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!

Twins

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.

I was fortunate enough to have the same new baby patterned paper in both pink and blue, so that's what I used for the frames.  I decorated the centers with some baby-themed ephemera that I have had in my stash for a long time.

 

I hope her co-worker likes this card.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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!

The base of this card is the Karen Burniston Circle Tag Book, a very generic die set that can be used for anything you'd like.  I had found some cute St. Patrick's Day patterned paper with lots of gnomes on it at Hobby Lobby some time ago and finally found a use for it.  I picked out four of the gnomes, fussy cut them out, and glued them to the circles.  I added a small oval that I found in the Popcorn die set and stamped a little shamrock on it.  I can sign the card there.

I wish you the Luck of the Irish today and every day.