Karen Burniston New Release Sneak Peek - Day 6

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!

C4C605 - White, Ivory, Gold

Today's Crazy4Challenges instructions were to create a project using only white, ivory, and gold.  Does that sound intimidating?  Use different textures and finishes of paper to make your layers stand out.  Rebecca said that she likes to use glitter and metallic papers with texture from stenciling with pastes and embossing folders.

I used papers from a 12 x 12 pack of white, gold and ivory papers to make a celebration card, which could be for anything -- a birthday, an anniversary etc.  I also used a couple of dies from Karen Burniston -- Wine Charms and Word Set 2 - Birthday.

Check out the Crazy4Challenges blog for some more ideas.

Happy New Year!!!

 It's time to say goodbye to 2020 -- and I'm sure we all are anxious to do that.  Here's hoping 2021 will bring the Covid virus under control so we can all get back to normal. 

I have a New Year's card for you today -- made with the Karen Burniston Circle Tag Book dies and the Wine Charms.  I cut the outside panels three times (twice in the blue and once in white).  After stamping the fireworks on the white panel in several different colors, I glued it to one of the blue panels before assembling the outside of my card.

I added the "Cheers" die cut, and the stamped champagne glasses to the front, along with the small circle and flower around the hole.

I cut the two inside panels using a heavy patterned paper in a coordinating color and, following Karen's video instructions (which I watch almost every time I make a pop-up card) I constructed the inside of my card.

I cut the wine charms and added them to the layered circles.  The "Happy New Year" was created on my label maker.  I constructed the circles prior to adding them to the card.  I find it easier to do it that way.  Then I added the rest of the small pieces and tied the ribbons on the ends.

Here's wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year!  Thanks for stopping by my blog and hope you will continue to do so in the future.

It's Karen Burniston's Birthday!

It's Karen Burniston's birthday, and the design team has decided to share the fun with everyone with a Birthday Blog Hop.

I have been having so much fun creating slimline cards and seeing how I can incorporate the various Karen Burniston dies into them.  For my birthday card I used the Circle Charm Pop-Up, some Wine Charms, and one of my favorite colors -- PURPLE.

We all have piles of 12 x 12 patterned paper, I am sure.  It is the perfect size to use on a slimline card because you can get three panels out of one sheet of paper -- one for the front and two for the inside.

The image on the front is from an old stamp set I had, but the inside circles have die cuts from the Wine Charms die set.  I hung the champagne glass from the center circle with a jump ring and glued down the wine bottle and wine glass to the third circle.    I added two panels I had cut using the Crosshatch Rectangles, putting Happy Birthday on one, and a champagne bottle on the other.  There is plenty of room to write a birthday message on that one!  I added some Glossy Accents to the glasses and the wine bottles and scattered some enamel dots throughout.

I had another piece of that same patterned paper, so I lined the envelope to make the perfect set!

Be sure to check out the rest of the blog hop and see how the other members of the design team are wishing Karen Burniston a very happy birthday.

Frances
Kelly
Karen A
Fran
Sandy
Lois (that's me)

Happy New Year!!!

I want to wish all my friends a very Happy New Year!  Here we are at the beginning of a new year and a new decade -- where has the time gone?

To celebrate the new year I made a pop-up card using the Karen Burniston Surprise Ball Pop-Up and some fun My Favorite Things stamps.

When you open the card, up pops the ball -- complete with fireworks and champagne and/or wine glasses.

Here's a close-up of the ball so you can see the wine glasses a little better.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, and again I wish you all a wonderful and productive new year!