Arch Pop Up Cards Sure to Amaze and Delight!

Can you imagine opening up a card and seeing this lovely arch full of butterflies and balloons pop up? I created this card with the brand new Arch Pop-up Die set from Karen Burniston. The gorgeous cardstock and sentiments are from the Reef Card Kit at Club Scrap. Here is the front of the card with more paper and sentiments from that kit:

This card would be perfect for the 4th of July or any celebration using Karen's Fireworks Die Set and sentiment die. And just look at what pops up when the card is opened:

To see all the new dies in this release, just click this link.

Crealies Spinner Dies In Three More Creative Ways

 A couple months ago Crealies released 3 sets of spinner dies. After I created circle, square and diamond spinner cards for my April 14^th video and blogpost, I knew I wanted to find time to make different types of cards with these innovative die sets. In my video here, I share a vertical standing easel card, a see though spinner card and how to make this surprise inside pop up card step by step:

 Here is a couple views of the see through Bee Happy Birthday card I made with the Square Spinner die set:

And here is another way to create with these spinner die sets – a standing easel card with a floating set of dolphins and warm wishes:

I hope you will watch the video here and my cards inspire you to give some of the ideas and products a try. Here is a link to the release with all the spinner dies and some of the butterflies as well. 

Whirly Wheel Magic

One of the most amazing dies in the new release by Karen Burniston is the Whirly Wheel die. Just look at what happens when the wheel on the right is turned:

The unicorn flies and reveals a hidden message! The perfect stamps and the unicorn are also part of this release. Here is another card I created for my grandson who currently loves Minecraft:

I attached the Minecraft napkin to cardstock with my Minc and plastic wrap and printed the images. Just about anything can pop up using the Whirly Wheel die:

The cute frogs here are part of the new Leaping Animals set and the grass is one of the Curved Edges die set. Both can be found here on the Karen Burniston website.

More New Ways to Eclipse

In my new video here, I shared many eclipse cards made with new slatted dies I bought from Ebay out of the UK. The dies are in high demand and often out of stock, so I went through my dies and made some eclipse cards with layering dies like this one:

I used some stitched layering pennant dies from Gina Marie Designs on this one and one of the pennants and some stitched strips from Taylored Expressions on this card:

I made this card with some new layered Essential Triangles from Ellen Hutson and the layered sentiment dies are from Crealies. Evan a picket fence can be eclipsed like I did on this card:

The Picket Fence die is from Fabulous Folded Cards (Hot off the Press) and here is a bonus card I made also with this die set:

Deep Impressions June Class Cards

I taught three classes of students the Deep Impressions technique at Harts n Scraps this week, and I think this card was everyone's favorite. The technique is something I learned years ago from Fran Seiford of Stampendous and it involves melting layers of embossing powder on chipboard on an electric griddle. If you would like to see how it is done, watch this video I made a while back for my YouTube channel. 

But years ago, we didn't have Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz and these hearts were made with the translucent aqua blue embossing glaze and some copper highlights. IRL they are just gorgeous. The speckled background was created with Pixie Spray and gold foil. 

Here are the other three cards I taught:

I never just teach a technique and then slap them on a card, so I showed them several fun folds and an easy way to make a shaker card. We all had fun!

New Ways To Eclipse!

Have you seen the buzz over the new way to make eclipse cards? I started seeing cards with popped up slats and thought I just have to get those dies and try it. But the dies are very hard to find in stock and when I did finally get them, there was a learning curve which I will save you from as I share many cards in my new video here. 

I have always been fascinated by the eclipse look on my cards with the background pattern continuing on raised images. Recently I saw much excitement over cards being posted  by Eileen Walters out of the UK and others. Eileen sells her dies on Ebay out of the UK here, but they are often sold out as the demand is high and they are only available in the UK for now. 

I tried raising the slats with the foam strips I had but they were too wide and showed as I shared in the video. You can use other dies as I also share and will post later this week on the blog. But I was determined to figure out how to raise the slats evenly and show how I do it and made this card step by step:

To make any of these eclipse cards, you need to start with two pieces of identical cardstock. You can stamp on them or print an image or use patterned paper as I have done on most of the cards I share. Here is another one I loved how it turned out:

And here is one more I made with these dies and foiled Foil It sheets from Taylored Expressions:

More Cards Made with New Dies from the Michigan Show

The cards I am sharing in this blog post feature the A2 Compass Scroll Die Set from Scrappy Tails. I chose to create the card base with the same die set so the card shape is an unique one. I embossed the scroll with an embossing folder and inked them to age the look. Here is one I made with a maps patterned paper:

This die set makes great masculine cards and I am sure I will be using it again and again.