Holiday Tag Team House Pivot

I created this House Pivot card for the Spectrum Noir Christmas/Winter challenge.

The images are from a retired stamp set called Holiday Tag Team.  I found the silver snowflake washi tape in my stash, so I adhered the washi tape to white cardstock to die cut the "Season's Greetings" and behind the house.  I used Outdoor Edges to create those lovely snowy rolling hills for my snowman.  The wreath and lights on the eaves are from the Holiday House.

The snowflake background was stamped using Encore Silver.  The All Seasons Tree was adhered behind the fence & lots of snowflakes have landed on the branches......with Glitter Dots centers of course.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

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Supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Stamps: Holiday Tag Team; Snowman Sayings (Amy R)
Dies: House Pivot, All Seasons Tree, Outdoor Edges, Holiday House, Oval Accordion Card (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs); Snowman (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cardstock: Whisper White
Other: Transparent Glitter/Silver Glitter Dots (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Spectrum Noir: IG1, TB2, IG5, CR4, CR9, DR5, DR7, OR2, IG7, DG2, LG5, DG3, DG4

Karen Burniston's November Designer Challenge "Red, white or Blue"

It's that time of the month again for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge!  This month the Design Team was challenged to use red, white or blue as the primary color of our card with accent colors of gold, silver, black or kraft.  Since I just got the beautiful Sprig embossing folder from Elizabeth Craft Designs, my card idea came right to me.

I used Gold Foil under the Sprig embossed layer.  I created a circle ring using Accordion Circle & Spiral Circle Pull then covered  the wreath with the pine boughs from the Candle die and added a bow from Ornament Set 3 & Glitter Dots.  The sentiment from Wishing You (retired) was stamped using Encore Gold then embossed with clear embossing powder and die cut onto a Lucy Label.

I used Agatha Edges to cut a shape into the top & bottom of my card and to add Gold Foil flourish.  I adhered several snowflakes from Spiral Circle Pull Card behind the Holiday House.  I made the Holiday House larger by using several of the accessory dies from the House Pivot .....wouldn't we all like a larger house during the holidays?


Check back tomorrow for my second card that promises to make you "Blue".

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

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

Supplies
Stamps: Wishing You (Stampin' Up! -retired)
Dies: Lucy Label, Holiday House, House Pivot, Spiral Circle Pull Card, Accordion Circle, Agatha Edges (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs); Candle, Ornament Set 3 (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Gold Foil (Stampin' Up!)
Other: Sprig Embossing Folder, 7018 Glitter Gold/Silver Glitter Dots (Elizabeth Craft Designs); Clear Embossing Powder (Stampin' Up!)

Karen Burniston August Designer Challenge - the Characters Spiral Circle Pull

I love the Characters that Karen Burniston designed for her Pop It Ups collection, they are so much fun to create with!  For my second card for the August Designer Challenge, I doubled the Spiral Circle Pull so I could use two characters on my card.

The finished size of my card is 5 x 5, I started out with cardstock sized 5 x 11 & scored at 4" at both ends of the card, aligned the Spiral Circle Pull on the score lines and cut (you will be making 2 separate cuts, both times not cutting the tuck slots).  Recognize those candles?  They are the pickets from the House Pivot Card.  The Happy Birthday is an Elizabeth Craft Designs die.  Poppy is all decked out using Props 1 - he's even got a real feather in his hat!  Poppy is  holding a present  die cut from Evergreen Pivot Card.

I used Clock & Gears on the left inside circle, complete with Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz for the clock hands.  Chilly the Penguin is all dressed up to party too, he's all decked out with the accessories from Props 1 too.

I pieced the "It's Party Time!" from the Happy Birthday, Seasons Greetings & Dream word dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  The balloons have the year 1999 on them so we can "Party like it's 1999".  I even added more of those candles on the spiral and a present on the inside right circle.

I hope you find time to party with the Characters too.  Don't forget to visit Karen's blog tomorrow as she will also be celebrating the Characters with a card & video.

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

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

Supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Dies: Spiral Circle Pull Card, Poppy the Owl, Chilly the Penguin, Clock & Gears, Props 1, Evergreen Pivot Card, House Pivot Card (Karen Burniston designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs); Happy Birthday, Dream, Seasons Greetings (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Paper: Pacific Point, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie; blue polka dot is from my stash
Ink: Crumb Cake, Pacific Point
Other: Brights & Neutrals Candy Dots; Yellow Stickles (Ranger); Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Pop It Ups Holiday House Tag

Here's a quick tag I made using the Holiday House.  I had found this paper in the scraps bag at my local store & thought the pathway would be perfect for the Holiday House.  I used the fence and house from House Pivot to complete the house. 



The tag on the left was made using Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups Evergreen Pivot Card simply by using just the pivoting portion of the die cut.  I used the companion dies to decorate the rest of the tag.  The tag on the right is made from Holiday House (decorator piece) with Elizabeth Craft Designs' Holly Leaves & Berries.


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

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

Supplies are Karen Burniston's Pop It Ups designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs unless noted

Dies: Holiday House, House Pivot Card;   Holly Leaves & Berries (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Paper: from Stamp Boutique
Other: Dark Green Velvet, Red Silk Microfine Glitter (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Pop It Ups double Halloween House Pivot

I love Halloween & I think Poppy is perfect for any ocassion, including Halloween.  I perched Poppy on a sideways All Seasons Tree and used the fence portion from the House Pivot Die.  Can you see those eyeleashes on Poppy?  I copied the idea from Judi Kauffman where she used a black Peel-Off Border on Flower Cuties to accent their eyes.  The sentiment is from Bravo, a new photopolymer set.

I tripled the House Pivot to have the fence on both sides of the house.  The vellum ghost is Chilly .....very spooky.  

Happy Stamping,
Raquel 

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

Supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Stamps: Bravo, retired Halloween set
Paper: Basic Black, Tangelo Twist & from my stash
Ink: Tangelo Twist, Black Tuxedo
Dies: 902 House Pivot, 781 All Seasons Tree, 772 Oval Accordion, Accordion Katie, Chilly the Penguin, Poppy the Owl (Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Other: 7010 Glitter Border Black/Silver, 1275 Black Border, 7018 Gold Glitter Dots (Elizabeth Craft Designs; Enamel Accents (Ranger)

Triple Bird House

I am blogging on the Elizabeth Craft Designs' blog today, click here to see my card and tutorial on how to triple the House Pivot die.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

House Pivot Card

Here's a sample card I made for my local store, Stamp Boutique, featuring Karen Burniston's newest die called House Pivot.  I made it into a dog house for this cute Art Impressions dog stamp set.  There's an unexpected twist inside the card.........

His back side is on an action wobbler so it wiggles and jiggles!  It's so much fun!

Happy Stamping,
Raquel


Supplies:
Dies: House Pivot, Fancy Accordion, All Seasons Tree (Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stamp: Art Impressions

House Pivot Card

Here's a sample card I made for my local craft store, Stamp Boutique, using Karen Burniston's House Pivot Card die.  This die is so much fun & can be used for so many different themes.


I've used the All Seasons Tree with all 3 different leaves.....here comes the tree police as I have clashed my pattern of leaves (inside joke of Karen Burniston's Design Team).  When Karen first debut her Pop It Ups Collection, one of the Design Team Members used all 3 different leaves on a card & there was a comment that the tree police were going to be called.  No arrests here, just awesome cards made using awesome dies.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

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To purchase any Karen Burniston dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs, please visit your local independent craft store or visit them online.

 

House Pivot Card - jean pockets

Here's another card I made with Karen Burniston's new House Pivot Card by double cutting the house portion & making them into denim/jean pockets.  For a tutorial on how I double cut this card,  please see my post on Monday April 21st.  Before I made that double cut, I adhered the Etcetera DSP to the front of my card & then ran it through my Big Shot.  I cut 2 Houses from Well Worn DSP for my jean pockets & used the accessory die (included in the set) to make the actual pocket.  That accessory die I just mentioned also has a brick wall texture feature to it, so all you'd have to do is use your embossing sandwich & you'd get a brick house.....how cool is that?  I used a Signo White Gel Pen to make stitch marks around the pocket & added a Candy Dot for rivets.
I used Agatha Edges to cut the beautiful flourish on the pocket & on the edge of my card.  The flowers from Bordering on Romance were stamped onto Whisper White & colored with Stampin' Write Markers. Next, I put Double Sided Adhesive on the top of my image, removed the release sheet & sprinkled with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter, shook off the excess & polished the glitter with my finger.  Finally, I cut around the image & glued it to my card.  You can either color on top of your glitter or underneath, just keep in mind that if you color underneath the colors will be more muted.

I added a strip of Etcetera DSP to the bottom of my card & added Black Outline Stickers to hide the seams.  The sentiment from Sassy Salutations was stamped onto a Katie Label Pivot die cut.  To get the line around my sentiment, after die cutting I left the die on top of my paper & traced around the inside edge with my Stampin' Write Marker.  I added a few more of the stamped glittery images & some more Agatha Edges flourishes.
I hope you have enjoyed seeing different ways to use Karen's new House Pivot Card.

To purchase Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.
To purchase Elizabeth Craft Designs' products, please visit your local independent craft retailer or online.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Stamps: Bordering on Romance, Sassy Salutations
Paper: Very Vanilla, Well Worn DSP, Etcetera DSP
Ink: Basic Black, Stampin' Write Markers
Dies: House Pivot Card, Agatha Edges, Katie Pivot Label #768 (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Other: Candy Dots, Signo White Gel Pen (Stampin' Up!)
          Outline Stickers #1063, Transparent Double Sided Adhesive #501 (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

 

Summertime House Pivot

Here's another card I made with Karen Burniston's new House Pivot die.  I doubled the house portion, just like I did with the vest card on my previous post.  I used Double Sided Adhesive Sheets  to make the Saffron Silk Microfine Glitter stick to my Whisper White.  I used the Pennant Punch to make the triangles for the tops of the castle.  The door is actually the door die that comes with the House Pivot set.  I embossed all the images with black embossing powder & then colored with Stampin' Write Markers.

I used Four Bows & Circle Accordion dies to cut the sun from Yellow Shimmer Sheetz.  I sponged the bottom area of the card with Crumb Cake & the top with Marina Mist.  I used the stamp that comes with your first Paper Pumpkin to get the sandy look on the bottom of the card.

"Life's a" is held on behind the sandcastle with a toothpick.

What a fun sandcastle!
If you have any questions on how I made this card, please ask me in comments - I read them all.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase any Stampin' Up! products, please visit my online store.
To purchase any Elizabeth Craft Designs products, please visit your independant local craft store or online.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Stamps: Hey There from Paper Pumpkin, Summertime Beach (TPC Studio)
Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Yellow Shimmer Sheetz (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Ink: Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Versamark, Stampin' Write Markers
Dies: House Pivot, Four Bows #798, Accordion Circle #769 (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Other: Safron Silk Microfine Glitter (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

 

House Pivot- Vest

I've used Karen Burniston's new House Pivot Card to create this masculine card.  I don't know about you, but I do find masculine cards more difficult to create.
To cut the base card, fold your paper in half and keep it in half when cutting.  You will place the House Pivot die ONLY on one side of the paper, keeping the pivot marks of the die on the fold, you don't want the fence portion on your paper at all, then run this through your die cutting machine.  When you open your card up, you will have two houses!

I stamped the sentiment from Bring on the Cake onto a Katie Label & added a bow from Four Bows.  I used the Trendy Tiles embossing folder on the side panels.

SO classy!  To make the handkerchief, I used the brick house die (included in the set) & just cut it shorter to fit into the little pocket.  The bow tie & buttons are only glued to the right side so it will stick out when opened & not actually have a bend in it.  I can see so many posibilities with Karen's new House Pivot, so you know I will be posting a few more samples over the next few weeks.

Thanks for visiting & Happy Stamping,
Raquel

To purchase any Stampin' Up products, please visit my online store.
To purchase any Elizabeth Craft Designs products, please visit your local independent craft store or visit them online.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless noted
Stamps: Bring on the Cake
Paper: Dusty Durango, Basic Black, Well Worn DSP
Dies: House Pivot, Katie Label #768, Four Bows #798 (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Trendy Tiles embossing folder #2 KB103

Up! Pivot House Card

Here's the final card that I sent to Karen Burniston for the Collins event where she showed her newest die, this House Pivot!

My tribute to Disney's Up.  I didn't count how many balloons I used, but there was quite a few....maybe even the same amount as Mr. Fredrickson.

I sponged the cloud background all over the card using several scallops stapled together & sponged Marina Mist ink all over.  The balloons were cut from various colors of cardstock & Shimmer Sheetz from the smallest circle in the Accordion Circle die set.

I cut a Lots of Pops from acetate to hold up all the balloons.  The sentiment from Up, Up & Away was stamped onto a Katie Label.

Even the back of the card was sponged.  Can you see my new personalized cling stamp from Stampin' Up!?  I love it!

If you have any questions about any of these House Pivot cards, please comment below.

Happy Stamping,
Raquel

Supplies
Dies: House Pivot, All Seasons Tree, Accordion Circle, Katie Label (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stamps: Up, Up & Away and Circle Monogram Stamp #132852
Paper: Soft Suede, Close to Cocoa, Whisper White, Brocade Blue (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Marina Mist Classic Ink, Marina Mist, Basic Black & Real Red Stampin' Write Marker (Stampin' Up!)
Other: various Shimmer Sheetz, Lots of Dots & Flower Mosaic Embossing Folders, Turquoise/Silver Glitter Peel-Offs (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Bird House Pivot Card

Here's my second card that I sent to Karen Burniston for the Collins event in MA last weekend.  I just love this sweet bird house.  I colored the birds on Whisper White covered with Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter & Spectrum Noir markers.  I cut the circle from the House Pivot using a circle in Karen's Accordion Circle set, then used dimensionals behind the Redbreasts.


Please stop back soon to see another card I sent to Karen.


Happy Stamping,
Raquel

Supplies
Dies: House Pivot, Accordion Circle, OVal Accordion, Big Triple Leaf, Love, Thinking of You, Heart with Wings (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Modern Medley DSP (Stampin' Up!)
Peridot Shimmer Sheetz (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Accessories: Cherry Cobbler Twine & button (Stampin' Up!)
Redbreasts #8527 & Black Outline #1063 Peel-Off Stickers (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

House Pivot Card

If you haven't heard about it already, Karen Burniston has created this House Pivot for Elizabeth Craft Designs.  Karen asked several of her Desgin Team Members to create some sample cards for the Collins event in MA this weekend & this is one of the cards I sent to her.

Please come back next week to see the other House Pivot cards that I sent to Karen.

Supplies:
Dies: House Pivot, All Seasons Tree, Garden Bench, Congratulations, Dream, Thinking of You, Happy Birthday (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Paper: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Early Espresso Core'dinations, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Lots of Dots & Spring Leaves Embossing Folders (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Crystal Effects & Candy Dots (Stampin' Up!)