Encouragement

Bee Pop-Up In A Flower Card

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IT’S TIME for the Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC November 2025 Release Blog Hop. (See GIVEAWAY details at the end of this post for blog hop list.) The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 15 new dies and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to pre-order NOW!

Today’s card uses the new dies of Greeting Labels, Mini Ball Access Tabs, Surprise Ball Access Tabs and Animal Add-Ons 6 and a new stamp set – Bug Greetings. The card also uses previously released die sets of Mini Ball Pop-Up, Hexagons – Crosshatch and Ovals -Crosshatch.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase: Cut eight dotted lavender cardstock hexagons using the largest die in the Hexagons – Crosshatch. Using the next two plain edged hexagon dies in the set, cut a total of 12 of the medium hexagon from patterned paper and six of the smaller die also from patterned paper. Cut two sets of the Surprise Ball Access Tabs from the dotted lavender cardstock. Assemble card as show in video.

Bee Pop-Up: Cut two ball halves and 12 decorative pieces from yellow cardstock using the Mini Ball Pop-Up set. Also cut one set of Mini Ball Access Tabs from yellow cardstock. Assemble Mini Ball as shown in the video above using the access tabs. Create the bee using the Animal Add-Ons 6 set. Cut four sets of the antenna, one large circle and two small eye ovals from black cardstock. Cut two of the smaller circle from white cardstock and the mouth from pink. (I cut the mouth from white and colored with a pink marker.) Cut one set of wings and two wing vein overlays from clear vellum. Assemble as shown in video above. Cut one lavender oval for the base for the bee to set on using the medium die in the Ovals -Crosshatch set.

Sentiments: All the sentiments are stamped on white cardstock using the Bug Greetings stamp set and the Greeting Labels die set was used to cut the belly band label out. The large label on the back used the largest crosshatch die in the Hexagons – Crosshatch set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Bazzill – 12×12 Polka Dot Embossed Cardstock – Lavender
  • Memory Box – 6×6 inch Double-Sided Cardstock – Anemone Grove – PP1026 & Glimmering Gladiola – PP1028
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Clear Vellum
  • Black, White and Yellow Cardstock

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

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, 1st December 2025. 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!

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A Snowy Pines Card

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 Release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s card uses a new die and a new stamp set – Pine Cone and Quiet Forest. It also uses the previously release dies of Pattern Plate – Swirls and Snow Charms. The new dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

Cardbase: I cut an 8.5×11 sheet of white 65lb. cardstock in half to create two 5.5×8.5-inch rectangles that I fold in half to make side-fold A2 cardbases. Cut one cardbase into two 4.25×5.5 panels.

Swirls Background: Tape a white 4.25×5.5 panel of cardstock to the Pattern Plate – Swirls die and using the embossing sandwich for your die cutting machine, and emboss the pattern into the cardstock. Color the swirls with a glitter marker of icy blue. Trim panel down to 4×5.25-inches. Glue panel to card front.

Pine Cones: Watch the video above to see how I made the pine cones using Karen Burniston’s Pine Cone dies.

Skates and Snowflakes: The skates and snowflakes were cut out using the Snow Charms die set. The three skate dies were cut from white cardstock and colored with markers before gluing together. The snowflakes were cut from white gold shimmer cardstock.

Sentiments: All the sentiments come from the Quiet Forest stamp set and are cut out with the Greeting Labels die set.

Envelope: The card fits in an A2 (4.25×5.5-inch) size envelope with a snowflake glued to the back flap.

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Quiet Forest

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Rain Forest
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 65 lb. Shimmer Cardstock – White Gold
  • Brown and White Cardstock
  • A2 Envelope – White

Ink

  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Vintage Photo
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Scrapbook.com – Shimmer Glitter Brush Marker – Frosty Blue
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Red

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

  • Red & White Bakers Twine

The Cat’s Meow Pop-Up Card

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s card uses the new dies of Playful Pop-Up, Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons, Greeting Labels and Meow! As well as Rectangles – Crosshatch and Sending Love. The dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card. (I apologize for the video quality. I was having some technical issues while recording it.)

Cardbase: I used a 12×12-inch sheet of dark pink cardstock folded in half and used the scalloped rectangle die from the Rectangles – Crosshatch set placed with one corner over the fold to get a diagonal opening card base. Cut two full scalloped rectangles from light pink cardstock and four smaller rectangles from flower patterned paper. Glue flower panels to the inside of the dark pink cardbase trimming of diagonal corners. Glue remaining two panels to light pink pieces. Assemble card as show in video.

Cat Pop-Up: Using the Playful Pop-Up set, cut one of the largest die and the “Y” piece die from white cardstock. From gray cardstock, cut the decorative notched square die in the Playful Pop-Up set, and from the Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons, the paws, and large cat ears . From pink cardstock, cut two of the paw backing die, the small cat ears and tongue. From black, cut one nose-mouth piece and one set of small eyeballs. From white, cut one set of large eyeballs and whiskers. Follow the video above and photos to assemble.

Sentiments: The die-cut sentiments of Sending Love and the tiny hearts are from the die set of the same name. MEOW! is cut from light pink cardstock using the die of the same name. The shadows behind “Love” and MEOW! are cut from pink vellum. Pink sparkle heart embellishments finish the card front. “Big Hugs” is from the Cat Sayings stamp set. The labels are cut using dies from the Greeting Labels. The paw on the card back comes from MEOW!

Envelope: The card fits into an A6 (6 1/2×4 3/4-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – Cat Sayings

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Pink Icing
  • Core’dinations – 12×12 inch Textured 80lb Cardstock – Candy Shop
  • Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Cardstock – Joy to the World – Peace on Earth
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Pastel Pink Vellum
  • Black, Pink and White Cardstock
  • A6 Envelope – White

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Metal Ruler
  • Tweezers
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

  • Trinity Stamps – Embellishment Mix – Pink Sparkle Hearts

Ladybug Slimline Interactive Card

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 Release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s card uses the new dies of Playful Pop-Up, Greeting Labels, and Bug Borders as well as previously released Long Rectangles – Crosshatch. The sentiments are from the new stamp set – Bug Greetings. The dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

Watch the process video to see how I made these cards.

Cardbase: Cut from black cardstock a 7.5 x8.5-inch rectangle. Score and fold at 3.75-inches to form a 3.75×8.5-inch slimline cardbase. Using the largest of the Long Rectangles – Crosshatch dies, cut four from patterned paper. Adhere the rectangles to all four panels of the card.

Playful Mechanisms: Using the Playful Pop-Up set, cut three of the largest die and three of the “K” piece die from a green cardstock. Cut the decorative notched square die from patterned paper. Follow the video above to assemble.

Ladybugs:  There are two sizes of ladybugs used on this card. The larger ones come from the Playful Pop-Up set and include dies to make them with legs, without legs and flying. The smaller ladybugs come from the Bug Borders set. (I cut two strips of the border ladybugs, five of the bugs with legs and five of the bugs without legs. I made one of the without legs bodies into a flying ladybug.) Watch the video above for assembly instructions.

Sentiments: The card sentiments are all stamped in blank ink using the Bug Greetings stamp set and cut out using the Greeting Labels die set. Watch the video above for details on attaching the sentiments to the cards.

Envelope: The card fits into a #10 business size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Bug Greetings

Papers

  • Stampin’ Up – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Painterly Pears
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Rain Forest
  • Black, Red and White Cardstock

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

Wild Puppy

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s November 2025 Release of new dies and stamps.

Today’s cards use the new dies of Playful Pop-Up, Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons, Greeting Labels, Dog Borders and Woof! as well as Go Wild!, Rectangles – Crosshatch and Waterfall Card. A new stamp set, Dog Sayings, was also used. The dies and stamps will be available for pre-order starting November 24, 2025.

Watch the process video to see how I made this kind of interactive card.

(NOTE: Below are the specifics for the A2 right pull teal colored card.)

Cardbase: I used a purchased kraft side-fold A2 cardbase. Using the largest of the Rectangles – Crosshatch dies, cut two from patterned paper. Adhere the rectangles to the front of the card and to the inside right panel. (Cut a piece of pattern paper 4.5×5.75-inches and save to cover the back panel once the staples have been added to the card assembly.)

Dog Pop-Up: Using the Playful Pop-Up set, cut one of the largest die and the “Y” piece die from a dark brown cardstock. Cut the decorative notched square die from light brown cardstock. Follow the video above to assemble but do so in reverse for a right pull strip. Cut one rectangle .75×1-inch from the patterned paper. Cut one piece of clear thick plastic packaging .75×2.5-inches and another strip of lighter weight acetate .5×3-inches. Cut a cover strip also .5×3-inches from the same pattern paper as the inside panel. (The .5×3-inch pieces are the guide strip.) Once the guide strip over the pull piece has been installed and stapled in place, glue the 4.5×5.75-inch piece of pattern paper over the card back to hid the staples.

From the Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons die set, cut from a light brown cardstock the paw arms and the dog ears. From dark brown cardstock, cut two of the paw backing die. From black, cut one nose-mouth piece and one set of the small eyeballs. From white, cut one set of large eyeballs. From pink cut one tongue. Watch the video above for how to assemble.

Bow: From the Dog and Cat Playful Add-Ons die set, cut from red cardstock – the largest eyeball, the largest cat ears and the paw arms. Trim off the paw end of the arms to make a fish tail ribbon ends and assemble as shown above.

Card Front
Card Back

Sentiments: The card sentiments “Go Wild!“ and “Woof!” are die cut. “Woof! Is used twice inside the card and once on the card back. Inside there is a stamped sentiment of “Your dog thinks you’re cool (and I do too!)” was stamped in black and cut out using the largest oval from the Greeting Labels die set.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Dog Sayings

Papers

  • Carabelle Studio – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Sorbet designed by Azoline
  • Clear Thick Plastic Packaging
  • Grafix – 8.5×11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film
  • Black, Browns, Cream, Pink, Red and White Cardstock
  • Target – A2 Cardbase and Envelope – Kraft

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
  • Pencil
  • Ruler
  • Craft Mat
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

  • Black Organza Ribbon 1/4-inch wide

A Dog Themed Tri-fold Birthday Card

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This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #292 whose parameters included an encouragement card, sophisticated colors,  house pet(s) element, and thread or twine. I used the Crafter’s Companion stamp & die set called Best Buddy and Graphic 45 paper to make this card.

Watch the process video to see how I made these cards.

Cardbase: I started with a 5 1/2×11-inch rectangle of heavyweight ivory cardstock. After trimming 1/4-inch from the short side (5 1/2 x10 7/8-inches) I scored and folded the panel at 3 5/8-inches and 7 1/4-inches. Front panel is 1/8-inch wider than the other two panels to help with the opening of card. Follow the directions in the video for decorating and cutting out the two window apertures in the card base.

Dogs: I colored the dogs using various shades of brown and black. For the twine parameter, I glued some green/blue twine as the dogs collars.

Sentiments: “Yappy Birthday” and “Woof You” are from the Best Buddy‘s stamps as is the speech bubble and paw prints.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (5x 7-inch) size envelope with a dog and “”Yappy Birthday” stamped on the back flap.

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Materials Used:

Stamps & Dies

  • Crafter’s Companion – Gemini – Best Buddy

Paper

  • Recollections-8.5×11-inch 100 lb. Cardstock – Ivory
  • Stamperia – 12×12-inch Double-Sided Paper – Savana

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • OLO – Marker – Dragon Fruit
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Point – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Point – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dual Tip – Dark Pebbled Path, Light Copper Clay, Light Pebbled Path

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Blue/Green Baker’s Twine

Autumn Leaves Accordion Card

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This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #287 whose parameters included “saying hi”, crisp colors, sun/sunny(ies) element, and pennants. Today’s card uses Karen Burniston dies and her new Fall Phrases stamps.

Watch the video below to see how this card was made.

Cardbase: (Watch the assembly video for this die set located at the bottom of the linked page.) Cut three of the Landscape Rectangle Accordion frames from brown cardstock. From one frame die cut two apertures in the pivot panel using the stitched rectangle die in the set. Decorate the panels first and then glue the frames together as shown in the assembly video.

Leaf Pennants: From the Tree Pop-Up die set cut two sets of oak leaves – once from yellow and one from brown. Daub the leaf edges with brown ink and then splatter with white paint and bronze ink to age them. Sandwich a piece 8-10-inches of black sewing thread between two leaves (of the same color) and glue in place. Repeat with remaining leaves. (Note: I lost one of my leave pairs, so I only added five dangling leaves to my card.) Using a thin sewing needle, piece a hole into the top of one of the window apertures panel and pull the thread through the hole, adjust length of leaf thread and tie off the thread. (Make sure to only wrap thread one the window frame below the hole as any thread above the hole will be seen and won’t be covered by the decorative frame.) Repeat with other leaves. Cut four picture frames from dark brown using the wood embossed picture frame die in the set. Glue picture frames over the openings to be centered on panel and cover the thread knots.

Gourds and Leaves: Cut two of each of the leaves and pumpkin dies in the Autumn Elements die set. Daub the edges with brown ink and then splatter with white and black paint to age them. (Note: I cut the yellow leaves from a scrap of paper I had inked with red to get that orange mottling effect.) Cut two tiny pumpkin gourds from orange or white with brown stem vines using the dies from the Haunted Tiny House Add-Ons set. Decorate the first and last panels on both sides using the leaves and pumpkins and gourds.

Sentiments: Using the new Karen Burniston Fall Phrases stamp set, stamp “Hello Gourd-geous!” “Warm Autumn Wishes” and “May your fall be crisp, cozy and colorful” onto white cardstock. Die cut using the last two phrases using the two smallest label dies in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set. Using a paper trimmer, cut the first phrase into a .8-inch wide stripe and cut a triangle from each end to make it into a fishtail banner. Using the Tropical Scene die set, cut the sun rays from orange and the circle from yellow and glue together to illustrate “Warm Autumn Wishes.”

Card Assembly: Line up the accordion frames in the order you desire after decorating the panels front and back. Train the folds on the frames and panels. Glue the large frames tabs first. Trim off the unused tab. Once the glue has set on the tabs, train the pivot panels movement. Decide which way the panels will move when open and closed. Glue the panels together having one connection behind the joining frames and the other connection going in front of the joining frames. Trim off unused panel tab.

Envelope: The card fits into a mini slimline envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Pumpkin Bread
  • Brown, Oranges, Red, White and Yellows Cardstock Scraps

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Hero Arts – Acrylic Spray – Opaque White
  • Hero Arts – Silk Ink – Bronze
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Vintage Photo
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Spellbinders – Splatter Effects – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Riley and Company – Pick & Poke Tool
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Sewing Needle

Miscellaneous

  • Black Sewing Thread

Getting Skinny

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This card was made to celebrate Simon Says Stamp! Stamptember with Riley & Company’s The Dog Life stamp set and coordinating dies. It also uses pop-up dies by Karen Burniston.

Watch the video to see how this card was made.

Woven Basket: The base of this basket card that can fold flat, is Karen Burniston’s Woven Basket Box Card. The grass inside is also from the same set. For assemble see video above. A black alcohol marker was used on the coated gold cardstock to make the nail heads on the basket frame.

Sentiments: The main sentiment on the card was stamped in black ink and die cut using the coordinating dies in The Dog Life stamp set. It is on the round stem piece from the Bouquet Bits die set. The white fancy label on the basket back is for a personal message and is cut using the fancy label die in the Triple Platform Pop-Up set.

Tree: The tree was cut from some doubled-sided scrap patterned papers using the Tree Pop-Up die set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Simon Says Stamp! – Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – The Dog Life -3319ssc

Papers

  • Brown and Green Patterned Cardstock Scraps
  • Green and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Gold Shimmer Sheets
  • White 4×6-inch Catalog Envelope

Ink

  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver
  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils – Brilliantly Vibrant and Hair & Skin Tones
  • Pigma – Mircon 01Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • Brutus Monroe – Stick & Stamp Mat
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamp Shammy
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Waterbrush

Arrow Shaped Card – Look At The Stars

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This card was made for CRAFT ROULETTE #275 whose parameters were include an ATC, starry night colors, down element, and white dots. I chose to make a shaped card that includes an ATC (Artist Trading Card.)

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase:  I started with two pieces of 4.125×11-inch white cardstock. Traced around the arrow pattern I made from scrap paper and cut both of the arrows at the same time. I trimmed one arrow, at the wide end, off by .5-inch to let the other arrow have a tab to connect the the two pieces together. (After I completed the card, I found it was a little too long to fit in an 6×9-inch catalog size envelope, so I trimmed the arrow tip a little to made it fit.)

Sentiments: I used Karen Burniston’s Mini Alphabet to make the “When you’re down, Look up to the stars” sentiment. (I lined the letters up on my grid mat and used low tack tape the pick them up in line and then added glue, pressed in place on the card and finally lifted the tape off, pressing letters onto card.)

Envelope:  The card fits into an catalog size envelope (6x 9-inches).

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Penny Black – Clear Stamps – My Universe

Stencils

  • Stampers Anonymous – Tim Holtz – Hocus Pocus

Papers

  • Digital Printed Starry Starry Night Paper
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11-inch 100lb Cardstock – Cosmic Sky
  • What Cardstock
  • White Catalog Envelope

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Acrylic Spray – Opaque White
  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dyke Ink – Paris Dusk
  • Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress ink – Fossilized Amber
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Spellbinders – Opaque Watercolor – Splatter White

Adhesives

Tools