A Haunted Chair In The Pumpkin Patch

It’s time for the October 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge with the theme of a haunted location. I chosen an Adirondack chair in a pumpkin patch to be haunted.

Watch the process video to see how the card was assembled.

Cardbase: Cut two 5 1/2 x 11-inch rectangles from black cardstock. Fold each rectangle in half to form two 5 1/2-inch square top fold cards. Two pieces of patterned paper from Graphic 45 were used to cover the inside floor and front card cover.

Adirondack Chair: Watch the assembly video for the Adirondack Chair located at the bottom of the linked page.

Ghost Mechanism: Watch the assembly video for the Spinner Square Pop-Up located at the bottom of the linked page. The ghosts are from the Halloween Charms set and were cut once from white cardstock and had their eyes and mouth stenciled on using the die. They also were cut from glow-in-the-dark paper for their backs and to hide the black mechanism arm.

Decorations: The large pumpkins are from the Autumn Elements set and the smaller jack-o-lantern and green hands are from the Halloween Elements set. The background pumpkins were cut from the Graphic 45 papers. The black cat on the chair is from the Skeleton and Bat set. The Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders was cut from pearlescent vellum and the spiders colored black. Then it was placed on the diagonal on the card front.

Sentiments: The card front uses the “Happy Halloween” from the Halloween Charms set while the inside uses a Spellbinders BetterPress “Happy Haunting” sentiment. Other inside sentiments – “Boo!” “Sit for a spell” and “Hey Pumpkin” – are cut from the Graphic 45 papers.

Envelope: The card will fit into a 6×6-inch square envelope or a 6×9-inch catalog envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Press Plates

  • Spellbinders – BetterPress Letterpress System – Press Plate & Die Set – Halloween Icons

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Paper – Charmed
  • Lawn Fawn – 8.5×11 Lawn Fawndamentals – Pearlescent Vellum
  • Stampin’ Up – 6×6 Specialty Paper – Glow-In-The-Dark
  • Thin Clear Cello Packaging
  • Black, Orange, Purple, White Cardstock
  • 6×6 Brown Envelope

Ink

  • Spectrum Noir – Shimmer Gold Series Pearlescent Pigment – Peach Terracotta
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Gathered Twigs
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Green
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Metal Ruler
  • T-Ruler
  • Glue Eraser
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Blending Brush
  • Paper Masking Tape

Day 7 of 12 Days of Christmas Ovens

It’s Day 7 of my 12 Days of Christmas Ovens.

I’m using Paper Discovery’s Cosy Kitchen dies and stamp sets for today’s Christmas oven card. Olga Direktorenko is the designer behind Paper Discovery, a Craftstash/Practical Publishing brand.

Watch video above for a tutorial on how to make the card.

Cardbase: I started with a 5 3/4 x 10 1/2-inch rectangle of white cardstock that was scored and folded at 2 5/8-inches, 3 5/8-inches, 6 7/8-inches and 7 7/8-inches.

Oven: I cut the oven and hutch out in two pieces so I could cut the hutch down a 1/4-inchto allow the card to fit in a 6×9-inch envelope. (See an earlier blog on how I first made this oven bridge card.)

Decorations: The copper kettle and utensils are stamped on orange foil cardstock with StazOn ink using the Paper Discovery Cooking Up A Storm set and fussy cut. The trolley tables are made with a die from Paper Discovery Cosy Kitchen -Baking Fun die set. The gingerbread house, Christmas pudding and bowls are from the Lawn Fawn A Creature Was Stirring stamp set. The wallpapers, borders and picture stamps are from Graphic 45’s T’was The Night Before Christmas paper collection.

Sentiments: I used sentiment stamps from three sets. On the back of the card – “This kitchen is seasoned with love” and “Eat, Drink & be merry” are from Paper Discovery’s Simply Food set. Heat embossed in white behind the oven doors are “Merry Christmas” and “Baked with Love” from the Greetery’s Bake Someone Happy set. Also behind an oven door is “Warm Wishes” from the My Hero Monthly kitchen kit. The “NOEL” banner is a shape die set by Scrapbook.com.

Envelope: The card fits into a 6×9 catalog envelope. The back flap are stamped with an Hero Arts sentiment and images from Lawn Fawn.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Paper Discovery – Dies – Cosy Kitchen – 2D Perfect Kitchen
  • Paper Discovery – Dies – Cosy Kitchen – Baking Fun
  • Scrapbook.com – Shape Dies – Holiday Banners

Stamps

  • Hero Arts – My Monthly Hero Kit – May 2022 – Clear Sentiment Stamps
  • Lawn Fawn – Clear Stamps – A Creature Was Stirring
  • Paper Discovery – Clear Stamps – Cosy Kitchen – Cooking Up A Storm
  • Paper Discovery – Clear Stamps – Cosy Kitchen – Simply Food
  • The Greetery – Clear Stamps – Bake Someone Happy

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Cardstock – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
  • Orange Foil Cardstock
  • White Brown Black Cardstock
  • 6×9-inch Catalog Envelope

Ink & Embossing Powder

  • VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
  • Recollections – Detail Embossing Powder – Snow
  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Ink Pad – Cherry Cobbler
  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Creative Craft Products – Alcohol Markers – Dual Tipped – 15 Geranium, 95 Burnt Sienna, & Pale Cherry Pink
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scoring Board
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • Brutus Monroe – Stick & Stamp Mat
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Kat Scrappiness – Anti-Static Tool
  • Heat Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • T-Ruler
  • Glue Eraser
  • Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Hole Punch – 3/16-inch

Three Ships Pop-Up Christmas Card

It’s Christmas in July and I have a card depicting an old English Christmas carol – “I Saw Three Ships.” It uses two different pop-up ships made with Karen Burniston dies including Boat Pop-Up, Pirate Ship Add-Ons, Cake Pop-Up, Tiny Trees Pop-Up, Street Lantern Pop-Up and Farm Edges.

Cardbase: The cardbase is an A9 side fold (5 1/2 x 8 1/2-inch) with two floor flaps. I took an 8 1/2 x 11-inch sheet of 65 lb. cardstock and folded it in half. The floor flaps are 2 5/8 x 4 1/4-inch that are scored and folded at 1/4-inch to form a tab for 4-inch-long flaps.

Cake Pop-Up Ship: This ship was designed by John Watterson using four Karen Burniston dies that were released before June 2024. It utilizes a vertical fold and is placed in the center of the card.

Boat Pop-Up Ships: The two smaller ships were designed by Karen Burniston and in this card utilize the horizontal folds of the floor flaps. They use only two die sets. Watch Karen’s assembly video located at the bottom of the Boat Pop-Up’s page.

Card Front: The copyright free sheet music was computer generated and the edges distressed. The white whale and silver anchor borders are from the Set Sail Borders. I added white and red enamel drops along with the “Happy Christmas” sentiment made using the Small Script -Halloween and Small Script – Christmas die sets.

Inside: The water is created with a paper from the graphic45 Sun Kissed collection. I used the sun die in the Beach Elements set and several sizes of the Crosshatch Circles for the labels for personal messages.

Card Back: The music decorating the card back are the first two bars of the carol. It is made with dies from the Music Charms set.

Envelope: The card fits into a 6×9-inch catalog envelope. I decorated the back flap with die-cut musical notes.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Cardstock – Sun Kissed Collection Pack
  • Colored and White Cardstock
  • Catalogue Envelope – White

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • T-Ruler
  • Metal Ruler

Miscellaneous

  • Nuvo – Crystal Drops – Simply White & Red Berry

Enchanted Forest Pop-up Card

It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s June 2024 release of new dies.

For this card, I used one of the new sets – Tree Add-Ons along with a previously released die set – Fancy Label Accordion. This card is based on a card design that Karen Burniston had taught in a class with the Hearts Add-Ons die set. (Click on link to get a PDF of the instructions.)

Cardbase:   Cut an 11x 6-inches rectangle of lightweight cardstock and fold in half to create a 5 1/2 x 6-inches card base with a side fold. Cover with decorative paper on the outside and inside of front panel before cutting with largest square die from the Squares – Crosshatch. Once the square has been cut, attach inside back decorative paper matching front design.

Accordion Frame: Die-cut two Fancy Label Accordion frames from a decorative print cardstock as directed in PDF instructions. Make sure you add the decorative label die inside the pivot panel before you die cut, so that you will make the pivot panel into a frame.

Attach to card base as directed in PDF instructions. Use tree trunk and hearts dies to decorate tree panel.

Tree-Add-On Panel: Replace the Trees Add-Ons for the Hearts Add-Ons in the PDF instructions. I cut out tree frames on the first and third panels by first die cutting the whole panel and then die cutting twice more with the cloud shaped tree leaves dies and tree trunk dies in the Trees Add-Ons set. I cut two more of the tree shaped frames to cover and reinforce the back side of the tree panel.

Attach to pivot panel and card as shown in PDF instructions.

Sentiments & Decorations: I used printed sentiments and border strips from the paper collection to finish decorating the card covering all of the green cardbase.

Envelope:  Fits into a 6×9 catalog envelope with a back flap decorated with decorative paper strip.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Graphic45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers Collection Pack – Enchanted Forest
  • 6×9-inch Catalog Envelope – White

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors

Watermelon Pop-Up Card

Watermelon Pop-Up Card

Inspired by a new Graphic 45 paper collection – Sunshine On My Mind that features watermelon papers, I created this A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) sized card using Karen Burniston’s Ovals and Heart Collage Pop-Up die sets.

Cardbase: Fold an 8.5 x 5.5-inch rectangle of card stock in half to form a top fold 4.24 x 5.5-inch card (or use a purchased A2 cardbase.) Tape the largest oval die so that the top of the die overhangs the fold. Die cut to form an oval folded cardbase. With a red marker color the inside edges of the cardbase. Repeat with green marker to the outside edges.

Using the same oval die, cut two ovals from green watermelon rind paper and two more ovals from red and black watermelon paper. Glue one of the red ovals inside the cardbase, fold cardbase in half and trim off red paper at fold. Repeat with the second red piece. Glue one green oval to the back side of cardbase. Trim at fold. Glue the last green oval to front of card.

The card front will be the only complete oval. All other panels should have been trimmed to allow the cardbase to fold. (Note in photo that a hint of red shows on the back of the card.)

Decorate the outside of the cardbase with sentiments cut from the collection pack papers.

Collage Mechanism: (Watch the assembly video for the Heart Collage Pop-Up located at the bottom of the linked page.) Cut the mechanism from red cardstock. Train folds and glue inside the cardbase. Allow the glue to dry before connecting the locking tabs. Cut sentiment panels from paper collection. Round the corners. Play with positioning of the panels onto the mechanism before permanently gluing in place. (I found that my side arms needed to be thin pieces and the top and bottom arms could handle larger panels.) Take the largest panel and fold in half before gluing over locking mechanism tabs.

Add other decorations to cardbase always checking for catchpoints to avoid.

Envelope: Decorated the back envelope flap with decorative strips from paper collection.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Collection Pack – Sunshine On My Mind
  • Red Cardstock
  • A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) Cardbase
  • A2 Envelope – Neon Green

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Scrapbook.com – Glitter Brush Marker – Red Shimmer
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Green
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Red

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Corner Punch