Small Quilt Themed Pop-Up Birthday Card

May 19, 2025 | ullycatdesigns

This card was made for Craft Roulette #267whose parameters included a 4 Bar card, craft store colors, se(s)/(ing)/sewn element, and stencil. I made a birthday card using dies by Karen Burniston and PinkFresh and sentiment stripes by Waffle Flower

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

Cardbase: Score and fold a 7×5-inch piece of heavy white cardstock into 3.5×5-inch side fold card.

Stenciled Quilt Top Background: Follow directions in video to stencil the background. To create the stencils use 6×8.5-inch sheets of 100lb cardstock that have the stitched diamond die cut into the center of each of the four sheets. Using the stitch marks as your guide, cut the stencils using a craft knife and a metal straight edge or ruler.

Pop-up Twist Panel: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page. Stamp the quilt stamp onto medium weight cardstock. Die-cut the large mechanism from the Little Twist Panel Pop-Up set out of the stamped cardstock. Cut the panel from white cardstock. Cut decorative panels using the dies in set with your stamped cardstock.

Sewing Charms: Assemble as directed in Karen’s assembly video located at the bottom of the linked page for the Sewing Charms.

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

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Materials Used:

Dies

Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Little Twist Panel Pop-Up – 1232
Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Sewing Charms – 1204
PinkFresh – Coverplate Die – Stitched Diamonds – 276725

Stamps

Spellbinders – Cling Stamp Set – Stephanie Low – Designer Series – Cool Vibes – SBS-150

Papers

Waffle Flower – Sentiments – Birthday Die Cut– SCP240
Waffle Flower – Sentiments – View Die Cut – SCP253
White 100lb. Cardstock

Ink

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Blueprint Sketch, Dried Marigold, Saltwater taffy, Salvaged Patina

Adhesives

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
Paper Trimmer
Scissors
Paper Masking Tape
Tweezers
Blending Brushes
Craft Knife
Metal Ruler or Straight Edge

An Art Deco Birthday card

September 1, 2024September 2, 2024 | ullycatdesigns

This card was made for Craft Roulette #230 whose parameters included shaped card, peacock colors, tall element and XOXO.

Watch the video below to learn how I made the card.

Cardbase: I made a side-fold A2 cardbase by folding a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2-inch rectangle in half and stenciled the front on a separate panel. The tiny gold gems where glued on as the last decoration.

Sentiments: The banner sentiments were made using the Spellbinders BetterPress letterpress system and Cheers to You press plates and dies. The inside of the card is blank for a personal message.

Envelope: Envelope flap was stenciled with the same stencil and inks.

Here are two more cards I made at the same time using the same inks and stencil sets, but different BetterPress press plate – Mistletoe Greetings. (“Merry everything” sentiment inside is from Scrapbook and Cards Today’s Jolly Holiday workshop kit.)

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Materials Used:

Dies

Spellbinders – BetterPress Press Plates & Dies – Cheers to You Sentiments
Spellbinders – BetterPress Press Plates & Dies – Mistletoe Greetings

Stencils

PinkFresh – Stencils – Art Deco
Spellbinders – Stencil of the Month – March 2024 – Dynamic Backgrounds

Press Plates

Spellbinders – BetterPress Press Plates – Cheers to You Sentiments
Spellbinders – BetterPress Press Plates – Mistletoe Greetings

Stamps

Scrapbook and Cards Today’s Jolly Holiday workshop kit – Clear Stamps

Papers

White Cardstock
Spellbinders -BetterPress Double Weight Cotton Card Panels – 220 lb. – Porcelain
Sliver Cardstock Scrap Swags
Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

Spectrum Noir – Shimmer Gold Series Pearlescent Pigment Ink – Secret Garden
Spectrum Noir – Shimmer Silver Series Pearlescent Pigment Ink – Starlight Sky & Tropic Blue
Spellbinders – BetterPress Ink – BetterPress Black
Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
Double-Sided Tape – 1/8-inch wide

Tools

Bone Folder
Stamping Platform
LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
Paper Trimmer
We R Memories – QuickStick
Gel Plate
Blending Brush
Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous

Craftstash – Gold Half Gems

Sewing Just For You

June 18, 2024 | ullycatdesigns

Today’s card is a simple one using Spellbinder’s BetterPress to create letterpress stamping elements.

I used press plates from two companies. The intricate zig-zag frames are from PinkFresh Studio and come with coordinating dies. I used the largest two printed frames in the set using Spellbinders BetterPress Ink in French Blue. (I ended up having to use bubble wrap packaging to get a good die-cut through the thick white watercolor paper that I printed them on.)

The sewing themed piece of thread card, scissors and thimble (on card back) came from the Spellbinders BetterPress of the month club for April 2024 – Stitched for You stamped in Tawny Brown ink on gray Spellbinders BetterPress Cotton Card Panel. The circle sentiment is another Spellbinder press plate and die set – Sealed Cord & Faux Seal Sentiments printed Spellbinders white cotton card panel with the same brown ink.

For the cardbase I used a purchased one with envelope from American Crafts. Stamped on the back flap of the envelope is a pincushion image from Fun Stampers Journey using Stampin’ Up Crumb Cake ink.

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Art Deco Foiling and Stenciling

February 15, 2022February 13, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

Coordinating sets make crafting easy. PinkFresh’s Art Deco hot foiling plate and coordinating three stencils set make it easy to create a variety of backgrounds for card fronts. I was influenced by Jennifer McGuire’s video on using a similar PinkFresh foiling plate and stencils.

I hot foiled three backgrounds making two foiled lines and one solid foil using the foil leftover. (I accidentally foiled my solid hot foiling plate with the second solid foil piece. Make sure the foil has the backing side next to the paper, not the foiling plate!)

Using the three stencils I did two versions of coloring in the shapes on the foil lines backgrounds. On one background I took the stencil with mostly triangles and used the Citrine ink for the smaller triangles and the Sunbeam ink for the larger shapes. The nenext stencil I used the Poppy Red ink for all the shapes and left the remaining shapes white. For the second colored background, I used a different colored ink for each of the three stencils. Because the Citrine and Sunbeam inks are only one shade different, I feel like the background with the white shapes is more interesting.

For the two “Thanks” cards, I glued the backgrounds directly to the card bases. Next, I cut four of the circle Thanks from white scrap cardstock and glued three of the die-cuts together. The single layer thanks, I glued to the colored background, while the foiled background received the layered die-cut.

The “Hello” card uses a black foiled sentiment from a Spellbinder’s frames and sentiment set. The sentiment and the inked background are adhered with foam squares. To add more interest, I glued tiny gold flatback gemstones from my stash. (I think they may have been in an advent calendar from Craftstash or Crafter’s Companion.) (A sticky tip tool is great for adding small elements like these gemstones to your projects.)