Pop Up Card for Passover

If you follow me you know I rarely post things in the same order I make them. This card was probably the 2nd card I made with Karen Burniston's Twist Flower Pop Up, but I didn't want to share it in the winter and saved it for closer to Easter/Passover.

I used the Tree Pop Up on the front of the card. After die cutting the tree foliage from a floral patterned paper then outlined each of the leaves with a fine tipped marker. The clouds are from the cloud punch by Stampin' UP and I added some penned dash/dot lines with a fine tipped marker for definition.

This is the inside - with a stamped sentiment on layered stitched circles mounted on the Twist Flower Pop Up. I used a couple of other dies by Karen Burniston and they are listed below.

I love all the lift you get with the Twist Flower Pop Up and how versatile that die set is!

Supplies used:

5-1/2 x 6" card and envelope - Michaels

Twist Flower Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Fun Flowers - Karen Burniston

Tree Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Nature Edges - Karen Burniston

Patterned paper - Garden Party 6 x 6", Pebbles (old)

Stamps - Mazel Tov, Papertrey Ink

Catherine Pooler coloured Inks

Blending Brushes - Taylored Expressions

Coloured pens

Cloud punch - Stampin' Up

Blending sponge

Double Stitched Circles - Divinity Designs

Stickles Glitter Glue

Four Pop Up Thanksgiving Cards

Today I'm sharing four Pop Up Thanksgiving cards that were inspired by the tree punched circles inside. I have all the details in my YouTube video:   

After years and years of seemingly endless paper pads, I am finally using some up. I love it! While I won't be sharing the Birthday cards made using this paper for awhile, between the birthday cards and these four - I used up one more paper pad. This one was from Pink & Main and is retired now.

Since I actually decorated the inside with the Twist Flower Pop Up and punched tree element first, I added a large die cut tree on the front of my cards. All of the dies I used are by Karen Burniston and they are listed at the end of my post.  The trees were cut from a Kraft card stock then dipped and dragged through ink puddles for some variation.

Here is the inside, with the punched tree element from my stash. I added a tiny pumpkin and some stamping as well.

I am absolutely loving the Twist Flower Pop Up and am already getting a lot of use out of it. These cards are 4 x 6" but the pop up works in a Slimline card with a 3.5" width as well. Yay!

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 - 12 cards

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:

Patterned paper - Pumpkin Spice (6x6"), Pink and Main (retired)

Twist Flower Pop Up die set - Karen Burniston

Tree punch - Stampin' Up (?)

Stardust pen - Sakura

Tree Pop Up die set - Karen Burniston

Halloween Elements- Karen Burniston

Haunted Tiny House Add Ons - Karen Burniston

Truly Thankful stamp set - Colorado Stamp Co

Scraps of cardstock

Give Thanks Sentiments - Catherine Pooler

Wink of Stella

Welcome Fall Garden Bench Pop Up

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a sneak peek of Karen Burniston's new release ... the Garden Bench Pop Up. I also have a YouTube video HERE with all the details.

I used the Alpha dies to cut the letters for FALL from brown card stock, added Wink of Stella to each of them for some shimmer then coated each letter with Glossy Accents.

Here is a look at the inside, with the new Garden Bench Pop Up!!!! I went over all the details in my video, including what dies I used and they are also linked below for you.  The new release will be shipping August 9th!

... one more look ...

The signing block was created with the Crosshatch Ovals, and I aded an inked leaf from the Autumn Elements as well as the Happy & Autumn from the Autumn Elements.,

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.

Additional Supplies:
Brown and yellow card stocks - stash
Patterned paper - Night & Fall, Recollections (old)
Bakers Twine
Confetti card stock
Brown Copic marker
card size 5 x 6", fits in a 5 x 7" envelope.

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Deer Pop Up Slimline Card

Hello! Our Son-in-Law is a hunter, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do for his Birthday card this year. I started out pulling out a bunch of dies by Karen Burniston and this is what I came up with. I have a walk through of my card (and how I fixed an oops) on YouTube too: 

Using the Long Nature Edges combined with the deer/ground from the Outdoor Scene allowed me to create this Slimline scene. I also added two trees from the Tree Pop up die set. I really like this tree die - both the size and the shape of it.

Inside, I used both the Explosion Pop Up (for the centre panel) and the Mini Pops (the trees on either side). The Celebrate was added to a fish tail banner, and I die cut a deer silhouette from a Christmas stamp/die set for the stag on the trimmed circle.

Here is a side view so you can see the pop ups a little better.

I used Kraft card stock a LOT last year, but the past several months I've been craving bright rainbow colours. I have to say I enjoyed using Kraft again for this card.

Supplies:
Card stocks - stash
1005 Tree Pop Up - Karen Burniston
1146 Mini Pops - Karen Burniston
1063 Evergreen Pivot Panel - Karen Burniston
1152 Long Nature Edges - Karen Burniston
1069 Explosion Pop Up - Karen Burniston
1057 Circle Crosshatch die set - Karen Burniston
1151 Crosshatch Long Rectangles - Karen Burniston
1067 Celebrate - Karen Burniston
1045 Outdoor Scene - Karen Burniston
Copic markers
Taylored Expressions Blending Brushes
Sentiment on front - Birthday Greetings, Studio Katia
White paint pen
Wink of Stella
Plaid patterned paper - Karen Foster Design (old)
Stag head die - Hampton Arts
Stitched Strips - Trinity Stamps
Sentiment inside - Hampton Arts
Black marker
Enamel Shapes - Stampin' Up
Jute ribbon - Stampin' Up
Card size - 4 x 8.5", fits in a #10 Business Envelope

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Autumn Blessings Slimline Card

Hello crafty friends ...

It's time for Karen Burniston's November 2020 Designer Challenge: Create a Slimline Card with an Autumn Theme". Woo hoo - any chance to make a Slimline card and I'm a happy camper. I have a walk through of my card on YouTube as well.

Not only did I make a Slimline card, I made one with an acetate front and a little pop up inside!

The words Autumn Blessings were die cut from gold foil card stock to go with the gold on the border strip.

We are SO excited that Karen has dies for Slimline cards now and I used all three of the Long Nature Edges on my card, as well as the tree from the Tree Pop Up.

The spiral is from the new Mini Pops and I added some leaves from the Tree Pop Up. Such a fun unexpected little detail in a card.

While I went over the details in my video, here are some quick measurements for you ...

• Cut card base 5 x 8.5" and score 1" from the edge on the long side
• Acetate panel was cut to 3-3/4 x 8.5"
• Adhere Acetate to front top flap taking care bottom and side edges remain even.  Adhere border strip over the acetate on the card front.

The rest of the Design Team will be sharing their projects today - their blogs are linked on the right. Karen Burniston will have her project tomorrow (Wednesday) on her blog.

Supplies:

Various card stocks - stash

Patterned paper - Harvest Delight, Recollections

1152 Long Nature Edges - Karen Burniston

Hand made cloud stencil

Taylored Expressions Blending Brushes

Copic markers

1060 Word Set 7 Autumn - Karen Burniston

Nuvo Glitter Pen

Gold Foil Card Stocks - Stampin 'Up

1063 House Pivot Panels (tree) - Karen Burniston

1146 Mini Pops - Karen Burniston

1005 Tree Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Card size - 4 x 8.5", fits in a. #10 Business Envelope

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Passover Pop-Up Card

Hello my crafty friends

Today I'd sharing the card I made for our daughter and hubby to celebrate Passover. I adore the bright happy colours on the Doodlebug Designs patterned paper and cut-aparts.

The sweet little butterfly is from Lynda Kanase's Spring Things die set. I love all the little bits and pieces in that set and keep it handy by my stamping table.

Inside, I used Karen Burniston's Tree Pop-Up, and a few more dies from the Spring Things set.

I like using the 'cloud' die from the Nature Edges to create a stitched scalloped border on my cards.

Supplies:
White, kraft, blue, black and yellow card stock
1005 Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
Patterned paper and Cutaparts - Doodlebug
1006 Nature Edges - Karen Burniston
Stitched rectangle dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Spring Things (label, butterfly, heart and bee) - Lynda Kanase
Stitched Fishtail banner - MFT Stamps
Sakura white gel pen
Nuvo glitter drops
Tombow Markers
Blueprints #25 (happy) - MFT Stamps

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January 2018 Designer Challenge for Karen Burniston

Good morning friends

Welcome to Karen Burniston's first Designer Challenge of 2018 ... "BIRTHDAY BANNERS!" - Pennants! Bunting! Banners! Flags! Incorporate a fun string of something into a card with a birthday theme". Full disclosure, I had 'Banners and Bunting' on the brain when I made my card, but completely forgot about the birthday part. So my Designer Challenge Card is a Valentine's Card - but I did incorporate lots of Banners!

The front of my card has three banners from the Twist Panel Pop-Up card. I like that you get both the pennant shape and the fishtail one in the set - and I used them both here, adding a heart to the centre one.

Inside I used the floating floor from the House & Fence Pop-Up. That is such a cool little die to animate all kinds of things! It's easy peasy to use, too. I strung another trio of banners across the top alternating with die cut hearts.

Just for fun, I added more fishtail banners along the edge of the floating floor to resemble a picket fence. I added a Dog from the Cat & Dog set to the left support. Love that little bandana!

A little heart-holding-bear is on the right support.

There are hearts in several of Karen Burniston's die sets and here I used the one in the Twist Panel Pop-Up. I've always wanted to do a tree of hearts and I am happy with how it turned out.

The Gift Card label is such a good size, it also works great as a generic label to add a greeting to. Here I trimmed the bottom portion off, added some hand lettering and another heart for good measure.

Tips & Tricks:  

When you are adding layers inside a Pop-Up card, you have to watch for catch points like the layered heart at the top centre banner and the top of the tree. It's also a good idea to place the hearts in the tree one at a time, checking to be sure they don't catch on the picket fence as the card is closing. If you place them but don't press the hearts down firmly you can move them if you need to.

I die cut the animals twice, once out of the patterned paper and once out of black. Once the coloured animals were attached to their supports, I adhered the black one to the back side effectively sandwiching the support in between the animals. The card stock I used wasn't quite sturdy enough for my liking, so adding the backing layer helped with that.

Be sure to check out my fellow Design Team members - their blogs are linked to the right. Karen Burniston will have her blog post/project tomorrow (Wednesday) on her BLOG.

Supplies:

Patterned paper - Prima
1015 House & Fence Pop-Up (floating floor) - Karen Burniston
1005 Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
Black textured card stock, red card stock
1024 Cat & Dog - Karen Burniston
Twine
1009 Twist Panel Pop-Up (banners and hearts) - Karen Burniston
1016 Winter Animals - Karen Burniston
Black fine point marker
Copic markers
1019 Gift Card Label - Karen Burniston
Chalks - Stampin' Up
Sakura black glaze pen
Seam binding
Card size - 4-1/2 x 5-1/2"

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Witchy Wobbly Hedgehog

Good morning friends

I'm back today with another Halloween Card. I wanted to make a silhouette frame for Karen Burniston's Hedgehog, so used nesting stitched rectangles to cut a black frame. Then I cut a bare tree from the Tree Pop-Up and adhered it behind the frame. Worked like a charm!

Then it was a matter of building a simple scene in behind, and I used a water coloured background for the sky. The Witches Hat from the Halloween Elements fits on the various animals, and I made it shimmer with a Wink of Stella pen.  I love this little Hedgehog from the Winter Animal set and she is particularly adorable attached to a mini Action Wobble!!

Inside I added the BOO! with the bottom inked for an ombre look.

Supplies:

Black, white, cream, brown, kraft, orange, yellow card stocks

Scrap of patterned paper

1016 Winter Animals - Karen Burniston

1013 Halloween Elements - Karen Burniston

1005 Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Stitched rectangle dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Black fine point marker

Prismacolor pencil crayons

Magical Shakers - Lindy's Stamp Gang

1006 Nature Edges - Karen Burniston

Mini Action Wobble

Black glaze pen - Sakura

Wink of Stella

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Paper Pros Thanksgiving House Pop-Up Card

Good morning friends

It's time for another Paper Pro's challenge ... this month Caz Counsell issues the challenge "HOLIDAY CARDS".  I'm sure that most people would interpret that to mean Christmas or other winter holidays, but I went with a Thanksgiving theme.

I like the shape of the tree in Karen Burniston's Tree Pop-Up, so used it bare on the card front. The yellow dots in the patterned paper are all embossed and shiny for additional texture.

Inside I used the House and Fence Pop-Up, but not on the floating floor. Instead I cut the Pop-Up bump with the die from the Tree Pop-Up and attached the decorated house to that.

I added a couple of trees in behind the house, with the foliage cut from a piece of card stock I coloured with Colorbursts & Magical Shakers. Then they got some shimmer with a Wink of Stella pen.

The labels come from the Katherine Label Pop-Up set - those label dies are so versatile!

The sweet fence and stone path was cut from the same water coloured card stock and I added another blank label for us to add our signature etc.

This is a casual challenge, with a varying number of participants each time. This month we have:

Karen Aicken (that's ME!)

Frances Byrne

Raquel Mason

Caz Counsell

Fran Sabad

Karen Burniston

Be sure to check out their HOLIDAY CARD inspiration!

Supplies:

1005 Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

1015 - House & Fence Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Rust, brown and cream card stock

Magical Shakers - Lindy's Stamp Gang

Gold acrylic paint

Glossy accents

Nuvo Crystal Drops

1006 Nature Edges - Karen Burniston

Wink of Stella

Patterned paper - DCWV

Happy Thanksgiving - PSX

Coloured pencils - Prismacolor

1011 Katherine Label Pop-Up (Labels) - Karen Burniston

Fun foam

Pumpkin stamps and dies - Lawn Fawn

Chalks - Stampin' Up
Stitched Fishtail Banner die - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Gratitude stamp - Hero Arts?

Card size - 7 x 5"

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Kitty Pop-Up Thanksgiving Card

Good morning friends

I have to tell you, I had a to-do list a mile long but when my new Stampin' Up order arrived I couldn't help myself and I had to play. After oohing and aaaahing at my new goodies, I fussy cut some pumpkins from the patterned paper and punched some black and orange cats from another sheet. OOOOOH. I decided I really needed to get to work on my list, so took everything into the craft room so it would be out of sight and out of mind, but when I put down the punch I spied a couple of scraps of patterned paper. Of course, I just had to punch a couple of cats. Then I wanted to stamp their faces. Then I added twine bows. Those leaf punched kitties were calling to me so I punched another facing the other direction and decided to go ahead and make a card.

 I kept the front of my card nice and simple ...

... because all the fun is on the inside!   I used the floating floor and fence from Karen Burniston's House & Fence Pop-Up, and the tree from the Tree Pop-Up as well.

Finally here is a side view so you can see the Pop-Up a little better.

Once I had this out of my system, I was able to put my new toys aside and start on my list. While I am a dog person, I think this cat punch is going to be a lot of fun. 

Supplies:

Cat punch and face stamp - Stampin' Up

Coral, blue and off white confetti card stocks

Patterned paper - Echo Park

1015 House & Fence Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Twine

1005 Tree Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Scallop border and leaf dies - Stampin' Up

Pumpkins - fussy cut from Stampin' Up patterned paper

Thanksgiving stamp inside - Hero Arts

Stitched square die - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Card size - 5" square

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