Hello my crafty friends, it’s Raquel Mason here with Pop It Ups Wednesday! I see so many possibilities with Karen Burniston’s new Pop Stand dies. Here’s just one way to make to make an additional pop up element in your card. I added a Mommy Rubber Ducky watching over her babies as they frolic in the bathtub. Let me show you how I made this card.
1. Cut pink cardstock at 5.5 x 8.5 score at 4.25.
2. Place Pop Stand die on the score line of card base as shown in photo below.
3. Cut pattern paper at 3.5 x 5.5 and adhere to front. Cut pattern paper at (2) 1.5 x 5.5 and adhere inside top and bottom of card. Use photo for placement.
4. Die cut the following pieces shown in photo:
From Rectangle Pull Card: pink cardstock (1) spinner and (3) small rectangles – pattern paper (1) large rectangle – green cardstock (3) frames.
From Bathtub Pop Stand: pattern paper (2) bathtubs -white cardstock (3) sets of claw feet and (2) bathtub top portion only cut along the score line -White Iris Shimmer Sheetz (2) row of bubbles and (1) set of loose bubbles – Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz (1) faucet – yellow cardstock (5) small ducks.
From Rubber Ducky: yellow cardstock (1) duck and (1) wing – orange cardstock (1) beak – black cardstock (1) eye.
From It’s a Girl/Boy: white cardstock (3) sets of It’s a Girl.
5. Assemble pieces from step 4. Adhere large rectangle to front of card. Adhere green frames to small pink rectangles, add (3) small ducks in the frames then adhere to front of card. Adhere all 3 layers of sentiment together then adhere to front of card. Adhere claw feet to bathtub. Optional: I adhered a set of claw feet to the inside facing tub as well as the back side. Adhere white bathtub edge to both bathtubs. Adhere both rows of bubbles, (2) small ducks and faucet to the inside edge of the bathtub. Adhere loose bubbles over the bathtub edge. Adhere wing, beak and eye onto Rubber Ducky.
6. Thread 7.5″ ribbon through holes of card base and tie a knot on front of card.
7. Adhere bathtub to Pop Stand. Place bathtub right side down on the card so feet are lined up with the tabs. Apply adhesive to the top facing side of the tabs then press tabs onto feet to adhere. Repeat this step for the other side.
8. Work the 3 folds in the spinner. Adhere one spinner end to card floor with the edge touching the edge of the bathtub feet. Adhere other spinner end to the bathtub feet. See photo below.
9. Adhere duck to front of spinner.
10. Add Glitter Border Lines and Glitter Dots per photo.
I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and feel inspired to try it out yourself.
Hi It’s Kelly Boothhere. I often need baby cards and think the Elizabeth Craft Designs Rubber Ducky Peel-Off stickers are perfect for making those fun cards. I decided to use the Lucy Label Pop-Up die set for my card today.
The Lots of Dots Embossing folder is perfect for Baby cards, and since I don’t know the sex of this baby I decided to go with Yellow for the card base.
Tutorial for this fun card is below
1. Adhere a piece of Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Adhesive 6″ by 6″ to a piece of white card stock that is the same size. Remove backing from the adhesive and place it shiny side UP on your desk. Place the following peel-off stickers sticky side up onto the backing sheet: 1 Large Ducky in Circle, 1 Small Ducky, 2 Hearts, 1 star, 1 rattle and 2 groupings of bubbles. Now place cardstock with adhesive side down on top. Tun over, remove backing and cover adhesive and Peel-Offs with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter. Polish glitter with your fingers and brush off excess. Return glitter back in the jar.
2. Color all of the glittered Peel-Offs with markers and cut out all shapes staying close to the black lines of the stickers.
3. Cut two pieces of cardstock 3 3/4″ by 11″, one aqua and one yellow. Score both at 5 1/2″.
4. Emboss the front of the yellow card base using the Lots of Dots Embossing Folder.
5. Using the Lucy Label Pop Up Die place the nubs at the center fold of the aqua card and run it though your die cutting machine. Carefully fold and form the pop up.
6. Place strips of Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape on the back side of the pop up card. Remove the backing from the pieces of tape and adhere to the yellow card base.
7. Using the Lucy Label Pop Up Die, cut another center label using a scrap of yellow. Snip apart all connection points and emboss the label using the Lots of Dots Embossing Folder. (See photos below)
8. Adhere label on aqua label from pop up. Die cut a small label found in the Lucy Label set out of an aqua scrap. Adhere to yellow label using pop-dots. Place Congrats Peel-Off on top. Adhere rattle to the left of the Congrats as shown. Adhere Ducky on the pop up above the Congrats. Using foam tape or pop-dots for some dimension, place the star in the upper right side of the card. Place a heart on the platform below the small ducky.
9. For the front, cut a piece of aqua cardstock to 1/2″ by 3 3/4″ and stamp the greeting in the center using black ink. Adhere toward the bottom of the card as shown. Using foam tape or pop-dots, adhere Ducky in Circle above label. Place Bubbles on top and adhere Heart just below Circle.
I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial and it inspires you to play with the Elizabeth Craft Designs Rubber Ducky Peel-Off Stickers.
Thank you for stopping by the Blog and Have a Great Day!
Hi, it’s Karen Burniston with the April Pop it Ups Designer Challenge. Each month I challenge my Designer Challenge team to use Pop it Ups dies for a specific theme. This month the theme is Mother’s Day and/or Baby cards. You’ll find eighteen inspiring projects below from the DC team.
A few weeks ago we attended the Collins Rep Group Spring Training event in Boston. We decided to release a new die as part of that show. The House Pivot Card Die (#902) is shipping this week to stores who ordered it at the show. Starting next week the orders will go out to stores who didn’t attend the show but ordered the die.
For my project I decided to use the new House Pivot Card die for a Mother’s Day card. In addition to the House Pivot Card die (which comes with the pivot card die plus 7 accessory dies) I also mixed in decorator pieces from three other Pop it Ups dies; the All Seasons Tree, Fancy Accordion and the grass from the Garden Bench.
Watch this video tutorial to learn how to use this die as I create the following Mother’s Day card. If you watch till the end you’ll also see additional House card samples.
For my card I kept the front pretty simple, with just a couple of clouds, an extra chimney and some grass.
The card’s interior features the All Seasons Tree (the “cloud” dies that come with the tree can be used for clouds or for foliage), the grass from the Garden Bench die, and the Fancy Labels from the Fancy Accordion die. I computer-generated the greeting in the style of the inspiration item (a mug) that I purchased for Mom.
In this next photo you can see a close-up of the details on the house. The brick emboss is created by the House decorator die by rolling it back through a die cutting machine with an embossing sandwich. (Watch the video to see this done) The little window frames have built-in window boxes which will also look like awnings if they are turned to the top. (Wouldn’t this die make a cute little bakery?) The extra fence picket can also be used as a birthday candle.
Some of the footage that ended up on the cutting room floor showed a couple of variations for using the House Pivot Card die, where you can make a double house pivot card or a double fence pivot card. However, I know that Raquel Mason has some examples of this technique coming up soon on this blog, so stay tuned for that!
Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Products
902 House Pivot Card Die set (call your local store to order!)
Other Supplies – Bazzill cardstocks, My Mind’s Eye “Lost and Found Market Street” Papers, pop dots, fine line glue, Copic E47 marker (back of white pickets for distressed bleed-thru look), computer-generated greeting
Time to see how the Designer Challenge team interpreted the Mamas & Babies challenge. I will share one photo of each project, but know that the designers have full blog posts on their blogs (linked with their names) for these projects, including supply lists, instructions and additional photos. I encourage lots of clicking to fully experience the beauty.
Let’s start with MAMAS!
Fran Sabad has created the mother of all Mother’s day cards! This three-page Circle Accordion album, with matching Frame Edges, knocks my socks off! Such a pretty and spectacular card. As I would say . . . Frantastic!
Frances Byrne also created a stunning Mother’s Day Accordion album by mixing two Circle Accordion pages with one Fancy Accordion page. She explains how to do it on her blog and the results are amazing. Love the use of the coordinating Frame Edges dies for each page and the beautifully glittered and colored Roses Peel-off Stickers.
Summer Hills-Painter just had her third little boy, so I was expecting to see a Baby card from her, but she went with gorgeous Mother’s Day cards instead. Both of her creations feature bold striking colors that work so well together. First up is her Oval Accordion card featuring the Oval Flourish Frame Edges. The Roses in Oval Peel-off Sticker has been glittered and colored to match the red/white/black color scheme. Love this!
Now let’s look at what Helen Cryer created with the same Oval Accordion die. This is the beauty of die cutting, where YOU choose your colors, textures and theme. This is also a Mother’s Day card, but with more of a homespun country feel. I love Helen’s choices of embellishments for her Mum.
With no prior consultation the designers managed to make cards with all three Accordion Album shapes and all four Pivot Card shapes (my House card is the fourth Pivot Card). Let’s check out the designer creations using the other three Pivot Card shapes, the Katie Label, Butterfly and Heart.
First up, Shelly Hickox with a drop dead gorgeous Mother’s Day card using the Katie Label Pivot Card. She’s added some decorator dies from the Butterfly Accessory die and the Agatha Edges. On the front of her card (click over to see!) she’s done a brilliant whitewash technique with the Damask Embossing Folder. You can also see this card in action on Shelly’s blog courtesy of a short Vine video.
Raquel Mason used the Heart Pivot Card die perfectly for this sweet Mother’s Day card featuring a suspended chain of hearts and the included key die. She has a ton of clever techniques in this card and you’ll definitely want to click over to her blog post to read them all. Fabulous!
Summer Hills-Painter made a second Mother’s Day card, this time with the Butterfly Pivot Card die. She also used the Agatha Edges and the Katie Label decorator dies for her greeting. The colors again are non-traditional, but work so well together. The edging effect is very striking.
Kelly Booth made this sweet Mother’s Day card for her daughter. The Lots of Pops die is perfect for creating layered pop-up scenes like this one, featuring glittered and colored Peel-off stickers. The die set includes the pole and a few banners as well.
Donna Wright went with bright bold colors for this Mother’s Day card, using the Lucy Label pop-up die and Agatha Edges, and embellishing the front of the Lucy Label with the Katie Label decorator dies. (In real life Katie and Lucy are only marginally good at playing nicely together, but in die form they blend spectacularly) I love her use of other ECD dies to create the vase of flowers.
Karen Aicken made this adorable birthday card for the challenge. How does it fit the theme? Her daughter was born on Mother’s Day! Karen has used the Lots of Pops die and the Agatha Edges flourish along with some adorable stamped, glittered and colored bird stamps to celebrate the occasion.
Gretchen Schmidt made a lovely Mother’s Day card using an embossing folder and decorator dies from several Pop it Ups dies, but not for a pop-up card. What a perfect illustration of the possibilities (not just pop-a-bilities) with the Pop it Ups collection. This uses the Butterfly Embossing Folder, Butterfly Pivot Card and Fancy Accordion dies.
Next up: BABIES!
Kelly Booth knows a thing or two about color, that’s for sure! Check out the ombre mottled coloring on the onesie, created with an ink/water splash technique. So perfect! She’s used the Lucy Label Pop it Ups die to create her little scene, but also embellished with decorator dies from the Katie Label Pivot die.
Helen Cryer created an explosion of celebration with her Lots of Pops new baby boy card. The pole and banners come included with the Lots of Pops die and she’s used the clouds from the All Seasons Tree in the background. I particularly like her choice to use big bold letters and have them hang off the edges. What a great celebratory feel!
Once again the designers (with no consultation) represented all three Accordion Album shapes into their baby cards. Karen Aicken has this stunner using the Fancy Accordion Album for a 3-page baby boy card for her new grandson Zachary. What amazing details! The Fancy Frame Edges are also used on this card.
I like to refer to the cards made by Frances Byrne as “downunderful” (because she’s Australian and her cards are wonderful – you dig?) and this Oval Accordion baby card is no exception! She incorporated the Oval Dots Frame Edges on the album and super cute perfectly colored stamped images. Downunderful!
Fran Sabad created this soft and lovely baby card using the Circle Accordion die with the Square w/Circle Frame Edges. All of the Accordion Albums will work with any number of pages. I am super impressed with Fran’s attention to detail on the Frame Edges for the striped page – she made the pattern line up!
Caroline “Caz” Counsell was recently featured in the Daily Mail for her awesome craft shed (crafty palace). You’ll definitely want to click to Caz’s blog to see photos of our resident celebrity! For her DC card she used the Trendy Tiles 1 Embossing folder on the edge of a sparkly Heart Pivot Card celebrating baby. Click to her blog to see the inside.
Donna Wright used the Katie Label Pivot Card for this adorable baby girl card with the Agatha Edges. Check out that cute clothespin holding up the onesie! I really like that Donna illustrates that card size is completely up to the crafter – here she’s used a short long card.
Thank you to the amazing team for posting incredible creations every month. Join us on May 21, 2014, for the next Karen Burniston Pop it Ups Designer Challenge. The theme will be “FLY” and the designers may interpret the theme any way they choose. This will make for some fun cards, I’m sure!
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