Wanting a basket to put a hatching chick pop-up ball in, I came up with a collapsible basket card for Easter using several of the new die sets in Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release.
How to make this interactive card:
Chick: Make two Mini Pop-up Balls – one entirely yellow and the other half yellow, half white. Assemble chick following Karen Burniston’s assembly video located at the bottom of the Mini Pop-up Balls page. Cut six of the top and bottom eggshell jagged pieces and one hexagon for the top of the egg from white cardstock using the dies from the Animal Add-on 5 die set.
Basket: Cut four of the basket pieces from the Wide Woven Basket Box Card set and assemble as shown in the KB assembly video at the bottom of the linked page. Trim off the side tabs on the four basket pieces. Watch the following video. Cut two of the largest crosshatch squares from brown.
Closure Sentiment: Cut the Shadow from the Happy Easter word set from white. Cur the words from yellow and ink bled to a darker yellow. Die cut eggshell and chick pieces following assembly video for Spring Animals.
Glue assemble chick to sentiment. Cut eight of the smaller eye circles and two of the larger eye circles from the Mini Pop-up Balls die set. Glue four of the small circles onto one of the large circles. Cut a piece of string at least 24-inches long and glue one end on top of small circle stack. Glue the last four circles on top of the string end, thus sandwiching the string in center of the small circles stack of eight. Attach to top of stack the last large circle. Once the stack is dry, glue to the back of the sentiment and then onto top basket flap. Let dry with a weight on top of it.
Envelope: This card would either be hand delivered or mailed in a bubble pack envelope.
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It’s time to see more of Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release of new dies.
There is a wonderful scene in the Julie Andrew’s movie Mary Poppins, where she takes measure of the children with her tape measure and when her measure is taken it says “practically perfect.” This is a birthday card for the “practically perfect” person in everyone’s life.
Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase and envelope. Cut four 5×7 panels of decorative paper. (I used a Mary Poppins themed paper collection from Carta Bella.) Glue two to the outside and two to the inside of the cardbase leaving the center fold uncovered. (I used two panels of striped paper inside the card, matching up the stripes at the fold.) Decorate the front and back with journaling cards from the paper collection. (I used two heart paper doilies to go under the front journaling card which was popped-up with foam tape, while the back had a copier paper scalloped border cut using the scalloped rectangle die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set and trimmed to fit.)
Double Lorna Platform: Fold a piece of pink decorative cardstock 4×8-inches to form a 4-inch square. Using a bone folder, make the fold crisp. With the paper folded, place the largest die from the Lorna Label Pop-Up set with the open tab above the fold matching the score line with the fold. (I found that I had to use a shim to cut through the double thickness of the cardstock to get the die to cut through both layers. You may have to adjust the sandwich for your die cutting machine. Test first before cutting your decorative cardstock.)
Train the folds. Place the center fold of the double mechanism along the inside center fold of the cardbase. Tuck the tiny tabs on either side of the label base under and glue to the cardbase with both the mechanism and cardbase flat. Close card to train label base to pop-out. (I used a pencil to pop the tube-like base out the first time.) Glue the upper tabs to cardbase as shown on package directions.
Cut a label from white copier paper using the largest stitched label die and glue to the bottom label platform.
Tea Cup and Spoon Mechanism: When gluing the mechanism from the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set onto the double Lorna platform, a strip the width of the Lorna platform must be cut from the bottom tab of the mechanism.
Spoon: Cut from a heavy silver foil cardstock using the spoon die in the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set. (I used some silver packaging.) Glue the back of spoon to angled top mechanism making sure the position will be within the cup when open and within the card when closed.
Tea Cup and Saucer: Emboss the cup and saucer onto lightweight pink cardstock the die cut using the cup and saucer dies in the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set. Leaving the cup in the die, ink through the stencil feature with pink ink. Remove from die and ink the cup’s handle, base and rim stripe with pink ink. Ink saucer base. With gold marker trace embossed lines on cup and saucer. Glue to front of mechanism.
Sentiments: A journaling card with “Sweet and Kind and Smart and Cheery” and a word tape measure border from the paper collection were used for the front and back of the card. “Happy Birthday” was cut from light blue cardstock using Word Set 2 – Birthday.
Envelope: The back flap of the envelope is covered with a border strip of a tea party.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #202 whose parameters included a 5×7 inch card, formal & informal colors, warm(s) element and crisscross. Specifically, this card was made for a son starting a new job that requires an early morning wake-up time.
Cardbase: Cover a 5×7-inch wide top-fold cardbase with two patterns of decorative paper – one for card front and inside top (think wallpaper) and another pattern for the back and inside bottom (think flooring.)
Card Front Decorations: Using the Kitchen Borders die set, cut one silverware border from matte silver cardstock for the top of the front panel. From black cardstock cut the frying pan/skillet border twice and trim one border down to three pans. Glue the two pan borders together by overlapping skillets. (Skillets are 1-inch wide, so should have seven skillets to cover all the way across card panel.)
Stove, Cabinets and Counters: Watch assembly video for the Oven Pop-Up at the bottom of the page link before starting. I used glossy white cardstock for the stove with a piece of clear packaging for the oven window. For the oven and cabinet base I used a textured silver cardstock and also cut a square piece to cover the back wall of the oven in textured silver. For the cabinet doors on the uppers and lowers, I used the large door die in the Oven Extras set (cut from a coated black cardstock) with the matte silver knobs from the Oven Pop-Up set.
Food: Using the Kitchen Borders set, cut out 8 eggs from white and use die as stencil to color egg yolks yellow. Using the ribbon border die from the Border Blends – Trims die set, cut one from brown cardstock. Using a white gel pen color the bacon fat along one edge of ribbon. Cut ribbon into strips small enough to fit into skillet.
Using the Kitchen Borders set, Cut two pieces of bread from kraft cardstock and using tweezers to hold, ink the edges to look toasted. For the toaster, cut a toaster border from black cardstock. Cut two of the toaster covers with slots from matte silver cardstock. Cut two of the toasters from the border leaving on the tiny levers that connect the toasters. (I cut the levers off and had to use the tiny waste pieces from the stove burners as toaster levers.) Glue the silver piece atop the black piece and insert bread before glue dries positioning it according to the lever position – up with toast almost out or down with toast mostly inside toaster.
For the plate, I used the circle border piece in the Baking Borders set and cut the plate from glossy white cardstock and used the die as a stencil to draw the blue circle in the center of the plate. The spatula is in the Oven Pop-Up set and is cut twice from different cardstocks and the handle trimmed to fit.
Sentiments: The front sentiment of “Wakey Wakey Eggs N’ Bakey” were cut using the Mini Alphabet set’s shadow and letter dies. Inside the card, The Good Luck die set was used along with a computer generated “On your new job” cut out with the banner in the Lorna Label Pop-Up. On the card back the largest label from the Lorna Label was used for a personalized message space.
Envelope: Leftover toaster and frying pan are glued to the back of the envelope. (I would put the card and envelope in a padded envelope to mail, but it will be hand delivered.)
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Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC February 2024 Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 12 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW! (Click here to go to the GIVEAWAY section.)
Ever wonder how the Easter Bunny gets all those eggs prepared to hide? He uses gnomes of course!
Instructions for how I created this 5×7-inch card with the gnome kitchen are in video below. The card front instructions are in written format only and are below the video. (Sorry I had a camera malfunction.)
Card Front: To create the scene within the oval frame, I first had to create the scene by gluing the tree, basket and bunny to a strip of grass from the new Easter Borders set. (See assembly videos for tree and bunny on the bottom of their linked pages.)
Next I glued six grassing strips, plus the waste sections between the strip cutouts to form a grassy lawn. The second basket was glued in on a different layer than the bunny.
The oval frame was cut using the two largest dies in the Ovals – Crosshatch set. The scene was glued to the back of the frame and excess bits were trimmed off the oval.
Sentiments: For the card front sentiment of “How does he do it” I cut individual letters from black using the Mini Alphabet and Numbers set. For the “Happy Easter” I cut the shadow from white and the words from yellow cardstock using the new die set Happy Easter. I brushed a coat of glitter gloss over this sentiment to add some magic to the scene.
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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, 26 February 2024. 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!
It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release. These dies will be available for purchase on February 19, 2024 on the KB Riley LLC website.
Your co-worker is leaving for a new job and you need a card for others in the office to sign for her. That is the brief for this accordion card.
It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release. These dies will be available for purchase on February 19, 2024 on the KB Riley LLC website.
Everyone needs a beach basket of fun! This fun basket can be used for a variety of occasions from birthdays to vacations to thinking of you.
Made with Karen Burniston dies including the newly released Beach Elements set, the basket fits into a 6×9-inch catalog envelope.
Sandy Cardstock: Using kraft cardstock, lightly spatter with brown paint. (I used Nuvo Sparkle Spray in Cocoa Powder on two sheets of 8.5×11-inch cardstock.)
Video link
Basket: From the sandy cardstock, cut two of the solid sides and two of “T” slats from the Woven Basket Box Card set and two of the solid sides and two of “T” slats from the Wide Woven Basket Box Card set. Weave the sides together and assemble basket as shown in video. Cut two dark brown rope handles. (You can also watch Karen Burniston’s assembly video by clicking on the link for the Woven Basket Box Card and scrolling to the bottom of the page.)
Bam Boxes: I added two Small Bam Boxes to the opposite lower corners inside the basket so that it will pop-open when removed from its envelope.
Sand Dunes: Cut three grassy strips using the die in the Wide Woven Basket Box Card set. From scraps of the sandy cardstock, cut three pieces as wide as the grassy strips and at least 3-inches tall. Using the stitched dune or wavy die in the Beach Elements set cut the sand dunes from the scraps. Glue the dune strips over the grassy strips, trimming grass away as needed. Attach the strips inside the basket as shown in the Karen Burniston video.
Umbrella: Cut one umbrella base and two poles from white cardstock using the dies in the Beach Elements set. Layout the panel dies and cut alternating panels of white and blue cardstock. Ink blend both poles brown and lightly ink the edges and panel seams on umbrella base piece. Slide one pole through the slit at the top of the umbrella base piece and glue to underside of umbrella. Attach the panels to the front of umbrella. Attach umbrella to the middle sand dune of basket, making sure it will not stick out of the envelope when basket is folded closed. Glue the second pole to the back side of pole for stability. Add flower outline to one panel for decoration.
Surfboards: In the Beach Elements set there is a surfboard base and a decorative leaf pattern overlay for the board which you can cut from contrasting colors and glue together. For the flowered surfboard, cut out three to four flowers using the flower die in the set. Separate the outline from the solid flower and attach in an alternating pattern down board, trimming off excess along the edge. (I covered my boards with Glossy Accents and allowed them to dry overnight before adding a second surfboard base to the back of the boards.)
Flip-Flops and Beach Ball: The flip-flop sandals and the beach ball come from the Beach Charms set. The sandal base I cut two of in different shades of orange and glued them slightly off-set to suggest the thickness of the soles.
Sun Tag: Using the small tag die in the Tag Book Pop-Up set, cut one tag from the sandy kraft cardstock. Glue the two-piece sun from the Beach Elements to the sandy side of the tag. You can write a personal message on the plain side of the tag.
Envelope: The 6×9-inch envelope’s back flap is decorated with extra flowers cut for the surfboards.
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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release. These dies will be available for purchase on February 19, 2024 on the KB Riley LLC website.
Inspired by a little girl who loves to pretend she is a mermaid in her backyard pool, this birthday card features not only mermaids, but also a blow-up flamingo float in a pop-up pool.
Cardbase: I used a purchased 5×7 white cardbase that I covered all four panels with polka dot papers- blue on outside and green inside – using the largest rectangle in the Crosshatch Rectangles and Labels die set. This will be a top-fold card.
Mermaids: Using the Princess and Mermaid set to cut three of the mermaid’s body from green glitter cardstock – one was cut on the reserve side of the glitter cardstock. Cut three long hair pieces from pale yellow cardstock and two head and shoulders from a skin shade of cardstock. The mermaid on the inside needs to have both the front and back finished, hence the reverse cut body and extra hair pieces. Ultra fine tipped markers were used to draw on the face and a light blending of pink ink along with a dots of pink glitter gloss to the checks. Sandwich the head and shoulders between the mermaid body pieces and then attach the hairpieces. Add clear glitter gloss to hair. Make mermaid for card front in similar manner, but do not finish the backside. Cut a small shell from the die set and tint with pink ink. Have front mermaid hold the shell.
Flamingo Float: Using the flamingo float dies in the Tiny Accessories 4, cut one float and two wings. Decorate both sides of float and one front of wing and back of wing. Shade the float and wings with pink ink and add white highlights with gel pen. Color the beak with a black marker and add white highlights. Cut two tiny white circles and with black marker make small circles and add a white dot highlight for the eyes. Glue eyes on either side of float. Slip mermaid into float and then attach wings.
Pool: (Watch assembly video above for this modification of the Cake Pop-Up.) Cut two of the largest cake layer in the Cake Pop-Up die set from water patterned paper. Cut another two using the same die piece from a pattern paper that will be the outside of pool. Trim off bottom tab and four-sided trapezoid top flap from each of the outside pool pieces to form a tabbed strip. Using the four-sided trapezoid as a pattern trace and cut out two pieces from water patterned paper. Assemble as directed adding mermaid on flamingo float. Attach to inside of top-fold card. Decorate the inside cardbase with a beach ball from Beach Charms and tiny flamingo from Beach Borders.
Sentiments: The card front sentiments come from two different sets – Word Set 9 – Love and Word Set 5 – Royalty. “Love you” was cut from white patterned paper and brushed with clear glitter gloss. The “My Little” banner has in-laid letters that are also brushed with glitter gloss. Sequins, acrylic drops and heart are the dimensional accents to the card front.
For the inside sentiment of “Happy Birthday,” both the word set and shadow dies were used with the shadow cut from white patterned paper and the words cut from pink cardstock brushed with pink glitter gloss. The framed label for a personal message has three frames and one label cut using the largest frame die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch die set. Green sequins were added to the corners of the label.
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