Crealies Personalized Pop Up Starry BDAY Cards

My favorite of the new dies in the latest release at Crealies is the Stars with Rough Edges and Stitchlines. I made the stars the highlights of this personalized card I made for my daughter:

The tiny letters in the Alphabet set in the Texto Negativo line makes adding a name or any words to personalize cards so easy. The see through oval that stands up was created with two sizes of the Elongated Ovals with Little Stripes die set.  I share this card and make this one step by step in my new video here:

 

My grandson’s favorite colors are navy and gold and he is turning 10 this year. I had fun layering lots of stars and then I added a Happy BDAY and his name to make this card really special. 

The gold cardstock I used in both cards is a new favorite called Stardream Antique Gold Metallic Cardstock from CutCardStock. 

Crealies is a company located in the Netherlands and specializes in unique creative dies and other products. Their prices are so reasonable and you will find shipping costs and time similar to many USA companies. Here is a link to their website: https://www.crealies.nl/en/home

The Stars with Rough Edges and Stitchlines and Elongated Ovals dies can be found in the July/August release here:

 https://www.crealies.nl/nl/juli-2025.html

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen 

Quick Easy Kid's Cards with Taylored Expressions Create in Quads

I love Taylored Expressions Create In Quads stencils because you can easily make 4 colorful card fronts with one set of stencils. Today's cards were created with their Dream On set and I used primary colors to make 4 quick and easy kids cards. The Happy Bday dies with layers are from Crealies.

Here are two where I simply embossed the background and added a sentiment. The center flap on the celebrate card opens up with a place to sign in the mddle.

Because the stenciled part of this quad was full of stars, I added a slatted star with a glitter background and a perfect sentiment.

Cardmaking Joy & 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

Vintage Casserole Dishes Bring Smiles and Wonderful Memories

I fell in love with Hero Arts Classic Casserole Die Set because it reminded me of the vintage Pyrex bowls my mother and most of us used years ago. It makes me smile with good memories, and I just had to bring it home to use on my cards. I was playing with the Checkerboard die set from Craft Addiction UK and thought the smaller ones could be used to stack my Pyrex bowls on. We are vintage, not old right??

On my second card, I glued on a bunch of Pyrex bowls along with the pieces that were cut out of them before embedding them by embossing with a favorite Spellbinders embossing folder. The stamp sentiment from Riley and Company continues on the inside of the card:

This cracked me up and of course I just had to buy it. But this part could be perfect on a sympathy card as well. 

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen 

Smores and Typewriter Cards

There is no connection between the two cards I am posting today except that I am trying to show some love to some of my newer crafty items I have purchased before putting them away. The summer will be over before we know it. One of the favorite things I love to do with my grandsons is to make smores over a campfire at the lake house. This fun cards was made with stencils and stamps from A Colorful Life Designs. 

I had to get the new larger typewriter keys embossing folder from Tim Holtz after watching his video when they were released. I made the  background with black paint over the embossed copper letters and then sanded off some of the paint. The "you" was cut out of copper cardstock and distressed a bit. 

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen

Christmas Cards with New Products for my Stash

Recently I have purchased new embossing folders, dies and stencils for Christmas cards, and I had a play with them before putting them away. Today I am sharing 3 cards I made for my Christmas card stash. My favorite new paper is from CutCardStock and it is Stardream Metallic Cardstock. My first two cards were made with the Antique Gold Color. 

I combined the Molded Frame Embossing Folder from Spellbinders and the Radiant Snowglobe die from Memory Box. This Antique Gold cardstock embosses beautifully as you  can see on the next card which features a new 3D embossing folder from Lisa Horton called Candles and a pretty Clear Views Transparency. 

I love making cards with Waffle Flower's Postage Collage dies and stencils. The card below was created with their Postage Collage Christmas Stencils, and the North Pole and Dear Santa stamp sets.

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen 

Surprise- More Eclipse Cards with Slatted Dies from CraftAddictionUK

I have been having so much fun with new dies from Craft Addiction UK I received from Clipper Street Scrapbook Company out of Canada. I wanted their Checkerboard set because you get 4 different sizes of checkerboards and you get a separate edge die you can choose to use or not. I found some pretty floral designer paper I had two sheets of and made this card in just minutes. 

The Club Scrap Luminary Card Kit was sitting here and so I decided to use the perfect combo of colors in that kit to make these two cards. On the first one I cut strips of 3 colors of cardstock for behind the checkerboard squares. On the second one I added the patterned squares from the first one in diagonal strips and both feature sentiments and decorative elements from the kit. 

I saw a video where someone had taken the strips cut out from glitter foam and attached them on top of another slatted shape so they were raised. I like finding new ways to eclipse and so I tried it. I made two ornaments out of the glitter foam and now have one more card for my Christmas card stash done. 

Cardmaking Joy & Hugs, Karen