Rebus - Creedence Clearwater Revival Songs

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time to share another rebus swap with you. This month the theme is "Songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival"

If you would like to solve my rebus puzzle, why not post a comment on my blog post with your answers. I will let you know what the correct answers are next time I post a rebus card here.

How did you go solving my March Rebus which was "Famous Names from the Wild West either real or fictional"

 Here are the correct answers so you can check how you did.

1. Wild Bill Hickox
2. Sundance Kid
3. Lone Ranger
4. Black Bart
5. Belle Starr
6. Matt Dillon
7. Doc Holliday

You can find all my past Rebus Cards here.

Mother's Day Flowers

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a 5 x 7 Mother’s Day card I created using the March 2025 3D Embossing Folder of the Month. 

This is such a beautiful embossing folder. I have been wanting to try the blackout technique for some time, so I decided to do it for my card today. For this technique, after embossing the card panel, you colour the design on the back side and then rub black ink all over the design.

I layered the design onto a 5 x 7 card base, layering using various rectangle dies including the filigree rectangle from Craft Stash.

I added a sentiment using the Mother’s Day sentiment from the Let’s Celebrate Sentiments Betterpress plate which I foiled using black foil. The sentiment is actually the negative design created by using the leftover foil & a solid foil plate.

For the inside of the card, I added a stripe of the leftover embossed design used on the front of my card.

I added two sentiments, the first from the We Are All Family Glimmer Hot Foil Plate. The second from the Sending Love Betterpress Plate which is also glimmer foiled using black foil,

K

A Note Just For You

 

Hi Crafty Friends, 

Today I am sharing an Easel card I created using some of the club kits from Spellbinders April Club Kits. 

The snail, letterbox & tulips are from the Small Die of the month, Snail Mail Post. On the blue background I used the Embossing Folder of the Month, Perforated Post Edges.

I added to Betterpress sentiments to the card which is from the Post Edges Expressions the Betterpress kit of the month. 

The “hello” sentiment is from the large die of the month. 

Hey There, How Are You?

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I created a 5 x 7 postal themed card using postal themed products from The Ton.

I used the Postage Party die set & the Postage Simple Sunflowers Layering Stencils. I used Spellbinders Lush Leaves Embossing Folder to add texture to my card background.

The sentiments used on my card are all from Waffle Flower Crafts, the ‘Hey There’ is a foil plate & was foiled using black foil,

For the inside of my card I used a Sentiment from Honet Bee Stamps. I added postage stamps that are cut apart using another panel like the one of the front of my card.

Floral Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog. Today I am sharing a birthday pop up card I created recently, using products from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott.

Here is a quick video showing the card in action.

I have created a Stadium Wave Pop up card using one of the mechanism dies included in the Rock & Pop Mechanism die set from Made by Surprise. 

To decorate my card I used the flowers & leaves included in the new Bouquet Builder die set.

I added a sentiment using the Just Add Paper’s Butterfly Botanicals Sentiment stamp set.

Here is a look at my card looking at it from the back. I added a white oval to one side of the card, so I had a place to add a personal greeting. 

For the front of the card I let the pattern paper do most of the work, adding a birthday Sentiment from the Big Words die set.

 

Sunflower Birthday Wishes

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Double Concertina Stepper Card that I created recently. As many of you know, I celebrated a birthday recently. One of my friends sent me a beautiful owl card using this style, as I really liked the card I went looking for a tutorial, which I found by Sam Calcott’s. You can find her tutorial here.

I also recently purchased some patterned paper pads designed by Iced Images, so I decided to pull out one of the pads to decorate my card. When I was cutting the panels for this card, I made sure to keep the pattern in sequence. Once I went to the trouble I didn’t want to hide the design with images or sentiments, so I kept that simple.

Here is a look at the back of my card. As you can see I decorated the back too. I kept the three centre panels white so that I could add a stamp sentiment and have a place to write a personal message. 

The concertina panels all fold to the front so that it fits in a 5 x 7 envelope.

Relax and Set Sail

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a Nautical themed circle card I created recently. 

I received some new nautical themed products from two different companies that I was looking forward to playing with. As I couldn’t decide which to plsy with first, I ended up combining both to make one card.

For the porthole shaped portion of the card I used Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott’s It”s A-Boat Time die set. This is an add on set for the 3D Display & Stand Card, it contains the porthole frame & various nautical image dies. For this card I just used the porthole.

To decorate the card I used dies & stencils from Spellbinders Fair Winds Collection. The background is created using the Uncharted Waters stencil. I then used dies from the Set Sail; Oh Buoy & Guiding Light die sets.

On the inside of my card I added a sentiment using Karen Burniston’s Cruise Greeting stamp set. 

I added a few more images from the Oh Buoy die set. 

Hello Baby

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog, today I am sharing a fun baby themed Slimline card I created recently.

For my card base I have used the DL Diamond card using the Creative Craft Products die set,

 

To decorate my card I used Spellbinders Swinging Among the Stars die set. The elephant in the basket moves from side to side. 

For the background panel I used blue cardstock, I then used the Falling Stars Betterpress Plate & the Wishing Stars 3D Embossing Folder to create the sky. I also added clouds that are included in the die set. 

The sentiments on the inner panel are from the Little Smiles Sentiments Betterpress Plate set. 

The “baby” sentiment on the front diamond is from a Trinity Stamps stamp set called Simply Sentiments Baby.

I added a panel on the back to add another sentiment and a place to write a personal greeting to the recipient. I decorated this panel using various items from the products used on the front of the card.

 

Puppy Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a cute 5 x 7 birthday card I created recently using products from Spellbinders March 2025 Club Kits.

To start I pulled out the cute dog and arched dies from the Large die of the Month - Family & Friends Vignettes, there are lots of fun dies in this set including the dog, a dinosaur, flowers and the arch dies.

For the black background, I used the Stitching Die of the Month - Diamond Knit. I love this die and it looks great stitched, but I have been having many issues with my fingers for the past few months so I decided to pass on the stitching for now.

As I wanted to create a 5 x 7 card, I wanted another background. So for this I pulled out the 3D Embossing Folder for the month - Floral Fence of Togetherness, this embossing folder is gorgeous and I am looking forward to making a card with the floral portion of the embossing folder. For now I only wanted the fence part, so I embossed two panels of red card  with the fence portion only, applied white inked over the raised areas and added these panels to the top folding 5 x 7 white card base.

To finish of the front of the card, I added the Birthday sentiment which is from Papertrey Ink.

 For the inside of the card, I added a small strip of the left over embossed fence panel along the bottom of the card. I die cut the two arch dies and added a sentiment using the Nature's Dance stamp set, which was the January Clear Stamp of the month.

April 2025 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our April 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 ... DESIGNER'S CHOICE" - it's a wide open challenge! Make whatever you want!

With Easter less than a couple of weeks away, I decided to create an Easter themed card for this months challenge. I thought all the tiny easter elements included in some of the smaller die sets (charms, etc) would work well with the Postage Pop-up die set, so I pulled that out to use for the main pop-up element of my card.

I like making 5 x 7 cards, which is what I made for my card today and seeing it is a larger size I decided to add two postage pop up elements on my card ... one of the right and one of the left.

The patterned paper I used for my card, I used the stripes horizontally for the background panels and then used the same paper but with the stripes going vertically for the postage pop up panels.

For the bunny and the chick in the egg I used dies from the Spring Animals die set. The Happy Easter and the pink and purple Easter eggs are from the Easter Charms die set.

The Easter Basket is from the Animal Add-ons 5 die set which I filled with Easter eggs using dies from the Easter Borders die set. The row of white bunnies is also from this die set.

Finally I added a large flower and leaves using dies from the Twist Flower Pop-up die set.

For the front of my card, I created an Easter Bunny ... I used the bunny elements from the Animal Add-ons 5 die set along with a large oval die from the Crosshatch Ovals die set. I surround the bunny with flowers using flowers from the Twist Flower Pop-up die set.

Triangle Accordion Pocket Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a birthday card I created recently, it's a new style to me ... a Triangle Accordion Pocket Card. I found this style of Facebook recently, someone was promoting a die to create this style. I went to check it out, but they didn't sell internationally. After looking a little closer I decided it was easy enough to figure out how to make and do it without a die, and of course then I could also make it a 5 x 7 card. The width is slightly less then 5 inches, but only about 1/8 inch.

To decorate the centre panel I used Spellbinders Heart Hands, which I have been wanting to play with for some time.



To create the card, I took a piece of A4 card, which I cut down to 7 inches along the short side. I placed the long side in my score board and scored down the centre. I then scored 1 inch either side of the score line. Next I took the front panel and cut diagonally from the to left side to the bottom right side. The piece that was removed becomes the pocket for the back panel.

I die cut the red filigree circle and white circle twice, one for the front and one for the back of the front circle. I added a birthday sentiment to the back circle using stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink's Big Birthday sentiments (although why the stamps are called big, I have no idea as the sentiments are mostly tiny lol!)

I almost forgot I had a pocket when I added the On the Line Birthday sentiment also from Papertrey Ink, but I remembered in time before the glue could stick to rescue this mistake. I die cut the sentiment 3 times to give it strength, especially the piece above the triangle panel.

I recently purchased some A4 paper pads from Iced Images on Amazon, which I used to decorate my card.

I added a small rectangle panel to add to the pocket. I decorated this with another filigree circle and a sentiment, as well as a rose from the paper pad.

Seeing the rectangle panel has two sides, I decided to add a white panel to the back with another sentiment. This is then a place for someone to write a personal message to the recipient of the card when it is time.