I started a new challenge for 2025 – the ATC calendar challenge. With a group of crafty friends, we are making a new image on a 4.25×5.5-inch calendar card for each month.
My March card is made with PoppyStamps dies from their Corner Shoppe collection.
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Materials Used:
Dies
Spellbinders – Cutting Dies – DIY Easel
PoppyStamps – Craft Dies – Corner Shoppe Wooden Cart -2619
PoppyStamps – Craft Dies – Flower and Leaf Sprinkles -2622
I have a neighbor who has the happiest small dog that when I saw this PoppyStamps die set, I thought of this dog in his winter vest.
I cut all the pieces from cardstock in my scrap bin. I think the patterned papers are from Photoplay while the other solids are a mixture of weights and textures.
Using a prescored A2 card base in my stash that is green outside and white inside, the die cuts were glued in place including all the sentiments. Strips were added to the front and back of the card and envelope flap for decoration.
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Materials Used:
Dies
PoppyStamps – Craft Die – Peace Love and Belly Rubs -2594
PoppyStamps – Craft Die – Lavish Merry Christmas -2590
PoppyStamps – Craft Die – Holiday Corgi -2572
Paper
Photoplay – Tulla & Norbert’s Christmas Party 6×6 paper Pad
Craft Consortium – A4 Solids Double-Sided Paper Pad – Candy Christmas – Reds
Spring greenery and the mention of fairies, sprits, leprechauns and other wee creatures of mischief and fortune is what this card is about. It uses papers from the Graphic 45’s Little Things collection and dies by Karen Burniston including the new Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch set for creating backgrounds.
The card uses a pre-made 5×7-inch cardbase that decorative papers have been adhered. For the card front a card topper and two layers of decorative papers were used.
On the inside of the card, I covered the cardbase with a green dotted paper (5×7-inch) and then cut the floral papers (6×4.5-inches). I wanted a scalloped edge on the floral paper, but the scalloped rectangle in the die set is slightly smaller than 6×4-inches, so I had to cut the edges in a modified way. I placed one edge under the die and the other over the top of the die to cut. Unfortunately, I messed-up and cut two edges, which meant I had to piece the paper when I adhered it. The edge of the floral paper that abuts the center fold is not scalloped.
Before cutting or assembling the mushroom house, I watched the assembly video for both the Tiny House and Mushroom Roof. I decorated the white house piece first before assembling the house using windows and door from the mushroom set. I had a thin strip of the green dotted paper that I placed as grass edging the bottom of the house. The paper collection has a red dotted mushroom paper that was perfect for the roof.
I wanted the “Happy Birthday” to match as close as possible to the lettering font used on the card front, so I used a PoppyStamp word die, cut twice from blue cardstock scraps and glued together before adhering to the card.
For the pond label, I cut the crosshatch label from the new Rectangle and Labels die set and inked the edges with a dark blue ink. The clover leaf and ferns were fussy cut from the decorative papers.
One of the coordinating papers was used on the card back while a large sentiment was cut from the paper set for the back of the envelope flap.
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In the language of flowers, violets mean remembrance. Sometimes there aren’t words to express the comfort a hug can bring when someone is suffering a loss. This card is meant to be up-lifting and offering comfort and hope.
Using recent PoppyStamps Flower Field Tall Curve Border, Penelope Pinpoint Frame and Sending Hugs Poe Script dies to create this card front, I used the solid green back of a striped A2 card base to be the background to the lattice work. Thin foam squares were used to raise the lattice frame off the green card base. (Dies-R-Us often stocks PoppyStamps dies as well as other name brand dies and stamps at discounted prices. The links under the Materials Used section links to Dies-R-Us.)
Scrap white cardstock was ink blended on both sides to create the die-cut violets. Four times the flower border was cut with the two glued to the front of the white lattice work frame. The remaining borders were cut apart and the petals were bent to curl upward. These flowers were glued at the center to the base border flowers using a hand-held stylus with a tiny round tip to move and push the flower centers down into the glue. A dot of yellow Nuvo Drops completed the center of each flower.
The “Sending Hugs” was die cut from matte gold cardstock which was found on cookie packaging.
The inside sentiment “Happiness blooms from within” is from a new stamp set by PoppyStamps – Colorful Life. Another sentiment, “Bloom and Grow,” is from the same sent and is stamped in a gold ink on the envelope flap.
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All is calm, all is bright until you shake-up the snow globe. This traditional style snow globe easel card is made with PoppyStamps/Memory Box die set with the sentiment coming from a Tonic Studios die.
This was my first go at using these dies, so I followed the package example for the assembly and easel stopper (three holly berries placed on top of tiny foam circles with holly leaves cut from thin paper.) My green base card stock was lightweight, so I double cut the base and glued together before burnishing the fold lines.
The background white circle was ink blended use a sky-blue ink and a large blending brush. Next, I spritzed with circle once with a white ink spray. The snowy ground is a specialty handmade paper I’ve had for a while. For the cabin, I used a yellow scrap for the house outline/windows. Its roof is more of the specialty textured paper. I like the variety of fir and hardwood trees in this set which can easily be cut from various shades of green and brown scraps. The scene was laid-out and then glued to together before spraying the whole scene with white ink spray a few times.
For the woodgrain globe base, I used some heat embossed stamped woodgrain paper I had made for another project. (Click here to learn more about the paper.) I cut two of the thin trim piece from gold foil cardstock and trimmed one piece to fit the top of the woodgrain base.
To assemble the snow globe, there is a white globe outline die-cut that the assembled globe is glued onto and then the woodgrain base followed by the two gold trim pieces.
The sentiment was cut three times using the Tonic Studios die. The base layer is gold foil while the top layer is a thick red cardstock that was from some packaging that I had saved. I cut the tiny green holly leaves from a green paper.
Foam circles topped with the holly berries are used as the easel stop on the bottom card base with the holly leaves cut from thin dark green paper.
A personalized message can be written inside the card base. The card fits inside an A2 envelope (4 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches.) with its back flap stamped with stamps from the Winter Stags set by Stampendous! in a dark green ink.
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Mothers and daughters can be so alike and yet not see it. Here are two cards made for a woman who has recently received a job promotion and a birthday card for her 13-year-old daughter.
Both cards are made using a Studio Light stamp and die set designed by Karin Joan called Betty. It is much like creating paper dolls. The main head and shoulders die cuts four individual pieces -head, 2 ears and the neck and shoulders. I laid out the position of the hair, ears, facial features stamps as well as the jewelry stamps before I did anything else. Next, I stamped and heat embossed the facial features.
The three hair dies can be combined in a multitude of ways to create different looks. Both the mother and daughter cards use the back full hair piece placed at different heights to create long or short hair. The front bangs pieces are different. The daughter’s hair is accentuated by a large bow.
The set comes with several collar line options. I have used the V-neck for the mother and the off-the-shoulder cut for the daughter. For jewelry on the mother, I’ve used a flower hair pin stamp for the earrings (stamped and heat embossed before the head was glued over the hair) and the heart and chain stamps for the necklace.
For the sentiment on the mother’s card, I used the sentiment stamp included in the Betty set to stamp and heat emboss the “She believed she could, so she did!” and die-cut the “Happy Birthday.” (The words on the stamp “so she did!” are so fine, I found that they didn’t heat emboss well, so I stamped that line in black ink and then cut it out and glued over the blurred embossed one.) Next the sentiment was die-cut using a scalloped stitched rectangle from Tutti Designs. For the daughter’s card, a Poppy Stamps “Happy Birthday” die was used.
Both cards used layered mats of printed papers on both the front and back covers. Inside the cards have been left blank for personal messages.
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1 – smallest barn die out of red (Save all the doors and windows cut out for the backing of the “X” frames)
2 – small “X” window from white
1 – doors “X” die out of white
1 – roof trim die out of white
1 – straight line out of white
Cut animals/sun and color with markers, black gel pen and Distress Ink.
Glue white “X” frames to doors and window cut outs to form doors. Glue on roof trim.
If you plan on having doors that open, ink blend the cream barn piece edges and door/window openings.
Using clear tape, make hinges for all the doors and windows to open.
Position and glue cow to inside of barn. Glue barn to middle cream barn piece making sure not to glue any doors that are hinged to open. Glue flying chicken inside open barn door and other animals to front of barn.
Glue tab of brown base piece to back of cream piece. Test the barn in pop-up easel position. Using foam squares adhere green grass with eggs glued to them to the brown base to act as easel stops. Don’t have grass in front of the door that opens. Glue sun on to back of cream piece as if sun is rising behind the barn roof. (Make sure that sun top is no higher than the roof tip so card will fit in envelope.)
Stamp a sentiment on card base and back flap of envelope.
Hope this fun card has provided some inspiration for your crafting. 😊
Simply Made Crafts by Helen Griffin – Fun Sentiments Stamp Set
Vintage goat stamp
Stampin’ Up – Early Espresso ink pad
Ranger – Distress Ink – Vintage Photo
Sponge dauber
Stamping platform
Scissors
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Today we are making a 3-dimensional ice cream sundae card to fit in a mini slimline envelope using dies from Dies R Us.
1. You will need:
One card base 11 inches x 3 3/8 inchesfrom heavy white cardstock
One outside star paper 11 inches x 3 3/8 inches
One red and white strip inside back paper 4 3/4 inches x 3 3/8 inches
One wood-grained inside base paper 6 1/4 inches x 3 3/8 inches
One ice cream dish cut from vellum with details colored with white ink
Five ice cream scoops (I used 2 pinks, two white confetti and one chocolate)
Two chocolate toppings (I coated mine with a clear glaze to make it shiny)
One whipped cream topping (I used a shiny coated white scrap)
One red cherry (I cut from red card stock, added white gel pen accent, brown cardstock stem and coated with a clear glaze to make it shiny)
Two spoons (I cut mine from silver mirror cardstock)
Two sets of “You’re Sweet” sentiment – one red and one black or navy blue
Two sets of “Happy Birthday” sentiment – one white and one red
Stars and circles for hanging banner and decorations
One paper doily cut in half, 6 inches baker’s twine and clay red, white and blue confetti pieces
2. Fold the card base at 6 ¼ inches and place pop-up sundae die on fold per package instructions.
3. Follow the photos on working the folds. Start with bottom tier, then second tier and finally the two angled fold on first tier.
4. Glue narrow support piece to back of dish stem as marked in photo.
5. Glue white scrap to fill in rectangular hole in pop-up dish base, if covering with a vellum dish.
6. Place striped inside back and base papers behind/under card base and trace opening with pencil and cut out as shown in photo.
7. Adhere star paper to outside of card base.
8. Adhere inside striped papers to inside of card. Attach the cut-out sections as well.
9. Glue two scoops to pop-up dish and then add glue to back side of vellum dish where white inked decorations are so glue won’t show through vellum. Position vellum dish over pop-up dish base.
10. Attach ice cream scoops, toppings, cherry and one spoon to tiers, making sure that the movement of pop-up is not impaired by these decorations. Add clay confetti sprinkles.
11. Trim and fit a half paper doily under dish. Secure to base with dots of glue at three points.
12.Position and trim the other half of doily to front of card.
13. Glue the two sentiments together off-setting the darker shade in back to create a shadow effect.
14. Position and attach sentiments on front and inside card base.
15. Glue-up stars and circles banner on baker’s twine and glue in the corners over ice cream. Decorate with additional spoon, clay confetti sprinkles and paper stars.
Hope this sweet card has put a smile on your face and provided some inspiration for your crafting.
For another Ice Cream Sundae card I’ve made click here
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The Paper Studio – Crackled Stars 665976, Patriotic Woodgrain 847111 and XXl Stripe-Red/White 690587
The Paper Studio – Printable Vellum Paper – 8 1/2″ x 11″
Buttons Galore & More – Star Spangled Sprinkletez – NK114
BoBunny -I Heart Stars Stamp set – 121054444
Stampin’ Up Classic Stampin’ Pad – Dapper Denim ink
Taylored Expressions – Mini Slim Envelopes
Don’t forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There’s a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store.
For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.
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