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Birthday Pop Up Card
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A milestone birthday needs a special birthday card!
You are back! I thought maybe your computer had crashed- which means I crash, too!
No, Sal, the last quarter of 2024 was tough and I can’t seem to manage my time very well with all that has happened. I will do better in 2025! Starting today I will begin catching up my journaling of cards and shoebox events, one at a time, and even make a thank you card.
To create this card, I pulled out the Pop-Up dies from Dare 2B ArtZy, which I purchased from Teaspoon of Fun,
Click HERE to see the pop-up cards I made for Valentines Day with these dies and with examples of ones that we made in previous classes manually without dies. There is also a video on that blog post showing the construction by Deb Valder with the die set.
It would be pretty time consuming to make all those cuts and scores manually.
We love a challenge, Sal, but if you can purchase a die set you certainly get a card done more efficiently with less mistakes winding up in the trash. Divinity Designs even has dies for purchase that will perfectly cut out bases and layers if you have trouble measuring and cutting just right. https://divinitydesignsllc.com/a2-landscape-card-base-with-layer-die/
I used the ‘Happy Birthday To You’ Stampin’ Up retired stamp set and ‘Birthday’ dies for the cake. I made a mirror image of the cake, die cut them, and glued them back to back so the back would look nice when popped up. To create a mirror image you stamp your image 2 or 3 times on a Silicone Craft Sheet using the Stamparatus. You then place your white cardstock on the silicone sheet and rub-rub-rub. You place your die under the image and face up to die cut it correctly.
The greetings are in the ‘Birthday Blooms’ Stampin’ Up! stamp set.
I used Evening Evergreen cardstock for the base with a Soft Succulent layer and DSP- designer series paper- with floral images which incorporate both those colors. I wanted the cake to ‘pop’ so I used Rich Razzleberry for the main color.
With the dies, I found the pop up didn’t stay up very well so I added a rectangle of DSP, using another of the dies in the set, and mounted it on the pull out layer under the greeting so it hooks on the edge of the layers and stays up. That worked well.
For the numbers I used the ‘Playful Alphabet’ dies.
I linked the Teaspoon Of Fun dies in the computer with little Sal.
SAL, Share A Love
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?
Answer: His horse’s name is Friday.
Joy Meadows August 2024 Shoebox Event
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I am too excited to wait until next week for another post, so let me show you the amazing cards designed and presented by Joy Meadows for us to make at our August Shoebox Event. Her first card uses a stamp from Pink Inc Designs. It is a British company but their stamps are available on Scrapbook.com. I linked that stamp below with little Sal in the computer. I laughed out loud when she showed me her card. It is so sooo cute!
Let’s zoom in to see those glasses and long eyelashes!
For the greetings Joy used the Stampin’ Up! ‘In Your Words’ stamp set. She had Washi tape that was the perfect embellishment for the front and back and punched out stars with one of the new textured dots bling for the middles offered by Stampin’ Up!
Not to be outdone by the cute giraffe card, her second card was just as awesome! She surprised us when she held it up and said, with a twinkle in her eye, – “looks like a regular card, right”; then she opened it up to a pop up fun fold. Joy said it is a design by Susan Campfield who calls it a ‘million dollar fun fold’.
Drum roll…….. Voila! A surprise inside.
And the middle flap folds down and has the greeting on that part of the flap so you can write on the inside.
Here is a side view.
How special is that card!
And you love monochromatic cards!
Yes, I do, Sal. Let’s look at the products Joy used from Stampin’ Up!
- New In Color, Petunia Pop
- Wildly Flowering Suite Collection.
- Dies from the suite – Wild Flower Designs Dies
- Translucent Florals designer series paper
- Dashing Designs 3D embossing folder
- Happy Birthday – Translucent Florals stamp set
- Inside Greeting – Happiness Abounds stamp set
Thank you, Joy, for looking up those products for me to share on the blog and thank you for your creations! I have seen lots of layering dies but the scalloped layer (check out the first picture) is really special.
PS When you put Joy’s name, or the name of any of our Shoebox designers, in the search box on the blog, it will pull up all the lovely cards that she, or any of the others, have designed. You can also access the cards by going to the ‘Recipe Box’ tab at the top of the blog and then clicking on the card to be taken to the specific blog post for that card.
Thank you, Joy, for giving us a pinch of creativity to spice up our crafting worlds.
SAL, Shoebox A Lot for inspiration
Karen
Click on Little Sal in the computer to go to Scrapbook.com which has the Pink Inc giraffe.
Riddle of the day:
Question: What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Answer: A map.
Thank You Cards & Bumble Bees for the Teachers
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God has blessed me with wonderful friends to encourage me, to celebrate me, to bring a casserole or send a card if I am sick, to be that listening ear on occasion, or to keep me company while Ruger is being groomed. It is always a delight to make a thank you card for them, to pray for them as I create it and always to give thanks to God for them.
I saw a card on Pinterest made by Kristi at stampingwithkristi.com and chose her idea for this thank you card. I added more layers for additional color, used a different embossing folder, different ribbon, different inside greetings and different bling but the die tools and flower stamp were the same. Thank you, Kristi.
Recipe
- Base: Thick Basic White, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Matte: Black, 5 3/8 X 4 1/8 (1/16 reveal)
- Layer (X2): Lovely Lipstick, 5 1/4 X 4
- Top (X2): Basic White, 5 X 3 3/4, emboss one with dotted diamonds embossing folder
- Design Frame: Black, 5 1/4 X 2
- die cut with Stampin’ Up! Detailed Bands Die
- use a scrap of black and die cut just the band part of the die (X2) for extra length on the main black die cut; (I wanted the band to cover the pink layer so it blends with the black layer).
- Flower, leaves and inside of the black detailed die: Basic White, 5 1/2 X 4 1/4
- Using the same die as used for the black, position it so it just cuts the white for the inside
- Flower and leaves are from Band Together SU stamp set, stamped in Memento Black Ink and colored with alcohol markers – Polished Pink Lt & Dk
- Greetings: Waterfront SU stamp set, stamp in Memento Black Ink, ‘Friends make….’ and the inside ‘hard times….’
- So Glad We Are Friends is in the Band Together stamp set used for the flowers and leaves
- Inside Strip: Black, 5 X 1, die cut with another of the Detailed Bands Dies, trim edge after adhering
- Bling: 5 pink sequins
How many ideas like this have you saved in Pinterest to make ‘someday’?
Let me check my Pinterest, Sal; just 6,200 ideas! When I bought a new set of stamps or dies I would save all the examples that I liked and then take bits and pieces from different cards to create something for classes that was unique. Sometimes just the visual would spark my creativity and send me down the path to create something totally different.
This next thank you card is a case but it is not in my saved Pinterest cards; it is a screen print from somewhere and was saved in pictures so I don’t have the creator’s name. She/he made it as a Mother’s Day card and I changed it up a bit, added a colored base and matching DSP layer and greetings from the Stampin’ Up! Messages Die stamped with the Many Messages stamp set.
I love that your greetings don’t cover up the pretty flowers.
Thank you, Sal. The greetings I had in the Many Messages that were cut with the Messages die set were perfect for what I wanted to say.
What you need to know:
- Standard Base, Standard White Layer with 1/8 reveal, DSP layer with 1/16th reveal
- Base: Petal Pink, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer: Basic White, 5 1/4 X 4
- Top: DSP, 5 1/8 X 3 7/8
- Flowering Tulips Stamp set and Tulip dies; Using DSP for die cuts of blossoms and leaves
- Inside greeting from the stamp set, inside die cut squares and bottom tulips from Tulip Dies & DSP
- Daffodil Daydream Stamp set and Daffodil dies
- Daffodil Delight die cuts with Crushed Curry layers, all sponged for depth
- Garden Green die cuts for leaves sponged on edges
- Pansy Patch Stamps and Pansy dies
- Petals are White, Fresh Freesia and Dark Purple with a Crushed Curry middle
- Leaves are Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent
- Embellishments: 3 brass butterflies, gold bow, 6 yellow jewels
Well, Sal, I used scraps for the die cuts and I do not have measurements for how much I used. At least the above list will show the dies and stamps that I used should I ever do another bouquet of flowers like this one. Or if I want to pull the die I used on the inside to cut little squares (bringing more of the base color into the inside) then I can go to the recipe box and click on the card to go to the blog and find the die set.
Moving along…. I had a birthday celebration with a friend and wanted to make something special so I pulled out the Big Shot Spiral Flower Die and lots of designer series paper to make a 3D bouquet. Michaels and the dollar store had tiny flowers and leaves I could add to the paper flowers as well as a small vase.
They have mixed media creations so mine is a mixed 3D creation. There are seven spiral flowers in various southwestern colors which is my friends decor. Next time I need to remember to have the prettiest side of the DSP rolled to the middle instead of on the outside where so little shows.
It is back to school time for the grandchildren and my last Thursday watching the boys so I guided them in making bumble bee cards for their teachers. I bought apples and little single serving caramel treats and had them pick out a bag from my ‘bag of bags’ and put the apple on top of the caramel and then we made the card to attach by watching a Pinterest video. They love videos and it worked well to show them what we were doing.
The pin is from CraftISH corner.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/72479875249202152/
Jaxson:
Emmitt:
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Thanks to Robyn, my Australian friend, I had a bee stamp. I was sad about a stamp set I sold that had a bee I liked and she remembered me saying that I wished I hadn’t sold that set so she bought me a bee stamp. Thanks Robyn!
The boys didn’t quite understand stamping the bee but not writing the word ‘be’. I avoid some of the ‘pun’ stamps because I know they are learning to spell and it can be confusing.
Spoken like a concerned retired third grade teacher.
Need to help wherever we can, Sal.
Riddle of the day:
Question: What can be held in your right hand but not your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand.
Christine Dillon’s July 2024 Shoebox Event
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July’s Shoebox Event was hosted by Christine Dillon. She created two lovely designs and then made card kits for each of us to make the cards. We had fun crafting the cards under Christine’s guidance and then we went out to lunch to eat and visit. Such fun!
Christine used foiled DSP-designer series paper on both her cards which gave a beautiful shiny look to the cards.
Recipe- Some call this an ‘S fold’ others call it a ‘Modified Gate Card’
- Base: Blue, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, Scored at 2 1/8 and 4 1/4
- Left Side Strip: Foiled DSP, 2 X 5 3/8 (1/16th border)
- Inside Layer: White, 4 X 5 1/4, (1/8th border)
- Base of Flap: Blue, 3 1/2 X 3 1/2
- Flap Layer: White, 3 1/4 X 3 1/4
- Medallion: Gold Foil, 3 X 3, die cut with Stampin’ Up! Eastern Medallions Die, glue directly down to flap
- Medallion Layer: Blue, 2 3/4 X 2 3/4, die cut with Stampin’ Up! Eastern Medallions Die, Pop Up
- Medallion Top Layer: White, 2 1/4 X 2 1/4, Stampin’ Up! Eastern Medallions Die, glued directly down
- Stamp with greeting from Petitie Pairs – Stampin UP
- Inside Layer: White, 4 X 5 1/4, 1/8 border
- Stamp with greeting from Colorful Seasons Stamp Set
Would you call this a masculine birthday card?
I will tag it as generic and masculine. It is so beautiful it could be used for either.
This next card is for a feminine birthday or a gardener who loves flowers. It is foiled DSP, and the foil is only on the edge of the flowers and leaves so each of us chose our favorite color and colored inside the images. The flowers were edged in gold foil and the leaves were edged in silver foil so it was a perfect guide for where to color. I wish I had taken pictures of the different colored cards. They were all beautiful.
I did say that and I have not done it yet. Sigh…… I even had to send a box card to a friend this past week and she will wonder if I sold all my stamps but…
BETTER A BOX CARD THAN NO CARD!
I say that because I have those who say they could never make a card and have quit sending me cards since they know I make cards; as if I would be disappointed to get a box card??! NOT! Receiving any card makes me smile.
I recently read someone comparing making a card to decorating a cake – you make the cake beautiful and it is admired for a short time, but then consumed and just a memory. Hopefully our cards stay on a mantel or refrigerator for longer, but the joy is in the creating and hopefully the recipient is blessed.
Are you going to take up cake decorating?
No way, Sal, but I admire those who do.
SAL, Shoebox And Laughter
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: Four cars come to a four-way stop, each coming from a different direction. They can’t decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. All four cars go, but none crash into each other. How is this possible?
Answer: They all made right-hand turns.
‘Twas My Birthday
Check out these beautiful handmade birthday cards from my dear friends.
Lucille’s was the first one I received in advance of my birthday.
Jo had a very clever little purse which opened and then the inside had a pull tab with an additional wish:
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Joy’s card was a unique circle shape with lots of texture and layers:
Christine used a fun die and paper piecing to create this card:
Lisa’s card was a beautiful teacup filled with flowers and lots of layers on a fun fold. Lisa joined with Sharon to celebrate my birthday with a real tea party! I felt like a queen.
At the tea, Sharon gave me this card and many goodies:
Lucille made me a second card:
Thank you, dear friends, for those beautiful creations!
The family is not into card making, but Amber is a wonderful cook and she, Tyler and Stacia put on a great birthday celebration up at the lake. Amber made brownies and her awesome potato salad and Tyler grilled steaks and grilled corn on the cob with fresh corn Stacia had brought. We were able to get two campsites close together at Willow Creek Reservoir, just minutes from Grandby Lake and Shadow Lake.
Paul, not to be outdone for my birthday, booked us on a hot air balloon ride in Steamboat Springs a couple weeks later. It is quite awesome to have a daughter, Stacia, and son in law, Jonathan, who own a hot air balloon business.
https://wildwestballooning.com/
It was a month of birthday celebrations.
Back to the July 4th week — Jaxson and Emmitt, our two grandsons, were camping with us for the week and we drove from the lake to Steamboat Springs for the 4th of July parade. Jonathan asked Paul to drive the jeep with the float they had made. It looked like a hot air balloon basket with lots of red, white and blue balloons attached above. Stacia and the girls were on this float blowing bubbles at the crowds.
The royal wave!
The boys got to ride with Uncle Jonathan in the ‘real’ hot air balloon basket! You can see the burners on the silver truck behind this picture. Jonathan would do a quick touch of the burners to create the sound you hear as they fly the balloon. They won first prize in the commercial float category. I wonder what they will come up with next year!
Then it was back to the lake!
It was Jaxson’s and Emmitt’s first long camping trip with us. Mom and Dad came up on the 4th and Stacia and the granddaughters came up on the 5th. Emmitt had me pull his first loose tooth. In this picture he is trying to show you the gap in his mouth. Grandma is a doctor who can pull splinters out and now a dentist who can pull a loose tooth, but my favorite role is just being grandma and cuddling these grandchildren before they are grown and gone.
Here’s a picture of Emmitt after he caught his first fish. Jaxson had three fish on his hook that were ‘almost’ a catch.
After the Buchholtz family headed home, we took Stacia and the girls and anchored beside a little island on Shadow Lake for a picnic on the boat.
And Ruger was always with us, of course!
When the Whiteheads went back home, it was time for a little R&R with my beloved:
Thank you everyone for a memorable birthday month!
SAL, Shown A Lot of love for my birthday
Karen
I cannot pick a ‘best’ birthday card so I will show the hot air balloon and link Sal in the computer to their site. The videos are awesome to watch even if you have no desire to fly!
From Jonathan:
Question: What do you call it when the hot air balloon shadow passes over you on the ground?
Answer: A balloonereclipse!
2024 Scrapbook Expo in Denver
A group of us went to the Scrapbook Expo in Denver, May 17, 2024. It was a fun time, not quite as many vendors as the one I attended several years ago, but certainly enough that I found most things on my list. My favorite vendor that I visited first was Krazy Kreations. I purchased numerous outlines from them years ago but never used them so I wanted to get instructions once again. They had a ‘make and take’ so not only did I receive instructions but I got to use the technique. Sal will link you to their site at the end of the blog post.
The shoes, flowers, greeting and hearts are all glossy stickers. You put the shoe stickers on super fine glitter paper, roll with a brayer tool to set them firmly in the paper and then you color with alcohol markers and then fussy cut the image. I used a light and dark pink to get a little shading. The background is three strips of DSP with a little line sticker on the left side.
I added a happy birthday die cut from pink glitter paper for the inside when I got back home. The line edge is a sticker as well!
It was pretty in real life but the camera didn’t work well with the glitter paper, Sal. I could have used the super fine glitter paper and colored it but I had lots of Stampin’ Up! paper in my stash so I wanted to save the super fine glitter paper I purchased at Krazy Kreations for my Christmas projects when it is my turn for another Shoebox event.
Another vendor I visited and made their make and take was the Spellbinders booth. I have seen the wax kits in advertisements and wanted to try using them. Their card also used a letterpress system to get the tree branch. It has indents and fine details but hard to catch in a photo. The faux strings behind the wax seal are actually from a die. I toyed with buying that die but decided I have a stash of bakers twine so best to save my money – for now!
The next make and take was at the Stampalistic booth, it is a tin box with a top we made from an amazing stamp set that created layers by stamping on different colored papers and then fussy cutting and popping up each layer.
I went back to Krazy Kreations and purchased the borders you see on the bottom of the tin. The flower jewels are from my stash.
I asked if the jewels were Swarovski crystals since they were so bright. She said Swarovski has changed and calls them ‘Illuminations’ so I think the answer was yes, but I am not sure. Anyway they are Illuminations.
And you purchased the stamp so you can make more?
No, Sal. It was a lot of fussy cutting. Now if I had one of those fancy machines that would cut it, I might have. I sold my Brother because I had absolutely no room for it and no time to learn it.
Lastly, we met and compared our treasures. Sharon had found a make and take with a whole kit to take home that makes 8 cards- www.simplestories.com. This was the make and take.
Everything, including the background paper, was a punch out, but a heavy duty punch out, not just a thin sticker. I was impressed. This is something I can do with my grandchildren and they will be able to make a lovely card. They had Christmas card kits but I was hoping for a graduation card kit and birthday kit. I will have to go online for those.
Most of the make and takes were $5 so very reasonable. I had brought cash to make myself keep to a budget and my last purchase of the outline strips from Krazy Kreations, I was counting out my leftover change, but I kept to the budget.
Sharon, Lucille, Terry, myself and Michele!
I headed to the bathroom before we left and when I got back to the group they were yelling “You won”. I won a $20 gift certificate from Acushla Stamps (Acushla is Gaelic for Darling). I chose Petticoat Parlor stamps- a ‘Tea For Two’ stamp set and a ‘Sympathy’ stamp set.
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It was a fun day! I would have come back for the second day but I had a party planned for our little graduating kindergarten grandchild, Emmitt. He wanted a chocolate donut and a cake so our dear friend who does cakes for a living made a large chocolate donut cake! She actually made a chocolate and vanilla which was perfect to have one for Jaxson who doesn’t care for chocolate. Yes, he is my grandson, but he sure didn’t get my love for chocolate!
Thank you, Barbara Lane, for wonderful cakes!
Stay tuned for cards from our next shoebox event which is tomorrow. I am the hostess so I will be posting those cards next.
Thank you for letting us bring a pinch of creativity to spice up your crafting world!
SAL, Sharing A Lot of fun with friends
Karen
(Krazy Kreations is the link for this post)
Riddle of the day:
Question: I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A feather.
Christine Dillon January 2024 Shoebox Event
What a great way to start the 2024 year of stamping with Christine Dillon as our hostess for the shoebox event. We take turns each month designing two cards and making card kits for each person to construct at the event.
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Christine used the Delicate Edge Dies to create the black borders on either side of the foiled Designer Series Paper- the foil isn’t showing in the picture but it is beautiful. The Deco Labels Framelits made a perfect greeting with a second cut to be a frame of the greeting. The little gold metallic butterfly was an ideal embellishment.
Her second card was a valentine card:
The Sunshine Wishes Die was used for the heart and love word. What a great combination of red and black to match the red and black in the Designer Series Paper. I love the layers of white on red and then layered on the Designer Series Paper. I left the inside blank so I could add a greeting later.
You need to follow her example of using a button since you have so many buttons in your stash.
I do have a lot of buttons, Sal, and need to remember to use them. Thank you, Christine, for a great shoebox event.
SAL, Smiling A Lot
Karen
Whimsy Stamps Winter Friends-Digital Stamping
I was looking at digital stamps at ‘Whimsy Stamps’ – ‘Wee Stamps’ and found a perfect one for my little granddaughter! It is called Winter Friends.
Looks like a party of winter friends!
Yes, I found a Designer Series Paper – DSP, with all those characters and it was fun to add her name and her age and a happy birthday banner being held by the penguin and polar bear! The backside of the DSP was just the stars so I layered that plain piece under the image to keep the card from being a bit too busy. The card is 6 X 6 so I can have all the characters included. We have an envelope punch board so we could just custom make the envelope to fit the 6 X 6.
I printed the image on cardstock and then cut it with the Window Frames #4 die. I cut a second Window Frame in grey cardstock and cut it in half to frame the image.
Recipe
- Base: Textured White, 12 X 6, scored at 6
- Layer 1 (X2): Fresh Freesia, 5 3/4 X 5 3/4
- Layer 2: DSP with animals, 5 1/2 X 5 1/2
- Layer 3: DSP (back of the animal DSP), 5 1/2 X 2 1/2; place in middle 1 1/2 on each side
- Inside Layer 2: DSP 5 3/4 X 1 1/2
- Digital Image: Print on 8 1/2 X 11 cardstock and then cut with Window Frame Die (fourth from smallest)
- Frame for Digital Image: Grey cardstock, 4 1/4 X 4 1/4, with Window Frame Die #4, then cut in half
Coloring with Copic Alcohol Markers
- Hair: Y06, Y13, E00
- Pink on Coat, scarf stripes, boot stripes, gloves: RV23
- Green on Coat: YG13
- Face: E00
- Blush: RV10
- Scarf: C5
- Boots: E31
- Berries: R27
- Leaves: YG17
Use Lt Smokey Slate on the edges of the rabbit and then lighten with the color lifter alcohol marker.
Other products used:
- Happy Birthday: Birthday Chicks Stamp set
- Inside: Winter Wishes Reindeer Stamp set from Sweet November Stamps
- Banner: Bunch of Banners Framelits – Stampin’ Up!
- Name: Rosette Dies
- Age: Playful Alphabet stamps – Stampin’ Up!, stamped and cut with bitty banner punch
- Snowflakes: Snowfall Thinlits Dies – Stampin’ Up!
Here’s Joey learning to ski!
I can see why you picked the digital stamp! It does look like Joey.
And you can see why I didn’t try to replicate the colors of the coat on the digital image!
On the Whimsy Stamps site you can click on <Digital, then <Digital Products By Artist, then <Wee Stamps
Little Sal in the computer will take you there!
Thanks for stopping by!
Karen
Today’s riddle
Q: Why couldn’t the bike stand up?
A: Because it was 2 tired
Quilling Birthday Card
I pulled out all my quilling tools and found a youtube video to guide me in the making of a quilled birthday card. I found out that quilling (for me) is more like knitting. You do a little each day, you don’t sit down and complete it in the same time that you would complete a stamped card. I could never say, “You go ahead and watch that game, Paul, while I knit a pair of socks.” That just wouldn’t happen, and I found out it was the same with quilling. The youtube video was short but the production of the card was not! Was it fun? Yes. Was it rewarding? Yes. What do you think?
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Here are a few things I can point out to my dear stamping friends:
- Base: Thick Very Vanilla, 5 1/2 X 8 1/4, scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (2): Wood Tone DSP, 5 1/4 X 4; use Medallion Die to cut out the opening for the greeting on the inside; it was too big for my inside layer so I added a strip at the side.
- Happy Birthday on front: Blushing Bride cardstock with 3 die cuts layered together for dimension; die is a Kokorosa die
- Greetings on Inside:
- Birthday Wishes – Watercolor Trio Stampin’ Up!
- Happy Day…. – Basket of Wishes Stampin’ Up!
- So Glad – Gather Together Stampin’ Up!
- Embellishmensts: 3 clear jewels and 1 brass butterfly
For future reference in quilling:
- Large Flower (3): peach strip 12″ in length, marquee domed outward
- Center of Large Flower (3): yellow strip 4″ domed
- Small Flower (3): red strip 6″ teardrop domed inward
- Goldenrod (28): yellow strip 4″ domed outward
- Flower Base cup large (2): green 10″ cup shape
- Flower Base cup small (1): green 8″ cup shape
- Large Flowers in Base cup (6): pumpkin strip 6″, teardrop
- Small Flowers in Base cup (3): pumpkin strip 4″, teardrop
- Green Stems – Fold strip in half and glue to make double thick; glue to edge of flowers
- Green Leaves – Quilling comb, see video below
Now, let me introduce Meredith of The Paper Craftery and her easy to follow youtube videos:
Wow! That is really branching out from your norm.
I love learning new things, Sal, and quilled cards are showing up in many stores these days. They also sell for much more than a stamped card if I ever wanted to start selling cards; you can see why they are costly. With dies and stamps I can add a lot to the quilled cards and use my stash of tools! Win. Win.
Does Stampin’ Up! have quilling supplies?
Unfortunately not, Sal. Meredith said she gets her paper strips from Quilled Creations or Craft Harbor. I purchased a kit from Michaels and then more tools and paper from Hobby Lobby and Amazon.
SAL, Smile A Little
Karen
Click on little Sal in the computer to go to Meredith’s site.
Sharon Fincham September 2023 Shoebox Event
I have so much to show you today, so grab a cuppa and a pencil to take notes about the products in the awesome cards that we did at Sharon’s Shoebox Event.
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Products:
- Garden Green cardstock, Pearlescent paper and gold foil paper
- Merriest Moments bundle with a stamp set, a set of dies and a hybrid embossing folder
- Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set (outside greeting) & Dies, Ornate Layers Dies
- Farmhouse Christmas (inside greeting)
- Pearl bling and gold cord bow
You were probably glad to do one more Christmas card!
Delighted, Sal!! And she had another Christmas card for us to make!
Just awesome! Thank you, Sharon.
Products:
- Navy Blue and Gold Foil paper, Gold Glimmer Paper for the star and brown for the stable scene
- Night in Bethlehem Edgelits Dies
- Candy Canes Die Set for the front greeting piece which has the ribbon run through each side
- Stitched Seasons Framelits Dies for the inside white background layer
- Star Of Light stamp set
Perfect choice of gold foil which catches the light!
Sure does, Sal! And Sharon had more for us. Check out the Halloween card kit she had for all of us:
So cute! I can’t help you with the products on this one. I loved that paper and needed a fall card before Halloween so I saved her cat for another card and made this one:
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I used the Nuts About Squirrels stamp set. The funky cut out for the front greeting is the fence post in the Grace’s Garden die set!
That’s thinking outside the box!
Well, so many of the dies were too big and this one fits the words nicely.
Sharon’s birthday was in September so I made her this birthday card:
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Sharon gave us a set of the flower blings you see in the card and I wanted to use them on her card so I used the die set I recently bought from Inlovearts and some fun fall designer series paper. The greeting is from the Pretty Petities stamp set with a matching punch. This hasn’t sold from the Bake Sale products so I pulled it out to use it.
You’ve pulled more than one set from those you are selling to use so why sell?
I know, Sal; call it sellers remorse but I have run out of room and need to purge.
Then Sharon sent me a thank you card! She loves bees and I found this die set at Simple Pleasures in Colorado Springs and I knew Sharon just ‘had to have it’!! It is a die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs.
Could you have a salt shaker die set made?
Hmmm……… that could be interesting.
Happy fall everyone! I hope you enjoyed the cards and they ..
I will say it… ….bring a pinch of creativity to spice up your crafting world.
Thanks, Sal!
SAL, Shoebox A Love of crafting
Karen
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