Category: Cards

Stuffed Turkey

Cards, Challenges, Circle Accordion Album, Holiday Mini, Mingle All the Way, Thanksgiving
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My second card for Karen Burniston’s Design Team challenge is for Thanksgiving.  I used her Circle Accordion die and lots of punches to create a turkey!  My turkey is punched from Cajun Craze, Tangerine Tango, Early Espresso and Crushed Curry. The Designer Series paper is SU’s Color Me Autumn.  I went around the circle with the KB Rings Frame Edges 1 and lots of Cajun Craze Candy Dots.  The leaves are punched from the SU Bird punch and finished off with an Early Espresso button and twine.

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Inside shows off a greeting from Mingle All the Way (Holiday Mini).  I hope you’ll jump over to Karen’s Facebook page to see an “entire year” of ideas from all the designers!


Bright & Beautiful New Year

Bright & Beautiful, Cards, Framelit Dies, Holiday Mini, Katie Label Accordion
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Today starts the Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge for December.  We were challenged to pick a holiday and make a card.  I chose New Years and Thanksgiving.  So here is New Years!.  For New Years, I used Karen’s Katie Label Accordion die turned  from portrait to landscape.  The video instructions can be found here.  The wonderful thing about this technique is that I could easily use Stampin Up’s Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series paper!  I embossed the stars and sentiment from Bright & Beautiful in gold embossing powder and die cut them with the matching Framelits.

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For the middle panel, I just omitted  the line about Christmas.  The little stars come from the negative part of Karen’s Star Edges.  It makes a very shiny New Year’s wish!

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Poppy Spiral Birthday

Birthday, Cards, Pictogram Punches, Poppy, Really Good Greetings, Spiral Pull Card, Uncategorized
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My oldest daughter had a special birthday yesterday – 30!  This is the card I made her using Karen Burniston’s Spiral Pull Card die, Poppy the Owl character die and lots of star stamps.  The sentiment on the front is from Pictogram Punches and Poppy’s little camera is from Project Life Point and Click.  I added Crystal Effects to the lens.

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Pull cards are so much fun to make and receive!  I used the spiral included with the die and added lots of stars!  To make Poppy on both sides, I simply copied an idea from Karen Burniston and made two, glued back to back.  The inside sentiment is from Really Good Greetings – which is a perfect name for this set.

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Beach House Washi tape is across the bottom of the card.  We celebrate 4 birthdays in December so I better get busy!  Hugs, Fran

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National Bathtub Day

Amazing Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Framelit Dies, My Digital Studio
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Just in case you’re celebrating National Bathtub Day tomorrow, I thought I’d share a card!  The challenge is to make a card for “another” holiday in December – and I chose this one.  Using the Bokeh technique, I created a bubbly background with Island Indigo, Marina Mist and Pool Party inks.  The sentiment is from Amazing Birthday.  To make the bubbles on the tag, I used my Stampin Mist and Dazzling Details bottles as stamps.  Then, since it was out, I added Dazzling Details to some of the bubbles.

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The inside sentiment was created in My Digital Studio.  To play along with the Creative Crew, upload your own “holiday” card using the keyword CCREW1214HF CreativeCrew SUO.  To see all the projects for this month, head over to the Splicoast Creative Crew Gallery.  Hugs, Fran

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Christmas Through the Window

Cards, Challenges, Christmas, Framelit Dies, Holiday Mini, Ornamental Pine, Uncategorized
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Another challenge card for the December Creative Crew on Splitcoast!  This challenge was to create a window on your card.  I used the Window Frames Collection Framelits – perfect!  The card size is a 5 x 5 and has Ornamental Pines stamped behind it.

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The candle on the front was hand cut and the flame is from the Bird punch.  I “dripped” Dazzling Diamonds down the side of the candle.

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The garland under the candle is made with he branch in the Bird punch – just like the flame.  Tie a bow with the Cherry Cobbler seam binding and you have a pretty window card. Play along by using the keyword CCREW1214CF, CreativeCrew, SUO.  Hugs, Fran

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Deck the Paws

Big Shot Star Framelits, Cards, Challenges, Christmas, Festival of Trees, Holiday Mini, Hot Diggity Dog, My Digital Studio
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The Creative Crew challenges on Splitcoast this month start with using non-traditional colors on a Christmas card.  I used Melon Mambo, Black and Tempting Turquoise – that’s non-traditional!  These pups from Hot Diggity Dog have just spotted the perfect tree!  The sentiment was done in My Digital Studio2.  Play along using the keyword CCREW1214DF, CreativeCrew, SUO

Blue Birthday

Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Garden Bench, Holiday Mini, Katie Label Accordion, Tree for All Seasons
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Karen Burniston’s Challenge – number 3!  Blue!  I found a lovely poem about snow and growing old and printed it on to Whisper White card stock then die cut it with a die from Karen’s Katie Label Pivot die.  The Designer Series paper is All is Calm from Stampin Up’s Holiday mini.

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Inside is the Garden Bench, Tree for All Season and Happy Birthday Pop It Ups!  To make the Happy Birthday curve across the snow, I simply ran it through my Xyron and the addition of adhesive made it easy to bend.

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Can you see all the sparkly Dazzling Details snow?  I used acrylic paint to paint some of the branches and added “snow” to the bench and tree (and me, of course!)  Hugs, Fran

 


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White as Snow

Beauty of the Season, Cards, Challenges, Christmas, Embossing Folder, Evergreen Tree Pivot Card, Holiday Mini
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The Designer Challenge for Karen Burniston continues with “white” – white as snow.  I chose to use the Evergreen Pivot die and do a Triple Pivot Card Technique.   The front of this card uses several different embossing folders, Karen’s Agatha Edges die and Stampin UP’s snowflakes found in the Frosted Sequins.

It’s so hard to see white on white in a photo!

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The sentiment is from Beauty of the Season.

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Stamp Set – Beauty of the Season

Cardstock – Whisper White

Ink – Versamark

Etc – Karen Burniston Evergreen Pivot, Agatha Edges, Outdoor Edges dies, embossing folders Distressed Dots and Stylish Stripes, Frosted Sequins, Oval Framelits, All is Calm washi tape

Red – white – what’s next?  Hugs, Fran

 

Santa’s On His Way

Cards, Challenges, Christmas, Get Your Santa On, Holiday Mini, Lorna Label
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It’s that time of year – for Karen Burniston’s Design Challenge!  This month it’s “Red, White and Blue.”  My red card features the Big Man, himself.  I started with the fun set Get Your Santa On and Nordic Noel Designer Series paper.

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And here he is – greeting you on Karen Burniston’s Lorna Label Pop Up!  I love this Pop It Ups die because there is so much room to decorate!  Santa is stamped on the die and then again on a separate piece of Whisper White and fussy cut.  The cute presents are from Karen’s Evergreen Pivot die.

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Stamp Set – Get Your Santa On

Card stock – Whisper White, Real Red, Nordic Noel DSP

Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Real Red

Etc – Karen Burniston’s Lorna Label and Evergreen Pivot Card dies, washi tape

Looks like you’ve been very good this year!  Hugs, Fran

 

All is Calm

Cards, Challenges, Christmas, Festival of Trees, Framelit Dies, Holiday Mini
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This ensemble is for the Splitcoast Creative Crew challenge to use the beautiful All is Calm Designer Series paper.  I paired it Festival of Trees, Oval Framelits and the All is Calm Designer Washi tape.

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Stamp Set – Festival of Trees

Cardstock – Whisper White, All is Calm, Silver Foil

Ink – Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz

Etc – All is Calm Washi Tape, Oval Framelits, star punch

Play along with us using All is Calm or the color combo of Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz, Smoky Slate, Soft Sky and Whisper White. Use the Keyword CCREW1114 DF Creative Crew SUO!