Encouragement

Reindeer Games

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It’s Sneak Peak Week for Karen Burniston’s October 2024 release of new dies and sentiment stamps. These dies will be available for purchase on October 28, 2024 on the KB Riley LLC website.

This card was inspired by the age-old question pertaining to the Rudolph-The-Red-Nose-Reindeer song – What are reindeer games? My interpretation is Winter games Olympic style with Rudolph winning the sledding race!

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

Cardbase: The cardbase is an A7 size (5 x 7-inch) purchased card base with decorative papers glued to the four panels. I used the largest rectangle in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch die set to cover the inside of the card and leftover pieces for the outside of the card.

Finish Line Flag Pop-Ups: Two Photo Fans Pop-Ups were created using white cardstock brushed with glitter gloss the arms and decorator pieces. the arm decorator pieces were cut in black and the two sided flags come from the Pirate Ship Add-Ons set. (You can also find a single flag in the Castle Pop-Up set.)

Sitting Reindeer: The sitting reindeer uses the body of the Snowman Pop-Up with the face, antlers, legs and tail from the Penguin and Reindeer Snowman Add-Ons set. The sled is from the Snow Charms set. (If I were to make this card again I would make two sleds and glue them into the card first, placing them so they overlap under the reindeer trimming off the excess front and back sled pieces before gluing the reindeer base over them and into the card.)

Standing Reindeer: Two reindeer were cut using the Christmas Animals die set. One reindeer is assembled on the reverse side so that the reindeer can face each other.

Sentiments: “Reindeer Games” was created using the Mini Alphabet die set while the inside “You’re so Cool” was stamped on a fancy label from the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set with a stamp from the Winter Hugs stamp set. The “Made with Love” circle image on the back of the card is from the Special Delivery stamp set. The blank personal message label is also from the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set. (I didn’t have a piece of matching cardstock wide enough for this label die, so I elected to center the die and cut with flat top and bottom of the label.)

Envelope:  The card fits into an A7 size envelope with the back flap decorated with leftover blue flags.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Carnation Crafts – Merry and Bright from PaperCrafter issue 40
  • Echo Park – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Bundle of Joy -Peek-A-Boo
  • Silver Foil Cardstock
  • Black, Browns, Cream, Teal Blue, White and Yellows Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Scorched Timber
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black and Red
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Paperweight
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Glue Eraser
  • Pencil

Seasons Change – A Pop-Up Card

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It’s time for the September 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge with the theme of Seasons.

This card could be used for retirement, thinking of you, and encouragement depending on what extra sentiment is added to the card. Watch the tutorial video below. You may also want to watch the assembly video for the Square Spinner Pop-Up die located at the bottom of this linked page.

The cardbase is a purchase A7 size (5×7-inches) The inside decorative papers are 4 3/4 x 6 3/4-inches. The outside panels have a 5×7-inches base and a 4 1/2 x 6 1/2-inch topper. The front panels were sprayed with white ink on the blue cardstock and green mica on the green cardstock.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Concord & 9th – Cardstock – Harbor & Sea Glass
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Clear Vellum
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Pattern Paper – Pastel Abstract
  • Black, Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, Red, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Avery Elle – White Spray Ink
  • Nuvo Mica Mist – Fresh Pear
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Scrapbook.com – Glitter Brush Marker – Orange Juice
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Yellow
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Stamping Platform
  • Brutus Monroe – Stick & Stamp Mat
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Paper Masking Tape

Oven Cards in Review

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I have been collecting and making oven cards for several years now. Here is a collection of all my ovens blog posts. Click on an image to see details of the oven.

(Images are posted from the earliest release of dies/stamps/kits 2016 to newest 2023.)

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Sailboat Pop-Up Card

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It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s June 2024 release of new dies and clear stamps. For this card of encouragement, I used several of the new sets including: Set Sail Borders, Sailboat Add-Ons, Boat Pop-Up and Just A Note Lorna Add-Ons die sets and the Sail Away clear stamp set. The new release will be available on July 1, 2024.

Watch the YouTube video below to learn how the card was made.

Sailboat Pop-Up: This pop-up is made with two die sets – the base is the Boat Pop-Up and the sails, pendant, railing, life preservers and anchor are all in the Sailboat Add-Ons set.

Cardbase: The card base is made up of two rectangles On 4 x8 1/2-inches and the other 4 x 8 3/4-inches. The longer piece is scored at 8 1/2-inches for the tab to glue to back of the other piece. The card front scene is made from waving water paper brushed with glitter gloss and Distress Oxide ink and a large blending brush. The birds are hand-drawn. The porpoise is from the Set Sail Borders die set. On the card back is a border of shells from the Set Sail Borders die set and colored with alcohol markers.

Sentiments: The card front “waving hello” is die-cut letters from the Mini Alphabet and the “hello” is from the Just A Note Lorna Add-Ons. The stamped sentiments inside the card are from the Sail Away stamp set. A white label inside is for a personal message and was cut from the Labels – Crosshatch die set.

Envelope:  The card fits into a #10 business envelope stamped with “Always take the scenic route” from the Sail Away stamp set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Core’dinations – 12×12 inch Textured Cardstock – Antiqua
  • Honey Bee – 6×8.5 Double-Sided 65 lb. Cardstock – Grain and Grunge
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Printed Paper – Light Burlap
  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Printed Paper – Water Waves
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Clear Vellum
  • Grey Cardboard Packaging
  • Blue, Gray, Orange and White Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide – Tumbled Glass
  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Spectrum Noir – Tri-Blends – Ice Blue, Light yellow, Pale Pink and Tan
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Cream Colored 2-Ply Yarn

Winnie-The-Pooh Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #216 whose parameters included for A2 project, baseball game colors, number(s) element and charm(s).

After I completed the process video I added thin strips of decorated paper to even out the borders of the front background paper as well as adding a second jump ring to the charm to have it hang more in the center of the frame.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Echo Park – 6×6 Double-Sided 65 lb. Cardstock – Winnie-The-Pooh
  • Echo Park – 12×12 inch Double-Sided Papers and Sticker Sheet – Winnie-The-Pooh Collection Kit
  • Echo Park – Frames and Tags – Winnie-The-Pooh
  • Cardstock Warehouse Paper Co. – 12×12 inch Solid Textured Cardstock Value Pack
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – Piercing Tool

Miscellaneous

  • Two Round Jump Rings – 6 mm

3D Coffee Truck

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #207 whose parameters included an A2 size card, ice cream store colors, tasty or tastes element and a banner.

I wanted to make a pop-up or 3-dimensional A2 size card for this episode of Craft Roulette, so I modified a 3D postal truck I had made for my mail carrier to say thank you to fit into an A2 size envelope (4.25×5.5 inches.) (See Mail Truck blog post.)

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • Sliver Matte Foil Cardstock
  • Black, Red and White Cardstock
  • A2 Envelope – Cream

Ink

  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Ink Pad – Early Espresso

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scoring Board
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Small Hole Punch
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Kat Scrappiness – Anti-Static Tool
  • Scissors
  • T-Ruler
  • Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A

Miscellaneous

  • Baker’s Twine – Red and White

Spring Is Here Interactive Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #204 whose parameters included: thinking of you project, fairy tale colors, hear(s) or ear(s) element and stamped background.

To learn how I made the card, watch this process video.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Word Set 5 – Royalty – 1034
  • Spellbinders – Cutting Dies by Vicky Papaioannou – Umbrella Bloom – SS-554
  • Spellbinders –Small Die of the Month – March 2022 – Floating Bunny – DOM-MAR22

Stamps

  • Nellie’s Choice – Motive Stamps – Burst of Drops -TXCS016
  • Penny Black – Clear Stamps – My Universe – 30-796
  • Scrapbook.com – Clear Stamps – Sunshiney Day
  • Simon Says Stamp! – Unmounted Rubber Stamp – Sun and Moon Mandala – sss102337

Papers

  • This Calls For Confetti – 6×6 Single-Sided Papers – Speckled
  • American Crafts – 12×12 inch Single-Sided Papers – Everyday Papers
  • Colored and White Cardstock Scraps
  • Tonic Studios – Craft Perfect – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – Bright White

Ink

  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink – Party Collection – All That Jazz
  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink – Spa Collection – Mandarin Spice
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitively Saturated Ink – SunBeam
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Faber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen with Bullet Nib – White 101

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Scissors
  • Metal Ruler/Straight-Edge

Miscellaneous

  • Riley and Company – Mini Action Wobbles Spring
  • Nuvo – Vintage Drops – Yellow Brick Road

Wakey Wakey Eggs N’ Bakey

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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.

I use several of Karen Burniston’s new food borders and label dies from her February 2024 release including: Kitchen Borders, Baking Borders, Lorna Label Pop-Up and Good Luck word set as well as previously released Oven Pop-Up and Oven Extras.

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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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • DCWV – 12×12 Single-Sided Cardstock – Jet Black Stack
  • The Paper Cut – 8.5×11 Glossy Cardstock – White
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Black Coated 8.5×11 White-Core Cardstock
  • Matte Silver Cardstock
  • White Marble Cardstock from Tissue Box Packaging
  • Black, Blue, Brown, Kraft and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Vintage Photo
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dark Daffodil Delight
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Blue
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Computer and Printer

Adhesives

Tools

  • Tweezers
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil

Good Luck – You Will Bee Amazing!

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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.

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.

This card uses two of the new word sets in Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release – Good Luck and Word Set 18 – Connectors – along with previously released dies of Fancy Label Accordion, Fancy Flourish Frames, Flutter Charms and Fun Flowers.

Watch the tutorial video below on YouTube.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Hot off The Press – Paper Pazazz – 12×12 Single-Sided Paper – Soft Tints Green Stripes
  • Stampin’ Up – 8.5×11 Thick Cardstock – Basic White
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 Shimmer Cardstock – White Gold
  • American Crafts – 12×12 Weave Textured Cardstock – Evergreen
  • Black, Greens, Light Blue, Pink and Yellows Cardstock
  • Clear Vellum
  • Matte Gold Foil Cardstock
  • 6-inch Square Envelope – Gold

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn, Fossilized Amber, and Saltwater Taffy
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Craft Mat
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors