Tee-rific Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a card I made for a good friend who celebrated her birthday last week. My friend loves playing golf, and for as many years as I can remember I have created a golf themed card to give to her for her birthday. After all this time she more or less expects it.

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

It's been a while since I have been able to find any new golf theme stamps to use on my card, so I pulled out some of my older stamps to create this card today. However as I am enjoying making Slimline cards I decided to use that format to create my card.

I used Trinity Stamps Slimline Card Panels and Windows die set to die cut the background panel for my card. I cut one from white cardstock and used Catherine Poolers It's A Boy Ink Pad to add the sky to the panel. I die cut another panel from green cardstock and then used MFT Stamps Slimline Grassy Hills to create the grass area.

The golfer and flag stamps are both from Magnolia Stamps.

I added the speech bubble to the top of the card which is from Whimsy Stamps, then stamped an older golf themed sentiment from Paper Pretties.

For the inside of the card, I created a pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Pop 'N Swap Pop-up die set. I had to do a little alterations to the pop-up die as it is larger than the width of the slimline card which is 3.5 inches x 8.5 inches. But altering this die is pretty easy. I added a sentiment to the main panel which is an older one from Rubbernecker Stamps.

Here is another view of the inside of the card, you can see how the two images behind the main panel alternate moving up and down. I had a little trouble finding something golf themed to fit in these places, especially since I had shortened the width that was behind the main panel. The golf ball is from a stamp from DRS Designs, and the golfing peanut is an old stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Other Supplies:

Golf Tilda Rubber Stamp - Magnolia Rubberstamps

Golf Flag Rubber Stamp - Magnolia Rubberstamps

Tom Fun Golf Nuts - Cornish Heritage Farms (discontinued)

Live, Laugh, Golf Stamp Set - Paper Pretties (discontinued)

Fore! Three Two One ... - Rubbernecker Stamps (discontinued)

May 2020 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

Welcome to our May 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 ....  "TREASURE" - make a card that uses the Treasure Chest and/or Treasure Charms.

Karen Burniston (KB Riley LLC)  released 8 new dies last month. One of the dies that was released is the Treasure Chest die set which can be used as a stand alone die or used in conjunction with the Parcel Pop-up die set to create a fun pop-up card.  For my card today I have used it both ways. You can see a quick video of my card in action above.



Who wouldn't love to find a treasure chest with all those goodies inside! I used Kraft cardstock for the base of my card and added a patterned paper from Echo Park's Pirate Tales 6 x 6 paper pad for the back panel to create my sky.

To create the treasure chest pop-up, I used the Treasure Chest and Parcel Pop-up die sets and adhered it to the centre of my card.

I used the Palm Tree Pop-up die set to create the palm trees on either side of the treasure chest. the trunk of the palm tree was traced using a die cut of the stand alone palm tree trunk and extended so I had the correct height I needed. 

Along the front portion of the card I added waves using the waves dies from the Tropical Scene die set.

The sentiment "You Are Treasured"  is from the new Word Set 11 - Treasure die set. This was layered onto an oval using the Crosshatch - Ovals die set.



Here is a close up of the treasure chest and all it's treasures. The Treasure Chest die set also comes with a sand bank to use in the front of the treasure chest. I also used it on the bottom of the back panel to add sand to this panel.

 I used the coins, pearls and jewels dies from the Treasure Chest die set to add most of the contents of the chest. The coins were die cut using gold mirror foil cardstock. 

The silver cup (buried partially in the sand at the front) and the large coin in the treasure chest are both from the Treasure Charms die set.

I also added the anchor and chain too the front of the treasure chest which is from the Cruise Charms die set.



To give my card a bit of a pirate feel, I added the skull and crossbones from MFT Stamps Party Like a Pirate stamp set and the map in the bottle from Craftin Desert Diva's Pirate Pals stamp set. Unfortunately the later company went out of business last year.



For the front of the card I used the sand border from the Nature Edges die set to use along the bottom of the patterned paper panel.

I added the treasure chest to the left side of the card, keeping it closed. The pirate on the right side of the chest is a stamp I have had in my stash for a few years now from Magnolia Rubber Stamps.

I added the cute pirate parrot to the top of the chest, this is also from the Craftin Desert Diva's Pirate Pals stamp set.

The sentiment is from MFT Stamps Party Like a Pirate stamp set.

Don't forget to visit Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month.

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Pirate Pals Stamp Set (Parrot) - Craftin Desert Divas (retired)

Captain Edwin Stamp - Magnolia

Fore!

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a card I made for a very good friend who celebrated her birthday about a week ago. My friend loves playing golf and for as many years as I can remember I have created a golf themed card to give to her for her birthday. After all this time she more or less expects it from me haha!

I had the idea to use the Surprise Ball Pop-up as a golf ball back in December. At the time I was busy with Christmas cards etc and I didn't need the card until the end of February, so I just wrote my idea onto my to do list for February. I then saw a card made by lilyhearts2day who had a similar idea, she had used some grass patterned paper and some golf ball pattern designer paper which I liked. As I was able to find both on Scrapbook.com and I had a few other things in my cart, I decided to order them. The black circle for the hole in the golf course was also an idea I got from the card on instagram, but other than that I kept with my idea I had in December.

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

I used Karen Burniston's Surprise Ball Pop-up die set to create the pop-up golf ball on my card. I die cut the main die twice from white cardstock and then used the patterned paper which I created using an image online for the detail layer.

I added a black circle to the front of the card, so it looks like the golf ball is about to roll into the hole ... that is the aim of golf after all!

After so many years of making golf themed cards for my friend, I have accumulated a lot of golf themed sentiments, so I added on to the top of the golf ball .. which is an older Rubbernecker Stamps stamp.

I added the golf ball to the front panel of the card, so that the card can either be displayed flat or in the folded position so you can see the image on the back panel.

I added another sentiment to the back panel of my card, this time using a stamp from an older stamp set from Clear Dollar Stamps. I also added Magnolia Stamps Golf Tilda to the back panel ... she is swinging a golf club, so maybe she is trying to hit the golf ball hehe!

I kept the front of the card fairly simple seeing the focus of the card is the inside. The golf ball patterned paper I purchased, the pattern was too big for the golf ball but was perfect for the front of the card. 

I created a belly band for my card, to help keep the card closed. I added a golf cart that I received for Christmas which is from Paper Rose Studio.

Here is a look at the front of the card, complete with the belly band ready to be placed in an envelope.

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Fore! Three Two One sentiment stamp - Rubbernecker Stamps (retired)

Live, Laugh, Golf Stamp set - Paper Pretties (retired)

Golf Set - Clear Dollar Stamps (retired)

Golf Tilda - Magnolia Stamps 

Just Swinging By To Say Hi!

Hi Crafty Friends,

My card today is for a challenge I do with a couple of friends of mine. Each month we challenge each other to create something using supplies we all own.

“Swing” - Our cards this month have to include something that swings .... you could use MFT Stamps Interactive Swing die, create a card using a swing image or create a Swing Card (aka Flip-its card).

Seeing I purchased MFT Stamps Interactive Swing Die-namics earlier in the year, I wanted to play with that again to make another card. When I purchased this die I discovered that over the years I have acquired a fair number of stamps with a swing theme. So for my card today I decided to pull out one of those older stamps.

I used La-La Land Crafts Tire Swing stamp set for the swing portion of the card and the boy is Edwin  with Airplane from Magnolia stamps. I also added a puppy from MFT Stamps Puppy Pals stamp set.

As the tire swing is quite large, this card is a tall card measuring 4 1/4 inches wide by 8 1/4 inches tall.

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

For the background of my card I used MFT Stamps Mini Cloud Stencil with Catherine Pooler's Skylight ink.

Along the bottom of the card I added grass, which is the new MFT Stamps Tucked-in Grass - Horizontal Die-namics. 

For the inside of my card I added grass along the bottom this time using MFT Stamps Tucked-in Grass - Vertical Die-namics. I used this as the one I used on the front would not fit the width of my card.

I also added a sentiment using Honey Bee Stamps Wish Clear Stamp set.

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Tire Swing - La-La Land Crafts (retired)
Puppy Pals - MFT Stamps (retired)

 

Tee-rific Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a card I made for a very good friend who celebrated her birthday a couple of days ago. My friend loves playing golf and for as many years as I can remember I have created a golf themed card to give to her for her birthday. After all this time she more or less expects it from me haha!

This year I pulled out a couple of stamps I have had for a while but hadn't gotten around to using to create her card. I used Magnolia Stamps Golf Tilda and Golf Flag stamps for this card. I also found some patterned paper at a local Scrapbook Store last year which is perfect for my card.

For the inside of my card I used Karen Burniston's Spinner Square Pop-up Card die set. The sentiment and large golf ball move up behind the rectangle panel as the card is opened and closed.

Here is a short video so you can see the card opening and closing.

One final photo showing how the sentiment and large golf ball moves behind the rectangle panel.

Supplies:

Stamps: Golf Tilda; Golf Flag - Magnolia Stamps; Fore! Three Two One - Rubbernecker Stamps; Live Laugh Golf - Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Green; Tan; 18 Holes Designer Paper - Karen Foster Design; Class Act Paper Pad - Kaiser

Dies: Spinner Square Pop-up Card - Karen Burniston; Dashing Rectangles - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other: Black Ink; Broken China Distress Oxide; Peeled Paint Distress Oxide; Lucky Clover Distress Oxide; Foam Tape; Copics

I do like to be beside the seaside....

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Joanne Grzelak our challenge hostess for the month, finishes off the month with one last challenge.

Apparently today is Swim a Lap Day! So for this weeks challenge we have been asked to include some form of water on our cards .... a river, the ocean, a pool, raindrops, puddles, bubbles ... it is up to us what form the water takes.



As my Beach Scene Builder die from MFT Stamps had just arrived in the mail just before I started making this card, it was easy to figure out what I was going to do for the challenge.

I added some cute  images from Magnolia stamps to complete my scene and all the other elements on the card were included in the die.



As you can see, I decided to create a pop up on the inside of the card. I used the Beach Scene Builder again to create the water on the bottom edge of my card. The inside of the card is a little wider than the front so I have to stop the cutting before it got to the edge so I could make the water a fraction wider.



I adde some more Magnolia images to my card, the beach houses are popped up using the small pop up die include in Karen Burniston's new Tree Pop Up die set which I die cut three times to my card.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amber Trubiak 

Amy Ottmers

Anja de Regt

Bonnie Sharp

Caz Counsell
Jessie Rone
Joanne Grzelak

Judy Rozema
Karen Aicken
Maryann Einam
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Ednie

Vicki Beall

Stamps: Bikini Tilda; Pelican; Vintage Swedish Coast Cottage - Magnolia Stamps; Beside the Seaside - Krafty Lady; Shore Thoughts - Lizzie Anne Designs

Paper: White; Sand; Teal; Brown; Green

Dies: Beach Scene Builder - MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Tumbled Glass Distress Ink; Behind the Scenes Earth & Sky Stencil - ECD;  Foam Tape; Copics

Christmas Centre Step Card

Hi everyone,

This is a hectic time for everyone, I have been busy creating samples for some of my Design Teams ready for CHA which is being held at the beginning of January 2016. There are some awesome new products being released shortly, but right now I can't tell you about them. 

I also have been busy preparing for Christmas and trying to also find time in all this to spend with my family. I normally like to have something blogged here everyday and I know I don't need to do that, but I am not ready to not do that for now. So rather than stress or not post, I thought I would share one or two older Christmas cards I have created over the years which are some of my favourites. I will still have lots of new stuff to share with you as well this week.

This is a card I created back in 2011, wow it doesn't feel that long ago but according to my blog it is and it should know LOL! I think this has to be my all time favourite Centre Step Card I have made and I have made a few of them since this one.

 The stamp used here is Magnolia’s Lighting Edwin … isn’t he adorable, I can see my grandson getting in a mess like that if he got anywhere near the lights hehe! The tree is a Sizzix Tim Holtz Pine Tree die.

This card was created before any dies were available to create this style of card which makes them soon much easier to create these days. But if you don't have any dies, I have a  tutorial and video on the resources section of Splitcoast Stampers.

Here is the inside of my card, as you can see I used another of those pine trees and added a sentiment as well.

Stamps: Lighting Edwin – Magnolia; Merry Christmas – Stamp It; Sentiment inside – Print Works

Paper: White; Red; Green; Season’s Greetings DP – Echo Park

Other: Black Ink; Sizzix Pine Tree Die; Rhinestones; Glitter; Buttons; Twine; Foam Tape; Copics

Shiver Me Timbers

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Raquel Mason, the challenge hostess for the month, continues to issue the challenges.

Being the third Saturday of the month it is time for our Sketch Challenge. I hope you have fun playing with this layout.

Today is also "Talk Like A Pirate Day", so seeing I have heaps of pirate stamps I figured I just had to pull out a few of them to create my card this week.

The pirate on the front of my card is from Magnolia Stamps. To embellish the front of the card I added a couple of skull and crossbones from CC Designs.

For the inside of my card I created a Pop Up Card using the Lots of Pops Pop Up Card die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. 

I added another couple of pirate themed Magnolia stamps. I added a speech bubble to the top of my card and added a pirate themed birthday sentiment.

Here is a side on view of my card so you can see the pop up portion of the card a little easier.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders
• Danielle Lounds
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Vicki Burdick
• Peggy McCurry
• Raquel Mason
• Fran Sabad (September Guest Designer

Stamps: Captain Edwin; Pirate Edwin; Barrel, Skull & Anchor - Magnolia Stamps; Arggh Piratey - The Cat's Pajamas; Pirate Polly - Paper Pretties; Quotables - Paper Smooches

Paper: White; Black; DP - Sandy Lion

Dies: Lots of Pops Pop Up Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; Skull & Bones - CC Designs; Say What? - MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

A Royally Wonderful Birthday

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.  Karen Aicken, our challenge hostess issues her final challenge for the month.

For our challenge this week, Karen has asked us to .... MAKE IT ROYAL!   Use Royal Colours and/or Royal Images - your choice.

Thanks to this challenge I got to play with a few stamp sets and a die set that I purchased some time ago and hadn't gotten around to using ... I knew there was a reason I needed all these products haha!

For my card I used the Katie Label Pivot Card die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. I also added on the decorative doily from the Paris edges die set to the end of each card. I die cut two edges for both the front and back of the card, so that I could sandwich the card between the edges and it would look the same from both the front and the inside. I also added the Pink Glitter Border Peel Off Stickers to the edge where the designer paper and card meet.

I wanted something royal on the front of the card so I added the Magnolia Castle die which is one of the things I purchased ages ago and it has been sitting there.

For the inside of my card I added this cute Prince and Princess stamps, I think I have had these for a couple of years just waiting for the right reason to be used.

Here is a closer look at the left side of my card. The sentiment comes from an older Hero Arts Stamp set which I picked up cheap last year (but hadn't used).

And a close up of the right side of the card.  This sentiment is from another Hero Arts stamp set which I purchased when I purchased the other set.

And finally, the back of my card. I hope you all have a magical day :)

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders
• Danielle Lounds
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Vicki Burdick
• Peggy McCurry
• Raquel Mason
• Kelly Booth (July Guest Designer) 

Stamps: Sugar Buttons Prince & Princess - Kanban Stamps; Magical Castle; Prince Charming - Hero Arts

Paper: White; Cream; Pink; Vintage Rose Garden DP - Couture Creations

Dies: Katie Label Pivot Card; Paris Edges - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; Castle - Magnolia

Other: Black Ink; Kraft Ink; Pink Rhinestones; Pink Glitter Border Peel Off Stickers - Elizabeth Craft Designs; Sizzix Bricks Embossing Folder; Foam Tape;  Copics