Craft Roulette #247 For My Crafty Friend

This week's Craft Roulette was rather fun.  The Parameters were:  Project/Card for a Crafty Friend; Colors/Pretty Paper; Element/Bell(s) and/or Belle(s); and Random/Something Gold.  Using the Karen Burniston Landscape Accordion die, I was able to include all four parameters.

The sentiment on the front indicates that this is definitely for a crafty friend, and I used pretty purple patterned paper around the edges.  There are two gold-colored bells on the front panel.  That took care of all four parameters.

I've had that scrapbooking girls stamp for many years, but the sentiment on the third panel is a relatively new acquisition.

Here are all three panels close-up:

I'm always up for a new challenge, and Craft Roulette definitely gives me a challenge every Friday night.

Thanksgiving Turkey

I wanted to make a quick Thanksgiving card for my long-time neighbor, so I pulled out the Karen Burniston Landscape Rectangle Accordion.  I used some Photoplay fall papers that I had on my desk from having made another card earlier.  I think if I had to do it over again, I might have used different background paper on the center sections, but what is done is done.  I do like that little acorn from KB Autumn Elements on the front though.

Although you can make longer accordions with this die set, I like the way a two-panel accordion looks.  It gives lots of interest but doesn't take long to put together.  

I hope she likes this.

Butterfly Landscape Accordion

I was looking through some scraps and found three already cut-out Landscape Accordion panels.  The colors, yellow and black, immediately brought to mind a bee card.  This is the result.

The bee charm in the Flutter Charms was just a little bit big for the cut-out circle in the center panel, so I improvised a little bit.  I cut two of the butterflies included in the Flower Pot Pop-up and a charm holder from one of the charm dies to make my "right-size" butterfly charm.  I was going to have to glue two butterflies together anyway so that it could be seen from either side, so I just slipped that little "charm hole" between the two.

Here are some close-ups of the individual panels.

Those cute little bees on the final panel are from a stamp/die set from Honey Bee Stamps called Busy Bees.  The honey pot is a rather old Stampin' Up image.

This card just proves that you should never throw away usable scraps.  All the stamped and/or die-cut parts of this card came from my scrap folders.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Labels

The theme for this month's Karen Burniston Designer Challenge is "LABELS."  We were to create a card that incorporates a pop-up label.  A relatively new die in Karen's arsenal is the Little Labels Pop-Up, which is a generic die that can be used in both a regular-type card or a slimline card, even a mini slimline.  My choice for this month's challenge was a slimline card.

What I like about this particular die set, is that you have so many options.  There are six different-sized label dies in the set, BUT the Paper Frames Pop-Up has six different dies that are the same shape but different sizes.  Plus the Labels Crosshatch set has several more.  So you have a wide variety of sizes from which to mix and match.

Be sure to check out the cards made by the rest of the DT.  

CCEE2224 - National Insect Week

Lynn informed the CCEE Stampers that Juen 20-26 is National Insect Week.  She asked us to feature some type of creepy crawly creature on our design this week.

I don't really consider bees as "creepy crawly" creatures, but I did check to make sure they are considered insects (which they are).  My card this week is a mini slimline one featuring several brand-new dies from Karen Burniston.  That cute little bee and honeycomb are part of the new Flutter Charms set and the "Hi!" was made with the new Mini Alphabet and Numbers set.  I have been using that new alphabet set a lot -- I LOVE IT!  The frame was created using two dies from the new Short Rectangles - Crosshatch set.

Be sure to check out more creepy crawlies on the CCEE Stamper blog.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Mini Slimline Cards

The theme for this month's Karen Burniston Designer Challenge is "mini slimline cards."  Both mini and regular-sized slimline cards are so very popular at the moment.  I admit that I have succumbed to the latest "fad" in card-making as well, so I really enjoyed making a card for the challenge.

My daughter is a big fan of mermaids, so she will probably wind up with this card.

 I used two of the newly released die sets on this card -- the Short Rectangles - Crosshatch and the Mini Alphabet and Numbers.  I am a big fan of that alphabet set, by the way.  I added the "you are" from Word Set 11 - Treasure and a mermaid from the Princess and Mermaid set.  The background is a piece of patterned paper from Whimsey Stamps, one of their packs of slimline backgrounds.

Day 6 Sneak Peek - Sending Hugs

Today's sneak peek is a simple little mini slimline card made using the new Short Rectangles Crosshatch set, which has six nested rectangular dies and a strip of flowers.  I used the two larger dies on this card, as well as a couple of dies from the Hearts Crosshatch set and the Sending Love set.

One more sneak peek tomorrow and then our New Release Blog Hop.  Be sure to check that out because you could win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website!

CCEE2218 / KB New Release Day 4 - Hello Dragonflies

Today is National Foam Roller Day, and Kelly asked the CCEE Stampers to show our cards using any rolled technique!  Suggestions were paper rolling, brayers, marbles.  As it is also Sneak Peek Week for the new Karen Burniston dies, I made a card using some new dies -- plus a brayer technique I have never used before:  wrapping rubber bands around a brayer in order to make a unique background.

The new dies that I used are the Short Rectangles Crosshatch and Flutter Charms.  And I'm rather pleased with that background.

Be sure to visit the CCEE Stampers blog to see what the rest of the team did with this challenge and check out the new Karen Burniston dies as well.

Day 1 New Release Sneak Peek - Landscape Rectangle Accordion

The new Karen Burniston dies are right around the corner.  The design team has been working diligently, having so much fun creating with them.    I think Karen's accordion dies are what drew me to her products initially, so I was so happy to see this new Landscape Rectangle Accordion, which makes a mini-slimline card.  My first sneak peek for you is a birthday card made with this set.  The front of the card is a cute little marsh scene with several dies from Bayou Animals.  The flowers forming the frame are actually from another new set -- Short Rectangles Crosshatch.

You can make as many panels on a card as you like.  I chose to make just two for my "hoppy" birthday card.

This new die set includes several small frames with which you can decorate your card.   I'm so excited about this new release and hope you will be as well.