Anniversary

“UP” – A Pop-Up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #223 (craftroulette.live) whose parameters included a smaller/larger project, planet colors, house(s) element and white border.

Watch the process video above for how the card was made.

Cardbase: Fold an 8.5×11-inch sheet of white cardstock in half to form a side fold 5.5×8.5-inch A9 cardbase. Cover with decorative papers leaving a white border around each card panel.

Sentiments: The sentiments are stamped in black ink except for the “Home is wherever I am with you” which was stamped in blue ink before the clouds were inked blended on using a Distress oxide blue ink onto plain copier paper. All sentiments are from the two Kindred Stamps sets listed below.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog size 6×9-inch envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Kindred Stamps – Clear Stamps – Together Forever
  • Kindred Stamps – Clear Stamps – Fly Away
  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – The Basics

Stencil

  • Craftin Desert Divas – 6×6 Stencil – Clouds and Paths

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Stampin’ Up – 8.5×11 Thick Basic White Cardstock
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Printed Paper – Blue/Green Watercolor
  • Clear Plastic Packaging
  • Catalog (6×9) Envelope – White

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide –Tumbled Glass
  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad – Balmy Blue
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Markers – Light Daffodil Delight
  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Crafter’s Squares – Metallic Markers .05 in – Blue and Silver
  • Mont Marte – Dual Tip Art Marker – E2 Raw Sienna
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Light Indigo
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black, Blue, Green and Brown, Red
  • Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils – Elementary Midtones and Hair & Skin Tones

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Metal Ruler
  • Craft Mat
  • Blending Brush
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Waterbrush

All You Need Is Love and A Boat

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Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC June 2024 Release Blog Hop. (See GIVEAWAY 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 12 new dies and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This card features the new Boat Pop-Up die set made as a row boat. It also uses figures from the previously released Princess and Mermaid and Knight and Dragon die sets and the Lorna Label Pop-Up for the main sentiment. Two of the new stamp sets are used as well – Sail Away and Seasons.

Watch the video to learn how the card was made.

Cardbase: This slimline card is made up of three rectangles 7 1/2 x 4-inches, 4 1/2 x4-inches and 3 3/4 x 4-inches. Score and fold 1/4-inch tabs on the two smaller pieces. Glue tabs to largest piece. Cover with decorative papers.

Sentiments: The stamped sentiments are from Karen Burniston’s new clear stamps sets – “All you need is love and a boat” from Sail Away set and “Happy Anniversary” from Seasons set. “Love you” is a die in Word Set 9. The front sentiment is stamped on the scalloped heart from the Hearts – Crosshatch set. A tiny bit of a Velcro hook and loop sticker was attached to the back of the right side of the heart and the cardbase as a closure.

Envelope: The #10 business envelope back flap has a pair of die cut oars from the Boat Pop-Up set glued to it. They are inked by rubbing them over the brown ink cube.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Fun Stamping Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Oatmeal
  • Honey Bee – 6×8.5 Double-Sided 65 lb. Cardstock – Grain and Grunge
  • Hot Off The Press – 8.5×11 inch Single-Sided Papers – Blossoms on Aqua
  • Stampin’ Up – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Thick Basic White
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Gumdrop 5-5154
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Printed Paper – Water Waves
  • Brown, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Ivory

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Frayed Burlap
  • Creative Craft Products – Alcohol Markers – 26 Pastel Peach, 72 Napoleon, 76 Sky Blue, 144 Pale Baby Blue
  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black, Blue, Green and Red

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Blending Brush
  • Paper Masking Tape

Miscellaneous

  • Velcro – hook and loop stickers

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, 8th July 2024. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter!

Karen Burniston – https://karenburniston.typepad.com/i_am_not_lefthanded/2024/07/karen-burniston-june-2024-release-blog-hop.html

Lois Bak – https://clownmomcreations.blogspot.com/2024/07/karen-burniston-new-release-blog-hop.html

Sue Small-Kreider -YOU ARE HERE

Frances Byrne – https://stampowl.blogspot.com/2024/07/karen-burniston-kb-riley-llc-july-2024.html

Jennifer Webster – https://www.jlwebstercreations.com/2024/07/karen-burniston-june-2024-new-release.html

Suzanne Smit – https://knutselsuus.blogspot.com/2024/07/karen-burniston-kb-riley-llc-june.html

Nicky Foden – https://mymessycraftroomme.wordpress.com/?p=6989&preview=true

Sandy Diller – https://sandydiller.blogspot.com/2024/07/blog-hop.html

Ken Chien – https://www.instagram.com/p/C84Yvg4yy2M/

Don’t forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner!

Enchanted Forest Pop-up Card

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s June 2024 release of new dies.

For this card, I used one of the new sets – Tree Add-Ons along with a previously released die set – Fancy Label Accordion. This card is based on a card design that Karen Burniston had taught in a class with the Hearts Add-Ons die set. (Click on link to get a PDF of the instructions.)

Cardbase:   Cut an 11x 6-inches rectangle of lightweight cardstock and fold in half to create a 5 1/2 x 6-inches card base with a side fold. Cover with decorative paper on the outside and inside of front panel before cutting with largest square die from the Squares – Crosshatch. Once the square has been cut, attach inside back decorative paper matching front design.

Accordion Frame: Die-cut two Fancy Label Accordion frames from a decorative print cardstock as directed in PDF instructions. Make sure you add the decorative label die inside the pivot panel before you die cut, so that you will make the pivot panel into a frame.

Attach to card base as directed in PDF instructions. Use tree trunk and hearts dies to decorate tree panel.

Tree-Add-On Panel: Replace the Trees Add-Ons for the Hearts Add-Ons in the PDF instructions. I cut out tree frames on the first and third panels by first die cutting the whole panel and then die cutting twice more with the cloud shaped tree leaves dies and tree trunk dies in the Trees Add-Ons set. I cut two more of the tree shaped frames to cover and reinforce the back side of the tree panel.

Attach to pivot panel and card as shown in PDF instructions.

Sentiments & Decorations: I used printed sentiments and border strips from the paper collection to finish decorating the card covering all of the green cardbase.

Envelope:  Fits into a 6×9 catalog envelope with a back flap decorated with decorative paper strip.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Graphic45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers Collection Pack – Enchanted Forest
  • 6×9-inch Catalog Envelope – White

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors

Coffee Loving Couple

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Different things bond couples together, but for one couple I know it is coffee. This is a card to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

I used two of Karen Burniston’s new February 2024 release dies – Tea and Coffee Borders and Tea and Coffee Pop-Up along with several previously released dies – Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch, Word Set 12 – Anniversary and Cupcake Pop-Up.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 12×12 Double-Sided Textured Cardstock Collection Kit – Gather At Home
  • Bazzill – 12×12 inch Cardstock – Travertine
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 Shimmer Cardstock – White Gold
  • Black, Brown, Pale Green and White Cardstock
  • Clear Vellum
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft Brown

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Black Soot, Gathered Twigs and Saltwater Taffy
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Ball Tipped Shaping Tool
  • Stiff Foam Mat

Dancing Skeletons

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“Stepping out with my baby!” coons Fred Astaire in his top hat and tails. “Putting on the Ritz!” the monster in Young Frankenstein moans with his top hat and stick. These were the sights and sounds that serve as the theme of this wedding anniversary card for a couple married close to Halloween.

The card brief was for some interactivity that was spooky (but not too spooky) and included the word “BOO!” as well as “Happy 15th Anniversary.”

Cardbase: Starting with an orange 8 1/2-inches wide by 7-inches tall rectangle folded in half for a top-fold, slimline cardbase of 3 1/2 -inches tall by 8 1/2-inches wide. The front and back panels of the card base has mats cut using the three crosshatch dies from Karen Burniston’s Long Rectangles – Crosshatch die set and papers from Graphic 45. They are glued together and then glued to the cardbase. (I found placing weights – stamping blocks or cell phone – on the mats to keep them flat as the glue dried very helpful.) The inside has a piece of white computer paper cut to 6 3/4 -inches tall by 8 1/4 -inches wide and folded in half before being adhered to the cardbase with thin double-sided tape.

Card Front: Using the Creative Expressions Skeletons by Sue Wilson cut two each of the three skeletons dies from thick white cardstock and glued them together. Die cut just the hats/heads from black glitter cardstock. Fussy cut the hats from the heads and glue them in place. Cover one side of the wobbler springs with patterned paper to match the center mat of the card front. Glue the skeletons onto the patterned paper side of the spring and allow the glue to dry before gluing the springs to the card front.

Sentiments: The sentiments come from two different Karen Burniston die sets – Halloween Elements and Word Set 12 – Anniversary. The numbers are The Greetery’s Cake Pops Number Candles die set and fussy cut of their tabs and flame. The “th” superscript is from Karen Burniston’s Numbers set. (I cut two “Boo!” from black glitter and orange cardstock and offset them to create a shadow. For the anniversary greeting I used one layer of orange foil cardstock.)

Envelope: Karen Burniston’s jack-o-lantern border decorates the back flap of the envelope. It is cut in two pieces – the top orange and the bottom full outline from black glitter cardstock.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Creative Expressions – Craft Dies by Sue Wilson – Halloween Collection – Skeletons
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Borders – 1247
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Long rectangles – Crosshatch – 1151
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Word Set 12 – Anniversary – 1137
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Numbers – 1031
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Halloween Elements – 1013
  • The Greetery – Wafer Thin Steel Dies – Cake Pops Number Candles

Papers

  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Paper – Charmed Collection – If the Broomstick Fits
  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Paper – Charmed Collection – Hey Pumpkin
  • Core’dinations – Black Glitter Cardstock – Black tie
  • Joy Craft Mirror Cardstock – Orange
  • Orange and White Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft

Ink

  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Scor-Tape – Double-Sided Tape -1/8-Inch Wide

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Scissors
  • Bone Folder

Miscellaneous

  • Riley & Company – Active Wobbles – Mini Action Springs

Celebrating 66 Years of Marriage!

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Recently I had the honor of creating a pop-up card celebrating a couple’s 66th wedding anniversary. Since there are no special designations for the 66th anniversary, I decided to go with silver, gold and sapphire blue as colors and balloons, stars, hearts and streamers as elements. My inspiration for the card came from a 50th anniversary card by Nicky Foden using Karen Burniston‘s Heart Collage Pop-Up, Balloon Collage Add-Ons and other dies.

Before I began, I read through Nicky’s blog on her card and watched Karen Burniston’s video on making a triple heart collage slimline pop-up card. I learned that I would need to trim down the outer mechanisms’ arms that will stick out of the card and continually test the placement of items to avoid catch points. The mechanism I used is the from the Heart Collage Pop-Up die set.

Cardbase: I used a medium weight white cardstock rectangle measuring 8 3/4 x 7 3/4-inches. When folded in half, the card measures 3 3/8 x 8 3/4-inches. Using the largest two dies from the Long Rectangles – Crosshatch die set, I cut frames from gold glitter cardstock and a large white rectangle to cover the front of the card. The frames went on the front and back of the card. For the inside of the card, I followed the dimensions of the largest die, but used a paper cutter to cut two panels of gold dotted acetate. (The acetate was too thick for the die to cut well.) While the glitter cardstock and white cardstock could be adhered using glue, the acetate required double sided-tape. Measuring the inside of the glitter frame on the back of the card, I cut a piece of acetate to fit the opening.

Mechanisms: Following Karen’s instructions on the placement of the mechanisms, I marked the locations with pencil on the inner fold. Making sure to line-up the pencil mark in the center hole of the mechanism and aligning the mechanism fold to the card fold, before I adhered one side of the mechanism to the card. Because of the acetate being used for the surface the mechanisms would adhered to, I used red backed super sticky double-sided tape. Once the mechanisms were in place and trained by opening and closing the card, I noted which arms stuck out of the card and trimmed them to fit inside the card.

Decorating: Die-cutting a number of balloons and stars from the Balloon Collage Add-Ons die set and ribbons with tiny hearts from the Border Blends – Trims, I hoped I had enough pieces to decorate the card. Watching Karen’s video one more time to see how the dimension pieces needed to be installed on the mechanisms, I stated with those balloons on the top arms. I worked from the tips of the arms and center mechanisms using balloons, testing for catch points before gluing in permanently. Next came stars and streamers (I cut the ribbon down into smaller streamers.) Finally the tiny hearts. I used double-sided tape to adhere anything to the front of the glitter cardstock or acetate on the cardbase.

Sentiment: To create the custom “Happy 66th Anniversary” sentiment on the front of the card, I used two die sets – Word Set 12- Anniversary and Numbers. The Numbers set comes with the “th” as well as “st”, “rd” and “nd”. For the label to write a personal message inside the card, I used white cardstock and my favorite crosshatch label die from the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set.

Envelope: The back of the envelope is decorated with ribbon bits and tiny hearts all cut from the Border Blends – Trims die set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Hot off the Press– 8 1/2 x 11-inches Foil Cardstock – Fireworks Blue Holographic
  • Hot off the Press– 8 1/2 x 11-inches Foil Cardstock – Stars Silver Holographic
  • American Crafts – WE R – 8 1/2 x 11-inch Acetate – Chevron Dot – Gold
  • Gold and Silver Foil Cardstock
  • Gold Glitter Cardstock
  • White Medium Weight Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft

Adhesives

Tools

Another Banner Year

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Traditionally, across the world the 27th wedding anniversary is jet stones or ebony wood, but there is no designation for the anniversary in the United States of America. We hope it is another banner year to use a sports metaphor.

Shaped cards that are pop-ups are easy with Karen Burniston’s die sets. I used several die sets from her December 2022 release including Banner Crosshatch and Wedding Charms. Previous released die sets include Cake Pop-up, Anniversary Word Set 12 and Mini Alphabet and Numbers. (The green holographic cardstock goes rainbow when photographed.)

To cut a shaped cardbase fold a mid-weight cardstock (4 1/4 x 11 inches) in half. Place the die so that it just hangs over the top fold of the cardstock and die cut through both layers.

The cool part of using the largest of the banner crosshatch dies to make the cardbase is that it adds a border pattern to all edges of the card.

I cut, with the next size down banner die, the patterned paper for inside the card, and the holographic mirror cardstock for the front and back of the card. (Thin paper inside and thick cardstock outside helps the cake pop-up work smoothly.)

To have the pop-up cake fit inside the card, I used only the top two layers, folding down the tabs on the middle layer to glue to the cardbase. For the cake decoration of the double wedding rings, I folded a scrap of gold foil cardstock in half and die-cut the rings so that I had matching gold rings that I could glue together. The diamond is cut from shimmer cardstock scrap and embossed after it was glued to the ring. (I used the ring die to emboss with.)

Included in the Wedding Charms die set is the “Best Wishes” sentiment which pairs well with the previously released “Happy Anniversary” sentiment.

Card Back

Vellum champagne glasses and the tuxedo/wedding dress charms finish off the card.

(I used tape runner adhesive to assemble the champagne glasses.)

For the front custom sentiment, I used the Mini Alphabet and Numbers. (Storing the individual letters in separate compartments makes it easy to spell out words. Writing out the count needed for each letter is also helpful.)

To hint at what is inside the envelope, I used the “Best Wishes” sentiment in the Wedding Charms set to cut from white gold shimmer cardstock.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Park Lane Papier – 6×6 Paper Pad – Silver Holographic Cardstock
  • Tonic Studios – Craft Perfect Mirror Cardstock – Seafoam Green
  • Funky Fossil Designs – 8×8 Paper Pad – Watercolour Rainbow
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Vellum – Clear
  • Hunkydory – 8.5×11 Printed Parchment – Forever Florals – Autumn Days
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 White Gold Shimmer Cardstock
  • Black and White Scrap Cardstock
  • A2 Green Envelope

Miscellaneous

Popping The Question

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Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC December Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 11 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This proposal is literally popping the question!

Karen Burniston’s December 2022 release includes the Surprise Cube Pop-Up, Slider Box and Wedding Charms die sets used to make this proposal box.

Three decorated Surprise Cubes comfortably fit inside the slider drawer. (See assembly video for Surprise cubes.) Using the smallest crosshatch rectangle from the Slider Box set to hold the big question, it was glued to one side of a cube when flat. Placing this cube in the bottom of the drawer it tends to stay inside the drawer when the other cubes pop out. (Slider Box assembly video)

Four different charms- groom tux, bride wedding dress, double wedding rings and clicking champagne glasses – from the Wedding Charms set cover the sides of the cubes.

The tiny crosshatch squares and triangles included in the Surprise Cube set along with matting squares and triangles make for quick decorating. The Mini Alphabet letters spell out the proposal.

Not ready to pop the big question? Then try these die sets for asking someone to the prom, wishing a Happy Birthday or a Happy Christmas. The drawer will fit a gift card under the three cubes.

This release includes:

  • 2 new charm die sets
  • 1 new stand alone die set
  • 2 new Tiny House Add-Ons sets
  • 2 new Pop-up die sets
  • 1 new Woven Box Basket die set
  • 2 new Crosshatch die sets
  • 1 new Box 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, 19th December 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!

Karen Burniston 

Lois Bak 

Sue Small-Kreider – YOU are HERE

Karen Aicken 

Jennifer Webster 

Frances Byrne 

Nicky Foden 

Sandy Diller  

Suzanne Smit

Fran Sabad 

All Wrapped Up In You

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My spouse and I joke that neither of us can remember our wedding anniversary. We know it is in late October but we always have to look it up. This year I decided to just make a sweet Halloween card for my spouse for our anniversary.

I used the Spellbinders’ Dancin Mummy dies as well as the stamp set from the Boo Dance Party collection to make the card. The card base is a mini-slimline card made from double-sided cardstock from a 2013 Martha Stewart 12 x 12 paper pad called Gothic Manor. The legs swing on circle foam dot.

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