Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Ocean or Lake

This month's Karen Burniston Designer Challenge theme was "Lake or Ocean."  I chose "Lake."  My late husband was an avid fisherman, so I dedicated this card to him. It's a little larger than most of the cards I make -- 5" x 8" gatefold.  I had participated in Karen's most recent on-line class and had some "bait and tackle" paper left over.  I used it for the front of the card.

When you open the card, you find a campsite by a lake.  The tie-downs for the Tent Pop-up made the wider card necessary, as you can see from the picture below.

Here's a close-up of the happy fisherman -- happy because he has just caught a fish.

The new Fishing Boat Add-ons to the Boat Pop-up is perfect for that outdoors recipient.

Karen Burniston New Release - Day 6

All week I've been showing some sneak peeks at the new Karen Burniston dies.  Today I've got a card made with the Fishing Boat Add-ons to the previously released Boat Pop-up.  My late husband was an avid fisherman, and I'd like to think that he would love this Father's Day card.

The front of the card features the Postage die from the last release with bits and pieces from this release -- the sentiment comes from the new Fishing stamp set, the bucket and fish are part of the Fishing Boat Add-ons, and the fisherman was made with the Paper People set along with the hat from the Fishing Boat Add-ons.  Those waves behind the Postage collage were made with one of the new Ocean Edges dies.

I just love the fishing rod die from the Fishing Boat Add-ons set.  The fishing line is nice and thin.  This set also includes the motor and seat for the boat.  I included another one of the sentiments from the Fishing stamp set as well.

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Karen Burniston January New Release - Day 3

Today's sneak peek card made with a Karen Burniston new die is made with three new sets: an add-on set to the Boat Pop-up -- the Cruise Ship Add-on, a border set called Ocean Edges, and a cute set called Paper People.

My son and daughter-in-law love to take cruises.  I can see me using this set quite a bit.  The front of my card shows the captain of the cruise ship, made using the Paper People set.  This set contains a die for the "paper person" plus an assortment of clothing and hair styles.  In addition, you could also use any of the dies from the various Tiny Accessories sets.

And inside the card you'll find the cruise ship.  As I said, my son and daughter-in-law are frequent cruisers.  Their cruise line of choice is Royal Caribbean.  I decided to personalize this card; so, if you look closely, you will see the Royal Caribbean logo on the top of my ship.  Also, looking closely, you can see the Ocean Edges waves.  On both the front and inside of this card are sentiments from another of the new sentiment stamp sets.

Although I didn't need it for this card due to the weight of the layers of cardstock, included in this set is a tiny die which cuts two slots along the edge of the card.  You can see them at the top my card in the middle.  I made a little instruction sheet in case you do need to hold the card flat when open.

I'll have another sneak peek for you tomorrow.  I hope you'll come back.  And don't forget about the blog hop next week.  

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 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 1

Karen Burnison new release time is always exciting, and this week is no exception.  We've got 12 new dies to preview this week, all of them so much fun.  I'm going to start my sneak peeks with a bang!  Have you ever made an explosion box?  That's what I have for you today.  The new dies I'm using are the Boat Pop-up along with the Pirate Ship Add-ons and Pirate Borders.

I covered my box with some nautical looking blue paper, adding a couple of the Pirate Borders to the box and the lid.

When you remove the lid, out pops the pirate ship.  The dies included in this set are so appropriate to a pirate ship -- skull & crossbones, flags, swords.

Did you see that sentiment on the back panel?  Well, surprise, surprise -- Karen Burniston has added stamps to her repertoire, which coordinate with the theme of the die sets.  There are actually five stamp sets in this release.  How fun is that? 

Here's a short video showing how the action happens.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Be sure to check back again during the week because I'll have a sneak peek every day.  And next Monday we'll have our new release blog hop where you get the chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.