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.
August’s card is made with Simon Says Stamp! dies and papers from it’s July 2025 card kit.
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Materials Used:
Dies • Simon Says Stamp! – Steel Dies – Window Trio – 1401sd
Papers • La-La Land Crafts 6×6 Double Sided Paper Pad – In The City • Kraft Cardstock • Spellbinders – BetterPress – 5.5 x 4.25” (A2) Cotton Card Panels – Porcelain & Pebble
Ink • Spellbinders – BetterPress Ink – BetterPress Black
This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #275 whose parameters were include an ATC, starry night colors, down element, and white dots. I chose to make a shaped card that includes an ATC (Artist Trading Card.)
Watch the process video to see how I made this card.
Cardbase: I started with two pieces of 4.125×11-inch white cardstock. Traced around the arrow pattern I made from scrap paper and cut both of the arrows at the same time. I trimmed one arrow, at the wide end, off by .5-inch to let the other arrow have a tab to connect the the two pieces together. (After I completed the card, I found it was a little too long to fit in an 6×9-inch catalog size envelope, so I trimmed the arrow tip a little to made it fit.)
Sentiments: I used Karen Burniston’s Mini Alphabet to make the “When you’re down, Look up to the stars” sentiment. (I lined the letters up on my grid mat and used low tack tape the pick them up in line and then added glue, pressed in place on the card and finally lifted the tape off, pressing letters onto card.)
Envelope: The card fits into an catalog size envelope (6x 9-inches).
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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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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
This past few weeks I’ve been playing with some of Karen Burniston’s accordion dies released under the Elizabeth Craft Designs (ECD) and combining them with her more recent dies branded under the KB Riley LLC label.
This July 4th accordion decoration features the Accordion Star and Star Fancy Frame Edges from ECD and the Fancy Label Accordion and Fancy Solid Frame sets which are currently available on Karen Burniston’s website. The patriotic stamped images and stamped border paper are from Honey Bee Stamps.
Counting down to when Santa comes can be a fun for little ones and older ones with a tree of ornaments that are stored in their numbered drawers until their day to be opened and hung on their drawer knob. The drawers are big enough to hold a treat, note or gift card as well as their ornament. The large star is for December 25 and is a 2-inch box that opens from the top to reveal a larger gift.
I used 16 sheets of 12×12 inch sheets of 80lb. textured cardstock to construct the slider boxes and the layer bases.
Construct the slider boxes as shown in assembly video, except use a metal brad instead of ribbon for the drawer pull. (I sprayed the brads green before assembling drawers.)
Once all 24 slider boxes and drawers are assembled, they will be assembled in to six layers of four boxes each, using the crosshatch rectangles in three sizes.
Cut four rectangles from each of the three largest crosshatch dies. I pinched the center points on each side of the rectangles to line them up as shown in the photograph. Glue together each pair.
Using a grid work surface, Line up the four boxes with drawers opening away from the crosshatch rectangles. Apply glue to the edge of the rectangle and the box bottom. Place a weight such as a stamping block or cell phone on top of boxes until the glue is set. (I cooked dinner and did a load of laundry while gluing the six layers together and letting them dry enough to move.)
Play with the positioning of the layers before you glue them. I used the crosshatch borders to help me know where to place glue. The bottom layer will have the boxes spaced the furthest out while the top layer will have the boxes almost butted up against each other.
For the tree base, make four pivot panel cards – two trains and two gifts. For the base fold an 11 x 4.25-inch piece of heavy cardstock in half and scored the long top edge at 3/8 inches. Snip the scored tab at the center fold. Assemble pivot cards and then glue to the tree bottom forming an “X”.
Make 24 ornaments from the winter and holiday charm sets. (I made four of six different designs and colors.)
Download the box and star tip patterns. Cut six of the 2-inch crosshatch squares, one of the box pattern and 12 of the star tip patterns.
Glue two of the star tip pieces together to form a 4-sided pyramid. Repeat with the rest of the star tip pieces to create 6 pyramids. To assemble the box, glue crosshatch squares to sides of box while flat. Glue only “TAB X”s to adjacent square edges to form a box with a hinged lid. Attach star tips to box with glue or double-sided tape.
Die cut the 3-inch crosshatch square from green to cover the hole on the top layer. Mark the center and die cut using the smallest crosshatch square die, a square in the center of the large square. Glue large square over hole on top layer. Added glue to bottom tip of star and slide into hole in the top.
Sometimes simple is best. This embroidery floss filled-tree card has a simple message and design – Shine!
This is a first try at the new Spellbinder’s Large -Die-of-the-Month for November 2020 which has three designs to cut the holes and then using needle and thread to fill-in the designs. I used the full six strands of embroidery floss but think next time I might try three or four strands for the light circles. I followed the assembly video for the die set taping off my loose ends of threads.
Once the tree was stitched, I cut down the blue scrap piece I had die-cut the tree onto 3 7/8 x 3 5/8 inches. Using foam adhesive strips, I adhered the tree onto a green piece of mirror car that was 4 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches. These layers were then placed on a 6 x 5 inches sheet of patterned paper by Craft Consortium that had been adhered to a 6 ½ x 5 inches white card base.
Using a foiled sentiment, I had in my sentiments stash, I set the theme of shing bright for the card. (I like to do my foiling of sentiments in large groups to save time later.)
The inside sentiment is one my favorites from an old Kaisercraft stamp set. I tried a new tinsel embossing powder with it.
For the envelope flap, I used a new embossing folder that has big round dots, much like the candle glow circles stitched on the card.
Children’s Christmas pageants that re-enact the birth of the Christ child are the theme of these quickly made decoupaged pop-up cards.
In less than two hours I was able to make these cute cards using Craft Consortium’s Nativity collection designed by Hetz Cuppleditch. Using the 10 sheets of the pre-cut decoupaged scenes which are labeled with the layer number for each piece it is super simple to glue up these scenes matching pieces to the layer below. (You could use foam pads, but if you plan to mail these cards in the USA, you will pay extra postage because of the thickness.)
The box-like stage is created by using the Hunkydory Final Shadow Box die set using the largest of the rectangular window dies to cut from the double-sided paper also from the Craft Consortium Nativity collection. The back of the stage is cut from scrap packaging with the “Joy to the World” die cut from a purple scrap envelope (or sentiments from old Christmas cards).
An old Kaisercraft sentiment stamp set was used to stamp the back flaps of the envelopes for these cards to foretell what is inside.
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Angels announced the coming of the newborn babe and in centuries old tradition of iconic triptychs this little card does similar with its gatefold doors opening to the simple stable under some palm trees on a starry night.
This is the second in a series of blogs about Christmas cards made from the 2020 Hunkydory paper collection entitled The Miracle of Christmas.
To create this card, I played with scrap paper cute to the size of the heavy colored card stock I was using. After deciding on a simple gate fold with the inside top and bottom folds cut and inverted, I fussy cut out all the printed paper elements. Knowing that the palm trees were going to be adhered with tiny foam squares cut to fit, I added the foam at one step in my preparations before assembly.
The measurements of the outer adorable scorable card is 5 ½ inches (140 mm) tall by 8 ¼ inches (252 mm) wide. It was scored at 2 1/8 inches (55 mm) and at 6 1/8 inches (158 mm).
The inside, light weight, navy blue cardstock is also 5 ½ inches (140 mm) tall by 8 ¼ inches (252 mm) wide. And scored at scored at a hair more than 2 1/8 inches (55 mm) and at a hair less than 6 1/8 inches (155 mm). The inside card needs to have a slightly smaller center than the outside card to fold properly at the two folds. Using a T-topped ruler, I marked where the four cut lines should go (see downloadable template) and cut using a metal straight edge and craft knife. (You could use a sliding trimmer if you have one.)
To fold the inside piece, I first folded the card as a gatefold and then carefully aligning the inverted strips edges with card edges and made the inverted folds.
Decorating the inside of the card Involved cutting two strips of starry paper at 4 x 2 inches (100 x50 mm) and one 4 x 3 15/16 inches (100 x 98m) and gluing them so that the card fold were left exposed. The stable was glued down, and the foam padded palm trees adhered so as not to impede the card folds. Two stars were cut from the papers and the top on adhered with a foam square.
The outside decorations involved some reinforcement of the angels’ trumpets by gluing them onto scraps of the same paper. Once the paper decorations were added, Nuvo drops were added as stars by opening the card flat and allowing to dry flat.
The final sentiment was cut using an Impression Obsession die from an old cream envelope and glued to the back of the card.
I stamped the A2 envelope back with the Little Town of Bethlehem stamp using Crumb Cake Stampin’ Up ink which almost matches the gold Nuvo drops used on the card.
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