Elizabeth Craft Designs' October Designer Challenge - Tags & More die sets

The Elizabeth Craft Designs' Design Team was challenged to use the new dies Tags & More die sets for this month's challenge.  Challenge accepted!
The idea of making Honey into Honey Claus just came to me and I admit it was very easy when you have such fabulous dies to work with.


For Honey's hat I used the party hat from Props 2 & I hand cut the fuzz on the top of the hat.  For Honey's beard I used Dutch's chest accessory piece.  To get the belt & gloves, I hand cut those from the detail layer of Honey.  The present is from Evergreen Pivot Card, each tree was embossed and I used the die as a stencil to color with a gel pen.

Up next is Fox the Red Nose Reindeer

For Dutch's antlers I used the arms from Snowman.  To cut the tag, I die cut both the brown tag & patterned paper at the same time, then trimmed the patterned paper.  In the Tags & More 3 -Leaves die set there are several circle reinforcements to choose from.

Here is what the back of the tags look like.

I hope you have enjoyed my Tags & More die sets creations and if you have any questions please leave a comment.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Pop It Ups designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Honey Claus
Stamp: Holiday Tag Team (retired)
Cardstock: Real Red, Old Olive, Creamy Caramel, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Silver Foil
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive Classic Ink Pad
Dies: Tags & More 3 - Leaves (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Honey the Bear, Evergreen Pivot, Props 1, Props 2, Lorna Label (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Other: Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, Gold Bakers Twine; Glaze Pens

Fox the Red Nose Reindeer
Cardstock: Old Olive, Season of Style DSP, Basic Gray, Going Gray, Daffodil Delight, Silver Foil
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive Classic Ink Pad
Dies: Tags & More 3 - Leaves (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Dutch the Fox, Evergreen Pivot, Lorna Label (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Other: Gold Bakers Twine, Gumball Green Stitched Ribbon; Glaze Pens

Hoppy the Bat

Who wouldn't like to get a treat bag with Hoppy the Bat?  Isn't he the cutest frog bat you've ever seen?  I used Tags & More 2 Deco to create the treat bag.  I used Elizabeth Craft Designs' Rainy Day(umbrella) for the bat wings, Candle for the dripping goo and horns and Snowman for the fangs.  I added a bit of Spring Peridot Silk Microfine Glitter to the goo.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Pop It Ups designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Dies: Tags & More 2 Deco, Rainy Day, Snowman, Candle (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Hoppy the Frog (Karen Burniston Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cardstock: Stampin' Up! retired DSP
Other: Spring Peridot Silk Microfine Glitter (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Enamel Accents

FrankenCandle

I used Tags & More 1 Lace to make this super cute FrankenCandle card.  The inspiration from this card came from the fun ladies at Everything Scrapbook & Stamps.  I used Elizabeth Craft Designs' Candle die for the body, Rainy Day (umbrella) for wings, Snowman (nose) for fangs, Hoppy the Frog (eyes & mouth).  I embossed Orange Iris Shimmer Sheetz with the Damask embossing folder & inked with Black StazOn.

Super fun right?  I know!  I decided FrankenCandle & his friend MummyCandle would like to take a haunting ride on the Spiral Circle Pull Card.  I used Candle (wax) for the hair, Stocking Solid (bolts), Candle (flame) for his nose, Hoppy the Frog (eyes & mouth).

I hope everyone has a hauntingly fun Halloween!

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent retailer or online.

Supplies
Dies: Tags & More 1 Lace, Candle, Stocking Solid, Snowman, Rainy Day (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Hoppy the Frog, Spiral Circle Pull Card (Karen Burniston Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Ink: Crumb Cake Class Ink, Black StazOn (Stampin' Up!)
Other: SS0109 Orange Iris Shimmer Sheetz, KB104 Damask embossing folder, 2585 Halloween silver Peel-Off sticker

Frosty & Friends class at Stamp Boutique

 

I will be teaching how to make these 2 fun cards using some Elizabeth Craft Designs' products at

Stamp Boutique on

 

Saturday November 1st at 10:30 am

and

Thursday November 6th at 11 am

 

class fee $19

Please call Stamp Boutique at 954-876-1445 to register

 

 

Happy Birthday PopUp with Cupcake

Here's a quick card I made using Karen Burniston's newest die called Happy Birthday PopUp.  For the front, I used a cupcake peel-off sticker and made the frosting with embossing paste.  I colored the paste brown by swiping ink on my craft mat then mixing the paste into the ink.  I "Frosted" the cupcake with a toothpick.

Here's a close up of the cupcake. The sentiment from Sweet Little Sentiments (retired) was stamped onto a Lorna Label die cut.

I used the companion line of stars die to die cut all those stars in the bottom bump.  I used the other companion stars to die cut more stars in different colors to place around the Happy Birthday itself.  For the glittered "Happy Birthday", I used the companion die - yes it's included in the set - to cut from Double Sided Adhesive & covered with Silk Microfine Glitter.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.
To purchase Pop It Ups designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Stamps: Sweet Little Sentiments (retired Stampin' Up!)
Dies: Happy Birthday PopUp, Lorna Label (Karen Burniston)
Paper: from my stash
Other: Blue Bell & Yellow Silk Microfine Glitter, Double Sided Adhesive, 0379 Cupcake Peel-Off (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Dutch & Honey In a Box

The style of this base card is just like the card in a box, except that I didn't cut the flaps to make it look like a box.  I added Honey the Bear and Dutch the Fox to the inside......they are ready to party!  They have their balloon, noise maker & party hat from Props 2.

I used the Oval Accordion Card die to make the glittered oval frames.  The flower & filigree are from Tags & More.  The script "Happy Birthday" is from Karen Burniston's newest dies called Happy Birthday PopUp.  I die cut it from white card stock that had Double Sided Adhesive on it, then covered it with Blue Bell & Yellow Silk Microfine Glitter.

Here's a side view.

The card folds flat for mailing!

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Dies: Honey the Bear, Dutch the Fox, Props 2, Oval Accordion Card (Karen Burniston); Tags & More (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Other: 624 Blue Bell & 636 Yellow Silk Microfine Glitter, 502 Double Sided Adhesive (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Happy Birthday PopUp

 

Here's a quick card I made for the Spectrum Noir October Embellishment challenge.

 

I have used Karen Burniston's newest die called Happy Birthday PopUp.  

I die cut the "Happy Birthday" twice, once in black and again in red so I could insert the black back into the sentiment.

 

Happy Stamping,

Raquel

 

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Dies: Happy Birthday PopUp, Agatha Edges, Katie Stars Frame Edges (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stamps: Simon Says Stamp All Boy
Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, from stash
Spectrum Noir: IG3, IG5, IG7, DR4, TB7, CT3, TN1, BT3
Other: 7062 Glitter Gold/Silver Stars Border Lines, 7018 Glitter Red/Gold Glitter Dots

 



Lighthouse Peel-Off Stickers

I created a bookmark using the new tag die from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  The Lighthouses Peel-Off Stickers were applied to white card stock that has Double Sided Adhesive then covered with Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter and colored with Tombow markers.
I created the light beam from an accessory die included in the set.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Dies: Tag, Outdoor Edges (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Spectrum Noir October Challenge - Embellishments

 

I created this super cute multi tag card using Elizabeth Craft Designs' latest dies called Tags & More.  My idea was to make the colors like a candy corn, not edible of course, but sweet.  The images were stamped onto white card stock, colored with Spectrum Noir markers, fussy cut then I used dimensionals to adhere them to the card.

 

Here's a close up of the first panel cut using Tags & More 2 Deco.  The stamped image has the required embellishment of a "Tin Pin" that matches the stamp set.  The eyes in the tree were cut from Chilly the Penguin onto Double Sided Adhesive that I covered with Spring Peridot Silk Microfine Glitter.  The All Seasons Tree creates a wonderful backdrop for our little pirate Trick-or-Treater.

 

 

The center tag was cut using Tags & More 1 Lace.  All of the images were colored using Spectrum Noir and fussy cut.  The sentiment was stamped onto an oval from Katie Accordion.



The end tag was cut using Tags & More 3 Leaves.

I hope everyone has a fun Halloween.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Dies: Tags & More 1 Lace, Tags & More 2 Deco, Tags & More 3 Leaves (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Katie Accordion, All Seasons Tree, Chilly the Penguin (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stamps: Darcie's Yo Ho Me Hearties
Spectrum Noir: FS1, FS4, FS8, FS9, EB3, EB6, EB8, GB5, GB7, DR1, DR4, DR6, BG3, BT1, BT3, BT6, BT7, BG6, BG10, CT1, OR2, DR3, CR10, True Black
Other: Yo Ho Me HeartiesTin Pin (Darcie's); 7018 Glitter Gold/Silver glitter dots, Spring Peridot Silk Microfine Glitter (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Karen Burniston's October Designer Challenge Make it Masculine - Doctor Who

To all my fellow Whovians this card goes out to you.  I am a fan of the British TV series Doctor Who.  When Karen gave the Design Team the masculine challenge, I was thrilled to make this Tardis using Holiday House, Heart Pivot Card and Clock & Gears.  The base card is Pacific Point & sponged with Pacific Point.  The gears are cut from Silver Foil paper.  The sentiment is computer generated, then die cut using Lucy Label.

So what do the Daleks love to say?  Answer: "Exterminate", but my Dalek likes to say "Celebrate" from the stamp set called Fabulous Phrases stamped onto a word bubble from Lorna Label.  I used Lots of Pops to animate the Dalek made with Elizabeth Craft Designs' new Tags & More 3 Leaves die.  I also used Clock & Gears, Holiday House, Crystal Flower and  Rainy Day to create my Dalek.  The Tardis background paper I found online and simply printed it out.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.
To purchase Pop It Ups designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Stamps: Fabulous Phrases
Dies: Tags & More 3 Leaves, Rainy Day, Crystal Flower (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Lots of Pops, Heart Pivot, Lucy Label, Holiday House, Clock & Gears (Karen Burniston Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cardstock: Pacific Point, Real Red, Silver Foil, Basic Black, Vellum Cardstock, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Black Tuxedo Memento (Stampin' Up!)
Other: 2577 Happy Birthday Peel-Off Sticker

Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge - Make it Masculine

This month Karen Burniston challenged her Design Team to "Make it Masculine"!  I must admit that I do find masculine cards harder to create, BUT this card was the exception!
I mean look at how fun the front is!  I love that the Katie Star Frames fits perfectly around the front of my 4.25 x 5.5 base card.  Those peel off stickers I have had a while and they go perfect with the paper....which I have also had a while.  The sentiment is computer generated.

I learned this mirror technique from a class that Karen Burniston taught a while back.  I made the poles from Lots of Pops longer to hold the Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz up.  To make the poles longer, don't put your cut plate all the way to the end of the die, then simply cut the length with scissors.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies
Dies: Happy Birthday PopUp, Agatha Edges, Katie Star Frames, Lots of Pops, Lucy Label (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Paper: Wild Wasabi, Brocade Blue (Stampin' Up!); Basic Grey & from my stash
Other: Double Sided Adhesive, Blue Bell Silk Microfine Glitter, 7062 Gold/Silver Stars, Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz (Elizabeth Craft Designs); stickers from my stash

Fun Photos!

From the left: Joep, Joset, Karen, Els & me at the Collins event a few weeks ago.  I had SUCH a blast!

Karen Burnitson & I holding her newest characters Honey the Bear and Dutch the Fox.

Honey the Bear

I made this card for my local store, Stamp Boutique, using one of Karen Burniston's newest Character dies called Honey the Bear.  I used Props 2 to accessorize Honey - so many fun pieces in this set - you just have to have it!

Isn't the Happy Birthday PopUp fabulous?  There are so many great accessory pieces in this die set that you can make a fabulous card just with this set.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft store or online.

Supplies are Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs unless noted
Dies: Honey the Bear, Happy Birthday PopUp, Props 2, Katie Accordion, Evergreen Pivot Card
Paper: from Stamp Boutique

Dutch gets ready for Halloween

Spoiler Alert!!! New Pop It Ups and Elizabeth Craft Designs!
I've used Elizabeth Craft Designs' new Sea Glass embossing folder to create lots of texture on the front of my card.  I swiped Black Tuxedo on the inside of the embossing folder & embossed as usual.  The "Happy" is from Karen Burniston's new Happy Birthday PopUp die.

I created the tombstone using Elizabeth Craft Designs latest Tags & More dies.  That is Dutch the Fox in his bat costume.  To make Dutch into a bat, I cut off his tail & cut one more then attached them behind his back.  Can you see Chilly the Penguin in his ghost costume?  Love the eyes on the All Seasons Tree!  The eyes were cut from the Characters eyes.

I have attached Chilly to the top bump of the Lucy Label.  The All Seasons Tree was cut a little shorter & adhered with Dimensionals to the top of the box shelf.  The tombstone was adhered to the front of the Lucy Label.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.

To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent retailer or online.

Supplies
Dies: Happy Birthday PopUp, Dutch the Fox, Chilly the Penguin, All Seasons Tree, Agatha Edges, Lucy Label (Karen Burniston); Tags & More (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cardstock: Basic Black, Going Gray, Basic Gray, Kiwi Kiss, Vellum, Whisper White, Real Red (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Black Tuxedo
Other: Sea Glass embossing folder (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

October Stamp Camp

These are the cards we'll be making at my Stamp Camp on Saturday October 18th.  Please email me for more information or to sign up.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

Ruby Rock-It & Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog Hop

Hello Ruby Rock-It and Elizabeth Craft Designs Fans! We are very excited to be partnering together this month, and to bring you this fun blog hop!

Each of our companies is offering a beautiful prize! Here's all the fun details on how you will be eligible to win!

Start at the beginning of our hop right here! And then simply follow the order listed below, making sure you stop and leave some love in the comments section for each designer! Please make sure to include your email in the comments section, so we will be able to contact you should you win!  

For additional chances to win:

"Like" Ruby Rock-It and Elizabeth Craft Designs on Facebook, and leave a comment, letting us know you came from our blog hop.

Comments will close Friday, October 10th at 11:59pm PST, and we will announce our winners the following week! Be sure to come back next week to see if you have won!

Ruby Rock-It

Elizabeth Craft Designs

Karen Aicken

Erin Yamabe

Kelly Booth

June Goh

Frances Byrne

Beckie Dreyer

Rita Edwards

Pattie Beltran

Debra Hensley

Candice Elliott

Raquel Mason    ------(you are here)

Jenifer Cowles

Mary Prasad

June Goh

Jacqueline Smith

Kaka Costa

Candy Spiegel

Ruby Rock-It is offering our beautiful Essence Empire Bebe collection to one lucky winner!

And the Elizabeth Craft Designs prize is a package full of fun Peel-Offs from their new collection, Stand Up Helpers Set 2 and a pack of Watercolor paper.

I've made 2 cards for the hop, my first card is a Pop It Ups featuring beautiful paper from Ruby Rock-It's Handi Scandi collection.

For the card front  I've used some tea cups from the Die Cut Pack, a Wood Veneer tea cup that I colored with alcohol based markers, a gold peel-off sentiment placed onto a tag from the Tag Pack.

The inside was cut using the Lucy Label Pop It Ups designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.  Pop ups are so much fun!  I used the Lucy Label to animate a pretty glittered flower from the Die Cut Pack & a tea pot peel-off sticker.  Using peel-offs are easy.  Apply Double Sided Adhesive to white cardstock, remove release sheet to reveal the adhesive, now place your peel-off sticky side up onto the release sheet, then place your adhesive sheet on top to transfer the peel-off sticker.  Now cover the adhesive with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter, polish with your finger and color with desired medium (I used alcohol based markers).  To the left of the flower I adhered another glittered flower from the Die Cut Pack.  I added Gold Border Lines at the top and bottom of my card for a bit of extra glam.

For my second card, I made a center step easel using Elizabeth Craft Designs' Stand Up Helpers and Ruby Rock-It's Handi Scandi card stock.  Here is my card flat.

The inspiration for this center step easel came from a card Karen Aicken posted on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog.  I followed her directions but made all portions into an easel by die cutting the Stand Up Helpers 3 times.

I used Handi Scandi Tag Pack, Die Cut Pack, 3-D Sticker, Twine Pack & Droplets from Ruby Rock-It to decorate the front of my card.  The boots are cut from Elizabeth Craft Designs' Rainy Day using Light Blue Metallic Shimmer Sheetz & paper from Ruby Rock-It.

Thanks for stopping by & I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and the hop.  

Happy Crafting,

Raquel

Supplies

Card 1

Dies: Lucy Label (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Paper: Handi Scandi collection (Ruby Rock-It)

Other: 842 Gold Border Lines, Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Handi Scandi Wood Veneer, Handi Scandi Tag Pack, Handi Scandi Die Cut Pack (Ruby Rock-It)

Card 2

Dies: 792 Stand Up Helpers, 928 Rainy Day (Elizabeth Craft Designs); 903 Katie Accordion, All Seasons Tree (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Paper: Handi Scandi collection (Ruby Rock-It)

Other: SS0203 LIght Blue Metallic Shimmer Sheetz (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Handi Scandi Droplets, Handi Scandi Tag Pack, Handi Scandi Twine Pack, Handi Scandi Die Cut Pack, Handi Scandi 3-D Sticker (Ruby Rock-It)

Happy Birthday Pop It Ups

This card is for my son's 8th birthday and it was inspired by a series of books called Frog & Friends that we have had the pleasure of reading together.  I modified Hoppy to have his arms up to hold the balloon aka "Thing" as Frog has named it.  I needed to make a new tummy because that's where I cut his arms out, so I cut the shadow layer again and cut his tummy to fit the shape.

I sponged Crumb Cake onto Hoppy.  I added a Spring Peridot Silk Microfine Glitter Agatha Edges to the bottom of my card.  The balloon is an Elizabeth Craft Designs die called Balloons.

Wow, awesome and fantastic.......Karen's new die called Happy Birthday PopUp.
And it comes with lots of fun companion dies including "Happy Birthday" in script to match the die cut!  Can you tell I am excited about this die?

My son already seen his birthday card even though his birthday isn't for several weeks & he loves it!  Thanks Karen Burniston for designing such fun dies.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.
To purchase Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups or Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent retailer or online.

Supplies
Dies: Happy Birthday PopUp, Agatha Edges, Hoppy the Frog (Karen Burniston); Balloons (Elizabeth Craft Designs); alphabet (Sizzix); number (Cuttlebug)
cardstock: Bermuda Bay, Real Red, Green Galore, Basic Black, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise (Stampin' Up!); pattern paper from my stash
Ink: Crumb Cake (Stampin' Up!)
Other: 7010 Blue/Gold Glitter Borders, Spring Peridot Silk Microfine Glitter (Elizabeth Craft Designs)