C4C463 Christmas Tree Pop-Up Card.

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It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at the Crazy4Challenges Blog. Our December hostess is Frances Byrne and this is her challenge:  

"It’s a Tremendous Time of the Year - It's December first and for me that means it is time to decorate the Christmas tree. For our challenge this week, create a card that features a tree. Your card can include a Christmas tree, pine branches of a Christmas tree or even a tree in a summer or winter setting."

Of course I had to make a Pop-Up card, and chose this patterned paper from my stash that has gold foiled bits printed on it. I loved this cheery bird section of the 12 x 12" sheet, so trimmed that down to fit on the front.

The Cake Trims is also a die set I get quite a lot of use out of - I cut a couple of them from gold foil card stock and added them to my card. The bow die is from the Sleigh Pop-Up, and I combined the 'hello' and 'Christmas' dies for the greeting on the front.

Inside I used the Christmas Tree Pop-UP and added the sweet deer from the new Christmas Animals.

This open holly die is by Stampin' Up and it makes such a nice embellishment for holiday cards. I inlay white glittered berries into the gold holly piece for even more sparkle and shine.

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 C4C463.

Supplies:
Patterned paper - DCWV
Green, Kraft, red and brown card stocks
Sakura white gel pen
1020 Christmas Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
Wonky Circle die - Your Next Stamp
1061 Christmas Animals - Karen Burniston
Black fine point marker
1029 Cake Trims - Karen Burniston
Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up
1021 Sleigh Pop-Up (gifts) - Karen Burniston
1022 Word Set 3 Holiday - Karen Burniston
1002 Word Set 1 Gretings - Karen Burniston
Copic markers
Merry little Christmas stamp & Holly die - Peaceful Poinsettia, Stampin' Up
Glimmer paper (scraps) - Stampin' Up
Card size - Standard A2

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White Christmas Tree Pop-Up Card, Paper Pro's Challenge

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It's time for the Paper Pro's challenge, and this month the theme is "Holiday Cards". Ever since I saw Paul Peterson's lovely card on the Karen Burniston Pop-Up Peeps Face Book page I've wanted to make a white Pop-Up Christmas tree. That is what I used for my card today, but first here is the outside:

The patterned paper has gold and champagne foiled prints and it just shines when it catches the light. I added some additional gold details with the crosshatch vertical border, punched sprig and die cut Merry Christmas then added gold Glitter Dots as well.

Here is the card inside, with that pretty white tree.

I also added some borders from the Outdoor Scene, cutting them from white then dabbing on white glimmer paint on just the deer and tree portion. I used the same paint on the Pop-Up Christmas Tree pieces before assembling, because I tried to finger dab the paint through the stencil feature on the dies and had myself a big mess. I should have just used a sponge dauber to start with!

I added a gold embossed sentiment to the left side of the card, being careful that it was positioned so it wouldn't be a catch point for the tree. The Outdoor Scene borders were adhered directly to the card inside for the same reason and the card opens and closes smoothly.

I added a lot of gold glitter dots to my white pearlized tree.

It's amazing that this card folds completely flat for mailing, and will only need a single stamp. Since there was very little dimension other than the Pop-Up tree, I added foam tape under the front greeting rectangle. You don't want to add too much foam tape on the card front though, as then it doesn't lay flat open for display.

Finally, for those of you who like to pin card fronts and insides together, here you go:

Thanks for the inspiration Paul! 

The Paper Pro's challenge is a casual one with a varying number of participants each month. This month we have:

Karen Aicken (that's me!)

Frances Byrne

Caz Counsell

Fran Sabad
Sandy Diller
Raquel Mason
Kelly Booth

Supplies:

Patterned paper - Stampin' Up

White card stock

1020 Christmas Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

1054 Rectangle Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

1045 Outdoor Scene - Karen Burniston

Shimmer paint, white - Stampin 'Up

Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Words - Peaceful Poinsettias, Stampin 'Up

Gold embossing powder

Gold foil card stock - Scrap from tash

1022 Word Set 3 Holiday - Karen Burniston

Sprig punch - Stampin' Up

Fun foam

Card size - 6 x 4-1/2" 

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Karen Burniston Designer Challenge May 2018

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It's time again for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge, and this month the theme is "Paradise".  I thought about where I would go if someone told me I'd won a trip to my paradise, and came up with outdoors, with trees and blue sky and warmth. It doesn't have to be hot, but I HATE to be cold. I don't need a beach, but I do need nature. So this is the card I came up with for the challenge, and the only thing missing for me is mountains.

I cut the word King three times and adhered them together for a nice sturdy 'chipboard' type embellishment. I used a fair bit of green card stock on my card and spattered all the die cut pieces with Distress Oxide inks after dragging the pieces through the inky puddles. Since this card will be hand delivered, I also used a lot of foam tape for added dimension.

Haha - I don't know how I managed to edit this photo upside down. But it shows the card opening...

Inside I used the Christmas Tree Pop-Up to show that it doesn't have to be a holiday card. The Yeti and fire pit are just fun additions, from stamps I've had for years and are discontinued.

A little hand lettering on the right side and the banner is where we can sign our name. I wish the 'N' in the word enjoy was more even, but lettering is such a big learning process!

Finally, the focal point - this amazing Pop-Up tree. Look at all the dimension - and it still folds up completely flat for mailing.

I hope you will check out the rest of the Design Team posts  - their blogs are linked on the right. I wonder if there will be a lot of palm trees for this theme? Karen Burniston will have her project on HER BLOG tomorrow (Wednesday May 2) and she will also share the teams posts. It's always fun to see them grouped together in one post.

Supplies:
Blue, green, kraft and black card stocks
1020 Christmas Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
1045 Outdoor Scene - Karen Burniston
Patterned paper - ModaScrap, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Distress Oxide Inks
1034 Word Set 5 Royalty - Karen Burniston
Spectrum Noir Glitter Pen
Various markers
Stamps - TAWS
Water Brush
Sakura white gel pen
Bristol Smooth Cardstock for lettering piece
Black fine point marker

Card size - 5-1/2" square

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Red and Gold Christmas Tree Pop-Up

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Today's share is the second Christmas Tree Pop-Up I've made, and this time it's an A2 sized card. Yes, the entire Pop-Up tree folds flat and fits in an A2 card!!!

I only had a little bit of this patterned paper left, so wanted to use it for this card and be done with it. I added some gold Glitter Dots and half of a gold foiled doily to the front for some holiday shimmer and shine. Other than that, I kept the outside very simple.

Here is the card fully open! I really liked patterned paper for the trees on my first card (which you can see HERE) so did it again for this card.

I added gold Glitter Dots to the trees and sticker border, and gold foil card stock stitched circles for more holiday sparkle.

This is one of those cards that is going to elicit a gasp from whomever it goes to - the Christmas Tree Pop-Up is an ingenious die set.

Supplies:

1020 Christmas Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Red, off white confetti card stocks

Patterned paper and stickers - Basic Grey

Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Merry Christmas stamp - unknown

Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up

Stitched circle die - MFT Stamps

Signo White gel pen

Sparkle gel pen - Sakura

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Kraft and Red Christmas Tree Pop-Up Card

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After years of feeling like I wasn't even making a dent in my holiday patterned paper pile, this year I actually finished up a couple of packages that had just a few sheets, bits and pieces etc left in in them. This card was made with the last little bit of patterned paper from a package, and a few printed embellishments from the same package that were also remaining.

I love the look of this vintage paper, and especially all the red glitter! For the front I paired the paper and embellishments (fishtail banner and tree circle) with half of a gold foil snowflake.

This Christmas Tree Pop-Up by Karen Burniston is really something. For this one I put it towards the back of the card which gave me lots of room at the front edge for the stamped greeting. After die cutting the tree pieces, I used the embossed feature of the dies and an embossing sandwich to create the raised dots - then I swiped them with a watermark ink pad. Then I added Glitter Dots and gold glitter glue randomly on the raised dots.

The red beaded borders are decorator dies that come with the new Tag Book Pop-Up. They match the one from the Snowman Twist Circle Pop-Up, which is what I used on the stamped circle.

The little tree stamp is by Wild Whisper, and I scattered the image around the card using watermark ink.

It's amazing that this dimensional card folds completely flat for mailing!

Supplies:

Kraft and brown card stocks

1020 Christmas Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Patterned paper - My Minds Eye

Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up

Gold snowflake die - Stampin' Up

Red glitter paper - Stampin' Up

1012 Snowman Twist Circle (circles) - Karen Burniston

Gold Glitter Glue

Stitched scallop border - MFT Stamps

1023 Tag Book Pop-Up (beaded square and strips)

Word stamp - Lawn Fawn

Tree stamp - Wild Whisper

Watermark ink

Card size 5 x 6"

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Vintage Christmas Tree Pop-Up

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I wanted to try Karen Burniston's Christmas Tree Pop-Up and this package of vintage looking patterned paper was sitting on top of my Christmas papers pile.  The journal card was cut from one of the papers in the stack, I added a tree and snowflake from the Winter Charms die set and some white Nuvo Crystal Drops. That finished off the card front.

The blue ribbon has a lovely shimmer to it - lovely stuff.

As the card is opening, you can see the pretty dimensional Christmas tree ...

... and here is the card fully open. Just WOW!!!

Such a clever die set, and while it looks complicated it goes together easily. I followed the video Karen Burniston has right on the product page for this first one and it went together like a charm. I knew I wanted to use this blue/green patterned paper for the trees, so adhered two pieces back to back. That way the pattern is on both sides of the large trees - since you see both sides I'm glad I did this step.

The 'merry' was cut three times, once from red and twice from a pale patterned paper from the package and I offset the paler ones for a bit of shadow under the red 'merry'.

The cardinal comes with the Christmas tree set, and since I love the stitched & scalloped rectangle from the Twist Panel Pop-Up I used it here with a stitched oval die as a place for us to sign our name.

As soon as I finished this card I had to start another with the Christmas Tree Pop-Up die set, which I will share another day.  Into the holiday card stash!

Supplies:

1020 Christmas Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Patterned paper and journal card - Fancy Pants

Stitched scallop border dies - MFT Stamps

Off white confetti, red card stocks

Shimmer ribbon - Stampin' Up

1009 Twist Panel Pop-Up (scalloped label) - Karen Burniston

1018 Winter Charms - Karen Burniston

Glaze pen - Sakura

Signo white gel pen

Black Sharpie

Nuvo Crystal Drops

Merry die - Papertrey Ink

Stitched oval - MFT Stamps

Christmas stamp (partial) - Papertrey Ink

Blueprints #21 (stitched banner) - MFT Stamps

Card size - 5 x 6", which fits in a 5 x 7" envelope.

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