Karen Burniston September Designer Challenge

The theme of this month's Karen Burniston Designer Challenge is "CASCADE."  We were to use the new Cascade Pop-up on our card.  I confess that I was not an immediate fan of the Cascade Pop-up.  However, after using it on several cards, I found that I really like it and its clever mechanism.

My card is based on the movie The Wizard of Oz.  I found a piece of free clip art for the front, on which I mounted my Happy Birthday sentiment.

On the inside I placed several of the Movie Night Charms on the cascading circles and put images from Kindred Stamps on the filmstrip.  To make the images fit within the panels of the filmstrip, I first stamped and colored each character.  I then took a photo of the colored images and sized them in Print Shop to fit the openings.  The sentiment on the inside is from the Movie Night clear stamp set.

The back of the card is the end of the movie with a hint to the theme song -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  The rainbow was the last of six rainbows I made using the Arch Pop-up some time ago.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  This was definitely a fun challenge this month.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 6

I've shown two Christmas cards made with the Cascade Pop-up (along with the Poinsettia die), but today I've got a Thanksgiving card made with the Cascade Pop-up (along with the Autumn Elements and Feathered Animals sets).  This is a 5 1/2" square card.

The arrangement on each of the cascading circles is pretty much duplicated in the lower left-hand corner of the card.  I just love those little acorns!

Don't forget to check out the blog hop on Thursday. 

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peeks - Day 3

After I made yesterday's Cascade Pop-up card, I decided to expand it just a little bit.  If you make your card a little bigger (my card today is 5" x 7"), you can get two cascading elements on it.  Here is my expanded Poinsettia card.  A favorite of mine is the Pine Cone set from an earlier release.

You have a bit more room inside of a 5" x 7" card than you do in an A2 card.  I experimented a little bit to see how two cascading elements would look.  I put poinsettias on the upper cascade and pine boughs and pinecones on the lower one. 

As I was opening and closing the card, the pine boughs were getting in each others' way, so I put some acetate behind each layer of pine boughs.  That solved my problem.

This is such a fun release.  I hope you stop back tomorrow to see another sneak peek.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 2

This new release from Karen Burniston includes some really cute dies.   Today I'm using the new Cascade Pop-up.

I make Christmas cards all year long so that I'm not rushed come December.  The Cascade Pop-up lent itself well to the Poinsettia die.  I decided that I wanted to have my poinsettias something other than the normal RED, so I googled "poinsettia" and found some interesting versions.  I decided on this pink and white variety.

As you can see, the poinsettias fit very nicely on the cascading layers.  I used a few sprigs of pine from the Pine Cone set for accent.

Stop back tomorrow for another sneak peek.