largest scalloped rectangle die in the Emily Moore Designs’ Decorative Sentiments Dies set.

Decorations: I used scraps of Anna Griffin Paisley paper to cover the card. The wax seal & ribbon uses Spellbinder’s Autumn wax bead mix, Sam Calcott’s Made to Surprise Christmas wax seal stamps, and the large fishtail banner from Emily Moore Designs’ Decorative Sentiments Dies. two small magnets from Scrappy Tails were glued and taped on to the underside of the seal to hold the card shut.

Sentiments: While the wax seal has “Merry Christmas” on it, the inside banner has “Peace & Joy.” The seal stamper and my wax seal stamp kit are by Sam Calcott’s Made to Surprise, while the banner sentiment comes from the Spellbinder’s Design A Plaid BetterPress set. The banner base is a die in the Emily Moore Designs’ Decorative Sentiments Dies.

Card Back

Envelope:  The card is thick because of the wax seal and would be hand delivered.

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Java Joe’s Coffee Cafe Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #313 whose parameters were: a bridge card, salad colors, “starts with J” element and swipe(s)(ing). I created this 4.25×5.375-inch A2 card using Honey Bee Stamps and dies.

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

Cardbase: Watch the assembly video above for how to create the back bit of cardbase from a 4.25×5.875-inch rectangle scored at .25 on each short side. Cut two 6×6-inch pieces of patterned paper into eight 1.5-inch strips to act as the bridge pillars to connect the coffee bar to the back card base.

Coffee Bar: There are lots of small decorative pieces in the Honey Bee Lovely Layers: Coffee Bar die set. (See the Layer Guide to determine how they go together.) Cut four of the large bar die from red. Cut four of the awning from green and four of the awning fringe from a cream mica sprayed cardstock.

Signs: Swipe the sign dies with brown ink cube before die-cutting. Cut two of the large sign die and four of the small coffee sign die. (I cut one of the large sign and did not ink it to create my JAVA JOE’S sign using a fine line marker.)

Sentiments: The “May your coffee be as sweet as you” on the inside of the card and the “How have you bean?” come from the Honey Bee You Had Me At Coffee stamp set.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) size envelope with a stamped sentiment and two tiny die cuts of a coffee pot and and a bag of coffee beans both colored with alcohol markers.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Honey Bee Stamps – Lovely Layers Dies – Coffee Bar

Stamps

  • Honey Bee Stamps – Clear Stamps – You Had Me At Coffee

Papers

  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11-inch Cardstock – Cranberry
  • My Favorite Things – 6×6-inch Single-Sided Cardstock – Finishes and Textiles
  • Stampin’ Up – 8.5×11-inch Cardstock – Tea Room
  • Brown, Cream, Gray, Green, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye Ink – Rich Cocoa
  • OLO Marker – Dragon Fruit, Muscat Grape, Neutral Gray 1,3,5,7,9, Raspberry
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Brown
  • Pigma – Mircon 08 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Green
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends – Light Copper Clay, Dark Wild Wheat, Light Daffodil Delight
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Write – Chocolate Chip

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Pencil
  • Tweezers