Birds on a Bench - Pop it Ups Sneak Peek

This is my last 'sneak peek', as CHA is over today and you can have your local retailer contact Elizabeth Craft Designs to order in Karen Burniston's Pop it Ups dies. Remember these are wafer thin dies - easy to ship and easy to store.  Win Win Win.  :-)

For today's share I wanted a fun birthday card using the new Garden Bench Pop it Ups die.  I cut the A6 sized card (4.5 x 6") from green card stock using a Sizzix ornate card die.

I cut the two white labels using Decorator Dies (that come with the Fancy Accordion) and a hand cut banner. The banner was threaded through the larger label (after I stamped it with the woodgrain background) by cutting two slots in it using the slot dies that come with the Lucy Label Pop it Ups.  Karen Burniston thought of everything, and I love how the dies all work together.

I added a strip of red patterned paper inside the card, which shows through when the card is closed. Inside is that AWESOME Garden Bench.

I cut only the bench a 2nd time from white woodgrain paper, trimmed it down, added adhesive and slipped it over the popped up one. The paper panels were cut slightly longer and trimmed to fit around the bench.  I stamped & fussy cut two more of those cute birds, coloured them with Copics and attached them to the top of the bench.  I know I saw these birds used in a similar way, probably on Pinterest. They add such a nice pop of colour!

The grass is one of the Decorator Dies that comes with the Garden Bench ... I cut it 5 times, then layered them across that red patterned strip. Such a fun little die!

I loved the printed hills and trees on this paper, and thought it matched the verse  really well.

This was a really FUN card to make! I love the bench with all the pretty details, and have lots of ideas for it.  It's just too bad that things like chores and errands are cutting into my playtime!  ;-)

The dies will be ready to ship to retailers right after CHA, so if you are interested in purchasing them be sure to contact your local shop and have them place their pre-orders! They will also be shipping to Canada and overseas, so don't think that these are only available in the US.

Here is the packaging for the Garden Bench, which shows the 3 dies (bench, grass and snow/dirt mound) ...

 

...  the label shapes I used to stamp the words on ...

 

... and the slot dies I used to feed the paper banner through the label ...

Supplies used:
780 Garden Bench - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
771 Fancy Accordion (labels - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Bird stamps - Avery Elle
Woodgrain stamp - Lawn Fawn
Woodgrain card stock - Avery Elle
Patterned paper - Memory Box - Brioche
Word Stamp - Art Gone Wild (Steve Fadie)
Green card stock - Core'dinations
White card stock - Michaels
779 Lucy Label (for slots) - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

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'Cloudy Day' Pop it Ups Sneak Peak card

Good morning friends!

For the past few days I've been talking about Karen Burniston's new dies being released through Elizabeth Craft Designs at CHA. Wafer thin, interactive dies that allow you to choose both the size of card AND choose where you place the dies along the fold. As well, they each contain the decorator pieces - all in one slim little package.  Love.

I've been playing with the Heart Pivot die, and have another non-Valentine card to share with it. Hearts are good for so many different occasions!

This was a really quick card to make - I cut the cloud paper to an A2 sized card and the white inside card to 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". The layers were attached together with lots of dry adhesive.  I cut the Heart Pivot through both layers, then added some heart layers cut with the decorator dies that come with the Pop it Ups  Heart Pivot.  Easy Peasy.

 I fussy cut a few clouds from a scrap of the patterned paper and added some hand lettering ... done!

Here is a peek at the back of the card...

I left the front plain, with just the pretty cloud paper and layered hearts taking center stage.

A friend came over this weekend to make some cards, and we used some of Karen Burniston's Pop it Ups dies ... she liked them as much as I do, and understood why I'm so excited about them.  Just sayin'.   :-)

Here is a picture of the packaging for the Pivot Heart, and you can see all seven (SEVEN!!) of the dies you get in the package:

The dies will be ready to ship to retailers right after CHA (January 10 - 14th 2014), so if you are interested in purchasing them be sure to contact your local shop and have them place their pre-orders! They will also be shipping to Canada and overseas, so don't think that these are only available in the US. If your local retailers are attending CHA, have them stop by the Elizabeth Craft Designs booth #441 and see the dies in action as well as all the sample cards.


Supplies used:
775 Heart Pivot - Karen Burinston's Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cloud paper - Pebbles
White card stock - Staples

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Tag Shaped Birthday Card, Sneek Peek

Good morning friends!

I've been raving about Karen Burniston joining up with Elizabeth Craft Designs and that she has new dies being released at CHA. New dies that are wafer thin (YAY), interactive, still work with any Pop 'n Cuts you own, but allow lots of flexibility in where on the card fold you place the die AND what size & shape card you use. I have a friend who loves to make 4" square cards ... now she can easily make those into Pop Up cards!  The new line is called POP IT UPS.

For today's share I used Karen Burniston's new LUCY LABEL Pop It Up die.  The three cards I've made so far using the LUCY LABEL are all different sizes ... a 5 x 7 tag shaped card, an almost A2 sized top fold card and an A2 tall top fold card. All made with one wafer thin Pop It Up die!  So many possibilities ...

A few years ago I found a package of K&Co printed 5x7 cards and envelopes on clearance at Michaels. When I got it home and saw how pretty the cards were, I went back the next day and picked up the remaining 4 packages.  :-)  This one uses two of those  5x7" cards (back to back), and the Lucy Label Pop It Up die worked perfectly. I lined up the die centered on the fold and it cut this pretty label shape with the additional bump out at the back.

I wanted the larger label to be a different pattern than the rest of the inside card, so I ran the Lucy Label back through the big shot with a paper scrap, trimmed off the pop up portions (easy to do) and attached it right to the matching shape on the pop up base.  I also cut coordinating, smaller label dies to add my words to. I love that these new pop up dies comes with the decorator pieces!  I have a packaging photo towards the end of my post which shows all the dies you get with the Pop it Ups Lucy Label.

Karen also has a set of edger dies - called Agatha Edges. Oh. My. Goodness ... I'm loving these. The three die set cuts two different (but coordinating) edges AND you can also cut this lovely flourish that matches both. These dies are being released at CHA this weekend, so maybe it's too soon to ask Karen Burniston for more edger die shapes????   ;-)

The flourish was easy to cut and glue down with a glue pen, and I ran my Sakura gel pen around the outer cream edge for a little sparkle.

This large label shape is still one of my favorites, it's a Karen Burniston Sizzix die. I outlined the labels with a gold metallic marker for some subtle shine as well.

I added some 3-d sticker embellishments on the front and inside to finish off the card, and some hand lettering.

For the front, I tied a sheer cream bow through the holes...

...and on the envelope front I traced around a labels with a Sakura gel pen for a pretty place to add the address.

Here is a look at the packaging for both the Pop it Ups Lucy Label, and the Agatha Edgers.

   

(Remember you can see all my Pop It Up cards by looking under Labels to the right on my blog. They are also filed under Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Supplies used:
Pop up: 779 Lucy Label - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Shaped tag card - K&Co (used two for this card)
Patterned paper - K&Co
3-d butterfly stickers - K&Co
Edgers: Agatha Edgers - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Label:  Butterflies & Labels - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Sakura gel pen
Gold sharpie
Ribbon - Michaels 

'Love You Tons' Accordion Card (Sneak Peek)

Good morning friends! I'm back with another Sneak Peek of one of Karen Burniston's new Pop it Ups accordion dies - this one is called "Fancy Accordion".  They are being shown at the Elizabeth Craft Designs booth (#441) at CHA starting today!!

Karen B sent me a few of her new dies to play with, and this was the first card I made:

These Accordion Cards/Albums are hugely popular, and now with these new dies through Elizabeth Craft Designs there are THREE new shapes!  In addition to this Fancy Accordion, there is also a circle and an oval - and the oval makes a rectangle card rather than the square card we are used to seeing. That also gives you more room for decorating!  Remember, the Pop it Ups dies are not only wafer thin ... they come with the additional pieces for layering!

You can also buy a set of coordinating 'frame' dies - that come three to a package. I show the packaging photo towards the end of this post.  For this card I chose the scalloped frame, cut it 4 times and attached the pieces to the Accordion card after inking the edges. Easy Peasy - and the frames leave a nice border showing around the outer and inner edges. Ahhh, the things that make me happy.  :-)

I cut just the center accordion part a 2nd time out of pink card stock, trimmed the excess away and  ran the two pieces through the Big Shot with a wood grain embossing folder.  After inking the edges, I attached them directly to the Accordion.

The elephant was stamped and fussy cut, with some subtle shading with pencils.

The gray panels were cut with one of the layering dies that are included with the Fancy Accordion and I added some hand lettering and doodling before attaching them to the wood grain panels.

I cut the smaller heart from Karen Burniston's Heart Pivot die set for the heart that you see in the center of the Pop it Ups Accordion ...

... and added tiny puffy stickers to the embossed pattern on the sides.  Speaking of embossed pattern - that is also part of the Fancy Accordion die! I just ran the cut pieces through the Big Shot again with the Sizzix embossing pad which gave me the raised pattern that shows up even better when inked!

Here is a shot of the back, with the inked frame pieces ... and just for fun I used the heart die to cut hearts from the center of the grey panels, inked them and popped them back up over their opening.

Here is a peek at the packaging for the Pop it Ups Fancy Accordion - so you can see all SIX of the dies that are included in the package.

Below are the 3 frames that come in the Pop it Ups Fancy Frame Edges set ... you get the three top pieces, which you cut 4 times and join together to create perfect little frames for the Accordion card.  How cool are these! They make layering a breeze, and I love that there are three different styles to choose from in one set.  You can also use these on a regular square card, or as a way to frame out an area on a 5x7" card. 

The dies will be ready to ship to retailers right after CHA (January 10 - 14th 2014), so if you are interested in purchasing them be sure to contact your local shop and have them place their pre-orders! They will also be shipping to Canada and overseas, so don't think that these are only available in the US. If your local retailers are attending CHA, have them stop by the Elizabeth Craft Designs booth #441 and see the dies in action as well as all the sample cards.


Supplies used
771 Fancy Label Accordion set - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
774 Edges:  Fancy Label Edges - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
775 Heart Pivot (for the small heart) - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Pink card stock - Stampin' Up
Grey card stock - Papertrey Ink
Heart die: Heart Pivot set - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Puffy heart stickers - K&Co
Woodgrain embossing folder -The Paper Studio

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Birthday Owl Flip It Cards

Good morning friends - it's Flip-It Friday here on my blog and I have two owl birthday cards to share today which are going to Seniors Secret Service.

I love this owl stamp - it just makes me smile. For these cards I stamped it on patterned paper, added some subtle shading with pencils and markers and fussy cut it out. The words from the same stamp set fit perfectly on the banner die ... which is another favourite of mine.

I cut the Circle Flip It four times ... twice from white card stock, once from striped patterned paper and once from orange plaid patterned paper. The patterned paper ones were trimmed apart and layered onto the white card bases.

I added a die cut border to one of them and a strip of patterned paper on the second.  I love how cheerful these colours are and I think the seniors will enjoy them.

I like to add a punched label inside the Flip-It cards as a place to add a signature - it is hidden when the card is closed and you see it when the card flips open.

(Remember you can always see my Sizzix Flip-it, Pop N Cut and Accordion Flip cards by looking on the right side of my blog under LABELS then scrolling down to the 'S' section.)

Supplies used:
Patterned Paper - Colorbok
Fishtail banner die - Banner & Borders set, Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
White card stock - Staples
Circle Flip-It die - Stephanie Barnard (Sizzix)
Birthday word die set - Papertrey Ink
Owl stamp and owl themed words - The Stamps Of Life (owls2love)
Border die - The Stamps Of Life
Punched Label - Stampin' Up
Coloured pencils
White gel pen
Circle dies - Spellbinders 
Small star stamp - Papertrey Ink

Flip-Flop Heart Pivot Card (Sneak Peek )

Good morning friends!

I've been sharing sneak peeks of Karen Burniston's new Pop it Ups dies, and have another to share today -- this one uses the Heart Pivot like the one in my first Sneak Peek post.  To learn more about these dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs, read THIS post.

Karen B sent me the Heart Pivot to play with, and I am having SO much fun with it because hearts can be used for lots more than just Valentine cards. I've made seven cards with the Heart Pivot and only one has been a Valentine. I haven't even made an Anniversary card yet, although that is on my 'idea list'.

The lower heart is popped up with Fun Foam from the craft store. Even though the dies are wafer thin (love) they cut through the fun foam with no trouble at all. I needed something sturdy to pop up the heart, since the orange piece is just a paper scrap. I glued the paper heart to the fun foam one then attached it to my card with glue dots.

My Mom gave me these Flip Flop stamps/dies for Christmas and I was just itching to use them.  The fun thing about the Pivot dies --(and remember there is a Butterfly Pivot and a Label Pivot in the collection)-- is that the decorations on the outside pivot to the inside as the card is opened!

I penned the words on the 2nd heart "Life is just better in Flip Flops".  :-)   On this Heart Pivot card, I added a backing strip. They are completely unnecessary, but I just had to try it and see.

Here is what the card looks like from the back and above:

These are wafer thin dies (think easy to store), and they come WITH the decorator dies for layering!!!  For the Heart Pivot, there are seven dies in the set.  You just snip them apart and you are ready to play. Yup - I'm loving this Heart Pivot die ...

 

 

The dies will be ready to ship to retailers right after CHA (January 10 - 14th 2014), so if you are interested in purchasing them be sure to contact your local shop and have them place their pre-orders! They will also be shipping to Canada and overseas, so don't think that these are only available in the US. If your local retailers are attending CHA, have them stop by the Elizabeth Craft Designs booth #441 and see the dies in action as well as all the sample cards.

 

Here is a peek at the packaging for the Heart Pivot die, which shows all seven dies you get in the set. Also shown on Karen Burniston's sample, are her Agatha Edges dies ... you're gonna love them too!

 

I'm also going to share pictures of the Buterfly & Katy Label Pivot with the decorator dies they come with ...

Supplies used on my card:
Heart Pivot die set - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper - American Crafts
Fun foam
Border sticker - Pebbles
Orange paper - stash
Flip Flops, die and stamp sets - Papertrey Ink
Brads - Stampin' Up

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