Spiral Circle Pull Card

Karen Burniston Pop it Ups Designer Challenge – What a bunch of Characters!

August 20, 2014

Hi, it’s Karen Burniston with the August 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 challenge was to use the Character dies (Hoppy the Frog, Poppy the Owl, Chilly the Penguin and optional Props1) to make any sort of project, pop-up or otherwise. You’re going to love the clever creations they’ve made.

For my project, I have used the new Spiral Circle Pull Card, the All Seasons Tree plus Poppy the Owl and Props 1 for an all-purpose Love card (or should I say “owl-purpose”?). This would make a great back-to-school card, too. Learn how I made it, along with general tips and tricks for the Spiral Circle Pull Card die plus several great decorated samples from the team in this video tutorial:

Here are photos of the finished card, which measures 5″ wide by 6″ tall and will mail for a single stamp in an A7 envelope (5×7).

Supply List:

916 Spiral Circle Pull Card die set by Karen Burniston
781 All Seasons Tree die set by Karen Burniston
910 Poppy the Owl die set by Karen Burniston
911 Props 1 die set by Karen Burniston
917 Clock & Gears die set by Karen Burniston (3″ circle die only)
Prima patterned papers, Core’dinations cardstock, washi tape, Hero Arts woodgrain stamp, Stampendous greeting stamp, write-on transparency, twine

Time to check out the amazing inspiration by the Designer Challenge Team.

Hoppy the Frog:

Caz Counsell got very clever making a card in the shape of a lily pad. Then she added the Lots of Pops Pop it Ups die inside to animate Hoppy the Frog, wearing Props 1.

Fran Sabad used Hoppy for a festive Thank You card using the Lorna Label pop-up and the Agatha Edges dies. Such fun colors in this card. See the front on Fran’s blog.

Helen Cryer’s Hoppy Fancy Accordion card is full of fun. Such great patterns and colors, including jump lines for Hoppy and little Props1 bows with pearl-centers in the corners. She had me at hello.

Raquel Mason doubled the Lorna Label pop-up die by cutting it into a folded card instead of an open card. This creates a double platform and she decorated it perfectly with Hoppy decorated as a tree frog. The All Seasons Tree makes a great branch for the Characters by turning it sideways. Raquel also used the Outdoor Edges on this card and she’ll be teaching it as a class in Florida in September. (details on her blog)

Frances Byrne created such fabulous movement with this Spiral Circle Pull Card featuring Hoppy and the lips from Props 1. Notice that she decorated the tuck slots with little flies. The coloring on the lilies is fabulous.

Karen Aicken also used Hoppy with the Spiral Circle Pull Card die, but for her card she did not use the spiral die and made a gate-fold double instead. She also added a spring feature behind the frogs so they jiggle. Love the use of the Props 1 to create a masculine and feminine Hoppy.

Summer Hills-Painter made a quick and easy card front using Hoppy holding the present from the Evergreen Pivot Card. The Character dies are a nice finished size (around 2.5″ tall) to fill the space for card fronts. She also took advantage of the emboss/stencil feature on Hoppy to add leg spots and nostrils.

Kelly Booth made these adorable lunch box notes for her grandkids. How sweet for them to get a special little note from Mom and Grandma each day in their lunch. She used Hoppy the Frog and Props 1.

Chilly the Penguin:

Fran Sabad used Chilly the Penguin to decorate a Bell jar to fill with candy. What a great way to present a gift. Six Chillys will fit perfectly on the jar. Fran also used the snowflake decorator die that is included with the All Seasons Tree and embellished with rhinestones. See the top of the jar on her blog.

Caz Counsell made a brilliant card featuring a scene with Chilly the Penguin making a snow penguin. She used the shadow layer of the Chilly die for the snowman and added Chilly’s scarf and the hat from Props 1. She created a background using the Outdoor Edges and snowflakes from the All Seasons Tree. Love this!

Frances Byrne is clever, clever, clever! I love that she used the Evergreen Pivot Card and the Outdoor Edges to make a snowy scene for Chilly the Penguin (wearing Props 1) and then used the greeting “Have a chillin’ birthday!” so it could be used any time of the year. Great color combo, too!

Poppy the Owl:

Kelly Booth made this adorable birthday card for my twins’ 16th birthday using Poppy the Owl and Props 1 on a doubled Lorna Label pop-up card. For the grass in the background she used the Outdoor Edges. Karl and Emma loved it!

Donna Wright was commissioned to make a Mr. & Mr. wedding card and used Poppy the Owl and Props 1 on the Spiral Circle Pull Card. Notice her use of different colors to create tuxedos for the owls – how clever!

Frances Byrne used the Happy Birthday Stand-up Helper die to create a great easel card and then decorated with Poppy the Owl perched on an All Seasons Tree used as a branch. Love the leaves especially!

Caz Counsell shows how perfectly the Characters fit on the Accordion Album dies. For her card she used the Oval Accordion and *NEW* Oval Clouds Frame Edges plus Poppy the Owl. She also mixed in some of the decorator dies from other sets. (I encourage this! Don’t think the decorator dies are just for the set they came with.)

Fran Sabad really had fun with Poppy and the Props1 die for this card, attaching all the props to swing-out arms so it becomes a fun interactive card for the recipient. She also made a kids’ art holder using Poppy dressed as a scholar. Amazing projects!

Karen Aicken has packed a lot of smiles into one awesome Heart Pivot Card. Poppy the Owl looks great in pink, along with the Props 1 glasses and perched on an All Seasons Tree. Notice the clever use of a dots stamp to fill in the foliage on the tree. She rounds it out with an Agatha Edges flourish along the bottom. Lovely!

Summer Hills-Painter created a great easel card in a wedding theme by using the Square w/Circle Frame Edges as a backdrop and filling in with a happy Poppy couple. The crown on the bride is made using a decorator die from the Katie Label Accordion die and the Props 1 die creates the rest of the accessories. How clever to use Poppy’s heart as the eyes! The Congratulations Stand-up Helper works perfectly to make this an elegant gift for the newlyweds.

Shelly Hickox created one of her signature Shellypieces for this month’s challenge. She used the new Ring Accordion album, Poppy the Owl, Props 1 and the Clock and Gears die for a fantastic steampunked birthday card. Poppy has a monocle and spats!

More than one Character:

Raquel Mason made this sensational gatefold Spiral Circle Pull Card to showcase two of the Characters – Poppy and Chilly, plus Props 1, the present from the Evergreen Pivot Card, the fence post (as a candle) from the House Pivot Card, and the Clock and Gears dies. So many amazing details in this card!

What a bunch of Characters, eh? Hopefully you feel inspired to make something with Hoppy the Frog, Chilly the Penguin and Poppy the Owl (plus Props 1).

I’ll be back next month on September 17th with another Designer Challenge. In September the Designers have been challenged to use Pop it Ups dies for Spooky September and inspire your Halloween creations.

Happy Crafting!

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Pop it Ups

Christmas Ornaments

August 9, 2014

Good Morning Everyone, It’s Jackie here. For today blog post I’m showing you these lovely Christmas Ornament Sceneries as well as Winter Bird Peel-Off stickers which fits perfectly with the new Ring Accordion designed by Karen Burniston.

Instructions:

1. Cut two accordion pages out of brown cardstock using the Ring Accordion die. Cut 4 scalloped edges for each circle accordion using blue paper as shown in the picture below. Adhere to accordion pages.

2. Cut two more accordion pages using the same die out of blue patterned paper. We’re only going to use the two center circles so you can use a pieces of scrap paper if you have that laying around somewhere. Trim of all tabs.

3. Now it’s time to create the Winter Birds and Christmas Ornaments Sceneries. To create the ornaments, apply 1 Winter Bird Peel-off, 1 Christmas Ornament Sceneries Peel-off and 1 bow onto white cardstock that has Double-sided Adhesive applied to it. Take of release sheet of the Double-sided Adhesive and cover peel-offs with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter. Polish with your finger and brush of excess glitter. Color peel-offs with TomBow Dual Brush Markers. Once colored, cut out ornaments and bow.

4. Now assemble card as shown in the first picture at the top but don’t adhere the small side tab of the first center circle just yet. For more info on how to assemble the Accordion card, watch Karen Burniston’s video HERE.

5. Take a Quickie Glue pen and add glue to the circle edge & scalloped edges, add Turquoise Silk Microfine Glitter to the inside circle and Deep Turquoise Silk Microfine Glitter to the scalloped edge as shown. Now attach the two center circles using a small piece of Double-sided Adhesive on the small site tab of the left center circle.

SUPPLIES

Elizabeth Craft Designs supplies:

8546 – Winter Birds Black Peel-Offs

8502 – Christmas Ornaments Sceneries Black Peel-Offs

627 – Deep Turquoise Silk Microfine Glitter

626 – Turquoise Silk Microfine Glitter

904 – Ring Accordion

502 – Double-sided Adhesive Sheets

Other supplies:
Cardstock and patterned papers – Early Espresso, Shimmery White – Stampin’ Up!, Woodland Winter – Bo-Bunny Collection
Tombow Dual Brush Markers: 158, 228, 491, 368, 977, 969,N57, N35, N15, N00, 993, 847

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Pop it Ups

Christmas Candle Circle Spiral Pull Card

July 25, 2014

Hi everyone,

It’s Frances here again! Did you know there are only 5 months or 153 days until Christmas! I hate doing the last minute rush of getting Christmas cards made so I like to start in July and get a few made each month. Then come December I have a stash of them ready to send out. So today I am sharing a Christmas card I created using the new Spiral Circle Pull Card, designed by Karen Burniston, and the Candle die which have both just been released this month.

Here’s how I created my card:

1. Cut a piece of red card so that it is 8 1/2 inches x 5 1/2 inches. Score the card along the 8 1/2 inch side at 4 1/4 inches. Place the Spiral Circle Pull Card die so that the centre lugs on the die line up on the centre score line of the card and slightly up towards the top of the card. Run this though your die cutting machine.

2. Die cut the following pieces from the Candle die set: 1 candle base and 1 candle drip from white card that has Double Sided Adhesive applied to it. Add Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter to these pieces after die cutting. 2 holly leaves and 2 pine branches from green card. Sponge green ink to holly leaves after die cutting. 1 poinsettia flower from red card, 1 large flame from Yellow Metallic Shimmer Sheetz, 1 medium flame and 1 flower center from Yellow Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz and 1 small flame from Orange Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz.

3. Assemble candle as per photo above.

4. Adhere candle to the left side of the card base using foam tape.

5. Cut white circle using the largest circle accessory die from the Circle Spiral Pull Card set. Cut Merry Christmas from Red Velvet Adhesive and adhere to white circle. Adhere white circle to card base using foam tape.

6. Place spiral die inside the circle die (both from the Circle Spiral Pull Card set) and die cut spiral from red card.

7. Apply some glue around the outer edge of the spiral piece and adhere to the inside of the card as per photo above. Next apply glue to the center of the spiral, then close the card and apply pressure for a few seconds. Let glue dry.

8. Die cut 10 poinsettia flowers from red card, 10 holly leaves from green card, 6 pine branches from green card (sponge edges with green ink after die cutting) and 10 flower centers from Yellow Metallic Shimmer Sheetz.

9. Adhere flower centers to each poinsettia. Adhere holly leaves and pine branches behind each poinsettia. Adhere an extra leaf and branch behind one (the one for the candle on the left). Adhere flowers to the card and along the spiral as shown. Adhere 4 single flowers to the back of the ones that are adhered to the spiral. (Note: you may need to have the holly leaves on the 4 flowers which are backing the flowers on the spiral in reverse so that they match the holly leaves that can been seen on the front of the spiral).

10. Die cut tag from from white card and stamp sentiment onto this using black ink. Adhere tag to the center of the spiral so the hole on the tag is under the flower as per photo above.

11. Add striped patterned paper (1 3/8 inch wide) to the right hand edge of the card.

12. Add green candy dots to each of the closures.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Products

916 Spiral Circle Pull Card (designed by Karen Burniston)

919 Candle

944 Merry Christmas

763 Tags

SS 0229 Yellow Metallic Shimmer Sheetz

SS 0108 Yellow Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz

SS 0109 Orange Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz

501 Double Sided Adhesive

641 Cool Diamond Silk Microsoft Glitter

402 Red Velvet Adhesive Sheets

Other Products

Red Card
Green Card
White Card

FM Clear Stamps Little Messages Stamp Set
Authentique Wonder 6 x 6 Paper Pad
Foam tape

Tombow Multi Mono Liquid Glue

Green candy dots

Green Ink Pad

Black Ink Pad

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Pop it Ups

A Spiral Circle Pull Card

July 19, 2014

Hi, Kelly Booth here! Have you seen the new Spiral Circle Pull Card by Karen Burniston yet?
This die is so much fun and it comes with 9 really cool accessory dies as well! There are so many different ways to use this die. I am going to show you one that I made using the cute bees from the Ladybugs Peel-Off sticker sheet.

Here is the front of the card in my happy colors!

And the card opened up:

Directions for making this card:

1. Cut a piece of teal cardstock 5.25″ by 11, score in half at 5.50″

2. Stamp background stamp on all sides of this piece with Audrey Blue dye Ink.

3. Place the Spiral Circle Pull Card die on the center fold lining up the little nubs to the fold and cut using your die cut machine like this:

4. Fold card so it pulls and trim 1.25″ from each side making the card 4.25″ by 5.50″.

5. Take a piece of white cardstock and run the Scalloped Spiral Circle Pull die through your die cutting machine and stamp polka dots on both sides. Blue on one side and yellow on the other.

6. Cut 3 sets of the Bunch of Flowers 1 from white cardstock.

7. Cut circle from white cardstock using the largest circle accessory die from the Ring Accordion set. Cut stitched circle from yellow cardstock using the middle stitched circle die from the same set.

Below is a photo showing the dies I used to finish the card:

8. Adhere a piece of double sided adhesive onto white cardstock large enough to fit one small bee and one large bee from the Ladybugs Peel-off sheet.

9. Remove release sheet and place bees peel-offs onto the adhesive. Shake some Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter over the adhesive and bees, polish with your fingers and shake off excess glitter.

10. Color bees with alcohol markers and cut them out.

11. Apply a a tiny amount of liquid glue onto the back edge of the large scalloped spiral pull and adhere it to the the large circle on the inside of the card.

12. Place a tiny bit of glue on the bottom of the center spiral and close card to get it in the right position. Let this dry.

13. Adhere white flowers to the spirals and adhere a second flower to the back of each flower. Adhere Glitter Dot Peel-Offs to the flower centers and color them using a yellow alcohol marker. Place one on each side of the flower centers that are visible.

14. Glue small bee onto the spiral near the end so he pops up slightly when the card is opened.

15. Adhere a glitter dot on each of the closure tabs for a little sparkle.

Below is what it should look like at this point.

16. Cut a small oval from white cardstock using one of the accessory dies from the Katie Label Accordion Card set. Ink edges slightly and stamp sentiment in black. Adhere on the far right side of the card.

17. Adhere large white circle to the front of the card and the stitched yellow circle (cut in step 7) on top using pop dots.

18. Adhere large bee to the stitched yellow circle and add a flower or two for a finished look.