Wizard of Oz

It’s the Karen Burniston design team challenge for June 2025 using the theme of Animals and Characters. I chose to make a Wizard of Oz themed card using a variety of die sets. (See Materials Used for the list of dies used located at the bottom of this post.)

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase: Start with a 8.5×5.5-inch piece of single-sided patterned cardstock and fold in half to form a side-fold A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) card. Cover the two inside panels with decorative papers cut with the largest die in the Rectangles – Crosshatch die set.

House Pop-Up: (Watch the assembly video for Tiny House Pop-Up located at the bottom of the linked page.) Follow the directions in the process video above for the modifications made to the Tiny House Pop-Up using the Beach Bar Tiny House Add-Ons to add a porch to the house.

Characters: (Watch the assembly videos for Paper People, Knight and Dragon, and Monkey and Lion located at the bottom of the linked pages.) Follow the directions in the process video above for the modifications made to these die sets for the specific characters. For the Witch’s legs cut two strips of white cardstock 1/8-inch thick and draw red strips on them. Die cut shoes from the Witch and Cauldron die set in red glitter cardstock.

Sentiments: All the sentiments used on the card are stamped using brown ink and Riley and Company Wizard of Oz Dress-Up stamps.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope stamped with a sentiment from Riley and Company on the back flap in brown ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Riley and Company – Clear Stamps & Dies – Dress-Up Riley – Oz 1 & Oz 2

Papers

Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
Concord & 9th – 8.5×11-inch Solid 80 lb Cardstock – Poppy, Buttercup, Peacock
DCWV – 6×6 Mat Stack of Glitter Cardstock – Pink, Purple, Ruby
Hunkydory – A2 Mirri Card – Oxidised Metals
Keep It Simple – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper –Back To Basics – Jade Collection Pack – Meadow: Floral
Recollections – 8.5×11-inch Solid 100 lb Cardstock – Flesh Tones
Whimzwhirled – Digital papers – Yellow Brick Road
Brown and Tan Cardstock
White Copier Paper
Blue Checked Cardstock
Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Husk Smooth

Ink

Creative Craft Products – Dual Tipped Alcohol Markers – BG1 Blue Grey, 95 Burnt Sienna, WG1 Warm Grey
Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Espresso Truffle and Tuxedo Black
Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
Scrapbook.com – Glitter Brush Marker – Red
Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black, Red
StazOn -Solvent Ink – Jet Black

Adhesives

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
Paper Trimmer
Bone Folder
Score Board
Stamping Platform
LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
Stamping Blocks
Scissors
Pencil
Paper Masking Tape
We R Memories – QuickStick
Tweezers
Ruler

Sometimes it just feels like we’re off to see the Wizard of Oz to get all our problems solved. But what we learn as we traverse the road, it’s the people we meet along the way that mean more to us than the real issue.

This is a card to let the friends you meet along the journey know you appreciate them. It uses stamps and dies by Riley and Company to recreate the characters from the movie, The Wizard of Oz. Riley of course is a moose, so it’s moose in OZ costumes.

I stamped Riley four times and then stamped the costumes for the Tin Man, Lion, Scarecrow and Dorothy from the two Oz Dress-Up sets and Toto too. Watercolor pencils were used to color the individual pieces before die-cutting out the colored pieces. I found that cutting apart the bodies made it easier to assemble the costumed moose allowing for feet and arms to be positioned in more interesting ways. (The dies cut very close to the stamped images and are very easy to line-up.)

Using a download template that I had created for other cards using multiple sliders I first printed by yellow brick paper on medium weight white cardstock and then printed the template on the back of the yellow brick paper.

split-slider-template Download

I had to edit the template, x-ing out some sliders and moving two others by half an inch to accommodate the size of the moose. Using a metal ruler and craft knife I cut the red lines around each slider and then scored the blue and green lines before folding the sliders.

Before assembling the card, I stamped the sentiments on to the card front and the interactive directions on to the pull tab of the main slider piece.

Double sided tape was added to the thin tabs on the five multi-sliders. To adhere the card front to the card back, I used narrow strips of foam tape along the sides and bottom edges. Place the main slider piece with the print side down to adhere the multi-slider panels to it. Making sure it can slide between the foam tape. Peel off foam tape backing and adhere the card back.

Turn to the front to train the multi-slider panels to slide open and close. Glue figures on to the panels.

Decorate the back of the card with scraps and you can write your personal message there.

As is my usual, I stamped the envelope flap back to hint as to what is inside. I used the ruby slippers and the “Where are my freakin’ ruby slippers when I need them?” which came-out upside-down and I think sets the card up nicely for the journey.

Hope you enjoyed the card and found inspiration from it.

Here are more split easel slider cards I’ve blogged about: