C4C360 In a Name

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It's Saturday  so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our October 2016 hostess is Caz Counsell and our Guest Designer is Heidi Green - The Crafty Goat Girl

Caz's challenge is:  In a name.... using your initials make a card using dies/stamps that start with your letters

Since my first initial is 'K' for Karen, I chose Joset's KITE die and my favourite Pop-it Ups - the Spiral Circle Pull Card.

The card was cut from white card stock - remember with Pop-it Ups you get to choose the size of your card - and the patterned paper was cut with the Pull Card Edges. The little clouds were leftover on my craft table from a different project, but the shape worked perfectly with the paper. Love those happy surprises ... and using things up!

The notches that cut with the SCPC keep the card closed until the sides are pulled.

Check out the C4C blog to see how the Crazies have been inspired by the challenge. We'd  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 C4C360.

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Pull Card Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Clock and Gears (Circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper - American Crafts
Kite - Joset Designs, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Red card stock
Clear double sided adhesive, 6" width
White pen - Sakura
Clouds - Lawn Fawn
Words - C.C. Designs

Card size - 5 x 6"

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Squirrel Pull Card

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog and I have a Z-fold card to share today. Once again I used a patterned A2 card, this time with the print on the left and the solid back on the right.  The Spiral Circle Pull Card is easy peasy to use - simply place the alignment nubs on the scored centre line and cut. A little Washi Tape decorated the edges.

I thought this little squirrel sticker from my stash was so cute!

When the sides are pulled, the card opens to reveal the hand lettered greeting.

Into my Thanksgiving stash with this card.

Below is a photo of all 4 of the cards I made using the brown patterned cards that were in the package. The other three were posted earlier. My friend "B" brought the patterned cards to Arizona with her when she came to visit and split the package with me. It was her idea to use the patterned cards with the Pull Card dies, and you can see I use it a fair bit! You can always search 'Pull Cards' on the right of my blog to see all of them.

Supplies:
Patterned A2 card - Michaels
Washi Tape
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stickers - stash
Card size - 5 x 5-1/2", fits in a 5 x 7" envelope.

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Sympathy Pull Card with Chipboard Embellishments

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog, and I have a Pull Card to share using the Spiral Circle Pull Card die by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

My friend 'B' shared her idea of using purchased patterned cards as the card base - with the pattern face up, you simply line up the die's alignment nubs with the centre score line and cut. Using an A2 patterned card base will give you a 5-1/2" square card. If you trim 1/2" off one of the sides it will easily fit into a 5 x 7 envelope for mailing.

I added some chipboard embellishments from my stash and hand lettering inside.

Supplies:

Patterned A2 card - Michaels

Chipboard embellishments - Michaels

Stitched circle - My Favorite Things

Card size - 5-1/2" square

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Pumpkin Pull Card for Fall

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog and I have a Pull Card to share today using the Spiral Circle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.  It's no secret that I love this die set - see the notches that keep the card in the closed position? They also allow the card to stand on it's own even while closed. When the recipient pulls the sides, the inside of the card is revealed.

In my effort to use some of the older products in my craft room instead of always turning to the new items ... I found this textured pumpkin patterned paper that I'd been hoarding. I know once it's gone, it's gone and frankly that freaks me out. But I cut into it and made a card with it and the world continued to spin. Ha.

Karen Burniston designed the Pull Card Edges to work with all of the Pull Cards (the Circle, Oval and Rectangle) and the scalloped edge fits perfectly over the tuck slots. I have requested a Square Pull Card for a future release, one that will fit a 3-1/2" Zentangle tile. Fingers crossed!

Holy moly - it was summer then Mother Nature flipped the switch and overnight it became Fall. I hope Gregg's Mom gets to see some of the fall colours when she arrives next week but at this rate, the leaves could all have blown off! The landscapers arrived  the day after she left last year so she hasn't seen any of our landscaping. Can't wait to surprise her with how great it looks. 

Supplies:

Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Pull Card Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Canyon Clay card stock -  Papertrey Ink

Twist Circle Pop-Up(Circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Patterned paper and embellishment - K & Company

Confetti off white card stock

Giving Thanks stamp - Simon Says Stamp

Card size - 5 x 5-1/2"

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Sympathy Pull Card

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog, and I have another Spiral Circle Pull Card to share today using a purchased brown patterned A2 card.

You simply put the alignment nubs on the centre score line with the card front on the right and the card back on the left. This will give you a 5-1/2" square card, but one edge can be trimmed by 1/2" to give you a 5 x 5-12" card that will fit into a 5 x 7' envelope.

The notches keep the card in the closed position to prevent an accidental reveal - and below is how the card looks when it's pulled open at the sides.

I added some chipboard embellishments from my stash, as well as 3-d stickers that were leftover from a different project. The words were stamped on a stitched circle.

Supplies:
Patterned A2 card - Michaels
Chipboard embellishments - Michaels
3-d stickers - K & Company
Stitched circle - My Favorite Things
Stamp - The Stamps of Life
Cream card stock
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Card size - 5-1/2" square

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Back to School Card

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog, and I have a Z-Fold card to share today made with the Spiral Circle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I think it turned out so cute! This will be for our Granddaughter Olivia - even though she has to be home schooled because of her disease Pulmonary Hypertension, she is still going 'back' to school in September.

The SCPC cuts notches that hold the card in the closed position until the recipient pulls the sides to open it - and this is what the inside looks like:

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper and clip art - Lettering Delights
Twist Circle Pop-Up (Circles), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Xyron
Words - done on the computer

Card size - 5 x 5-1/2"

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Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Card #2

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Today's share is my second card for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge for June - "Summer Lovin'. I think Ice Cream is perfect for Summer Lovin' and I used an ECD Ice Cream  Cone with the Spiral Circle Pull Card (one of my very favourite card dies) and the Clock & Gears to make my card.

The white banners are from the Lorna Label Pop-Up, with one edge trimmed off. The clock hands are attached with a brad, so they can be moved to any time I want to feature. I also added Els Ribbon borders to each side, using my favourite technique of outlining just one edge with a fine point marker.

I cut the clock face twice, once from the pink patterned paper and once from black card stock with double sided adhesive attached to the back. Then I used just the numbers from the black piece, inlaying them into the pink one - love the POP the black gives this card.

Here is a closer look at Joset's Ice Cream Cone - it's so fun! I'm glad it hopped into my ECD shopping cart this Spring. :-)

I hope you will check out what the rest of the Designer Challenge Team comes up with for the challenge, and Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Wednesday) on her Blog.

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Clock & Gears, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Lorna Label Pop Up (banner), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Yellow card stock - Papertrey Ink
Black card stock
White card stock
Patterned paper - Echo Park
Clear double sided adhesive, 4" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Stickles
Copic markers
Sunshine stamp - Impression Obsession
Ribbons -1 - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Ice Cream Cone - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Card size - 6 x 5-1/2"

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Metallic Father's Day Pull Card

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I'm really enjoying making 5 x 7 cards these days - one of the great things about the Pop it Ups dies by Karen Burniston, is that you get to CHOOSE the size of card you want to make. That's right - with a single die, you can make multiple sized cards, and place the circle (or oval or rectangle if you chose that die instead of the SCPC) anywhere along the score line you choose to. Is it any reason why I love the Pull Card dies so much?

Today, for Masculine Card Monday here on my blog, I used the Spiral Circle Pull Card to make a Father's Day card.

The patterned paper has foiled accents which I thought were fun. My Jewel border dies (Elizabeth Craft Designs) were within my sight  so I cut two and added one to each side. Since the card is for a man, I didn't add Glitter Dots into the open areas of the borders, but I really wanted to. :-)

I have to make 4 Father's Day cards for us, and 4 for my Mom ... so I need to get working on them!

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Clock & Gears (Circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Happy Birthday Pop-Up (Stars), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
1123 Jewels 1 - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Words on the front and banner stamps - Stamps of Life
Hand Lettering
Fine Point Markers - Staedtler
Patterned paper - Mambi

Card size - 5 x 7"

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Circle Pull Card for the Holidays

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You know how much I love the Spiral Circle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. Well I was trying to get myself out of a major mojo slump and usually the Spiral Circle Pull Card is the die to to it.

I completely changed gears to help the lack of creative juices and decided to work on a holiday card. Then I had a brainstorm, and used the largest circle from Els Fitted Frames Circles to cut the SCPC into a large circle card! I'm so happy with how it turned out!

I trimmed off a sliver from the bottom so it will still stand on it's own.

 The notches still hold the card in the closed position until the sides are pulled to reveal the inside.

I think there are lots of ideas to use with this initial one! This has inspired me and it's good to feel inspired again.

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fitted Frames Circles - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Patterned paper - Basic Grey
Red card stock
Deer stamp and die - Tim Holtz
White card stock
Words inside - Verve
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

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Birthday Flip Cards

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It's Flip It Friday here on my blog, and I have a couple of Z Fold cards to share today in a Birthday theme.

I used the Spiral Circle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs ... still one of my very favourite dies. The card bases are A2 sized patterned cards ... the pattern is on the front and the solid colour is on the back. They are pre-scored, so I just  placed the alignment nubs on the score line and ran the SCPC through my Big shot. That gave me 5-1/2" square cards. On the Cupcake card,  I trimmed 1/4" off each side which allows it to fit nicely in a 5 x 7" envelope.

I've had these 3-d Stickers in my stash for a long time, so pulled them out to embellish the cards. I also used Els border dies and some coordinating card stock to add a pop of colour.

I stamped words on stitched circles and added one inside each of the cards. Done!

The Ice Cream Cone sticker card also has a stitched scalloped border along one side. I didn't trim the sides down on this one, so it will go in a square envelope and probably be hand delivered.

I'm quite happy with these cheerful cards ... into my stash for when I need a quick Birthday card.

Supplies:
Patterned A2 Cards
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stickers - Special Moments
Stitched Circles - My Favorite Things
Blue card stock
Ribbons 1 - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Inside stamps - Avery Elle

Card sizes:
Ice Cream - 5-1/2" Square
Cupcake - 5 x 5-1/2"

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WIDE Birthday Pull Card

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I had fun making this card. Closed, it measures 9" wide x 6" high. Open it's a full 12" wide!

I wanted to take advantage of the sweet printed border on this patterned card stock, so I used the Spiral Circle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. With the Pop it Ups card dies, you can decided on the size of your card.

Two of my Spring purchases from Elizabeth Craft Designs, are Joset's Cupcake and the Banners, and I used them on this card.

When the sides are pulled, the card opens and you can see the greeting and a place where we will write our message.

When the card is hand delivered, we will be slipping it into a flat white paper bag for the envelope.

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cupcake - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Banners -  Elizabeth Craft Designs
Patterned paper - Heidi Grace
Stitched circles - My Favorite Things
Metallic Gel Pens, Sakura
Stickles

Card size 9 x 6"

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Latte Love Pull Card

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Today's share was made using scraps from my stamping table, and a new stamp set from Verve. There were two pieces of this pretty Paris themed glittered patterned paper, a half sheet of black card stock, half a doily, some pink card scraps and a die cut heart from a different project. And everything came together to make a card and help clear off the table. Gotta love that.

The sweet little coffee cup and stamped words inside are from Verve - this set was a prize I won from the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, which was a lot of fun. The stamp set is one I will use a fair bit - there are so many cute images and words in the set. You can see the whole set HERE. Such an awesome prize!

I used the Spiral Circle Pull Card (SCPC) for the card base, and the notches still work to hold the card closed because they slide in behind the doily.  The recipient can simply pull the sides of the card apart to reveal the inside.

The top left heart was die cut into the cream stamped circle with a scrap of pink card stock in behind it. The second heart was die cut from another scrap of pink.

 I really like the Latte verse ... it's not the typical Thanks a Latte and I will get a lot of use out of this one.

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Black card stock
Paris patterned paper - Craft 'n Craftin'
Doily - Martha Stewart
Coffee Stamps - Verve
Heart stamp & die - Lawn Fawn
Stickles

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New Home Flip Card

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog and I have a Z-fold card to share, made for friends who'd just moved into their new house.

I used the Spiral Circle Pull Card and some fun papers from my stash, then used the house from the House Pivot for the main decoration. I doodled a little banner for their house number to personalize it further.

The message inside was hand written and I doodled on the rest of the card just for fun. Love the sun from the Oval Pull card set. :-)

Last time we visited our friends, they still had their card out on display. That's always a good feeling. :-)

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Pull Card Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Orange card stock - Bazzill
Patterned paper - Studio Calico
House Pivot (house), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Stitched circle - My Favorite Things
Tags & More 1, Lace (corners) Elizabeth Craft Designs
Oval Pull Card (sun), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Card size - 5-3/4 x 6"

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Four Yellow Flip Cards

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog and I have four different Z-Fold cards today. Over a year ago, a friend came to visit me in Arizona and brought a package of patterned A2 cards to share with me. She hadn't used the Spiral Circle Pull Card die before, but liked how it worked on these patterned cards. I liked it too!

This Spring, I followed her lead and ended up using all of the patterned cards she shared with me. I've decided to group the posts into colour groups as the cards are similar. Here are the yellow ones ...

As mentioned, the cards are A2 patterned on the front and either white or a solid colour on the back and white inside. You simply open the card right side up then cut the Spiral Circle Pull Card on the centre fold line. That will give you a 5-1/2" square card.  On some of the cards, I trimmed 1/4" off each card side to allow it to fit in a 5 x 7" envelope instead of a square envelope. You don't need additional postage for a 5 x 7" envelope where you do for a square one.

This first card will go into my Easter cards for next year. I used pretty dimensional stickers and stitched border and circle dies with a little hand lettering inside.

Card #2 was made the same, but with a Thinking of You inside instead of an Easter Greeting.

Card #3 has some fun printed embellishments from my stash and for the border I used the negative piece from two die cut scalloped borders. I added one of Els' ribbon dies down the centre.

I love love love this quote stamp. It's one of my new purchases.

Card #4 has these pretty stickers that I've had in my stash for years and years. I love how sweet they look on this card!

Supplies:
Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned A2 card - Recollections?
Stitched border dies - My Favorite Things
Daffodil stickers - Recollections
Sharpie Markers
Ribbon Borders - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Blue card stock - Stampin' Up
Stitched circle - My Favourite Things
Words- Impression Obsession
White card stock
Pencil Crayons
Pansy Stickers - Recollections
Flower jug stickers - Dollar Store (stash)

Card sizes - 5-1/2" Square, or 5 x 5-1/2".

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