Craft Roulette

Celebrate with Cupcakes!

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #172 whose parameters included: Z-fold card, OLD, any colors and something from my mesk (messy desk.)

For this mini-slimline card, I used Karen Burniston’s dies to created a three panel accordion card with cupcakes. The main dies used are Cupcake Add-ons and Landscape Rectangle Accordion with decorations from Paper Frames Pop-Up and Happy Hour Charms.

Accordion Frame: (Watch assembly video at the bottom of link page.) Cut three frames from heavy white cardstock using the Landscape Rectangle Accordion set. Trim the rectangle panel to just a pivot post. Cut a total of six frames from patterned papers and cut out the pivot panels and tabs from all to have decorative frames. Glue the white frames together as shown in video. Adhere the decorative frames. Trim off unused tab.

Cupcake Panels: (Watch assembly video at the bottom of link page.) Cut four of the cupcake panel die from the Cupcake Add-ons set from white cardstock. Cut a total of 15 of the cupcake icing piece from different papers. (I cut six from three different papers coating the yellow and orange papers with a glitter gloss. the sprinkles were die cut into the icing piece and colored with fine-tipped markers and gel pens.) Cut a total of 15 of the cupcake paper piece from different papers. Using die, stencil shadows onto cupcake papers. The sprinkles die and cherry decoration dies are included in the Cupcake Add-ons. The orange slice is from the Happy Hour Charms set. Adhere cupcakes to fronts of three of the white panels. Cut fourth panel apart into thee separate cupcake outlines. Glue decorated panels to pivot posts on frames. Decorate backs of panels using the white cupcake outlines to cover the pivot posts and the remaining six cupcakes to cover ends of panels. Glue the panels together using tabs. trim off unused tab.

Decorations: The ribbon streamers are in the Cupcake Add-ons set along with the hearts. The stars and circles come from the Paper Frames Pop-Up. Strips of decorative papers were also used from my scrap bag.

Sentiment: The white cupcake panels on the back are for either personal messages or the heat embossed happy birthday sentiment. When the card is closed the main sentiment is visible.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Waffle Flower – Clear Stamps – Sweet Sentiments – 271296

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 6×6 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Happy Crafting by Steven Duncan
  • Solid and Patterned Paper Scraps
  • White Heavy Cardstock 110 lb

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Saltwater Taffy and Salty Ocean
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitively Saturated Ink – Citrine and Sunbeam
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Red and Yellow
  • Gel Pen – Pink
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Nuvo – Aqua Simmer – Glitter Gloss
  • Papercrafting Society – Matte Metallic Embossing Powder – Gold

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors
  • Craft Knife
  • Heat Tool

A Classy Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #169 whose parameters included: see-thru card, rustic garden colors, fashion element and a hexagon.

I made this card using all Concord & 9th dies and stamps. (See other shop cards.)

Cardbase: For this A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) card start with a piece of white cardstock 8.5×5.5-inches and scored and folded in half at 4.25-inches.  Cover the back of the card base with white brick paper.

Shop Front: Watch an assembly video to get the basics on the assembly. Cut the shop front from white brick paper. (My paper was double-sided with red and white bricks on the back side.) Fold on score lines as directed in video. Decorate and add window acetate before attaching to cardbase. I used white and blue cardstock to cut the side posts and just blue for the panel below the windows. I cut the planters from white cardstock and brushed gray ink over them to add shape to them. The greenery is peppered with tiny red flowers made with a red gel pen. The planters are adhered and popped up on the shop front with thin foam squares.

Shop Front Door: I decided to make the door window see-thru too, so I played with positioning the door and its windowpane die on the shop front. I only cut the panes into the front. Cut the door with pane die taped together with the door die and the decorative panel from blue cardstock. Ink edges of the decorative panel before gluing to bottom of door. (I used a white gel pen to freehand the lines on the panel.) I stamped the open sign (Fashion Shoppe Stamp set) and die-cut the sign base from white cardstock coloring string with a yellow marker. Die cut the door handle and plate from silver foil card and adhere to door side.

Shop Front Window: Cut a piece of acetate 4×5.25-inches. Use double-sided tape around all the window and door openings on the back side of the shop front.

Shop Assembly: Using double side tape, adhere bottom tab on shop front to bottom edge of front panel on cardbase. Cut a piece of decorative paper (I used a hexagon paper) 4.125×5.5-inches and adhere over the shop front tab and line-up with card fold. (I cut an additional hexagon strip to cover the top tab.) Decorate the inside of the shop before adhere top tab of the shop front . (I didn’t remember to decorate first and had to use tweezers to place all my shop pieces inside the shop.)

Watch fashion shop dies assembly video before constructing your outfits and merchandise table. (I used the mirror die to cut backdrops for my dress frames.)

Using double-sided tape on the front side of the shop front upper tab, adhere to card base as shown in the assembly video.

Awning: Die cut the shop awning from striped paper and fold along score lines. Glue the die-cut “Boutique” to middle of awning. I adhered the backside of the awning top tab with thin foam tape to the top of the card base.

Sentiments: The sentiment inside of “You’re classy from head to toe,” is from the Fashion Shoppe Stamp Set and stamped in a turquoise blue ink on a 4×5.25-inch piece of white cardstock. The sentiment piece was matted with a 4.25×5.5-inch piece of blue printed cardstock (backside of hexagon print.)

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 envelope. To give a hint as to what’s inside, a pair of shoes and a hat were glued to the back envelope flap.

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

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – 6×6 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Brick Textures
  • My Favorite things – 6×6 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Finishes and textiles EP-96
  • Honey Bee Stamps – 6×6 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Bee Bliss
  • Recollections – 5×7 Embossed Solids – Neutrals
  • Colored Cardstock Scraps
  • Matte gold Cardstock
  • Silver Foiled Cardstock
  • Heavy White Cardstock for cardbase
  • A2 Blue Envelope

Ink

  • Red Gel Pen
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Point – Yellow
  • Ranger – Distress Crayon – White
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Ranger – Distress Ink – Lost Shadow
  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink – Party Collection – All That Jazz

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStik
  • Scissors
  • Stamping Blocks/ Weights
  • Bone Folder
  • Blending Brush
  • Craft Mat
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth

Miscellaneous

  • Dura-Lar – .005 Clear Film – Acetate

Easter Card For A Child

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #168 whose parameters included a kid’s card, citrus colors, a spring scene and something metallic or foil. Maymay was the guest crafter and talked about her young nephew who writes books and has a series about Evil Chicken. Her card included Evil Chicken and she showed how to make him from scraps of cardstock.

This card was made using all Karen Burniston dies.

Cardbase: For this gatefold A7 (5×7-inches) card I started with a piece of cardstock 10×5-inches and scored and folded 2.5-inches from each of the ends longwise. Next, spritz the ends of the card before using an embossing folder to make the card front more interesting.

Chicken: The chicken is made up of a large white triangle, a tiny yellow triangle, a small dash of black, half a tiny red flower, and a thin strip of black cut into two legs and four toes. I added a wing from a scrap of white. Grass was cut using a die from the Nature Edges set.

Rabbit: The Easter Bunny was made with white and pink scraps using the Spring Animals die set. A tiny basket and eggs are also part of the die set. I colored one of the eggs with a blue metallic marker. I made two baskets one is hung on the bunny’s arm and the other is on the envelope flap.

Eggs and Mechanism: I used some eggs I had made before using metallic ink with the stencil feature on the egg dies from the Easter Charms set as well as making some citrus colors (yellows and orange) eggs from solids and patterned paper scraps. For the two mechanisms that spin the eggs around when the card is opened, I used the Heart Collage Pop-up set. (Assembly video). The mechanism is glued into the card fold. I marked a spot 2-inches from the bottom of the left fold and 2-inches from the top of the right fold. Using the mark center a mechanism over the mark and line up the fold. Glue one tab to card and fold up the mechanism as instructed in the assembly video. Place glue on other tab and close card flap to glue in place to card. Repeat for other side.

Sentiments: I created the sentiments on Canva and then resized them in Publisher.  You can download a copy. After printing them, I roughly cut the main question onto white cardstock and fussy cut a cloud shape around the words. A Velcro dot was used on the back side of the cloud as a card closure. The answer sentiment was cut directly from the paper in a cloud shape and glued to the inside cardbase. The “Happy Easter” was cut out with a stitched rectangle die from the Slim Frames die set. A post was cut from a scrap of brown with left over grass from the front of the card.

Envelope: The card fits into an A7 envelope. To give a hint as to what’s inside, a small Easter basket was glued to the back envelope flap.

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

Materials Used:

Dies

Embossing Folder

  • Spellbinders – 3D Embossing Folder 5.5×8.5-inches – Dimensional Diamonds

Papers

  • White, Black, Red, Pink,  Brown, Green, Orange, Blue and Yellow Cardstock
  • Patterned Paper Scraps
  • A2 ivory Envelope

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • We R Memories – Scoring Board and Trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Stamping Blocks/ Weights
  • Ranger – Mister Bottle
  • Bone Folder

Miscellaneous

  • Velcro Closure

A Strawberry Loving Friend

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #159 whose parameters included a card type of my choice (5×7 pop-up), strawberry fields colors, plaid or gingham and a chair. It has a conservatory or fancy potting shed feel to it.

Karen Burniston’s Adirondack Chair die set is the basis for this pop-up card that uses a slipcover to convert it into an overstuffed chair. (See this video for technique.) I made a template that I can used to quickly create the slipcover.

chair-slipcoverDownload

First I glue strips of paper to the from of the legs and then glue the arms on pushing down the over hang tips to form the rounded arm fronts. Glue the slip cover to the chair base.

The plants are die cut from the Garden Charms set while the dog is from the Doghouse die set. All are popped-up using cubes made from strips of matching cardstock. The tiny bright strawberries are clay shaker elements adhered with dots of glue.

I like being able to use one paper collection for an entire card for coordinating colors and designs. The Graphic 45 Fruits & Flora set was perfect for this in the 8×8-inch size. It had journaling tags and border that were just the right scale for this card and envelope flap.

For more chair and seating blog posts click here.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Paper – Fruit & Flora Collection
  • Terra Cotta and Green Cardstock
  • Paper Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Inks

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scissors

Miscellaneous

  • Dress My Craft – Clay Shaker Elements – Strawberry Slices

Just Ducky!

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This card was designed for Craft Roulette #158 whose parameters were a peek-a-boo card using first grader colors featuring rain and distressed edges.

This card is a 5 7/8-inch square easel card with a bam box stopper. The Bam Box Pop-Up with its duck are made using dies by Karen Burniston.

The card base was made by trimming a 6×6-inch plaid paper in primary colors to 5 7/8-inch square. The blue stripe easel is made from another 6×6 piece of double-sided patterned paper that was cut to 5 1/4 x 6 inches.  Two edges were torn, and a tab scored and folded on the left short edge of one inch.  The diagonal fold was made after the panel was glued to the plaid card base. A 5 7/8-inch square piece of white cardstock was glued to the back of the plaid panel over the striped tab. 

View the assembly video for the bam box. Cut decorator panels from blue stripe paper. Die-cut duck and use stencil feature on die to add duck’s bill, eye and wing.

White clouds were cut from some shiny white packaging. The rule of three was followed for laying out the clouds which was based off where the cloud shaped window was placed.

Using a computer word processing program, the sentiment of “Hope you’re just DUCKY!” was created and fussy cut.  Placement of the words were based on where the fold of the easel happens and what area is covered by the easel panel closed and open.

To keep the bam box flattened, two clear vellum bands were made. The third white cloud was glued to the top band along with three clear plastic raindrops. The cloud covers the peek-a-boo cloud window.

The card fits into a 6×9 catalog envelope.

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

Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Lawn Fawn – 6×6 Doubled-Sided – Primary Plaid
  • Queen & Co. – 6×6 Double-Sided – Simple Stripes
  • White Glossy Recycled Cardboard Packaging
  • White Computer Paper
  • Clear Vellum

Ink

  • Black Computer Printer Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scissors
  • Computer & Printer

Miscellaneous

  • Sunny Studio Stamps – Clear Rain Drops – SSEMB-209

Spring Picket Fence Card

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This card was designed for Craft Roulette episode #153 whose perimeters were:

  • Project: Rounded Edge
  • Colors: 2 Blues + 2 Additional Colors
  • Element: Flowers
  • Random: Fussy cut

If you haven’t watch this fun Friday night YouTube crafting show https://www.youtube.com/c/CraftRoulette) which has a game show theme and hosted by Mary Gunn. Each week Mary and a guest crafter spin the roulette wheel to randomly pick four perimeters that crafters should use to make a card for that week. Mary and the guest crafter also  make cards using the perimeters during the remainder of the hour. Randomly chosen winners from each week’s submissions receive prizes. On March 17, 2023 the guest crafter will be Karen Burniston. (website: https://craftroulette.live/show)

For my Craft Roulette submission card I took an accordion fold design, I had made a template for, but hadn’t constructed yet.

Having experimented with Karen Burniston’s Landscape Rectangle Accordion and cutting the pivot panel into other shapes. For this card I took inspiration from a pivoting die that Karen Burniston had designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs that had a house and a picket fence.

I made a template from heavy cardstock (110 lb) by first cutting an accordion panel and then tracing around a die-cut of the fence portion of the House Pivot Card die to create the fence pattern. (Make sure you don’t cut away the pivot mechanism at the top and bottom of the panel. The center point of the rectangle is the scored fold-line.) I fussy cut the pattern and then used it to trace onto my die-cut panels of patterned, pale blue cardstock.

After tracing the fence onto the panels I cut the fence out using a metal ruler and craft knife to cut all the straight edges and scissors for the curved parts. I used a small corner punch to round the accordion frame corners, folding the tab to be rounded as well.

Because my fence was cut from blue cardstock, I had to color or whitewash the pickets with an white opaque marker. The flowers are small flowers from the following Karen Burniston die sets: Fireplace Extras 2, Tiny House Pop-Up, Flowers and Bee, and Flower Pot Pop-Up. (The flowers in Flowers and Bee and the Flower Pot Pop-Up are the same.) I used yellow posy flatback gems as the purple flower centers. The grass was cut from a spotted green paper using the grass from Long Nature Edges.

“Happy Birthday” is a die cut sentiment using a navy-blue star patterned paper. A personal message can be written on the backside of the frames and fence posts.

The card fits an A2 size envelope.

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

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Dress My Craft – 12 x12 Scrapbooking Papers 240 GSM – Chickoo & Friends
  • Colored Cardstock and Paper Scraps

Pens/Gels

  • Faber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen 2,5 – White -101
  • Gel Pen – Neon Orange

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Quickstik Tool
  • Pokey Tool
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Metal Ruler
  • Craft Knife
  • Pencil
  • Small Corner Punch
  • Small Ball-Tipped Stylus

Miscellaneous

  • Queen & Co. – Posies Topping – Golden