Stove

Baking for Thanksgiving

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #182 whose parameters included a card with circles, vegetable garden colors, screen element and fuzz.

For this pop-up Thanksgiving card, I used Karen Burniston’s new Oven Pop-Up, along with her Memory Charms and Crosshatch Ovals

Cardbase: I used a purchased A6 cardbase that I trimmed down to 4.5×6 inches.Each of the four panels are covered with papers from the Cozy Fall paper collection. The front of the card has a stenciled wreath of leaves using oxide inks.

Oven/Stove: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page before starting the card. I cut my stove from a piece of orange cardstock covered with clear packing tape. I found that the silver foil oven door handle did not like to stay glued to the packing tape, so I reverted to glue dots to hold the handle on. The inside of the oven and pop-up platform were cut from a metallic coated black textured cardstock. I find it easier to add the stove knobs and burners to the stove in a flat position before attaching it to the card. Also it is easier to add any baking trays to the platform before attaching the oven to the platform.

Cabinets: Once the stove is attached; you can add the side cabinets. I cut the cabinets from some embossed wood grain cardstock and then inked them with brown ink to bring out the grain. The drawer and door (cookie tray) panels are part of the Oven Pop-Up set.  Decorative paper was used for the countertops. The upper cabinets are cut using the cookie tray die.

TV: The TV set from the Memory Charms die set has had its antenna and feet trimmed off and Nuvo Drops added for knobs. I screen shot a photo from the Craft Roulette episode #182 and resized it to a 1-inch rectangle, print on white paper and die-cut it with the TV screen die.

Decorations: Cotton fuzz was pulled from a cotton ball to be the steam off the tray of cookies fresh from the oven. The cookie tray, cookies, turner utensil, oven rack, oven mitt, and cabinet knobs are all part of the Oven Pop-Up set. The oval rug with its white label for a personal message come from the Crosshatch Ovals set.

Sentiments: The sentiments on the front (“Happy Thanksgiving Day”) and back (“Hello Fall”) come from the Cozy Fall paper collection.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope it has provided some inspiration.

Materials Used:

Dies

Stencils

  • Penguin Palace – Stencils 360o – Scents of Fall -STR004

Papers

  • Reminisce – 6×6 Double-sided Papers – Cozy Fall
  • American Crafts – 12×12 Embossed Wood Grain Cardstock – Dark Kraft
  • My Colors Cardstock – 12×12 Textured Cardstock – Black Bear
  • Silver Foil Cardstock
  • Black, Brown Kraft, Orange and White Cardstock
  • Patterned Cardstock Scraps
  • Park Lane Paperie – A6 Textured Card & Envelope – Ivory

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Walnut Stain
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide – Ripe Persimmon & Mustard Seed
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Bone Folder
  • Small Clips
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors
  • Paper Cutter
  • Penguin Palace – Stencils 360o System Templates
  • Computer and Printer

Miscellaneous

  • Nuvo Crystal Drops – Simply White
  • Cotton Ball Fuzz

Bun In The Oven – Gender Reveal Card

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Want a fun way to do a gender reveal for expectant parents? Here is a “Bun in the Oven” (which I must credit Kelly Marie Alvarez for the original 2D version of this interactive card idea.)

The card uses dies from Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release including Oven Extras, Oven Pop-Up and the Rectangles – Crosshatch, Baby Charms and Birthday Charms which were previously released.

(I recommend watching the assembly video for the Oven Pop-Up before starting your card.)

Cardbase: I started with a purchased A6 (4.75×6.5 inches) cardbase and envelope. The front and back panels were covered using two 6×6 sheets of pink and blue gingham checked papers, cut in 1-inch strips, and adhered alternating the colors. The inside panels are covered with wallpaper-like patterned paper and terra cotta colored floor paper.

Oven/Stove: I was genuinely surprised at how easy the pop-up oven is to assemble. It has just two pieces -the outer shell which I cut from white glossy cardstock and the inner platform which I cut from gray metallic cardstock.

The platform attaches much like the Little Labels Pop-Up with the front tabs gluing to the floor of the card and the back tab gluing to the wall of the card. Before I attached the outer shell, I added two sentiments to the window of the oven door. (You can download these sentiments below.) and cut another oven door from white cardstock trimming the bottom 1/8-inch shy of the fold line. I also cut a 2-inch square of gray metallic cardstock and glued it to the back wall just above the pop-up platform. This will be the inside wall of the oven.

It is easier to add the items inside the oven before the outer shell is attached, but you can still add the two pop-up cubes – one for the oven rack and then the other for the bun. The bun cube is adhered to the rack cube sandwiching the rack in place. (I ended up using a foam square between the two cubes to get a strong bond.)

To attach the oven shell, glue the bottom to the center of the platform and then fold the oven flat and add adhesive to the back of the stove knob panel. Close the card and the top panel will be positioned on the card wall so that it forms the stove. On the tabs that come off the sides of the stove top add glue. Now position the cabinet pieces’ small squares onto the tabs. Glue cabinet bottoms to the top edge of the platform, so that there is a toe kick below the cabinets. The counter tops are glued on once cabinets are attached.

Cabinets and Vent Hood: Once the stove is attached; you can add the side cabinets of drawers. I cut the cabinets a pale brown cardstock. The drawer panels and knobs are part of the Oven Pop-Up set.  Decorative paper was used for the countertops. The upper cabinets are cut using the larger rectangles dies in the Oven Extras set. The vent hood is in the same set. All the over the pop-up oven cabinets and vent hoof were adhered to the card with foam tape.

Decorations: The rug is made using two mid-size dies from the Rectangle Crosshatch set. On the back of the card is a yellow duck cut from the Baby Charms set and markers were used with the stencil die feature to make the bill and eye. The tiny hearts and stars on the wallpaper inside the card are from the Oven Pop-Up set. The bun in the oven was made by cutting off the charm loop on the cupcake die from the Birthday Charms set. The oven rack is from the Oven Pop-Up set as are the oven mitts.

Sentiments: All the sentiments were digitally created. You can download them here.

gender-reveal-oven-sentiments-1Download

Envelope: An extra oven mitt was glued to the back flap of the envelope to set the tone for the card inside.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Divinity Designs – 6×6 Paper Pad – Baby Boy
  • Divinity Designs – 6×6 Paper Pad – Baby Girl
  • Paper Lane Paperie – Silver Holographic Cardstock
  • White, Black and Yellow Cardstock
  • Paper Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Computer Printer
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker –Fine Tip – Black and Orange

Adhesives

Tools

A Modern Halloween

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Casting a spell of delight is this Halloween card depicting a modern-day witch cooking up a green bubbling brew on her shiny new stove.

The card uses dies from Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release including Oven Extras, Oven Pop-Up, Witch and Cauldron, Halloween Borders and Small Script – Halloween, a word set. A few other die sets from Karen Burniston were also used.

Cardbase: I started with a rectangle of white cardstock 10×6.5 inches that was folded in half to form a 5-inch tall by 6.5-inch wide, top fold card. The outside two panels were covered with black and white night sky paper. The inside top panel with a pumpkin wallpaper and a green grid cardstock.

Card Front: I used the Swirl Pattern Plate to create green, wispy steam swirls that encircle a witch’s face and elements of a spell casting brew – all of which come from the Witch and Cauldron die set. (I cut the swirl pattern and then used pressed the piece onto Sticky Specks, an adhesive sheet that can be applied after die-cutting.) I used the stencil features of the witch’s face die to color in the eyes and mouth. The nose can be folded out to ink the edges with green ink. The bubbles, eyeball and frog legs also have stencil features. With the exceptions of the face, bone, eyeball and broom, all other elements have been brushed with a glitter gloss to give them some subtle sparkle.

Standing Witch: Using the Witch and Cauldron die set; I used all the witch dies except the hat dies to create this long-legged witch with bangs.  Because she is seen both the front and the back, I cut two sets of her dress and sleeves. Her legs are two strips of 3/8-inch by 1-inch that I drew stripes on with a black marker. After I glued her head to her hair, I used an ultra-fine tipped black marker to draw in her bangs. She is adhered to a piece of clear plastic packaging with doubled sided tape so that she appears to be standing on the large bam box. When positioning the bam box, make sure that in the closed position the witch is within the closed card. (An assembly video of the bam box is located at near the bottom of the linked bam box page.)

Oven/Stove: I was genuinely surprised at how easy the pop-up oven is assembled. It has just two pieces -the outer shell which I cut from black mirror cardstock and the inner platform which I cut from 100 lb. black cardstock.

The platform attaches much like the Little Labels Pop-Up with the front tabs gluing to the floor of the card and the back tab gluing to the wall of the card. Before I attached the outer shell, I added a 1 3/8-inch square of clear plastic packaging to the back of the oven door with double-sided tape.

Then I cut another oven door from black cardstock trimming the bottom 1/8-inch shy of the fold line. Using a black marker, I colored the space around the oven door fold on the back (to hide the white) and the edges of the mirrored cardstock. I also cut a 2-inch square of black cardstock and glued it to the back wall just above the pop-up platform. This will be the inside wall of the oven. It is easier to add the items inside the oven before the outer shell is attached, but you can still add the two pop-up cubes – one for the oven rack and then the other for the pan. The pan cube is adhered to the rack cube sandwiching the rack in place. (I ended up using a foam square between the two cubes to get a strong bond.)

To attach the oven shell, glue the bottom to the center of the platform and then fold the oven flat and add adhesive to the back of the stove knob panel. Close the card and the top panel will be positioned on the card wall so that it forms the stove. On the tabs that come off the sides of the stove top add glue. Now position the cabinet pieces’ small squares onto the tabs. Glue cabinet bottoms to the top edge of the platform, so that there is a toe kick below the cabinets.

Cabinets: Once the stove is attached; you can add the side cabinets of drawers. I cut the cabinets from some embossed wood grain cardstock and then inked them with brown ink to bring out the grain. The drawer panels and knobs are part of the Oven Pop-Up set. Decorative paper was used for the countertops. The upper cabinets are cut using the larger rectangles dies in the Oven Extras set. For the cabinet doors over the vent hood (also in the Oven Extras set) I turned the rectangle on its side and cut the smaller decorative panel in half. Setting these small doors slightly apart, creates the illusion of two doors with silver knobs. The three upper cabinets were joined together with a strip of cardstock glued to their backs. They then were adhered to the card with foam tape.

Decorations: Between the two oven sets are lots of fun pieces that add dimension and realism to the pop-up scene. The Oven Pop-Up set includes the stove burners and knobs, oven rack and handle. The Oven Extras set includes the pan in the oven and pot on the stove as well as three pop-up cube strips that I used to pop-up the oven rack, pan inside the oven and pot on the stove. For the green bubbles in the pot, I used the hearts in the Oven Pop-Up set glued to the back of the pot which has its lid cut off. The bubbles are covered with green Nuvo Drops for dimension and slime factor. The orange canisters are the pot cut narrower and the lid glued on. They are adhered with foam squares to the wall. The orange rugs are from the Rectangle Crosshatch set. The brooms are from the Witch and Cauldron set and attached to the wall with foam squares as is the woodgrain scrap with silver knobs. The cooking utensil in the witch’s hand is from the Oven Pop-Up set. From the Halloween Borders set, I used the skulls and bones on the back of the card as well as two skulls inside the oven in a pan.

Sentiments: The new Small Script Halloween word set has the “hocus pocus” used on the card front as well as the “happy halloween” used inside on the kitchen rugs. The larger rug has space to add a personal message.

Envelope: “Cast A Spell” and a bubbling cauldron are stamped in black on the back of the envelope to set the tone for the card inside.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Fun Stampers Journey – Rubber Stamps – Witches Brew – SS-0388

Papers

  • Bazzill – 12×12 Raised Dot Cardstock – Berry Pretty
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • American Crafts – 12×12 Patterned Paper – Pumpkin Wallpaper – 320459
  • American Crafts – 12×12 Patterned Paper – Night Sky – 320409
  • American Crafts – 12×12 Embossed Wood Grain Cardstock – Dark Kraft
  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Textured Paper – Football – 5241435
  • Keep It Simple – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock
  • Silver and Black Mirror Cardstock
  • Woodgrain Embossed 12
  • White, Black, Kraft, Orange, Green and Yellow Cardstock
  • Clear Plastic Packaging
  • A7 envelope – White

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Gathered Twigs and Mowed Lawn
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black and Red
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker –Fine Tip – Black
  • Farber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen – 1.5 Bullet Nib – White-101 Marker – Snow
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Bone Folder
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors
  • Kat Scrappiness – Anti-Static Tool
  • Tweezers
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth

Miscellaneous

Baking Gingerbread

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The fragrance of spices and fresh baked gingerbread herald the Christmas season. Decorating a gingerbread house is often a group activity for families. This card is intended to evoke these kinds of memories.

Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release of new dies include the following dies used on this card: Oven Pop-Up, Oven Extras, Christmas Borders 1, Christmas Borders 2 and Small-Script – Christmas. Also included in the card are Karen’s Tiny House Pop-Up and Gingerbread Tiny House Add-Ons.

Cardbase: I used a white purchased A6 (4.75×6.5-inch) cardbase and covered the outside of it with two 4.75×6.5-inch panels of golden striped paper. Inside, I cut 4.75×6.5-inch panels of pink patterned paper and glued them close to the center fold but leaving a tiny gap at the fold. The white gap was colored in with a pink marker to match the paper on the inside of the card.

Stove: While the Oven Pop-Up is designed to be 3D, it can be trimmed and used as a flat piece by cutting off the stove top section and using the utensil handle as the burners. The oven window is backed with a silver baking sheet glued and taped to the back of the oven door. (Before I die-cut the oven, I covered the red cardstock with clear packing tape to get a shiny effect.) The handle and knobs were cut, folded and colored as you would for a pop-up version of the oven.

Decorations – Card Front: For the baking elements on the front of the card, all of them except the mixer are in the Oven Pop-up set. The mixer is in the Oven Extras set. The plates that the cookies are on are the burner circles for the stove top. I covered a piece of red cardstock with clear packing tape before cutting out all the red elements. For the white mixing bowl and plates, I used a glitter gloss to make them sparkle.

Gingerbread House: Watch the assembly video for the Gingerbread Tiny House Add-Ons located at the bottom of the linked page before cutting out pieces. I covered all the edges of the tiny house base before adhering the gingerbread panels with glitter gloss to make shiny frosting. You can die-cut tiny candy dots and gum drops to decorate the house. I opted to use translucent red Nuvo Drops to decorate the roof. For all the candy canes on the card come from the Christmas Borders 2 set.

Decorations – Inside: For all of the red and white candy decorations, I first assembled the candies and then added Glossy Accents to give them shine and dimension. (The candy canes on the back of the card I used clear packing tape on red cardstock which kept the white a crisp white rather than the pinkish white of the of the inside candy.) While the fence of candy canes is from the Christmas Borders 2 set, the peppermint candies are from the Gingerbread Tiny House Add-Ons set. The borders of gingerbread men are from the Christmas Borders 1 set which has a stencil feature to add the white icing decorations.

Sentiments: The “ho ho ho” and “Christmas greetings” are all from the Christmas Small Script word set. The shadows were cut from white and the words from red cardstock covered with clear packing tape to have a shiny appearance. A white label cut using the Crosshatch Rectangles and Labels is a place to write a personal message.

Envelope: Another strip of gingerbread men was cut using the Christmas Borders 1 set and glued to the back flap of the envelope.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Carnation Crafts – A4 Double-Sided Paper – Merry & Bright
  • Park Lane Paperie – Holographic Cardstock – Silver
  • White, Kraft, Black and Cream Cardstock
  • A6 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Farber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen- Bullet Nib – White-101 Marker – Snow
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Ranger – Glossy Accents
  • Nuvo Jewel Drops – Holly Berries

The Best Baking Birthday Card

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Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, icons of British baking and favorites of the person this card is made for, have been hosts for The Great British Baking Show from 2010-2016.

This stand-up U-fold card with crossbars is reminiscent of an old Aga stove. The card uses Paper Discovery by Olga Direktorenko’s Cosy Kitchen collection of dies, stamps, embossing folder and papers. Paper Discovery is a brand from Craftstash-UK or Craftstash-USA

Stove Doors: I wanted the oven doors to have the look of enameled iron, so I cut set of blue doors. (Save the out-cut of door openings for stamping and stove knobs for later) I cut a tiny white circle for the oven gauge and glued it in place on the one door. Next I covered all but the hinges on the doors with Glossy Accents gel and let them dry overnight. Once they were dry, I cut and glued the silver latch and hinges on to them before gluing them on to the doors I had already glued to the stove.

Tile Backsplash: I cut the tiled back splash from white card stock and brushed a light coat of Glossy Accents over the rows of tiles, avoiding the deep embossed grooves between tiles.

Glass Jars of Fruit: To achieve the look of glass, stamp and color on white cardstock using permanent inks when dry cove with a thick layer of Glossy Accents. When dry curve around your finger or pen to create the curved glass effect.

Dresser: Cut one and use an embossing sandwich for your die-cutting machine to emboss the details into the cardstock. Cut a 1/4 inch x 4 1/2 inches strip of white cardstock for the shelve crossbar. Using an ink blending tool color the crossbar and dresser to bring out the embossed details using a yellow ink. (Don’t ink where the stove is as you will be stamping there.)

Oven Stamping: Using the stove out-cut from cutting the stove doors, trace with pencil where the door openings are onto the dresser back. Remove stove out-cut and using a stamping platform stamp sentiments or baking trays in oven openings. (I masked off the other openings that the rolling pin handles and baking pan that would cover with yellow paper tape.)

Stove Assembly: Cut another stove from blue cardstock. Glue all the doors to the backs of the “enameled’ doors from first step.  Glue the stove front to dresser matching up stamped images with the door openings.  Adhere two layers of the blue stove knob cut-outs to top of stove. (This will add some dimension to make the knobs be raised up from stove front.) Cut from silver mirror cardstock the knobs, thin line trim, door hardware, stove burners and utensil rack. Glue silver hardware onto doors and knobs and silver trim in place.  Glue door hinges into place on to stove front being careful not to get glue onto stamped images. Once glue is dry, fold doors back to crease hinges. Cut a 1/2 inch x 4 1/2 inches strip of blue cardstock for the stove burners crossbar.  Glue dresser on to card base after the shelf and burners step.

U-Fold Card Base: Cut a 6 3/8 inches x 6 15/16 inches rectangle from heavy white cardstock. Score on a scoreboard at 1 inch, 1 1/2 inches, 5 7/16 inches and 5 15/16 inches and fold the outer folds as mountain folds and the inner folds as valley folds. This should create a U-shaped card base.

Wallpaper: Cut pieces of your decorative “wallpaper” to fit the top half of each of the card base’s sections. Allow for black space over the folds. Glue decorative pieces in place. (Note: It might make the crossbars stronger if you glued the narrow inside strips of decorative paper on after the crossbars are attached, but before the dresser is glued in place.)

Wainscoting: Using the kitchen background embossing folder, emboss the wainscoting and floor from a piece of cardstock that is at least 7 inches x 3 inches. Using an ink blending tool, color the wainscoting and floor with yellow ink to match the dresser. Cut pieces to cover the lower half of the card base (two 1-inch panels of wainscoting and first row of floor tile and one 3 7/8 inches x 3 /4 inch of two rows of floor tile and bottom edge of wainscoting.) Glue the two 1-inch panels to the side sections of card base. Cut a 3 7/8 inches x 2 1/2 inches piece of blue cardstock to be glued in place as the back of the stove.  With the card base open in the U-shape, position the dresser with stove over the opening and mark with a pencil where the shelf and stove burner crossbars should go on the narrow inside walls. Adhere the large blue stove back to the card base using the pencil mark for the stove burner crossbar for positioning. Glue remaining strip of flooring with wainscoting at the bottom of the stove back.

Shelf and Burners: Stamp color and cut out herb pot, utensils and kettle. With tiny dots of glue, attach the utensils to the silver rack and add tiny piece of foam squares to the back of the rack and utensils. Attach the kettle to the from of a stove burner. Fold 1/4 inch tabs blue crossbar at each end. Using scraps of blue, attach the burners to the blue crossbar centering them over the stove knobs. Glue the backsplash tile onto the card base above the burners. Adhere the utensil rack above the tile backsplash.  Assemble the shelf and its contents in the same manor as the stove burners crossbar. Glue in place to card base using pencil marks. 

Birthday Banner: Stamp onto a 3-inch x 5/8-inch paper strip a sentiment from the Simply Food stamp set.  Cut notches on ends of strip and fold into a ribbon banner. Glue ends of ribbon to top of dresser.

Envelope: I used a 6 x 9 inches envelope for this card that folds flat into 5 3 /4 inches x 6 3/8 inches. The stamps are from the baking set of stamps.

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Dies

Embossing Folders

Stamps

Inks

  • Memento – fade-resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black, Rich Coco
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz’s Distress Ink – Salt Ocean, Fossilized Amber
  • Silver metallic pen
  • Silver gel pen
  • Crayola Signature Brush & Detail Dual-ended Markers

Papers

Additional Supplies: