The Cat’s Meow Pop-Up Card

It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s card uses the new dies of Playful Pop-Up, Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons, Greeting Labels and Meow! As well as Rectangles – Crosshatch and Sending Love. The dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card. (I apologize for the video quality. I was having some technical issues while recording it.)

Cardbase: I used a 12×12-inch sheet of dark pink cardstock folded in half and used the scalloped rectangle die from the Rectangles – Crosshatch set placed with one corner over the fold to get a diagonal opening card base. Cut two full scalloped rectangles from light pink cardstock and four smaller rectangles from flower patterned paper. Glue flower panels to the inside of the dark pink cardbase trimming of diagonal corners. Glue remaining two panels to light pink pieces. Assemble card as show in video.

Cat Pop-Up: Using the Playful Pop-Up set, cut one of the largest die and the β€œY” piece die from white cardstock. From gray cardstock, cut the decorative notched square die in the Playful Pop-Up set, and from the Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons, the paws, and large cat ears . From pink cardstock, cut two of the paw backing die, the small cat ears and tongue. From black, cut one nose-mouth piece and one set of small eyeballs. From white, cut one set of large eyeballs and whiskers. Follow the video above and photos to assemble.

Sentiments: The die-cut sentiments of Sending Love and the tiny hearts are from the die set of the same name. MEOW! is cut from light pink cardstock using the die of the same name. The shadows behind “Love” and MEOW! are cut from pink vellum. Pink sparkle heart embellishments finish the card front. β€œBig Hugs” is from the Cat Sayings stamp set. The labels are cut using dies from the Greeting Labels. The paw on the card back comes from MEOW!

Envelope: The card fits into an A6 (6 1/2×4 3/4-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Cat Sayings

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Pink Icing
  • Core’dinations – 12×12 inch Textured 80lb Cardstock – Candy Shop
  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Cardstock – Joy to the World – Peace on Earth
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Pastel Pink Vellum
  • Black, Pink and White Cardstock
  • A6 Envelope – White

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Trinity Stamps – Embellishment Mix – Pink Sparkle Hearts

Ladybug Slimline Interactive Card

It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 Release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s card uses the new dies of Playful Pop-Up, Greeting Labels, and Bug Borders as well as previously released Long Rectangles – Crosshatch. The sentiments are from the new stamp set – Bug Greetings. The dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

Watch the process video to see how I made these cards.

Cardbase: Cut from black cardstock a 7.5 x8.5-inch rectangle. Score and fold at 3.75-inches to form a 3.75×8.5-inch slimline cardbase. Using the largest of the Long Rectangles – Crosshatch dies, cut four from patterned paper. Adhere the rectangles to all four panels of the card.

Playful Mechanisms: Using the Playful Pop-Up set, cut three of the largest die and three of the β€œK” piece die from a green cardstock. Cut the decorative notched square die from patterned paper. Follow the video above to assemble.

Ladybugs:  There are two sizes of ladybugs used on this card. The larger ones come from the Playful Pop-Up set and include dies to make them with legs, without legs and flying. The smaller ladybugs come from the Bug Borders set. (I cut two strips of the border ladybugs, five of the bugs with legs and five of the bugs without legs. I made one of the without legs bodies into a flying ladybug.) Watch the video above for assembly instructions.

Sentiments: The card sentiments are all stamped in blank ink using the Bug Greetings stamp set and cut out using the Greeting Labels die set. Watch the video above for details on attaching the sentiments to the cards.

Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Bug Greetings

Papers

  • Stampin’ Up – 12Γ—12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Painterly Pears
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Rain Forest
  • Black, Red and White Cardstock

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

Wild Puppy

It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 Release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s cards use the new dies of Playful Pop-Up, Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons, Greeting Labels, Dog Borders and Woof! as well as Go Wild!, Rectangles – Crosshatch and Waterfall Card. A new stamp set, Dog Sayings, was also used. The dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

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

(NOTE: Below are the specifics for the A2 right pull teal colored card.)

Cardbase: I used a purchased kraft side-fold A2 cardbase. Using the largest of the Rectangles – Crosshatch dies, cut two from patterned paper. Adhere the rectangles to the front of the card and to the inside right panel. (Cut a piece of pattern paper 4.5×5.75-inches and save to cover the back panel once the staples have been added to the card assembly.)

Dog Pop-Up: Using the Playful Pop-Up set, cut one of the largest die and the β€œY” piece die from a dark brown cardstock. Cut the decorative notched square die from light brown cardstock. Follow the video above to assemble but do so in reverse for a right pull strip. Cut one rectangle .75×1-inch from the patterned paper. Cut one piece of clear thick plastic packaging .75×2.5-inches and another strip of lighter weight acetate .5×3-inches. Cut a cover strip also .5×3-inches from the same pattern paper as the inside panel. (The .5×3-inch pieces are the guide strip.) Once the guide strip over the pull piece has been installed and stapled in place, glue the 4.5×5.75-inch piece of pattern paper over the card back to hid the staples.

From the Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons die set, cut from a light brown cardstock the paw arms and the dog ears. From dark brown cardstock, cut two of the paw backing die. From black, cut one nose-mouth piece and one set of the small eyeballs. From white, cut one set of large eyeballs. From pink cut one tongue. Watch the video above for how to assemble.

Bow: From the Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons die set, cut from red cardstock – the largest eyeball, the largest cat ears and the paw arms. Trim off the paw end of the arms to make a fish tail ribbon ends and assemble as shown above.

Sentiments: The card sentiments β€œGo Wild!β€œ and β€œWoof!” are die cut. β€œWoof! Is used twice inside the card and once on the card back. Inside there is a stamped sentiment of “Your dog thinks you’re cool (and I do too!)” was stamped in black using the Dog Sayings and cut out using the largest oval from the Greeting Labels die set. Paw print is from Dog Borders.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Carabelle Studio – 12Γ—12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Sorbet designed by Azoline
  • Clear Thick Plastic Packaging
  • Grafix – 8.5Γ—11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film
  • Black, Browns, Cream, Pink, Red and White Cardstock
  • Target – A2 Cardbase and Envelope – Kraft

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Black Organza Ribbon 1/4-inch wide

Autumn Pop-Up Card with Animals

It’s time for the Karen Burniston Design Team November 2025 Challenge whose theme is FUN FACES. I made a slimline Thanksgiving card using two new stamp sets – Fall Phrases and Fun Faces 1.

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

Cardbase: I cut a 7 1/2×8 5/8-inch rectangle from white 65lb. cardstock. Then I scored and folded in half to create a 3 3/4×8 5/8-inch slimline cardbase.

Animals: Using the Woodland Animals and Winter Animals die sets make two bears, one raccoon, one fox and one squirrel. Use the Fun Faces 1 to stamp on the animals eyes, noses and mouths. Make four red apples from the Tiny Fruit set and add to all the animals except the squirrel. Make an acorn for the squirrel using the tiny acorn die in the Woodland Animals set.

Leaf and Acorn Border: Cut eight oak leaves from the Tree Pop-Up set and seven acorns using the tiny acorn die in the Woodland Animals set. (I cut a bunch of leaves from orange and brown cardstock and four more acorns knowing I would use the leftovers to decorate the inside of the card.) adhere to front border strip as shown in the photos and video.

Pumpkins: Cut three pumpkins from orange patterned paper. Dry emboss them using the pumpkin die from the Autumn Elements set in your die cutting machine’s embossing sandwich. Cut two of the pierced labels for the Little Labels Pop-Up side labels from green patterned paper. Layer together a pumpkin onto the green label and decorate with leftover leaves and acorns. Adhere the remaining pumpkin to the card back.

Label Pop-Up: Cut one of the large die in the Little Labels Pop-Up set from green cardstock. (Watch the assembly video located at the bottom of the linked page.) Assemble as show in the video above.

Sentiments: The inside stamped sentiments are from the Fall Phrases set. The die cut β€œHappy Thanksgiving” is cut from orange pattern paper using the Word Set 7 – Autumn set. From white cardstock, cut two medium sized labels from the Labels – Crosshatch, the center label and three banners from the Little Labels Pop-Up set to stamp. Adhere the largest two labels as places to write a personal message.

Envelope:  The card fits into a #10 business size envelope whose back flap was stamped in brown ink β€œThankful Grateful Blessed” from the Fall Phrases stamp set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Candy Corn
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Rain Forest
  • Hot Off The Press – 12×12 inch Single-Sided Papers – North Country
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
  • Black, Gray, Kraft and Red Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Rich Cocoa
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Gathered Twigs
  • Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dual Tip – Light Copper Clay

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • T-Ruler
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Tweezers
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Haunted Woods Pop-Up Halloween Card

It’s the Karen Burniston design team challenge for October 2025 using the theme of PEEK-A-BOO!” – What is hiding in your card? I chose to make a Halloween card with a haunted woods using the Arch Pop-Up, Tree Pop-Up, Halloween Elements, Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders and Ovals- Crosshatch die sets and the new Halloween Phrases stamp set.

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

Cardbase: Start with a white, purchased A2 (4.25Γ—5.5-inch) cardbase. Covered the four panels with decorative papers.

Arch Pop-Up: Watch the assembly video (located at the bottom of the linked die set page) for the Arch Pop-Up. For details on how I decorated the arch with nine trees cut from the Tree Pop-Up die set, watch the video above. (Four of the trees are glued onto the arch side pop-ups and the remaining five are cut up for their branches which are glued onto the arch and the back pop-out strip. Orange leaves were cut also from the Tree Pop-Up set.)

Decorations: Three ghosts were cut from pearlescent vellum using the Halloween Elements dies. The dangling spider is made up of two spiders cut using the Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders. (You can use the spider from the Halloween Scene set as well.) Sandwich a piece of white thread between the two spider die cuts and tie onto back pop-out strip behind the arch.

Sentiments: Pearlescent vellum was using again to cut the “Boo!” (Halloween Elements) and the larger oval for a personal message (Ovals-Crosshatch). Graphic 45 Midnight Tales papers and ephemera are used for their sentiments on the card front and back. The “Happy Haunting” sentiment is from the newly released Halloween Phrases stamp set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope with its back flap decorated with more of the Graphic 45 papers.

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Materials Used:

Dies
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Arch Pop-Up – 1308

β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Slim Pattern Plate – Spiders– 1207

β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Ovals – Crosshatch – 1055

β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Scene – 1014

β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Elements – 1013

β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Tree Pop-Up – 1005

Stamps

β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Halloween Phrases

Papers
β€’ Graphic 45 – 8Γ—8-inch Double-Sided Paper – Midnight Tales

β€’ Lawn Fawn – 8.5Γ—11 Vellum – Pearlescent

β€’ Black Cardstock

β€’ A2 Cardbase – White

β€’ Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Husk Smooth


Ink
β€’ Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives
β€’ Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
β€’ Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

Tools
β€’ Die Cutting Machine

β€’ Paper Trimmer

β€’ Stamping Blocks

β€’ Scissors

β€’ Paper Masking Tape

β€’ Tweezers

Miscellaneous

β€’ White Thread

A Halloween Pop-Up Fence Card

This Halloween card is based off a pop-up picket fence card that Karen Burniston made for her design team challenge for April 2025. (You can see her video here.)

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


Cardbase: Start with an 8.5 x 11-inch piece of patterned cardstock and fold in half to form a side-fold A9 (5.5×8.5-inch) card. Mark on the inside fold 4.75-inches up from the bottom edge.


Iron Fence: Cut two of the fence piece, using the Iron Fence Pop-Up die set, from heavy black cardstock. Watch the video below to see how to cut the two fence pieces into the gate, and the left and right fence pieces.


Pop-Up Mechanisms: Watch the assembly video above on how to cut-out, fold and attach the three mechanisms. Cut two of the Katherine Label Pop-Up L-shaped mechanism and one of the smallest angle pop-up from the Mini Pops Pop-Up die set.


Decorations: The Halloween Borders die set was use for all the outside decorative borders as well as the bats inside the card. The raven is from the Iron Fence Pop-Up die set. The hands are from the Halloween Elements die set.


Sentiments: β€œBoo!” on the card front is cut using the Halloween Elements die set while the β€œHappy Halloween” inside is from the Halloween Charms set.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inch) size envelope stamped with sentiments from the Queen & Co. stamp set. The cobwebs are from the Tim Holtz stamp set and the dancing skeleton is from Riley & Company.


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Materials Used:
Dies
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Borders – 1247
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Fence Add-Ons – 1240
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Iron Fence Pop-Up – 1172
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Mini Pops Pop-Up – 1146
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Charms – 1058
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Elements – 1013
β€’ Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Katherine Label Pop-Up – 1011

Stamps
β€’ Queen & Co. – Clear Stamps – Fright Fest Kit
β€’ Riley & Company – Funny Bones Red Rubber Stamp – RWD-492 Dancing Skeleton
β€’ Stampers Anonymous – Tim Holtz Collection – Clear Stamps/Stencils – Halloween

Papers
β€’ Martha Stewart Crafts – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Paper – Gothic Manor
β€’ Black, Oranges and White Cardstock
β€’ Catalog Envelope (6×9-inch) – White

Ink
β€’ Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
β€’ Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
β€’ Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives
β€’ Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
β€’ Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
β€’ Double-Sided Tape – 1/4-inch wide

Tools
β€’ Die Cutting Machine
β€’ Paper Trimmer
β€’ Bone Folder
β€’ Score Board
β€’ Stamping Platform
β€’ Scissors
β€’ Pencil
β€’ Paper Masking Tape

Tipsy Teacups Birthday Card

This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #284 whose parameters included a Funn fold card, birthday party colors, Maggie Smith element, and spiral (s) (ing). Today’s card uses The Greetery dies and stamps.

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

Cardbase:  I started with a 4.25×11-inch rectangle of 100lb white cardstock that was scored and folded at 5.5-inches and 9-inches to form an A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) easel card.

Tipsy Teacups:Β  Watch the video above to see how the cups were created with stencils using pink ink and a gold marker. The tipsy mechanism is a strip with tracks cut into it for penny slider mechanism. I used Pear Blossom Press’s new Snap N’ Slide penny slider plastic pieces which are like snaps that you can use a glue dot to adhere to the back of the teacups.

Sentiments:  “Sip, Sip HOORAY! It’s your birthday” and Hopping your day is steeped in happiness” are both in the Brew-Tea-Ful Day stamp set. They are stamped onto striped, textured, thin cardstock cut with the larges and smallest of the A2 Stitched Scallops die set.

Envelope:  The back flap is stamped with “Life is Brew-TEA-ful” in brown ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • The Greetery – Waffer-Thin Steel Dies – Tipsy Strip
  • The Greetery – Waffer-Thin Steel Dies – Sips Tea
  • The Greetery – Waffer-Thin Steel Dies – Fancy Finger Foods
  • The Greetery – Waffer-Thin Steel Dies – A2 Stitched Scallops

Stamps

  • The Greetery – Clear Stamps – Brew-tea-ful Day

Stencils

  • The Greetery – Stencil – Sips Tea

Papers

  • Momenta – 12×12 in Textured Cardstock – Earthtones
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Husk Smooth
  • White Cardstock

Ink

  • Cricut – Medium Tip 1.0 – Gold
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Rich Cocoa
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Dried marigold, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Twisted Citron, Vintage Photo, Wilted Violet
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Point – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Block
  • Altenew – Mini Blending Brush Set (Flat Bristles)
  • Kat Scrappiness – Mini Blending Brushes
  • Needle
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous

  • White Thread
  • Pear Blossom Press – Snap N’ Slide

Wizard Themed Pop-Up Birthday Card

It’s the Karen Burniston design team challenge for September 2025 using the theme of letter. I chose to make a card celebrating the Owl Post in the Harry Potter world using the Feathered Animals, Postage Pop-Up, Arch Pop, Rainbow Add-Ons, and Paper People die sets.

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

Cardbase: Start with a purchased A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) cardbase of brown kraft paper. Cover the four panels with decorative papers. (I used Ciao Bella’s Wizard Academy paper pad.)

Arch Pop-Up: Watch the assembly videos (located at the bottom of the linked die set pages) for the Arch Pop-Up and Rainbow Add-Ons. Use different shades of gray to build up the stone archway. The keystone of the arch is a decorator die in the Photo Fan Pop-Up.

Harry and Hedwig: Harry is made using three die sets – Paper People, Tiny Accessories 1 and Graduation Elements. Hedwig is made using the Feathered Animals set using white card stock and a gray brush tipped marker. (Watch the video above for assembly. Also watch this video for more details on the Hogwarts uniform.) The envelope Hedwig carries is from the Postage Pop-Up set. Watch the video above to learn how the red seal is made.

Sentiments: All the sentiments and Hogwarts crest used on the card are stamped using brown ink and Crackerbox Stamps. Watch the video above for how the large envelope and message card are made from the Squares – Crosshatch die set. β€œHappy birthday” on the card front is the Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons.

Envelope: The card fits into a brown kraft paper A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope stamped with a castle and an owl post stamp on the back flap in brown ink.

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Materials Used:


Dies


Stamps

  • Crackerbox Stamps – Rubber Stamps – Harry Potter Collection


Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5Γ—11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Ciao Bella – 8Γ—8-inch Double-Sided Paper –Wizard Academy
  • Concord & 9th – 8.5Γ—11 Cardstock – Dove
  • Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5Γ—11 Cardstock – Tin Pail
  • My Favorite Things – 8.5Γ—11 Cardstock – Cement Gray
  • Black, Blush, Browns, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • A2 Cardbase and Envelope – Brown Kraft


Ink

  • Cricut – Marker Medium  Tip 1.0 – Gold
  • Gel Pen – Blue
  • Simply Lettering – Dual Tipped Marker – Gray
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Rich Cocoa
  • Pigma – Mircon 01Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip –Red, Yellow

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Scrapbook.com – Double-Sided Tape – 4-inch wide

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Riley and Company – Pick & Poke Tool
  • Hole Punches – 1/4 & 1/8-inch
  • Ruler


Surprise Quad Fold Pop-Up Christmas Card

This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #281 whose parameters included a 4×6-inch card, coffee aisle colors, from a tree element, and outside the line. I chose to make a Christmas card with a Funn surprise inside this pop-up card using dies by Karen Burniston and stamps by Tim Holtz.

Watch the video below to learn how this card was made.

Cardbase: Β The cardbase is made from 65lb kraft colored cardstock cut into two pieces of 6×8-inch rectangles and one 4×6-inch rectangle. The two large pieces are scored at 4-inches along the 8=inch side to form two 4×6 side-fold cards. The 4×6-inch panel is scored along the short side at 1/4-inch to form a tab. Assemble the card base as shown in the video above. The two apertures were die cut using Karen Burniston’s Squares – Crosshatch set.

Pop-Up Mechanisms:Β  Two Katherine Label Pop-Up mechanisms were used to animate the tree branches to reveal the cat laying in the Christmas tree. See the video above or watch the assembly video at the bottom of this linked page to understand how the mechanisms are cut out and installed. The moving tree branches are made with five or more of the fir branches from Karen Burniston’s Holiday Charms die set.

Decorations: Β The Holiday Charms are used to create the double sided ornament and fir tree branch window decorations. Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Snarky Cats Halloween stamp set was used for the cat.

Sentiments: Β “I know right from wrong. Wrong is the fun one.” on the inside drop down panel hints at what’s to come. It was stamped using Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Snarky Cats stamp set. Merry Christmas is a die cut using Karen Burniston’s Merry Christmas set. The white square diamond label is for a personal message is cut using Karen Burniston’s Squares – Crosshatch set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Stampers Anonymous – Red Rubber Stamps – Tim Holtz Collection – Snarky Cats
  • Stampers Anonymous – Red Rubber Stamps – Tim Holtz Collection – Snarky Cats Halloween

Papers

  • Astrobrights – 8.5×11-inches 65lb Cardstock – Grocer Kraft
  • Fun Stampers Journey8.5×11-inches Cardstock – Cranberry Bliss
  • White Cardstock

Ink

  • Cricut – Marker – Medium Tip 1.0 – Gold
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Score Board
  • Bone Folder
  • Pokey Tool
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • WPear Blossom Press – Cardmaker’s T-Square A2

Miscellaneous

  • Gold Metallic Thread