Pumpkin Penny Spinner Card

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Yesterday, fellow Designer Challenge Teammate Raquel Mason came up with the coolest Spinner/Slider card using the Ring Accordion. So brilliant! As soon as she showed us, I couldn't get it out of my head and had to try one of my own.

Raquel shared her card with the Designer Challenge Team a few weeks ago, and since I had Halloween on the brain I immediately went for a Halloween Spinner. I didn't think about the timeline,  or I wouldn't have made it in this theme. However, it will still work just fine and I can put it aside for Halloween 2017!

First I cut two Ring Accordion's from black card stock and adhered them together for stability. Raquel left her pivoting tabs on so she could have two separate slider/spinners (see? Brilliant!!) but since this was just a sample I cut the centre portion completely away and trimmed all the tabs. That means the pumpkin spins all the way around the 'track'.

I could't help myself and added wiggly eyes to the pumpkin embellishment. His toothy grin got the Glaze Pen treatment so they are nice and shiny in the light. So fun.

I don't know to do little video's for my blog, but here is another photo showing the pumpkin spinning around - he rolls so smoothly with the help of pennies.

Here is a peek at the inside. I just love that patterned paper with the multicoloured eyes. The 'Spooky' is a die cut embellishment, and it's actually glossy black which doesn't show up at all in the photo.

Now that I have this Penny Spinner/Slider card done, I have all kinds of ideas on others. It's been ages since I made one and I've been itching to do another slider card for the last little while. Raquel's idea to use the Ring Accordion was just what I needed. Considering this was just going to be the prototype, it ended up making a cute finished card!

Supplies:
Ring Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Black card stock
Embellishments - K & Company
Glaze pen - Sakura
Patterned paper and stickers - Doodlebug
Purple card stock
Folded white card and envelope - Michaels
Clear double sided adhesive, 1/8" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Wiggly Eyes
Gel pen - Sakura
Wink of Stella
Bakers Twine

Card size - 6-1/2 x 5"

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C4C 354 Halloween Tent Card

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It's Saturday  so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our September 2016 hostess is Raquel Mason and our Guest Designer is Fran Sabad.

When I saw Raquel's sketch, I immediately thought of doing a Tent Card. Last year fellow Designer  ChallengeTeammate Frances Byrne came up with a way to create a Tent Card using an Accordion die so I went with the Accordion Oval for my card instead of the Circle Accordion. Ha, I usually go my own way with a sketch.

I adore that little expanding ghost from the new Halloween Charms. This card folds completely flat for mailing, then stands open with the little ghost swinging in the centre.

I'm also loving Karen Burniston's new Halloween Scene die set - The spooky branch is SO fun and the graveyard scene is proving to be quite versatile.

I like to add a panel to the back of my Tent Cards, as a place for a greeting and signature. Here I used one of the new Halloween Clear Stamps in orange and went over the web and spider with a fine point black marker.

Check out the C4C blog to see how the Crazies have been inspired by the challenge. We'd sure love to see your take on it, so be sure to stop by the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and link up your creations. If you are uploading to an online gallery, please use the keyword C4C354

Supplies:
Black card stock
White card stock
Patterned paper - Recollections
Accordion Oval, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Halloween Charms, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Halloween Scene, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Halloween Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Anita Frames Pop-Up (oval), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 9 Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Black ribbon
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Black Ribbon


Card size - standard A2

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Accordion/Concertina Challenge Card

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Welcome to the second Designer Challenge of July ... this time the challenge came from Kelly Booth:  "Stretch it out!" - use any of the Accordion dies for a project of any theme.

I was looking at the different Accordion dies and trying to decide which one to use for the challenge. I knew I also wanted to use the Hot Air Balloon and all of a sudden I remembered "Shelly's" Concertina idea. LOVE it when you can use your dies more than one way. (More on Shelly's cards below).

This is the card ready to be put in the envelope. It folds completely flat!

After I cut the four Accordion Ovals from white Soft Finish Card Stock, I used the Petite Flourish Stage-it Stencil to add some colour before assembling. I picked a scrapbook kit from my stash and had fun choosing different patterned papers for the Hot Air Balloons.

There were some coordinating stickers that I added to white card stock and fussy cut, and I also added some clouds from the All Seasons Tree. The Hot Air Balloon Pop-Up comes with  cloud dies as well, but for this card I liked the chubby clouds from the All Seasons Tree set.

Finally, I added two of the printed cards that would normally be used for Pocket Scrapbooking to the back of the card. You can see the one from the front of the card and the other is adhered to the back of it so you see it from the back.

A while ago, Shelly Hickox made THIS awesome concertina card and then another for an Elizabeth Craft Designs post. I was INSPIRED I tell you, and made THIS ONE for a Designer Challenge in November 2015. (Shelly credits Karen Burniston as coming up with the method of using the Accordion dies to create a concertina card, which is totally brilliant).

Karen Burniston will be posting on HER BLOG tomorrow (Tuesday) so be sure to check it out. The Designer Challenge Team is linked on the right of my blog, if you want to see what they've come up with for this challenge.

Supplies:
Accordion Oval, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hot Air Balloon Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
All Seasons Tree, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stage it Stencil, Petite Flourish, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Soft Finish Card Stock, White, 100# - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Patterned paper - Carta Bella (and stickers)
Fun foam
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Card size: - just over A2 because of the overhanging balloons. Would fit easily in a 5 x 7" envelope.

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Steampunk Birthday Diorama

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Today's share is another project I sent to Els for the Collins show this Spring. I wanted to use the (coming soon) Steampunk charms in a different way so chose a diorama. Below is the card flat, just out of the envelope.

The charms hang from the centre panel with Baker's Twine and jump rings.

This card looks complicated, but is simply a matter of scoring the backing piece to give you the side panels. The Fitted Frames Circles dies and the Circle Accordion make easy work of the rest. The card folds completely flat for mailing, then stands on it's own for display.

Supplies:
Through the Lens, Stone - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Circle Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fitted Frames, Circles - Stone - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Jump Rings
Steampunk Stamps, Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Soft Finish Card Stock, 85#Stone - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Steampunk Charms, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Double Sided Adhesive 1/4" width
Hardware 1 - Hinges - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Sharpie

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Happy Chinese New Year Accordion Card

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I wanted to use one of Karen Burniston's new Stage it Stencils, so ended up making a Chinese New Year card for a friend. I chose to make a 2 page  Katie Label Accordion from red card stock, and sponged through the stencil with gold PanPastels. I really like the way this turned out - I know stencils are HOT in the Papercrafting world, but I don't have much experience with them at all.

I cut the numbers, flourishes, celebrate, label AND Jink's shadow from gold metallic card stock.

Here you can see the gold shadow. I had to work at finding the right angle to show this - in real life, it looks more like the photo below this one.

Much better...

Supplies:
Katie Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Medallion Stage it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Red card stock
Gold Pan Pastels
Hairspray
Jinks the Monkey, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Gold card stock - Stampin' Up
Landscape Oval Accordion (stitched oval), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Flourished Frame (celebrate), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Numbers & More 1 - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Kraft card stock
Pink card stock - Stampin' Up
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Elizabeth Craft Designs Clear Double Sided Tape, 6" and 1/4" widths
Black Sharpie marker

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Maui Accordion Birthday Card

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Instead of cramming a Zentangle tile at the end of random card posts, I have started a new blog called Altered Zen. If you are interested in m Zentangle journey, you can view my art there.

Today's share is a birthday card for a friend. A friend who says all the time, that Maui is her happy place. Hubby & I went to Hawaii last month, and met up with these friends in Maui for a couple of days. While the hubbies golfed, she and I enjoyed her resort - which just happened to be having a bazaar type sale along the ocean.

She bought a tee shirt with the 'Maui is my Happy Place' logo on it, and the fellow gave us each a sticker with the same saying. Ha, I knew immediately I would use it for her birthday card. This hobby allows us to create personalized cards, so while this is an odd card for most people I know she is going to LOVE it.

I used the Accordion Rectangle and Palm Tree & Pail sets by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. The trees and card bases were stencilled with one of Karen B's new Stage it Stencils as well. Below is the card closed and ready to put in the envelope.

And here it is open! I stamped some flowers and fussy cut them for a pop of colour.

 While we were in Hawaii, I found this little pad of Sticky Notes, so they went into the envelope as well.

Supplies:
Blue card stock - Stampin' Up
Accordion Rectangle, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Swirly Flourish Stage it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Sticker - Maui
Birthday word stamps - Stampin' Up (two different sets)
Copic markers
Flourished Gift Frame (rectangle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Coloured pencils - Tri Tone, Koh I Noor
Banner dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Palm Tree and Pail, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Kraft card stock
White card stock
Green card stock
Flowers - Stampin' Up (fussy cut)
Stickles

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Mixed Accordion Gift Card Holder

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I loved making this card ... in fact, it was one of the very first things I made when Karen Burniston sent us her newest release. The 'Oval Landscape Accordion' is one of the newest additions to the Pop it ups Accordion family and I paired it here with the 'Gift Card Accordion' for the card base. Note - everything but the new Clear Stamps are available now in the Elizabeth Craft Designs Store!! Be sure to check your local retailers and see when their orders might be in so you can get your hands on these dies as well.

The front also has the new 'Trellis Wavy Frames' and the new 'Barrel Basket with Pop Up' filled with hearts (from the new 'Oval Pull Card'). Love this Barrel Basket die!

Here is the card opened up ... and you get your first peek at the new 'Baker the Beaver'. He is just SO cute and I will be using him a lot.  I combined the Oval Landscape Accordion with the Gift Card Accordion so you could add a gift card in the slots.

I tied a little 'hello' heart onto the centre frame with Bakers Twine - the heart is from my new favourite Pop it Ups die set the 'Hanging Charm Pull Tab'. The 'hello' is from the new 'Cheeky Monkey Clear Stamps'. On the back side of the heart, I stamped 'Sweetie' from the new 'Just a Note Clear Stamps'

Because I cut the Trellis Wavy Frame from adhesive backed paper, I had all of these little adhesive backed tile shaped pieces leftover. I added one on the back of the Bakers Twine to help keep it in place and kept all the others for ... who knows what. Ha!

Finally, because I know people like to see the back side of an Accordion card ... here you go.

Supplies:
Oval Landscape Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Gift Card Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Trellis Wavy Frames, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Flourished Gift Frame (rectangle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Oval Pull Card (hearts), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Barrel Basket, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Baker the Beaver, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hanging Charm Pull Tab, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cheeky Monkey Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Just a Note Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs
Pan Pastels
Hairspray
Patterned paper - Crate Paper
White card stock
Bakers Twine
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 6" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs

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Hanukkah Tent Card

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First off, I have to apologize for the horrible photos. The light was bad but I had to take the pictures anyhow. This Hanukkah card is for our middle daughter and her little family. I love using the Accordion Pop it Ups dies to make Tent Cards, so that is what I did for this card.

It's hard to see in the photo's, but I traced around the stitching marks on the die with a sparkly gel pen before removing my piece from the die. The candle for the Menorah is actually the fence picket (or candle) from the House Pivot!

I added a panel of super glittery silver card stock on the back wall of the Tent Card. The stamp was outlined with the same sparkly gel pen and I added a Peel-Off border.

I changed the size of my pleated piece at the bottom so the front bows out a little. The card still stands on it's own, which is such a nice feature of this type of card.

The back has a white stamped panel on it and that is where we signed our name. We will be joining them for one night of Hanukkah this year, to celebrate Ilai's first Hanukkah!

Supplies:
Accordion Rectangle, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
House Pivot (Fence Picket/Candle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Blue card stock
White card stock
Happy Hanukkah stamp - MFT
Dreidels and star - CASual Friday's.
7062Glitter Peel-Off Border - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter gel pen - Sakura

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Santa Tent Card

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I have another tent card to share today, using the Gift Card Accordion. I love getting more use out of my dies, and teammate's Frances Byrne's idea of using the Accordions to make Tent Cards is one of my favourites.

The patterned paper has gold flecks in the snowflakes, and it was perfect to use this 3-d sticker from my stash.

I added a stamped greeting on the back, which is where we will sign our names when we go to send the card over the holidays.

Supplies:
Gift Card Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Flourish Frame (Rectangles, Celebrate), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Santa sticker - Stash
White card stock
Patterned paper - DCWV
Words - Papertrey Ink
MISTI - My Sweet Petunia

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Heart Pivot Anniversary Card and Tent Gift Card Holder

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I have a gift set to share today, that we gave to our friends who are celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary.

For their card, I used the Heart Pivot, a Pop it Ups die by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft designs. While this die works for all kinds of different occasions - it is also perfect for Anniversary cards!

I added some pen work and fussy cut flowers to use as embellishments. Here is the front of the card:

And here is the card opened. I just love how much WOW you get from a Pivot Card! The decorated hearts pivot into the card as it is opened.

The stitched label is where we wrote our message and signed our names.

We also wanted to give them a little something, but we knew they'd be gifted with a lot of wine. Instead we gave them a gift card to a restaurant they go to frequently so they can treat themselves to dessert.

I LOVE the Tent Card that fellow teammate Frances Byrne came up with so wanted to make another one of those. Yet another way to use your Accordion dies! I used the Gift Card Accordion for this one, and a fussy cut flower was the only embellishment.

Usually when I make a Tent Card, I stamp a greeting on a decorated panel on the back. For this one though, I kept it really simple and wrote our message under the gift card.

Remember to check the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog later this morning, when Karen Burniston has her post for the November 2015 Designer Challenge!

Supplies for card:
Patterned paper - We R Memory Keepers
Heart Pivot, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stitched Scallop Border - My Favorite Things
Flourished Frame (Celebrate), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Katie Accordion (Stitched Label), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Koh-I-Noor Tri Colour Pencils

Supplies for Gift Card Holder:
Gift Card Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Patterned paper - We R Memory Keepers

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