June Calendar Page

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.

Coffee Cup Cards

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.

The inside of the card can be made with or without a gift card.

The second card is a 4 1/2" square get-well card.  On the front of the card are a couple of die cuts from the Get Well Charms die set.

With a little surgery, the "coffee cup" on the inside was transformed into a cup of soup.

Again, there are a few die cuts from the Get Well Charms.

I enjoy Karen's classes.  Her engineering background shines through the designs.  By the way, if you are interested in trying to make these cards, the video will be posted to Youtube shortly.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Fluffy

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!

Needless to say, she loved the card.

Bike Safety Month

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.

 

Fairies and Fences

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.

 Here are close-ups of each side of the inside fence.

If you'd like to give this card a try, here is a link to Karen's video.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- Designer's Choice

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.

I always enjoy Karen's Zoom and Virtual classes, and it's fun re-making the cards in a totally different theme. 

April Calendar Challenge

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.

 I'm really having fun with this challenge.  I already have May's page done as well!