The Stamps of Life Pillow Boxes

I just wanted to show you a load of pillow gift boxes I made a while back, using the super Exclusive Pillow Box Die Set from The Stamps of Life.

The die is great, and made making this many really easy.

I decorated them with flowers made with Stampin' Up punches, an old stamen punch, and Nuvo Gloss Crystal Drops for the flower centres. I filled the boxes with mint chocolates and gave them to friends.

Tag Book Pop-Up Birthday Card

Life has been pretty manic lately, but I was determined to make some time for card making last night! For this card I used Karen Burniston's Tag Book Pop-Up die set, and decorated it with dies that come in the set, and also flowers and leaves from Karen's Flowers and Bee die set.

The patterned papers are all from My Mind's Eye's 'Cambridge Court' 6x6 pad, with solid card stock from Stampin' Up. I used Nuvo gloss Crystal Drops for the flower centres.

For the 'Happy Birthday', I used Karen's Word Set 2 - Birthday Die Set, layered twice.

And finally, I decorated the card front with more flowers and leaves, and some pom pom trim from Stampin' Up.

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Karen Burniston / Riley and Company 'Crazy Cat Lady' Pop Up Card

I just wanted to share this slightly daft card I made using some dies from Karen Burniston.

I used the Cupcake Pop-Up die set for the pop-up mechanism, to which I attached a stamp which I love, from Riley and Company.

I used the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform for my stamping, and also stamped onto patterned paper and did some fussy cutting for the woman's dress.

I printed out the sentiment from my computer.

I added some cats from one of Karen's new releases - the Cat and Dog set, and accessorised them using dies from another of her new releases - the Tiny Accessories 1 set!

The patterned papers are from Authentique's 'Fabulous' 6x6 pad, and the scalloped edge die is from the Sizzix Triple Circle Flip-its die set.

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Sizzix & Cricut Pop-Up Tractor Christening Card

 This probably isn't your typical Christening card, but I was asked to make it by my farmer friend who's friends have decided to have their little boy Christened.

I used the Sizzix Pop n Cuts Horizontal A2 Card with Circle Label for the base, and a tractor from the Cricut Boys Will Be Boys cartridge.

For the background I used Papertrey Ink clouds, sun from L'il Inkers, and the stitched hills and cloud layer from Karen Burniston's Nature Edges die set.

I printed out the sentiment and used some Sizzix Framelits for the sentiment layers.

Karen Burniston Tag Book Pop-Up Cupcake Birthday Card

Karen Burniston's new Autumn 2017 Mini Release is now available! It includes a great Tag Book Pop-up die set, which I used for this card.

The set comes with loads of lovely decorator dies, such as the tags, bunting flags, hole reinforcers, frames, hearts and paper clips.

I also used some cupcake dies from Karen's Cupcake Pop-up die set, and a stamp from Stampin' Up's Cupcake Party. I used the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform, and used the stamp in two halves.

You can see the card design better here. In spite of looking quite complex, it's actually quite simple to put together.

I repeated the theme of the card on the front.

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Karen Burniston November Design Team Challenge - Gingerbread House Christmas Card

It's Karen Burniston's Design Team Challenge time again, and this month the theme is 'Gingerbread'!!

I've made a few gingerbread house cards over the years, because I love them, and I just couldn't resist this time either!

Karen has the most beautiful House & Fence Pop-up die set which I used for this card. 

I used craft card stock, sponged with Tea Dye Distress Ink and 'iced' with White Opal Liquid Pearls, for most of the decorative elements.

The patterned paper is from First Edition's Christmas Wishes 12x12 pad.

I covered the floating floor with white glitter card, added borders to the top and bottom of the card, and used a die from the Katherine Label Pop-up die set, for the sentiment backing. The larger heart is also from this set. The 'Merry Christmas' is from the Word Set 3 - Holiday die set.

I also added bows to the fence, adapted from the Birthday Charms die set, and a little gingerbread man and trees from the Winter Charms die set. I hand cut a little bow tie for him.

To the top border, I also added some ribbon, Stampin' Up twine and Stampin' Up mini jingle bells.

I made a snowy hillside by cutting out by hand the slots to fit round the pop-up mechanisms, from some glitter card, and cutting the top stitched border with a die from the Nature Edges die set.

For the card front, I added another label from the Katherine Label Pop-up die set, and the larger gingerbread man form the Winter Charms die set.

I had such a good time creating this little scene!

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