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.

Movie Night with Harry Potter

I haven't played with the new Movie Night Charms very much, so I thought I would make a card using them today.  One of my favorite dies is the Fancy Label Accordion, which was one of the very first Karen Burniston dies I purchased many years ago.

As you may or may not know, I am a big Harry Potter Fan.  I had some of the journaling cards left from a recent Karen Burniston on-line class.  I cut it down to fit the first panel of my card.

I thought the panels of the Fancy Label Accordion were just a bit too large to use the charms as is, so I cut off the charm rings and layered them on the panels.

The filmstrip in the set was perfect for showing off my Harry Potter characters.  These are digital images I downloaded many years ago from Bugaboo Stamps.  I sized them to fit perfectly in the individual sections of the filmstrip.  The sentiment is from Karen's Birthday Magic stamp set.

And here is the whole card.  Movie Night Fun!

I'm giving this card to my daughter-in-law for her birthday later this month.  She is also a big fan of Harry Potter.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek Day 6

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.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek Day 3

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.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Come back tomorrow for another sneak peek and be sure to check out the blog hop next week for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.