CCEE2205 - Valentine's Day

Liz continues her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers this week.  Valentine's Day is a big card-sending holiday so Liz asked us to make a special Valentine's card or a friendship card using a style you love and mail it to someone you love.

Two types of cards I love to make are pop-up cards and slimline/mini slimline cards.  Today's card is both!

I used some brand-new Karen Burniston dies on this card -- the Heart Collage Pop-Up and the Crosshatch - Hearts.  

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more Valentine's Day love.

CCEE2204 - Winter Olympics

Liz Williams starts her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers with a great challenge.  During the month of February, the world's biggest winter sporting event that happens every four years will be held in Bejing, China, for the Winter Olympics.  Liz asked us to make a card representing one of those winter sports being featured.  For embellishment, we were to add a little gold or silver.

I enjoy the figure skating competition.  The skaters always look so elegant gliding across the ice.  One of my favorite stamp companies is Paper Nest Dolls.  Those kids are just too cute.  Ice Skating Avery was perfect for this challenge, and I even added the Olympic Rings across the top.

Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog for a virtual visit to the Olympics.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- MOD Valentine

It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.  This month's theme is "MOD Valentine."  We were to make a Valentine card in colors other than red or pink.  As purple is one of my most favorite colors, that's the color I chose.

Using several new dies from the January release, I created this slimline Valentine card.  The front has two cute little monkeys swinging on the branches across the top, sending you some love.

On the inside I used the new Heart Collage pop-up.  As you can see, there are several different sizes of hearts in this cute set.   The previously released Photo Collage is one of my favorites; and, when Karen designed this smaller version, I was so happy.  Now I can combine it with a slimline card.  Also new is that large heart from the Crosshatch - Heart die.  It's the perfect place to add a little message of love.

We'd love for you to play along with the team and create a non-tradiitonal Valentine card for our #missionpoppable challenge.

Scor-Pal "More Than One Score" Challenge

For the first Scor-Pal "More Than One Score" challenge of the year, I made a Valentine Treat Box with a bonus --  it's also a gift card holder.  I found this tutorial on-line some time ago and made several of them for Christmas.  But I thought it would be cute for Valentine's Day as well.

The image on the front is a cute little gal from Paper Nest Dolls.  I thought that heart-shaped lollipop would be good for Valentine's Day.

When you open the card, you find the gift card.

And going a little further, when you pull out the drawer -- CANDY!  Who doesn't love Hershey Nuggets?

If you'd like to try to make one of these, they're pretty easy.

Dimensions are:

Drawer - card stock 5" x 7 1/4", scored on all four sides at 1/2" and 1 1/8"

Wrap - cardstock 5 1/8" x 7 5/8", scored at 5/8", 3 1/2", 4 1/8" and 7"

Card on top - cardstock 4 3/4" x 7", scored at 2 2/8" and 4 3/4" -- cut down the 2 1/4" panel to 2 1/2" for the gift card and tape across the bottom.

Mat piece on front 2 5/8" x 5"

Nugget covers 1" x 3"

CCEE2203 - Punch the Clock Day

For my final CCEE Challenge for January I informed the team that today is Punch the Clock Day.  I challenged them to put something time-related on their cards (a clock, a watch, a calendar, etc.)  If they didn't have any of those things, they could make a birthday card -- that's time-related.

I had to look deep into my supplies to find a clock, and I finally found this embossing folder.  I built the little scene in Word using individual digital images from the Paper Nest Dolls set called Build Your Nest.  The sentiment is from a very old stamp set from my days on the design team for Mark's Finest Papers.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more "timely" designs!

Karen Burniston January 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 9 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

• 2 new Slimline Pop-up Die Sets -Heart Collage Pop-Up; Mailbox Pop-up

• 2 new Add-Ons Die Sets - Balloons Collage Add-Ons; Butterfly Collage Add-Ons

• 1 new Crosshatch Die Set - Hearts - Crosshatch

• 1 new Animals die set - Monkey and Lion

• 1 new Charms die set - Good Luck Charms

• 2 new sentiment sets - Sending Love; Happy St. Patrick's Day

Dies are available to order now on the website.

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, January 31, 2022. 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! (This is VERY important! If we don't know how to contact you, you can't win!)

I've used several of the new sets for my shaker card today -- the Good Luck Charms . . .

. . . the Mail Box Pop-Up as well as the Happy St. Patrick's Day sentiment and shadow.

The leprechaun on the front of my card was made using the Santa & Gnome set, modifying him into a leprechaun. I trimmed the beard just a bit. The fun part of my card is that mail box, the door of which opens and the flag raises as you open the card. And I love those cute little envelopes!

Be sure to visit the blogs of the rest of the team and comment for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate.

Karen Burniston Lois Bak (that's me) Karen Aicken (your next stop) Frances Byrne Kelly Booth Fran Sabad Sandy Diller

One Last Karen Burniston Sneak Peek

Valentine's Day is right around the corner.  Several of the new Karen Burniston dies lend themselves to this holiday of love quite nicely.  I've got a mini slimline card today, showing off the new Mailbox Pop-Up and one of the new sentiments -- Sending Love.  

That cute little monkey is also new, half of the Monkey and Lion die set.

This is the last of my sneak peeks, but be sure to check out our Blog Hop on Monday.  You'll get several chances to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston web store by commenting on each of the team's blogs.