Turtle

Sea Turtles Card Sneak Peek

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It’s time for Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston‘s July 2026 release of ten new die sets and five new stamp sets. This card features the new Cascade Pop-Up die set and Garden Greetings stamp set along with the previously released Sea Animals, Rectangle Crosshatch,and Sea Stage Add-Ons dies and the Cruise Greetings stamps. New dies will be available on July 23, 2026 on Karen Burniston’s website.

Cardbase: Use a purchased A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) cream cardbase and cover the four panels, inside and out, with rectangles of patterned paper cut using the largest die in the Rectangles – Crosshatch die set. Ink the edges of the card and decorative paper by rubbing a small brown ink cube along the edges. Splatter inside and out with brown and silver shimmer inks to create a sandy, foamy water texture on the cardbase.

Cascading Circles Pop-Up: From heavy, dark blue cardstock, cut one of the large mechanism piece, one of the small strip, and two of the largest circle using the Cascade Pop-Up die set. Cut three of the second largest circle from patterned paper and glue two on the large dark blue circles and the third onto dark blue cardstock before placing the large circle with a slot die, centering the patterned paper with in the circle. Cut the slotted circle out of the two layers of paper. Following the directions on the packaging, install the mechanism and the three circles with the slotted circle on the middle platform with the strip going through the slot.

Turtles: Nine tiny sea turtles were cut using the Sea Stage Add-Ons die set and two large turtles were cut using the Sea Animals die set. (I used tan and dark green cardstock along with markers and an ink cube to color the shells.)

Sentiments: The “Life is better on the water”and “Sun, Sand, Sea” are from the Cruise Greetings while the “Sit & Relax” is from the Garden Greetings stamp set. All the circles were cut using the dies in the Cascade Pop-Up die set.

Envelope: This card would fit into an A2 size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Doodlebug Design Inc. – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Swimming Pool Gingham-Linen
  • White, Tan, Dark Blue and Dark Green Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A2 Cardbase – Cream

Ink

  • Catherine Pooler – Bottled Ink – Pearl Shimmer
  • Hero Arts – Silk Ink – Bronze
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Paris Dusk
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Gathered Twigs
  • OLO Marker -B2.2 Sky
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Brown

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Seas The Day

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I am always needing masculine birthday cards, so having an underwater sea turtle card that has some pop-up motion is a good thing.

This card uses a new pop-up mechanism in Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release – Stocking Pop-Up. I also used Karen’s Sea Animals, and a variety of her word and alphabet sets.

Cardbase: I started with an A5 (148 x 210mm or 5.875 x 8.25 inches) piece of heavy sea blue cardstock and folded in in half to form card that is (148 x 105mm or 5.875 x 4.125 inches) with a side fold. I had two sheets of the same A5 size printed underwater background. One I cut in half for the two panels inside. From the matching sheet I cut the decorative panels needed for the pop-up mechanism and used the remaining paper to cover the top half of the card front and the final two scraps to cover the card back. Any exposed areas on the outside of the card were covered with printed wave vellum.

Turtle Pop-Up: While the Stocking Pop-Up comes with a large stocking and Christmas decorations, you don’t need them to make the pop-up mechanism. I cut the large rectangular cover piece, the tombstone piece with baby tombstone and the triangular shaped piece with tabs from sea blue cardstock. I followed the directions on the packaging to assemble on to the card. (I practiced with some scrap cardstock first to get the placement right.) I assembled up to the point where I needed to glue the second tab of the large cover piece to the card. This so I could easily adhere the turtle to the mechanism.

Once I had the turtle from the Sea Animals die set assembled, I glued it to the large tombstone matching the upper edge of the turtle shell to the curve of the tombstone, so the arms and head of the turtle are above the tombstone. Next, I trimmed the tombstone down to fit the turtle’s shell.

Decorations: Plastic droplets were used on the card front along with trails of glitter gloss to simulate bubbles. A strip of vellum printed with waves adds to the sense of underwater motion.

The back of the card uses scraps of the underwater paper with a turtle swimming upward. A tiny shaker element is under the vellum piece with tiny yellow and orange fish and clear sequins.

Sentiments: Three different die sets were used to create “Seas the Day.” The Mini Alphabet was uses for “Seas.” The “the” comes from Word Set 11 and “Day” is from Word Set 17. Both the Happy Birthday die and its shadow die were used. The shadow was cut from shimmer cardstock and the “Happy Birthday” was coated with glitter gloss.

Envelope: The A6 white envelope has a school of fish stamped on its back flap in blue ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Papercraft Society – Sam Calcott’s Underwater & Nautical Box – Clear Stamps

Papers

  • Papercraft Society – Sam Calcott’s Underwater & Nautical Box – A5 Size Papers -Underwater Background, Wave Vellum and Blue(s) Cardstock
  • Craft Consortium – A4 Size Double-Sided 200gsm Papers – Gardeners Delight – Greens & Browns
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 White Gold Shimmer Cardstock
  • Dark Green Foil Cardstock
  • White, and Black Cardstock
  • A6 Envelope – White

Ink

  • Papercraft Society – Sam Calcott’s Underwater & Nautical Box – Mini Ink Pad – Aquamarine
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth
  • Scissors

Miscellaneous

  • Kat Scrappiness – Sparkling Clear Droplets- Sampler Pack
  • Picket Fence Studios – Sequin Mix – Fishy Wishes