This has been a fun week. Karen Burniston's dies are so cleverly designed that designs come easily. Today's sneak peek is a slimline card using the Movie Night Charms and the Graduation Elements. The Movie Night Charms are on the front . . .
. . . and the Graduation Elements on the inside.
Only a couple more days before you can purchase the dies. I hope you have been making your list.
I wanted to see if I could make a slimline card with the new Karen Burniston Whirly Wheel. Turns out I can. I used two other new sets, the Curved Edges and the Rainbow Add-ons, on the front.
When you turn the Whirly Wheel, up pops the unicorn from the Leaping Animals set. The sentiment is from the new clear stamp set, Rainbow Greetings.
I hope you are enjoying this Sneak Peek Week. The design team has been having lots of fun showing off all the new dies.
What I like about Karen Burniston's dies is that they are, as Karen has said, backward compatible, meaning that new dies coordinate with old dies. One of the previously released dies was the Triple Platform Pop-up, which is a very fun die. I have combined that with the new Movie Night Charms for my sneak peek today.
The new dies are on the front of my card, along with the Postage Pop-up panel. I decorated the Paper People with some Tiny Accessory charms to make them look they're from a western movie.
Then, on the inside, is the Triple Platform Pop-up decorated with the Popcorn die and sentiments from the Movie Night clear stamp sentiments. The clapboard and movie tickets are also part of the Movie Night Charms set.
One of the interactive dies in this Karen Burniston new release is the Whirly Wheel.
To be truthful, I had a little trouble with this one the first time I used it. However, Karen gave me a little tip which helped a whole lot. There was less friction between the pieces when I put some clear tape on the cardstock before cutting the three main pieces.
The first card with this set that I'm showing you is a graduation card, also using the frog from the Leaping Animals set.
Here is that card. I've had that cool graduation paper for quite a while and was glad to be able to use it.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I'll have another sneak peek tomorrow. And don't forget to check out our Blog Hop next week. You'll have many chances to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.
It's an exciting day. Sneak peeks of the new dies from Karen Burniston start today. There are 10 new dies and 5 new coordinating stamp sets. When Karen showed the design team the new dies, Nicky Foden made a comment that she saw me using the gowns from the Graduation Elements as robes and making a Harry Potter card.
Not one to back away from a challenge, I did just that. I used some Gryffindor patterned paper on the relatively simple front.
And here are Harry, Ron, and Hermione on the inside wearing their robes. I used dies from Word Sets 13 and 18 as well as the Mini Alphabet & Numbers set to create my sentiment. The Graduation Elements set includes a banner with the word "congrats" on it; but, as you can see, the Mini Alphabet & Numbers set letters work perfectly as well.
It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge. This month's theme is "Animals & Characters." I actually have both animals and characters on my card.
As I was trying to decide how I was going to meet this challenge, all the news stations in Orlando were talking about the opening of Epic Universe at Universal Studios, a new 5-park addition. Two of the areas are Isle of Berk How to Train Your Dragon and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Ministry of Magic. And that was all I needed -- an idea immediately popped into my head. In the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire there is a scene where Harry is riding on a dragon all over Hogwarts.
The front of my card has a flat version of the Castle Pop-up. The sun and cloud are from the Landscape Scene set.
Inside I mounted Harry on the Dragon flying in the Lorna Label Pop-up. Harry was constructed using the Paper People and Tiny Accessories 1. The dragon is from the Knight & Dragon set. I love the patterned paper I used as a background. It is from a paper pack by Stamp Anniething. I have several stamp sets that are Harry Potter-related. One of them includes a golden snitch, which I stamped, cut out, and glued onto the signature panel.
It's June 1st, time to change the calendar. My friend Sue Small-Krieder and I are halfway through our calendar challenge.
May and June are graduation months, so I decided to have a graduating bookworm on my June calendar page. Karen Burniston has a cute little Bookworm die set that I used on my page, along with several of the books from that same set. The background graduation caps are a Creek Bank Creations stencil.
I must say that I have been having fun with this challenge. I'm glad Sue asked me to join her.
Karen Burniston had a Virtual Class earlier today in which she showed us two different cards using the Coffee Cup Pop-up. I haven't used that particular die set a great number of times, so I took advantage of the class to expand my horizons. As I have an abundance of patterned paper in my stash, I decided to make use of my own supplies for the cards.
The first card has some faux Polaroid photos on the front, which I thought looked pretty cool.
It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge. The theme of this month's challenge is "Make it Fluffy." As Karen said, "You decide what's fluffy - is it an animal? Clouds? Something in the kitchen? Incorporate something fluffy into your design." I decided on a fluffy angora cat.
My granddaughter's birthday is in April, and she's a big cat lover; so I made this birthday card for her. The front of the card is a relatively simple lead-in to the inside.
When you open the card, there sits the fluffy cat on a fluffy pillow inside a Lorna Label Pop-up which has been cut-out. What do you know -- another fluffy object!
It's time to turn the calendar to a new month. My friend Sue Small-Krieder and I are participating in a monthly challenge -- a new calendar page each month. May is Bike Safety Month. One of the die cuts in Scrappy Boy Stamps' Cute Girls Cat Lovers was the perfect image.
Karen Burniston's designer challenge card this month was very clever, and I decided I'd like to give it a try. Made with the mechanism from the Katherine Label and the Fence Add-on to the Landscape Rectangle Accordion, the Fence pops up when you open the card.
I recently purchased those cute fairies from Riley & Company.
If you'd like to give this card a try, here is a link to Karen's video.
This month's Karen Burniston Designer Challenge is anything goes. The theme is "Designer's Choice," so we can do whatever we'd like. I decided that, as Easter is just a few weeks away, I would make an Easter card.
I had enjoyed Karen's March Zoom class using the new Popcorn die with the Flower Pot Pop-up, so much so that I converted it to an Easter basket, substituting Easter eggs for all that popcorn.
The basket on the front has the perennial chocolate bunny and a few eggs, several of which have fallen into the grass. I added the Easter sentiment on one of the new Bouquet Bits.
The basket on the inside has Easter eggs made from the Easter Borders set, as well as two of the Spring Animals -- the bunny and the chick. One of the cool things that I liked from the Zoom class was that Karen also used the new Triple Platform Pop-up. As you can see from the photo, there are a few more larger Easter eggs mounted on that section.
Time to turn the calendar to April, and I'm continuing with my participation in the calendar challenge with my friend, Sue Small-Kreider. You'll find her April page here.
I know the saying is "April showers bring May flowers;" but I live in Florida, and we have flowers blooming all year long. So my calendar page is a wheelbarrow full of flowers. The wheelbarrow was made with a Honey Bee Stamps die set. I stamped the flowers with one of the stamps in Honey Bee's Loads of Spring stamp set. This stamp is actually an add-on to Honey Bee's Big Pick-up Tailgate, but it worked perfectly in the wheelbarrow by cutting the colored image in half and stacking the pieces in the wheelbarrow. The grass was made with Karen Burniston's Nature's Edges die.
My daughter asked me to make a card for her to give to a co-worker whose wife just presented him with twins -- a boy and a girl. I thought Karen Burniston's Fancy Label Accordion would be perfect because you can have several canvases on which to create.
The front label welcomes the babies, and the next two are decorated for each baby individually.
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Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day! (I do have Irish ancestors.) I made this card for a good friend who happens to be Polish; but today she's Irish, and she loves gnomes!
I wish you the Luck of the Irish today and every day.
This month's Karen Burniston Designer Challenge theme was "Lake or Ocean." I chose "Lake." My late husband was an avid fisherman, so I dedicated this card to him. It's a little larger than most of the cards I make -- 5" x 8" gatefold. I had participated in Karen's most recent on-line class and had some "bait and tackle" paper left over. I used it for the front of the card.
My stamping friend Sue Small-Kreider recently asked me if I wanted to join in with her new calendar challenge. It sounded like fun. She provided us with the monthly calendar pages that she stamped with the Spellbinders BetterPress, and we would decorate them. She had made her calendar pages for January and February, but I didn't join her group until March. Here is her calendar page.
My Irish ancestry always shows itself in March. I love to make St. Patrick's Day cards, so I continued this tradition by making my calendar page in a similar theme.
I didn't have a leprechaun in the right proportion for the page, but I did have a small Riley & Company gnome who I dressed in green. The pot of gold is part of the Karen Burniston Good Luck Charms die set; the clouds are part of her Tropical Scene die set; and the grass is from her Nature's Edges set. I have several rainbow dies, and the one that worked the best for this scene is Trinity Stamps' Rainbow Builder. I stamped the birds with a stamp I have had for many years; and unfortunately, I have no idea who made it. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I stamped a very small shamrock on March 17th on the calendar.
I'm looking forward to continuing this challenge for the rest of the year. I hope you'll come back on the first of every month to see my calendar pages.
One of my favorite card-making challenges is Craft Roulette. By spinning the roulette wheel, you are presented with four parameters with which you are to make a card. This week's parameters were:
* Project - an A2 card
* Color - Valentines
* Element - February
* Random - Metallic or Foil
After much deliberation, I created this card:
* an A2 card
* a favorite Valentine color of red
* February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
* Metal "wires" around the basket are silver metallic cardstock.
I didn't have any strawberry stamps, so I had to scour the internet to find some strawberry free clip art, which I printed and cut out. The base of my card is the Karen Burniston Flower Pot Pop-up, into which I glued the individual strawberries. I found some woven basket patterned paper in my stash for the outside of the "basket" and glued some silver cardstock around it to create "wires." I found an appropriate sentiment for the front in a very old stamp set I've had for years.
Craft Roulette always makes you think. Sometimes the answers to the parameters come easy; other times you really have to think hard about it. This one was relatively easy. I look forward to 7:00 on Friday nights each week for a new challenge.
It's Designer Challenge time again for the Karen Burniston design team. The theme this month is "Bouquets." Karen reminded us that "bouquets" don't necessarily have to be flowers.
My card actually has two bouquets. The one on the front is your standard flower bouquet -- made with pieces from the Flower Pot Pop-up (plus the Add-on set) and the Twist Flower Pop-up.
The bouquet on the inside is a "flower people" bouquet -- made again with the Twist Flower Pop-up, but with the Paper People as well. The double Photo Fan Pop-up gives you plenty of space for lots of flower people. I added eyeglasses from Tiny Accessories 1 to several of the people.
This would make a nice card from the gang at the office.
