Gingerbread Accordion Card!

 Hello Crafty Friends and welcome. I was scrolling through YouTube the other day and this older video came on my feed from Karen Burniston. It was for a Fancy Label Accordion card, but it used the Evergreen Pivot Panel in the centre. It's such a beautiful card, so I wanted to make one. But for my card, I turned the trees and house used in the card into Gingerbread!! 

For this card, I started by die cut four Fancy Label Accordion pieces, two from a thin red cardstock and two from a dark green cardstock. I then die cut the same from a red and white stripped patterned paper and a brown gingerbread swirl patterned paper. I added the patterned paper around the frame of the Fancy Label Accordion pieces, trimming out the areas I didn't need. 

I added the two centre pieces from the red and white stripped paper to my centre two accordion pieces. Following Karens instructions on her video (which you can watch by clicking here) I die cut the Evergreen Pivot Panel into my two Fancy Label Accordion pieces. 

I dug through my scrap Christmas paper and found this pretty stripped paper, it was a little thicker than normal patterned paper. I used it to die cut the Evergreen Pivot Panel. I trimmed away the areas I didn't need, then folded it down the centre. 

I die cut several of the trees from kraft cardstock. I added some Distress Ink in Vintage Photo around the edges of each tree. Then I used Nuvo Crystal Drops in Simply White to each tree to look like cookie frosting. I also used the Winter Charms and die cut two small Gingerbread men, from the same cardstock and added some Nuvo drops to add icing to my snowmen. I set everything aside to dry.

I then die cut all the pieces for the Holiday House. I used kraft cardstock again and added more Distress Ink around the edges. I die cut the snow areas from a sparkly white cardstock. I also die cut the window and door frames from the same cardstock. I added some detail to the roof, using a white Gelly Pen in size 8. I used the gum drops and swirled mints from the Gingerbread Tiny House Add-Ons to add some candy to my Gingerbread house. I then added some glitter gel to the candy and set that aside to dry.

While everything dried, I cut four more Fancy Label pieces from a green swirl patterned paper. I also cut three more panels from the sparkly white cardstock. I used the hill die from the Long Nature Edges to cut my snow. Then I glued the snow on to my green backgrounds. I added these to the two end panels on my accordion card. I also added one to what will be the front of my card. 

Once everything was dry, I glued all my decorator pieces to my card, then glued all my panels together. I added my fourth green piece to the back to add more security to the little tabs at the back. 

I die cut two labels from the new Greeting Labels from white cardstock. I left one blank so I had a place to sign the card, then I added a stamped sentiment to the label for the front of my card. I used the Christmas Wishes sentiment stamp for this. 

I just love how this card turned out! Thank you to Karen for the fantastic idea. Below is a list of all the supplies I used to make this card. Happy Crafting!

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Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - December 2025 - Song Lyrics

 Hello Crafty Friends and welcome! It's Designer Challenge time once again and our theme this month is Song Lyrics. For this challenge, I was trying to think of a song I wanted to use, Christmas, Rock...then I got thinking about how, when I was a child, our local newspaper would send out a Christmas song book around this time of year. It would have ads from local businesses, but it would also have several lyrics to Christmas songs. I loved looking through it and singing the songs. 

So, my card for you today is a pop-up Christmas song book, complete with lyrics for four Christmas songs, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, O Christmas Tree, Let it Snow and Up on the House Top. 

The first page in my book is Rudolph. I remember being a kid and my cousin and I would sing this together on Christmas eve. It was probably one of the only times we ever got along as children. Lol. For this page, I used the Sleigh Pop-Up. I started by using a thin piece of white cardstock as my card base. All the card bases are 5x7. Then I cut two pieces of cardstock from a smooth heavy weight cardstock. One I created a snowy background using Distress Oxide Ink in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire. Then using my Copic Opaque paint, I splattered the paint to make it look like snow. I set this aside to dry.

I die cut the pieces for the sleigh using some scraps of red cardstock, gold mirrored cardstock and some fancy "paper" that feels like velvet. This worked amazing with the embossing on the sleigh because it really made the pattern come out of the velvet (I know it's hard to see in the picture). I put the sleigh die cuts together and set them aside. 

I glued my background and white rectangle for the base into my card. Then I added some trees and snow to the background using the Long Nature Edges. I cut this from white cardstock and coloured the trees in with Copic markers. 

I then glued my sleigh into my card. I used the Christmas Animals to die cut Rudolph, colouring him in using Copic markers. Then I added some Glossy Accents to his nose. Once he was dry, I added him to my card. Lastly, I added my lyrics to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. 

For my second page in my lyrics book, I used the Christmas Tree Pop-Up. I made another card base using the thin white cardstock. Then I added two pieces of Christmas patterned paper. I added two more pieces of different patterned paper along the edges of the card. 

I then die cut the tree from two colours of green cardstock. I die cut the tree base from brown cardstock and then I cut the ornaments for the tree from white cardstock and coloured them in with Copic markers. I used the tree skirt piece from the Christmas Tree Add-Ons and then added my pop-up to my card. 

I die cut the ornaments for the border from the Christmas Borders 1 die set and coloured them in with Copic markers. I added some gold mirrored cardstock to the tops. Then I added my song lyrics to the left side of my card and a sentiment to the right. 

The next song in my pop-up lyrics book is Let It Snow. I used the Arch Pop-Up along with every single snow flake I had in my KB collection! I die cut the snow flakes from four different colours of blue cardstock and from a white glitter cardstock. Then I glued them all over my arch. 

I added my song lyrics and then used Word Set 13 - Snow to add a sentiment over my lyrics. Like my other cards, the card base is a 5x7 thin white cardstock. I used a pretty winter patterned paper for the background on this card. 

Last, but not least, is "Up on the Housetop". For this card, I debated on the House Pop-Up or the Fireplace Pop-Up. I went with the Fireplace. I die cut the pieces from scrap cardstock I had in my stash. I cut another card base and added some patterned paper in my scrap stash for the wall and floor. Then I glued in my fireplace. Santas boots are dangling from the fireplace (hard to see in the picture). I added some of the great add-on fireplace pieces to make my Christmas scene. 

Once I had all my cards made, I began gluing them together. Then I cut a piece of patterned cardstock 11x7 and scored it at 5" and 6" making a 1" spine for my book. Then I glued the cover around my cards. I added two clasps with magnets to keep the card closed. 

I hope you like my idea as much as I do! Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be sure to check out the other incredible designs made by our very talented design team. Below is a list of all the supplies I used to make this song book. Happy Crafting!

Supplies: For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. Please note I only use and share products I love. Thank you Crafty Friends!