A Pop Up Birthday

 I wanted to make a special 17th Birthday Card for my Godchild, Eden whose birthday is coming up on Saturday.   I decided it was time to get out the Platform Pop Up dies and Platform Pop Up Add On dies that I purchased a few months ago and get a card made!

Lawn Fawn has a wonderful YouTube video with step by step instructions on how to put it together.  It's really easy once you know what piece to put where!

I used a white cardstock for the base and back piece (the Platform Pop Up Add On die sold separately).  You can make a perfectly lovely card with out the back piece - just the base - and that will fit in a regular A2 envelope.  With the back piece on the pop up box, you need a 5 1/2"x5 1/2" envelope.

Here's a view from above where you can see the 3 layers for your scene.  The die includes grass and landscape dies to use on the sections.

Here's a view of it folded to mail.  I added PUSH stamps to the bottom so in case the receiver couldn't figure out what to do with it (?) - they would try pushing up on the bottom - and it really does just POP up!

Here's a view of the back.  I added a birthday sentiment here and panels of DP.  The die sets include the squares and angled piece dies that you use to cut the pieces on the panels.

I'm linking my platform pop up birthday card to:

Seize the Birthday

I have many animals on my card!

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Stamps: Backyard Party Stamp and Die Set - Essentials by Ellen Hutson, Ella and Friends - Mama Elephant, Sentiment Suite: Birthday - The Greetery, Simple Strips Birthday - Taylored Expressions, Interactive Labels - MFT.

Paper: White - PTI, DP Ink Drops Dusk and Ink Drops Earth -Craft Consortium, Silver Metallic Paper - Park Lane/JoAnn.

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne

Accessories: Platform Pop Up Die, Platform Pop Up Die Add On - Lawn Fawn, Simple Strips - Taylored Expressions, Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper Case Dies - Tim Holtz/Sizzix, Copics, Acrylic Hearts - Honey Bee Stamps, 1" circle punch, Clear Glitter Wink of Stella.

Today and Always

 A clean and simple card design today using a Layered Poppy Stamp set from Rubbernecker that I purchased quite some time ago and hadn't used yet.  It's a two piece set - one is the outline of the poppies and stems that I stamped in black  and the other is solid shapes that line up with but don't quite fill in the blooms that I inked in red - giving it a water colored look.

I stenciled around the poppies, added the sentiment and dots of black Nuvo Drops to the center of each poppy.

I'm linking my card to:

Cardz 4 Guys

Poppies - Remembrance

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First time using the Poppy Stamp

Stamps: Layered Poppy Set - Rubbernecker, Military Hero - PTI (both retired)
Paper: White - PTI
Ink: Rusty Red - Altenew, Ranger Distress Old Paper, Versafine Clair Nocturne.
Accessories: mini stencil - Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous, finger sponge, Black Nuvo Drops.

Turkey by the Fence

I'm in full Thanksgiving mode for my cards now.   I got out my favorite fence die and a turkey stamp/die set that I purchased last year but never used (duh).  

Both the Picket Fence Die and the Turkey stamps and die are from Papertrey Ink.  I absolutely LOVE this big fence!  The turkey comes with lots of little stamps for all the sections and colors - so I die cut 6 of the turkey shape and stamped all 6 of them at one sitting since I had all the inks out and the stamps  on blocks.

I sponged over the fence and the edges of the turkey with Ranger Distress Tea Dye ink.

The sentiment and strip die are from Taylored Expressions.  The patterned paper is Autumn Leaves from Rubbernecker.

I'm linking my card to:

Just Us Girls

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First time using the turkey stamps/die.

Stamps: Feathered Friends Mini 17 - PTI, Mini Strips Harvest - Taylored Expressions
Paper: White - PTI, DP Autumn Leaves 6x6 pad - Rubbernecker
Ink: Tea Dye - Ranger Distress, Espresso, Ruby Red, Sunkissed, Cloudy Sky, Mountain Mist, Coral Bliss, Jet Black - Altenew, Cocoa Bean - PTI
Accessories: Feathered Friends Mini 17 die, Picket Fence Die - PTI, Mini Strips Die - Taylored Expressions, foam dots, finger sponge

Snowy Pinecones

 I seem to be jumping right into winter with my card today!

I made my pinecones and pine cough using Botanicuts: Pine Bough Dies from The Greetery.  I layered the pieces of the pine cone and then colored along the top edges of each piece of the pine cone with orange and brown colored pencils. I layered two pine boughs over the wood branch and inked over parts with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink.  I added Distress Grit Paste: Snowfall to bits of the pinecones and bough.

I adhered the bough onto the woodgrain patterned paper and the cones over the bough with foam dots.  I added a Remnant Rub: Christmas sentiment .  I masked the bottom half of the card and splattered the top with a white POSCA pen.

I'm linking my card to:

Inspired By

Pinecones

Christmas Kick Start

Trees:  I hope a pine bough counts?!

The Holy and Ivy Christmas Challenge

Anything Goes

Paper: Kraft, New Leaf , Cocoa Bean - PTI, DP Wood Textures Craft Papers - Craft Consortium.
Ink: Ranger Distress Evergreen Bough
Accessories: Botanicuts: Pine Bough - The Greetery, Grit Paste Snow Fall - Tim Holtz/Ranger, Remnant Rubs Christmas - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, foam dots, brown and orange colored pencils, white POSCA Pen.

Tartan Birthday

 I'm trying to start using all of the products I keep purchasing and then storing on a shelf or in a drawer in my craft room -  soon to forget I even bought them!  Participating in all the fun challenges out there encourages me to look through all of the stamps, dies and embossing folders I have and to use them!

So that's the story for the creation of my tartan plaid birthday card.

I purchased the Tartan Builder Stencil set from the Greetery when it first came out in May 2021 and I'm finally playing with it! It's so easy to use and what a great plaid it creates!  You can create so many wonderful plaids just by changing the colors you use.  They can be bold or softly colored, you can use different shades of the same color

I used three colors on my plaid.  Betsy Veldman, owner of The Greetery, has a YouTube video that shows you which stencil to use first (there are 5 layers but you don't have to use them all) and to start with the lighter colors first

  I started with Sunflower for the first layer, then Garden Patina for the second two layers, then Watering Can (dark grey) for the final two layers. I used Archival inks for this, but Ranger DOX inks work well too.  (I played with the stencils with DOX inks too!)

I die cut the birthday sentiment from Poppy Stamps out of black twice, adhered them together for a little more depth and then adhered them over the plaid.  I added some enamel dots to finish it off.

I'm linking my card to the following challenges:

I chose my colors using the Color Hues challenge!

November Stencil Fun
Fall colors or anything using a stencil

Seize the Birthday
anything goes

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First time using my plaid stencils

Paper: White - Papertrey Ink
Ink: Sunflower, Garden Patina, Watering Can - Wendy Vecchi Archival Inks.
Accessories: Tartan Builder Stencils - The Greetery, Happy Birthday Poe Script Die - Poppy Stamps, blender brushes, enamel dots - Altenew.

Pinwheel Fireworks

 Today I'm joining in the The Inkspirational challenge - Fireworks.  Living in the US, I think of fireworks as being for the 4th of July and New Years Eve,  but now fireworks are often set off at  the Olympics Opening Ceremonies and at football games.  

And whenever they are lit off - it is a CELEBRATION!

Here's my fireworks card.

My card is a small 3 3/4" square size, die cut with a retired die from Papertrey Ink (Noted: Scalloped Square).  Instead of actual fire works, I used pinwheels to represent them!  (Again using retired Pinwheel Party dies and stencils from PTI).  I adhered the blue/pink pinwheels directly to the card base and popped the pink/red pinwheels up on foam dots.  I added the same color Enamel Dots from Altenew to the centers of all four pinwheels.  The sentiment is Small Talk Stickers/Occasions from Tim Holtz/Idea-ology it's up on foam dots as well.

I'm linking my card to:

Inkspirational

Die Cut Divas

Anything Goes

Paper: White - PTI
Ink: Ranger Distress Salty Ocean, Festive Berries, Kitsch Flamingo.
Accessories: Noted Scalloped Square die, Pinwheel Party Dies, Pinwheel Party Stencils - PTI (retired), Small talk Stickers: Occasions - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, foam dots, Enamel Dots - Altenew.

October Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Today is reveal day for the October Card Chain Challenge.

This month I sent a card to Pia in Norway and I received a card from Ellie in Illinois!

Here is the card I sent to Pia.

I used the suggested sketch and colors for my card this month.

My snowflakes are die cut with Snow Flakes 3D Impresslits from Tim Holtz/Sizzix.  They are cut out of holographic metallic silver card so have a lovely rainbow shimmer to them.  They are popped up on the panel with foam dots.

Do you want to join in and sign up to send a card to someone around the world and to receive one too? You sign up for a month at a time.   Check out all the details at The Card Chain Challenge!

Stamps:  Christmas Cheer - Papertrey Ink.

Paper:  watercolor paper card base - Canson Cold Press, Pale Rose - Bazzill, Light Blue - Precision Solid Core Card Stock - Park Lane/JoAnn, Holographic Metallic Silver - Park Lane/Joann.

Ink:  True Black - Papertrey Ink.

Accessories:  Snow Flakes 3D Impresslits die - Tim Holtz/Sizzix, Stitched Lines Rectangles - Lil Inker Designs.