Two Westies Christmas Card

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Today's share is the Christmas card I made for our friends.

After arriving in Arizona last year, they got two adorable West Highland Terrier puppies. We enjoyed watching the puppies play and grow while we were all in Arizona together. Now they are full grown and having a blast chasing gophers on their ranch here in Alberta.  I just had to make our friends a Christmas card with two Westies on it.

The card uses the Twist Circle Pop-Up by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. I combined stamps from a couple of different companies for the Westies circle, then added a Candy Cane from Jolly the Mouse and a gift from the Evergreen Pivot card.

Twist Circle Pop-Up Cards are ones that the recipient tends to open and close several times, and I know this one is going to get a lot of attention at their house. I used a mini-stapler to adhere the arm to the base to be sure it wouldn't come apart after repeated handling.

It's so much fun making a personalized card that you know is going to be loved.

Supplies:
Patterned paper - DCWV
Grey card stock - Papertrey Ink
Mini Stapler
Twist Circle Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Dogs and Bed - My Favorite Things
White card stock
Outdoor Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Christmas words - Lawn Fawn
Water colour paper
Water colour pencils
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Anita Frames Pop-Up (label), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Copic markers
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Stickles
Props 4 & 5, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Holiday Charms, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Evergreen Pivot (gift), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Jolly the Mouse (Candy Cane), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Card size - 6 x 5"

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C4C 358 - Pop-Up Panel Card.

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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 has a sketch for us this week, which I used for the front of my card. The striped patterned paper has some glittered, embossed stripes and the squares were outlined with a gold gel pen. The centre circle was fussy cut from a piece of paper in the same stack and I added glitter dots for even more shimmer and shine.

Karen Burniston and her cousin Jessica came up with an amazing way to create these Pop-Up Panel Cards that have been all the rage in the card making community. Using the Twist Circle Pop-Up and extending the arms ... you get this fabulous Pop-Up card that folds completely flat for mailing. You can find Karen's video and instructions on her BLOG, HERE.

I die cut the leaves from this beautiful heavy weight burgundy embossed card stock, then added Glitter Dots. The patterned paper has either gold foiled bits, embossed & sparkly bits or both!

Another view of the pop-up portion, in case you haven't seen this type of card before.

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 C4C358.

Supplies:
Patterned paper - Recollections
Brown card stock
Gold gel pen - Sakura
Clear Double Sided Adhesive - 1/2' width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Twist Circle Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fussy Cut embellishments
Leaves die - Stampin' Up
Zutter Corner Rounder

Card size - 6 x 5"

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Wobbly Turkey Thanksgiving Card

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I've had this turkey stamp for quite a while, and finally decided to use it. It's pretty large though ... so after it was stamped and die cut it sat on my stamping table a few weeks until I decided what to DO with it.

Finally, I added it to this scalloped card with an Action Wobble along with a word balloon. The beak and eyes are glossy because I went over them with a Glaze pen. Even though the turkey is so large, being on the Action Wobble gives him some character and I'm much happier with the card than I would have been otherwise.

Inside I did some hand lettering and stamped the tiny turkey from the same set.

Supplies:
Brown card stock
Cream card stock
Scalloped Card - Sizzix
Turkey and word stamps - Stamps of Life
Glaze Pen
Patterned paper (for the turkey) - K & Company
Action Wobble
Word Bubble die - Stampin' Up
Markers
Card size - Standard A2

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Spooky Tree Pull Card

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My card today uses another one of those Cricut cut embellishments I had in my stash ... a flourished spooky tree.

I paired it with the Rectangle Pull Card by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs and some sparkly Halloween papers.

Supplies:
Black card stock
Gold pearl card stock
Patterned paper - Recollections and First Edition
Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Flourished Tree (Cricut - stash) - Celebrate With Flourish cartridge
White card stock
Accordion Rectangle (small rectangle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stamp - Michaels
Pan Pastels, Kit #1 - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Gold pearlized card stock

Card size - A2

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Christmas Cup Holiday Tags

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I'm back today with a few more Holiday Tags using Karen Burniston's new Labels & Circles set.

I cut the cup from the Cup Pop Stand out of sparkly striped patterned paper, then added 'whipped cream' using the icing from Joset's cupcake cut from white glittered card stock. Teammate Kelly Booth had used the icing in this way and I loved that idea. I also tucked in a little candy cane from Jolly the Mouse.

I stamped a greeting from the new Holiday Clear Stamps onto a label from the Anita Frames Pop-Up (which just happens to be the same shape - it's like the designer knew what she was doing, ha ha). Added a little colour with markers then the label edges were inked then popped up with foam tape.

I cut a second label from white card stock, scored it about 3/4 of an inch from the top edge then added adhesive above the score line and attached the decorated tag to the white one. This allows the tag to open and gives me ample room for writing.

Supplies:
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cup Pop Stand (Cup), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Jolly the Mouse (Candy Cane), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Holiday Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Anita Frames Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cupcake (icing) - Joset, Elizabeth Craft Design
White card stock
Red card stock - Bazzill
Clear Double Sided Adhesive - full sheet and 1/4" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Patterned paper - My Minds Eye
Glitter Card Stock
Fun foam
Byron
Bakers Twine
Stickles
Copic Markers

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'Love Ya' Twist Card

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This card popped into my head and I had to head straight to the craft room and make it. I started off with Karen Burniston's Stripe/Plaid Stage it Stencil in grey and red.

The All Season's Tree is done in white and the foliage in white with grey sponging on the edges. I finished off the front with the Beach Edges, Bakers Twine and three hearts from the Oval Accordion. I adore the shape of those hearts.

Here is the card as it opens ... the circle embellishment is sideways.

When it is opened all the way, it twists and pops up into the centre! It's created using the Twist Circle Pop-Up, by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

I'm still having fun with Lawn Fawn's "Into the Woods" set, which is where the deer and heart speech balloon are from.

I also used my new Lawn Fawn tree border, sponging the foliage as I did on the card front. The tiny hearts are from the Merry Christmas Pop Up, also by Karen Burniston.

Supplies:
Twist Circle Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stripe/Plaid Stage it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Stamps - Lawn Fawn
Glaze Pen - Sakura
Wink of Stella
All Seasons Tree, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Beach Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Bakers Twine
Oval Accordion (heart), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Merry Christmas Pop-Up (tiny hearts), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Anita Frames Pop-Up (labels), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Red card stock - Bazzill
Xyron
Grey card stock
Black and red markers

Card size - 6 x 5"

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ROYGBIV Octobr 2016 Designer Challenge

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It's time for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge, and this month it's: "ROYGBIV" - It's the monochromatic challenge but YOU pick your color from any of the colors of the rainbow. Make a card featuring predominantly Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo or Violet.

For last months Designer Challenge, Karen Burniston made the most amazing Twist Circle Panel Pop-Up card, with inspiration from her cousin Jessica. These Pop-Up panel cards have taken the paper crafting world by storm so I was pretty excited that she had come up with a way to make this type of card with a Pop-it Ups DIE instead of complicated measuring or template. There is a link to Karen Burniston's card and video at the bottom of my post today.

For my challenge card this month, I chose YELLOW.

The front of my card uses clouds from the All Season's Tree, and the new Labels and Circles. The patterned papers were in my stash, which worked out well. Love using up things from my stash.

I added Stickles around the edges of the clouds, and outlined the scalloped ring and the word 'Hi' with a fine point marker.

Here is a peek at the card as it is unfolding ...

And here it is completely opened up. Amazing how different the Twist Circle Pop-Up looks simply by extending the arms. 

To create the large sun, I used the Circles and Labels set, and the rays are the triangle banners from the Anita Frames Pop-Up. I lightly doodled on each one then tucked it under the circle edges.

It's so much fun decorating all the little panels!

The first panel has Lucky the Rabbit. To keep it monochromatic, I coloured his ears, nose and feet with an orange pencil instead of pink.  I stamped words on the second panel and added glittered clouds to the third. The fourth panel has the little yellow woven basket from Props 7 with a heart inside, and a sun from the Oval Pull Card.

Note - because I love my foam tape, I popped the embellishments up. And I like the way that looks! However, it makes for a very thick card when folded up and one that will have to be hand delivered or sent with lots of extra postage. I'll have to remember to keep the images flat on the panels for mailing.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Designer Challenge team came up with for the rainbow of colours - their blogs are linked on the right. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow, Tuesday, on her BLOG.  

Here is the link to Karen Burniston's video tutorial for the Twist Circle Pop-Up.

Supplies:
Twist Circle, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Yellow card stock - Papertrey Ink
Sunshine Patterned paper - Bella Blvd.
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 1/2" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Hello polka dot paper - American Crafts
Anita Frames (triangle banner & labels), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Happy stamp - Taylored Expressions
Staedtler fine point marker
Zutter corner rounder
All Seasons Tree (clouds), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Spiral Circle Pull Card (circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Lucky the Rabbit, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Pencils - Prismacolour
Xyron
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Oval Pull Card (sun), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 7 (basket), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stickles

Card size - 6 x 5"

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