Halloween Birthday Card

I have been off grid for a long time, and I've truly missed it!  I went on a small vacation, and with the beforehand prep, the vacation itself, and the clean-up afterwards, it's been almost a month since I made a card!  I was jonesing at the two week mark!  I had received a ton of dies from Karen Burnistons' new release, and I still haven't had a chance to play with them! Most are still in their packaging, unopened!  So Sad!!!!!I hope to rectify that soon!  

Thank you all for your patience with me being gone so long. 

I have several friends/family with birthdays in October.  What better than a Halloween themed birthday card?!  I used several die sets for this card, some for the mechanism, some for the design elements.  The main one is the twist panel pop-up by Karen Burniston.  

For the card I used a 5 1/2  x 11" piece of card stock scored at 5 1/2".   To this I glued a piece of pattern paper cut slightly smaller than the base card.  

I made a panel 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" and did a inked background similar to the ones described below for the inside panels.  I added a tree made from brown card stock, and embossed it with a wood grain embossing folder, then I inked the edges with brown distress inks.

I matted this piece with black card stock cut slightly bigger than the panel and added it to the base card.  

I added the moon, the bat, the fence, and the grave site.

I did lot of inked back grounds on this card.  The picture below shows how I started with picked raspberry in the center of the panel, followed by wilted violet around the edges, and blended slightly with the picked raspberry.  I then used black soot to darken the panels.  Keeping  mostly to the edges, but also blending slightly towards the middle.  I made four of these for the panels, and one for the background for the front panel.  

I cut out a hill in green card stock, and darkened the edges with black soot. I cut two portions from the hill from the same die I used for the panels so that they would fit around the bottom and sides.  

For the other two panels, I cut out two fence sections from the House and Fence pop-up set. I glued it to the panel, and trimmed the edges.  

I then glued theses sections to the twist base.  I added spiders, ghosts, "boo", a bat, and a moon.  

For this card, I used the following  Karen Burniston die sets:

Twist panel Pop-up 
Halloween elements
Halloween scene
House & Fence pop-up
Snowman twist pop-up (for the moons)

Woodland Wonderland

This was a FUN project! As I lay in bed this morning, I kept seeing little fairy woodland type houses in my head!  Well, we all know what that means!  Get out of bed and make a card!  YeeHaw!  I love it when my day start out like this!

I kept the front very simple.  It's a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base.  To this I glued some pattern paper leaving a small border around the edge.  I did a sentiment using an old stamp and the banner die from the Ups Daisy Pop-up set.  I mounted this on a piece of card stock the same color as the base of the card.  I then made this dimensional by mounting it with fun foam.  

 Let's start with these babies!  As you can probably tell, these started out as parts of the castle pop up set.  See the drawbridge?!  First, I die cut the castle piece.  I cut it into 2 sections making use of the two turrets.  

I then ran them thru a wood grained embossing folder.  I distressed them with ink, glued some yellow behind the windows, and attached the doors.  

Then I cut out another castle to use as a backer piece for the houses and glued it to the back of the houses. 

Next, I cut out flowers from the ups daisy set (the smaller one).  I inked the edges, then cut them in half.  I used these pieces for the shingles on the roofs.  I layered them up starting at the bottom of the roof and working upwards.   

I hand cut a chimney for each house, and glued it to the back.  The mushrooms were random pieces of waste from die cuts.  I inked red on the top, brown on the bottoms, added some white dots, and Voila'....Mushrooms!

I added an additional flower to the right side of the blue house, and once again, using the waste from die cuts, I made a center for the flower.  

 I used random papers for the background and lower portion of the card and glued these to the card base.  I then added the floating floor from the house and fence pop up set.  

I added the houses to the various pop-up mechanism and added the stone walkways from the house and fence set.
  
The tree in the background was from the halloween scene die set.  To that I glued leaves made from the leaf die from the flower pot  set.  

The raccoon is from the woodland animals set.  The lantern and the hat on the raccoon are from the camping charms set.  The fence/wall pieces are from the castle pop up set.  The ferns on the wall sections are from a Martha Stewart leaf punch. 

All the papers for the leaves & flowers were made using distress inks, and water.  

The sun flower is from the ups daisy pop up set.

 The flourishes on the floor of the card are from the square spinner pop up set.  I used them to partially frame the area where I will sign the card.  

 So in this card I used mostly Karen Burniston dies.  I used:

1001 Woodland Animals
1049 Camping Charms
1033 Castle Pop-up
1014 Halloween Scene
1015 House and fence Pop-up
1042 Spinner Square Pop-up
1010 Flower Pot Pop-up
1047 Ups Daisy Pop-up

I also used A fern leaf punch from Martha Stewart.  

This card was a BLAST to make!  I needed this boost after finding out I didn't make the cut for the design team member position I was going after.  There is no better way to raise your spirits, than to make a card.  At least not for me! 

Happy crafting!

ttfn: Karen




  

Thinking of You

After this card was done, it almost seemed like I was on a mission to use as many Karen Burniston Dies as possible!  That was not the case, although I did use four of them.  I will list all of them at the end.  

This card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

On the front, I made the Terra-cotta pots, leaves and flowers by water coloring distress oxide inks onto paper, then cutting them out.  The flower centers are made with Neon Puffy Paints.  When they were dry,  I inked dots on them with a fine line sharpie.  The Sentiment is from a generic set, white heat embossed, then mounted to fun foam for dimension.  A small stripe of card stock at the bottom.  

Basically, I installed the platform, then turned the card so that the platform was on the back wall instead of the floor. 

   

The background is made with a brick embossing folder from Paper Studio, then inked lightly with Faded Jeans distress oxide ink.  I cut around it to fit around the floating floor.  (In this case, the floating wall!)  On the surface of the floating floor (wall),  I added two pots with the flowers & leaves.  They were mounted on either side of the middle pop-up.  I was quite surprised to find the they fit perfectly!  

The middle pop-up holds Buster the dog!  I found some scraps from when I was playing around with water colors, and decided to make Buster out of that instead of traditional colors.  

The floor of the card is paper from my stash, along with the napkin from the Coffee Cup Pop-up.  I used the stencil feature to add some dimension to the "rug."  I then cut this to fit around all the pop-ups on the floor.  (Remember, this would normally be the back wall of the card.)

I added a bone for Buster, and a white area that holds the sentiment from Stampendous SSC1223, as well as give an space to sign the card.  

So, in this card I used the following Karen Burniston Dies:

1015 House & Fence pop-up (used for the floating floor)

1010 Flower Pot Pop-up (used for the leaves, flowers & pots)

1040 Coffee Cup Pop-up (used the napkin for a rug)

984 Buster the Dog (retired Die) used for the dog & the bone

I made the flowers, leaves and pots quite a while ago, and don't remember which distress oxide colors I used.  

I hope you enjoyed the card.  I like to try and use these pop-ups in a different manner than they were intended.  I feel that this makes them more versatile.  

Happy Crafting!

ttfn: Karen

Baby Girl Card

New Baby Girl Pop-up Card

I found out our Granddaughter is scheduled to deliver our first Great-grandchild on Monday! We can't let that event go by without making  a special card! Yeowza!

Lucky for me, my new die set, Karen Burniston #1015 House & Fence Pop-up, came in the mail on the morning that we got the news!  Kismet?! I think so...

I decide to make a welcome card for our new Great-granddaughter Vivian as a twist on the normal...Congrats on your new baby theme.   

I started with a 4 1/2" square base.  Next was a layer of green cardstock.  The white layer was done with a cross stitch background die set.  The label was 2 Katherine labels (Karen Burniston Pop-up die set #1011) inked, stacked, & raised with fun foam.  

The sentiment was an Impression Obsession die # DIE527-J.  I put white dots on the "girl", and used Wink of Stella on the entire sentiment.   The rattle was from the stamp set "Lawn Fawn plus one" as were the baby items on the inside of the card. 

On the inside I inked a background.  Added the Stork, and 2 clouds.  The rest of the clouds I attached to the house. I wanted a 3-D effect.   The cat was another Karen Burniston die, #1024 Cat & Dog.  The house, fence and grass area were all part of the house pop-up set.  

The sentiments on the inside were computer generated.  I added wink of stella to the buggy, the cat's collar, the windows, and the edges of the stork.  

This was a fun pop-up card!  It went together well,  and I think it came out rather cute.  You could use this die set for so many different themes.  I would recommend this die set for anyone!  I hope you give it a try!

Happy crafting!

ttfn: Karen