Piano Teacher Slimline Thank You Card

Whoa - it’s been ages since I’ve posted! I took a lot of time off this summer, spending it with family and friends instead of in my craft room. Of course, we didn’t have great weather this summer so it would have been a perfect excuse to craft, but … … …

I did manage to make a few cards here and there - and even got photos of them, but haven’t yet shared them so I will have some new content soon. Meanwhile,  this is the card I made for our youngest granddaughter’s (amazing) piano teacher at the end of June and she said he loved it.  I used dies & stamps by Karen Burniston including the Music Charms for the Grand Piano. It got sprayed with shimmer spray and I popped up the lid with a black foam dot.

Inside is the Piano Keys Pop Up - how fun, right? Two of them fit perfectly inside a Slimline card and I left room for her to write him a note.

Side view so you can see that the black keys are raised above the white ones. 

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Guilded Ink, Recollections

Piano Keys Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Music Charms - Karen Burniston

Crosshatch Long Rectangles - Karen Burniston

Thanks - Biggest Wish, Stampin’ Up

Wink of Stella

Just A - Music Sentiments, Karen Burniston

Gold foil card stock

Glitter Dots flat adhesive stickers 

Four Birthday Cards

I needed to make a pair of birthday cards for our nephew's twin girls, so pulled out this older 6x6" paper pad. I love it but tend to 'save it for special cards'. The cut aparts are just darling, and the balloons are embossed and shiny.

Basing my cuts on the June 2021 Sheetload of Cards, I made four cards - two of them will be donated to my mom's old nursing home and the two with the cut aparts will be popped into the mail. I added some sparkling peel off dots and glitter glue to make them a little extra special.

Here is a peek at the inside of one of the twins cards  ... I made them similar but not identical - just like they are!

Here is a look at one of the nursing home cards where you can see how pretty that balloon paper is.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Gift of Giving, Craft Consortium (6x6") (older, from my stash)

June 2021 Sheetload of Cards - Call Me Crafty Al

Magical Birthday, Be a Unicorn - Taylored Expressions

Label Punch - Stampin' Up

Gold mirror  card stock

Inside stamp - Happy Birthday4HSN

Stickles glitter glue

Glitter dot stickers

Heart Flip Anniversary Card

I love this little heart-flip die set (Studio Light), so pulled it out again to make an Anniversary card for friends.

Rather than use the included layering dies to add patterned paper to the card base, I die cut the card base from this sparkly metallic printed paper. I did cut the two side pieces from white card stock with the layering dies and added them on the back. That made the card a little sturdier - if you follow me you know I don't like 'wussy' cards.

The flip side of the heart has a gold foil mat ... the stamps I've had for many years and I was happy with how well they fit on this card. Finally, some gold foil flat gem stickers and my card was ready to pop in the envelope. Folded, the card measures about 4" so it fits in a standard A2 envelope.

Supplies used:

SL Heart Essentials - Studio Light

6x6" patterned paper - Metallic Shimmer, Stampin' Up

Inside Out Anniversary - Taylored Expressions

Metallic gem stickers - either Dazzles or Stamp On It

Four Christmas Cards w/ Holiday Characters

As much as I am not trying to hurry summer out the door, I do work on holiday cards throughout the year. Here are the four cards I made in August ... sneaking this post in just under the wire, ha ha.

I went looking for a different pad and spied this older 6x6 pad at the bottom of the drawer.  When I took it out to flip through I understood why it was there - I really wasn't keen on the majority of the leftover papers. So I gave myself permission to toss the ones I really didn't like into recycling and just USE a couple of the sheets that I thought I could live with. The others I like better and the pad has been put back into the drawer and not at the bottom of the pile.

The adorable holiday characters are by Divinity Designs - one of their Paper/Die Duo's ... you simply line up the die on the pre-printed sheet and with one pass you get three characters. (I didn't use the Santa on these cards.)

These cards are based on the August 2023 Sheetload of Cards, definitely my all time favourite.

I have only a few of the Merry Christmas Peel-Off stickers left and then I will have to find out where else to buy them. They do come in handy and I've long been a fan of Peel-Off's.

I used an older stamp set for the inside, along with a leftover strip of patterned paper and narrow gold foil tape.

Supplies used:

August 2023 Sheetload of Cards, Call Me Crafty Al

Patterned paper - North Country, Prima (6x6")

Blending sponge - Ranger

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Narrow gold tape - Amazon .ca

Santa & Friends Paper/Die Duo - Divinity Designs

Nuvo Glaze

Gold foil card stock

Sentiment stamp - unknown (old, from my stash)

Merry Christmas die - Karen Burniston

Snowflake Peel-Off stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Merry Christmas Peel-Off stickers - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Slimline 'Thinking of You' Card

After making the Pop-Up Birthday Card last week, I wanted to use up the leftover paper pieces and not just store them away. This is the card I came up with, one I can send to a friend for Happy Mail.

The diagonal strip is matted with rainbow holographic cardstock for some shine, and the flowers were added to a scalloped vellum circle.

I always like this sentiment, since I do so much texting these days.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Miss Caroline, My Minds Eye

Rainbow Holographic Cardstock - Recollections

'Hey You' die - Pinkfresh Studios

Vellum - Stampin' Up

Scallop Circles - Divinity Desixgns

Beautiful Blossoms Paper Die Duo Set 1 - Divinity Designs

Self Adhesive gem stickers - Dazzles

Wink of Stella

Slim Lacy Layers - Waffle Flowers

Inside Sentiment - Just Because, Gina K

Butterfly Bunny Birthday Card Duo

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!  After I used this die to make Easter cards, I made a note to use it again for summer Birthday cards. This week I made these two and the second one is a pop up.

The die is quite large, so I made my cards into 5x7" but a 6x6" square card would work as well. The patterned paper is MANY years old and from my stash. I die cut the Butterfly Bunny from patterned paper and adhered them both to burgundy card stock. Then the images were fussy cut so I could pop them up with thin foam tape.

For this first card I added Stickles glitter glue around the butterfly wings, and added a pair of small die cut butterflies.

Below is the inside of the first card ... with a stamped sentiment and a light green vellum butterfly.

The second card is stepped up. I die cut butterflies from both patterned paper and white pearl vellum, adhering three of them over the butterflies on the main image. They were glued down along the butterfly bodies only, so there is some lift to the wings.

The first card base was white but I wanted to try it with a Kraft card base as well. In the end, I think I like the white one better. For the inside of this second card I used Karen Burniston's Lorna Label Pop Up.

The 'fluttering by' sentiment is actually part of a larger stamp that also says 'I miss you'. I knew I wouldn't use that one very often, so I trimmed away the 'miss you' portion and can add it to the 'fluttering by' sentiment again if I do need it. But I will get lots more use out of that stamp with it saying "fluttering by to say ..." 

I also added a couple more butterflies to the pop up area, and of course - Glitter Dot stickers for some shimmer.

The birthday sentiment was stamped on a scalloped white panel - both it and the crosshatch green panel are from the Short Crosshatch Rectangles die set - also by Karen Burniston

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - K & Company (very old, from my stash)

Bunny & Butterfly die - Creative Expressions

Butterfly dies - Scrapbook .com

Shimmer spray

Sakura glitter pen

Lorna Label Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Short Crosshatch Rectangles - Karen Burniston

Little Etched Butterflies - Paper Rose

White pearl vellum - stash

Fluttering By Sentiments - Waffle Flower 

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Blending sponge - Tim Holtz

Glitter Dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Stickles glitter glue

Happy Birthday - Birthday Blowout, Poppy Stamps

Essential Birthday Sentiments - LDRS

Kraft 5x7" card base & envelope

White 5x7" card base & envelope

Sympathy Card w/ July's Sheetload of Cards

Today I'm sharing the first finished card from the July Sheetload of Cards that I shared yesterday. I will be finishing them off one by one, until I have eight completed cards for my stash. I thought the purple background to the gold floral cluster leaned itself well to a sympathy card and since I always like to have some of those on hand that is what I made.

I added a couple of butterflies punched from gold foil paper and matted the stamped sentiment on a gold foil paper scrap. Finally, a few glitter dots to finish it off. 

I don't usually do pop-ups inside a sympathy card but I do like to finish off the inside. So, using a different paper piece from the pad I cut a 4x6" piece. This mimics the 1/2" border all around the front panel. Another scalloped circle, this time from white cardstock and I stamped the sentiment with a plum ink. Then I added a pair of punched butterflies and my card was done.

I especially like the 5x7" size for sympathy cards.

Supplies used:

July Sheetload of Cards - Call Me Crafty Al

Patterned paper - Brianna, K & Company (old, from my stash)

Narrow gold foil tape - Amazon .ca

Gold foil paper - Recollections

Floral cluster die - Hand Penned Petals Bundle, Stampin' Up

Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart (old, from my stash)

Glitter Dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Here for you - Waffle Flower

Inside Out Sympathy - Catherine Pooler

Stardust glitter pen - Sakura

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Blending sponges - Tim Holtz

Stitched Scalloped circle nesting dies - Tutti Designs

5x7" card bases & envelopes - Ohuhu (Amazon .ca)

Vellum - Stampin' Up

Holiday Slimline Wiper Card Duo

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!  I have two more holiday cards to add to my bin for Christmas 2024 - these ones are Slimline sized Wiper Cards and I have a walkthrough of these on YouTube: 

I used Slimline sized patterned paper along with a Wiper Card die set made for a 5x7" card - I love getting more uses out of my dies.  I also used the 'Above It All' stamp/die bundle that I got from Stampin' Up last year. Since we live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, I knew I could use this die set year round. You can take the gondola up to the top of Tunnel Mountain in Banff in the Spring & Summer for some spectacular views. Also in summer you can also take a gondola up Sunshine Mountain to hike around on top of the ski hill to see all the beautiful wildflowers.

In the photo above, you can see the card fronts and the piece that comes out when you pull on the sides. In the photo below you can see the back sides of both cards when they are closed. Yes, even though the papers are exactly the same the position of the prints are slightly different - I explain that in my video. Hint - I have a REALLY hard time making Wiper Cards - they just don't make sense in my brain. Ha.

Finally, the lower photo shows the back of the card in the open position.

Note - I lined up the die onto the right side of the papers and held it in place with removable tape before die cutting (I showed this in the video). Also, I trimmed about 1/4" from the top of the wiper piece and rounded the corners so it fit inside the card a little better. Since the card size is smaller than the 5x7" that the die was designed for I needed to make that adjustment. That part was easy peasy! 

Supplies used: 

Patterned paper - Slimline paper pack, Frozen - Whimsy Stamps

5x7" Rectangle Wiper Card die set - Sam Calcott, Made To Surprise/Mixed Up Crafts

Corner rounder

Push here - Lawn Fawn

Labels Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Above it All stamps & dies - Stampin' Up

Silver Snowflake peel off stickers

Ice Cream Shaker Card

Every July (on a certain day) my Grandpa would take my Mom to the Soda Shop in their little town for an Ice Cream Sundae. She continued the tradition with my brother and I even once we were living on our own!  When my Dad could no longer drive, we would make sure my Mom got her ice cream sundae on that day. Now that she is in heaven, we keep that tradition going with our children and grandchildren. It's a happy way to honour her memory!  I also send them an ice-cream themed card.

Today I'm sharing the first ice cream card that I'll be sending this year and I couldn't resist making this one a shaker card. Or Faux Shaker.  Or Edge to Edge Shaker.  Or one of the other names these go by 😂.  

I cut the patterned paper to 4 x 5.25" and cut a piece of transparency 5 x 6.25" (1" bigger all around). Scoring the transparency to fit around the decorated piece of patterned paper, I mitred the corners and attached it to the back of the patterned paper on 3 sides. After pouring in the sequins on the front side, I attached that one transparency edge on the back and my 'faux shaker was finished. The ice cream element, gem stickers & word die were added on top of the transparency and the whole piece was adhered to the front of my card.

Inside I added some scalloped circles, die cut phrase and gem stickers - which were attached with a folded paper spring.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Neapolitan, Dear Lizzy (old)

Transparency

Peel Off gem stickers - Dazzles

Sequins - Stash

Scallop Stitched Nesting Circle dies - Tutti Designs

Blending Brushes - Taylored Expessions

Washi Tape - possibility Doodlebug Designs

Big Scripty Words - Lawn Fawn

Rainbow patterned paper - JJ's Rainbows, Waffle Flower

YAY die - the Stamps of Life

Mini Alpha & Numbers - Karen Burniston

Apple Thank You Card Duo

Last fall I was flipping through an older paper pad and when I saw this 12x12" sheet with the apples - I decided to pull it out and make a couple of teacher appreciation cards for my stash. These ones are a full 6" square - not a size I usually make because of the additional mailing costs for a square card. Since these ones will be hand delivered to our grandkids teachers though, I decided to go ahead with that card size!

I tried to do a pop up inside this first card, and added a window in the front. I can't remember what I did to mess it up (haha) but in the end I made that (sad) little shaker to try & salvage the card. The little Bookworm is from Karen Burniston and he is just too cute. I also added some rainbow holographic cardstock to brighten up the cards since the patterned & cranberry cardstock are very dark.  Below you can see the inside of the first card.

The second card has a large die cut apple, with a stamped sentiment. For some fun, I added the apple on with an Action Wobble spring so it bobs and wobbles. I think that was probably the last time I used an Action Wobble until recently when I've pulled them out again. I seem to go in phases with those things!

Below is the inside of the second card. These two cards were the first ones I pulled out of my card bin to give our daughters for the grandkids teachers, supplemented with the ones I've made recently.

Supplies used:

Apple patterned paper - K & Co (old, I've been hoarding it)

Double Stitched Circle dies - Divinity Designs

Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Recollections

Thanks die - Crafty Meraki

Stardust Glitter Pen

Transparency

Various filler - my stash

Bookworm - Karen Burniston

Black Pen

Sakura white gel pen

Grey Topic marker

Educators Rule stamps - Altenew

Catherine Pooler Inks

Glitter Dots - Ecstasy Crafts

Peel off Border - Ecstasy Crafts

Wink of Stella

Action Wobble

Apple of My Eye stamps & dies - Trinity Stamps

Teacher sentiments - Penny Black

Twine

Four Winter Scene Cards

I hope to work on holiday cards all year long, so here are the ones I made in May.

Since I was so happy with how the die cut deer looked on the Mini Slimline cards I shared in April, I used the die again for these 5x7" holiday cards! (You can see the other cards HERE).  Of course the cards started with the pretty scenic patterned paper which I cut into 4x6" panels. They were matted with 4.25x6.25" blue cardstock and mounted to the card bases. 

I lightly placed the deer where I would want it on the card fronts, then stamped the sentiment on the front. I added the deer (which were cut from white pearl card stock) with foam tape then added a few silver snowflake stickers for some sparkle.

I stamped the same sentiment inside all four cards and added a single snowflake sticker inside. I'm so proud of myself for USING and not hoarding this pretty paper, which I bought back in early November. I just cut into four sheets (had to hold my breath, ha ha) and used it.

Supplies used:

5 x 7" card blanks and envelopes

Patterned paper - Winter Backgrounds (6 x 6"), Paper Rose

Deer - Elegant Deer, Pocket Full of Happiness

White pearl cardstock

Catherine Pooler inks

Sentiment - Christmas Classics, Stampin' Up

Snowflake Peel-Offs - Stamp On It

Inside - Wonderful Christmas, Waffle Flower

Music Themed Half Shutter Card

This was supposed to be a post for Fun Fold Friday on my blog, but holy smokes - hubby and I got our second Shingles vaccine Thursday afternoon and it sent us for a tailspin (fever, chills, aches - even my HAIR hurt). I had to hold off posting until today when I can hold my head up for longer than two minutes. Other than a little achy and a sore arm at the injection site (completely normal) we both feel much better today.

This is the card I made for our youngest grandchild to give her piano teacher. Last year I made him a 5x7" Wiper Card, so I wanted to continue with a fun fold card and pulled out the Half Shutter With Layers by Divinity Designs. I love that it does all the cutting and scoring for the card base, and that the included layering dies make it so quick and easy to assemble my card.

I already had the music themed stickers - I love the nice big size of them and that they are glossy! I adhered them to white cardstock and fussy cut them out so I could pop them up with foam tape. This also helps the (thin) stickers have more stability even if just adhering right to the card or patterned paper. The polka dots on this paper are raised and they would have shown through if I had just pressed the stickers down on top of it inside of the card.

Alma has really great printing, but like most kids - it's pretty large. So I wanted lots of room for her to write a message but I didn't want a plain white panel either. Narrow gold tape to the rescue!

Supplies used:

Half Shutter card with Layers die set - Divinity Designs

Patterned paper - Garden Vignettes, My Minds Eye (OLD!)

Music note stickers - Paper House

Hexagon Crosshatch dies - Karen Burniston

Thanks stamp - Biggest Wish, Stampin' Up

Gold glitter dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Narrow gold tape - Amazon .ca

Five Simple Birthday Cards

I was poking around in a drawer with patterned paper, and saw this confetti print one with the plaid on the reverse side. I decided to cut it down into panels to make birthday cards for the nursing home. 

The layout is simple, with a patterned paper panel and I used the leftover pieces for the strip across the centre. I was able to use up the whole 12x12" sheet for these cards! I stamped the Make A Wish on white cardstock scraps, then punched them out with a hexagon punch. Those pieces were adhered with foam tape then I added some sparkly glitter dot stickers on the fronts.

I have had those A2 sized green card bases for YEARS, so I was happy to use some of them up. I added a white stamped panel inside with some washi tape for colour. The tape was torn from the roll and adhered to the upper right corner with some overhang at the top edge. That overhang was tucked onto the back of the panel then the panel was adhered inside the card. That ensures that the tape doesn't lift at that top edge.

These were so quick and easy to make, I thought about not even bothering to photograph or blog them. But ... I haven't got anything else to share, so ... 😊

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Pebbles (Double sided)

Washi tape - my stash

Inside stamp - Lots of Birthday to Stamp, Stamps of Life

Make A Wish stamp - Birthday Cheer, Papertrey Ink

Glitter dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Mini Misti

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Blending brushes - Taylored Expressions

Birthday Wishes Pop Up Card Duo

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!

I wanted to use this paper pad, and since there are two sheets of each design I made two cards. While I didn't plan on making two identical cards, I know they will be going to different people so I just went with it.  This is another one of those paper pads that has some large prints that are hard to make work with A2 sized cards. These two are 5x7" and they turned out really well. I added a die cut Birthday Wishes (and the shadow) with foam tape then a few Glitter Dot stickers for some shine.

Inside I used the Paper Frames Pop Up and decorated with some fussy cut plants from a retired Stampin' Up paper package. 

Since those plants were fussy cut and in my embellishment binder, these cards didn't take very long to create which is always a bonus.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Farmhouse, Craftsmart (I think I got it at Michaels a few years ago)

5x7 Nesting dies - Waffle Flower

Birthday Wishes die - Simon Says Stamp

Paper Frames Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Plants - fussy cut from Stampin' Up papers (old)

Sentiment - Little Something Sentiments, Catherine Pooler

Glitter Dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

5x7 Card blank and envelopes