Birthday Cake Shaped Card

Hello my crafty friends!  Today I'm sharing a sparkly shaped card using dies by Honey Bee Stamps. This card is for our nephew's eldest daughter and will be heading to Arizona shortly. I like that the cake strips cut as a single piece, and I cut them from a rainbow glitter cardstock. I cut cut the icing and sprinkles from the same cardstock, and also added some Glitter Dots.

Inside, a stamped and die cut sentiment on a stitched circle ... which is where we will sign our names.

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:

Pink cardstock - Michaels

Rainbow sparkle cardstock - Stampin' Up

Sweet sentiments - MFT Stamps

Mini Slimline Foiled Bats

Hello my crafty friends. I get some of my best crafting ideas when I'm drifting off to sleep, or trying to get BACK to sleep in the night. While that would inspire some to jump out of bed and get creating, I find it soothing. The trick is to actually remember the idea in the morning, ha ha.  This card is the result of one of those nights and I couldn't be happier with it.

I used my Glimmer Foil to foil a REGULAR DIE!  Karen Burniston's new Slim Bat Pattern Plate to be specific. Gold foil on black card stock and it foiled beautifully. I might have gasped when I peeled away the foil - the shine was amazing. 

Using a Stardust gel pen, I added lines into each of the negative areas then decided to just go for broke and add colour to the bats with coloured pencils. Finally I added gold gel pen eyes to each bat.

Here is a peek at the inside and I used the same glittery gel pen to outline the inside panels.

The glittered pen outlines really show up on the black cardstock!

NOTE:  Usually I would be able to use the negative foil piece with a solid hot foil stamp to get a second, reverse foiled image. Which would have been ok with this one except I tried it on black card stock. Foiling requires a really smooth card stock and my black is not that smooth apparently. It was ok for the fine lines but not for a really solid image. While the foil did transfer it looked splotchy and very unappealing so it got tossed. I would have been better to add it to a white smooth cardstock.  Next time! 

 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:
Inside Greetings Halloween - Papertrey Ink
White cardstock

Colourful Pop Up Dog Card

Hello my crafty friends. Three months ago we adopted a sweet rescue dog who is quite a picky eater. Considering she started her life on the streets in Thailand, this came as a surprise and a hurdle. She was underweight not because the foster family wasn't feeding her enough - it was because she is just not that interested in eating. Go figure!  My friend Debbie has given me some great tips though, and Willow eats most of her food by the end of the day. 

I wanted to send Debbie a thank you card, so pulled out the new Label Charm Pop Up by Karen Burniston and my new Grace & Lucy Puppy stamps from Picket Fence Studio's. This is the card I came up with, turning the orientation of the Label Charm to be a top fold card and adding a large circle with a hand made tab instead of the second label as it's designed. I have those details in my YouTube video:  

Below is what the card looks like opened ...

... and a side view. I stencilled the paw prints using a YNS stencil and blending brushes, but had a few issues with the stencil moving around. Should have taken the time to tape it in place, but in the end I was ok with the random look of the colourful paw prints & hearts.

The large ink blended circle is where I wrote my personal message then sent this card on it's way.

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:
5 x 7" card and envelope
Rainbow packing tape
White cardstock
Pink pen (to outline stencilled hearts)

Fireplace Christmas Card

Hello my crafty friends. Today I'm sharing a card sharing Karen Burniston's new Fireplace Pop Up and Extra's 1 & 2. I created a FLAT card rather than a Pop Up card to show how versatile this die is! My card today is 5 x 6" and fits in a 5 x 7" envelope for mailing.

I pulled out some really, really old patterned paper from my stash and I loved the vintage feel of it. I also used some pale woodgrain patterned paper and small bits of patterned paper behind the frames adding acetate to resemble glass. The swag and wreath (and stockings) were all cut from scraps of patterned paper from the pad and I inked the edges with a dauber & dye inks. I also added some Peel Off stickers (Glitter Dots) for some shimmer and shine but it's hard to catch that in photos.

In the photo below, you can see the shine from the acetate behind the frames and hopefully the Glitter Dots show up a little better on the wreath & swag. The Santa boots are designed to swing from the top of the fireplace, but I adhered them down with foam tape for this card.

Here is a peek at the inside, with a stamp by Taylored Expressions.

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 fine point marker
Patterned paper - Life's Journey, K & Co (OLD, from my stash)
Ivory cardstock 
Woodgrain patterned paper (6 x 6"), Necessities Wood - My Minds Eye (old, from my stash)

Anniversary Mini Slimline Easel Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Scrap 'N Stamp Canada's September Inspiration Hop "The Colours of Fall". I created a Mini Slimline Easel card and used a die that is intended to be an add-on for the Magic Iris die set. I wanted to show you an alternative use for the Magic Iris Fall Leaf Add On die and have a quick walk through on YouTube:   

As much as I LOVE the beautiful floral patterns in the paper pad, the back side have subtle prints as well and that is what I used for the front 'wreath'. Most of the supplies I used are available at Scrap 'n Stamp! 

I don't actually make a lot of Easel Cards, because I don't want to send a card that requires 'instructions'. I use my hubby for those experiments, if I hand him a fun fold card and he doesn't know how to open it or stand it up then it's a fail for me. Apparently I've never given him an Easel Card before, because when I made one for our daughter & showed him he figured it out right away. Now I can go ahead and make more - yeah! This is my first Mini Slimline Easel card and I am very happy with it. It stands nicely for display, but has a nice small footprint as well. 

The finished size of this folded Mini Slimline card is 3.25 x 6.25" so I could take advantage of the full 6" width of the pretty patterned paper. 

NOTE:  Card base is:  6.5 x 6.25.  You will score down from the 6.5" side at 1-5/8" x 3-1/4".

The next stop on the hop is:  Meghan

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:
Textured buff cardstock - old, from my stash

Rosh Hashanah Card

Hello my crafty friends. Today I'm sharing another card using both NEW DIES and previously released dies by Karen Burniston. I am loving the new Label Charm Pop Up and chose that for this Rosh Hashana card (Jewish New Year). I have all the details of my card on YouTube:   

Since Honey is a prevalent symbol of the occasion, I also have the honeycomb and bees from the Flutter Charms set and lots of gold for shimmer & shine.

Here is a peek at the inside, where I used the. Mini Alpha and Shadows for the sentiment. The paper is a digital download I purchased from Etsy and printed on regular printer paper.

Trimming the You're off of the You're Sweet helped create the sentiment which was added to one of the Short Crosshatch Rectangle dies. This card is 5 x 6" (folded) and will fit in a standard 5 x 7" envelope for mailing.

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:

Patterned paper - Etsy

Printer and printer paper

White cardstock

Mini Slimline 'Just Because' Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Karen Burniston's September Designer Challenge with the theme of JUST. I chose to make a Mini Slimline Card using both new and previously released items I have all the details in my YouTube video: 

The gold pearl Thinking of You sits on a vellum heart with gold gel pen accents, and there are mirrored hearts sprinkled around as well.

Inside, I used the Heart Collage Pop Up along with the new Word Set 15 Just Because. The hearts were cut out of the same patterned paper, which makes the contrast a little hard to photograph. These cards are just always better in real life.

I added some stamping and more of those lovely mirrored hearts, and some Wink of Stella too. Lots of sparkle and shine on this one!

One more look ...

I have the rest of the Design Team 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.

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 cs
Brown marker
Alcohol markers

Karen Burniston August Release Blog Hop

Hello my crafty friends!

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC September Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 13 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

• 1 new charm die set
• 1 new word set
• 1 new Halloween die set
• 2 new Halloween Pattern Plates
• 2 new pop-up die sets
• 2 new pop-up extra sets to coordinate with one of the new die sets
• 1 new "Ball" Add-ons set
• 3 new "Ball" Double-Ups Sets

Dies are available to order now on the website.

I used three of the new dies along with some earlier releases for this shimmery Halloween Card. Here is what the card looks like when it comes out of the envelope:

Since it's more fun to see these cards in action, I have a walkthrough on YouTube:  

  

The shimmer & shine is from the Rainbow Holographic card stock. I just adore the new Skeleton and Bat, so had to use them for my card today. The card base uses the new Label Charm Pop Up and the bat on the front pivots to the inside as the card is opened.

Below is what the card looks like opened. The patterned paper is from Doodlebug and I've had it a couple of years. I did link some other Doodlebug papers (that I also have) but I'm not able to link this one. I love it - the purple stars are felted! 

Cutting the Spider Slim Pattern Plate from the same holographic card stock, I snipped the sides off to give me the border on each side of the card. Then I cut different webs and spiders away from the leftover piece to add them as elements on the inside and front of the card.

I always like to show the top view of this type of card, since when I give them to people they invariably turn it so they can see it from the top. 😊

 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, 12th September 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!

Your next stop on the hop is:

Sue Small-Kreider

Remember if you get lost along the way, you can always find the full Blog Hop list HERE

Label Charm Pop Up - shipping now!

Skeleton & Bat - shipping now!

Spider Slim Pattern Plate - Shipping now!

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:
Rainbow holographic cardstock - HunkyDory
Various cardstock scraps
Purple cardstocks - Michaels
Purple alcohol marker

September 2022 Sheetload of Cards

Hello my crafty friends. It's the 2nd of the month and that means it's time for another Sheetload of Cards! This month Alicia has a special edition - we are creating a different style of Mini Slimline cards. Since I'm on the YouTube Collaboration Team, I have a walkthrough with all the details on YouTube:   

As I explained in the video, I ended up with three sets of four cards and will share the group card photos with a detail shot of a single card from each group below those. This first set has the most darling dog images. They were printed on the 6 x 6" paper pad, four to a sheet so the oval shape from the Sheetload sketch didn't work. I used circle dies instead. 

These next four use some fussy cut images. both the back and the front covers of the paper pad have images available for fussy cutting - what a great little bonus! Oh, and the patterned paper has a lovely pearlized sheen.

The final four cards have the oval shown in the Sheetload sketch and I was able to use some of these pretty Chipboard embellishments that have been hanging around in my craft room for several years.

All of the toppers got lots of Stickles for some shimmer and shine, and I used foam tape as the cards will be hand delivered to the residents.

Be sure to check out my video to see how you can download your own Sheetload of cards!

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
Pink patterned paper -old, Stampin' Up
Yellow printed patterned paper - Gift of Giving, Craft Consortium
Chipboard elements - Stamperia
Stitched ovals - MFT Stamps (retired)
Scalloped ovals - MFT Stamps (retired)
Pink cardstock - stash

Autumn Array with Wooden Crate

Hello my crafty friends. I'm back with another card using that lovely stamp/layering stencil set from Taylored Expressions called Autumn Array. For this one I fussy cut the image and added it above a wooden crate die. 

This one has no message on the front and just a stitched panel for writing a personal message inside. I am short on note cards with no specific theme so that is what this one is for.

The pretty purplish background panel was in the 'gift with purchase' package when I purchased the stencils; Taylored Expressions sent A2 panels with their new colours. This one is called "Dried Fig"

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:

Shimmer Spray
White cardstock

Dried Fig cardstock - Taylored Expressions

Brown alcohol marker