Paw-Some Birthday Card

Hello!  I can't believe it's taken me this long to share this one. Early last summer, I ordered a package of pet themed 3D Decopage elements from a Canadian online scrapbooking store I love. They looked adorable and when they arrived I realized that this package would be the perfect thing to take camping to work on. Which I did!

I remember punching out all the layers, getting them all assembled over the weekend and adding Stickles for some shimmer. There were 10 in the package, 2 each of 5 different designs. When were were packing up, I tucked them into their bag, put them on a shelf when we got home and promptly forgot about them. Sheesh! So here is my first card using one of those decoupage panels.

 

Here is a peek at the inside ...

These are fairly bulky, with all the foam tape used for the different layers so probably best for them to be hand delivered. It wasn't long after I made these up that I discovered thin foam tape and that would have really cut down on the bulk. I used Stampin' Up Dimentionals for these ones, but I was careful when placing them that I didn't have too many layers directly on top of each other. That does help them compress for mailing. 

For your convenience I have linked many of the products used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Jelly Gems - Green, Blue & Pink, Queen & Company
Clear resin heart - Stampin' Up (retired)
Birthday Wishes - Rubbernecker Stamps
The Gift of Giving, 3D Decopage - Craft Consortium

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Sunflower & Hello Pop Up Card

Hello! This is another of my Paper Pumpkin Alternate cards, using the June Paper Pumpkin kit (the yellow card base and pretty leaf printed vellum). Since it's is also Fun Fold Friday on my blog, this a pop up card.

The sunflower die was cut from white card stock and I added the colour with dye inks and blending brushes, adding Stickles inside the centre of each bloom. My right arm is still giving me some grief (tendonitis) so I have been keeping my comments to a minimum. I'm happy to say it is starting to improve, so less typing and video editing is definitely helping.

Here is a peek at the inside. I used patterned papers and Karen Burniston's Mini Pops for the Pop Up, and added the Thinking of You (also from Karen Burniston and linked below), and a butterfly into the lower corner.

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
June Paper Pumpkin kit, Explosion in Color - Stampin' Up
Green card stock
Shimmer Spray
Water Colour Wings (butterfly die) - Stampin' Up (retired)
1/4" Quick Strips - Stamp Market
Patterned Paper - Brights 6 x 6", Stampin' Up

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Mini Slimline Ice Cream Card

Hello! This Mini Slimline card is the last ice cream card I sent out to my family - it went to my brother. I used the lovely alcohol inked patterned papers (linked below) - both for the background panel and the ice cream too. I love how it looks as a scoop of ice cream! The ice cream cone is a die set by Elizabeth Craft Designs, and it appears it is now retired.

Here is a peek at the inside ...

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Copic markers
June Paper Pumpkin, Expressions in Colour - Stampin' Up (stamps on front)
Tasteful Label dies - Stampin' Up
Sweet Little Memories stamp - MFT Stamps (Retired)
Ice Cream Cone dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs (Retired)

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Teacup Shaped Card

Hello!  This is card #11 using the April 2021 Blessings Box from Divinity Designs. I just love the pretty printed flowers, which you simply die cut and add to your project! Here I've added some of the blooms to a teacup shaped card. 

Last year (or maybe the year before - Covid messed up my recollections of 2020) I purchased Trinity Stamps coffee mug die and I have had a lot of fun with it. This year, for their third birthday they released this sweet teacup shaped card die and I HAD to have it. I made this card as soon as my order arrived, and I look forward to making more cards with it. Such a pretty shape and it fits into a standard A2 envelope!

Below shows the card opened up and I used sentiment stamps from both Trinity Stamps and Divinity Designs and everything that is available is linked below.

For your convenience I have linked many of the products used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional supplies
Aqua and Kraft card stocks
Copic markers

More Essential Sentiments & FT Banners - MFT Stamps

Fishtail banner die - MFT Stamps

Scalloped Stitched Nesting Circles - Tutti Designs

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Hello Mini Slimline Note Card

Hello! I had one floral vellum piece left from the June Paper Pumpkin kit, so I snipped it into two pieces and added it over pretty alcohol inked paper onto a Mini Slimline card. 

The HELLO was cut from purple and white card stocks, then adhered together offsetting the white one for a bit of a shadow. Then, I sprayed both the HELLO and the butterflies with shimmer spray.

I've left lots of room inside to write a note, but did add a patterned paper strip and one more of the butterfly stickers.

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I enjoy using below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
June Paper Pumpkin, Expressions in Colour - Stampin' Up
Purple card stock
Butterfly stickers - stash
Shimmer Spray
Hello - MFT stamps (retired)

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Dog Bone Slimline Card

Hello!  I loved this Slimline Dog Bone die set from Whimsy Stamps as soon as it was released, but it took awhile before I could add it to my collection. This is my first card share using it, but I have ideas for more, including using it for a Christmas card for our vet. While I could have made it a dog boned shaped card, I chose to cut the bone from patterned paper and add it to the front of my slimline card. Everything that is available will be linked below.

Here is a peek at the inside, and the sentiments I used are from Taylored Expressions. There are several people I could send this card to for Happy Mail!

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I enjoy using below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - A Dogs Tail, Echo Park (?)
Kraft card stock
Copic markers

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Six Rainbow Birthday Cards

Hello! Today I'm sharing a group of cards I made to donate to my Mom's old nursing home. I was flipping though this 12 x 12" paper pad from Michaels and stopped at this wavy rainbow print. Then I knew exactly what I wanted to do! 

I used a rectangle die to cut the centre away from each of the panels which left me with a wavy patterned frame and a matching centre rectangle for each panel. That centre panel was matted with yellow card stock that was cut with Karen Burniston's Crosshatch Rectangles. After adhering the frames to the pink card bases, I popped up the matted rectangles over the openings in the larger panels.

The rainbow was stamped onto one of YNS Stitched Wavy Circles using my Mini MISTI. I stamped one colour at a time ('inking' with water based markers) on each of the circles and it was amazing how easy the Mini MISTI made this project! I stamped the Birthday Wishes below each rainbow and popped the circles up on the panels. Since the cards are hand delivered to the residents, I don't need to worry about bulk or too many layers!

I felt it needed something else, so used strips of black card stock to create little fishtail banners to tuck under each circle and then added black Nuvo Drops as well.

Here is a look at the inside ... all of them were done the same and I used my Mini MISTI so there were no 'oopses' or crooked sentiments.

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - Over the Rainbow, Recollections
Orange, red and black card stocks
Water based markers
In and Out Birthday - Taylored Expressions (retired)

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Mini Slimline Gift Card Holder

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a simple Mini Slimline sized Gift Card Holder. I was hand delivering it, so I thought it would be a good time to use some of these chipboard elements.

To create my Gift Card Holder, I started with a piece of pink card stock that measured 8.5 x 6", scored at 3.5 x 7".   Fold the 1.5" piece to the inside and adhere with wet glue down each side to create the gift card pocket. Fold in half on the 3.5" score line and you can then decorate it as desired. The finished (folded) size is 6 x 3.5".

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper & chipboard embellishments - Circle of Love, Stamperia 
Clear resin hearts - Stampin Up
Stencil - Anemone Background, Creatreat
Black marker

Pink card stock

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July Paper Pumpkin - Trio of Alternate Cards

Hello and welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog. The July Paper Pumpkin kit marks the end of my first year as a Paper Pumpkin subscriber. I have really enjoyed these kits, and have managed to build up a nice stash of cards! I put my August subscription on hold while I decide whether or not I will continue subscribing - for no other reason as I don't need even MORE cards in my craft room. I send out Happy Mail regularly and give handmade cards as gifts to friends and family so I certainly don't HOARD the cards I make but I still have quite a stash now.  I think I'm ready for a break from monthly kits. I guess we will see how I feel when they release sneaks of the September kit. 

I can't even tell you how happy I was with this month's kit though. There may have been oooooh's and awwwwwwww's as I opened it and went through the contents. Here are the first three cards I made, simple alternate cards and I will have a lot of fun making up the rest of them as well. This month you can make 12 trifold cards and the printed envelopes are just as beautiful as the rest of the kit.  

I have a walkthrough of my cards on YouTube here:  

First up is the camper card. The only changes I made were to swap out the sentiments using stamps from my collection and I added an acetate panel behind the camper. I like the way the sequins seem to float on the acetate.

For the second card, I cut the card into three panels and saved the centre white portion to use for layering on other cards. After trimming down the remaining two panels, I assembled them into a shaker card and added them to a teal card base.

The third card is on it's way to a friend for Happy Mail!

I love that these are trifold (or tri-panel cards, depending on what you like to call them).

Below is the third card fully open and where I signed my name.

I still have a number of unopened, older Paper Pumpkin kits I found online so I'll be playing with Paper Pumpkin for a long time yet. Would I recommend it to crafters? Absolutely - even though I have used up almost all of the consumables in each month's kit, I still have the ink cubes they send each month as well as the stamps!

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
July Paper Pumpkin Kit - the Adventure Begins, Stampin' Up
Patterned paper - Artistry Blooms, Stampin' Up (retired)
Crayola markers
Happiest of Birthday's - Stampin' Up
Teal card stock
Sequins

Birthday - Darkroom Door Stamps
Happy Thoughts - Stampin' Up

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June Paper Pumpkin Alternate - Sympathy Card

Hello!  I'm back with another Paper Pumpkin Alternate using the June kit. I just loved the pretty vellum pieces that were included and that is what I used for my focal point on this card. I pulled out this lovely scalloped rectangle die from Studio Katia and some alcohol inked patterned paper & everything that is available is linked below.

Since there are gold foiled bits throughout the paper, I gold heat embossed the sentiment and added it to a gold foil card stock backer.

Here is a peek at the inside ...

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
June Paper Pumpkin kit - Expressions in Colour (Stampin' Up)
Sentiment - Calla Lily, Sympathy (retired)???
Purple card stock
Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up

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Beautiful Day Card

Hello! Today I'm sharing the 10th card created using the April 2021 Blessings Box. I still have a lot of the printed flowers left and could easily make another dozen cards so you will continue to see them on my card shares.

Today's card also uses stamps, pretty papers and dies from Divinity Designs and everything is linked below. The flowers for this card are in the Beautiful Blossoms Set 1, and the stamps are in the Magnolia stamp set - also included in the April Blessings Box!

Here is a peek at the inside ...

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Rose card stock

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Sunflower & Hearts Pop Up Birthday Card

Hello!  I had fun combining dies to create this pop up Birthday Card, using items from my craft room as well as a new heart die from Scrapbook.com. The heart die is on the inside, mounted on the Katherine Label Pop Up by Karen Burniston.  I have all the details in my YouTube video and everything that is available online is linked below:  

The open heart fit perfectly on the arm from the Katherine Label Pop up, and the sentiment from Studio Katia fit perfectly on the banner for the heart. Serendipity!

Remember Karen Burniston has assembly videos for her pop up dies!  Once you know how to assemble your die, the rest is card size, paper and colour choice as well as embellishments! You can change the look of your card every time you use the dies. :-)  I always enjoy showing you different looks and ways you can use your dies once you know how to assemble them. You can find all of her dies & video's HERE:  

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
Card & envelope - Stampin' Up
Patterned paper (on front) - Artistry Blooms, Stampin' Up (retired)
Shimmer Spray
Patterned paper (inside) - Guilded Ink, Recollections
Clear resin hearts - Stampin' Up (retired)
Copic markers

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