Karen Burniston New Release Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC January Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 8 new dies and 4 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

• 3 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Sets

• 4 new Stand Alone Die Sets

• 4 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

Dies are available to order now on the website.

One of the new sets is a variation on a previously released set. The Triple Platform Pop-up has become a favorite for me. I have made several cards with it, including this one I made for Valentine's Day.

I carried the heart theme from the patterned paper onto the three pop-up platforms, adding some hearts from the Love Charms. Another one of the new dies in this release is the Paper People set. I included a couple of young lovers up in the left-hand corner. That set includes a "paper person" die and lots of choices of clothing and hair styles for you to dress them up. All of the Tiny Accessories sets will coordinate with these as well.

These are the two new sets I used on my card.

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 Monday, 3rd February 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

Ken Chien

Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek Day 2

Happy Valentine's Day!  It seemed appropriate that I have another Valentine's Day card for you today.  The second new die set I'm featuring is called the Little Twist Panel Pop-Up   This die set is similar to Karen's original Twist Panel Pop-Up -- only smaller.

The front of my card is very simple -- just the Happy Valentine's Day sentiment.

But the inside shows off the new Little Twist Panel Pop-Up Pop-Up.   This set also includes that cute little banner which weaves its way through the middle panels. 

As you can see from this photo, the mechanism for the Little Twist Panel Pop-Up is all in one die.  You can either show the backing panel (as in my card) or cover it with patterned paper (as in the card on the packaging).

All of the new dies in this release will be available on the Karen Burniston website next Monday, February 20th.  I hope you can check them out.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Wedding, Anniversary or Valentine

Love is in the air this month.  The Karen Burniston Designer Challenge gave us a choice -- make a wedding, anniversary or valentine card.  I chose to make a Valentine's Day card using the fun new Bam Box set.  I found this cool patterned paper in my stash (I don't even remember when I bought it) and used it all throughout my card.

There are four nested otagonal dies in this set, so they make a great layered look.  The heart and arrow are from the Love Charms set.  And, because of the Bam Box inside, I placed some magnets under the patterned paper to keep the card closed.

Upon opening the card, up pops that Bam Box.

The "Happy Valentine's Day doesn't have a coordinating shadow die, so I fussy cut one.  It makes the words stand out more.

Now I'll go check out the love cards made by the rest of the team.  I hope you do as well.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - "Hearts"

 Here it is -- the first Tuesday of February -- and time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.  As Valentine's Day is right around the corner, Karen challenged the team to make cards with the theme of "hearts."

One of my (many) favorites of Karen's dies is the Rockin' Rectangle.  I often make cards with acetate fronts using this die, but today's card wasn't one of them.  I found that cute glittery heart in Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago and thought it would look nice on the front of my card.  During that same trip to Hobby Lobby I bought a couple of sheets of Valentine's Day paper.  (I fell in love with the black one.)  So in keeping with the black & red theme, I decided to make a shadow to put behind the big Happy Valentine's Day phrase.  It was pretty simple to do.  I just laid the die onto some black paper, traced around it with a pencil, and fussy cut it out.  That really makes the sentiment stand out on the glittery red heart.  I cut two of the arrows from the Love Charms set and placed them "through" the heart.

To make the heart border across the top, I taped two of the Border Blends together to create the border.   That expands the choices you get with these two sets.

After sizing a Paper Nest Dolls digital image to fit the pop-out panel, I colored her with Copic markers.  There's that awesome black & red paper in the background.

I added some more of the heart border across the top and a couple of short panels of the striped paper at the bottom.  To leave a place to sign the card, I added an oval and one of the "conversation hearts" from the Love Charms.

More Than One Score -- Valentine's Day

 I decided to experiment a little bit for this month's Scor-Pal "More Than One Score" challenge.  I was wondering how a slimline Joy Fold card would look.  My card is just short of the "standard" slimline card (8 1/2" x 3 1/2") at 8" x 3 1/2".  The reason for the shorter card is that I recently bought a couple of pretty Valentine's Day papers at Hobby Lobby,  After I made the card for which I purchased the paper, the remainder of the striped paper wasn't long enough for the full 8 1/2".  So I improvised a little.  The "anchor" holding the smaller panel down is one of Karen Burniston's Love Charms.

This is the inside of the card.  The sentiments on the front and inside are from an old Stampin' Up set.   I love Ogden Nash's sayings!  As it isn't "mushy," this card would be good for a gal-pal.

Be sure to check out the Scor-Pal blog for some more Valentine "More Than One Score" projects.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - DOUBLE

It's time for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge once again.  And this month's theme is such fun - make a card using a doubling theme.   This could be a double Pivot Panel, a double Katherine, a double Surprise Ball, or any fun combination of two different pop-up dies.  As I am thoroughly hooked on the Surprise Ball Pop-Up and thought Karen's billboard card for last month's challenge was so creative, I wanted to try a double Surprise Ball Pop-Up Billboard.  I was trying to think of a theme when "Love and Marriage" popped into my head -- so a wedding card was my choice.

Because of the two billboards, I had to make a much larger card -- this one is 5 1/2" x 11".  The front is very clean and simple -- leaving the drama for the inside.  The silvery paper on the front is from a 12" x 12" pad of silver foil cardstock I found at Michaels.  I used one of the dies from the Tropical Landscape set for my scallops.

I used two pair of 1/4" magnets to hold down the flap at the bottom.

I had some wedding paper left from a project I did many years ago and used it for the background of the inside of my card. (That shows that hoarding paper sometimes is a good idea.  My son and his wife have been married for 11 years!)  Karen's Valentine card last month had hearts going around the edge of her billboard, and I "borrowed" that idea for my wedding card, substituting glittery silver paper for some of the hearts.  The "Love & Marriage" sentiment was made using the Karen Burniston Alphabet dies.

Going in a totally different direction, I made a second card for the "DOUBLE" challenge.  My grandson loves the Minions, so I thought I'd try to make one.

Karen Burniston Pop-Up dies are so much fun, and doubling them up just makes it that much more fun!  Check out the rest of the DT double-up cards for some more creative ideas.