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.
Cardbase: Use a 5.5 x4.25-inch white piece of cardstock and cover front with confetti sprinkles patterned paper. Die cut half round notch from Waterfall Card die set at center bottom of short side of card.
Waterfall: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for the Waterfall Card. I cut the mechanism pieces (pull strip and base) from yellow cardstock. The largest square die was used to cut four double-sided patterned paper pages. Assemble waterfall as shown in video.
Food Pop-Ups: Cut and assemble the ice cream cone from the Sweet Treats Charms set. The slice of cake and large candle are made using the Big Birthday Charms set. Cut off the charm loops on both. Cake icing has Glossy Accents clear gel on it. Candle flames have glitter gloss on them.
Cut small strips of patterned cardstock and fold in half and then fold the ends to the center fold to form a pop-up cube to glue into the first two pages. Once these pop-up cubes’ glue has dried, attach the food elements to cubes. The large candle is popped-up with two strips of cardstock behind it.
Sentiments: “Celebrate!” and “Happy Birthday” are from Word Set 2. The balloons and streams are from the Big Birthday Charms set. The quote by Iris Murdoch was in the paper collection. The back of the pull tab was stamped with “Inspired by Craft Roulette. Made by” and signature and CR episode listed.
Envelope: The back flap of the envelope is decorated with leftover strips of patterned paper.
This card was made for Craft Roulette #214 whose parameters included for Project – appreciation, candlelight colors, “Leave it to ….” element and retiform.
Cardbase: My finished card only used two rectangles of 9×3 3/4-inches (scored at 1/4-inch) and 8 3/4×3 3/4-inches. (Skip making the small panel.) After decorating front of tabbed rectangle, glue tab to back of smaller rectangle. Cover the card base in patterned paper.
Dancing Letters Mechanism: (Watch Karen Burniston’s Designer Challenge video for my inspiration for my card.) I did not reverse the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up mechanisms as Karen did. I folded all of my mechanisms as they were designed. My strips of plastic were the equivalent of two of the mechanism arm die glued together. Use glue dots or double-sided tape when attaching items to the plastic.
Sentiments: The front sentiment was computer generated and printed on copy paper. Then fussy cut into two lines of words. And glued in place.
Envelope: This card would fit into a #10 business envelope.
It’s time for the May 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge with the theme of From the Vault. I used for inspiration a 2021 Thanksgiving card and made it into a spring card.
My new card uses a similar cardbase to the original, but I skipped the foundation and the fourth fold.
Cardbase: Cut from medium-weight cardstock three rectangles 6 1/4 x6-inches and one 6-inch square. Cut five 6-inch squares of decorative green paper Using double-sided tape on the back of four of the decorative panels adhere to both sides of two of the 6 1/4 x6-inches rectangles. Cut out windows from the center of these two covered panels using the largest Square Crosshatch die. Attach window panels to opposite sides of the 6-inch square. Adhere last 6 1/4 x6-inches rectangle to bottom of the 6-inch square. Cover the hinge flaps with a decorative paper. (This will be the back of the folded close card. On my card it is pink.) Cover the 6-inch square inside with green decorative paper and the bottom square with a grass like paper. On the back side of grass covered square cover with a stone wall patterned paper.
Trees: Use the tree and leaf dies in the Tree Pop-Up set to cut five of each die. Glue leaves to trees. Die-cut 16 times the flower die in the same set from pink. Using a tiny ball flower shaping tool, push each flower into stiff foam to shape petals. Top of trees will be glued to each side of window frame panels and tree trunk will be sandwiched in between the fence pieces. (You will use two trees per window panel.) Wait to glue onto cardbase until one layer of fence is adhered to cardbase.
Fence: From the Iron Fence Pop-Up set, cut eight of the fence die in black. Trim off the end post on one piece and then trim off just before the fifth pence post a section of fence from a second piece to made a fence that is wide enough to span the 6-inch cardbase panels. Made five of theses fence sections. Glue a section to the bottom edge of one of the window panels. Attach a tree. Glue a fence to other side of window panel matching all the scrollwork up. Adhere remaining tree and fence to 6-inch square panel.
Tulips & Tree Flowers: Add six dots of glue to tree leaves on one panel and place tiny pink flowers in glue using the pointed tip of QuickStik to firmly attached to leaves. Continue with each of the five trees until flowers are all attached.
Cut from green cardstock 25 of the tulip base die in the Garden Charms set. Trim off charm loop from flower bases. From yellow cardstock cut 50 tulip flower tops. Glue a yellow top to front and back of all the flower bases. To create the flaming streaks of color, use a red brush marker starting at the bottom of the yellow tulip and drawing up to the points following the curves of the tulip shape.
Sentiments: Both the shadow die and word die were used for the “Happy Birthday.” The inside sentiment of “Happy Spring” is a words-only die.
Envelope: The card will fit in a catalog envelope of 6×9-inches.
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If we could be eating more ‘hole’ foods, what a sweet world it would be. Doughnuts and bagels are tasty carbohydrate treats and a theme for this interactive birthday card which uses Karen Burniston dies and Trinity stamps.
Cardbase: Cut a 4 1/4 x 11-inch rectangle of a single-sided striped cardstock. Score and fold into a top fold A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2-inch.) Cut from kraft cardstock, 13 doughnut charms from the Sweet Treats Charms set and trim off the charm loop. On ten of the doughnuts add black poppy seeds to make into bagels. Glue seven bagels onto the front of cardbase. Cut another bagel in half and save with the last two bagels to complete the decorating of the card front once the Frame Pop-Up is added. (Save the remaining three doughnuts for the doughnut section.)
Frame Pop-Up: (Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page for the Frame Pop-Up.) From the striped cardstock cut the two square base pieces and pull strip of the Frame Pop-Up set. Assemble as directed, coloring the arrow purple to match the stripes. Attach to the card base with staples. Cover staples with two whole bagels. Add half bagels at the top edge of the frame pop-up.
Doughnuts: Cut the largest plain circle in the Crosshatch Circles set from kraft cardstock and then using the golf ball circle die in the Sports Charms set, cut the doughnut hole from the larger circle. Trace the large doughnut onto pink cardstock and cut a smear of icing from the pink to cover the doughnut. Glue pink icing onto doughnut. Us a chocolate glitter brush pen to add a drizzle of chocolate. Add dots of glue randomly and add clay colored sprinkles. Cut from pink three icing pieces from the Sweet Treats Charms set. Glue icing to the three remaining doughnut charms cut in the cardbase section.
Attach the large doughnut to the front of the frame pop-up. Add one doughnut inside the frame pop-up with foam squares. Add another doughnut to the inside of card and the remaining one to the envelope flap.
Sentiments: Stamp “You’re a sprinkle donut in a bagel world” on white cardstock and trim to fit inside the frame pop-up. Stamp inside the card “You’re a year older…but you donut look it” and glue a doughnut between the two lines. Die cut “Happy Birthday” and its shadow from pink cardstock. Cover the words with a chocolate glitter brush pen. Glue words and shadow together. Attach over the staples inside the card.
Envelope: The card fits into an A2 envelope with the remaining doughnut on the flap.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #211 whose parameters included good tidings, summer colors, mechanical element and tie closure.
This is a retirement card for someone who loves working with mechanical action.
(Please note that the Tonic Craft Kit 59 used in this card is no longer available. The Karen Burniston dies however are still available and links are provided to them.)
Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase and matching envelope. Each of the four panels were covered with coordinating papers in either watermelon pink or rind green. The circle was cut thru the front panel using the clock dial circle die.
Clock: Using three different green cardstock, they were cut with the main clock base die from the Tonic Craft Kit 59. The darkest green was trimmed to just the bottom and side trims, while the green patterned paper had the clock dial circle cut out and two bottom art-deco corner die-cut as well. Matching up the patterned green piece with the light green piece, the clock dial circle was cut in the light green piece. The dark green trim was attached to the patterned green piece before having a piece of clear plastic packaging adhered with thin double-sided tape to its backside. Sandwiching the plastic between the patterned green piece and light green piece by using double-sided tape again. The clock was glued onto the card front matching up the circle apertures.
Moving Gears: I watched Karen Burniston’s Double Spinner video at the bottom of her Mailbox Pop-Up page before adding the spinning gears pop-up to my card. I switched out gear dies from the Tonic Craft Kit 59 set for her fancy labels and gardening charms, but I followed her technique exactly to create the spinning gears. Gears were cut from steel blue and cooper oxidized foil cardstock.
Sentiments: All the sentiments on the front of the card “Time flies when you’re having fun,” and “Happy Retirement” are from the Tonic Craft Kit 59. All stamped in black ink. The sentiments were stamped before the inside mechanical pop-ups were added. The personal message circle uses a large gear cut in blue oxidized metal foil cardstock (Tonic Craft Kit die) and a circle of pale gray cardstock using Karen Burniston’s Crosshatch Circles die set.
Envelope: The back flap was stamped in black ink “TIME to celebrate.”
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A golfer’s dream is playing Hole 7 at the Pebble Beach Links course in California which is a hole that is next to the crashing ocean surf. Skill is needed to play this windy par 3 hole, but hole-in-ones have happened.
For this special birthday card, I used a layered stamp set by The Ton with dies by Karen Burniston.
Cardbase: Starting with a 11x 5 1/2-inch rectangle green cardstock, score and fold at 5-inches, 3-inches and 2-inches.
Stamped Scene: Watch the assembly video (Google YouTube video March 2018 Flash Release – Golf Course Layered Stamps) for stamping The Ton’s Golf Course Layering Stamps. Cut a 6×6-inch panel of thick white cardstock to stamp onto. (I masked off the clouds before ink blending the blue sky from the top down, keeping the horizon line almost white.) Trim off stamped panel to 5×5-inches and adhere to the smaller fold edge of cardbase.
Bam Box Golf Tee: (Watch assembly video at the bottom of each of these linked die sets before starting.) Using the smaller of Karen Burniston’s bam boxes, make one from the same green cardstock as the cardbase. From the Sports Charms die set, cut the golf ball charm from white cardstock and emboss using an embossing sandwich on your die-cutting machine. Cut three of the blue tees and glue together with golf ball sandwiched between layers. Cut two of the grassy strips from the Easter Borders set in darker green and glue them slightly askew so that there are two layers of grass blades visible.
Attach bam box to cardbase positioning it so that the stamped panel will cover it when folded shut. Adhere the grass strip to bam box side with glue. Trim off any excess grass at card edges. Glue golf ball on tee to grass covered bam box.
Sentiment: Using the two shades of green cardstock, cut two of the Happy Birthday Shadow from the cardbase green and one of the Happy Birthday words from the darker green. Glue together. Position the thick sentiment so that it will act as the easel stop to hold the stamped panel upright.
Belly Band: The “Now teeing off at Hole 7 of the Pebble Beach Links course” was digitally printed onto a 3x 8 1/2-inch stripe of clear vellum. Next the strip was wrapped around the closed card and glued in back.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #208 whose parameters included a joy-fold card, buggy ride colors, sticks and stones element and trim(s) or trimming(s).
For this joy-fold card I used the colors of a buggy ride to the lake to go camping with a fishing stick and campfire stones. The lake is made of blue rick-rack trim on acetate. All dies used are by Karen Burniston.
Cardbase: A joy-fold is basically a smaller card that interleaves with a larger card. My smaller card is an oval cut from acetate and sandwiched between some kraft splattered cardstock with the cardstock folded and glued into the larger purchased 5×7 cardbase. The larger cardbase had its front panel trimmed to 4-inches wide. The larger cardbase was covered with green grass paper inside (covering over the kraft cardstock) and its front panel covered with blue dotted paper.
Lake: The front of the oval acetate flap was covered with rick-rack using double-sided tape. A kraft cardstock tab was added to make it easier to open the velco fastener that keeps the card close and the bam boxes from popping open. The tab is stamped with “Lift the flap.” The sentiment of “Hello nature” is cut using the Word Set 6 – Summer set.
Tent:Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page. The tent pop-up can be made with out the cording, but I chose to add the cording using tiny brads on another layer of grass green cardstock to attach it.
Animals: The racoon and fox are made with the Woodland Animals die set. They are glued to small bam boxes to make them pop-up. The fish are from the Camping Charms set and are colored with pink and mint green glitter brush markers. The fishing stick is also in the Camping Charms set.
Campfire: The pop-up campfire is made up of five dies that form the campfire pit and burning logs. It is part of the Tent Pop-Up set.
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