Happy Wedding Day and Other Celebrations with Scrappy Tails Crafts

One of my favorite booths at the Novi MI show was Scrappy Tails Crafts and I took several classes from the owner and designer Sabrina. She just got married so I pulled out some of the new dies I purchased and made her this wedding card. This card features Scrappy Tails Gazebo Wrap Around and Wedding Couple and it stands up for display, but mails flat. 

Many of Sabrina's dies are dimensional which I love! I made this holiday card with Scrappy Tails Birch Tree Pop Up Tunnel die set. But of course we can always choose to make flat cards with their dies too. Sabrina wanted some flat cards for display in her booth, and I was honored she choose this card of mine for her booth:

The front of this card is made of acetate so you see through the Gazebo to the Water Fountain inside. 

Wishing Sabrina and Taylor a beautiful and creative future together!

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen 

No Time for Pop Up Cards or Paper Piecing? No Problem

One of my favorite booths at the Novi MegaMeet this last weekend was Scrappy Tails and they are known for their amazing Pop Up Cards with layers of paper piecing details. I know that we don't always have time enough to make that type of card. My two cards today were made in very little time because I decided to make them without the pop up feature and create the images as silhouettes. You can see samples of how to use the Gazebo Wrap Around Pop Up with all of the gorgeous layers here on the website. But my card shows a lovely way to make a shaped card and I created it in just minutes. Here is a look at the inside of this card:

Another Scrappy Tails die I couldn't resist was the Birch Tree Pop Up Tunnel and when I have more time I will definitely do the pop up with all the paper piecing. But I made this simple 5 x 7 card with silhouettes again and a pop of red in the cardinals and sentiment:

Cardmaking Joy and Hugs, Karen 

Use Your Patterned Paper Out of Season And for Diecutting Animals

Do you have seasonal patterned paper pads that are stored away until the season arrives? We all do and I am encouraging you to use them now. Recently I was thinking ahead to Halloween cards. My favorite paper to use for Halloween cards is the Halloween 6x6 Stock Pad from American Crafts at CutCardStock.

Bones don't have to be for skeletons, right? The bones patterned paper in the Halloween pack reminded me of dogs, so I made this card with a floral puppy and bones:

The floral puppy is a die from Moonstone Hunkydory called Pretty Petals - Dog and the bone is from a set by Waffle Flower. The cardbase and card front was created with the gorgeous Stardream Metallic Lagoon cardstock from CutCardStock. I added texture and interest to card front with a die from Kat Scrappiness. 

The bones reminded me of treats and the birthday boy or girl is going to laugh when they see the inside of their card created with a die from Scrappy Tails:

I had so much fun creating with the patterned paper and Stardream Metallic paper as well as the Pretty Petals pets, I created two more cards with them:

I embossed the Stardream Metallic cardstocks with different textures and added a layered sentiment from the Pretty Petals- Cat die set from Moonstone and Hunkydory. I found both of the Pretty Petals Dog and Cat dies at Paper Wishes.

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen

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.

3 Ways to Create With Scrappy Tails A7 Tri-Fold Die Set

I recently took a class taught by Sabrina Leavell of Scrappy Tails learning how to make a tri-fold Winter Wonderland card. I was so impressed by the die set and the many ways to create with it, of course I had to buy it and many other die sets from their booth as well. 

This is the Christmas Wishes card I create step by step in my new video here.  As I show, it is not at all hard to do and will be loved and displayed by the recipient I am sure. In addition to the A7 Trifold Pop Up Die Set, this card also features Scrappy Tails' Winterscape Tall Trees & Deer, Rustic Log Cabin, and  Christmas House Window die sets. 

Here are a couple more view of this tri-fold card:

As I show in the video, this die set can make single, double or triple pop up cards and here is my favorite of the single versions I made:

I know so many dog lovers so could not resist the Scrappy Tails Birthday Dog Treats die set and I used that die set to make this single pop up card. "Enjoy" is a die from Karen Burniston and the little dog on the front was from a set I received as a free gift from Scrappy Tails for spending lots in their booth. 

Here is a double version I made with many of the same dies I used in the triple pop up card I made in the video:

I love all the layered sentiment dies included in many of the die sets from Scrappy Tails. The loon stencil is from Northwoods Stamps. 

Another of my favorite booths at the Novi MI was Brass & Bliss, and I could not resist the Build an Owl and Owl Halloween Add-ons as well as the Googly Eyes dies that I made this single pop up card with:

The A7 Tri-Fold Pop Up from Scrappy Tails die set is very versatile and you choose to have one, two or three images pop up. I put the mummy owl on the top because it covered up the adorable witch owl too much.

I had great fun creating these cards and hope you will watch the video here and then make some pop up cards of your own. 

Easter or Spring Cards 4 Kids at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It's the first Saturday of the month and time for a new challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids. This month our theme is Easter or Spring Cards 4 Kids OR Anything Goes 4 Kids. 

I made a pop up box card for Easter with the Scrappy Tails A7 Pop Up Box Die and many other adorable Easter dies from Karen Burniston. Here is another view of the pop up box card:

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Dies R Us (I used Karen Burniston dies.)

Video - Pop Up, Box and Fun Fold Cards With Dies and Stamps

I love to make interactive and pop up cards and in my new video I share bunch of pop up and box cards with dies from several new companies I have recently discovered. 

This is the card I make in the video and I show how easy it is to make with a new die set from Scrappy Tails called the Slimline Pop Up. I love to make slimline cards and pop up cards so of course I could not resist this die set! 

Happy Spring and the slimline hills are dies from Karen Burniston, "Sending Hugs" is by Sue Wilson and the cute bunnies are from Impression Obsession. Here is another slimline pop up card I made with the Scrappy Tails die: 

I had a new set of cute animals stamps from Penny Black and a perfect set of sentiment stamps for these days from My Favorite Things called I Miss Your Hugs so I decided to make a card combining those stamps with the Slimline Pop Up Die Set from Scrappy Tails. I used two sided cardstock to make the card base but when it was done, I wished I had used a stronger weight cardstock, so that is a tip for you if you get this die set.

Scrappy Tails also has an A7 sized pop up box die with a bunch of decorative pieces and also an unique A7 Pop Up Spring Mechanism Die that I show in the video here. That spring mechanism die means the box card will spring up and open when the card is taken out of the envelope! I used several more of those perfect stamps from My Favorite Things on the front and back of this card along with a favorite "Miss Your Face" die from Dies...to Die For on this fun box card. Here are a couple more pictures of different views:

As usual I had so much fun making pop up box and fun fold cards with my new dies and stamps I didn't stop with just three. I show many more cards and how to make a pop up slimline and how a box card can spring open in the new video here. There is an offer to share the perfect size rubber bands and one of my cards in my video, so be sure to watch and comment for that prize I am offering.