Pop-Up Birthday Card Duo

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog! As I continue to pick away at using up my stash, I pulled out this older Paper Pumpkin kit to make a pair of pop-up birthday cards. The card bases in the kit are printed on the front and back, so I cut one apart to get two card fronts. After mounting the printed card panels to white card bases, I stamped a bird onto the panel and the sentiment onto a white fishtail banner. The purple vellum and the sequins were included in the kit.

Inside, I used Karen Burniston’s Twist Flower Pop-Up, which I have really been enjoying. The sentiment was stamped onto a white stitched circle, and after stamping the bird in the upper right corner of the card I stamped it again - without reinking - below the sentiment. Then the circle was adhered to the Twist Flower mechanism. 

I added a leftover patterned strip (from a different set of cards) to bring some more of the pretty scene inside the card then added a sequin to the sentiment and a second bird stamp at the bottom right corner. 

Supplies used:

March 2024 Paper Pumpkin - Memorable Meadows, Stampin' Up

Bird stamps, old papercraft magazine

Anything but Basic Birthday Wishes - MFT Stamps

Twist Circle Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Stitched Circle dies - MFT Stamps

Inside verse - Better with Age, Penny Black

Party Cat Pop-Up Birthday Card

It's Fun Fold Friday here on my blog and today I'm sharing the Pop-Up card I made for a friend's birthday. She is a cat lover, so I pulled out this 'Be A Cat' die from Waffle Flower then went rooting around in my older patterned papers to decide what I wanted to use.

I added a die cut party hat to the cat and had her 'holding' onto the stitched rectangle with a stamped Happy Birthday. I really had fun making this one!

Inside I used Karen Burniston's Postage Pop Up die set, which has a completely generic mechanism. My favourite kind! Instead of the included postage themed dies, I added a stamped & die cut circle to the mechanism.

Supplies used:

Be A Cat dies - Waffle Flower

Patterned Paper, Blank Canvas - 1st Edition Papers (old, from my stash)

Alcohol markers

Stickles glitter glue

Pops of Color - Black, Scrapbook .com

5x7" card base and envelope

Party Hat Triplits dies - Sizzix

5x7" Lacy Layers dies- Waffle Flower

Happy Birthday stamps - Happy Birthday Many Ways, Catherine Pooler

You Deserve stamps - Little Something Sentiments - Catherine Pooler

Postage Pop Up die set - Karen Burniston

Pawsome Birthday Sentiment stamps  - Waffle Flower

Stitched Circle dies - MFT Stamps

Peeking Pets stamps - Catherine Pooler

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

Pop Up Birthday Card w/ Sheetload

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog! I finished off another one of those July Sheetload of Cards (that makes 5 finished out of 8) and made it a pop-up using dies by Karen Burniston. In her newest release there are two Add-Ons for the Lorna Label Pop-Up, and I couldn't wait to play with this one. It's the Just A Note Lorna Add-Ons and it creates this lovely cutaway area in the centre of the Lorna Label Pop-Up. 

OMGoodness, I am going to have so much fun with this. The words can be cut away from the centre if you just want to use the words with their shadow, or you can use the word dies only to create the phrase on it's own. I used gold foil card stock to tie in with the front, but will use something with a little more contrast on my next card. I believe the instructions said it will fit in a 4" deep card (this one is 5x7") so there is even more versatility. Yep - I'm a fan 😊

I stamped the greeting on one of the Short Crosshatch Rectangles (matted with more patterned paper from the package) and added some butterflies die cut from gold foil paper. Sticking with the gold foil theme, I die cut the Happy Birthday to adhere to the pop-up step on the Lorna Label and my card was finished. 

Into my stash with this one ...

Supplies used:

July Sheetload of Cards - Call Me Crafty Al

Lorna Label Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Just a Note Lorna Add-Ons - Karen Burniston

Happy Birthday die - Penny Black

Little Etched Butterflies - Paper Rose

Short Rectangle Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Birthday Greetings - Studio Katia

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

Narrow gold foil tape - Amazon .ca

Gold foil paper - Recollections

Floral cluster die - Hand Penned, Stampin' Up

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

 

Pop Up Wedding Card

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday on my blog! ItOur daughter-in-law's brother is getting married this month and I offered to make a wedding card. The bride loves pink, orange and yellow so those are the colours I went with - along with lots and lots of white.

I love a larger card for a wedding, so this one is 5x7". The patterned paper had the right colours, and since it's such a 'loosey goosey' print, I scribbled more pink, orange and yellow onto the flowers with alcohol markers. I knew I'd be covering the paper with vellum to soften the paper, but it would have been OK without. The Foliage Frame was die cut from white pearl cardstock and the Happily Ever After was cut from rainbow holographic cardstock. Actually I cut it three times - twice from white and once from the holographic. I adhered the three layers together so it would be nice and sturdy - like a chipboard element, and since the card is being hand delivered I didn't have to worry about bulk. Finally, I added a trio of mirrored heart confetti pieces and filled in the open heart on the sentiment with glitter glue.

Inside I used Karen Burniston's Twist Flower Pop Up. I sure get a lot of use out of that one having made over 15 cards with it already!  

The wedding charms are also by Karen Burniston. When you snip off the hanging hole, they become cute little elements you can add to your cards. I love the embossed feature on the brides dress.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Meandering Meadows 6x6", Stampin' Up

5x7" Foliage Frame - Kat Scrappiness

Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Recollections

Vellum - Stampin' Up

White pearl cardstock

Nuvo Glaze

Happily Ever After - Karen Burniston

Mirrored hearts - Kat Scrappiness

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Sentiment - One in a Million, Stampin' Up

Nesting hearts dies - Hero Arts

Wedding Charms - Karen Burniston

Congrats (stamp and die) - Pinkfresh Studios

5x7" card base & envelope

Sending Hugs Pop-Up Card w/ July's Sheetload of Cards

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!  I finished off another one of my floral Sheetload cards, and made it a pop-up using Karen Burniston's Katherine Label Pop Up die set. This is my second play with the July Sheetload, and this time I made all eight cards but didn't finish off the insides. I wanted to take my time and make them into cards I will want/need in the coming months, and also make some of them into pop-up cards. You can see my original post HERE.   This is a fun Sheetload sketch, and I especially like that it's made for a 5x7" card size. I'll be using it again and again!

For today's card, I made it to send for Happy Mail. I did some hot foiling several months ago, putting the sentiments etc into a little plastic bin. So I rooted through the bin for the sentiments used on today's card.  (My Spellbinders Glimmer Foil machine is REALLY difficult to use - the platform that needs to be moved after heating up is extremely stiff so it isn't something I do very often.)

I've realized that I don't often use the Katherine Label Pop Up in the horizontal position, but it's something I'm going to do more. It's probably my most used die set - it's quick and easy to use and you get great dimension and lift to your pop-up.

The friend sentiment is also foiled in the same rainbow foil as the words on the front, and I stamped another sentiment on the signing block inside.

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, Stampin' Up

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

Katherine Label Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Spellbinders Glimmer foil machine

Sentiments - my stash 

Glitter Dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Happy Thoughts - Stampin' Up

Pop Up Mother's Day Card

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!

I'm VERY late posting today, but it's still Friday here so it still counts. Ha!  It was another busy day here - it feels like the last three weeks have just been a whirlwind. Should be a busy weekend as well, with Mother's Day, our granddaughter AND our daughter's birthdays. Next week has a few busy days but also one or two with nothing on the calendar so hopefully I can catch my breath. I haven't been able to get into my craft room in over a week and I'm getting cranky. 

Today's card is a 6x6" square card - not a common card size for me, only because they cost so much to mail. But this will be hand delivered so I was free to load it up. I was able to use up several things with this card as well - the patterned paper (only 1 full sheet left in the package and not many scraps!), the nice big sticker (which I was saving and finally got to use it) and some more fussy cut images from a sheet of Stamperia paper. The Love You is a die by Karen Burniston.

Inside I used more dies by Karen Burniston - the Happy Mother's Day with the shadow, the XOXO and of course the Twist Flower Pop Up for the mechanism. Lots of chipboard elements too, and on the centre ones I peeled off a few layers so there wasn't quite so much bulk.

Such cute ephemera - it made me happy to use so much of it on the card. Oh, and I used an alcohol marker to create the grass on the white stitched circle for the little girl to sort of ground her.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper (both 12x12" and 6x6") - Flower Market, Cartabella

Narrow gold tape - Amazon .ca

Chipboard ephemera - Stamperia

Double stitched circles - Divinity Designs

Pops of Color, Snowflake - Scrapbook .com

Word Set 9 - Love, Karen Burniston

Happy Mother's Day - Karen Burniston

Twist Flower Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Water brush

Other patterned paper/elements - Stamperia

Pop Up Anniversary Card

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!

This is one of those cards that are just better in real life. The gold just POPS! Since hubby and I both like to visit Arizona, I used Southwest papers, stamps and dies, and the pop up inside is Karen Burniston's Raising Platform Pop Up.  I have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube:  

I was happily surprised at how well I liked the cactus pieces cut from gold!

I added an extra fold inside the pop up heart, for even more hearts. 

The sentiment is just perfect for our Anniversary. 🥰

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Golden Desert, Prima

5 x 6.5" card & envelope - Michaels

Gold foil card stock - Recollections

Hearts Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Raising Platform Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Cactus Builder dies - Mama Elephand

Douple Stitched Circle dies - Divinity Designs

Sentiment inside - Green Thumb, Catherine Pooler

Stamps - Boho, Michaels

Pop-Up Mini Slim Birthday Card

While I have been having a lot of fun with the Pop Up Mechanism included in the Twist Flower Pop Up, I haven't really used the included flower dies before. So that is what I added inside today's card.

The front of the Mini Slimline card, as well as the banners inside are actually on a sheet designed to be cut apart. I was ready for some different floral paper, so picked up this paper package and the coordinating solids and look forward to playing with them some more. 

The sentiment was stamped on a lightly inked, punched out hexagon and I added some gold glitter dots for shimmer & shine.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper (and coordinating solids)- The Paper Boutique

Ephemera - Woodland Stories - Little Birdie

Hexagon Punch - Stampin' Up

Gold foil card stock

Little Etched Butterflies - Paper Rose

Happy Birthday Many Ways - Catherine Pooler

Glitter Dots

Inside Out Birthday - Catherine Pooler

Twist Flower Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Blending Brushes

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

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

German Shepherd Pop-Up Card

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!

Today I'm sharing my first play with the Raising Platform Pop Up die set (Karen Burniston) and I made a card for our son-in-law. They used to have two German Shepherds and I know he will love this card.  I started with one of the rainbow dog note cards - I have a YouTube video about those** HERE **- then pulled out the rainbow stripe Washi Tape. I love how bright and happy the card front is!

I have a walk through of this card on YouTube:  

Inside I used the nice big HAPPY die (Riley & Company) cut from a rainbow striped paper to mount on the Raising Platform and it worked out perfectly.

Below is a picture of the sentiment/signing block. I couldn't resist adding one of the peeking dog stamps (Catherine Pooler) along the bottom edge.

As I said in the video, I will move the Raising Platform mechanism up a little bit for my next card so it stands above the card when it's open. But I do like it like this look too.

Supplies used:

Rainbow Dog note cards - Amazon .com

Rainbow washi tape - Doodlebug Designs?

Short Crosshatch Rectangle dies - Karen Burniston

Raising Platform dies - Karen Burniston

Happy Cut Ups - Riley & Company

Rainbow patterned paper - JJ's Rainbows, Waffleflower

Peeking Pets - Catherine Pooler

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Hope your day - Big Happy Sentiments, Catherine Pooler

Less Wrinkly - Funny Bones, Riley & Company

How old? - Inside Snarky Birthday, Honey Bee

Black Glaze Pen

5 x 7" card blank & envelope

Four Pop Up Valentine Cards

I have had these 6x6" Valentine papers for years - but I won't buy any new pads until I use these ones up. There are quite a few smaller bits and paper strips in the packages as well from previous years cards so it will be a few years before I can call them done.  Today I am sharing four Pop Up cards made with a bunch of older product from my Valentine's bin.

The ephemera packages still have some cute images in them and of course a package of doily's lasts FOREVER. I pulled out both for the front of this card as well as the little Happy Valentine's Day banner. I bought a package of those at Michaels about 10 years ago, ha ha and I'm still using them every year.

Inside is a simple box pop up using more ephemera and a cute banner piece. The Sweet Valentines stamp was from the $1 bins at Michaels many years ago.

The second card uses a similar layout to the one above, another doily from a different package, enamel hearts and more ephemera from the packages. The sentiment is from MFT - their Essential Sentiments. Another stamp set I have got a lot of use out of over the years.

Inside this one is a double box pop up... 

I loved these little sloth images, so used them for the next two cards. Both are explosion cards. I loved using up a full sheet of paper for each of them. 😊

I do have a couple of YouTube videos showing different ways to fold the papers for these. Explosion Cards (which I have been making for over 30 years!!!) so I will line one HERE for you.

These cards also use lots of foam tape so ended up being fairly bulky. But I will be hand delivering them to our grandkids tomorrow when they come to visit. 

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Be Mine, Pebbles

Ephemera - old, unknown

Doily's - from my stash

Lacy Circle dies - Waffle Flower

Happy Valentine's Day fishtail flag - old, Recollections

Black gel pen

Narrow seam binding - Stampin' Up

Heart Enamel Dots - Recollections

Essential Sentiments - MFT Stamps

Nested heart dies - Hero Arts

Happy Valentine's Day - A Stamp In The Hand

Banner - Recollections

Short Crosshatch Rectangles - Karen Burniston

Sweet Valentine's Day stamp - Recollections

Catherine Pooler dye inks