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February 2014

Pop it Ups Videos

Doublehigh Katie Label Pivot Cards

February 26, 2014

The Karen Burniston Designer Challenge for February was to use any of the Pop it Ups Pivot Card dies for a card of any theme. The Designer Challenge Team knocked it out of the park with their creations and you can see them all on the post here.

As part of the monthly Designer Challenges I create a new video tutorial meeting the theme and teaching some sort of new twist or technique with the dies. My video tutorial for February was how to use a folding technique with the Katie Label Pivot Card to double the height of the pop-up labels, allowing space for larger embellishments. Here’s that video in case you missed it:

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Announcements

Design Team Announcement

February 23, 2014

Hello everyone,

Today is a special day! We would like to announce our first ever Elizabeth Craft Designs Design Team!

We were overwhelmed by the number of applications we received after our Design Team call a little while ago. We received so many wonderful projects that it was tough making a decision.
In the end we have chosen these 10 amazingly creative ladies.

Please meet our first Design Team!

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Karen Aicken – Canada
“Card stock, stickers, markers, dies and rubber stamps”

Kelly Booth – USA
“I have been crafting for as long as I can remember and use every free minute of my day to Play!”

Frances Byrne – Australia
“My hobbies include stamping/card making, blogging and collecting owls.”

Helen Cryer – UK
“I love anything which involves colour and design, including card making, quilting and cake decorating.”

Rita Edwards – USA
“Being on Elizabeth Craft Designs Design Team is a dream come true for me and I am looking forward to working together on many creative ideas and designs.”

Debra Hensley – USA
“I’m happiest when my scrap desk is full of bits and pieces and I am creating something from the heart.”

Raquel Mason – USA
“I love stamping, scrapbooking, stickers, bling, glitter & card making – especially pop ups.”

Mary Prasad – USA
“Mary Dimercurio Prasad is a professional photographer with some serious hobbies, including arts & crafts, board gaming, martial arts, and P90X.”

Jacqueline Smith – Canada
“I put my heart into every detail of the cards I create.”

Candy Spiegel – USA
“I have been paper crafting for nearly 20 years — ever since I discovered that it was acceptable for adults to play with paper and stickers!”

To meet these wonderful ladies and to find out more about them,  have a look at the Design Team tab in “Our Team” menu. As of next Month we will see their beautiful work here on our Blog.

We are Excited!

The Elizabeth Craft Designs Team

Pop it Ups

Glittered Fancy Accordion Card

February 21, 2014

Hello,

Karen here with a project using one of Els van de Burgt’s signature glitter techniques with my Fancy Frame Edges die to make a striking two-tone glitter trellis frame for a Fancy Accordion Card.  Love_Fancy_Glitter_Open

A step-by-step picture tutorial follows for how to make the frame edges, but first, here are the supplies I used on this card.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs
– Accordion Fancy Label # 771 by Karen Burniston
– Fancy Frame Edges # 774 by Karen Burniston
– Peel-Offs: 8527 B – Redbreasts, 2535 B – Cute Bears(two hearts)
– Double Sided Adhesive # 502
– Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter # 639
Basic Black Silk Microfine Glitter #601
– Fine Pointed Scissors

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Videos

Silk Microfine Glitter, Coloring with Alcohol Markers

February 19, 2014

It’s here! Els van de Burgt’s YouTube video showing how to color “Diamond” Silk Microfine Glitter with alcohol-based markers is online and ready for you to see, enjoy, and share. I like getting to say: Good Job, Mom! I am also pleased to say that more videos are in the works. We want to hear from you. What projects and techniques would you like to see and learn?

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Announcements

Getting ready for a YouTube video

February 18, 2014

Els spent yesterday working on the YouTube video tutorial called “Silk Microfine Glitter – Coloring with Alcohol Markers” and she sent a behind-the-scenes look at how she prepares. She gets everything in place on the table (samples, all the supplies, everything arranged in the order that it will be used in her demonstration) and then she turns on the camera and starts talking, as if you are there with her taking a class! We’ll share the link to the video as soon as it’s ready. There have been so many requests for information about this technique.

Getting ready for a YouTube video

In the meantime we like to show you a card Els made using the new Australian Opal Gemstone Shimmer Sheetz. She used two of our new Embossing folders that are ready to ship at the end of this month. She also used two of the Elizabeth Craft Designs flowers die sets.

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Dragonfly Ladies in Circles

February 15, 2014

Our Guest Designer for today is Judi Kauffman, the artist behind Elizabeth Craft Designs’ new Dragonfly Ladies and Little Cuties peel-offs. She calls this pair of cards, featuring Dragonfly Ladies in Circles, “Circles in Squares”. We love the cards she made! Here are some pictures and below Judi’s step by step instructions.

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Pop it Ups

Happy Birthday Accordion card

February 13, 2014

Hello everyone,

Today we like to show you a card Joset van de Burgt made using the Accordion Fancy Label die in combination with Peel-Off stickers. She also used the Fancy Frame Edges to decorate the front of the card and the flags that come with the Lots of Pops die set. Coloring is on top of the Cool Diamond Silk Microfine glitter with Copic markers. Wouldn’t we all want to receive a fun card like this? Here are some picture and step by step instruction on how to make this card.

Happy Birthday Accordion FULL

For the Fancy Label Accordion card:

1. Die cut 2 pages out of turquoise cardstock and 1 page out of light green
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Pop it Ups

Karen Burniston Pop it Ups Designer Challenge – Pivot Cards

February 12, 2014

Welcome to our very first Karen Burniston Pop it Ups Designer Challenge.

I’m Karen Burniston and each month I will challenge my Designer Challenge Team to use Pop it Ups dies in some specific way. For our first challenge I gave them an easy one – simply use one of the three Pivot Card Dies to make a card of any style, any theme. Here are the three dies they could choose from:

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Before I send you around the web to see the Designer Challenge Team’s creations, let me share a new project and video from me.

For my Challenge Card, I wanted to show a technique for doubling the height of the Katie Label Pivot Card by  folding your paper first. This gives you a larger pivot area for decorating.

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