Catch A Falling Star – An Easel Card

April 19, 2025May 22, 2025 | ullycatdesigns

This card was made for Craft Roulette #263 whose parameters included a sending sunshine card, spring colors, rodent(s), and shiny.

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

Cardbase: Start with an 8.5×11-inch sheet of white cardstock. Score and fold at 5.5-inches and at 2.75-inches. Cover the large inside panel with decorative papers as well as the two long and narrow front panels. use scraps to decorate the back panel.

Mice: Stamp The two large mice and one small mouse holding a star from the two Colorado Craft Company stamp sets – A Star is Born and Falling Star. Color with watercolor pencils and smooth coloring with a water brush. let dry before gluing large mice to bottom half of easel. Stamp a second small mouse to cut out star as a pattern to cut star from silver glitter paper. Cut out small mouse’s hand to slide silver star under it. Glue star in place. Attach mouse to card base with foam dots.

Stars: Using two pieces of clear plastic cut from packaging, make a T or cross shape using glue dots. Cut stars from silver foil cardstock using coordinating dies from the stamp sets and attach with glue dots to plastic. Attach cross to back of card easel base with double-sided tape. Glue on three stars to decorate front of card.

Sentiments: The sentiments were all stamped in black ink using the two Colorado Craft Company stamp sets and fussy cut around. The small fancy label was cut from white cardstock using Karen Burnston’s Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch die set.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inch) size envelope stamped with a sentiment and stars from the Colorado Craft Company’s A Star Is Born stamp set.

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Materials Used:
Dies
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch – 1233

Stamps
• Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps & Metal Dies by Anita Jarem – A Star Is Born – AJ587
• Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps & Metal Dies by Anita Jarem – Falling Star – AJ585

Papers
• Impression Obsession – 6×6-inch Double-Sided Paper Pack – Basics 1 – Yellows
• Silver Foil and Glitter Cardstock
• White Cardstock
• Catalog Envelope – White
• Clear Plastic Packaging

Ink
• Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
• Sharpie – Permanent Marker –Fine Tip – Yellow
• Nuvo – Watercolour Pencils – Hair & Skin Tones

Adhesives
• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
• Double-Sided Tape – 1/4″ wide
• Foam Dots
• Glue Dots

Tools
• Die Cutting Machine
• Paper Trimmer
• Stamping Platform
• Scissors
• Paper Masking Tape
• Stamping Blocks
• Water Brush

Autumn Thinking of You Card

October 9, 2023September 26, 2023 | ullycatdesigns

Crisp, colorful leaves gently falling off tree branches sometimes bring bitter-sweet emotions. A.A. Milne’s characters of Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore the donkey are playful reminders that fun can be had even in the worst of times.

For this card I used stamps and papers from Impression Obsession featuring E. H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore along with leaves and sentiments designed by Dina Kowal. The images were stamped in black ink and then colored with watercolor pencils. (I elected not to water brush the coloring.) Next the colored images were fussy cut. Additional leaves were stamped on some of the matted papers used on the card front and fussy cut.

The design principle of three is floated with the leaves throughout the card. Notice that the heart shaped leaf is always pointing to where your eye should flow. Leftover paper scraps were used to decorate the card back.

For the envelope back, leaves and a quote from Elizabeth Lawrence about taking time to watch the leaves turn colors, are stamped in black ink and colored with permanent markers.

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

Materials Used:

Stamps

Impression Obsession – Clear Stamps designed by Dina Kowal – Pooh Window – CL1138

Papers

Impression Obsession – 6×6 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Classic Pooh – PP004
Park Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – Ivory

Ink

StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Watercolor Pencil- Antique Linen, Barn Door, Fired Brick, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Spice Marmalade and Walnut Stain
Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Orange and Brown
Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Write Dual Tipped Marker – Chocolate Chip

Adhesives

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
Stamping Platform
LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
Stamping Cloth
Scissors

Victorian Trim House Luminaria

December 1, 2020December 3, 2020 | ullycatdesigns

Warm and cozy is this small brick house with its white ornate Victorian trim as light streams through its windows. This is the third house luminaria in my blog posts using a battery powered candle.

Made with Impression Obsession’s house die set, this 3-inch tall by 2 3/4 inch square has slight modifications made to original two-dimensional design. I cut two of the brick house die as well as two partial die cuts with the same die to make the side walls. I cut a total of eight square windows and one arched window as well as two doors. The L shaped eaves die I cut twice from white cardstock and the twice more from thicker scrap cardstock. The ornate trim pieces I cut two from regular cardstock, but the ornate porch roof piece I cut once from regular cardstock and twice from thicker cardstock. I also cut two pieces of vellum 2 ¾ inches x 1 inch and five additional 1 inch squares of vellum.

Partial die cutting of side walls by placing die over the edge of cardstock.

I made two templates from purple scrap cardstock of the front and side of the house and using window die cuts I fingered out the window placement. Once I had the placement, I traced around the window frames with a pencil. I cut the windows with the dies. Using the templates, I traced the window placement on to my red die-cut pieces and cut them out with a craft knife and metal ruler cutting inside the pencil lines. For the door I only cut out a rectangle where the windowpanes would be. Next, I glued the vellum pieces to the back of the red sides of the house.

Once the vellum is adhered to the back of the window cut outs, you can turn the house pieces with their fronts facing up and decorate them by gluing on the window frames and doors. I used a gold gel pen to make the doorknobs.

For the L shaped eave pieces, I glued the regular white cardstock to the thicker scrap cardstock. I did similar for the porch roof piece, but I glued two of the thicker scrap cardstock pieces together before adhering the top regular cardstock piece.

To assemble the house sides, I laid all the pieces side by side and tape them together on the back side.

The roof is a 5 inch by 3 inch rectangle of brown cardstock stenciled with a stencil in my stash with Distress Ink and folded in the middle. I taped the roof to inside of my house for stability.