Rainbow Birthday Accordion Card

Welcome to Fun fold Friday here on my blog! I'm really late posting today - I had a Tetanus shot yesterday, and the trouble with having an autoimmune disease (Rheumatoid Arthritis) is that vaccines set up a doozy of an immune response. Lots of pain meds and I'm finally able to sit with my laptop to get this posted. Whew. Today I'm sharing a fun card using dies -and stamps!!- by Karen Burniston! I have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube:  

Apparently the Fancy Label Accordion is one of Karen B's most popular die sets, and her last release included both the Fancy Solid Frame dies and Tree Add-Ons. So fun! Below you can see the card closed and how it will look coming out of the envelope.

She also has a selection of stamps that go perfectly with her new release and I used the birthday set for this card. The front has "Make A Wish" and the back has a white label which is where we can sign our names. I was impressed at how well the stamps stamp, too!

I cut the Fancy Label Accordion four times, using the Tree Add-On's for the centre two panels. 

For a little something extra, I added the Happy Birthday on a separate strip - which I adhered to the left and right tree panels. I took my time placing it inside the card so it wouldn't stick out past the edge of the card when it's all closed up.

The card folds up surprisingly flat, and while it will likely need an extra stamp for thickness it won't have to go as a 'parcel'. I really had fun making this happy card and look forward to more playtime with these dies.

 

Supplies used:

Fancy Label Accordion - Karen Burniston

Fancy Solid Frame -  - Karen Burniston

Patterned paper - JJ's Rainbows, Waffle Flower

Tree Add-Ons (for the Fancy Label Accordion) - Karen Burniston

Birthday/Belated Sentiments - Karen Burniston

Dot stamp - Stamps by Judith

Accordion Card with Candles

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!

I was intrigued when Karen Burniston released two add on sets for the Fancy Label Accordion ... this Candle Add-On and a Heart Add-On. I haven't had a chance to play with the heart one yet, but shared a card earlier using the Candle Add-On inside a normal card. 

While It would work better with a three or four page Fancy Label Accordion, I chose to try it with two pages and I am happy with the inside of the card which you can see below. This was a card for a friend, and I signed my name on the white strip on the lower right side. 

The candle flames were die cut from Rainbow Holographic card stock for some shine. My friend had made several of these cards using the (very) old Sizzix Steel Ruled die so know she will enjoy this one.

One more look ...

This card was very much a trial and error since I don't plan my cards out ahead of time. Once I had the inside done I wasn't crazy about what the front and back pages looked like. That wouldn't happen if I'd added more pages, but I made it work well enough that I was happy with the card. Below is the back of the card, and I could have left off the candles and added a light coloured label to write on if I didn't want to write on that narrow strip inside.

Supplies used:

Fancy Label Accordion - Karen Burniston

Birthday Candle Add-Ons - Karen Burniston

Daisy's - Twist Flower Pop Up, Karen Burniston

Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Reco0llections

Patterned paper - 6x6" Wish Big, Queen & Company

Stamp inside - Make a Wish, MFT Stamps

Small Happy Birthday - LJD Birthday Greetings, MFT Stamps 

Cake & Candles Pop Up Card

I have my set up for 'card photo & videos' on our dining room table - but we were having houseguests for the week and I knew we'd be eating our meals in there. So I had to take it all down, but then had to scramble to take photos of this card. 

I made it for a friend - I had already made her a special card that has disappeared into the universe somewhere. When I went to get it ready to add with her gift - I couldn't find it ANYwhere. Sheesh. I made her another one and if I ever find the first - I'll be ahead for next year. 😂

I took these photos outside - but the holographic cardstock just doesn't show up like it does under my camera set up. The front features a scalloped oval stamped with a birthday cake & sentiment. It was popped up with foam tape then I cut the daisy row several times from Karen Burniston's Twist Flower Pop Up using Rainbow Holographic cardstock. I tucked the daisy's under the scalloped oval, trimming the extra daisy's as needed. Oh, how I wish you could see the shine from those daisy's!

My card base started as a 12 x 5" piece of teal card stock, scored down the centre at 6". That gave me a 6 x 5" folded card. For my first play with Karen Burniston's Birthday Candle Add Ons, I decided to try adding it directly inside my card. It is intended to work with the Fancy Label Accordion (which looks REALLY cool) but I knew I had to try it this way at least once. I do love to share different ways and looks you can get from your dies, since they are an investment.

In the photo below, you can see the score line on the left side of the Add-On. (You can click on a photo to open it up in a separate window if you wish to see them larger.) I scored it on each side, right on the end of the curve then worked all the folds of the Birthday Candle Add On so it would work easily inside the card. 

Opening the card up flat and lining up the center score lines of both the card and the Add On, I added glue to the outside of those two score lines and adhered them inside the card keeping those centre fold lines lined up. I did let the glue set for a minute or two before I re-worked the folds and then I could decorate the Add On piece. I like that it opens up flat for adding the candles & decorating or you could get those added after you've worked the folds and before you adhere it inside your card.

Since I wanted a little more sparkle, I added more of the rainbow holographic daisy's behind the Add On and Stickles glitter glue to the candle flames. The lines and dots on the candles were drawn over with a Sakura Stardust pen for subtle shimmer.  I added borders on each side & from the Border Blends Trims die set (Karen Burniston). The sentiments were stamped and punched out before adding to the card then I added a few more of the leftover daisy's. The larger daisy's were trimmed from the daisy border - easy peasy.

People always turn this type of card over to view it from the top - so here is a photo showing that view!

Supplies used:

Birthday Candle Add Ons - Karen Burniston

Border Blends - Trims, Karen Burniston

Sakura Stardust pen

Daisy's - Twist Flower Pop Up

Yellow and green markers

Stickles glitter glue

Heartfelt Hexagon stamps and punch - Stampin' Up

Words inside - Cake Fancy, Stampin' Up

Lacy Ovals - Waffle Flower

Lift Flap Christmas Card

Hello crafty friends ...

It's time for Karen Burniston's December 2020 Designer Challenge where she challenged the Design Team to use the new Mini Pop dies in a card of any theme. Since today is December 1st and December 1st is the start of Christmas for our family ... I made a Christmas card.

This is not the card I started out making, and I have all the details on YouTube:

This is one of those cards that just shimmers but it's very hard to capture in photos. The Fancy Winter Frames were die cut from white pearl card stock, and the patterned paper has lovely foiled bits. I outlined the decorator label (which is included with the Fancy Frame Accordion) with a gold gel pen as well - something I do quite often.

Small magnets hold the flap closed, and when you lift it up this little snow scene is revealed!

The penguin is holding the little teddybear that comes with the new Winter Charms, and I added a snowflake from the Sleigh Pop Up as well.

Inside the card is more of the foiled patterned paper, the Merry Christmas and a couple more snowflakes.

I hope you will check out what the rest of the design team came up with for this challenge - their blogs are linked on the right. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Wednesday) on her blog.

Supplies:
Card stocks - stash
1043 Fancy Label Accordion - Karen Burniston
Shimmer Spray
1145 Fancy Winter Frames - Karen Burniston
Patterned paper - Stampin' Up, retired
Magnets - KG Magnetics
Sakura gold gel and white gel pens
1021 Sleigh Pop Up (snowflake) - Karen Burniston
Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up
Banners Pick A Punch - Stampin' Up
1065 Merry Christmas - Karen Burniston
1143 Holiday Charms - Karen Burniston
1146 Mini Pops - Karen Burniston
Copic Markers
1016 Winter Animals - Karen Burniston
White pearl card stock
1115 Gift Pivot Panels (tiny tag) - Karen Burniston
Majestic Confetti - Studio Katia

Card size -  5 x 5" square, fits in a 5" square envelope (which costs more to mail) or a 5 x 7" envelope which does not cost any more to mail. I sent this one in a 5 x 7" envelope.

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Paper Pros Challenge - Spring Flower Card

Good morning friends

I love it when a card comes together - I had this idea in my head and was just tickled that it worked out as I had hoped. For my card base, I used Karen Burniston's Fancy Label Accordion die cut from white card stock and stamped with polka dots.

The front has the words 'Birthday Hooray!' and a 3-d sticker with a bird and flower. There is also a stitched window cut from this panel that the shaker pouch on the second panel fits right into when the card is closed. That is the part that made me the happiest!

Here you can see the card opened - I didn't join the accordion panels for a different look. Inside it says 'Make a Wish' and there are more 3-d flower stickers.

Below photo shows the second stitched window and the pretty sequin mix inside the shaker pouch.

On the back, I added stamped label to cover the shaker window opening and added another 3-d flower sticker for good measure.

The Paper Pro's challenge is a casual monthly challenge with a varying number of participants. This month we have: (note, there may be more last minute participants, but I am not near my laptop to be able to adjust the links. Last month there were a couple of people who were able to participate at the very last minute!)

Karen Aicken - that's me!

Frances Byrne

Raquel Mason

Fran Sabad

Sandy Diller

Caz Counsell

Supplies:

1043 Fancy Label Accordion - Karen Burniston

Peek a boo Square Window die - MFT Stamps

Square pouch - MFT Stamps

MISTI

Falling Snow stamp - Simon Says Stamp

Sequins etc

1028 Cake Pop-Up (Scalloped border) - Karen Burniston

Teal and white card stocks

1003 Word Set 2 Birthday - Karen Burniston

1027 Word Set 4 Just a Note (hooray) - Karen Burniston

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