Mini Slimline - Just a Note

I hadn't really intended to use this card as one of the Sneak Peeks for Karen Burniston's upcoming release, but since it IS Valentine's Day today and there are lots of hearts on this card, I decided to go ahead. The sneak peek part is on the inside. 😊

This Mini Slimline card uses papers, cut aparts, stickers and ephemera from Doodlebug Designs, but that adorable little envelope? It's from Karen Burniston's Mailbox Pop Up.

The new Little Twist Panel Pop Up is a smaller version of the hugely popular Twist Panel Pop Up and you can see how well it fits in a smaller card. This one is 3.5" wide!  

Since I always like to show you different ways to use your dies, I also only used the mechanism - the part with the arms, and not the accordion piece that goes over top. I did use both main pieces in tomorrow's card, but just by adding the included rectangles and some ephemera to the arms - I ended up with a nifty little pop up with lots of motion and not very much bulk.

Below you can see the whole new release, which will be shipping on February 20.

Late last year I was asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023

January - 53 cards 

February so far - 36 cards

Additional Supplies:

Little Twist Panel Pop Up - Karen Burniston, shipping February 20

Black marker

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! 😊

'You Are A Treasure' Sneak Peek Card

Today is the day the Design Team can start sharing sneak peeks of Karen Burniston's upcoming release! Above you can see the whole release, which will be shipping February 20th. Meanwhile - I hope you enjoy what the team is sharing. 

I love how well all of her dies work together, so I pulled in several others to work with the new release and actually started with the Cupcake Pop Up. You can disguise the cupcake part, as I did here with the Treasure Chest. On this one I had to trim off the top part of the cupcake icing as it did stick up above the Treasure Chest.  

Lots of shimmer and shine on this card, from the mirrored card stock. 😊

My top folding card is sized 4-1/2 x 6" and fits into an A6 envelope. The new Beach Borders are so fun - here, I cut them from a pink mirrored card stock. I used scraps of metallic mirrored cardstock for the coins and jewels in the treasure chest as well.

The treasure chest lid doesn't pop up, it's more of a 'lift flap' feature on the card. But since you see both sides, I snipped one of the crabs from the crab border and added it to the top of the chest.

The new Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch have label dies that coordinate with the Label Charm Pop Up, so I added one of them as a place for the sentiment.

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023

January - 53 cards
February so far - 35 cards

Additional Supplies:

Beach Borders - Karen Burniston, shipping February 20

Sea Charms - Karen Burniston, shipping February 20

Beach Bar Tiny House Add On - Karen Burniston, shipping February 20

Rectangle and Labels Crosshatch - Karen Burniston, shipping February 20

Patterned paper - Art Journal Card (Prima) Old, from my stash

Brown cardstock

Tan, Kraft cardstock scraps

White cardstock

Black marker

Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Recollections

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! 😊

Two Mini Slim Valentine Cards

It's really hard to tell in the photos, but the red cardstock isn't just regular cardstock - it's VELVET! And quite heavyweight. While the cards look quite simple in the photos - they just beg to be touched in real life. I decided to let the heart sunburst background and the velvet cardstock be the star of the show. 

The first card uses the Heart Sunburst Mini Slimline die (Kat Scrappiness) and the second one uses all of those fallaway pieces from the first one. No way I was going to just toss all those velvety scraps!

Inside the first card is a fox ephemera piece from my stash, mounted on a paper spring for movement.

When I was finished with the photos, however, I decided to add two more elements to the second card. A heart shaped enamel dot and a second ephemera piece.

Here is the inside of the second card. That stamp is a VERY old wood mounted one from what used to be the dollar bins at Michaels. 

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February so far - 34 cards

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock

Patterned Papers - Playful Patterns, Valentines - Taylored Expressions

Ephemera - old, from my stash

Heart Sticker - American Greetings

Sentiment - Old, from Michaels dollar bin

Water based pink marker

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! 😊

Six Fun Fold Mini Slimline Valentine's with NO SCRAPS

Last May I had an idea to use three coordinating 6 x 6" patterned papers to make three Mini Slimline cards that also had a simple fun fold... with NO SCRAPS or leftover patterned paper.  I was really happy with how it worked, and it's one of my most popular video's. 😊  You can find the video HERE and the coordinating blog post is HERE.

I was flipping through my Valentine themed 6 x 6" papers, and since someone had just left me a comment on that video it was still in my head. I decided to pull out SIX of the papers and make two sets of  Valentine cards with them. 

Above is the set with the first three patterned papers - you can see that all 3 of the patterns are on each of the cards but in a different order. Below is the second set. I will need five of them to send to the grandkids, and one for a friend for Happy Mail so I'm glad I made two sets. And I LOVED using up six full sheets of this patterned paper that has been hanging around for to many years.

These paper pads also had two identical sheets with small cutaparts. They got trimmed out and added to heart doilies and I also added heart shaped enamel dots and puffy stickers to some of them.

Inside I added white scalloped hearts and stamped the sentiment. This is an older wood mounted stamp from The Stamp In The Hand. Oh, how I loved their stamps - and I still have every single one of them. I wasn't even sure how the rubber would stamp but it did ok!

For reference, your card base is 7 x 6.25". Score at 1.25 and 3.5". I go over this more in the video. Patterned paper - first cut is 1" (for the fold flap) and the second is 3.25" (for the inside). The leftover piece fits on the left front as shown in the video.

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023

January - 53 cards
February so far - 32 cards

Additional Supplies

White cardstock

Patterned paper & cut aparts - Be Mine, Pebbles (old, from my stash)

Heart Doily's - Recollections (old, from my stash)

Happy Valentine's Day - A Stamp In The Hand (old, from my stash)

Puffy heart stickers - Recollections (old, from my stash)

Heart enamel dots - Recollections (old, from my stash)

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! 😊

Cupcake Shaped Card Duo

For the second instalment in my Monthly Series with Shaped Cards, I am sharing a cupcake shaped card duo today. One is a Birthday card that will be donated to my Mom's old nursing home. 

I stepped up the second one and turned it into a Valentine card! I have had this Cupcake Fold-It's die set for many years and it creates a card that fits into an A2 envelope.

One more look ...

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February so far - 26 cards

Additional Supplies:

Cupcake Fold Its - the Stamps of Life

Birthday sentiment inside- Lots of Birthday2Stamp (the Stamps of Life)

White cardstock

Green alcohol marker

Sentiment - MFT Stamps

Nuvo Drops -  Carnation pink

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! 😊

Snowflake & Sleigh Slimline Card

Today I'm sharing a Slimline card that was created with Mini Slimline dies for the background!  My card started with some A2 notecards that had this pretty copper plaid on the front. I wanted to make a Slimline card, but obviously the notecards were only 5-1/2" long so they wouldn't work for the background.

I pulled out Karen Burniston's Short Rectangles Crosshatch (which I use a TON) and die cut the two note card fronts with the largest die in the set. Overlaping them in the center was fine as I knew the large snowflake would cover the seam. Perfect! To separate the copper snowflake from the background, I added two crosshatch banners (also dies by KB) cut from white cardstock. Again, that snowflake covered up the seam in the center. 

The snowflake is one I bought to work with the Magic Iris die, since I knew I could use it independently as well. The smaller snowflake in the center actually embosses the stitched snowflake rather than cut it. I added a silver snowflake on top of the stitching, and finally a silver embossed sentiment with some gems.

Inside is where I had some fun. I pulled out another KB die set - the Sleigh Pop Up and cut it from both silver and copper mirrored cardstock. Instead of adding it to the card as a pop up though, I used one of Sam Calcott's cardstock springs so there is a little movement when you pick up the card. So fun! I have been using those springs a fair bit and will link her video below  so you can scroll through it to find how she makes them if you are interested.

The sentiment was stamped on another size crosshatch rectangle, and I die cut some of the gifts from scraps of leftover plaid note card from the card front. Lots of shimmer and sparkle on this card, which I love in a holiday card. 

This is the second card in my series 12 Months of Christmas - and I will be back again next month with another Christmas card for the series.

If you would like to see Sam Calcott's video on these paper springs, click HERE.

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February so far - 24 cards

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock

Copper Mirrored Cardstock - Recollections

Sentiment - Encircled in Warmth, Stampin' Up

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! 😊

Waterfall Valentine Card

Welcome to Karen Burniston's February '23 Designer Challenge, where KB gave her Design Team this challenge:  Theme: "WEDDING, ANNIVERSARY or VALENTINES" - Love is in the card!

I decided to create a waterfall card Valentine for my hubby, and below you can see what the card looks like as you slide the tab to the right.

Rather than use the included rectangles with the Waterfall Card die set, I added her Banners Crosshatch to the first three folds. Each of the four areas were decorated with patterned paper, cut aparts & stickers as well as die cut words (also from Karen Burniston)

When I was pretty much finished the card, I found that the pull tab was catching on that black card stock panel. To remedy that, I added strips of acetate to the front and back of the pull tab and it pulls smoothly with no more catching! The strips were long enough to tuck under the last waterfall panel by about 1/2" so there is no chance of it popping out when the pull tab is fully extended.

For the final panel, I use 5th included squares and one of the Love Charms.

When doing Waterfall Cards, I prefer to make them Post Card style, and for that reason I don't add foam tape or bulk to the back of the card. I added the Happy Valentine's Day and two more Love Charms onto the back and will write my personal message there as well.

The rest of the Design Team is linked on the right side of my blog and I hope you will check out what they came up with for the challenge. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Wednesday) on her BLOG.

Late last year I was asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023

January - 53 cards

February so far - 23 cards

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock

Red cardstock

Black marker

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! 😊

Snowman Platform Pop Up

Wow - can't believe we are already in round two for the monthly series here on my blog. Today I'm sharing my second card for the Series: Platform Pop Up. I know I said I was finished using that Magic of Winter collection, but as I was gathering it up to put away, I realized how cute some of the ephemera pieces would be on the Platform Pop Up ... and this is what I came up with.

I added one of the border stickers that was included in the 12 x 12" paper package, and some coordinating enamel dots.

I love how flat this card folds down to fit in an envelope!

The paper package & ephemera has been put away now though, and I won't be getting it out again until for a few months. 😉

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February so far - 22 cards

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock

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! 😊

You're Sweet Slider Box with Pop Up

It's Fun Fold Friday here on my blog, and today I'm sharing another Slider Box. This one has a sentiment that pops up when you slide the drawer out of the sleeve - so fun! You can see this action in my YouTube video:  

Using patterned paper and cut aparts, I decorated the outside ...

Below is what is inside the box. The You're Sweet panel pops up as the drawer/tray slides open & the Surprise Cube pops out as do the hearts.

One of the included rectangle dies has a nice edge decoration, so I cut it from acetate so I could add the speech bubble to it. That was then attached to a Bam Box that was also adhered inside the decorated drawer/tray. 

A few of the single hearts are from Karen Burniston's Hearts Crosshatch, and the others are the fallaway pieces from Whimsy's Slimline Heart Background. I shared that card last week.

I have been asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February so far - 21 cards

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock

Pink cardstock - Stampin' up

Pink ribbon - Stampin' Up

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! 😊

February 2023 Sheetload Of Cards

It's the 2nd of the month and that means it's time for the Collaboration Team to share their Sheetload of Cards. I'm on the YouTube Collaboration Team so HERE is the link to my YouTube video.  

I added pops of gold foil using older die's and I really like how they added to the card!

Once again I made birthday cards that I will donate to my Mom's old nursing home.

See what the Collaboration Team created:    YOUTUBE: http://bit.ly/3HO3bqV    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/slctfeb2023/

If YOU CREATE cards using this month’s SheetLoad, PLEASE USE the following hashtags: #SUYSFeb2023 #ShowUsYourSheetLoad

      Get more details on how to “Show Us Your SheetLoad”, here: https://youtu.be/8r6JbbGfWmo

Find out how to download the February 2023 SheetLoad of Cards, here: https://youtu.be/ZXq67liMggs

Late last year I was asked how many cards I make but I didn't have a clear number. Since many of my posts include more than a single card or project, I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. 

Card Tally for 2023

January - 53 cards

February so far - 20 cards

Additional Supplies:

Green cardstock

White cardstock

Patterned paper - Tropicool Vibes, Lynda Kanase (Sizzix)

Stitched circles - MFT Stamps

Pair of Leaves - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Feathers/Leaves - Paper Smooches

It's Your Day - Taylored Expressions

Wild Greenery - MFT Stamps

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! 😊