Happy/Hoppy Spring Mini Slimline Card

Hello my crafty friends! It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog and today I'm sharing a Mini Slimline for our Grandson for Passover.  The Giant Happy Spring die cut was inked with daubers and Catherine Pooler inks, added to a white off-set layer for a shadow, and then white gel pen highlights were drawn on. The cute frog is from Karen Burniston's Bayou Animals and I coloured inside the fly wings with a white gel pen.

Inside the card, I added another frog and pair of flies - I know he is going to get a bigger kick out of the fly's than the rest of the card, ha ha. I hand lettered Happy Passover and a simple message inside as well.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Green cardstock scraps
Fineliner markers - Chameleon
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Cloud patterned paper - Doodlebug, Flower Box (OLD - stash)

Pop Up Card for Passover

Hello my crafty friends. Today I'm sharing the card I made for our middle daughter and her family, who will be celebrating Passover. I have a walkthrough of this card on YouTube:  

Inside I used the Paper Frames Pop Up and Border Blends Trims. The stickers are 3-d, but I did pull them apart and replaced the foam tape with thin foam tape to cut down on the bulk. Even though I'm hand delivering the card, It was pretty chunky with all the foam tape.

This die creates such a dynamic looking card. It does take a little patience to do the folding, but remember that Karen Burniston has assembly videos for all of her pop up dies and you can always refer to those for help. The die gives you impressions for the fold lines and the packaging photo is a great reference as well.

 This card is an A2 sized, but a wide A2 - which I enjoy. Just a different look from the 'same old same old'.  Folded, the card is 5.5 x 4.25" and fits in a standard A2 envelope!.

NOTE:  I am linking a couple of different green mirror card stocks below for you. I keep most scraps and small pieces of specialty papers and just grabbed one of those for my card.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - Floral Clusters With Leaves, Hobby Lobby
Scrap of mint dot patterned paper - Hobby Lobby
Stickers - 3d Flower Clusters - Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby)
Fine Point markers - Chameleon
Tiny butterfly sticker - stash
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

Shutter Card for Passover

Hello! I had another play with this die set and made a pretty card for our middle daughter & family for Passover. You can check out the walkthrough of this card on YouTube:  

I used some 6x6" patterned papers from my stash and their coordinating printed elements. I wasn't confident that the patterned paper used on the shutter arms would hold up though.  To prevent it cracking and breaking away from the card sides. I reinforced the folds on the shutter arms on the back side with Scotch Tape. 

In the photo below, you can see how much shine you get when you add a transparency behind the circle opening. 

I actually started on another one of these shutter cards, which I will be sharing in a day or two. It's a fun die set for sure!

Supplies:
Card stocks - stash
Gatefold Reveal 2 - Taylored Expressions
Patterned paper & elements - Recollections
Tasteful Labels - Stampin' Up
Transparency
Chameleon Fineliner Markers
Stickles
Glitter Brush Pen
Card size - Standard A2 (4.25 x 5.5")

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'Sending You Kindness Confetti' Slimline Card

Hello crafty friends

Yay - today is the day that the NEW RELEASE goes live at Your Next Stamp! I hope you have enjoyed the previews the Design Team has been sharing all week on the YNS Blog. I have another card to share today and once again I made a Slimline card.

I'd like to let you know that we are celebrating this new release with an Instagram Hop!  The YNS August New Release Instagram Hop starts at 11 am EDT on 8/18/2020. Join us for your chance to win one of the three $20 gift certificates to the Your Next Stamp Store!!! The IG hop starts at YNS' Instagram page and continues on... find them on IG @yournextstamp

Also, I have a YouTube video for you that goes over the whole new release!! 

The Falling Confetti is going to be a fun stamp set for many different occasions - Birthday's, Graduation, New Years, even for a Wedding! But there are some great sentiments included that make this stamp set even more versatile, so my card today is one I made to send out for Happy Mail.

After stamping the largest Confetti stamp at the top and bottom of my Kraft panel, I heat embossed the images with a blue and a green sparkly embossing powder. 

The sentiment was stamped with an old rainbow ink pad onto a Stitched White Fishtail Banner, but since the ink pad is old it was also fairly dry. I pulled out my Chameleon Fineliner markers, which allow you to write or draw with different colours simply by swapping the marker tops. I went over the stamped greeting with three marker caps and one marker and was very happy with the final result. The Fishtail Banner was adhered at an angle, trimming off both ends. 

The Heart Stripe Die Set is also one of the new sets in the release, I cut it three times from glittered card stock - once from green, once from blue and once from white. Then I alternated the pieces onto three card stock hearts which were die cut with the second die in the Heart Strip Die Set. I only used one of the sparkly hearts on my card today, but I have two left for future projects! 

I added three white sparkly Gum Drops then popped the panel up onto the Kraft card base with foam tape.

Inside, I heat embossed the Falling Confetti once more at the top of the white panel. I die cut the heart shaped window below that and backed it with a transparency piece for some shine. The Marvellous Day is from the new Hammie Happy Birthday stamp set, and it was stamped onto a YNS Stitched Fishtail Banner. Then I added three sparkly blue Gum Drops.

I stamped the smaller confetti image along the back flap and on the left side of the Kraft #10 Business Envelope using Distress Oxide inks.

Want more chances to win a YNS prize???  Head on over to the YNS Creative Hub Facebook group for party games!

Here are some Instagram Links for you as well.

• @yournextstamp
• @noga.shefer
• @jksand2001

@craftee1      https://instagram.com/craftee1?igshid=1r91c035d64d6

• @madebymeghank
• @kerri_michaud
• @samjolden
• @sue.th

@westie1702       https://instagram.com/westie1702?igshid=wcmzqu7wz1nk

• @karenaicken
• @julie_elak
• @luv2papercraft

Supplies:

card stocks - stash

Heart Stripe Die Set - Your Next Stamp (New Release)

Falling Confetti- Your Next Stamp (New Release)
Hammie Happy Birthday - Your Next Stamp (New Release)

Stitched Fishtail BannersCard size - Your Next Stamp

White Sugar & Sparkle Gum Drops - Your Next Stamp

Blueberry Blitz Gumdrops - Your Next Stamp

Embossed Edge Nesting Slimline Dies - Kat Scrappiness

Embossing powder - Stamp A Mania

Glitter card stocks - Stampin' Up

Chameleon Fine Point Markers

Distress Oxide Inks

Wink of Stella

Card size: 3.5 x 8.5", fits in a #10 Business Envelope

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Chameleon Record Card - You Rock

Hello crafty friends ...

Today for Masculine Card Monday here on my blog,  I'm sharing a card I made to show the versatility of the Chameleon Fineline markers. These things are sooo cool! For example, you take the lid off the yellow marker and add the orange marker lid for a few seconds. Then you add the red marker lid for a few seconds When you go to write, the colour flows from the red through orange before returning to the original colour. 

I had just received this fun record die set from MFT so that is pretty much what inspired my card. Note, I made this card in the Spring of 2019 but didn't get it posted so am sharing it now.

I used the markers to write 'you rock' on one stitched card stock strip, and then drew a plaid on a second one. The Fineline markers coordinate with the Chameleon Color Tone and Color Tops so I used those to colour the record label and banner.

Inside I added a stitched panel with marker colour outside the stitched line and a die cut word. The other words were done with the Chameleon Fineline markers!

Supplies:
Sketch - C4C 475, Crazy4Challenges.

The Bee Paper Company, marker paper

Stitched vertical stitched strip dies - MFT Stamps

Chameleon Color Tones markers

Chameleon Color Tops

Chameleon Fineliners

White, black card stocks

Black glossy card stock - Tonic Studios

Nuvo Crystal Drops

Record die - MFT Stamps

Silver for card stock - Stampin' Up

AWESOME and FANTASTIC dies - Verve (retired)

Fishtail banner die - MFT Stamps

Stitched rectangle dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs

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Karen Burniston joins Pear Blossom Press for a BLOG HOP!!

Hello my crafty friends

You are in for a treat today, as we are collaborating with the Pear Blossom Press team for an amazing Blog Hop. Pear Blossom Press makes cool Chibi light packages that make creating cards with a light up feature much easier. Then Amanda & hubby came out with EZ Lights which are meant to work with interactive, pop up cards! Yes you heard that right. Pop Up cards that also light up.  I know, right?

There are prizes and discounts too, which I have listed below all the photos.

I have to say these things are SLICK and I am both impressed and excited to use the EZ Lights again.  You are going to want to settle in, because I actually made TWO cards for the Blog Hop today. Amanda and I are on Lynda Kanase's Design Team together and I wanted to show her some extra support with a second card.

So for my extra long post today,  I'm sharing the first card with a YouTube video followed by details, notes and still shots. After that will be the second card, again with a YouTube video followed by the still shots and the Blog Hop links so you don't miss any of the cool projects on the hop. A full supply list of my cards will be at the end of the post.

This was my first time using the Chibioni lights and of course we are stepping up the process by creating pop-ups that also light up. So there were some 'trials and tribulations' but that had nothing to do with the EZ Lights. It was more with the planning on where to place the wires and how to attach everything. I'm not usually a planner when it comes to card making, and tend to create as I go.

I die cut the rocket and readied the card base along with the other pop up pieces then figured out where to put all the elements. I wanted the rocket flames to light up which meant the wires needed to come from below. I cut a slit in the (unassembled) pop up flames piece and threaded the lights through that from the back side. Below you can see the little slit I cut into the flame arm.

When I knew that was going to work, I was able to adhere the moon piece inside my card as per Karen B's Rocket Pop Up assembly video. I wanted it to be really secure, so I also used a small stapler. The staples show on both the front and back but both were going to be covered with card stock panels so that wasn't a concern. Then I adhered the wired flame pop up arm to the moon base.

When I finished assembling the lighted rocket pop up, I realized I hadn't done enough planning and I now had the wires and Battery/Switch piece sitting on the inside of the card. Hmmmmm ...  While I wanted the switch to be on the inside, I could't figure out how to disguise all of the wires with just stars & planets etc. I fixed that with a craft knife, cutting a upside down U shaped flap large enough to pop theBattery/Switch through to the back of the card. I secured the flap and the wires on the back with a  piece of double sided tape leaving the rest of the wires and the Battery/Switch hanging free from the back of the card. There is lots of length to work with on the wires, which is great. With the double sided tape on the back, the flap is secure and you can barely see it from the inside! Note at each point I tested the lights to be sure they still worked.

The next thing was how to get the Battery/Switch back to the inside of the card.  I really wanted the push button on the inside. So out came the kraft knife again. I figured out where I wanted the switch to be and how I wanted to disguise it then cut another flap. I popped the Battery/Switch back to the inside and secured the excess wires in a curve on the back of the card using a large piece double sided tape.  Then I used red line tape to adhere the Battery/Switch where I wanted it inside the card and added the double layer of foam tape around it. Note - the Battery/Switch is the same thickness as a double layer of foam tape, which is what you would typically use for a shaker card.

I pressed the spot where the PUSH ME button will be ... and the rocket tail lit up ... and I honestly did a little happy dance. SO flippin' cool!! I cut a slightly smaller panel for the back of the card and used wet glue just around the edges to secure it to the card back. You'd never know there are flaps cut and excess wire lengths curved up in between the layers, and the extra panel helps balance out the card weight with the decorated panel on the card front.

Below is the front of my card. To create the clouds, I used a hand made mask. When Karen B first came out with the Nature Edges, I cut one of the clouds from scrap paper and I'm still using it! I had to add one of the aliens and space ship from the Space Charms - they are just SO cute! I penned the sentiment with Chameleon Fine Liners - see how the colour changes as you write? 

Here are the detail shots, and my second card follows them.

Whew! - still with me? I hope so ... and I don't mind at all if you are just looking at the pictures and not doing any reading. I only added the notes and tips for those that might want to recreate this card.

For my second card, I had an idea to create a camping card and this is what I came up with. There are detail shots below the video, as well as the BLOG HOP LINKS!!!  You won't want to miss any of the fun inspiration on this blog hop.

I have had this patterned paper package for several years and I was happy with how well it matched my theme. The fish come with the Camping Charms, and I strung them on a loop of twine after brushing their bellies with Wink of Stella.

By adding a circle to the Katherine Label arm, you get a completely different look!

How cute is this Camping Riley? He is so fun, and I coloured him with my Chameleon Color Tone and Color Top markers.

I had added some yellow vellum behind the campfire, but it didn't really show up so I coloured it red with a Copic marker. When you press the PRESS ME stamp on the right hand side of the card, two stars and the campfire light up on the left hand side of the card. 😀

The tree trunk was quickly snipped from a scrap of brown paper. I stamped the PRESS ME on the tree before adhering it to the card base, over the Battery/Switch. The Battery/Switch just fits under the tree, which is the fall away portion of the tree from the Christmas Tree Pop Stand.

Finally, I added a signing block on the back of the card. I didn't want to change up the inside, or distract from the lights and action.

Thank you so much for hopping along with us on the Karen Burniston and Pear Blossom Press Collaboration Hop! Be sure to comment along the way to be entered to win one of two great prizes:

• Snowman Twist Circle Die Set with a 5-pack of EZ-Lights, or 
• Cake Pop-Up Die Set with a 5-pack of EZ-Lights! 

Now don’t worry if you aren’t drawn as one of the winners; we’ve got a special gift for everyone! Just enter the code POPANDLIGHT for 15% off your purchase at karenburniston.com or pearblossompress.com. One code works for both shops! (Coupon code valid until November 2, 2019.)

Karen Burniston

Pear Blossom Press

Karen Aicken (you are here!!)

Niccole Kulig

Frances Byrne

Jessica Shier

Lois Bak

Lynnea Hollendonner

Fran Sabad

Jenn Paar Gross

Sandy Diller

Jess Francisco

Kelly Booth

Lisa Golzbein

Summer Hills-Painter

Prizes & Official Contest Rules

Two prizes will be awarded to two separate winners, chosen at random, from comments left on participating blogs and videos. No purchase necessary. Comments must be posted by 11:59 pm PDT on October 26, 2019. Only one comment per blog or video will be counted, but you can comment on multiple blogs and videos in the hop for additional entries. (This is to prevent spam.) Contest open internationally to participants over 18 years of age. Void where prohibited by law. Any personal information collected will only be used for the purposes of contacting winners, your information will never be shared or sold. Comments left on YouTube videos must not violate community guidelines. This contest is not sponsored by YouTube. Winners will be announced on November 28, 2019 here and prizes must be claimed within thirty days of announcement, or new winners will be drawn. 

Supplies for Light Up Rocket Pop Up Card

EZ Light 5 Pack Set - Pear Blossom Press
Navy, white, yellow, green, teal and confetti card stocks
1105 Rocket Pop Up - Karen Burniston
1038 Tropical Scene (small stitched circle) - Karen Burniston
1047 Upsy Daisy Pop Up (small fishtail banner) - Karen Burniston
1053 Alpha - Karen Burniston

1104 Triple Flip (fishtail banner) - Karen Burniston

1054 Rectangles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1006 Nature Edges - Karen Burniston
1046 Circle Charm Pop Up (star) - Karen Burniston
1057 Circles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1109 Space Charms - Karen Burniston

Tiny Attacher - Tim Holtz
Sakura white gel pen
W1 Copic marker
Makeup brushes
Black pen
Sunscape stencil - Newtons Nook
Chameleon Fineliners
Push Here stamp set - Lawn Fawn
Dot stamp - Stamps by Judith
Card Size - A2 (4.25 x 5.5")



Supplies for Camping Riley Pop Up Card

EZ Light 5 Pack Set - Pear Blossom Press
Gone Camping scrapbook kit, card stock and patterned paper - We R Memory Keepers (old)
1054 Rectangles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1102 Word Set 10 Thinking of You - Karen Burniston
1064 - Christmas Tree Pop Stand (large tree) - Karen Burniston
1097 Farm Edges (back hill on the right) - Karen Burniston
1049 Camping Charms - Karen Burniston
1011 Katherine Label Pop Up - Karen Burniston
1057 Circles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
Neenah card stock (for Riley)
Camping Riley - Riley & Company
Camping stamp - Funny Bones, Riley & Company
Catherine Pooler Inks
Chameleon Color Tone and Color Top markers
Sakura Black glaze, white gel and sparkle pens
Chameleon Coloured pencils
1/8" Hole punch
Small scraps of yellow vellum
Teal, brown, off white and white card stocks
Push Here stamp set - Lawn Fawn
Twine
Mini Brad

Card size - wide A2 (5.5 x 4.25")

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C4C488 Sea Themed Pop-Up Sketch Card

Hello my crafty friends

It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at the Crazy4Challenges Blog. This month our hostess is Rebecca Ednie! Kelly Booth is joining us as our Guest Designer and you can find Kelly's blog HERE.   Since it's the third Saturday of the month, Rebecca has a sketch for us this week:

I used the sketch for the front of my card using patterned paper and cut apart/journal cards that were included the same stack. I die cut my scalloped panel using a border die from Prickley Pear stamps. The wheel and seahorse were fussy cut from other journal cards in the stack and I wrapped some twine across the top edge of my panel as per the sketch.

As the card is opening, you see that it's a Pop-Up card!

Karen Burniston's Rockin' Rectangle die set was used and I embellished the inside with more fussy cut elements and journal cards.

Below is a look at the card fully open ...

There is a lot of gold foil on this card - so pretty.

I used Chameleon Fineliner pens to write the message - see how the colour changes and blends through the message?

Check out the C4C blog to see how the Crazies have been inspired by the challenge. We'd  love to see your take on it, so be sure to stop by the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and link up your creations. If you are uploading to an online gallery, please use the keyword C4C488.

Supplies:

Beige Astroparche card stock

Patterned paper - Craft Smith

Scalloped Border die - Prickley Pear Stamps

Stitched rectangle dies - Your Next Stamp

Sakura gold gel pen

1089 Rockin' Rectangle Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Oval dies - Hero Arts

Twine - Stampin 'Up

Chameleon Fineliner markers

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