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Elizabeth Craft Designs May Designer’s Challenge – Background Dies

May 31, 2015

Our truly wonderful design team came up with many neat projects as we challenged them with creating designs out of the new Spring Release background dies. Take a look below to see what they did!!

Raquel Mason created this lovely card featuring the Circles die and Koi & Flowers peel-offs. The gold-outlined, glittery Koi & Flowers are so striking against the embossed background. The Circles can be used for so many projects and this one shows off the Circles like bubbles in a pond and just gives the feel of water. Raquel used Silk Microfine Glitter, gold peel-off Borders and the Gingko embossing folder for more dimension and detail. See the full tutorial at Raquel’s blog HERE.Raquel

Frances Byrne went all HAY-wire on us (pun intended) with this adorable Brownie the Cow walking along the path to the barn – how cute!! She did a great job in shading the Pebbles to look real. The Pebbles die is so versatile in that you can use it for creating walkways or rock walls or, yes, even…… jewelry! The new Pop It Ups dies from Karen Burniston were used in conjuction with Els’ new Pebbles dies to create this great farmtime card. Check out Frances’ blog HERE for instructions.

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Straight out of the Wizard of Oz, Debra Hensley created this yellow brick road card from the Bricks die. Her imagination was running wild using the feet from Jackie’s Dolls peel-offs and glittering them to look like Dorothy’s red shoes. Follow your heart……..literally and figuratively………using the Alphabet 1 – Caps die and die-cut heart from the Spiral Circle Pull Card. Find out how to make this card HERE on Debra’s blog.

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With another water theme, Candy Spiegel makes you feel like you’re out on the high seas. Her use of the new Maritime peel-offs against the wavy pattern paper and Shimmer Sheetz really sets the mood for this gorgeous card. Texture paste on a Pebbles die stencil gives this card dimension and a “wow” factor. Instructions can be found at Candy’s blog HERE.CandyWe have Marsha Valk’s Project Life creation using the new Spring Release Pebbles, Circles & Leafy Branch dies as well as Tags & More 5 – Sunburst, Alphabet 1 – Caps and Numbers & More 1 dies. Marsha has included the Baby peel-offs on mini-canvases from her last blog post and incorporated Shimmer Sheetz into these fun but simple scrapbook spreads. Visit Marsha’s blog HERE to find out how to make this project yourself!

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Our fabulous guest designer, Jackeline Rojas, is showing off a Happy Birthday tri-fold card using all three new dies – Circles, Bricks and Pebbles. The hinges hold together the tags made from the Tags & More 7 – Vine die to create a versatile card in which any sentiment can be used. Jacky used Alphabet 1 – Caps to die cut Happy Birthday but you can die cut anything with this Alphabet! Look at Whiskers the Cat surrounded by his favorite dishes – mice and fish! They are all included in the Whiskers die set. To make this project, full instructions can be found at Jacky’s blog HERE.

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Angela Beavers used the Bricks and the Bunch of Flowers 4 dies to decorate this fun photo album. She cut the bricks twice to create the two colored brick wall. Love how she kept the colors simple, yellow, black and white but of course you can use any color combination. She added dimension to the flowers by cutting multiples and adhered them together. Find more inspiration on Angela’s blog HERE.

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Yesterday we sneak peeked these beautiful earrings created by Judi Kauffman using the Circles die and Shimmer Sheetz. This project is so fun and easy! Simple cut two circles pieces from any color Shimmer Sheetz and add them to the earring wires. Fore more detail you can add beads or cut a second set of circles. Judi also created a card that matches the earring beautiful. For more info and instructions, visit our blog post from yesterday HERE.

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As you can see, there are many variations for the ECD dies. We hope this will encourage you to come up with additional ideas for scrapbooking, cards, decorations and more!

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Pop it Ups Karen Burniston Designer Challenge – Barns! Barns! Barns!

May 13, 2015

Hi, it’s Karen Burniston with the May 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 Barns! Barns! Barns! using the brand new Barn Pop Stand die. The designers were free to repurpose the barn and you’ll find some very clever Farm and other theme cards in the links below.

Here is a look at the new Farm collection. The Clear Stamps have arrived and are shipping now and the dies are expected to arrive and ship in the next day or two.

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For my card and video I’m teaching how to add a Floating Floor to the Barn Pop Stand to be able to animate items all over the floor, for dynamic pop-up scenes.

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Here is the video tutorial:

When the barn doors slide open you can see the haystack and egg inside the barn.

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For the front of the card I did selective inking to mix phrases from the Cow chalkboard stamp and the Chicken chalkboard stamp (both part of the Farm Greetings set) and then cut out my custom greeting with the Fancy Label dies. Brownie the Cow holds the greeting.

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The easiest way to understand how a Floating Floor works is to watch the video, but here’s a side view to help explain things. Basically an L support is placed anywhere along the floor where you’d like an item to pop up. For my card I’ve used an L support to animate the Cow behind the barn and the Chicken in front of the barn. I also took advantage of the front and back supports of the floating floor to add fences, grass and Virgil the Pig.

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Here is a printable reference sheet for making the folds and the die cuts for the Floating Floor.

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October Afternoon Patterned Paper “Seaside Seashells”, Bazzill Card Shoppe cardstock, grass stamp, various inks


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Let’s see all the clever creations of the Designer Challenge Team. For all these cards you can click on the designer’s name to go to their blog post showing more photos, supply lists, general instructions, etc. for their cards.

Caz Counsell went with a Farm theme for this card, but instead of using the Barn traditionally, she repurposed it into a henhouse! What a great idea. She also used Cheepers the Chicken and the little hay piece from Hay There.

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Helen Cryer shows off the entire Farm Collection (minus Virgil the Pig) on this fabulous 4-page Rectangle Accordion. Helen has such a way with combining patterned papers and this project is a perfect example of that.

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Frances Byrne ran away from the farm and joined the circus! Check out her extremely clever and fun use of the Barn die as a Circus Tent. Amazing!

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Donna Wright also chose to cleverly repurpose the Barn . . . into a baby’s crib! How fabulous! She shows step-out photos on her blog post. I just love how the runner strips were used as legs and the overlay doors as the sides.

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Kelly Booth also made a different item with the barn – a dog house! She combined the two Pop Stand dies – the Barn (styled as a dog house) and the small pop stand that comes with the Hay There set to animate the stamped pooch inside the house.

KellyDogHouseKaren Aicken brings us back to the farm with this beautiful card using the Barn as a traditional barn. The front of the card features Cheepers the Chicken and a portion of the Farm Greetings Clear Stamps where she also used the egg die that comes with Cheepers to highlight the greeting. Inside there’s a traditional barn with a surprise inside (click her name to see the doors open)

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Raquel Mason knows how to party! Check out this vibrant fun birthday Barn card using Virgil the Pig and the Props 2 set. There’s a second Virgil hanging out on the back side of the barn, so click Raquel’s name to go check it out on her blog.

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Fran Sabad keeps the Barn Party rolling with this great “Party ’til the Cows come home!” card. She used Brownie the Cow and the Props 2 die set, plus the Barn, Hay There and the balloons from the Spiral Circle Pull Card. What a fun party indeed!

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Shelly Hickox made a soft and pretty barn for this sweet Virgil the Pig birthday card. She also used the stitched label from the Hay There set for the stamped greetings (Farm Greetings Clear Stamps) Gorgeous!

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Frances Byrne made this next card where she converted the Barn into an old fashioned school house. How clever! She embossed bricks on the front, added windows from the House Pivot Card and used the Lots of Pops to make a traditional 90 degree pop-up instead of the 180 degree Pop Stand version.

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Now technically this next card doesn’t include a barn, but it’s too cute not to share. Caz Counsell added the bunch of hay from the Hay There set to give Virgil the Pig a cool hairdo. She used the Farm Greetings Clear stamps and notice the clever use of a button as an apple.

CazPigFlatKaren Aicken made this lovely pink barn scene for a fresh Spring card. I just love the colors! Virgil the Pig is hanging out behind the very pretty barn.

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Raquel Mason shows another super clever Barn adaptation – a tent! This is pitch perfect! She used the All Seasons Tree and the stars/happy from the Happy Birthday set. I also love the use of the bow from Props2 as tent ties. Brilliant!

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Fran Sabad shows a great idea for a Virgil the Pig birthday card using the Barn. I love the addition of banners to the front of the barn and she chose to leave the doors open for this card so Virgil appears to be walking out to greet you.

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Kelly Booth thought the Barn would make an excellent bird house and she was right! She embellished her stamped birds with glasses and the party hat from Props1 and Props2. The Lucy Label was used for the pop-up.

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Caz Counsell made another great scene with this card, where the Barn is placed flat against the back wall of a card and the spinner from the Rectangle Pull Card is used to animate Brownie the Cow. She used the Farm Greetings stamps on the card’s front.

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Summer Hills-Painter created a wonderful Christmas card. She used the strand of lights and wreath from the Holiday House die to decorate the barn and a pair of Cheepers’ feet are used as antlers for Brownie. Smart!

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Shelly Hickox created this wonderful 3D birdhouse using the Barn. I love the beautiful rustic feel of this project!

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France Byrne also made a Rectangle Pull Card for the challenge where she styled the Barn to look like corrugated metal. What a great look! Brownie is attached to the spinner for movement as the card opens/closes.

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Well I hope you feel very inspired to use the new Barn Pop Stand and the rest of the Farm Collection in all sorts of ways. Join us next month on June 17, 2015 for a really fun challenge called “What’s in a Name?” where each designer will be choosing their dies based on their own initials. I foresee some fun combinations!

Happy Crafting!

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