This card was made for Craft Roulette #222 whose parameters included Dutch door, gnome colors, movie element and building blocks.
Watch the process video for a tutorial on how the card was made.
Cardbase: Starting with an 8 1/2-inch square that is scored at 3 1/2, 7, and 7 1/2-inches. Thin magnets are added to the flap and back of front panel before being covered with decorative paper.
Sentiments: The front “You are the STAR of your Life Story” was computer generated while the “Happy Birthday” inside used two Karen Burniston dies – Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday Shadow.
Card Front: Drive-in movie die cuts and stamps are by My Favorite Things. the 3D embossing folder is by Spellbinders.
Pop-Up Blocks: Watch Karen Burniston’s assembly video for her Surprise Cube Pop-Up before assembling them. (Assembly video near bottom of linked page.)
Cardbase: I started with a purchased 5×7-inch kraft cardstock cardbase and covered all sides with leopard spots paper. The inside was covered with two 5×7 pieces. (I covered my inside after I had die-cut the stage and had to fold the stage flat, cut on the die-cut lines and then retrain the folds. This gives you a solid coverage of the stage, hiding the center cut.) I cut the stage pop-ups, before I covered the outside with one 7×10-inch piece so I could hide the stage pop-out.
Pop-up Stage: (Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for Explosion Pop-Up before starting.) Because the stage in the Explosion Pop-Up set cuts into the card, I had to mark the card center and then die-cut the two parts of the stage on either side of the mark.
Explosion Side Panels: (Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for Explosion Pop-Up before starting.) Use paper rather than cardstock for the best results. As many times as I have made these panels, I always have to refer to the packaging or the assembly video to fold them correctly. Glue into the card before attaching the keyboard.
Piano Keys Pop-Up: This is a glue-in pop-up with good written directions on the packaging. You glue the black keys to the fold side without a tab with the bottom bar edge of the black keys piece lining-up to the bottom edge of the white keys. I added a second set of keys but had to trim off two white keys and one black key to fit into the Explosion card. (See photo above.) If you connect the two sets of keys inside with leftover strips from cutting the black keys, it will be easier to glue into the card. Attach the keys to stage pop-up and then glue the tab to the cardbase.
Characters: Assemble the guitar charm from the Music Charms set twice. (I cut the base from a woodgrain cardstock and the neck piece from white cardstock that was then inked with brown and stenciled with a black marker using the die stencil feature. The knobs were colored black, and the strings are cut from clear vellum and ends colored with a black marker.) Attach wiggly eyes, legs and arms. (One guitar I used legs made from the L and F of the Mini Alphabet, and the other I used the cowboy boots from the Tiny Accessories 3 set.) Glue to a mini wobbler spring before attaching to card.
The trumpet and heart are also made with the MiniAlphabet limbs of F, I and L and wiggly eyes. The heart has a hand-drawn mouth, and the microphone is the “i” from the Go Wild! sentiment set. The heart and trumpet are glued to the pop-up cubes atop the stage. The heart was cut from the Candy Hearts Box set.
There is a tiny white paw print on the back of the card that was cut from white cardstock and the paw pads colored with a black marker. This die comes from the Doghouse Tiny House Add-Ons set.
Sentiments: “Wild Thing!” is cut from two separate die sets – Go Wild! and the larger Alphabet set. Both words were cut from black and a pale-yellow cardstock with the layers staggered to create a sense of a shadow and to make them stand out on the dark background. They are glued on a heart cut from the Hearts – Crosshatch set.
My trick for lining up the individual letters is to line them up on my grid mat and place low tack tape over them and then glue them in place while still on the tape. Attach to card and then once dry, peel off the tape.
The inside sentiments included a circle cut from the Circles – Crosshatch set that was stamped with a clear ink and then heat embossed with white detail embossing powder. The stamp is from the Music Sentiments clear stamp set. The die-cut “Happy Birthday” is cut from the Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Onsset with the shadow piece trimmed from its frame.
Envelope: The back flap of the kraft A7 envelope has spotted leopard paper glued to it.
(Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for the Fancy Label Accordion before starting.)
Cardbase: Three Fancy Label Accordion frames were cut from heavy black cardstock and the fronts were decorated with Fancy Solid Framecut from a one-sided paper of records with a definite top and bottom to the pattern. (I cut three sets of frames going horizontal on the decorator paper and three sets going vertical on the paper to have enough frame pieces to have the pattern work.) Don’t glue the back side frames on until the three frames are joined together.
Decoration of Fancy Labels: The labels were cut using the Fancy Label Accordion set’s frame and largest decorator label dies. I used printed vellum on all three panels. The end panels had an additional frame cut out so the vellum could be framed. My original plan was to let light go through them. (I later changed my mind and glued white labels on the back side for personal messages.)
See the photos for how I taped the frame and additional black cardstock label piece together and die-cut matching frame pieces. The center panel was decorated with a full-size label of vellum topped with a smaller label and music staff and notes from the Music Charms set.
Sentiments: There are three sentiments on the card – “Turn up the volume,” “You Rock!” and “Thank You.” The first two were stamped using the Music Sentiments clear stamp set with clear ink and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder onto a piece of vellum and a frame piece of cardstock. (The frame piece is hard to see in the photos. It is in the right-hand corner below the “Thank You.”) The Thank You is die cut using the new Shadow die for it. It is coated with a glitter gloss for more sparkle.
Watch the YouTube video below to learn how the card was made.
Cardbase: I used double-sided patterned paper and cut a 4 x 12-inch rectangle and folded it in half.
Trees Pop-Up: From coordinating patterned paper, I cut the Tree Add-Onsmain die and scored it at 6-inches from either end. The tabs created by this scoring are what will be glued onto the card. To attach the pop-up, train all the folds and flatten them out. Place the center fold of pop-up over center fold of card. Fold back tabs and glue in place. Decorate pop-up using dies in the set. A white fence was added to the center of the pop-out using a die in the Farm Edges set.
Sentiments: The “Happy Birthday” on the card front is from the new Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons die set. Inside is a stamped and heat embossed sentiment “It’s your birthday. Hope it is wonderful” made up of four different stamps in the Birthday/Belated clear stamp set. The middle size crosshatch die in the Labels – Crosshatch set was used to created the inside sentiment and personal message labels.
Envelope: This card fits into an A6 envelope which was decorated with a border strip from the patterned paper collection.
This card was made for Craft Roulette #220 whose parameters included for a card for a dude, dragon colors, basket(s) and chart(s).
I chose to make a fishing lure pop-up birthday card using stamp and dies by Stampin’ Up, HoneyBee Stamps, Karen Burniston and Waffle Flower.
Cardbase: I started with an A6 (4 1/2 x 6 1/4-inches) sized purchased cardbase with matching envelope.
Pop-up Mechanism: Watch the assembly video and tips video located towards the bottom of the linked page for Karen Burniston’s Photo Collage Pop-Up. These will help you understand where catchpoints can happen with this mechanism.
It’s time for the Karen Burniston June 2024 Design Team Challenge with the theme of using border dies.
I wanted to get a jump on my end-of-the-year holiday cards by making a baking themed card with pies and gingerbread men from the Baking Borders and Christmas Borders 1 set. The rolling pin and chef’s hat are also in the Baking Borders set. Additional die sets used were: Oven Pop-Up, Tiny Gnomes, and the Fancy Label Accordion. (A 1 3/4-inch square die was used from the Frame Pull Pop-Up set, but any 1 3/4-inch square die could be used. This was the one I had handy.)
Watch my tutorial YouTube video to see how the card was made.
(TIP:Access the assembly videos for any of the dies used by clicking on the die link and scrolling towards the bottom of the linked pagefor the video.)
Cardbase: Cut three of the largest die in the Fancy Label Accordion set from a butterscotch-colored heavy cardstock. Work the scored fold-lines. Wait to until after making and attaching the oven shaker to glue the frames together.
Shaker Oven: Cut ten ovens from red cardstock and two additional ovens from coated red cardstock using the oven die from the Oven Pop-Up set. Trim off stove top section on all 12 pieces. From the two coated cardstock stove top pieces, trim off the back where knobs go and save. Layout oven with stove back on one panel of the cardbase. Mark the outside edges of oven lightly with pencil. Center 1 3/4-inch square die within the oven square and die cut. (You may want to use a ruler to find the center of the fancy label and center the die left to right with the center line. The die will be below the true center up and down because of the stove back piece.)
Glue five of the plain cardstock oven pieces to either side of the cardbase over the square opening. This will form the shaker base. Cut two 2-inch square pieces of clear acetate/plastic. Attach one piece of acetate/plastic with double-sided tape to the top of stacked oven pieces. Turn over and fill shaker with confetti and tiny cookie shapes from the Oven Pop-Up set. Attach the second piece of acetate/plastic with double-sided tape to seal up the oven shaker.
Cut two 1 1/2-inch square pieces of clear acetate/plastic. Adhere to the back of oven doors on the remaining two coated oven pieces using double-sided tape. With more double-sided tape added to the outer edges of the oven pieces, attach them over the shaker acetate/plastic. Glue the stove back with knobs attached to the cardbase above the ovens on both sides.
Pies, Gingerbread Men and Rolling Pins: Cut two strips of pie bases from the Baking Borders set. Color one strip all red .(I used a red glitter brush.) Color four orange and four baked apple yellow on the other strip. Cut out four of each of the pie tops. Ink the pie top to look like browned crusts with maybe some burnt tips of the crusts. Glue lattice pie crust to apple yellow pies, the open ring crust onto the pumpkin orange pies and the flower shaped crusts onto the red pies. Cut all the pies into separate circular pieces. Glue pies to the top and bottom of the front and back panel frames of the card base.
Cut two strips of gingerbread men using the die in the Christmas Borders 1 set. Using a white gel pen with a fine tip, trace the icing onto the men using the stencil feature of the die. Cut men apart and glue to sides of the front and back panel frames of the card base.
Cut two strips of the rolling pins from a kraft colored cardstock using the die from the Baking Borders set. With a red fine-tipped marker stencil on the hearts and color all the handles. Trim the strips to fit the top and bottom of the middle panel frame. Save one of the leftover rolling pins for the chef to hold.
Chef: From the Tiny Gnomes set, cut two of the body piece and one mustache from white cardstock. From flesh colored cardstock cut the head, nose and hands. From black cardstock cut the shoes. With a fine tipped pen, trace the eyes using the stencil feature of the head die. Color the mustache brown or gray. Cut one chef’s hat from white using the die in the Baking Borders set. Using the rolling pin die to stencil a red heart onto the chef’s hat.
To assemble, cut one body piece to have an apron in the center and an arm on either side. (See video for visuals of this.) Glue apron onto other body piece and then head. Added mustache then nose to head. Glue arms onto back of body wide enough to hold a rolling pin. Glue rolling pin to end of arms and then add hands on top of rolling pin handles. Attach shoes and hat.
Sentiments: “Happy Holidays” comes from Word Set 3-Holidays. The labels behind it and the chef are from the decorator dies in the Fancy Label Accordion set. Personal messages can be written on the back of the panels.
Envelope: The card fits into an A7 size envelope decorated with leftover pies and rolling pins on the back flap.
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.
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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.)
Back of card
Decorate the outside of the cardbase with sentiments cut from the collection pack papers.
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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.
This card was made for Craft Roulette #216 whose parameters included for A2 project, baseball game colors, number(s) element and charm(s).
After I completed the process video I added thin strips of decorated paper to even out the borders of the front background paper as well as adding a second jump ring to the charm to have it hang more in the center of the frame.
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