Friday, March 15, 2024

Dragonfly Slimline


 Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a dragonfly themed Slimline Pop-up card I created recently.


I started this card with the front ... using the Creative Expressions Dragonfly Edger die set. I have had this die for some time now, and it was great to get it out to play. When I was figuring out what size card to make, I saw how easily it would fit on a slimline card. I did make my slimline 4 inches wide to give it plenty of room.

I die cut another dragonfly from white cardstock that had double sided adhesive tape on the front. I then covered the adhesive with Rose Copper Microfine Glitter from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I added a sentiment to the lower right hand corner which is from My Creative Life's With Love Stamp set.


You can see how the wings of the dragonfly are raised from the card base.


For the inside of my card I created a pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Raising Platform Pop-up die set. I added a stamped Happy Birthday to the white label.

I decorated the inside of the card using small dragonflies, using Karen Burniston's Flutter Charms die set.








Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Big Birthday Wishes


Hi Crafty Friends,

I was recently asked to make a 40th birthday card by someone and as you can see I was happy to do so.

This gave me the opportunity to pull out one of the dies from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott's Showstoppers 3 Collection ... the Double Concertina Gatefold die set.


I kept the front of the card fairly simple as the focus is on the inside. I added another of the circles to the front with a sentiment. I also added a butterfly from Text{ures}.



On the back of the card, I added a white panel and added another birthday sentiment. This also gives us a place to add a handwritten sentiment.
















 

Monday, March 11, 2024

Feel Better Soon

 


Hi Crafty Friends,

Thanks for stopping by my blog, today I am sharing a get well card I created recently.

To create my card I used Heffy Doodle's Bed Heads stamp set, this is a super cute stamp set which has been sitting on my desk for some time ... I finally got around to using it. That's one of my aims for 2024, to use my stamps and dies I have previously purchased.


I created a Centre Step Card using Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card die set.

I added the "Thinking of You" sentiment from Whimsy Stamps Slimline Heartbeats die set.


For the inside of the card I added a sentiment using Simon Says Stamp's Healing Hugs stamp set.

I also added the bed side table and some of the accessories included in the Heffy Doodles stamp set.








Thursday, March 7, 2024

Winged Butterflies

 


Hi Crafty Friends,

Thanks for dropping by my blog. Today I am sharing a Winged Pop Up Card I created using dies from Made to Surprise by Sam Calcott's Showstoppers 3 Collection. 


 The die used here is called 5in x 7in Showstoppers Winged Pop Up Card die set,  this die set can be used to make a number of different styles of card.


I made this style of card a year or two ago without dies, but I was pleased when I found out that I could use this die set to make them. It's always a lot easier and quicker with a die set and not having to measure.


As you can see by the photo above, this card has extra panels on the back of the card which gives it a winged effect.


Here is another photo of my card, showing the other winged panel.

To decorate my card, I used the butterfly die from Text{ures} and some of the gold foiled sentiment ephemera from the Papercraft Society Box 53.


Here is an overhead view of my card, so you can see the style of card a little better.


When you close the card, the "wings" fold back to create a 5 inch x 7 inch card. The card stays closed with the help of a belly band. I decorated the belly band using another of the butterflies and a gold foiled sentiment from the Papercraft Society Box 53.


Here is a look at the front of my card without the belly band.


Here is a view of the back of the card. I added layered panels to the two back side panels. I added two sentiments using Made To Surprise's Sentiment set from the Showstopper Collection. I gold embossed both sentiments. There is also space on this panels to add a personal greeting to the recipient.







Tuesday, March 5, 2024

March 2024 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

 


Hi Crafty Friends, 

Welcome to our March Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.

Check out Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday (US Time) when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month, plus Karen will have an amazing video tutorial to share with us all.

Our challenge theme this month is ... "BUNNY EARS" - Use a bunny, bunnies or even just the ears for a card of any theme.


Here is a quick video to see my card in action.


As you can see, I have created an Easter themed Slimline Card. Actually my card is more a DL card, rather than a Slimline being that it is 8 1/4 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches, I opted for this size to make sure the Bunny Ball Character would fit inside the card properly.


For this card, I decided to not attach the bunny to the card, that way when the card is opened the bunny explodes out of the card. You can see this if you watch the video above. The bunny can't fall out of the card as the magnets on the flap keeps it safe inside.

I used the Long Flap and Closure die set to add the flap to the bottom portion of the Slimline card.

Along the top of the card I added a thin panel to which I added the bunnies from the Easter Borders die set.


The grass along the bottom of the card is from the Long Nature Edges die set. 

I also added a stamped sentiment to my card, which I die cut out using the smallest rectangle die included in the Short Rectangles die set.


To create the bunny, I used the Mini Ball Pop-up die set along with the new Animals Add-ons 5 die set. I added a green label to the bottom of the bunny to look like grass, the label is from the Rectangle and Labels Crosshatch die set.


For the front of the card, I used the dies from the Animals Add-on 5 die set to make two bunny faces. I also used the smallest circle included in the Circles Crosshatch die set.

I also used the Happy Easter die set to add the Easter sentiment.



















Monday, March 4, 2024

Love You Always

 


Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing two Gumball Machine Shaped card I created recently to give to my grandchildren for Valentine's Day. I haven't used the word "Valentine" on the cards, so they could be used for any occasion.


My February Papercraft Society Box arrived the week before Valentine's Day, so I decided to pull out some of the supplies included in the kit to make two Gumball machine shaped cards to give to my two grandchildren for Valentine's Day.

These are cute little cards, measuring approximately 3 1/4 inches wide by 5 inches tall.



The gumball machine was made using dies included in the kit. I used designer papers and papers which were also from the kit.

It may be hard to see, as the sentiment kind of hides it, but these are both shaker cards.


I added two of the "Love You Always" sentiments which are both from the ephemera pack also included in the kit.


Both these cards are top folding cards.




Here is a look at the inside of the cards, I decorated them both the same just changing up the colours.














Friday, March 1, 2024

Cheers Dad

 


Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun male themed card I created recently. I have been wanting to make this style of card for sometime, but I didn't want to go to the bother of measuring and cutting. So when Sam Calcott released this die in her recent Made To Surprise Showstoppers 3 collection, I couldn't want for mine to get over the ocean to me.


This card uses the new Double Concertina Showstopper die set and like many of Sam's dies, there are a number of different ways we can use them. For this card I decided to score the two 6 inch sides in half to make it an accordion style card.

To decorate the card, I used the papers from the Mainly Male Paper Pad. I also used the beer images from the Hobbies stamp/die set. For the top concertina panel I used the Chevron Embossing Folder. The letters that spell DAD are from the Chunky Uppercase Alphabet die set.


I added two white panels to the back of the card, one for the sentiment and the other for a place to write a personal greeting to the recipient.

For the sentiments I used the two sentiment sets included in the Showstoppers 3 Collection.


To keep the card closed, I made a tall belly band. To decorate this I used the Chevron Embossing Folder on the dark blue panel. 

I used Trinity Stamps Here's to Brew stamp set to stamp the hand and beer mug.

The "Cheers" is from the sentiment set that I used on the back of the card.


Here is one last photo of my card when it is folded, before placing it in the belly band.