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 Designer Challenge

It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.  This month's theme is "Mealtime," and two of the new dies for July were perfect.  I've been having very much fun with Mealtime Elements and Dessert Elements over the past month, and my card for the challenge uses both of them.

I had seen a card made by another Design Team member (Sue Small-Kreider) on which she made a whole pie out of the slice of pie die in Dessert Elements, and I wondered how it would look as a pizza.  Going with that idea, I made my card look like an Italian dinner.  I used the colors of the Italian flag (green/white/red) as the color choices on my card.  I haven't used the Circle Charm Pop-up in a while, so I pulled it out and made it the base of my card.

On the front there is a lead-in -- what is an Italian meal without a glass of wine?

Opening up the card there's a plate of spaghetti and meatballs and a pizza.  I added some pepperoni to the pizza with a darker red Copic marker.  Because of the size of the plates, you can't see much of the red & white checked tablecloth on those two panels.  When normally making the Circle Charm Pop-up, the center circle is just a ring on which a charm would hang; but I covered the ring with a full circle panel to accommodate the plate of spaghetti.

The sentiments on both the front and inside of my card are part of the new Mealtime Phrases clear stamp set, part of the new July release.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  You'll probably see more food-related cards from me in the future.  I just love those two new die sets.

Karen Burniston July New Release Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC July Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 10 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:
• 3 new Pop-up Die Sets
• 4 new Add-ons Die Sets
• 2 new Elements Die Sets
• 1 new Paper People Die Set
• 5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

The two Element die sets in this release are food-related -- Mealtime Elements and Dessert Elements.  I combined these two sets in an accordion menu, using the Fancy Label Accordion.

Breakfast choices are a waffle or bacon and eggs.

Lunch choices include a sandwich, healthy broccoli and orange slices, or maybe some chocolate chip cookies.

For dinner you could choose spaghetti and meatballs or broiled chicken, mashed potatoes and broccoli.

And don't forget dessert!  We've got donuts, cinnamon rolls, and pumpkin pie.

GIVEAWAY:

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 Thursday 30th July. 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

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 Peek - Day 5

The Stage Pop-up is one of my favorite dies, and one of the new dies in this release is an add-on.  It's the Tool Time Stage Add-ons.

My late husband was an auto mechanic, and the colors of his Craftsman Tool Box were red, black, and silver.  So they are the colors I used on my card.  One of the new stamp sets is tool-related, and I used one on the front and two on the inside.

I loved the card Karen made with the removable stage on the inside.  I used that technique on my card as well.

The tools in this set are the same tools from the Tool Charms -- just mirror images.   When you glue them together, the tools look good from the front or the back.

This set is perfect for those masculine cards we sometimes have trouble with.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 4

The new Gazebo Add-on was a great idea.  You could decorate it for lots of holidays.  Here is my version of a Halloween Gazebo, complete with skeletons, ghosts, and bats.

The acetate strips holding the flying bats are anchored between the two halves of the Stage Pop-up and go up through the roof.

 

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.