Painted Mountain Cards: April 2023

Friday 28 April 2023

Family Room Pop Up Anniversary Card

It's Fun Fold Friday here on my blog! Last week I shared a Family Room Pop Up birthday card, and since I had the dies out anyhow I decided to make another one. This time I made an Anniversary Card for my hubby. 😊 Once again, those stamps (linked below) are just perfect to use with this die set! I added a TV from the Memory Charms onto the card front with a rainbow holographic tv screen. That black heart was sitting on my stamping table, a fallaway piece from a dog card I'd made earlier so I added that as well as the Happy Anniversary.

Here is a peek at the inside ...

I used some older patterned paper from my stash (Basic Grey) and some of those mirrored hearts I love so much.

Such perfect sentiments for hubby's Anniversary card!

Even though there is a lot of dimension with this die set, it folds down completely flat for mailing! Not that I was mailing it to my hubby, ha ha.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 32 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Patterned paper - Ambrosia, Basic Grey (stash)

Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Recollections

Blue cardstock

White cardstock

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Thursday 27 April 2023

Notes of Cheer, Butterfly Card Trio

Stampin' Up has had this butterfly themed card kit in their catalogue for a couple of years and I kept 'adding it to cart', then removing it. When I found out a friend was having eye surgery and could be laid up for several weeks though - I bought the kit. She works with butterflies at our zoo so it seemed appropriate. 😊

I have a walkthrough of the first three cards on YouTube:

Of course the first card I made was a shaped card, and the first one I sent to my friend.

I spritzed the butterfly with shimmer spray, added a stitched vellum circle and a die cut HELLO cut from mirrored card stock.

The second card was an easel card. I cut the back off of this butterfly then adhered the back to the back of the shaped card to make it more stable.

Finally, a bright and happy card that I sent to my Mother In Law for Happy Mail. Since I added that busy patterned paper to the card base, it really didn't go with the envelopes from the kit. I pulled out a bright yellow envelope from my stash instead.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 31 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Notes of Cheer card kit - Stampin' Up

Shimmer Spray

Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Recollections

Patterned paper - Flowering Fields, Stampin' Up

Wednesday 26 April 2023

Gold & White Sympathy Card

I like to have sympathy cards made ahead, because when I need one I am likely too sad to be creative. When I saw the Memories & More card package at Stampin' Up, I bought one. I always like those card packages, as they are a nice size (4.25 x 6.25), have beautiful coordinating envelopes and they have various prints & patterns on the front. These ones are very subtly printed but the gold foiled envelopes are gorgeous!

I decided to make some sympathy cards and this first one has lots of gold on it. I die cut the With Sympathy from a white panel then matted it with a larger gold one so the gold shows through the center. A few stitched leafy sprigs and tiny butterflies and my card front was done.

Inside I added a stamped white panel with one of my new Catherine Pooler stamp sets, and another butterfly to tie it all in.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 28 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Card Blank & Envelope - Texture Chic, Memories & More (Stampin' Up)

White cardstock

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Pig Shaker for Happy Mail

I really enjoy making these Infinity Shaker cards (also called Edge To Edge, or Full Front Shakers). I have a bunch of these printed sheets from Hunky Dory out of the UK - one is a farm themed and the other is dogs. I used this adorable pig one from the farm package to create the shaker, which could have been adhered directly to the front of a card.

Instead, I added a floral patterned paper panel to the front of a 5 x 7" card blank, then adhered the shaker piece on top. I added a stamped sentiment and this card was ready to send to our eldest daughter for Happy Mail. (She loved it).

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 27 Cards

Additional Supplies:

5 x 7" Card blank & Envelope
Farm printed panels - Hunky Dory
White cardstock
Sequins - my stash
Transparency
Patterned paper - Easter Floral, Echo Park
Sentiment - Whittle Wild Animal Sents - Poppy Stamps

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that you pay the same amount but I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Monday 24 April 2023

'Jump for Joy' Slimline Card

This is one of those cards that I wish I'd taken a short video of, as the foiling looks so pretty in person. To my eye, the photos look rather lifeless as compared to how it looks in real life! I know Easter is behind us, but I had this idea and didn't get a chance to make it to send out for Easter 2023. So now I'm ahead for next year 😂. This whole card started with Lawn Fawn's cloud hot foil plate and Spellbinders reverse foil plate. I am going to really enjoy the foiled clouds ... just need some more time to play with it.

The Slimline background is a die set by Whimsy stamps, and as I was creating the scene I just kept pulling things out to add to it. The Jump For Joy seemed to be perfect to use with those bunnies. It comes with a shadow die, but I didn't use this time. It was cut from a leftover piece of mirrored card stock for additional shine.

Inside I used a scalloped die to cut white cardstock, inked the edges and stamped a sentiment. Then I added a few more die cuts to dress it up a little and my card was done.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 26 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Shimmer Spray

Mirrored card stock - Mirri Damask, Hunky Dory

White cardstock

Easter sentiment - Verses Stamps

Friday 21 April 2023

Pop Up Bone Card

It's Fun Fold Friday here on my blog! Friends of ours had a birthday party for their dog Diego, who was turning EIGHTEEN! Many of their dog loving friends joined the celebration, and the dogs wore party hats while they ate their 'ice cream' and dog birthday cookie/cake. We didn't bring our two dogs, only because it would have been too many people for Willow. She is not a people person, strangers scare her and why stress her out? We had fun, and of course I had to make little Diego a card for his birthday. First time I've ever made a dog a card, ha ha.

Pulling out this printed panel from the Little Book Of Muddy Paws (Hunky Dory), because the colouring is so similar to Diego), I added it to a plaid panel then to a 5 x 7" card.

Inside I added a pop up, created with the Slimline dog bone die from Whimsy. I folded it into 4ths and adhered the two outer edges inside the card making sure that nothing stuck out when the card was folded. The PAWTAY die was included with the bone set and I thought I would never use it. Ha - couldn't miss this opportunity!

I added the collar/tag along the bottom edge of the bone so it sort of dangled in the space. I hope that I'll be making Diego a 19th Birthday card next year too!

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 25 Cards

Additional Supplies:

5 x 7" Card blank and envelope

Traditional Tartan & Rustic Wood patterned paper - Hunky Dory

Little Book of Muddy Paws, Hunky Dory

Brown fine point marker

Navy cardstock scrap

Thursday 20 April 2023

'All About You' Diamond Flap Front Fold

Today I'm sharing another card made with one of the die sets I received for my Birthday. This one has the dies to cut the angled card side & layer - you cut it and attach it to a 5 x 7" panel which then becomes the back of your card. This was my first play with it and I was happy enough with my card until it was finished and I went to stand it up for display. It fell right over!

So I will have to figure out a different way to use this set, maybe by adding a second angled panel on the right edge so it would open like an angled gatefold card? Or flip it around so the largest edge is on the bottom - opposite to what I have here? I'm not at all disappointed in the purchase though as I know there are lots of options with it once I play with it a little more.

I added the stamped sentiment onto a stitched circle which is lifted up with one of the cardstock springs that I have been using SO much lately. I will link Sam Calcott's video below if you are interested in learning how she makes them.

Here is a link to Sam Calcotts video where she shows her paper springs.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 24 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Creative Craft Easy Folds 5 x 7" Diamond Fold - Craft Stash US

White cardstock

Patterned paper - Enjoy the Journal, Stampin' Up

Purple fine liner marker

Wednesday 19 April 2023

Mini Slimline Birthday Trio

I have been working at USING UP a very old package of 6 x 6" Stampin' Up patterned paper. It was gifted to me years ago by my then Stampin' Up rep and was likely 12 x 12" sheets that she cut down for a paper share. It was a huge stack and I used some of my favourites right away - then the rest of them just sort of sat unused. Enough already! I'm happy to say that I'm down to a single 6 x 6" sheet left and the rest as been used up. Mostly I made birthday cards to donate to my Mom's old nursing home which is where these three are heading.

I added stamped words (Taylored Expressions) onto hexagon shapes & inside, and these Mini Slimline cards are ready to donate.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 23 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Patterned paper - Stampin' Up

White cardstock

Tuesday 18 April 2023

'Greetings from the Couch' Pop Up Card

Today I'm sharing a Pop Up Birthday card I made for a friend, using older papers from my stash and Karen Burniston's Family Room Pop Up die set. This card folds completely flat for mailing and will mail for a single stamp!

I love the gold foiled bits on the cut aparts and some of the patterned paper sheets. The one with the house icons was just calling to be used with the Family Room Pop Up.

I had some scraps of this Mirri metallic cardstock sitting on my stamping table from when I made my Hummingbird Shaped Card last week, and they were perfect for cutting the lampshade and throw pillows from!

Ever since KB released the Bookworm set, I've been itching to add books to the Family Room Pop up - so this was the time. The rug is actually a border strip from one of the papers in the paper pad, and it worked perfectly!

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 20 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Patterned paper - Farmhouse, Craft Smart

Scraps of Mirri Damask, Hunky Dory

Monday 17 April 2023

Super Shiny Magic Iris Birthday Card

I just love this card! It is SOOOOO shiny and the patterned cardstock fairly shouts celebration 😊. This is the 4th edition to my monthly series Magic Iris and I made it into a birthday card for a friend. The purpose for my monthly series, is for me to USE some of these dies that I liked enough to purchase but haven't played enough to justify the cost. I'm not trying to come up a bunch of unique or clever ways to use the dies (although that might happen), I just want to use the dies to make cards for people I know will enjoy them. I know my friend will really like this one!

The package of printed cardstock came with three different patterns, in addition to the two I used on this card there is one with stars. Let me tell you, I save all but the tiniest scraps of this mirrored card stock. Ha. When you slide the lever down as the arrow shows, the shutters open to reveal the stamped sentiment.

I also added Karen Burniston's CELEBRATE near the bottom of the card cut from gold mirror cardstock.

I kept the inside fairly simple, cutting the Giant Happy Birthday from the same mirrored card stock as I cut the Magic Iris Add On from. I did mount it to a small white circle before attaching it to a cardstock spring, as the spring showed through the letters. While the spring showing through was distracting, the circle seems to serve a purpose and I don't mind it at all.

This spring is something I'm using a LOT - it was designed by Sam Calcott of Mixed Up Crafts and I will link a video for you where she shows how she makes them HERE.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 19 Cards

Additional Supplies:

5 x 7" Card blank and envelope

White cardstock

Mirri 'Time to Celebrate' card stock, Hunky Dory

Friday 14 April 2023

Christmas Pull Card

Today is Fun Fold Friday on my blog and I'm sharing the 4th edition to my monthly series "12 Months of Christmas". I've been having fun making these pull cards lately so had to try one with holiday papers and I also added acetate to the window. I like it and will probably do that again, as I know I will make more of these. Especially in a larger than A2 card size as this one is.

I'm not a huge fan of this paper pad, and every time I pull it out I think I'm just going to give it to the grandkids or something. Then I flip through it and some of the gold foiling catches my eye and I decided to make just 'one more card' with it.

After the patterned paper was adhered to the card front, I used a hexagon die to cut a window in the card front. To create the frame, I simply nested two hexagon dies together held in place with Washi Tape. The smaller one was the die I used to cut the window and then a larger one. I die cut the red frame for the outside and the patterned frame inside. While the inside one isn't necessary, it does finish off the window and left side of the card.

Using the larger die I cut a piece of acetate and adhered it over the opening on the card front with a tape runner. Then I added the frame on top! Since I didn't feel like hauling out all my Christmas stuff and rummaging through it, I added a bow using a tulip bouquet die that was a recent purchase.

The tag was one of the cut aparts included in the paper pad and the decorations on the left were fussy cut from some of the paper scraps in the package. You pull the piece with the tag to the right, and the sentiment inside is revealed. That is also where we will sign our name when we go to send the card.

I haven't done a tutorial for this size of card, but here are the measurements I used.

Card base - 5 x 6.5" (folded) card. If you are using card stock, a 10 x 6.5" sheet scored in the centre at 5" will give you the card base and it will fit in an 5 x 7" envelope.

For the pull card piece, the patterned paper was cut at 9 x 6" and scored at 4.5 and 6.75".

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally.

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 Cards

April so far - 17 Cards

Additional Supplies;

5 x 6.5" card base and envelope - Michaels

Patterned paper - Christmas Made, DCWV (old, from my stash)

Bakers twine - leftover from a Stampin' Up kit

Word stamp - Classic Christmas, from an old magazine

Peel Off gem stickers - Dazzles