Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC September 2023 Release Blog Hop. (See details at the end of this post for blog list.) 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!

“Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble…. Eye of newt, and toe of frog,” The infamous words of Shakespeare’s trio of witches casting a spell over Macbeth are the inspiration for this Halloween card.

This card uses a new pop-up mechanism in Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release – Stocking Pop-Up as well as her new Witch and Cauldron and Small Script- Halloween die sets.

(Before starting to make a card, I recommend watching the assembly views for all of Karen Burniston’s interactive die sets. The videos are located near the bottom of any linked page in this blog post.)

Cardbase: I started with a purchased A7 (5 x 7 inches) cardbase and matching envelope. The outer panels were covered with a spider’s web paper and the inner panels with a coordinating pumpkin patch paper. The front panel also uses a border panel from the paper collection that says, “There’s magic in the air.” The back panel has a pumpkin fussy cut from the papers.

Cauldron Pop-Up: The Stocking Pop-Up is a versatile mechanism that can be used for more than Christmas cards. I doubled the mechanism which means placing the lower pop-up mechanisms moving in opposite directions and cutting two upper covering pieces joined to form a platform.

Adding pop-stands from either the Christmas Tree Pop-up or Barn Pop-Stand sets, to the decorative stitched rectangles, allows for a cauldron to set atop the platform with witches attached. Add fussy cut pumpkins to the pop-out tombstone pieces. (I ink blended the white frog paper with a gray ink to make it sooty from the fire.)

In the Witches and Cauldron die set are a strip of bubbles that a white pen can add highlights to as well as an eyeball, frog legs and a bone. The fire is the witch’s hair turned upside and stenciled flames with an orange maker.

Spiders: For the spiders crawling out of the cauldron, I cut four spiders from the Witch and Cauldron set from black mirror cardstock. A 12-inch piece of white polyester thread was threaded with two circles (eyeball center circles from Witch and Cauldron) and knotted to the cauldron. The circles were glued to the underside of the pop-out mechanisms from under the platform. Adjust the thread tension to be loosely taunt and test for catchpoints when opening and closing card before gluing spiders to the threads. (I found the best spots for the spiders were near the ends of the threads.)

Witches: I used the stencil features of the witch’s face die to color in the eyes and mouth. The nose can be folded out to ink the edges with green ink. I cut extra dress and hat pieces so that the backs of the witches would look complete. The blond witch has silver pieces from the hat buckle on her shoes. The cauldron witches’ hats have red hat bands cut from red cardstock covered with clear packing tape.

Sentiments: The card front sentiments are stamped sentiments fussy cut into tombstones and a bat shaped banner. Inside the “hocus pocus” on the platform ends are from the new Small Script- Halloween die set and the “Happy Halloween” is from the Halloween Charms set. A white oval for a personal message is cut using the Crosshatch Ovals.

Envelope: The A7 white envelope has fussy cut pumpkins from the paper collection glued to its back flap.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Witch and Cauldron – 1249
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Stocking Pop-Up – 1248
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Small Script – Halloween – 1243
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Christmas Trees Pop-Stand – 1064
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Charms – 1058
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Ovals – Crosshatch – 1055

Stamps

• Fun Stampers Journey – Witches Brew – SS-0388

Papers

• Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers – Midnight Tales Collection – Abracadabra &Pumpkin Patch
• Stampin’ Up – 12×12 Double-Sided Designer Series Papers – Toil & Trouble
• Paper Lane Paperie – Holographic Cardstock – Silver
• Black Mirror Cardstock
• White, Orange, Green, Red, Yellow and Black Cardstock
• Paper Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

• Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Mowed Lawn
• Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide – Lost Shadow
• Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Sharpie – Permanent Marker –Fine Tip – Black, Red and Orange
• Farber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen – 1.5 Bullet Nib – White-101 Marker – Snow
• Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
• Clear Packing Tape
• Removable Tape

Tools

• Die Cutting Machine
• We R Memories – QuickStick
• Bone Folder
• Stamping Platform
• LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
• Stamping Cloth
• Songe Dauber
• Blending Brush
• Bone Folder
• T-Ruler
• Scissors
• Needle
• Thimble
• Stamping Blocks for Paper Weights
• Tweezers
• Craft Clip

Miscellaneous

• White Polyester Thread

This release includes:

• 2 new Script Sentiment Die Sets
• 3 new Border Die Sets
• 2 new Pop-up Die Sets
• 1 new Add-on Die Sets
• 1 stand alone Die Set

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, 25th September 2023. 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

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