Carrot Patch Split-Slider Slimline Card

This is my card for Craft Roulette #344 whose parameters were a card with a pocket for project; vegetable garden colors, small critter(s) for element; and tidbit(s) for random.

Watch my process video below to learn how the card was made. There are free downloads of the template and CRX sheet below.

CARDBASE: The finished cardbase is 3 3/4x 8 3/4-inches. See video above for assembly.

SPLIT-SLIDER: Use the split-slider template you can download for free below. Assemble as shown in the video above.

Please note that this template is copyrighted, and Ully Cat Designs must be cited if you publish a card made using it.

The carrot and stitched garden rows from Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Garden Border die set and the rabbits are from Colorado Crafts’ Summer Garden stamp set designed by Anita Jeram. The Rabbits were colored with watercolor pencils.

SENTIMENTS: The “Keep Calm and Carrot On” is a stamp from Colorado Crafts’ Carrot On stamp set designed by Anita Jeram. The “Sending hugs to you” is a hot foiled banner from my stash (Might be a retired Spellbinders Glimmer plate.)

ENVELOPE: On the back flap, stamped in orange and green inks, is “Did some bunny say carrots?” and two carrots from Colorado Crafts’ Carrot On stamp set.

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MATERIALS USED:

Dies

Stamps

  • Colorado Crafts – Clear Stamps – Carrot On
  • Colorado Crafts – Clear Stamps – Summer Garden
  • My Favorite Things – Clear Stamps – Interactive Labels

Inks

Papers

  • Neenah – 8.5×11-inch 110lb Cardstock – Solar White
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11-inch 100lb Cardstock – Latte
  • Green and Orange Cardstock Scraps
  • Cream #10 Business Envelope from my stash

Adhesives

Tools

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Toaster of Thanks

This card was made for Craft Roulette #262 whose parameters included a thank you card, 1950s colors, toast(s)/bread(s), and brown paper.

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


Cardbase: Score and fold in half a8.5x 5.5 rectangle of silver mirror cardstock. From the Trinity Stamps Toaster Card die set, cut the toaster shaped die with its feet just slightly over the fold of the silver folded cardstock to form a toaster shaped card hinged at its feet.


Toaster: Cut one whole toaster from silver and another from gray cardstock. Cut enough of the toaster lever knob to have two knobs that are black on both sides. Glue the knobs to the inside of the toaster card’s left side near the feet. Using 1mm thick foam tape, place tape around the inside of the folded shaped toaster card to form a U shape with the opening is where the slot is. Attach the silver toaster over the foam tape to form a pocket with the slot as its opening. Repeat gluing in knob, adding foam tape and attaching the gray cardstock toaster to the other inside side of the card. Add double-sided tape to the back of some shiny black cardstock or junk mail before cutting out two of the spiraling squiggle from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Karen Burniston Merry Christmas Pop-Up and three of the toaster feet bar from Trinity Stamps Toaster Card die set. Adhere the squiggle stickers to the inside center of the silver toaster and to the back of the card’s toaster. Adhere the feet bar to the silver toasters. The gray cardstock should be without decorations.


Toast Cards: From brown kraft paper, cut two bread shaped cards using the die from the Trinity Stamps Toaster Card die set. Cut two small bread shapes using the smaller die in the set from white. Ink the inside edges and the whole outside of the brown cards with a dark brown ink. Lightly ink the edges of the white pieces. Stamp sentiments onto the front outside of cards and tops of white pieces before gluing the white to the inside of cards.


Sentiments: The toast cards’ sentiments were all stamped in brown ink using the Rubbernecker Thanks Set and Lawn Fawn’s Push Here stamps. The toaster card front has die cut letters cut from black cardstock/shiny junk mail backed with double-sided tape to form stickers. The β€œTOAST” word shadow was cut from white and adhered to silver mirror card with double-sided tape. All the die-cut sentiment is cut using the Trinity Toaster Card set.


Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5x 7-inches) size envelope stamped on its flap a piece of bread with a heart using the Lawn Fawn Let’s Toast stamp set.

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Materials Used:


Dies

β€’ Elizabeth Craft Designs – Karen Burniston Pop It Ups – Merry Christmas Pop-Up
β€’ Trinity Stamps – Metal Dies – Toaster Card


Stamps
β€’ Lawn Fawn – Clear Stamps – Let’s Toast
β€’ Lawn Fawn – Clear Stamps – Push Here
β€’ Rubbernecker – Clear Stamps – Thanks Set


Papers
β€’ Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 80lb Cardstock – Dove
β€’ My Favorite Things – 8.5×11 100lb Cardstock – Mirror – Silver
β€’ Black Coated Junk Mail
β€’ Brown Kraft Cardstock
β€’ White Cardstock
β€’ Recollections – A7 Envelope – White

Ink
β€’ Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Rich Cocoa
β€’ Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives
β€’ Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
β€’ Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
β€’ Scrapbook.com – Double-Sided Tape – 1/8″ and 4″ wide
β€’ Scrapbook.com – Foam Tape – 1mm thick

Tools
β€’ Die Cutting Machine
β€’ Paper Trimmer
β€’ Stamping Platform
β€’ Scissors
β€’ Paper Masking Tape
β€’ Sponge Daubers
β€’ Microfiber Cloth
β€’ Tweezers
β€’ We R Memories – QuickStick

Oven Cards in Review

I have been collecting and making oven cards for several years now. Here is a collection of all my ovens blog posts. Click on an image to see details of the oven.

(Images are posted from the earliest release of dies/stamps/kits 2016 to newest 2023.)

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Day 11 of 12 Days of Christmas Ovens

It’s Day 11 of my 12 Days of Christmas Ovens.

I’m using Lawn Fawn’s 2016 Sprinkled with Joy stamps and dies for this slimline Christmas oven card.

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

Cardbase: The card base is 8 1/2-inches tall and 3 7/8-inches wide when folded closed.

Oven: Watch my YouTube video above for how the oven was assembled.

Sentiments: Outside I used “Sweet” stamped on a green scrap strip. Inside the oven I used “Christmas Wishes” both from the Lawn Fawn Sprinkled With Joy stamp set. Inside the card I used a stamp from Scrapbook and Cards Today’s Jolly Holiday workshop kit.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Lawn Fawn – Custom Craft Dies – Sprinkled With Joy-LF1271

Stamps

  • Lawn Fawn – Clear Stamps – Sprinkled With Joy-LF1214
  • Scrapbook and Cards Today’s Jolly Holiday workshop kit.

Embossing Folder

  • Stampin’ Up – Cut & Emboss Folder – Dotted Circles 3D

Papers

  • Scrapbook Customs – 6×6 Double-Sided Cardstock – Christmas
  • White Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Cream

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Creative Craft Products – Alcohol Markers – Dual Tipped – 4 Vivid Red, 15 Geranium, 95 Burnt Sienna, 104 Brown Grey, 185 Pale Light Blue,BG1 Blue Grey, CG Cool Grey, GG3 Green Grey,WG1 Warm Grey, WG3 Warm Grey
  • Cosmic Shimmer – Airless Mister – Honey Bee
  • Nuvo Sparkle Spray – Frosted Lemon
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • Brutus Monroe – Stick & Stamp Mat
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Tweezers
  • Wire Snips
  • Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous

  • Cream Colored String

Day 8 of 12 Days of Christmas Ovens

It’s Day 8 of my 12 Days of Christmas Ovens.

I’m using Lawn Fawn’s Magic Picture Changer with its Oven Add-On dies along with two Lawn Fawn stamp sets – Sprinkled with Joy and A Creature Was Stirring.

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

Cardbase: I used a side-fold A2 (4.25 x 5.5-inches) made of white cardstock.

Oven: I highly recommend googling “Lawn Fawn Magic Picture Changer Oven video” to watch assembly videos for this die set. There are lots of creative ways to assemble it.

Sentiments: Card front “Not a creature was stirring…” inside “(except in the kitchen).” are from the A Creature Was Stirring stamp set. “May your holidays be sprinkled with joy” is from the Sprinkled with Joy set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  •  i-crafter – Dies by Lynda Kanase – Classic Squares
  • Lawn Fawn – Custom Craft Dies – Magic Picture Changer – LF1903
  • Lawn Fawn – Custom Craft Dies – Magic Picture Changer Oven Add-On – LF2436
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer of the Month -Hot Foil Plates & Dies -Glimmering Build A Banner – GOM-SEP21

Stamps

  • Lawn Fawn – Clear Stamps – A Creature Was Stirring – LF2415
  • Lawn Fawn – Clear Stamps – Sprinkled With Joy – LF1214 

Embossing Folders

  • Stampin’ Up – Cut & Emboss Folder – Dotted Circles 3D

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Silver Foil Cardstock
  • Acetate/Clear Plastic Film
  • Black, Pink, Red and White Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
  • Recollections – Detail Embossing Powder – Snow
  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitivity Saturated Ink – Aegean
  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Ink Pad – Cherry Cobbler
  • Creative Craft Products – Alcohol Markers – Dual Tipped – 15 Geranium, 26 Pastel Peach, 55 Emerald Green, 31 Dark Ye4llow, 33 Melon Yellow, 35 Lemon Yellow, 38 Pale Yellow, 95 Burnt Sienna, 97 Rose Beige, 135 Pale Cherry Pink, WG 1 Warm Grey & WG8 Warm Grey
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Red
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • 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
  • Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Craft Mat
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Circle Hole Punch – 1-inch wide

Miscellaneous

  • Nuvo – Glitter Drops – White Blizzard

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 – 8Γ—8 Double-Sided Cardstock – β€˜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

My Better Half

Sometimes you just need to let your partner know that they are the better half of yourself.

I needed to do just that and chose some of my partner’s favorite colors and the cute Lawn Fawn β€œLet’s Toast” stamp set with its add-on pull tab die set. The double-sided plaid papers are Becky Moore’s Say it with Stamps for Photoplay on a green A2 card base.

First, I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored the toaster with a silver metallic marker. Next, I covered the main body of the toaster with Glossy Accents.  The toast, butter pat and butter dish I colored with blending markers and watercolor pencils.

Because I had never used this Lawn Fawn pull tab mechanism before, I found a video to watch for the assembly. It was easy to assemble, but since I had fussy cut my stamped images, I had to trim down the tabs of the mechanism for the toast to be attached to and not show the edges of the tab.

For the pull tab top, I used a scrap of the green plaid cardstock to cover the portion of the tab that shows when the tab is pulled up matching the vertical plaid line. After this cover was glued down, I added the brown oval with the arrow cut-out and folded it to fit the cut-out notch of the cart rather than using the scored fold mark.

The sentiments were stamped with Versamark Watermark ink and heat embossed with a black detail embossing powder onto white scrap cardstock. The front sentiment was cut out as a banner and adhered to the card front with foam squares and the interior sentiment was cut close and glued in place with its matching images.

To hint at the envelope’s contents, I stamped two pieces of smiling toast onto the back flap with brown ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Inks & Embossing Powder

  • Memento – fade-resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
  • Recollections – Detail Embossing Powder – Ebony
  • My Favorite Things – Premium Dye Ink – Milk Chocolate

Papers

  • Photoplay – Fall Plaids 6×6 paper Pad – Say it with Stamps by Becky Moore
  • White card stock scraps
  • A2 green card base and white envelope

Miscellaneous

Home for the Holidays

Going home to be greeted by family and friends is a Christmas tradition since the mid-1800s.  This slimline tower card uses Spellbinder’s Open House dies to an interactive card that emotes the feeling of being welcomed home. (I must give credit to @DebsyG of Craftworld and Sam Calcott’s Made to Surprise tower cards for the inspiration for this card.)  

Spellbinder’s Open House collection has a number of add-on sets for various holidays, but none include a door wreath. (I had to use an older Lawn Fawn Mini Wreath from their door collection to complete my card.) I did use the side panel set to add more windows to the doorway.

Card base: Using heavyweight white cardstock that is 8 ΒΎ inches tall x 8 Β½ inches wide, I scored and folded at 1 1/8 inches, 2 2/8 inches, 6 1/8 inches and 7 3/8 inches. Next, I stenciled the card base with brick colored ink, a brick stencil and a small make-up brush (I find these inexpensive contour make-up brushes from Dollar Tree work as well as the expensive ink brushes.) The folds should go to the back of the card, to form a jut-out entryway often found on townhouses.

Stairs: A gray cardstock was used to cut the main steps with the sentiment β€œMerry Christmas.” The sentiment was backed with scraps of red paper. I found an old envelope that was just a shade darker gray that the cardstock for the step tops. The railing is cut from heavy black cardstock and glued only at the rod tips to the steps.  The stairs where then adhered to the center of the card base, which when folded shut is 3 ΒΎ inches.

Door and Windows: The door was die cut with the windowpane dies in one pass. The side panels had to be cut and then cut with the window die. The top transom windows were also die cut from white cardstock.

I positioned the die cut door over the stairs and used a pencil to trace where the windows and the door edges.

Using the pencil lines, I cut out the windows and three side of the door with a craft knife.

Positioning the side panels next to the door, I traced the window positions with pencil and cut out and did the same with windows over the door and panels.

I saved the window frames to be glued in place to scrap pieces of clear vellum on the back side of the door and side panels and transom windows. Then I glued the vellum backed door onto the card base door. The vellum backed panels and transom windows where also glued in place so that the vellum was sandwiched between the case base and the white window and panel frames.

Inside Mechanism:  To create the set-back house interior, I cut a 8 Β½ inches tall x 5 Β½ inches wide piece of lightweight white cardstock. I scored and accordion folded at ΒΌ inch, Β½ inch ΒΎ inch, 1 inch, 4 Β½ inches, 4 ΒΎ inches, 5 inches and 5 ΒΌ inches. Next, I cut a floor from some woodgrain paper and the wallpaper from a small, patterned paper.  These piece where adhered to the center of the inside mechanism. 

The woman is an older Spellbinder’s small die of the month that can hold a pie, a present or a small fir tree. I chose a present popped-up on a foam square. The woman is glued to the wallpaper and floor before the inside mechanism is glued onto the back side of the card base.

The finishing touches are a tiny wreath I had in my stash that is glued over the door and attaching the mail slot and doorknob (cut twice and glued together for depth) to the door front.

The back of the envelope is stamped in red using a Tim Holtz rubber stamp β€œHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

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Dies:

Stencil & Stamp

Inks

Papers

  • Colored cardstock scraps
  • Pattered papers from Colorbok and Mrs. Sparkle paper pads
  • White cardstock
  • Clear vellum
  • #10 Business envelope

Additional Supplies:

HELLO Sunshine Flip

Everyone needs sunshine and the feeling that someone is thinking of them. This flippy flappy card uses dies by Lawn Fawn for the pop-up mechanism as well as the sunshine motifs.

When I began this card, I made a prototype card first to figure out how the mechanism worked.  I watched an assembly video and still got it wrong by putting assembling from the front instead of the back. (See photo below.) The pop-up ended up working, but the flap was too long. (I recommend watching the assembly video several times or assemble the mechanism going step by step with video.)

For my actual card I changed up some of the design to make the sunshine really pop. Adding some ink to the background die cut helps emphasize the sun rays . The sun frame is cut from yellow, and the back sun outline is cut from orange with its center circle taped into the hole in the inked background.

The “Hello Sunshine” sentiment is cut twice from a darker orange cardstock to add some dimension. A fine tipped glue bottle makes gluing the fine lines of the letters easy.

The pop-up sun face is adhered to a strip cut from some clear plastic packaging.

To give the card recipient a hint at what is inside the envelope, I stamped the back of the envelope with a background sun burst pattern stamp from Hero Arts using a brown ink onto an orange envelope.

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Dies:

Stamps

Inks

  • Ranger – Distress Ink – Fossilized Amber
  • Memento – Fade-resistant Dye Ink – Rich Cocoa

Papers

  • Cardstock in various shades of yellow and orange
  • Heavy weight white cardstock
  • Orange A2 invitation envelope – Staples -Brights

Additional Supplies: