Day 2 – Pull Cards

Cards, Challenges, Hanging Charm Pull Card, Occasions Mini
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PIU Hanging Charm Pull Card 04

I LOVE coffee!  But more than that, I love drinking coffee with friends.  Here’s a Hanging Charm Pull Card to celebrate friends and coffee! Using the new Karen Burniston Hanging Charm Pull Card die with the little coffee cup die and Stampin Up’s Have a Cuppa Designer Series Paper, I did a simple card.

PIU Hanging Charm PUll Card 04 front

When you pull it up, you complete the sentiment. You can use this die to make flat cards (postcards) or decorate the front of a folding card – your choice.  Today I did a folded card.

PIU Hanging Charm PUll Card 04 side

Make sure to pop over to Karen’s blog on Wednesday to see the other creations from the team.  Or find Karen on Facebook and join the community!  Hugs, Fran

Karen Burniston March Designer Challenge – Pull Cards

Cards, Challenges, Jinx the Monkey, Oval Pull Card, Rectangle Pull Card
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Pull Cards!  The challenge this month is to use any of the Karen Burniston Pull dies to create cards.  Today I’m using the Oval Pull Card.

PIU Oval Pull Card 04

I started with Stampin Up’s Hello Honey card stock base and the Botanical Gardens Designer Series paper.  The cute palm tree is from one of Karen’s earlier collections called Palm Tree & Pail.  The sentiment is from her new Cheeky Monkey Clear Stamp set. It’s easy to layer designer paper on the cards with Karen’s Pull Card Edges – and it’s fun!

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On the inside I added Jinks the Monkey on the pop up piece from the Rectangle Pull Card.  (The oval has a slider and the rectangle has a pop up – you need them both 🙂 )

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Here’s a Rectangle Pull Card.  This is such a great card because it has a nice, big front that can hold a good size image.  If you like to color, this is a perfect place to show off your images.  The girl is a Saturated Canary image.

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Inside I added a piece using the Paris Edges.  The sentiment is Stampin Up’s Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Make sure to pop over to Karen’s blog on Wednesday to see the other creations from the team.  Or find Karen on Facebook and join the community!  Hugs, Fran

 

Creative Circle Design Team March Blog Hop

Balloon Celebration, Challenges, Creative Circle, Occasions Mini, Tutorials for Sale
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This is a special blog hop!  In April, the Creative Circle Team will be doing a Make the Rounds class the day before the Stampin Up On Stage event in Salt Lake City AND doing a Kit To Go option.   Here’s a sneak peek of the class.  It includes the box and 3 cards-

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This is the card holder/box for the class.

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For this month’s challenge  I’m going to show you an alternate way to use the kit from the upcoming class.

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For this design I used the box, fence and grass from the kit. The Birthday Bouquet Designer Series paper is from the Occasions Mini The eggs are made with the Oval Framelits.  This is the side view –

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The “flaps” are only attached on the bottom so the box opens like this –

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I used a small piece of velcro to close the top of the box.  Here’s another design –

 

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The stamp set is Balloon Celebration from the Occasions Mini.  I used the Balloon Bouquet punch for the balloons.  It opens the same way.

Want to attend the class in Salt Lake or purchase the Kit to Go?  Click here for event info and class to go details.

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Make sure to hop over and see what the rest of the team has made!  Hugs, Fran

Sandra Mott

Barb  Stencel

 Liz Holloway

 Fran Cassidy Sabad – You are here!

 

 

Cup Pop Stand

Cards, Cup Pop Stand, Hanging Charm Pull Card, Oval Accordion, Uncategorized
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Here’s a card I did for the Elizabeth Craft Design blog. Today  I’ll be using the Cup Pop Stand to create a card.

PIU Cup Pop Stand 01

I started with the Swirly Flourish Stencil and Suzanne Cannon’s A Way With Words Hello. I die cut 3 of the words and glued them together to get some height.  Create a varied look with the stencil by changing the pressure of your sponge or ink applicator as you move from top to bottom.  Then I splattered over that with dark brown ink and sponged the edges.  Gold foil down the side and gold brads go with the gold filament behind the words.

PIU Cup Pop Stand 01 front

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Here’s the inside. Cut a 4 x 10 3/4 piece of paper and die cut the pop stand on the center fold.  I repeated the sponging with the stencil on just the 2 corners.

PIU Cup Pop Stand 01 stencil

The cup has a vellum card stock “swirl of smoke.”

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The cup is cut from red polka dot paper twice.  Flip the die for the second cut if your paper is blank or has a different pattern on back. The heart on the cup is from the Hanging Charm Pull Card tied with a little bit of Baker’s Twine.  Cut the saucer from red paper and sponge the design on with red ink. Then die cut the saucer with a circle die.

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To hold the Gift Card, I die cut the flourishes from  the Oval Landscape Accordion and glued them down just at the three tips.  It’s so cute – but I ended up using a small glue dot on the card to keep it from slipping during mailing.

Hope you’ve enjoyed today’s Pop It Up Wednesday!

Flying High

Cards, Hot Air Balloon
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PIU Hot Air Baloon 01

This card was made for a new baby (did you guess that?) Lots of hearts to welcome the new baby.

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Inside I used Karen Burniston’s Hot Air Balloon Pop It Ups die.  The paper is a retired Stampin Up paper.  So while I was digging through my retire paper, I found this –

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and it had to be a Hot Air Balloon card!

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I also used Karen’s coordinating stamp set. What’s Up,  on this card for the sentiment and the little hot air balloons in the background.  This die is super easy to use so dig through your paper and get creating 🙂  Hugs, Fran

Inset Butterfly

Big Shot Butterfly Framelits, Cards
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I saw this idea on several sites and had to make one.  The die is cut out and replaced over a sponged background.  It gives the prettiest effect!

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Think of all the color combinations you could use!  Or you could just leave it white and do this –

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The center of the butterfly is fishing string coated with glitter.  The bottom of the card is Karen Burniston’s Agatha Edges.

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Some pretty ideas to try!  Hugs, Fran

Serene Silhouettes

Serene Silhouette
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Serene Silhouette 01

I was messing around with my airbrush system and came up with this card.  I airbrushed several yellow and orange shades of Copic markers on to a piece of Whisper White and then placed and stencil over the top and pounced blender solution over the entire thing, Once it dried, I stamped Serene Silhouettes on the background.

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The stencil was one that, I think, came in a magazine!  All I was looking for was an interesting texture and I think you could use any stencil to create this look.  Hugs, Fran

Helping Me Grow

Big Shot Mini Treat Bag, Helping Me Grow, Occasions Mini
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Helping Me Grow is found on page 20 of the Occasions Mini.  I cased the  Mini Treat Bag shown there and it it so cute@  Using watercolor paper, I stamped the image in Stazon ink and water colored it using ink and an aqua painter.  The little label is embossed in white and tied on the front using twine.  Hugs, Fran

Going Global

Big Shot Hello You Thinlits, Cards, Going Global, Occasions Mini, World Map
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Going Global 01

I’m watercoloring the world today!  For this card I heat embossed in white on watercolor paper the World Map stamp and did a wash with Lost Lagoon, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight. Then I stamped part of the sentiment from Going Global on Black card stock and embossed it in white.  The “you” is from Hello You Thinlits.  I cut it out 3 times, coated it in Crystal Effects and attached it to the card.

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All of this is mounted on a card front cut from the Heavy White card stock.  Hugs, Fran

 

Flower Patch Birthday

Big Shot Flower Fair Framelits, Big Shot Flower Fest, Birthday, Cards, Flower Patch, Uncategorized
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This card uses Flower Patch and the matching die, Flower Fair Framelits.  I tried several color combinations – Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party, So Saffron and Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral and Real Red, Elegant Eggplant and Wisteria Wonder and Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango.  The centers are embellished with the Metal Rimmed Pearls.  Can you think of any other good color combos?  Hugs, Fran