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Take Me Out To The Ball Game!

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s January 2025 release of eight new dies and four new clear stamps sets. For this baseball card I used several of the new die sets including: Paper People, Popcorn and Flower Pot Add-Ons along with the previously released Flower Pot Pop-Up, Tiny Accessories 3, Easter Charms, Space Charms and Rectangles – Crosshatch. The new release will be available on January 27, 2025.

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

Cardbase: I started with an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2-inch piece of patterned paper folded in half to form an A2 side-fold card. The inside was covered with two rectangles of striped paper cut using the largest of the Rectangles – Crosshatch dies.

Baseball Player: Using the Paper People die set Cut one body, one hair piece, one mustache, one t-shirt and one pants. From the Tiny Accessories 3 set cut one of the engineer’s cap. Watch the process video above to see how to style these pieces into a baseball player.

Cracker Jack Box Pop-Up:  Follow the assembly video directions (located at the bottom of the linked page) for the Flower Pot Pop-Up, but add the Popcorn decorator pieces to the pot before installing it in the card. (I made the caramel corn “Cracker Jacks” by coloring the popcorn pieces with alcohol markers and coating with Glossy Accents a clear gel. The peanuts are cut using the jelly bean charm from the Easter Charms set.) The box is attached to the card using the Flower Pot Add-On set’s square scalloped doily with tabs. The Cracker Jack prize packet is a computer generated piece of paper torn open to reveal a pink plastic alien toy charm cut using the Space Charms die set.

Sentiments:  All the sentiments are from the patterned papers and the “Cracker Jacks” was computer generated.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 12×12 Double-Sided 65 lb Cardstock – Baseball
  • Carta Bella – 6×6 Double-Sided 65 lb Cardstock – Home Run
  • Echo Park – 12×12 Double-Sided 65 lb Cardstock – Baseball
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11 100 lb. Cardstock – Pomegranate
  • Assorted Colored and Decorative Paper Scraps
  • White Computer Paper

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Red
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Red
  • Spectrum Noir – Tri-Blend Alcohol Marker – Gold Brown Blend

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Ranger – Glossy Accents

Popcorn Lover’s Birthday Card From All of Us

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s January 2025 release of eight new dies and four new clear stamps. For this Birthday card I used several of the new sets including:  Popcorn, Paper People and Triple Platform Pop-Up die sets and the Popcorn Phrases clear stamp set. The new release will be available on January 27, 2025.

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

Cardbase: I started with a white 65lb cardstock rectangle that was 7.5 x 8.75-inches and folded it in half to form a top-fold horizontal 3.75 x 8.75-inch slimline card. Next, I cut four of the largest die in the Long Rectangles – Crosshatch set from striped red paper and cover each of the card panels.

Snapshots of People: Using the Paper People die set create six people from the waist up. Cut six white photo frames and back rectangles using the Photo Collage Pop-Up die set. Follow the instructions in the video on how to make the snapshots of people and how to install them onto the pop-up platforms.

Triple Platform Pop-Up:  Using the Triple Platform Pop-Up die set, cut two of the large mechanism die from lightweight white cardstock. Cut six sets of the parallelograms and four sets of the triangles from pattered paper and two additional sets of parallelograms from white cardstock. Watch the video for how to assemble and install the mechanisms into the cardbase.

Sentiments:  There are three sentiments on the card – “Hope your Birthday is poppin”, “from all of us” and “Happy Birthday.” The first was stamped using the Popcorn Phrases clear stamp set with black ink onto white cardstock and die cutting it using the fancy stitched label in the Triple Platform Pop-Up die set. The second phrase was die cut from the Word Set 18 – Connectors while the third was cut using the Happy Birthday die. All the die-cut words were cut from upcycled cardboard packaging/junk mail. Popcorn kernels (highlighted with a yellow marker) were added as decorations to the front and back of the card from the Popcorn die set.

Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business size envelope which was stamped with another sentiment from the Popcorn Phrases stamp set – “You make everything Butter!”

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Recollections – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
  • Stampin’ Up – 12×12 Specialty Designer Series Paper – Marbled Elegance
  • Assorted Colored and Decorative Paper Scraps

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Light Daffodil Delight

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • We R Memories – QuickStick