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.

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 2

This new release from Karen Burniston includes some really cute dies.   Today I'm using the new Cascade Pop-up.

I make Christmas cards all year long so that I'm not rushed come December.  The Cascade Pop-up lent itself well to the Poinsettia die.  I decided that I wanted to have my poinsettias something other than the normal RED, so I googled "poinsettia" and found some interesting versions.  I decided on this pink and white variety.

As you can see, the poinsettias fit very nicely on the cascading layers.  I used a few sprigs of pine from the Pine Cone set for accent.

Stop back tomorrow for another sneak peek.

Karen Burniston Sneak Peek - Day 1

I always love it when I get to show some sneak peeks of a new Karen Burniston release.  We've got 10 new dies and 5 new stamp sets being released next week, and I've got a sneak peek of one of them for you today.  It's an add-on for the Stage Pop-up, which is one of my favorites of Karen's dies.  The add-on makes a Gazebo.

When my daughter got married 36 years ago, we held the wedding in one of the gazebos in our development.  When I saw the Gazebo Stage Add-on, I knew I had to make a wedding card.

Also included in this release is a Little Bench Pop-up, similar to Karen's Garden Bench Pop-up (but smaller).  If you look closely, you can see that little bench behind the bride and groom.  All those vines are included in the Little Bench Pop-up set.

I know I'm going to have fun using this new add-on die, as well as all the new dies in this release.  They will be available on Karen's website next week (July 23rd).