Slimline Christmas Pop Up Card

I completely forgot to share a Christmas card in September! We ended up doing a camping trip down the Oregon coast, we've been busy since we got back and I'm having trouble finding time to get in my craft room. But this is the holiday card I made in September ... just a little late, ha ha.

I went with a Slimline card and the patterned paper is VERY sparkly. I've had the paper pad for a few years and there is also a coordinating ephemera pack that I used for the words on the front and the elements inside. The scene was at the bottom of a 12x12" sheet in the paper pad, and I thought it worked well for a Slimline.

The pop-up arms come from Karen Burniston's Mini Pops Pop Up and the signing block was die cut with her Rectangles & Labels set. 

The Canadian Thanksgiving is this coming weekend, and I didn't get a single card in the mail for it. Hoping I can dig out the extra Halloween cards I made last year and get those in the mail or I'll miss the boat on that occasion too! 

Supplies used:

Patterned paper  & Ephemera- Sugar Plum, My Minds Eye

Mini Pop Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Rectangle and Labels Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Sentiment - Christmas Classics - Stampin' Up

Sakura stardust pen

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Stickles glitter glue

Sunflower Scene Pop Up Birthday Card

Now that I'm finished making holiday cards, I am back to creating with this card kit again. It's the "Bee Happy Cardmaking Kit" by Paper Rose, and I bought it early last month. I enjoy using card kits and I absolutely loved the images in this one. I also pulled in a few other items from my craft room, including this sweet scalloped die (Catherine Pooler) and the Mini Pops set (Karen Burniston) for the inside. This is the second card I'm posting with the card kit.

The ombre panel inside is actually from a note card set I've had in my stash for a few years. I cut the front away to use on it's own and I really like how it adds a pop of colour inside the card.

The sunflower bouquet pops up when the card opens because it's on one of the large angled arms from the Mini Pops set. I also added a few foiled bee stickers on the front, inside and envelope.

One more look ...

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 cards

April - 32 cards

May - 43 cards

June - 34 cards

July - 56 cards

August - 106 cards

September - 61 cards

October - 51 cards & 5 Tags

November - 46 cards

December so far - 23 cards (& 16 simple tags)

I decided to cancel the subscription that provided linked thumbnails to what products I used on my cards. It was costing me out of pocket each month, so I’m back to listing what I used with a few affiliate links included.

Supplies:

Bee Happy cardmaking kit - Paper Rose

Mini Pops dies - Karen Burniston

Dots & Scallops dies - Catherine Pooler

Bakers Twine

Circle sticker gems - Dazzles

Inside words - Special Sentiments, Penny Black

Gold foil bee stickers - Amazon

Halloween Infinity Shaker (with Pop Up)

I was putting away this patterned paper and spied a partial sheet with those crazy eyed pumpkins in the package. That was all it took to put the package back on my stamping table and make one more Halloween card. 😂

There was a 4 x 6" cut apart in the package as well, so I created an Infinity Shaker (also called Faux Shakers or Edge To Edge Shakers) using a transparency. The confetti inside the shaker is MANY years old and I added a cute Doodlebug enamel spider on top of the transparency for a fun touch.

Inside, I used one of the dies from Karen Burniston's Mini Pops and added a pumpkin to it. The pumpkin pops up as the card opens and just adds a little something extra to the card.

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 cards

April - 32 cards

May - 43 cards

June - 34 cards

July - 56 cards

August - 106 cards

September - 61 cards

October so far - 50 cards & 5 Tags

I decided to cancel the subscription that provided linked thumbnails to what products I used on my cards. It was costing me out of pocket each month, so I’m back to listing what I used.

Supplies:

Patterned paper & cut apart - Doodlebug Designs

Mini Pops Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Transparency

Black Pen

Confetti - stash

5 x 6.5" Card blank and envelope - Michaels

Spider - Spider Celebration Shape Sprinkles, Doodlebug Designs

Pumpkin inside - Ghost Town Odds & Ends, Doodlebug Designs

Greeting - Inside Greetings, Halloween (Papertrey Ink)

Wink of Stella

Karen Burniston New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC December Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 11 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW! Be sure to scroll down to read about the giveaway.

This release includes:

• 2 new charm die sets
• 1 new stand alone die set
• 2 new Tiny House Add-Ons sets
• 2 new Pop-up die sets
• 1 new Woven Box Basket die set
• 2 new Crosshatch die sets
• 1 new Box die set

Dies are available to order now on the website.

I created a starburst style of card in a Christmas Book theme and I have all the details on YouTube: 

There are five different hexagon panels that make up my card, and each one has a pop up added as well. All using dies by Karen Burniston, of course. 😊 I just adore that cute Bookworm.

The white ornament was added as a place to sign our names.

GIVEAWAY:

To celebrate the release Karen Burniston and each of the Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC Design Team members will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to some lucky person who comments on our blog posts, so make sure you join the hop and comment on everyone's blog post. Winners will be randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received on our blog posts by Monday, 19th December 2022. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter! Don't forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner!

Karen Burniston - the hop starts here

Lois Bak 

Sue Small-Kreider 

Karen Aicken - That's ME!

Jennifer Webster 

Frances Byrne 

Nicky Foden 

Sandy Diller  

Suzanne Smit 

Fran Sabad 

Hexagon Crosshatch - shipping now!

Bookworm - shipping now!

Additional Supplies:
White cardstock
Black fine point marker
Alcohol markers
Kraft cardstock scrap
Rainbow holographic mirror card stock - Hunky Dory

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that you pay the same amount but I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Fun Fold Christmas Card Trio

Hello crafty friends. Today I have THREE different fun fold cards to share today. While they could have each been separate posts, since the supplies on each are identical I decided to lump them together in one ***long*** post. 😊. 

I have a walkthrough of the cards on YouTube as well:  

The first card is a Double Z Fold card - I haven't done one of these in a long time! The patterned paper is double sided, with the paw prints on one side and cutaparts on the back. In the video I said I'd purchased three sheets, two to use the cutaparts and one to use the cutaparts. But in fact I only purchased TWO sheets and a coordinating 12 x 12" sticker sheet. 

I love now nice and sturdy these cards are for display.

The second card uses my favourite cut apart from the sheet. I added Pops of Color to his nose so it's nice and shiny.

Inside is a simple box pop up for the sentiment piece (another cut apart) and I also added one of the Mini Pops arms for the circle dog piece. I show more of that detail in the video.

All of the cards started with these Memories & More card bases (with. matching envelopes) from Stampin' Up. There are 10 green speckled card/envelope sets and 10 red & green polka dotted cards with red envelopes. The front of the third card has another one of the cutaparts as well as stickers from the sheet.

Inside I used another of Karen Burniston's pop up dies - the Rockin' Rectangle. I also used the second double decker bus cut apart on this one and a few more stickers from the sheet.

I made another trio of cards, and will be sharing those in the coming weeks.

Additional Supplies:
Santa Express Memories & More card pack - Stampin' Up
White cardstock
Peppermint embellishments - from my stash, but I linked similar ones for you below.

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 and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

October Sheetload of Cards

Hello my crafty friends. It's the 2nd of the month and that means it's time for a new Sheetload of Cards. Since I'm on the YouTube Collaboration Team, I have all the details in my video:   

Because I needed Halloween cards for our Grandkids, I decided to use this month's Sheetload to make Halloween cards and pulled out a bunch of older Doodlebug Designs items. Apparently I really like CUTE Halloween vs spooky.

Inside the grandkids cards, I stamped a sentiment and sprinkled a few more stickers around the words.

The remaining four cards got a stamped sentiment and a popped up jack-o-lantern using Karen Burniston's Mini Pops die. Such a quick & fun way to quickly animate something inside a card!

Be sure to check out my VIDEO and see how you can download your own Sheetload of Cards.  I'm not sure what Doodlebug products are still available, but I did find some to link for you below.

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 and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

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

Additional Supplies:
White cardstock
Black marker
Fun foam
Eerie eyes - Doodlebug Designs
Stamps - Karen Burniston (Retired)
Alcohol markers

Fishing Slimline Pop Up Card

Hello!   This is the card I made to give our son for his Birthday ... he enjoys fishing, so I knew he would love this card. The Slimline die on the front is from Hello Bluebird and it cuts all the pieces away from the frame. Instead of using patterned paper as I would usually do, I die cut it from heavyweight white card stock and inked all the pieces with die inks. Then I spritzed them with water and let them dry before reassembling them puzzle style.  I have a walkthrough on YouTube with all the details:  

For the inside, I stencilled right on the card base, then added some stamped die cuts. The leaping fish was adhered using Karen Burniston's Mini Pops. The Happy Birthday was die cut a couple of times from white card stock then stacked and glued one on top of the other. I fussy cut the vellum shadow layer.

 

This fish is such a nice size to use for cards! I stamped the verse on Karen Burniston's Crosshatch Rectangles which is where we signed the 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!

Supplies I'm unable to link for you:
Stamps - Best Catch, Stampin' Up (retired)
Kraft & white #110 card stock - Michaels
Stencil - Artsy Swirls from my stash
Shimmer spray

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Sunflower & Hello Pop Up Card

Hello! This is another of my Paper Pumpkin Alternate cards, using the June Paper Pumpkin kit (the yellow card base and pretty leaf printed vellum). Since it's is also Fun Fold Friday on my blog, this a pop up card.

The sunflower die was cut from white card stock and I added the colour with dye inks and blending brushes, adding Stickles inside the centre of each bloom. My right arm is still giving me some grief (tendonitis) so I have been keeping my comments to a minimum. I'm happy to say it is starting to improve, so less typing and video editing is definitely helping.

Here is a peek at the inside. I used patterned papers and Karen Burniston's Mini Pops for the Pop Up, and added the Thinking of You (also from Karen Burniston and linked below), and a butterfly into the lower corner.

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
June Paper Pumpkin kit, Explosion in Color - Stampin' Up
Green card stock
Shimmer Spray
Water Colour Wings (butterfly die) - Stampin' Up (retired)
1/4" Quick Strips - Stamp Market
Patterned Paper - Brights 6 x 6", Stampin' Up

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Ice Cream Pop Up Slimline

Hello!  Every year I send Ice Cream cards to my kids in honour of my Mom. When she was a little girl there was a parade in their small town each July and afterwards her dad (my Grandpa) would take her for an ice cream soda. She made sure to take my brother and I for ice cream on this day each July and I did the same with my kids and now my grandkids. When my Mom lived away from us for a few years, I started sending her Ice Cream themed cards since we couldn't be together for an ice cream sundae and now I make sure to send my kids and my brother an ice cream card in July.

I have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube here: 

The ice cream stamps/dies are ones I've had for many years. I really do try to invest in products that I can use a lot, and while I have been getting a few new goodies in my craft room lately - a lot of thought goes into the majority of my purchases.

Inside I used Karen Burniston's Mini Pops to create the pop up. I did extend the arms by about 1", and if I decide it's something I want to do again I will also do a tutorial for you.

Here is Karen Burniston's Mini Pops Assembly Video:

For your convenience I have linked many of the products I enjoy using below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission but there is NO extra cost to you.

Regarding the shopping links below, it looks like the Stamps of Life are clearing out the ice cream sets, so I'm not sure how long the links will work. Since I can't link the patterned paper I used, I am linking a different one (that I also own and love) that has a similar look.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - Gilded Ink - Recollections
Seam binding
Shimmer spray
Grey topic
Gold foil card stock - Stampin' Up

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Paper Pumpkin Alternate - Pop Up Trees Birthday Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing my second card with this older Paper Pumpkin kit, which is from May 2018 called "Manly Moments". It is now available as a card kit from Stampin' Up if you are interested in getting one - just contact your demonstrator!  I liked the card fronts as shown in the Paper Pumpkin pamphlet so the front of this card is pretty much identical to the one I shared earlier this week. But the insides are completely different even through they both use pop up dies by Karen Burniston!

I have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube:

Inside, I used Karen Burniston's Mini Pops to create the pop up platform for my trees, and used the 'throw away' pieces from the stickers on the card front to create the mountains behind them. I do go over that in the video. I also sacrificed one of the lovely woodgrain lined envelopes, cutting strips as decorative elements for this card.

If you are interested in seeing the assembly video for the Mini Pops, you can check out Karen Burniston's video here:

For your convenience I have linked many of the products used below. Some may be affiliate links which means if you use these links to purchase I may earn a small commission at NO extra cost to you.

Additional Supplies:
May 2018 Paper Pumpkin Kit "Manly Moments" - Stampin' Up
Mar 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit "Here's to You", (birds, long sentiment) - Stampin' Up
Sahara sand card stock - Stampin' Up
Dark green card stock
Treeline - Tim Holtz Alterations steel ruled die
Confetti card stock
In the Pines Bundle  - Stampin' Up

Sentiment - Anything by Basic Birthday, MFT (retired)

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Father's Day Gift Card Holder

Hello!  Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC April Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 12 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

5 new Interactive Die Sets - Waterfall Card; Tiny House Pop-up; Mushroom Tiny House Add-Ons; Tiny Trees Pop-up; Flower Pivot Panels

3 new sentiment sets - Happy Mother's Day; Happy Father's Day & Welcome

1 new Charm Set - Tool Charms

1 new Stand Alone Die Set - Picnic Elements

1 new Slimline Die Set - Slim Flaps & Frames

Dies are available to order now on the website, and I have a photo at the end of my post so you can see them!

GIVEAWAY:

To celebrate the release Karen Burniston and each of the Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC Design Team members will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to some lucky person who comments on our blog posts, so make sure you join the hop and comment on everyone's blog post. Winners will be randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received on our blog posts by Monday, April 26th 2021. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter!  NOTE - I will also be choosing from comments left on my YouTube video!

IMPORTANT! Don't forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner! (NOTE - Every time we do a give-away, I often have to draw multiple times, because the winners have left a lovely comment but Blogger doesn't allow me to see the email addresses. If I can't see a way to contact the winner I will keep drawing until I find one that I can).

I used several dies from this new release to create a Gift Card Holder for Father's Day and I have a walkthrough on YouTube: 

The NEW Flaps and Frames were designed to work on a Slimline card, but I have been using these new release dies in Mini Slimline cards to give you more options for card sizes. This Gift Card Holder is a Mini Slimline size (3.5 x 6") and fits in a #8 envelope.

When you lift the flap on the right, there is a signing block and a saw from the new Tools Charms that is animated with one of the arms from the Mini Pops.

One more look ...

Below are the names with permalink included for those who can just cut and paste the whole lot.

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak

Frances Byrne  

Karen Aicken ... that's me!

next stop is ...  Fran Sabad

Kelly Booth

Sandy Diller

Please remember to be sure I have a way to contact you if you are commenting for the prize drawing. As I said above, Blogger doesn't allow us to automatically see your email address so if I draw your name and cannot see how to contact you I will keep drawing until I find a name with contact information.

Supplies:
1162 Slim Flaps and Frames - Karen Burniston (NEW RELEASE)
1164 Happy Father's Day - Karen Burniston (NEW RELEASE)
1103 Enjoy the Ride - Karen Burniston
1146 Mini Pops - Karen Burniston
Ribbon - Stampin' Up
Card stocks
Patterned paper - Snap Color Vibe, Simple Stories
Silver metallic card stock
Card size - 3.5 x 6", fits in a #8 envelope

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