Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- Rainbow

It's time for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge for July.  This month our theme is "Rainbow," the perfect reason to pull out the new Arch Pop-up die and Rainbow Add-ons.  

The front of my card is rather simple -- just a happy birthday greeting.  However, keeping with the theme I did use rainbow paper.  I also added some enamel dots in rainbow colors.

For the inside I popped up the Rainbow Arch, adding a pot of gold using the cauldron from the Witch and Cauldron set.  The sentiment is from the new Rainbow greetings stamp set.

Here's a close-up of the pot of gold.  As you can see, I scored across the cauldron and glued the top portion to the rainbow and the bottom portion to the card base.

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 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:

1 new Pop-up Die Set
1 new Interactive Die Set
1 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Set
2 new Charm Die Sets
4 new Stand Alone Die Sets
5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

Dies are available to order now on the website.

I chose the Graduation Elements to feature.  They are made to fit the previously released Paper People.  For my first card I combined these two sets with the Label Charm Pop-up.  My high school colors were red and blue -- thus the color scheme on this card.  I also used one of the new stamp sets -- Grad Greetings.

As you can see on the inside, there are two sizes of graduation caps.   The banner mounted across the top includes the word "congrats," but it is sized to fit the Mini Alphabet and Numbers set as well.

I did make a second card for the Hop.  I must give full credit to another design team member, Sandy Diller, for the inspiration for this card.  My 62-year-old son recently received his degree in information technology.  I am very proud of him and made this card to celebrate his achievement.  In addition to the new Graduation Elements, I also used the new Whirly Wheel.

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, 23rd June 2025. 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

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 5

Today's Karen Burniston sneak peek is a patriotic card made with the new Arch Pop-up and Party Balloons.

I love making Fourth of July cards with their bright red, white, and blue colors.  On the front I added some Karen Burniston fireworks and a Taylored Expressions sentiment die.

Inside is where you find the Arch and the Balloons, along with another Taylored Expressions sentiment die and another firework.

Can't wait to send this to someone in July.  

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek Day 4

I wanted to see if I could make a slimline card with the new Karen Burniston Whirly Wheel.  Turns out I can.  I used two other new sets, the Curved Edges and the Rainbow Add-ons, on the front.

When you turn the Whirly Wheel, up pops the unicorn from the Leaping Animals set.  The sentiment is from the new clear stamp set, Rainbow Greetings.

I hope you are enjoying this Sneak Peek Week.  The design team has been having lots of fun showing off all the new dies.

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.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek Day 2

One of the interactive dies in this Karen Burniston new release is the Whirly Wheel.  

 

To be truthful, I had a little trouble with this one the first time I used it.  However, Karen gave me a little tip which helped a whole lot.  There was less friction between the pieces when I put some clear tape on the cardstock before cutting the three main pieces. 

The first card with this set that I'm showing you is a graduation card, also using the frog from the Leaping Animals set.

Here is that card.  I've had that cool graduation paper for quite a while and was glad to be able to use it.

For the inside I used the Oval Frames Pop-up with some more of the Graduation Elements die set and the Grad Greetings clear stamp set.  The books are from the Bookworm set.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I'll have another sneak peek tomorrow.  And don't forget to check out our Blog Hop next week.  You'll have many chances to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.