Sunflowers - thinking of you

 This is a card I made for someone a couple years ago. It ended up arriving too late. :(  The sunflowers are symbolic of her childhood where she grew up.

I used some diecut washi from Pinkfresh. Inside I mixed them in with some pop up flowers I made from a tutorial on Pinterest.

 

  

Mother's Day pop-up card

 Here's another card I made some time ago but didn't get around to uploading. I got the tutorial on how to make the pop up flowers on Pinterest.

 

Diagram for box card

 I came up with this diagram back in early 2017. I made a cut file but this can easily be done without a machine. It's just a matter of scoring and cutting in the right spots. For the inside pieces you attach your embellishments to, just cut a strip 1" wide and 4.25" long. Score ends 1/2" from edge (the long middle section should be 3.25" - same width as the long side of the box).
Here's an example of a box card.

Hope card for cancer patient

 This card was made for someone who was diagnosed with colon cancer. I used dark blue for the base,  'hope', and the ribbon on the jar because that's the color for colon cancer awareness. I also used butterflies to symbolize that hope. (They also mean courage.) Pearlized/metallic paper was used for the word and butterflies.

Gift card holders

 Here's the instructions to the pop-up gift card holder. http://kaleidoscopecreations.blogspot.com/2017/08/make-pop-up-gift-card-holderou.html  

I made for my daughter who needed a few. The inside matches the outside but I only took a photo of one to show.

Shadow box card

I created this shadow box card by using a piece of hologram cardstcok cut 4.25 x 11.5. The short sides are 1.5 inches and the front and back are 4 inches. (score at 1.5, 5.5, 7, and 11)  A half inch tab at one end is adhered to the other end to make the box. I used a Kat Scrappiness double stitched square die to cut out the window. Before assembling I decided I wanted to add a slider to the window and had to create another frame inside for the piece to fit between. I flocked all the moose.
This card has been entered in the Kat Scrappiness January card challenge

Punny cards

Here's a couple cards I made awhile back and didn't get around to posting. It took me a bit to figure out how to do the pop-up and make the chair but I worked it out and i think it came out pretty good!

Make a pop-up gift card holder

Note: You want sturdy paper but the thicker your paper, the more bulky it will be inside your card. Do a trial run on scrap paper to be sure you got your opening right.

Start with 4 x 5.5 inch piece of paper. Score down the middle of the 4" side so when folded, it will be 2 x 5.5

On a large circle die (a larger die will not cut the curve down so far), measure and mark off with a sharpie where a line will be about 3.75 inches across. I use the back side of the die and cut facing down. Or use your gift card to get an idea of the size opening you need. Remember, your cut line is not the inner edge of your die.

Fold your paper in half on the score line and place marked die on top lining up your marks with the folded edge. Eyeball centering (mine was about 7/8 inch from each edge). And run through machine. (using a stitched die, the other side is not going to have nice stitch marks. Just make that the back side in your card. It won't really be noticed anyway.)

Unfold and die cut each long edge with a scalloped border. You could do this part folded and get both sides at once but doing it unfolded will keep the stitch lines for both edges.

Next, you will score lines a little above the scalloped edge (ignore the measurement on the top of the score board). Do it folded first so it leaves an impression on the other half and you'll have them in the same place. Then open the paper and go over each line again so you will have 2 good score lines.

Fold your edges up.

On the inside of your card, adhere one scalloped edge fold along the fold line of your card. Then adhere the other scalloped edge next to it. Put your 'good' stitched edge of the opening facing the bottom panel that you see when opening the card.

TADA! Quite easy.

And here's the front.

jingle bells card/gift card holder

Lawn Fawn had a new release of a die the makes a pop up gift card holder for a card. I really didn't need it (we don't do GC much) but I thought it was a neat idea and I love seeing if I can do it myself. It was simple enough to do with a scalloped border die I have and an in/out stitched circle die. I was going to do it with an oval but I don't have a stitched oval that puts the stitches on the outside of the cut. You can do it without stitches, but I was trying to duplicate the LF die.

I would note it's best not to use really thick paper for this pop up. I used holographic posterboard which is a bit thick to use inside a card.

Welcome baby pop up box card

I made my own cut file for this for a plain box and then used a border punch on the top. Title was cut with cricut and embellishments are some old cardstock diecuts.

Peekaboo card with Rudolph and friends

While there is a flap die out there I don't own one. So I made my own flaps with a regular die and partial die-cutting. (Basically, you just put your top plate only up to where you want the area cut. Where there is no plate covering part the die, that area of the die can't cut.)  This card was made for a card sketch challenge by Dani.