Chalkboard Print Sympathy Card

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Today's share is the sympathy card I made for my parents. My cousin passed away unexpectedly this month, and she & my mom were very close.

I had picked up a Fiskars small Stamp Press, and have been happy with how well it works to stamp onto die cuts. I seem to be stamping things crooked these days so hopefully this tool will help me with that.

Loving these stitched scalloped border dies ...

Supplies:
Patterned paper - We R Memory Keepers
Stitched Scallop Border die - MFT
903 Katie Label Accordion (stitched label), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Sympathy words - the Stamps of Life
Seam binding
Card size - 5-1/2" square

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Hello Pull Card

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It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog, and today's share is a card I made for Elizabeth Craft Designs to take to Japan for a trade show.

Because there will be a bit of a language barrier, Els requested the sample cards be simple and cute.

I added the clouds and speech balloon with the spinner that comes with the Rectangle Pull Card. It spins up and into view when the card is pulled open.

Supplies:
Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Outdoor Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
All Seasons Tree (Clouds), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Rectangle Accordion (Large Rectangle, Word Bubble, Hello), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Dutch the Fox, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
E-120 Bark Embossing Folder - Elizabeth Craft Designs
E-119 Curly Swirls Embossing Folder - Elizabeth Craft Designs
508 Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Adhesive, 64mm (2-1/2")
Brown card stock - Stampin' Up
Plaid patterned paper - We R Memory Keepers
Ivory card stock - the Paper Studio
Cloud patterned paper - American Crafts
Rust card stock
White card stock
Charcoal card stock - Stardream
Brown Brads (Recollection)
Card size 5 x 6" folded

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Hybrid Brownie Stand Up Birthday Card

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When I made the 'Moo-Vellous' Mother's Day card (see it HERE) I did most of the designing on the computer. Since I saved the file, I printed another one to make a Birthday Card.  I used a fun polka-dot card stock for the card base ...

... and made it a Stand-Up card instead of a Pop Up card.

I simply swapped out the 'Mother's Day' for 'Birthday' before printing. I used Karen Burniston's new 'Hay There Pop Stand' to animate 'Brownie the Cow' adding a party hat for fun. Who doesn't love a cow in a party hat?

The newest Farm Collection of Pop it Ups will be shipping from Elizabeth Craft Designs at the end of the month.

Supplies:
1022 Brownie the Cow, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
1025 Hay There Pop Stand - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 2, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White, black, red, yellow, green and kraft card stocks
Digital Scrapbooking kit - Little Tumbleweeds, Nitwit Collections
Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape (Large Roll)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape (1/4")
Polka Dot Patterned paper - Carta Bella
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C4C 282 Sketch

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

I decided not to make a Pop it Ups card (gasp!) - as I had some new toys and I wanted to make them work for the sketch.

Ahahaha - love this balloon holding party hat toting smiling pig stamp. I bought the set because I wanted to use them with Karen Burniston's new Barn collection Pop it Ups. This is the birthday card my parents will give our eldest daughter for her birthday - she loves anything farm related.

Here is the inside ...

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 C4C282.

Supplies:
Blueprints #11 - MFT
Blueprints #12 - MFT
Blueprints #21 - MFT
Vertical stitched strips - MFT
Party Pig and die - Simon Says Stamps
Stitched banner die - La-La Land Crafats
White card stock
Patterned paper - DCWV
Happy stamp - Stampin' Up
Stamp inside - MFT
Copics
Glitter Glue
Numbers embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Card size - Standard A2

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Farmyard Father's Day Card

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Today's card share uses some of Karen Burniston's newest dies. This farm collection will be shipping from Elizabeth Craft Designs at the end of the month ... and the Designer Challenge Team is having SO much fun with them. Here I used the Barn portion of the Barn Pop Stand set to decorate the front of a Father's Day card.

 Inside I have a row of farmyard characters standing up. I used the Barn Pop Stand on the inside and to get the farm characters to stand up I made a little hill. To do this, cut two 2 x 5" strips. Place them with the wrong sides together and cut the top edge with one of the Beach Edges. Then simply mount each 'hill' to the Pop Stand tabs as directed on the package. Instead of adhering the barn, you adhere the hill with the hills attached together at the top outside edges.

I loved the pattern on this paper so didn't want to cover it up. Instead I added a popped up die cut cloud.

Yes, I do know that a herd is not made up of a pig, a cow and a chicken. But hey - artistic license!

I'm loving how the farm characters can be made masculine or feminine, depending on the colours or papers chosen.

Supplies:
1021 Barn Pop Stand, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
1022 Brownie the Cow, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
1024 Virgil the Pig, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
1023 Cheepers the Chicken, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
914 Outdoor Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
981 Beach Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
781 All Seasons Tree (Cloud), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
508 Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Adhesive Tape 64mm (2-1/2")
Brown card stock - Stampin' Up
White card stock
Cream card stock - the Paper Studio
Orange card stock and patterned paper scraps
Patterned paper - DCWV
Happy die - MFT
Blueprints 12 - Banner
Printer
Card size - 6x6"

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Get Well Soon Mug Card

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It's Throwback Thursday here on my blog, and I have a Get Well card to share today. I made this card quite a while ago but never did get it posted.

It uses a bunch of older Sizzix dies for this card, but they are still from Karen Burniston!

I cut the swirl out of acetate to resemble steam, and added a small piece of tissue behind the word block on the mug.

Supplies:
A2 Pop 'n Cut base with Mug Insert - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Patterned paper - The Paper Studio
Word Stamps - Cornish Heritage Garms
Acetate - Stash
Open Heart - Magnetic Flower and heart, Movers and Shakers - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Label - long - Sizzix, Prima Estate
Buterflies and Labels - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)

Hybrid Moo-vellous Mother's Day Card

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I have a cow themed Mother's Day hybrid card to share today, using a digital scrapbooking kit and one of Karen Burniston's new Pop it Ups Character's -  Brownie the Cow. On the card front I penned 'Heather' on the digital tag, then added the die cut 'Hay There' (another one of Karen Burniston's new dies).

I did the inside almost entirely on the computer, then printed it off and cut the pop up using the Lots of Pops die. Brownie the Cow is attached to that, and I stamped 'smile' inside the frame.

Brownie has a fussy cut flower on her ear, and that tiny bow is from the Props 2 set. It works perfectly on the little cow bell!

Here is a look at the side, so you can see the pop up portion a little better ...

This card is for our eldest daughter, who loves anything farm related. Ha - in case you were wondering why I would put a cow on a Mother's Day card.

Supplies:
1022 Brownie the Cow, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
778 Lots of Pops, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
949 Props 2 (bow), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White, black and kraft card stocks
Digital Scrapbooking kit - Little Tumbleweeds, Nitwit Collections
509 Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape 152mm (6")
506 Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape (1/4")
Smile stamp - CC Designs
Flower (fussy cut from a scrap of paper
Printer

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