Mice

Catch A Falling Star – An Easel Card

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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.

Back of 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

Day 8 of 12 Days of Christmas Ovens

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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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Disclaimer: Karen Burniston products are provided free of charge by the manufacturer for review and use. All other items were personally purchased. Compensated affiliate links used where or when possible, meaning I will receive a small percentage commission from these manufacturers at no cost to you. This will allow me to add more content to my YouTube channel and help out a lot. Thank you.

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

Time for Tea

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #164 whose parameters included a slimline card, tea party colors, a word element and a hand-drawn line.

I started with an 8 1/2 x 3 3/4 inch top fold slimline white cardbase. The word element “TEA” is die-cut into the front decorative paper which comes from Graphic 45’s Alice’s Tea Party Collection. “Time for” was hand-drawn as was the required line below it.

To pop-up the inside scene, I used Karen Burniston’s Little Labels Pop-Up. The stamped and water-colored mice having a fun party are drawn by Anita Jeram.

I popped-out the mouse spooning sugar with a double layer of foam squares.

Just like the inside background panels, the card back was decorated with two stripes of decorative papers taped together and the die-cut using the largest crosshatch rectangle from Karen Burniston’s Long Rectangles-Crosshatch. The cut outs of “TEA” from the front panel were glued onto the back .

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps & Dies – Tea Time Fun by Anita Jeram

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Alice’s Tea Part Collection
  • Stampin’ Up – Thick Basic White Cardstock

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Watercolor Pencils – Set 2
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver

Adhesives

Tools

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

Let’s Coffee Soon

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Fresh ground coffee smells amazing and to share it with a friend is even better.

This slimline card features mice making coffee as drawn by Anita Jeram. These delightful illustrations are popped-up on dies by Karen Burniston.

I did some test layouts with the stamps and dies before stamping the images on to white 110lb. cardstock with permanent black ink. I find stamping several of the needed images is useful to test colors. The images were colored with watercolor pencils and then water brushed to blend. Using fine-tipped surgical scissors, I fussy cut the images out. For delicate cuts and enclosed spaces, I used a craft knife to cut away excess cardstock.

I covered the four panels of 7×8 1/2-9nch white cardstock cardbase that was folded in half with 3 1/2×8 1/2-inch rectangles of tan plaid paper.

Watching the assembly video for the Little Labels Pop-Up die set before I determined what cardstock to use saved me time. I die cut the largest of the fancy labels that are in the pop-up set from blue plaid cardstock and then glued them onto the brown pop-up mechanism. I also cut out the three ribbon pieces from blue plaid paper and adhered them to the lower half of the mechanism before attaching the mechanism to the card base.

Decorating the card with the images was the fun part, but feeling the card was lacking some grounding lines, I cut from the same brown cardstock as the mechanism some of Karen Burniston’s ribbon borders from her Border Blends Trims that also include tiny hearts. These ribbons were glued to the top and bottom of the card front and inside with the tiny hearts scattered along the ribbon. Additional tiny hearts were added to the mechanism and labels inside.

Because I didn’t like the look of the brown top arms of the three mechanism labels, I cut pieces of tan plaid paper to cover them and added a tiny heart to each.

Two Bam Box, rubber band powered, pop-up mechanisms were used to animate the Coffee press image and a second coffee cup. (Go to assembly video on Bam Box shop page.) Because the coffee press image is almost 3×3-inches, I had to install the Bam Box at almost a 100-degree angle from the label pop-up mechanism to fit the image inside the card. To fix some catchpoints with both Bam Box images, I glued tails to the labels and trimmed the coffee press handle some. The bottom mouse tail of the coffee press is folded against the label pop-up platform, but not glued.

A white label from the crosshatch labels die set was adhered to the center of the inside of the card for a personal message. The stamped sentiments came from the coffee stamps and one was fussy cut with scissors while the other used a circle die from the crosshatch circles set.

For the card back, I used off-cuts from the ribbon borders and stamped Anita Jeram’s name onto white cardstock and then die-cut a heart around it using a heart from Karen Burniston’s Hearts – Crosshatch set. Using a black pen, I credited Karen Burniston on the heart and added my initials and the year to the heart.

As is my style, I glued a leftover piece of ribbon border and three hearts to the envelope flap to hint at what is inside.

I like to enclose instructions on how to close the Bam Box. You can download the instructions below.

bam-boxes-sheetDownload

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps – Coffee House by Anita Jeram – AJ483

Papers

  • Crafter’s Companion – NitWit Collections 12×12 Double-Sided Sheets – Paws-itivity
  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Paper Pad – Double-Sided Cardstock – Life’s A Bowl of Cherries Collection -Homemade Goodness
  • My Favorite Things – 8.5×11 Smooth 110lb. Cardstock – White
  • Brown Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Brown

Inks/Pens

  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Rangerv- Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils – Sets 1-3
  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver – 62212
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

Waiting on You Know Who!

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The anticipation of the holiday season, the longing to see family and friends, the desire for relaxation and time off from the work world, and all the other anticipated joys and adventures of the holidays are what this card is about.

Colorado Craft company’s clear stamps and coordinating dies of Anita Jeram’s delightful drawings and hand lettering make it a joy to make a holiday card using a permanent black ink and watercolor pencils. Thin foam squares and festive background paper complete the front of the card.

My Favorite Things has a cute, layered stamp set and coordinating die which I used inside the card for the famous red suited elf.

I made this card in an evening starting with an A2 card base (4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches) in white. I trimmed a 6×6 background paper down to 4 x 5 ¼ inches and saved the scraps to decorate the back of the card. Using the leftover white cardstock from the card base, I stamped all the images and sentiments and then colored the images. Next, I die cut the images and fussy cut the sentiments. The front of the card decorations are adhered with thin foam squares while the inside stamped pieces are glued in place.

The back of the card was stamped in white with a snarky sentiment of “Yep I made this . (Don’t throw it out.)” from Technique Tuesday. (If I had had more time and forethought, I would have heat embossed all the sentiments on this card.)

To set the experience for the card recipient, I always decorate the envelope back. This time the flap was stamped with a sentiment from another Anita Jeram’s stamp sets Make A Wish and sparkles from a vintage Disney stamp set.

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Stamps

  • Colorado Craft Company – clear stamps & dies – AJ527 – On The Lookout by Anita Jeram
  • Colorado Craft Company – clear stamps & dies – AJ481 – Make A Wish Mini by Anita Jeram
  • My Favorite Things – clear stamps & dies – CS-600 Sweet Christmas
  • Disney -Mickey Mouse & Friends – clear stamps – DUS0171 Mickey A6 Stamp
  • Technique Tuesday – Clear Stamps – Made with Love

Inks & Waterolors

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink Pad – Tuxedo Black
  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad -Pear Pizzazz and Real Red
  • Simon Says Stamp – Premium Pigment Ink – White
  • Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils – Pastel Highlights, Brilliantly Vibrant and Elementary Midtones

Papers

  • Heavy white cardstock – 1 sheet 8 ½ x 11 inches
  • Catherine Pooler – Winter Pick-N-Mix  6×6 Patterned Paper
  • A2 white envelope

Additional Supplies: