Last Monday was Go for a Ride Day. For our challenge this week, the Crazy4Challenges team were to create cards that feature something you might ride on -- car, bus, bike, truck, horse, etc. I chose a train and used the Karen Burniston Train Pivot Panels train together with the brand-new Little Labels Pop-Up on a slimline card.
This is the inside.
Stop over at the Crazy4Challenges blog to see how the rest of the team handled this challenge.
Kelli finishes up her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers with a great challenge. She said that, because it's Thanksgiving, we should create a card with a thankful theme -- bonus points for using a leaf/leaves somewhere on our cards. I guess I get lots of bonus points!!!
I made this birthday card for a dear friend whose birthday was last month. She loves cards with leaves on them.
Hi Crafty Friends,
For my final sneak peek of this new release, I made another birthday card. I have a long-time friend (since junior high school -- many, many years ago), who has a birthday this year. We are both now octogenarians (I told you we were long-time friends). I'm sending this card to her.
I used the new Big Birthday Charms in conjunction with the Happy Birthday with Shadow and Crosshatch Rectangles on the front.
Make sure you stop back tomorrow for the Blog Hop. If you follow the hop and comment often, you might just win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website. Each one of the team is giving away a certificate!
I'm showing off some more new dies from Karen Burniston today. I combined the Happy Birthday sentiment with the new Shadow die and several charm sets on the front of my card -- the Wine Charms and the new Big Birthday Charms.
A couple of weeks ago Tanya Doner-Kostynuk demonstrated a card on the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo @Home event showing how you could use the Photo Collage Pop-Up with something other than the photo elements. She inspired me, and I made the inside of my card using some more of the Big Birthday Charms on the Photo Collage. How fun is that!!!
I hope you've enjoyed all of my sneak peeks this week (one more tomorrow), and I urge you to check out our blog hop on Monday for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website. See you then!
It's time for the Crazy4Challenges sketch challenge. This month's challenge is a slimline card.
I'm still making a few Thanksgiving cards, and today's challenge card is one of them. I used a digital image from Paper Nest Dolls and sized her to fit the white panel in the sketch, adding some autumn patterned paper, an appropriate sentiment, and some trim using one of Karen Burniston's Border Blends dies.
I've got another sneak peek at the new Karen Burniston release -- this time a Christmas card using the Little Labels Pop-Up. Some of my favorite papers are from Heartfelt Creations, and I used a sheet of one of their Christmas papers on my slimline card today. Purple might not be your first choice for a Christmas card, but I love purple -- so why not? The two reindeer are from Christmas Animals (I reversed one of them). I was really happy when Karen made a shadow for the Merry Christmas sentiment.
And I thought the elements from the Evergreen Pivot Panels and House Pivot Panels would be perfect inside those Little Labels. I used another one of the new Border Blends - Trims across the top and stamped my sentiment on one as well.
One more day of sneak peeks from me tomorrow and then on Monday the new release goes live with our blog hop. I hope you'll join us.
I've got another pop-up animal using the new Karen Burniston Animal Add-ons 4 with the Bitty Ball Pop-Up. Today's animal is a frog! On the front of the card you'll see parts of another new set -- Bayou Animals. Aren't those the cutest little critters? And I love the cattails!
I used the Karen Burniston Flap & Closure set to hold the card closed. And when you unwind that cord, up pops the frog!
This has been a fun week -- hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. Check back tomorrow and Saturday for a couple of other sneak peeks and be sure to follow our blog hop on Monday for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Karen's website.
For her CCEE Stampers challenge this week, Kelli asked us to create a card using black and white (or any color if you don't have black & white) buffalo plaid as the focal point.
I just bought a pad of buffalo plaid paper in various colors, black & white being one of them; so I was all ready for this challenge. The favorite color combination of a former member of the CCEE Stampers who is no longer with us (Joanne Grzelak) was black/white/red, and I have come to like it as well. And it just so happens that her birthday would have been this week. So I'm dedicating my card today to her. Happy Birthday in Heaven, Joanne!
For today's sneak peek, I am again using the new Karen Burniston Little Labels Pop-Up and showing a slimline Thanksgiving card. The front of the card is a piece of scrapbook paper with the sentiment from Word Set 2 (Birthday) and Word Set 7 (Autumn).
Again, the action is on the inside. Karen has lots of small dies that will fit on these cute little Labels. The pumpkins are from Autumn Elements, and the turkey is from Feathered Animals. You might notice the trim along the bottom of the pop-up. That, too, is from a new set of Border Blends. It's called Border Blends - Trims. And, of course, I used the new Crosshatch Labels for a place to sign.
Day 2 of the new Karen Burniston sneak peeks brings another Animal Add-on. You can make three different animals with this set -- an alligator, a frog, and an octopus.
First of all, I must clarify that I am a fan of the Florida State University Seminoles, not the University of Florida Gators. With that said, as soon as I saw this new add-on, I knew I had to make Albert the UF Alligator. I didn't put him into a card; I just mounted him on another of the new dies from this release -- the Crosshatch Label in the UF colors of orange and blue.
It's finally time to show off some projects made with the new Karen Burniston release, which will be available next week.
My first sneak peek is at a fun pop-up -- Little Labels Pop-Up. Sci-fi fan that I am, I used the Rocket Pop-Up and Space Charms in conjunction with the Little Labels Pop-Up for this mini slimline card.
Be sure to check back every day this week for more sneak peeks. This is a small release (8 dies) but a fun one. And next Monday we will be having a blog hop, where you could win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston shop!
This week's Crazy4Challenges challenge is one after my own heart -- create a card that is created using dies only, no stamps. If you must, you can use a stamp for the sentiment; but bonus points if you use dies. Bonus points for me!
My card for this challenge is a Christmas slimline, using various dies from Pink & Main, Honey Bee Stamps, and CottageCutz.
Check out the Crazy4Challenges blog for lots of die-cut fun!
Kelli continues as hostess for the CCEE Stampers this week and asked us to create some tags to get ready for the holidays.
Last year I bought a set of dies called Winter Bouquet from Honey Bee Stamps. I used that die set to make these two tags.
Frances gave the Crazy4Challenges team a "home, sweet home" challenge this week -- create a card that features a house or any element you might find on a house -- door, window, roof, etc.
My card fits the bill -- a house as well as elements of a house -- using various Karen Burniston dies (Holiday House, Merry Christmas & Shadow, House Pivot Panels, Evergreen Pivot Panels and Border Blends).
Check out the Crazy4Challenge blog to see how the rest of the team handled this homey challenge.
Kelli McKown-Santi is the hostess for the CCEE Stampers this month, and she told us that November is Manatee Awareness Month. She and I both live in Florida, so we know all about manatees. My daughter is a big fan; in fact, she adopted a manatee many years ago. I bought these stamps specifically so that I could make a card for her. Her birthday was back in September, so she already has it.
It's time for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge again. This month's theme is "Window Cards."
One of my go-to dies from Karen Burniston is the Katherine Label Pop-Up because it's so versatile, and I used it on my card today. I cut the "window" using the Crosshatch Circles, making a frame with a couple of the circles as well. As Thanksgiving is this month, that was my theme -- you can see that cute turkey (from Feathered Animals) through the window.
I had added a leaf from Autumn Elements in the upper left-hand corner and carried it over to the inside as well.
Do you know that old saying "There are no mistakes in card-making, only opportunities for creativity"? Well this is a perfect example of that. I somehow got an ink smear on the inside of my card below the circle window. So I just cut a piece of the patterned paper that matched the front of the card and added it below the window. I think it works! There are more diecuts from Autumn Elements on the inside as well.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like my card.
Christmas is right around the corner, so now is the time we need to start our Christmas crafts. A nice little gift for anyone is a treat box filled with goodies -- Kit Kat bars are some of my favorites. I found a thread on Splitcoaststampers in which the author went to a lot of trouble creating .pdf files with instructions for various-sized nugget boxes. I chose the 8-short size, which I thought would hold three snack-size Kit Kat bars. And I was right!
