Hello it's Karen Burniston and today's technique video is going to combine a
couple different tree dies so I'm going to use the base of the Christmas tree
pop-up die set along with the tree from the Tree pop-up die set and those two
together are going to combine to make this really cool spooky version of a
tree that I'm decorating in a raven theme and you can check out all of my
designs at karenburniston.com This is my project for the September 2017
Designer Challenge with a theme of "Signature Style" Now I thought that my
signature style usually incorporates some kind of die repurposing so that's
something that I love to do so that's why I'm making this card where I combine
two different tree dies to make a new kind of pop-up and then the other thing
is that when Halloween rolls around I really love to make cards that are
creepy and spooky and eerie so I wanted to do something in that theme. Let me
show you super quick how I made the distress ink backgrounds for my card
I started with two card stock panels each measuring four and a half inches
wide by five and three-quarter inches tall. There are so many good videos on
how to make cool backgrounds using the distress oxide inks. I used three colors
for these backgrounds I used the wilted violet the walnut stain and the
peeled paint. The idea is that you shmear them on your craft sheet, you spritz that
with water and you dredge or pounce your card stock through it and then you heat
dry it and then during that process you can do a combination of perhaps spraying
your background with water or I like to use a rag and take some of the ink off
and there's really no wrong way to do this but in the end you end up with this
really great kind of one-of-a-kind background
Now I'm gonna switch to distress inks to make a background in a similar fashion
using just some great cardstock I didn't even measure it because I knew I just
needed pieces that were big enough to cut trees and the you know the base of
the Christmas tree and stuff like that so I just made a couple backgrounds like
this just making sure that I use the ink on both sides of the cardstock
And these are made with a combination of black soot hickory smoke and ground
espresso Okay now I'm ready to create my card
base I'd like my finished card to measure 4
and 3/4 by 6 and 3/4 so to do that I need to start with a piece of black
cardstock that is nine and a half inches wide by six and three-quarter inches
tall and then I've scored that in the center for folding. Now I'm not ready to
put these background pieces in permanently into the card but I can use
the card to help me determine where they're going to eventually go and one
thing I want to do is avoid the fold in the middle so you can see I'm leaving a
little bit of gap as I use my temporary removable tape to just place those two
background pieces next to each other skipping the fold and attach them to
each other. Then I want to use the pop-up die. So the pop-up die comes included
with the Christmas tree set that's the one that I'm using for the pop-up
mechanism for this card I want to make sure that there's at least 4 inches from
the center of that die to the back of the card. I can see I can push that back
a little bit actually because there was a little bit of extra room there. I'm
also going to tape my die into place. Now notice there is a triangle-shaped hole
in the middle of that die that should point towards the front of the card you
are looking at the front of the card I always build my cards backwards when I'm
making the video so that you, the viewer, are always looking at the front of the
card. So now I'm ready to cut that pop-up into those two base pieces so I'm just
gonna make my sandwich for a wafer-thin die and roll that right through my Big
Shot machine or whatever die-cutting machine that you like to use for a
wafer-thin die Let's take a look at what the pop-up
die does - it will cut two tabs into the card on either side of the fold that
will fit the trunk of the Christmas tree perfectly and we'll end up using
decorator dies from both of the Halloween die sets - this graveyard scene
comes included in the Halloween Scene die set so I'm going to use that on both
sides of my card interior and I'll keep the purple graveyard scenes that come
out because I'll use those on the front of the card. And then what will happen is
where those were die-cut out of the purple paper once I glue that then to
the black cardstock I'll get that illusion of having that
graveyard along the bottom edge of the cards interior. I've used a tape runner
on the back of the purple card stock except for down at the bottom where I've
got all that little bits of grass and things and I'll use some glue in those
areas and I'm leaving these two pieces taped to each other for now it'll just
help me when I'm installing them inside the card so that they line up nicely and
that the tabs are still right across from each other so they'll fit that
Christmas tree trunk but once I have those two glued inside the card then I
can remove those temporary pieces of tape
Okay next step is the spooky tree.
First I'll die cut two trees out of my black background pieces and this is from
die number 1005 which is the Tree pop-up and I'm using only the tree
itself from this die set and none of the other pieces.
What I'll do with these trees is I'm going to cut notches into them so first
I'm going to start by cutting a notch in one of the trees from the bottom of the
tree and I'm going to go about halfway up I'm not measuring just about halfway
up and I'll cut a little notch out of that tree so that means just two
parallel cuts pretty close together and then just take the sliver of tree out
from the middle and then you'll end up with a little notch like this. The other
tree needs a notch as well but that notch should be from the top of the tree. So
what I'll do is I'll line up those two trees right over the top of each other
and then I can use a pen to mark a dot on that second tree just at the top of
the notch and that way I know how far down from the top of the tree to cut to
create the notch that will slot into that other one. So once again I'm just
using my scissors making two parallel cuts and just making sure I go down to
my pen line when I'm cutting that notch. Okay let me test this out I'm going to
take the two notched trees and basically just slide them into each other and see
if the bottom of the trunks line up nicely and they do so that's how I'm
going to make that opening and closing three-dimensional tree
I need to switch back to my other tree die - the Christmas tree pop-up to cut
the trunk piece and I'll do that out of some of that leftover black background
that I used for cutting the trees themselves. Now this piece here is scored
for folding in four locations so I just need to find all of those score lines
and what that'll do is that'll create a little tree trunk so there's a tab that
connects it to the other side I'll need just a little bit of adhesive
on that tab and then connect it to itself to create that tree trunk. So
there are some little holes in the top of that tree trunk and those should be
near the top so in other words the fatter part of the tree trunk is the
base of it and that will fit down perfectly over the tabs in the card and
those tabs will go right up into the corner of that tree trunk. So I usually
just work one at a time add my glue and then just go in and pinch that tab until
it's attached to the trunk just right in the corner there. And then what I can do
is just kind of move it out of the way a little bit to give me access to my other
tab and just add my glue to the top of the tab and then I just want to go in
there and pinch that into the other corner of the tree trunk base. And then
once that glue sets up that tree trunk is in the card now and you can close the
card and give it a good press in the closed position and you'll see that
it'll just pop right up when the card is opened
The only other die out of the Christmas tree die set that I'll need for this
card are the two big trees themselves and I've cut those out of the other
piece of black background that I created. And these trees are basically just going
to be used for the mechanism along the bottom so I don't even need the tops of
the trees I'll just cut those off. All I'm really looking to do is to glue my
spooky trees to those Christmas trees such that I can keep those little holes
at the bottom of the Christmas tree that fit on the Christmas tree trunk. So I'll
add my glue to the back of the spooky tree the one that has the notch at the
bottom and then I'll glue that one to the Christmas tree half that has also
has the notch at the bottom and the positioning on this is I'm just going to
start the spooky tree just above those little holes that are in the base of the
Christmas tree itself. So now what I can do is get rid of all the excess
Christmas trees so what I mean by that is I'm going to start at the top here
and I'm going to come out at an angle and basically I just want to keep those
holes that are in the base of the Christmas tree. So I'm just coming out
kind of just at an angle going out far enough to where I maintain those little
holes at the base of the tree. Then the other thing I need to do is I need to
get the notch back into the spooky tree. So now I've glued it to that Christmas
tree and then that has covered up some of my notch so I need to go in there
using that spooky tree as a guide and recut the notch. And here you go a spooky
tree wearing bell-bottom pants that's what it looks like. Okay now I want to do
that again I'm gonna speed this up a little bit because you kind of get the
idea I want to glue my tree to the other
Christmas tree so I'm just adding the glue to the back of the tree. I want to
position it starting just above the holes just like I did with the other
tree. I'm just doing the exact same thing now with the second tree. Then I'll take
my scissors starting from the top I'm going to cut out at that angle making
sure that I keep the hole and then I'll do it on the other side making sure that
I keep the hole. And you may look at the base of this
tree and say "hey there's three holes!" Well that's actually - that center one is
actually just the leftover remaining slot that was in the Christmas tree so
that will not be used at all in today's assembly we'll just use the two outer
holes for the assembly. Okay from here the addition of that tree
to the trunk is the same as if you were making a Christmas tree. So the tree
trunk itself has little tabs one on each side of the trunk you fold that tab
outward a little bit to where you can put that tree down into the trunk and
then wiggle that tab back through the hole that's on the tree. You can see
right there I've got that first tab in. And then you just go around and do each
side. This is not a good camera angle for this, I really needed to get close to
this, kind of up near my face, so I did. But let me show you when it's done
basically you just wiggle the tabs in on all four sides and that will connect
then that tree to the trunk and everything will start working. Okay if
you need to pause the video right here and take a look at this freeze frame
you're gonna see how each side of that tree is just there with those tabs going
through the holes but you could also watch the Christmas tree video if you
needed just another visual of how to do it
Okay the pop-up is done and it's time for decorating.
I had these metal spider charms from the Tim Holtz collection so I hung one out
of the tree using thread and then added a vellum spiderweb cut with the
Halloween Scene die set. Since I was going for a raven theme I
chose the black birds that are in the Halloween Elements die set to cut out of
the remaining black background pieces and then just glue those into the tree.
And I do need to watch the location of the birds because if they're too high
and when the card is closed the birds will stick up out of the card so I just
need to add a bird to the tree and then just test it real quick.
For the greeting I combined a die-cut word "happy" with a stamped word "Halloween"
and then I'm going to cut out that greeting using one of the label dies
from the Katherine Label pop-up die set. Another cool embellishment from the Tim
Holtz collection are these bones so what I did is I punched two holes in the top
of the label and then I'm just gonna weave that bone through. And then I
repeated that process to make a second label for the front of the card, this
time using a stamp I've had in my collection forever. I don't even know who
originally made it that has a portion of the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe which is
one of my favorite poems. So there is one thing you have to consider when you're
decorating the background down in the area where the tree is going to collapse
into its closed position and that is that you don't want to create catch
points that the branches can get stuck underneath. So that bone is a little bit
daring but as long as you choose a location where an edge of a branch isn't
going to tuck underneath it it should be fine. And I do recommend like things like
these spiders and spider webs that I'm going to use as additional embellishment -
don't use pop dots underneath them otherwise you're just creating potential
catch points for your tree. Just leave them nice and flat and let the tree
itself be the fun dimensional element inside the card. Remember I kept those
purple graveyard scenes from inside the card and now what I've done is staggered
them, added a black version of those same graveyards behind them to create a
shadow, and then I'm going to embellish with a few strips of washi tape. So just
kind of deciding where all my elements are gonna go here on the front of the
card. The background itself is just a piece of patterned paper but I did add
some inks and stuff to it to distress it. So it says "deep into the darkness
peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no
mortals ever dared to dream before" so naturally inside the card I needed to
quoth the raven "nevermore" So I'm just using some black letter
stickers along the bottom of the card. Okay now the techniques in this card in
terms of combining those two trees can be used for other themes. You can imagine
how pretty this would be as a bare winter card or a fall card with some
leaves falling off of it or even a spring card so just change out the
colors, change out the theme, you've got a really cool year-round card. And if you
follow my dimensions then the card will end up being four and
three quarters by six and three quarters which means it will mail in an A7
envelope. if you click on the website link you'll
go to KarenBurniston.com where you can find out information about purchasing
these dies as well as links to all of my other social media accounts. You can
subscribe to this YouTube channel and check out some of my other videos. Thanks
so much for watching I'll see you next time.
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