Dies R Us: Welcome to the Horse Farm

Greetings it’s Sue here from Ully Cat's World with another barn pop-up card.

The barn pop-up is Karen Burniston’ Barn Pop Stand as are the Farm Edges fence and hills. The horses are cut and stenciled using Karen Burniston’s Horse, Unicorn and Zebra set and the hat and pitchfork come from her Tiny Accessories 3 set. “Howdy!” sentiment is also by Karen Burniston.

Cut:

2 - largest barn die out of red card stock -Cut doors out of one

1 – small “X” window from white

2 – doors “X” die out of white

1 – door railing out of white

2 – roof trim die out of white

2 – weather vanes at same time by placing silver mirror card back-to-back

3 – hay bales -color with Distress Ink

1 – pitchfork – color with markers

2 – fence out of white

3 - horse bodies

3 – horse manes and tails

1 – cowboy hat from yellow – color with distress inks and markers

2 – Howdy! – one from white and one from yellow

Cut horses and color using stencils on dies and Distress Oxide inks using large Pink & Main blender brush. (This was my first time using this larger inking brush and I was delighted with the ease of inking up the large horse pieces. The ink blending went smoothly unlike when I use sponge inking tools.)

Glue white “X” frame to window cut out to form a hay loft door. Using clear tape hinge door onto loft. Glue on roof trim to front and back barn pieces. Glue weather vane to inside back piece.

To assemble the sliding doors, weave the top bar end of the red door piece through the white door railing piece fold the red bar over the railing where indicated and glue bar onto top of door making sure no glue is on the railing. Glue white “X” frame over door. Repeat with second door.

The card base is a 10 x7 inch white heavy weight card stock folded in half to form a 5 x 7 inches card. Panels of printed paper were cut to cover the front and back panels (5 x 7 inches, front and 5 ½ x 7 inches, back).

The inside panels are 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ inches. I positioned and taped the inside panels with clear removable tape so that I could die cut the pop-up flaps to anchor the barn to. Using Scor-tape, I adhered the paper panels to the card base removing the clear tape once all panels were adhered.

Glue barn pieces to pop-up tabs. Cut a 1-inch strip of paper fold in half and fold to create tabs on both bottom edges. Glue two hay bales and pitchfork to one side and glue tabs down inside barn, over the card fold. This will be seen when the barn doors are opened. Glue remaining hay bale behind barn hay loft door.

Glue matching printed papers to cover over tabs inside barn. Using only a small dot of glue at inside top of barn glue barn pieces together. Fold fences in half and glue ends inside barn. Glue decorated horses to fence.

Decorate the inside and outside of card with grass and hills cut using Farm Edges die set. (I trimmed off the tractor from my hills and had to cut and move the die to get a longer hill for my 7-inch card.)

The front sentiment is cut twice and slightly off set. I used Distress Oxide ink to color the yellow layer.

Stamped the back flap of envelope with a vintage horse stamp.

Hope this fun card has provided some inspiration for your crafting. 😊

SUPPLIES Used from Dies R Us:

· Karen Burniston - Dies - Barn Pop Stand - 1096

· Karen Burniston - Dies - Farm Edges - 1097

· Karen Burniston - Dies - Horse, Unicorn & Zebra - 1094

· Karen Burniston - Dies - Tiny Accessories 3 - 1095

· Karen Burniston - Dies - Howdy

· CosmicShimmer - Specialist Acrylic Glue - 125ml

· Scor-Pal - Scor-Tape 1/8"

· Distress Inks Pads

· Pink & Main - Ergonomic Blender Brush

· Sizzix - Big Shot PLUS die cutting Machine

Other Supplies:

· Red, yellow, green and white cardstock

· Printed papers from The Paper Studio’s Beach House pad and Graphic 45’s Fruit & Floral pad

· Clear tape

· Crayola Signature Brush & Detail Dual-ended Markers

· Pigma Micron 05 archival ink pen

· Vintage horse stamp

· Stampin’ Up – Early Espresso ink pad

· Ranger - Distress Ink – Fossilized Amber

· Ranger – Distress Oxide – Ground Expresso

· Sponge dauber

· Stamping platform

· Scissors

· Tweezers

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