Happy 4th of July

God Bless America!  Happy 4th of July!

I love making cards for this holiday, so I couldn't let the day pass without showing you one of the ones I made this year.  I used the Karen Burniston Tag Book Pop-up and the new Music Charms.  The music on the front of my card is the first line of America the Beautiful.

 

To make the trumpets face in both directions, I cut two of them from the front of the gold foil paper and two from the back.  They are all popped up on foam.

I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating the birth of our country.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Set Sail

Several of the new dies from Karen Burniston are appropriate for this month's Designer Challenge, "Set Sail." The set I've had the most fun with is the Pirate Ship Add-ons.  Of course, you have to use the Boat Pop-up set as well.  The front of my card is a piece of patterned paper from a paper pad from Echo Park.  On it I stamped one of the sentiments from the new Pirate Sentiments stamp set in Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder.

Like many others, I often play Solitaire on my computer.  I play the free version -- the one that has ads.  One of the ads I see often has a really cute little pirate ship, with blue striped sails and yellow cannon portals.  I did my best to recreate it on the inside of my card.  I also used one of the borders from the new Pirate Borders on each end.

The waves on the inside were created by blending four different Distress inks (Salvaged Patina, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, and Villainous Purple) over a Honey Bee Stamps stencil. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  

Karen Burniston New Release Blog Hop

 Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC June Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 12 new dies and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

• 2 new Pop-up Die Sets
• 2 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Sets
• 2 new Lorna Add-ons Die Sets
• 1 new Fancy Label Add-on Die Set
• 1 new Fancy Label Frame Die Set
• 2 new Border Die Sets
• 1 new Sentiment Shadow Die Set
• 1 new Charm Set Die Set
• 5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

For my blog hop card, I am using both Lorna Add-ons sets -- the Just A Note on the front and the Happy Birthday inside.  I'm also using one of the new coordinating stamp sets -- Birthday/Belated Sentiments.

To celebrate the release Karen Burniston and each of the Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC Design Team members will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to some lucky person who comments on our blog posts, so make sure you join the hop and comment on everyone's blog post. Winners will be randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received on our blog posts by Monday, 8th July 2024. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter! Don't forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner!

Karen Burniston 

Lois Bak  (that's me)

Sue Small-Kreider

Frances Byrne

Jennifer Webster

Suzanne Smit

Nicky Foden 

Sandy Diller

Ken Chien 

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 7

As promised, my final sneak peek from the new Karen Burniston release is a standard slimline card, using the new Piano Keys Pop-up.  The 4th of July is at the end of the week, so I thought this would be appropriate.  I placed the notes from the Music Charms so that they play the Star-Spangled Banner -- starting on the front and proceeding to the inside of the card.  The two sentiments on the front are stickers.

As you can see, there are two sets of piano keys on the inside of this card.  And you will notice a few half-notes on the musical scale.  This was accomplished by using a white gel pen to transform the quarter-notes into half-notes.

Tomorrow is Release Day and our blog hop.  Each one of the design team members is giving away a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.  So the more you coment, the more chances you have to win.  Hope to see you tomorrow.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 6

Another new set which coordinates with an existing set is the Fancy Solid Frame, which is an add-on to the Fancy Label Accordion.  I think that particular die is the first Karen Burniston die I ever bought, when Karen was designing for Elizabeth Craft Designs.  There are several other frames for that die set as well.  As you can see from the photo, there is no design on these pieces.

I cut out the last three panels on this accordion and added the Music Charms.

On this second card on which I used the Fancy Solid Frame die, I used one of the dies from the Sailboat Add-ons (the life preserver) and then made my own larger life preserver using the Circles - Crosshatch dies for the center panel.  On the first panel of this card is the new Shadow die for the previously released Thank You die.

Only two more days until Release Day.  Be sure to check out the blog hop for some chances to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 5

Earlier in the week I showed you the Pirate Ship Add-on for the new Boat Pop-up.  There is a second add-on set in this release -- the Sailboat Add-ons.  My card today uses that set.  Also used on this card is the Set Sail Borders set.  Don't you just love those whales with a waterspout?  (Be careful of keeping track of small dies.  This particular die -- the waterspouts -- was MIA at my house for about a week.  Fortunately, I did eventually find it.)

 As you can see on the inside, there is also a coordinating stamp set for this die set as well.  

The design team has been having a wonderful time using all of the new items in this release.  Be sure to check out the blog hop on Monday for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 4

Yesterday I showed you the new Just a Note Lorna Add-ons  die set.  Today I have the other new Lorna Add-ons -- the Happy Birthday one.  

As you can see, it works in the same manner as the Just a Note Lorna Add-ons.  Karen Burniston will have a video giving a little tip on how to glue this die-cut into the card.  In the meantime, I'll say that it works really well just to glue in the little tabs on the side of the "box" at the bottom and the top panel first.  After they are secured, then glue the bottom tab on the box.  I also used one of the previously released Border Blends sets on this card as well -- Argyle.  

Be sure to check out our blog hop on Monday, July 1st, and comment on as many blogs as you can for more chances to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.