wedding

Cupcake Wedding

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Its Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s June 2023 Release.

Not all weddings have cake. Some have cupcakes. This is a card to congratulate the couple on their big day using some of Karen Burniston’s June 2023 Release dies including Cupcake Landscape Accordion Add-On and Word Set 17 – Congratulations along with previously released Wedding Charms, Border Blends – Trims, Long Rectangles – Crosshatch and Christmas Trees Pop Stand.

Front side of cupcakes

Cardbase: Cut a rectangle 8×6 inches, score down the middle longways and fold to form a top-fold slimline card that measures 3 inches high and 8 inches wide. Using the second largest die in the Crosshatch Long Rectangles, cut four panels from decorative paper. Adhere two of the decorative panels to the inside of the cardbase. Die cut pop-stands into cardbase. (I used a die-cut of the three cupcakes and a T-ruler to locate the center of the card and where the center cupcake should be. Pencil marks were made on the center fold where the card center was and then where the side cupcakes’ centers were. While I cut three pop-stands, Two pop-stands for the end cupcakes would be enough to make them stand.) Add the other two decorative panels to the cardbase front and back panels covering over the holes from the pop-stands.

Cupcake Pop-Stand: Cut two of the three cupcake outline from sturdy white cardstock. Cut three frosting tops from shimmer cardstock with shimmer side up. Cut three more frosting tops from shimmer cardstock with shimmer side down. Cut four cupcake liners from silver holographic card stock and two more from gold holographic cardstock.

Backside of cupcakes

Borders: Using the third and fourth largest dies in the Crosshatch Long Rectangles, cut two frames from lightweight white cardstock. Adhere frames to front and back panels of card base. Using the wavy ribbon trim from the Border Blends – Trims, cut five ribbons from lightweight white cardstock for the inside border. (Retain the tiny hearts that are cut with the ribbon to decorate the card.) Cut two of the ribbons in half for the sides. Adhere long ribbons to the top and bottom and piece in the remaining ribbon to complete the borders.

Decorations: From the Wedding Charms cut and emboss one wedding dress and one tuxedo shirt triangle from the shimmer cardstock and one tuxedo from black cardstock. With a fine-tip black pen dot the tuxedo shirt buttons. Glue shirt triangle to back of tuxedo and then glue tuxedo to backside of wedding dress. Adhere to front of card. Cut one each of the wedding rings and champagne glasses from matte gold cardstock and glue onto top inside panel. Use hearts from border trims to decorate glasses and ring. Scatter and adhere remaining hearts among all the panels.

Sentiments: Cut “Congratulations on your Big Day” from matte gold cardstock. Glue “Congratulations” onto the card front and “on your Big Day” to the top inside panel. Using the smallest crosshatch die  from the Crosshatch Long Rectangles, cut one rectangle from lightweight white cardstock. Round the corners with a small corner punch.  Glue to inside lower panel as a label for a personal message.

Envelope: The card will fit in a #9 or #10 business envelope. Give a hint of what is to come by gluing a ribbon border and hearts to the 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

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Secret Garden designed by Clare Therese
  • Craftwork Cards – 8×8 Heavyweight Cardstock – Olive Grey
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 White Gold Shimmer Cardstock
  • Hot Off The Press – 8.5×11 Holographic Cardstock – Stars Gold and Stars Silver
  • White Cardstock – Lightweight and Heavyweight
  • Black Cardstock
  • Gold Matte Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Beach Wedding Card – part 2

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A destination beach wedding can be fun. This card came with the design brief for a grandmother unable to attend her granddaughter’s beach wedding. It must reflect the beach theme, be unique and have a place to hold a monetary gift either as a gift card or check.

Using Karen Burniston’s new February 2023 release which has a Beach Bar Add-ons set that converts her previously released Tiny House Pop-up into a topical hut with a thatched roof, I was able to make a beach village scene with a chapel and tiki bar hut. The new release also has a Beach Borders set that provided the flamingos and dancing crabs used on the back of the card. One other new die set in the release provides a 5×7 inch Crosshatch Rectangle and a Label used on the front of the card box.

See yesterday’s Beach Wedding Card – Part 1 for instructions on paper prep, chapel, tiki hut, flamingos and card back decorations.

Gift Card Bag:  The gift bag is cut from the same paper as the card base panels. The rectangle is approximately 5 inches wide by 4 inches tall. Fold the sides at 3/8-inch, 3/4-inch, 1 1/4-inches, 3 3/4-inches, 4 1/4-inches and 4 1/2-inches. Fold bottom 1/2-inch and measure the size of gift card and panel where it will go before trimming the top of the bag in a zig-zag pattern. Glue the three closed side tabs of bag to card panel.

Waves:  The waves are created using three corner-cut pieces of blue paper that are die-cut with the Long Nature Edges rolling hill with trees die. Trim off the trees. Using a white ink pad, rub the wave edges along ink pad edge to add the white foaming part of the waves. Glue waves over corner of card base cutting apart where the fold is on card base. Trim overhanging edges of blue paper.

Closure Band:  Because my decorative papers were thin paper, I used a sheet of double-sided adhesive to adhere the sand patterned paper to the cardstock before die-cutting the heart. The roof fringe die from the Beach Bar Tiny House Add-ons was used to cut eight fringe strips that are glued around the back edge of the heart.

The band is a 1 3/4-inch by 8 1/2-inch strip of cardstock loosely folded around the card with enough wiggle-room to slide it on and off the card. I glued the heart over the seam on the band. The back of the band is decorated with a flamingo border from the new Beach Borders set.

Box: I took two 8 1/2-inch by 11-inch sheets of brown kraft cardstock to make the box. The top is made from a 9 1/4-inch by 7 3/8-inch rectangle and the bottom is made from a 9 1/8-inch by 7 1/4-inch rectangle. Score 1-inch from all sides of each rectangle. Make tabs at the corners by cutting one side of the squares made by the transecting score lines. Glue tabs to inside.

Die-cut a label from the same cardstock using the crosshatch fancy label from the Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch set. This will be a place to put the bride and groom’s name and wedding date.

Because the card is a tight fit, the following method to add a ribbon will provide a way to pull the card out of the box and secure the box closed. Cut a ribbon 60 inches long. Place the center of the ribbon in the center of the bottom of the box with the ribbon running the length of the box.  Place card in the box. Place lid on the box with label tag over the top of the card.  

Flip box over and loop the ribbon over itself to form a cross. Flip box back over and tie a bow on the front to secure the box closed.

You now have a keepsake wedding card from a grandmother to her granddaughter that can be stored in its own box.

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

Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • The Paper Studio – 12 x12 inch Paper Pad – Beach House
  • Brown Kraft Cardstock – 8.5×11 inches
  • White, Black, Matte Gold, Blue and Pink Paper and Cardstock Scraps

Pens & Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 – Black
  • Gelly Roll – Gel Pen – White
  • Staples – Liquid Stix – Hot Pink Chisel Nose Highlighter
  • Mechanical Pencil
  • Simon Says Stamp – Premium Pigment Ink – White

Miscellaneous

Beach Wedding Card – part 1

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Beach Wedding Card – Part 1

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

A destination beach wedding can be fun. This card came with the design brief for a grandmother unable to attend her granddaughter’s beach wedding. It must reflect the beach theme, be unique and have a place to hold a monetary gift either as a gift card or check.

Using Karen Burniston’s new February 2023 release which has a Beach Bar Add-ons set that converts her previously released Tiny House Pop-up into a topical hut with a thatched roof, I was able to make a beach village scene with a chapel and tiki bar hut. The new release also has a Beach Borders set that provided the flamingos and dancing crabs used on the back of the card. One other new die set in the release provides a 5×7 inch Crosshatch Rectangle and a Label used on the fronts of the card and box.

Card Base: Cut a 10×7 inch cardstock rectangle and score at 2 1/2-inches and 7 1/2-inches. Fold the side panels inward to make a 5×7 inch gate-fold card base. Cut a 10×7 inch decorative paper rectangle and then cut into panels as shown below and adhere to inside of card. Cut similar panels of decorative paper for the outside of card. (My paper had a path of sand going diagonal through the center panel. This determined the path of the waves and placement of buildings on the card.)

Paper Prep: Because my decorative papers were thin paper, I used a sheet of double-sided adhesive to adhere the paper to a piece of cardstock before cutting out the roofs and tiny house pieces of for the chapel and tiki hut.

Chapel:  The assembly of the chapel starts with the Tiny House base with its windows and doorway cut out while still flat using the arched door from the Church School Tiny House Add-ons for the doorway and the rectangular door from the Tiny House Pop-Up for the windows.(Make sure you cut the front door from the gabled side with the bottom tab to make this building open in the direction shown.) I cut the bell from some silver foil packaging I’d saved.

Assemble the tiny house as directed in assembly video. Follow assembly video for the church tower. Add the roof fringe after the roofs are attached to their bases. I used four layers of fringe for the main roof and two layers for the tower roof. I trimmed the tower roof fringe to almost half. (Wait to adhere your buildings to your card until both are completed. It is a tight fit with the bell resting on top of the tiki hut when the are folded closed.)

Tiki Hut: Assemble the tiny house as directed in assembly video. Follow assembly video for the beach bar hut. I used three layers of fringe for the hut roof. The hut’s counters and their posts are cut from brown cardstock. The glasses are part of the Beach Bar Add-ons set which I colored the drink onto and glued to the window frames. There is a sand dune die that will let you add the flamingos or other decorations off the sides of the hut. (The sides must be the ones that have the bottom tabs that attach the hut to the card.)

Flamingos:  Each of the buildings has two flamingos attached. The Beach Bar Add-ons set has two different flamingos which come with a stencil feature to the dies to color their wings, eyes and legs. I used the bow tie from the Wedding Charms’ groom to make these flamingos into wedding guests.

Card Back:  A personal message can be written on the back of the card in the dancing blue crabs heart. The crabs are part of the Beach Borders set along with the flamingos used on the back of the closure band.

Card Front: The front two panels were first covered in blue paper and then a crosshatch frame was added to the outer edges. The frame was cut using the two largest dies in the Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch set.

See tomorrow’s Beach Wedding Card – Part 2 for instructions on making the gift bag, waves, closure band and box as well as the materials used list.

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC February Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 6 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

  • 1 new Charm die sets
  • 1 new Word set
  • 1 new Tiny House Add-Ons sets
  • 1 new Pop-up die sets
  • 1 new Crosshatch die sets
  • 1 new Border 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, 27th of February 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  

Lois Bak  

Sue Small-Kreider – YOU are HERE

Karen Aicken  

Jennifer Webster  

Frances Byrne  

Suzanne Smit  

Sandy Diller   

Fran Sabad   

Nicky Foden  

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 

Marigold Blessings

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Weddings can be times of great joy. This wedding card inspired by traditions from India is a brightly colored card using a flower mandala as its centerpiece in marigold colors. 

The marigold petals are three die-cut layers using the free die set from Die-cutting Essentials Issue 78. 

To create the card base, I used a 7-inch tall by 12 inches wide piece of double-sided cardstock. The piece is scored and folded at 1 inch, 3 ½ inches, 8 ½ inches and 11 inches.

The inside sentiment was printed digitally onto printable 8 1/2 x 11 inch vellum and adhered with glue dots.

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For the final decoration Nuvo drops were added onto the card front and the flower center.

Thank you for reading this blog post. Please like and leave a comment. 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

  • Unknown brand cabbage rose clear stamp possibly from an advent calendar box from Craft Stash

Nuvo Drops

  • Vintage Drops – Post Box Red and Yellow Brick Road
  • Crystal Drops – Bright Gold and Red Berry

Papers

  • First Edition 12×12 Storyteller paper pad
  • Printable vellum

Miscellaneous

Luscious Wedding Wishes

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Hi, it’s Sue here from the Dies R Us Design Team with an interactive wedding card.

This card is primarily made with Karen Burniston dies focusing on the Cake Pop-Up in a 3 3/4 inch x 8 3/4 inch card base. (I used a green leafy coated card stock for the base and coordinating mosaic tile cardstock inside.)

Cut out two of each of the cake tier pieces, two of the three scalloped edging pieces and two of the bride and groom piece. (I used shimmer cardstock for all but the groom pieces.) Fold tier pieces on scored lines as shown in the photos. Glue each tier together following the photos.

It is easier to decorate the cake before attaching it to the card. (I added some embellishment drops to the scalloped edges that needed to dry overnight.) Glue one set of bride and groom together on to tab at cake top. Glue the second set on to back side of cake top. Adhere the scalloped edging on to each tier of cake, starting and stopping each scalloped piece at the center fold of each tier.

Cut a 3 1/2 inch circle from gold mirror and then cut a 2 inch circle from the center of the larger circle. Cut in half and glue on either side of the card base fold. (Because I used inside decorative panels, I cut out the 3 1/3 circle from my panels so the card would have no catch points and lessen the bulk of the card.) Play with the layout of your decorative pieces before gluing the cake to the gold circle. Align the cake center fold with the card base fold. Place glue on the lowest tier’s folded tabs and glue in place. Fold card closed and firmly press cake to card base. Wait until glue has set to open.

The sentiments for the card front are Karen Burniston’s Word Set 12 -Anniversary and Happily ever after that I cut twice so that I could off-set the gold and green letters and to be able paper piece the gold heart into the green words. The gold borders on the card front are from another Karen Burniston dies set of Party Border Blends.

Hope this fun card has provided some inspiration for your crafting. 😊

SUPPLIES Used from Dies R Us:

Dies

Miscellaneous

Other Supplies:

  • Papers by BoBunny and Recollections’ Shimmer Cardstock
  • Colored and mirror cardstock scraps
  • Nuvo Dream Drops – Cloud 9
  • Stampin’ Up – Crumb Cake ink pad
  • Neenah Social – A7 envelope – Bare white techweave

Happily Ever After

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Hi, it’s Sue here from the Dies R Us Design Team with an interactive wedding card.

This card is primarily made with Karen Burniston dies focusing on the Cake Pop-Up in a 7 inch x 5 inch card base. (I used an off-white shimmer card stock for the inside of the card and took mica spray-painted shimmer card panels for the front and back of the card.)

Cut out two of each of the cake tier pieces, two of the three scalloped edging pieces and two of the bride and groom piece. (I used shimmer cardstock for all but the groom pieces.) Fold tier pieces on scored lines as shown in the video. Glue each tier together following the video.

It is easier to decorate the cake before attaching it to the card. (I added some embellishment drops to the scalloped edges that needed to dry overnight.) Glue one set of bride and groom together on to tab at cake top. Glue the second set on to back side of cake top. Adhere the scalloped edging on to each tier of cake, starting and stopping each scalloped piece at the center fold of each tier.

Cut a 3 1/4 inch circle from silver mirror and then cut a 2 1/4 inch circle from the center of the larger circle. Cut in half and glue on either side of the card base fold. Play with the layout of your decorative pieces before gluing the cake to the silver circle. Align the cake center fold with the card base fold. Place glue on the lowest tier’s folded tabs and glue in place. Fold card closed and firmly press cake to card base. Wait until glue has set to open.

I used the fancy layered label and tiny hearts dies from the Paper Frames Pop-Up set to decorate the inside of the card. (To make the tiny hearts be visible I coated them in a peachy translucent embellishment drops that had to dry overnight.)

The sentiments for the card front are dies from my stash and the “Happily ever after” is a Karen Burniston die that I cut twice so that I could paper piece the red heart into the blue words. The gold swags on the card front are from another Karen Burniston dies set of Party Border Blends.

Hope this fun card has provided some inspiration for your crafting. 😊

SUPPLIES Used from Dies R Us:

Dies

Miscellaneous

Other Supplies:

  • Simply Creative Mr & Mrs steel cutting die
  • Momenta Firefly’s Celebrate Happy Birthday die set 35516 R7
  • Papers by BoBunny and Recollections’ Shimmer Cardstock
  • Colored and mirror cardstock scraps
  • Nuvo Dream Drops – Cloud 9
  • Nuvo Jewel Drops – Peach Sobert
  • “Congratulations” stamp by Jennifer Ellory from Cardmaking & Papercraft issue 178
  • Stampin’ Up – Crumb Cake ink pad
  • Neenah Social – A7 envelope – Bare white techweave
  • Nuvo Mica Mists – Pecan Peach, Nebula Blue, Silver Smoke and Antique Gold

Don’t forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There’s a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store.  

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Celebrating Mr. & Mrs.

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Weddings, the formal ceremony and celebration of two people becoming one.

This card was created using Karen Burniston’s Frame Pull Pop-Up die set for the pop-up and Poppy Crafts Star Flourish die and star embossing folder for decorations.

WEDDING Cake-Front Angle

The base card with hearts is one from DCWV’s Embossed Box of Cards 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.WEDDING Cake-Pop-Up

I used a silver metallic pen to color the die-cut letters and cake accents. Nuvo Glitter Drops were used to add a bit of sparkle to embossed hearts and pop-up flourishes.

Inside tabs cut to hold a gift card.

SUPPLIES USED:

Dies & Embossing Folder

Paper

Miscellaneous