Showing posts with label Stand-Up Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stand-Up Cards. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 October 2016

Flourished Pumpkin Stand-Up Card

Good morning friends

I went hunting through my stash of pre-made embellishments, and found a couple of Halloween ones that I cut with my Cricut years ago. Time to use them! I chose the flourished pumpkin and made a Stand-Up card as the base.


Hard to see in the photos, but there are a couple of spiders on the card that have shiny bodies and pom-pom bodies. My kind of spider.


Finally, a peek at the inside ...


Supplies:
Black card stock
Patterned paper - First Edition
Royal Stand-Up - Sizzix
Stamp - Michaels
Spider Stickers - Recollections
Cricut
Celebrate With Flourish cartridge
Card size - A2

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Monday, 8 August 2016

Karen Burniston's August 2016 Designer Challenge "Flour or Flower "

Good morning friends

It's time for the August Designer Challenge "Flour or Flower' ...  Make a card with flowers OR make a card with a baking/cooking theme - you decide! What a FUN challenge! I opted for 'Flour' and this is what I came up with.

I can't tell you how much fun it was making this card. I just smiled the whole time it was coming together.  Sweet Baker has been busy baking and decorating a birthday cake, and the card base is a Stand Up card made with the Rectangle Pull Card die.


Here is the card in the closed position, ready to be put in an envelope.


I love it when I can get extra use out of my dies, and using the Rectangle Pull Card as a Stand-Up (or Easel) card is a great example of that. Also the cake layers - they are supposed to be layered onto the Cake Pop-Up but they also work great as a flat embellishment!


The little slice of cake was cut from Soft Finish Card Stock, then brushed with Wink of Stella (several coats). It looks so SHIMERY - I love it. The fork was coloured with a metallic marker.


I added a second oval inside the opened card as a spot to sign the card, and another little cupcake to carry on the cake theme.


Be sure to check out what the rest of the Designer Challenge team has come up with for this challenge. Karen Burniston will have her post on her BLOG tomorrow (Tuesday).

Supplies:
Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Baker the Beaver, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Pull Card Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cake Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 8, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Coffee & Tea Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Soft Finish Card Stock - Soft Sky, Dark Chocolate, Cafe au Lait, White 85#, Rosebud, Perfect Pink,       Taken with Teal - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Seam Binding
Patterned paper - Carta Bella
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 1/8" and 4" Widths - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Chalks - Craft T
Tombow Markers
Black Sharpie
Sakura Glaze Pen
Wink of Stella
Fun Foam
Metallic pen - Sakura
Fitted Ovals - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Dotted Scallop Ovals - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Metallic card stock - Stardream

Card size - 6 x 5"


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Saturday, 30 July 2016

C4C 347 Stand-Up Pull Card

Good morning friends

It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog.  Our hostess for July is Joanne Grzelak and the Guest Designer is Alexis Crossland-Smith Scrappin’ Sistah

Here is Joanne's challenge this week:  I love the ocean (thus the name of my blog).  Spending time there brings me peace and joy. Make a card depicting the type of place that brings you peace and joy.

I couldn't figure out what to make for the longest time. I always say that Arizona is 'my happy place', so I was trying to figure out a SW style card. Then, as we were driving home one day and I said to hubby - "I'm so glad we moved out here (to the country) - I love living here".  I've said that to him literally hundreds of times, but this time I went 'AH HAH ... now I know the theme for my C4C card! It's impossible not to feel peace and joy living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

I used the Rectangle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs to create a Stand Up Card ... below is the card folded flat and ready to put in the envelope.



It was time to give the Tim Holtz Treeline a little love, so I combined it here with the Western Edges (Karen Burniston) and her Cloudy Day Stencil.



Carole at PaperPastimes in Calgary was good enough to hand deliver my Show Samples of Karen Burniton's newest release to Els at the Trade Show in Salt Lake City, and when I dropped them off to her I managed to pick up two new word stamp sets. This card uses one of them for the 'C'mon get HAPPY'.



You can see how the card stands for display, which is a cool feature of this type of card. It's always fun to find different ways to use the dies you may already have, as shown here with the Rectangle Pull Card. The cool thing about the coloured Soft Finish Card Stock at Elizabeth Craft Designs, is that it is white on the reverse side. Perfect for making a card like this!

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 C4C347.

Supplies:
Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Western Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cloudy Day Stage it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Soft Finish Card Stock in True Green and white - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Word stamps - Taylored Expressions
Treelike die - Tim Holtz
Fun foam
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Copic markers
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 1/8" width  - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Card size - 5 x 6"



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Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Black and White Stand-Up Card

Good morning friends

I had this black and white paper stack out for a different project, and inside was the label - already cut out that was obviously intended for something else and wasn't needed. It was all I needed to decide to make a Stand-Up card Love Note for our daughter.

When you are faced with your child's life threatening health issues day in and day out, it can get the better of you. While our daughter and husband handle these trials better than most people could, I like to send a little encouragement when I can.


The little punched bird doesn't show up very well in the photos, but does in real life.




Supplies:
Royal Stand-Up - Sizzix
Patterned paper - My Minds Eye
Bird Punch - Stampin Up
7018 Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Wavy Label die - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Remarkable stamp - Simon Says Stamp
MISTI - My Sweet Petunia

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Saturday, 22 August 2015

C4C300 Ride The Wind Day

Good morning friends

It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog:


"The 23rd August is Ride the Wind Day, for our challenge this week create a card that features something that relies on the wind eg kite, hot air balloon, pinwheel, sailboat, windmill, balloons etc.

Today's challenge is our 300th challenge since we started this challenge blog back in September 2009. Wow we have had lots of fun during that time. Thank you all for helping make this Challenge blog such a success and I hope you will continue playing along with us for the next 300 challenges."

I couldn't figure out what to make for the longest time, then all of a sudden I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I used Karen Burniston's Rectangle Pull Card turned horizontal so it forms an Easel Card.  Here is the front of the card - note, I did not cut the notch from the Rectangle Pull Card.



The Maritime Peel-Off's from Elizabeth Craft Designs were perfect for this project. I applied them to white card stock, added colour with Copic Markers and fussy cut them out. The Compass and letters were die cut with the Accessory Rectangle Die instead of fussy cutting. I matted the rectangle with the Accessory Rectangle from the Accordion Rectangle.

The waves are from the Beach Edges, also by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs and the black border is one of Karen B's older Sizzix dies.


The anchor is attached to the spinner that comes with the Rectangle Pull Card. It is hidden when the card is closed, but spins up as it is opened.


I love getting more use from my dies - and turning the Rectangle Pull Card this way gives it an entirely different look!


Check out the 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 C4C300.

Supplies:
Blue card stock - Stampin' Up
Black card stock
Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Rectangle Accordion (Rectangle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Beach Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
2592 Maritime Peel-Off's - Elizabeth Craft Designs 
Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape - 6" and 1/4" rolls
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Stamp - My Favorite Things
Copics
MISTI - My Sweet Petunia
Fun Foam
Stickles
Card size (closed) 4-1/2 x 6"

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Saturday, 11 April 2015

C4C281 National Pet Day

Good morning friends

It's Saturday, and that means a new challenge at the Crazy4Challenges Blog.  Lynn Put is our hostess for April, and this is her challenge:

11th April (C4C281) - Did you know that today is National Pet Day? For our challenge this week, create a card or project using some type of pet as your inspiration. 

I have another "Pull Card Turned Stand-Up/Easel Card" to share today. You can see my post on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog HERE for another version.  This is the card in the closed position ...


When you open the card, this cute scene is revealed and the puppy spins up and into view.

I bought this fence die because I knew it would work really well with Karen Burniston's new release and I'm finding lots of uses for it! I really like these Puppy Peel-Off's that Els designed and have quite a few sheets of them.  I used one of the puppies for this card, adhering the Peel-Off to double sided adhesive and adding the Silk microfine Glitter. Then I coloured the image with Copics and fussy cut it.


Lots of Karen Burniston dies were used for this card ... the Rectangle Pull Card, the All Seasons Tree (clouds), the Beach Edges (hills) and the Happy Birthday Pop Up (Happy). The word Happy and the letters were cut from white card stock that has the Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Adhesive Tape on the back. Which makes adhering letters and script words a breeze.


Below you can see how I positioned the spinner.


Check out the 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 C4C281.


Supplies:
974 Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
972 Accordion Rectangle (Rectangles) Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
781 All Seasons Tree (Clouds) Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
981 Beach Edges (hills) Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
947 Happy Birthday Pop Up (Happy) Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
967 Alphabet 1 Caps - Elizabeth Craft Designs
990 CountryScapes - Country Fence 1 -  - Elizabeth Craft Designs
2584 Puppy Peel-Off's  - Elizabeth Craft Designs
508 Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape 64mm (2-1/2")
641 Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Green card stock - Stampin' Up
Copic markers
Cloud Patterned paper - American Crafts
White card stock
Green patterned paper - Bella Blvd
Bakers Twine - American Crafts

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Sunday, 5 April 2015

Smile Stand Up Card

Good morning friends

My brother gave me this Stand Up die set for my birthday! It comes with the layers, but not one to mat the centre label. For this card I layered the flowered label onto white card stock and fussy cut the mat.  Below is the card ready to pop in the envelope ...


... and here is is in the easel position.  The front is held open by the little notch that cuts with the card base.


Just for fun I decorated the inside as well ...



Supplies:
Royal Stand Up - Sizzix
Smile die - Taylored Expressions
Patterned paper - Graphic 45
White card stock
Butterfly punches- Stampin' Up
7018 Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
508 Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Adhesive 64mm (2-1/2")


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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Passover Stand Up Card

Good morning friends

Today's share is the card I made for our daughter and her little family to celebrate Passover. I just love this new Graphic 45 floral paper and how well it matched the peach card stock. Below is the card in the closed position, ready to pop into the envelope.


This is the card opened ... I did the words on the computer.


There is a little notch that cuts with the die - all the cutting and scoring is done for you with this die. When you fold the card along the front score lines, the notch holds it up for display.




Supplies:
Royal Stand Up - Sizzix
Peach textured card stock - Stampin' Up
Patterned paper - Graphic 45
E-119 Swirly Curves Embossing Folder - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Large Butterfly - Sizix
Small Butterfly punch - Stampin' Up
Circle - Spellbinders
7018 Glitter Dots in black - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Flower sticker - Me & My Big Ideas
Copics (to colour flowers on sticker, above)
Words - computer
Printer

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Bad Habits Stand Up Card

Good morning friends

I have a card to share today that would be fun to send to a friend.  The fish-tail banner says "Here's to another year of bad habits!".


I used the Stand Up Helper dies by Elizabeth Craft Designs, and just played with the side measurements to create a larger centre portion.  (Note, the first of these Stand-Up cards I saw was by Julie Davison.)  The fun patterned paper I found on clearance last Spring when we were visiting Arizona.


After cutting and assembling the ECD Rain Boots, I covered them with Glossy Accents to make them look like real rubber boots.



The card folds flat for mailing and fits into an A2 envelope.

Supplies
792 Stand Up Helpers, Elizabeth Craft Designs
928 Rainy Day (boots), Elizabeth Craft Designs
904 Ring Accordion (Large Circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White circle - from my stash
Pink card stock - Bazzill
White card stock
Patterned paper - K & Company?
Glossy Accents
Oval stamp - Paper Smooches
Word stamp - unknown
Wink of Stella

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Thursday, 13 November 2014

Red Stocking Stand Up Card

Good morning friends

With our recent dump of snow, our vehicles had snow on their tires when they came into the garage. Which melted. Not good for all the boxes that were still in the garage waiting for me to unpack them. We managed to salvage almost everything, just a few things were too soggy to be kept. But my craft room is now overrun with boxes and things to unpack and put away. It will take me most of this week to get things organized (and purged). But the good news, is that I found the last of my Sizzix dies and Framelits and all my embossing folders!

Most of the boxes have been taken downstairs and stacked - away from melting snow.  I'm going to ignore them until I get my craft room organized again, but eventually I'm going to have to got down there and get them unpacked too.  And do more purging. This moving is not for the faint of heart!

Today's share is a Christmas card.  The following photo shows the standard A2 card ready to go in the envelope ...


But when the recipient opens the envelope, it's a Stand Up card with a little snowflake shaped notch to hold it open.



I used the Stand Up Helpers 2 die set for the snowflake, and this exquisite holly border die. There are obvious spots to add Glitter Dots if you desire - both on the stocking overlay and the holly border. So I added Glitter Dots! You know how much I love those Glitter Dots.




Supplies:
932 Stocking Solid, Elizabeth Craft Designs
931 Overlay set 1 (Overlay and cuff), Elizabeth Craft Designs
925 Holly Border, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Stand Up Helpers 2 (Snowflake), Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dots in Red, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Patterned paper - My Minds Eye
Word Stamp - Hero Arts


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Monday, 6 October 2014

Ruby Rock-It and Elizabeth Craft Designs BLOG HOP!



Hello Ruby Rock-It and Elizabeth Craft Designs Fans! We are very excited to be partnering together this month, and to bring you this fun blog hop! I made four different cards for the hop but first the details on the Blog Hop and information on how to win.

Each of our companies is offering a beautiful prize! Here's all the fun details on how you will be eligible to win.

Start at the beginning of our hop right here! And then simply follow the order listed below, making sure you stop and leave some love in the comments section for each designer. Please make sure to include your email in the comments section, so we will be able to contact you should you win.  

For additional chances to win:

"Like" Ruby Rock-It and Elizabeth Craft Designs on Facebook, and leave a comment, letting us know you came from our blog hop.

Comments will close Friday, October 10th at 11:59pm PST, and we will announce our winners the following week! Be sure to come back next week to see if you have won!

Karen Aicken  (that's me!)

Ruby Rock-It is offering our beautiful Essence Empire Bebe collection to one lucky winner!


And the Elizabeth Craft Designs prize is a package full of fun Peel-Offs from their new collection, Stand Up Helpers Set 2 and a pack of Watercolor paper.


Ruby Rock-It sent us items to use with our Elizabeth Craft Designs products. It was such a generous package, and it made creating a card really easy. I love it when everything coordinates!

Another thing I loved about the Ruby Rock-It items, is that everything that was included in the embellishment packages were printed on the back of the package. You didn't have to dump the whole package and root through it to see what was in there. Well, of course I DID because I had to look at and touch and feel and oooooh and aaaaaah over each piece. But when I was planning my first card, it was so nice to flip the over package and refresh my memory. Ahh the small things that make me happy.

You may as well settle in with a hot drink this morning - I have a long post with lots of photos.

My first card is a Congratulations Card, as our Son In Law just earned his PHD. I love the fresh patterns in the Ruby Rock-It 'Handi Scandi' paper package and immediately gravitated to this triangle print.


I love Kraft paired with red anyhow - but with strips of glitter? Swoon. I had to use this tag right away.


I made it a Pop Up card (no surprise there) and used the Lorna Label Pop Up, a Pop it Ups die by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. The larger area is perfect for decorating, and I added another tag, owl and apple from the Ruby Rock-It Handi Scandi line.  Oh, and the coordinating twine is also part of the same line!

The Congratulations is one of the new larger word Peel-Off's by Elizabeth Craft Designs. This was gold, but I wanted it to be blue. So - I coloured it with a royal blue Copic marker before peeling it off the backing sheet... easy peasy.


I also added some star border Peel-Off's to echo the glitter on the embellishments.



The eye glasses from the Pop it Ups Props 1 die set by Karen Burniston are so fun paired with the owl die. This guy just cracks me up now.



Onto my second card, which is a Stand Up card using one of the word Stand-Up Helpers by Elizabeth Craft Designs.


It was so much fun choosing which embellishments to use for decorating. I really like all the glitter on these Ruby Rock-It embellishments, but they are double sided so you can use them non-glitered as well.


The flowers on each side of the stand-up area are actually cut from one of the Ruby Rock-It border embellishments, and I used two sections of an ECD border Peel-Off at the top. I die cut some Elizabeth Craft Designs ladybugs from black and red velvet sheets and added glitter dots (also by ECD) for more shimmer and shine.



Here is a peek at the inside -



My third card is a Quick and Easy one, that practically made itself.


The cute owl panel was fussy cut from one of the printed papers in the Handi Scandi package. I inked the edges and popped it up on the feather printed panel which also has inked edges. I die cut the HELLO from a piece of Pink Velvet sheet  and attached it onto the label portion of the owl panel.


The card base is Kraft card stock.  I added an owl embellishment to the inside, and then added Glitter Dots to each of the owl's eyes on the card front.




For my fourth and final card, I really wanted to use this fun patterned paper. I also wanted to try my hand at adding colour to the wood veneer pieces. I did it but decided I like them naked better.  There are several left in the package so I can still make more cards with them.


I used the new Happy Birthday Pop Up for the card inside, cutting the black script and the larger label from a Black Velvet adhesive sheet.


I had lots of fun choosing embellishments to add around the inside of the card, including one of the wood veneer pieces that I coloured with Copics and glitter glue.





The banners were fussy cut from the reverse side of the 'Meadow' printed paper. I popped them up at the top and bottom inside edges of the card, adding Peel-Off borders and Glitter dots as well.


I hope you enjoyed my cards for the Ruby Rock-It and Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog Hop. Once again, here is the list for you to hop along with:

Karen Aicken  (that's me!)

Supplies for Card #1
Patterned paper - Handi Scandi 'Diamonds', Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Twine Pack, Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Tag Pack, Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Die-Cut Pack, Ruby Rock-It
Lorna Label Pop Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 1 (Eye Glasses), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
7062 Glitter Star Border, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Copic Markers

Supplies for Card #2
Patterned paper - Handi Scandi 'Floriade', Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Tag Pack, Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Die-Cut Pack (trimmed border flower), Ruby Rock-It
Thank You Stand-Up Helper, Elizabeth Craft Designs
711 Lady Bug Die, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Black Velvet Adhesive Sheet, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Red Velvet Adhesive Sheet, Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dogs - Black, Elizabeth Craft Designs
1278 Border Peel Off, Elizabeth Craft Designs

Supplies for Card #3
Patterned paper - Handi Scandi 'Cut Ups', Ruby Rock-It
Feather patterned paper - flip side of Handi Scandi 'Iconology', Ruby Rock-It
Pink Velvet Adhesive Sheet, Elizabeth Craft Designs
787 Hello die, Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dots, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Kraft card stock

Supplies for Card #4
Patterned paper (front) - Handi Scandi 'Iconology', Ruby Rock-It
Patterned paper (inside) - Handi Scandi 'Meadow', Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Wood Veneer, Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Die Pack, Ruby Rock-It
Handi Scandi Twine Pack, Ruby Rock-It
Banner made from fussy cutting the reverse side of 'Meadow', Ruby Rock-It
Happy Birthday Pop Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Lorna Label Pop Up (Labels), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Black Velvet Adhesive Sheet, Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dots, Elizabeth Craft Designs
1167 Black Border Peel Off, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Glue - Stickles
Copic Markers


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