These cards were made on a whim, and I ended up liking how they turned out! I started with a pink/gold foiled note card that was printed front and back. Cutting it into two panels I pulled out this fun balloon background die (Taylored Expressions) and die cut each panel. I decided to just keep these ones nice and simple, but I look forward to playing with this die again and using multiple colours for the different balloons.
There are included balloon dies as well, so I cut a couple from the scraps and popped them up with foam tape. The balloon pieces were attached to white card bases and I stamped a sentiment in the open area. Finally, I added some Stickles glitter glue to the popped up balloon on each card front.
Here is a peek at the inside, with a second die cut balloon and a penned balloon string weaving through the stamped sentiment.
Supplies used:
Up Up & Away cutting plate, Taylored Expressions
Patterned paper - old note card from my stash
Best Birthday Yet - Catherine Pooler
Inside - Little Something Sentiments, Catherine Pooler
These cards just make me happy! With everything going on in the world, I just need happy colours and I actually kept these out on my stamping desk for about a week before I took the photos - just so I could enjoy them for awhile.
The journal cards were cut from a 12x12” sheeet in my stash and I added some sparkle with Stickles glitter glue. After the cards were assembled onto the striped patterned paper and card bases, I added black Nuvo drops to some of them. I like how the black makes the other colours pop.
I think the nursing home residents will enjoy these happy cards as well.
Finally, here is a peek at the inside. All the cards have the same sentiment inside.
Supplies used:
Journal cards - Happy Hooray, Pebbles
Striped patterned paper - Cream & Sugar, Doodlebug
I had been working with an older Paper Pumpkin kit (March ’24) and made these four sympathy cards for my stash. The card bases are printed front and back, so I usually cut each one into two panels to add to white card bases. Almost everything for the card fronts came in the kit, but I did add small die cut iridescent butterflies that were popped up with foam tape. It’s hard to see in the photo but the purple strip is actually vellum and the sentiment piece has a gold foiled line across the top.
I included four of the printed envelopes because they add so much to a special card like a these. After stamping the sentiment, I decided to also stamp a butterfly to tie in with the butterflies on the card fronts.
Supplies used:
March 2024 Paper Pumpkin, Memorable Meadows - Stampin' Up
I bought several boxes of printed note cards from Hobby Lobby several years ago when we were visiting Arizona. One of them is mermaid themed, so I pulled one out and cut it down to make this birthday card. While both the front and back of the note cards are printed, the foiled mermaid tails are only on the front side so I layered it with a different not card back panel for some contrast.
The sentiment was pulled from my plastic envelope - I make a whole bunch of them at a time, so I can just add one as needed. When the envelope looks like it’s getting low, I will spend an evening creating just sentiment strips!
Since the outside of the card was kind of fancy, I kept the inside simple with a large Happy Birthday. This card will be donated to my Mom’s old nursing home.
Supplies used:
Note card - Paper Studio
Sentiment - Simple Strips Birthday? stamp and die by TE
Platinum Embossing powder
Happy Birthday - Little Something Sentiments, Catherine Pooler
Today I’m sharing a quick and easy birthday card made using some leftover journal cards from a Project Life kit. This is a larger than A2 card, I started with a 5x6.5” card base (and envelope) from Michaels. I’ve had them for years so am not sure if they are still available or not.
The sentiment is likely from Taylored Expressions, I stamp and die cut a whole bunch and keep them in a plastic envelope. It makes adding a sentiment to my cards so much easier when I have a bunch already done and ready to use. When I was finished, I thought it needed a little somethin’ somethin’ so I added black Nuvo Drops.
I have had these floral note cards for several years - they are printed on both the front and back, so I cut one in half to give me two floral panels. After trimming the panels to 4x 5.25”, I added them to white card bases.
I had been going through my “in progress” bin and found these 3-d flower stickers that were already adhered to the die cut labels. I replaced the foam tape, since the foam squares that I had initially used were losing their adhesive, then added them to the card fronts with thin foam tape. The sentiments were stamped on a scrap strip of white card stock and I fishtailed the ends with scissors.
Here is a peek at the inside using a bold sentiment by Catherine Pooler.
Supplies used:
Floral note card - front and back
Labels & Stickers - many years old, found in my stash. K & Co
Sentiment - Be Happy, Twice The Wishes, MFT Stamps
Pops of Color, Snowflake - Scrapbook .com
Happy Birthday - Little Something Sentiments, Catherine Pooler
I pulled out an older paper pad and decided to use two of the sheets to make four 5x7” Birthday Cards. Two use the Katherine Label Pop Up and the remaining two use the Twist Flower Pop Up - both die sets by Karen Burniston.
I love that the patterned paper has gold foiled bits! I wanted to keep the fronts nice and simple, so die cut ovals then stamped them before popping them up with thin foam tape.
Here is what the inside looks like using the Flower Twist Pop Up, and I chose one of these to go to a friend earlier in the month.
… and these two use the Katherine Label Pop Up. Both of these die sets are favourites, and looking at the labels on the right side of my blog you can see I have used the Katherine Label Pop Up NINETY times, and the Twist Flower Pop Up TWENTY THREE times. That makes me happy!
There was some leftover patterned paper, so I used those on A2 cards and will share those another day.
Supplies Used:
Patterned paper - Desert Dream, Recollections (old from my stash)
II continue to whittle away at what crafting supplies I have so today's cards use up some leftover patterned paper from my cards HERE. For something different I stamped the sentiment on fishtail banners (dies by Karen Burniston) and popped them up with foam tape.
I added some black Nuvo Drops as the card fronts needed a little something and then I was happy. Both cards will be donated to my Mom's old nursing home.
Here is a peek of the inside:
Supplies used:
Patterned paper - DooWop Diddly Wink. - the Paper Studio (old)
I was supposed to post this yesterday for Fun Fold Friday on my blog, but I have no idea where the time goes! This is the birthday card I made for our grandson who loves Pandas. I haven't used this panda face die in a long time so I pulled it out and die cut it into white card stock. The die cuts the face/ear openings rather than the head so I backed the white panel with black glitter paper to show through the openings.
There is often an indent left from the die that actually forms the head so I LIGHTLY went over that with a soft pencil and blending it out with a fingertip. It gives just a hint of the head shape but I like the effect. There was a strip of the rainbow paper sitting on my stamping desk so I matted it with black glossy cardstock (another scrap) and added a white heat embossed sentiment.
I have shown these sentiments in video's before - they are the Simple Strips from Taylored Expressions and I just stamp, emboss and die cut a whole bunch of them at a time and store them into a clear plastic envelope. Saves so much time when I go to make a card!
Inside I used Karen Burniston's Twist Circle Pop Up since this grandson loves a pop up card. I decorated it with some older stickers from my stash and added a stamped sentiment onto the white panel. That is also where we signed the card.
Supplies used:
Panda face die - Neat & Tangled
Black glitter paper - American Crafts (old, from my stash)
Black glossy card stock scrap
Rainbow strip - leftover scrap of striped patterned paper
Simple Strips Birthday and coordinating die - Taylored Expressions
White embossing powder
Pops of Color - Snowflake and black, Scrapbook .com
I had a couple of patterned paper scraps sitting on my stamping desk so combined them to make a panel for the front of a birthday card. When I had rooted through my stickers, I found a sheet of dog face stickers as well as these Kraft labels, so combined one of each as the focal point on my card front.
Finally, I added a stamped & matted sentiment and my simple card front was done.
Here is a peek at the inside ...
Supplies used:
Since I used lots of scraps and leftover bits, my supply list is limited.
Stickles glitter glue
Inside - Best Birthday Yet, Catherine Pooler
Mini Strips Birthday, stamp and coordinating die - Taylored Expressions
It's Fun Fold Friday here on my blog and today I'm sharing the Pop-Up card I made for a friend's birthday. She is a cat lover, so I pulled out this 'Be A Cat' die from Waffle Flower then went rooting around in my older patterned papers to decide what I wanted to use.
I added a die cut party hat to the cat and had her 'holding' onto the stitched rectangle with a stamped Happy Birthday. I really had fun making this one!
Inside I used Karen Burniston's Postage Pop Up die set, which has a completely generic mechanism. My favourite kind! Instead of the included postage themed dies, I added a stamped & die cut circle to the mechanism.
Supplies used:
Be A Cat dies - Waffle Flower
Patterned Paper, Blank Canvas - 1st Edition Papers (old, from my stash)
Alcohol markers
Stickles glitter glue
Pops of Color - Black, Scrapbook .com
5x7" card base and envelope
Party Hat Triplits dies - Sizzix
5x7" Lacy Layers dies- Waffle Flower
Happy Birthday stamps - Happy Birthday Many Ways, Catherine Pooler
You Deserve stamps - Little Something Sentiments - Catherine Pooler
It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog and today I'm sharing a birthday card for my stash. I've been working at using up this older 6x6" paper pad and was down two three 2x6" strips (and lots of small scraps). I used two of the strips for this card and saved the final one for a card to share another day.
Once again I used the Game Controller die - it just worked so well with the patterned paper, how could I not?
I wanted to play with some bright & happy colours, so pulled out another one of those rainbow dog panels and made a pop-up birthday card for my stash.
If you would like to learn more about these rainbow dog note cards, I did a YouTube video HERE a few months ago. This panel was from one of the note cards, which I cut down & matted it with black cardstock. I added it to a card base after covering the front of the base with rainbow patterned paper. I wanted to add a little somethin' something so Nuvo Drops made the nose raised and shiny.
Inside I used Karen Burniston's Lorna Label Pop Up. This was a re-release of one of my favourite dies from when she was with a different company. Back then the die 'cut into' the inner card but now it's a 'glue in' which is much more versatile. Ironically, this is a top folding A2 card which is what worked best with the old die set.
I pulled out KB's Baking Borders and die cut the bases from a scrap of the rainbow paper and the tops from rainbow holographic cardstock. As I said in the original video, the note cards came with coordinating envelope seals which I usually save for the envelopes. For this card though, I added the seal to one of the decorator dies that comes with the Lorna Label die set so I could use it inside the card.
Since I'd trimmed the cupcake border to fit on the bump out, I had a small strip leftover. I trimmed away two of the cupcakes and added one to the sentiment panel and saved one to decorate the front. As usual, I finished off the inside of the card before going back to complete the front.
Supplies used:
Rainbow dog notecard - amazon. ca
Patterned paper - JJ's Rainbows, Waffle Flower
Lorna Label Pop Up - Karen Burniston
Baking Borders - Karen Burniston
Squares Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
Happy Birthday & celebrate - It's Your Day, MFT Stamps
Welcome to Masculine Card Monday here on my blog! When I was making our Grandson's birthday card, I pulled out a pad of 'boy themed' 6x6 papers. There weren't many sheets left and there were lots of smaller scraps. I had decided to just USE IT UP and here are two more cards. Others will be shared in the coming weeks.
These are a little more CAS (Clean And Simple) than I'm used to doing, but anything I laid on the front to see how it looked didn't add anything to the card. So I left them as is, and just added some Nuvo Drops in black.
Today I'm sharing the first finished card from the July Sheetload of Cards that I shared yesterday. I will be finishing them off one by one, until I have eight completed cards for my stash. I thought the purple background to the gold floral cluster leaned itself well to a sympathy card and since I always like to have some of those on hand that is what I made.
I added a couple of butterflies punched from gold foil paper and matted the stamped sentiment on a gold foil paper scrap. Finally, a few glitter dots to finish it off.
I don't usually do pop-ups inside a sympathy card but I do like to finish off the inside. So, using a different paper piece from the pad I cut a 4x6" piece. This mimics the 1/2" border all around the front panel. Another scalloped circle, this time from white cardstock and I stamped the sentiment with a plum ink. Then I added a pair of punched butterflies and my card was done.
I especially like the 5x7" size for sympathy cards.
Welcome to Masculine Card Monday here on my blog. There were some strips leftover from the Canada Day card duo I shared last month (see those HERE) and I wanted to use them up. I could have put them back in the paper package to use another day, but I was inspired to create a masculine birthday card instead.
The matted woodgrain strip hides the join of the two plaid maple leaf pieces, and I added a punched moose on a punched label. Both were popped up with foam tape. Using torn paper and a blending sponge, I added the ground line on the label (BEFORE adding the punched moose) and then did the same on the inside panel.
Since the card base isn't really heavy, and there are layers on the front - the card didn't feel balanced inside until I added that white panel. This is something I usually do and often forget to mention.
Supplies used:
Patterned paper - Moose Crossing, Catherine Pooler
Today I'm sharing my first card batch made with the July 2024 Sheetload of Cards. I can always tell when it's going to be one of my favourite Sheetloads, when I'm ready to start another right away. For this month, I spied a butterfly print 12x12" sheet and immediately cut it down to make 'half' a Sheetload, or 4 cards. I didn't even get started assembling those ones when my head thought how great this one would be for masculine cards.
I pulled out this older paper package by Echo Park and cut the pieces. I am going to keep a couple in my stash and the others will be donated to my Mom's old nursing home. On the first four cards I used the reverse of the arrow print for the strips, since the paper is double sided.
The tree is an old punch from my stash and I added some ink blending with a water brush then an alcohol marker.
Below is a peek at the inside where I added a strip of patterned paper from a scrap in the package, and a stamped sentiment. I also punched a tree from a scrap of white cardstock and used it as a stencil with blending brushes & ink to add a tree inside.
When I was finished these, I went through some older paper pads and pulled out another two sheets which I have now started on. 😊 When I'm done with those eight cards, I'll finally assemble the four butterfly paper cards! I plan on using gold foil paper with those to dress them up ... and possibly a pop up inside one or two of them.
I usually have a video walkthrough of my Sheetload cards, but since I don't have anything else to share for the next couple of days, I wanted to get the photographs taken and watermarked instead of waiting for a quiet time to take a video. I'll try to do one when I do the butterfly cards!
