Sunday, August 17, 2025
Super Hero Get Well Cards
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Sliceform Shiba Inu Birthday
I have another dog themed birthday card and gift card holder to share today. This one features a Shiba Inu for my sil who owns one.
Using the clip art package of various kawaii dog breeds designed by Elytra Studio that I purchased earlier this year, I created these paper pieced "peeking" Shiba Inu cut files in Make the Cut Design Studio. A little difficult to see in the photo but I used a Darice embossing folder to add a background of pawprints behind the Shiba Inu. I had a few daisies left over from the pop up card in my last post so I used them to embellish this card as well.Inside the card I added a sliceform base which I got from the Lori Whitlock Shop. Many of the sliceform cards in the shop use the same base, so once you purchase the template for one base, you can actually get creative and start creating your own fun versions of sliceform cards.
For this card I added a paper pieced sitting Shiba Inu, balloons, and a birthday cake which was die cut using Marianne Designs "Birthday Cake" and Taylored Expressions "Cake and Stand" sets.
On the left and right side I added more daisies together with a matted fishtail banner and panel for my sentiment.
Matching gift card holder was another paper pieced Shiba Inu holding an envelope which opens
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Daisy Fan Pop Up Bouquet
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Personalized Graduation Card
I put together another recessed window style graduation card for the last of the 2025 high school graduates in our family. If you've been following my blog for awhile you probably know that I often fall back to making this style of card for graduation cards. Checking back, I see that I first designed the cut file for this card 13 years ago! Gee, I hope this card doesn't seem too outdated!
Whenever I use this template, I simply edit the cutting file by updating year of the class and the name of the graduate on the front of the card. I search online for a photo of the graduate's school campus to use as a backdrop inside the recessed window. I also like to use the school colors, logo, or mascot to create a very personalized card.Sunday, July 20, 2025
Seashell Shaped Card
That's okay, the fun happens when you open the seashell to find an ocean floor scene with a pop up mermaid princess inside.
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Butterfly Double Fan Pop Up Card

Inside the card, I installed two of the mechanisms from Karen Burniston's Photo Fan Pop Up die for double the fun. I saw others doing this on Karen Burniston's Pop Up Peeps Facebook page and wanted to give it a try too.

Since the mechanism for this pop up consists of six spokes, adding a second one right below the first allowed me to add more than twelve butterflies to this pop up!
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Showers Of Love
Kept the inside of the card simple with the sentiment printed on beige parchment and matted on dark blue and gold foil.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Couples Wedding Shower
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Staggered Charm Accordion Card
I added paper pieced images of Sanrio characters holding signs to read "Happy Birthday To You!" onto the inner panels in each of the windows. Hard to tell from the photos but I also dry embossed the cardstock directly behind each character with a different design. Then I used jump rings to hang tiny cupcakes and a flower into the little open frames which connect the inner panels. I thought I was done but still felt something was lacking so I added one last design element: a double heart die cut from Karen Burniston's "Label Charm Pop Up" die set together with a thin strip of cardstock as a border on each page.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Wicked Good Birthday

Our granddaughter recently celebrated her eighth birthday with a Wicked (the movie) themed party. In as much as her gramma loves themed cards, this was the card she came up with for the birthday girl.
This display style "Showcase Pop Out Card" was designed and taught to us at a recent crafting get together by our dear friend Lori. A little difficult to see in this photo but the center panel of this card pops out as a 3 dimensional frame when the card is opened. I ran metallic gold cardstock through a Sizzix "Stars & Swirls" embossing folder for the two side panels, and used pink glitter cardstock with green foil board for the bottom drop down panel to give this card a max amount of glitz and bling. The center panel was created from a sticker purchased from RedBubble. On my request, dear Lori helped to make this extra special by adding her magical Stickles glitter enhancements.