This is the card I put together to send with our little Thanksgiving "care package" to our granddaughter this year.
I've been wanting to try a landscape format accordion card for quite awhile, especially after seeing all the wonderful cards others have been creating in this style. For the base of my card, I used Lori Whitlock's Swing Through Valentine Card Cut file, and adjusted the length of the window and frame of the card to be rectangular. Each of the three panels measures 7.25" x 4.25".
Although the finished card is too large to fit into a legal size envelope, I intentionally made this card oversized because I wanted to be able to comfortably fit the cute raccoon and fox die cuts onto the panels.
Several different die sets were used to decorate the three card panels. Marianne Design Eline's Collectibles dies were used to create the fox and raccoon, Lawn Fawn's Grassy Borders, Karen Burniston's Upsy Daisy Pop Up for the flowers, Spellbinders Be Bold Blossoms for the leaves, and a retired Quickutz die for the pumpkin.
I added our computer/printer generated sentiment to the center panel of the accordion. Thank you for stopping by today. Hope you're having a relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving!
Today I'm sharing the card and matching gift card holder I made to send to our daughter for her birthday.
On the front of the card, I decorated the two panels showing through the window with my favorite flowers cut using Spellbinders "Be Bold Blooms" die set and a cute bunny cut and pieced together using dies from Marianne Design Eline's Collectable "Baby Bunny" Set. White pearlized cardstock was used for the panel insets and run through Cuttlebug's "Modern Wallpaper" embossing folder for texture. The sentiment was created using Memo and Hello Valentica fonts in Make the Cut design program.
On the inside, I used a Doubled Hinged Pop Up mechanism to add movement for a fun interactive card. As the card is opened, the two side panels move apart to reveal the panel behind them. Video tutorial and templates for this pop up card by Tatyana Zhykova of Crazy Paper can be found here.
I used my printer to print the sentiment on the inside and cut it with a shadow layer on my Silhouette Cameo.
Other than the two sentiments on this card, all other embellishments were created using the dies I mentioned earlier plus Karen Burniston's "Big Birthday Charms" set for the cake slice and presents.
My new favorite way to give a gift card is to enclose it in a box assembled using Karen Burniston's "Slider Box" dies and decorate it to match the card. Lawn Fawn's "Happy Birthday Border" die was used to cut the words on the front.
I always love a surprise element and I'm finding that it's fun to attach the gift card to a rubber band activated Bam Box and add in a pair of pop up cubes in the slider box for some birthday excitement. Pretty sure nearly everyone on my birthday card list will be getting one soon!
I have one last post for Halloween this year; this time to share some of the fun treat boxes I received from crafty friends. This adorable Hello Kitty potion bottle filled with treats was created by my dear friend Kris.
The template for this bottle was designed and shared by Debbie of Paper Pulse blog here. I really like how you can see the treats inside through the acetate window. And best of all, I love how Kris decorated her potion bottle to be extra special by adding a dry embossed spider web texture and an adorable paper pieced Hello Kitty dressed in her pumpkin costume to the window.
Never to disappoint, my amazingly creative friend Lorna really knocked it out of the park again this Halloween with her dancing Wednesday Addams treat box. Lorna used a super cute print and cut clip art image of Wednesday Addams dressed up with black tulle and stood her onto a condiment cup filled with treats.
The condiment cup, which serves as the base is covered with patterned paper and embellished with dancing skeletons. On the front is a label with lyrics to Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary" which Tik Tokkers had added to Wednesday's iconic dance scene video, causing it to go viral. So much attention to detail!
Lorna also put together these very kawaii paper pieced pumpkin and kimono clad chibi vampires to decorate packages of treats.
Even the gift bag all the goodies came in was decorated with a waving Hello Kitty in her black cat costume!
Our sweet friend Heather delighted us once again this Halloween with her super cute decorated cookies. Halloween is always so much fun, especially with special friends that are so creative and talented!
When I learned our granddaughter would be dressing up as "Barbie in her Gingham Dress" for Halloween, I started putting together a few fun PINK goodies so we could send her a Barbie themed Halloween package.
First, the card: I used Make the Cut Design program to convert a coloring page image of Barbie, a spider web and a wtich's hat clip art into cutfiles for the front of my card. I picked up a Dolly font bundle which included cute Barbie clipart and icons from Exordia Designs to use for the sentiments, and cut out embellishments.
On the inside of the card, I installed Karen Burniston's Twist Flower Pop Up mechanism. The movement of this pop up is a little difficult to capture with still photos alone so I have a short video to demonstrate the movement of this fun pop up.
Since this was a slimline format card, I could fit three of the Twist Flower Pop Up mechanisms in the card. The top and bottom panels with the orange flower shapes pop up and twist to the left while the larger center panel twists to the right as the card is opened. I also attached two die cut bats to the center round panel with strips of acetate so they twist and appear to be flying when the card opens. Barbie silhouette and crown svgs came as part of the Dolly font bundle, bats were die cut from Karen Burniston's Haunted Tiny House Add Ons, and black cat and jack-o-lantern were clipart images rendered into cut files.
Since I had not seen the Barbie movie yet, I watched the movie trailer hoping to get ideas and creative inspiration for fun things I could put together that our granddaughter might enjoy. I thought this shoe from the movie and references to "Barbie feet" vs flat feet were hilarious. It got me thinking, "Hey, I think I can make that!"
I used the free svg cut file for paper witch shoes shared by Cindy Louh on her website here. This is the same template I used to make the witch shoes which I posted last week. But since this one was for Barbie, I used pearlescent pink cardstock instead of black, and attempted to duplicate the heart shaped rhinestone shoe clip.
The next fun little thing I made was this Barbie Eyeshadow Compact...
The inspiration for this came from a similar one posted on Instagram and created by Ideas Caprichosas.
The eye shadow compact was made with circles of glitter and pearlescent cardstock to look like the eye shadows with a foil board mirror. I found clipart of a shadow brush and used Make the Cut Design program to convert it into an svg cut file. The completed paper pieced compact was then glued onto a box with side flaps and filled with candy.
The third little surprise was this personalized pop up slider box with a gift card to her favorite store. I used the Dolly font to make a layered cut out of her name for the front of the box. A little hard to see in the photo but lighter pink panels were dry embossed with Sizzix Stars and Swirls embossing folder and trimmed with glitter cardstock and tiny rhinestones for glitz.
I think I had the most fun this Halloween putting together this box of surprises for our granddaughter. Hope you enjoyed your Halloween too!
