Bear Slimline Thank You Card

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It's Masculine Care Monday here on my blog, and today I'm sharing a Thank You card I made to send to my brother. My husband and I had been on a 14 day quarantine after returning to Canada in March, and he made sure that we had enough groceries and kept checking on us to be sure we didn't need anything.

I had some of this pretty tree print patterned paper leftover from my Designer Challenge card (which you can see HERE), so that is what I used for the card front. As you can see, I made another Slimline card since I'm enjoying this format lately.

I used the Thank You die from Karen Burniston, cutting it twice from kraft card stock and once from white. After lightly inking the white layer, I adhered the three layers together which gave me a nice sturdy element for the top area of my card.

I've had this bear image for several years - it works so well for masculine cards! The Grass Tuft die from YNS gave him the ground to stand on, and I added three brown Nuvo Drops as an accent.

Inside, I added a small strip of the tree patterned paper, a Kraft strip and a water coloured fish. That left me lots of room to write our note on the white stitched panel.

Supplies:
Kraft, white and brown card stocks
Water Colour Trees patterned paper - Paper Studio
Slimline Stitched rectangle die - Trinity Stamps
Water Colour Pencils
Water Brush
Grin & Bear It (bear and fish stamps) - Local King Rubber Stamps
Grass Tuft Die - Your Next Stamp
1066 Thank You - Karen Burniston
Nuvo Drops

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

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C4C 449 Masculine Sneak Peek Pop-Up Card.

Good morning friends

It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at the Crazy4Challenges Blog. Since it's a new month we also have a new Hostess and Guest Designer! Our August hostess is Anja de Regt, and our guest designer is Connie VanLoosen.

Anja's challenge this week is:  "Our youngest son is turning 21 tomorrow, how did that happen? No little boys card for this one anymore, my challenge for you today is to make a masculine card."

Today is the day the Design Team can start to share peeks at Karen Burniston's new release, which will be shipping in early September. YAY!!!

As usual, the front of my Pop-Up card is fairly simple. I dangled three fish from the Camping Charms on a piece of twine, highlighting the fish with metallic gel pens. The 'Celebrate' is one of the new dies!

Inside, I used another one of the new dies - the Evergreen Pivot Panel. Now this is not the first card I made with this die set, but that one didn't fit with the challenge and since today is the day we can share I am sharing this card first.

The COMING SOON Pivot Panels are pretty cool for a number of reasons. They are easy to use, they don't require a backing card and they give a lot of dimension. There are two Pivot Panels being released, this one and a House Pivot Panel. The decorator dies seem to be interchangeable - I have used the houses with the Evergreen Pivot Panel and visa versa. As well as working inside a regular card, they fit PERFECTLY on the Tag Book Pop-Up to completely change the look of that die set. The Tag Book Pop-Up is really popular, so people will love having additional dies that work with that. AND it also is meant to work with the Twist Panel Pop-Up - another incredibly popular die set. For my card today, I used a side fold wide A2 card.

Our son likes to fish, so this card is for his birthday next month. The Fall tree panels were cut from patterned paper using the Crosshatch Rectangle dies. I cut the Evergreen Pivot Panel from kraft card stock, then dipped and dragged it through Distress Oxide ink puddles to add colour. I added a stamped & die cut bear/fish and trees from both the Evergreen and the House Pivot Panels.

The greeting was white embossed on a zig-zag circle, then adhered to one of the Evergreen pop-out pieces. I love using dies in ways other than the way they were intended, and I can't wait to play with these Pivot Panels some more.

Finally, for those that like to pin group shots - here you go:

Since the KBR offices are in the process of a big move, you won't be able to pre-order these dies until September 1st and they will start shipping around the second week of September. Remember you can always ask your local retailer to bring them in for you as well! For a little video showing the entire September 2018 release, check out Karen Burniston's blog HERE:  

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 C4C449.

Supplies:

1054 Rectangles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

1062 Evergreen Pivot Panel - Karen Burniston - coming September 2018

Kraft and white card stocks

Patterned paper - DCWV

Distress Oxide Inks

1063 House Pivot Panel (tree) - Karen Burniston - coming September 2018

White embossing powder

1046 Circle Charm Pop-Up (zig zag circle) - Karen Burniston

Birthday fishes stamp - Paper Smooches

Bear/fish stamps - Local King Rubber Stamps

Wink of Stella

Derwent Water colour pencils

Waterbrush

1049 Camping charms - Karen Burniston

Sakura metallic pens

1067 Celebrate - Karen Burniston - coming September 2018

Twine - Stampin' Up

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C4C 383 Music Birthday Card

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our April 2017 Hostess is Frances Byrne (for the second month), and our Guest Designer is Kristine Reynolds.  

Here is Kristine's Challenge: Tomorrow is International Jazz Day .... Include some for of music on your card. Music notes; inspired by a song; your favorite musican; music designer paper .... It's up to you!

I have been enamoured with Gate Fold cards lately, and had found this music print patterned paper while looking for something else in my stash. So that was the starting point for my card today.

I stamped the guitar and die cut it, then die cut 3 more from white card stock. Then they were adhered together to form a nice chipboard style embellishment.

Here is a look at the inside ...

Our Son In Law loves music, and teaches guitar so this will be a perfect birthday card for him.

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 C4C383

Supplies:
Fuse green card stock - MFT
Music stamps and dies - Local King Rubber Stamps
Word stamp - Avery Elle
Stitched fishtail banner dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Patterned paper - DCWV
White card stock
Music Washi Tape

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