Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Sending Get Well Wishes
Monday, March 17, 2025
Surprise Pop Up Cake Card
Friday, March 14, 2025
Birthday Wish
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Ladybug Floating Hexagon
Hi Crafty Friends,
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Today I am sharing a fabulous fun fold card, this one is called a Floating Hexagon Card. This version is a 5 x 7 size and you can find out how to make it here.
To decorate my card I used various products included in the Spellbinders January 2025 Club Kits.
To decorate all the green panels on each of the sides of the card, I used the Faceted Petals Embossing Folder. After embossing each of the pieces, I rubbed white pigment ink over the raised areas of the cardstock.
I added the flowers from the Large Die of the Month - Botanical Atrium and then added two ladybugs from the Stitching Die of the Month - Stitched Ladybug. And yes I did actually add stitching to the ladybugs body and head ... I must be getting crazy with age haha!
I added two sentiments to the front panel. The bottom sentiment is from the January Clear Stamp of the Month - Nature's Dance and the top one from the December Clear Stamp of the Month - Forever Yours. I thought both worked with the ladybugs.
Monday, March 10, 2025
Space Puzzle Slider Card
Directions - 5 inch x 7 inch version:
1. Cut a piece of cardstock to measure 5 inches x 11 inches, this will be the card base. Score along the long side at 1 inch; 2 inches; 9 inches and 10 inches. Fold on all score lines so you have a mountain, valley, valley & mountain folds.
2. From the same colour cardstock as the card base above, cut two rectangles that are 4 inches x 2.5inches and two rectangles that are 3 inches x 2.5inches.
3. Apply glue along the 1 inch panel on the left. Starting from the bottom adhere one of the 4 inch rectangles to this panel, making sure to line up with the left and bottom edges. Next adhere one of the 3 inch rectangles to the same left panel, making sure that it lines up with all edges including the bottom rectangle.
4. Using the remaining rectangles, adhere these in the opposite way as step 3 onto the right hand panel. So the 4 inch rectangle is on top and 3 inch on bottom.
5. Cut your layering pattern papers so they are 3 3/4 inches x 2 1/4 inches and 2 3/4 inches x 2 1/4 inches and adhere to relevant rectangles on card base.
6. Decorate card as desired. If you wish to add a panel to the inside of card, this will be 6 3/4 inches x 4 3/4 inches.
For the inside of the card I added the planet surface using grey cardstock and the die from the Starry Night Embossing Folder. I added the planet and UFO Friends to the panel.
For the sentiment I added a birthday sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Stellar Sentiments.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Butterfly Puzzle Slider Card
Hi Crafty Friends,
Welcome to my blog. Today I am sharing another card I creatd using products from Spellbinders January Club Kits.
This time around I created a puzzle slider card, I have seen a lot of these in A2 sizes but I wanted to make mine 5 x 7. To decorate the card I used the Spellbinders Take Flight Betterpress set with the coordination stencil. The sentiment is from Spellbinders A Little Messages Sentiments set.
Directions - 5 inch x 7 inch version:
1. Cut a piece of cardstock to measure 5 inches x 11 inches, this will be the card base. Score along the long side at 1 inch; 2 inches; 9 inches and 10 inches. Fold on all score lines so you have a mountain, valley, valley & mountain folds.
2. From the same colour cardstock as the card base above, cut two rectangles that are 4 inches x 2.5inches and two rectangles that are 3 inches x 2.5inches.
3. Apply glue along the 1 inch panel on the left. Starting from the bottom adhere one of the 4 inch rectangles to this panel, making sure to line up with the left and bottom edges. Next adhere one of the 3 inch rectangles to the same left panel, making sure that it lines up with all edges including the bottom rectangle.
4. Using the remaining rectangles, adhere these in the opposite way as step 3 onto the right hand panel. So the 4 inch rectangle is on top and 3 inch on bottom.
5. Cut your layering pattern papers so they are 3 3/4 inches x 2 1/4 inches and 2 3/4 inches x 2 1/4 inches and adhere to relevant rectangles on card base.
6. Decorate card as desired. If you wish to add a panel to the inside of card, this will be 6 3/4 inches x 4 3/4 inches.
Here is a look at the inside of my card, I added the other butterfly included in the Betterpress set. The sentiment is from the Natures Dance Stamp/Die set.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
March 2025 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge
Hi Crafty Friends,
As you can see by my card above, I decided to select the "Ocean" for my card this month. I was so excited last year when Karen release the Pirate Ship add-on die set to go with the Boat Pop-up die set ... I have quite a collection of pirate stamps and dies here. But because I was ill during that release I didn't get around to making anything with it. So I decided to pull it our for my card this time around.
For my card this month, I decided to create a Slimline Gatefold card. my card measures 4inches x 8 1/2 inches when closed. The pirate ship is just under 4 inches when it is folded in a card. so it just fits nicely. I made up the pirate ship before doing anything else, to make sure it fitted what i had in mind.
I didn't want to just have the pirate ship in the ocean, so I decided to have my slimline card as a gatefold card.
Here is a better view of the pirate ship, I added three dolphins (one is behind the ship) to the card which are from the Set Sail Borders Die Set.
I added a birthday sentiment from the Pirates Sentiments Clear Stamp set to the Crosshatch Banner, to the lower left side of my card. I added a pirate hat and sword to the banner both of which are from the Pirate Borders die set.
I also added an anchor to the ship which is also from the Set Sail Borders die set.
On the right hand side of the card, I added the beach scene, starting with the palm tree from the Palm Tree Pop-up die set. Fortunately, like the Pirate ship, the palm tree closes straight rather than at an angle so both work well in a slimline card.
I added the pirates using the new Paper People die set as well as the Tiny Accessories die set for the bandana hat and eye path and the Pirate Borders for the swords and black pirate hat.
I also added the treasure chest and jewels which are all from the Pirate Borders die set.
The front flap on the left side of my card is 5 inches and the front flap on the right is 3 3/4 inches, which gives a slight overlap .

Monday, March 3, 2025
Bouncing By To Say
Hi Crafty Friends,
Today I am sharing a Slimline card I created using the Spellbinders Classic Pooh Collection.
This was a pretty quick card to make as I already had all the Pooh characters made and when I found this slimline patterned paper it was super easy. The “bouncing” sentiment is from an older Kindred Stamps stamp set.
For the inside of my card, I took the matching patterned paper I used on the front of my card. I trimmed around the grass area and added this to the bottom of my card. I then added the balloon to the left side of the card, so that it was on both sides of the card. Finally I added a sentiment using Spellbinders Nature's Dance stamp set.