Christmas Garden Bench Pop-Up Card

Good morning friends

I had SO much fun making this card! The front features one of Suzanne Cannon's amazing calligraphy dies. These are just SO beautiful - I love them and will have to add a few more to my collection one of these days.

Inside I made it a Pop-Up card using Karen Burniston's Garden Bench Pop it Ups die. Jolly the Mouse is sporting a Santa Hat and has been busy decorating for the holidays with the string of lights from the Holiday House.

The lights were coloured with markers and I added glossy accents to the bulbs to make them shine.

To get the three different frozen ground shaped, I used the Beach Edges, Outdoor Edges and the third layer is the trees from the Outdoor Edges with the tree portions trimmed off.

Because the Garden Bench is an intricate die, I use a shim or the metal adapter plate to cut it. Jolly is attached to the back wall of the card with a 'C support' made from white card stock.

Supplies:
Garden Bench Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Holiday House (Christmas Lights), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Beach Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Outdoor Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fence Pop Stand (Grass Clump), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Jolly the Mouse, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Seasons Greetings - Suzanne Cannon (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Pan Pastels - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Elizabeth Craft Designs Clear Double Sided Tape, 1/8"
White card stock
Red card stock
Grey card stock
Hairspray (to seal pastels)
Patterned paper - Kaiser Craft
Tombow markers
Glossy Accents

Card size - 5-1/2 square

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Butterflies and Bench Birthday Card

Good morning friends!  I have a Garden Bench card to share today, with lots of photos. I took the bits and pieces with me to demo at Paper Pastimes a few months ago but haven't shared the card yet. I thought you might like to see how I cut the different pieces:

I had the embellishments cut, assembled and glittered before arriving at the Demo, but I didn't trim the papers as I wanted to show the ladies how I do it. You can see the Garden Bench is cut into the blue patterned papers I wanted to use for the top and bottom of my card.  These were taped in place onto the white card and I cut the Garden Bench from both layers. Then I removed the taped pieces but I knew they would fit perfectly around the bench when I went to adhere them.  I carefully snipped the bench portions off, then adhered the patterned paper inside my white Garden Bench card.

I remembered to take pictures of the finished card before I packed up after the demo:

Supplies used:
Card Size - 4-1/2 x 6"
780 Garden Bench - Pop it Ups, Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
767 Butterfly Pivot - Pop it Ups, Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
773 Butterfly Accessory - Pop it Ups, Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
772 Accordion Oval Card (stitched oval) - Pop it Ups, Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
783 Happy Birthday - Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Crtaft Designs
Patterned paper - MME, g.c.d, and Crate Paper
White card stock
Hello stamp - unknown
Wink of Stella glitter pen

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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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