Gnome Accordion Card

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Liz Williams our challenge hostess for the month, finishes off the month with one last challenge. 

Liz has given us what she calls "An easy one for the end of the month" – Show us your favorite technique in card making

Well of course my favorite technique in card making has to be creating interactive style cards of any sort.

It's been a while since I have made an accordion card and it is fun to see that Karen Burniston has released her Fancy Label Accordion card die set again .... I have missed it! Karen has also released a set of two Fancy Flourish Frames to go with the accordion card. This time around Karen has given us 2 of each of the frames which makes it much quicker to die cut the frames when you have a number of pages to decorate.

To decorate my accordion card I have used a stamp set from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps called Gnome Home, there is also a coordinating die set to die cut the mushrooms, flowers and grass.

Here is a close up of the first two pages of my accordion ... I just love that gnome peeking out from the top of the mushroom.

I used distress oxide inks to create the sky of each of the panels and die cut the grassy areas using green papers.

Here is a look at the front of the card when it is closed ready to be placed in an envelope.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould
Kelly McKown-Santi

Supplies:

Karen Burniston:

Stamps: Gnome Home - Prickley Pear

Paper: White; Red; Blue; Yellow

Dies: Fancy Label Accordion; Fancy Flourish Frames - Karen Burniston;  Gnome Home Coordinating dies - Prickley Pear

Other: Black Ink; Broken China Distress Oxide; Foam Tape; Copics

Popping Up to Say....

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another Tag Book using the new Tag Book Pop-up die set from Karen Burniston. This was actually the first Tag Book I created when I received my dies recently.

To decorate my tag book I used an owl from the Build an Owl 2 stamp set from Prickley Pear. This stamp set also has a coordinating die which make it easy to cut out all the pieces for the owl. I love the pinecones on the owl's wings and top of it's head. This set has a lot of fun designs which you can use when creating your owl.

For the sentiment in the middle two square panels, I used the "Happy Holiday's" sentiment from the Word Set 3 - Holidays die set. I die cut a couple of extra 'o'ss and split the Holiday into two lines to create the word 'Hooo-liday'.

One more photo of the inside of my tag book.

For the front of my tag book, I added one more owl and also added the "Popping up to say" sentiment from the new Words Set 4 die set. I am sure I will be using this sentiment A LOT!!!!!! it will work with so many of the cards I like to create.

Supplies:

Stamps: Build an Owl 2 - Prickley Pear

Paper: White; Red; Green Always Christmas Paper Pad - Craft Smith

Dies: Tag Book Pop-up; Word Set 3; Word Set 4 - Karen Burniston; Build an Owl - Prickely Pear

Other: Black Ink; Red Ribbon; Green Twine; Foam Tape; Copics