It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s February 2026 Release of new dies and stamps.
Today’s card uses the new die set of Peacock Add-Ons as well as the previously released Greeting Labels, Arch Pop-Up, Lorna Label Pop-Up and Border Blend – Trims sets. Sentiments come from the new clear stamp set called Strut Your Stuff. The new dies and stamps will be available for order starting February 2, 2026.
Watch the process video to see how I made this card.
Cardbase: I used a 10×7-inch rectangle of purple cardstock scored and folded in half to form a 5×7-inch side fold A7 size cardbase. I covered the front and inside with 5×7 rectangles of embossed pink vellum. I used a square scrap of the vellum to decorate the back. Decorate with Border Blend – Trims and other leftover decoration bits as shown in video.
Peacock Pop-Up: Using the Arch Pop-Up set, cut one of the two arch pieces from purple cardstock. From the Peacock Add-Ons die set, cut the head and large fan-shaped pieces from purple. From the same die set, cut fourteen feathers, and fourteen of the feather’s “eye” decorations in three other colors than the feather. (I used four shades of blue/purple/pink mirror foil cardstock and a black permanent marker to color the foiled cardstock.) Cut the eye and peacock’s “crown” or corona from black cardstock. (I used some glitter black cardstock.) Eye highlights were added with a white gel pen. From yellow cardstock cut the feet and beak. Follow the video above and photos to assemble the pop-up peacock using ten of the feathers. (I cut a second set of pieces to make another head and used three of the feathers to make a flat peacock on the card front. The final feather I placed on the card back.)
Sentiments: The sentiments from the Strut Your Stuff set were stamped in black ink on white cardstock and cut out using the Greeting Labels die set. The inside label for “You were made to stand out” also uses a label die from the Lorna Label Pop-Up set to cut the black glitter label.
Envelope: The card fits into an A7 (5×7-inches) size envelope with a tiny heart leftover from the feather decorations.
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Materials Used:
Dies
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Peacock Add-Ons – 1330
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Greeting Labels – 1312
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Arch Pop-Up – 1308
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Lorna Label Pop-Up – 1266
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Border Blend – Trims – 1186
Stamps
Papers
- American Crafts – Core’dinations – 8.5×11 inch Textured Glitter Cardstock – Black Tie
- Encore – 12×12 inch Foil Cardstock – Fuchsia, Kunzite, Regal Purple, & Serene Blue
- Stampin’ Up – 12×12 inch Embossed Vellum – So Very Vellum – Pink
- Purple, White and Yellow Cardstock
- A7 Envelope – White
Ink
- Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
- Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
- Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
- Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
- Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black
Adhesives
Tools
- Die Cutting Machine
- Paper Trimmer
- Scoring Board
- Bone Folder
- Stamping Platform
- Scissors
- Paper Masking Tape
- Ruler
- Tweezers
- We R Memories – QuickStick
Because the glitter is very clingy with static to the acetate, I decide to use this quality in my design and my shakers are only the thickness of some recycled cardboard box cut into a square and the circle die-cut out. I adhered a strip of acetate to the inside of the back panel of card base with double-sided tape. The cardboard squares were glued to back of card over the circle openings. With the card on a flat surface I put pinches of glitter into the cardboard circles and then added glue to edges of cardboard and dropped a square of acetate over each cardboard square to seal up the shaker. (If I had it to do over, I would have used the temple to mark out the cardboard and make it one long panel instead of squares.)
Next, I traced as best I could the shaker circles onto the back side of the two outer printed cardstock panels and the two inner patterned paper pieces. With printed sides place together and taped with removable tape, I cut both outer panels together. Repeated the same process with inner pattern paper. Using double-sided tape and a few drops of glue, I adhered the outer panels and the inner papers lining up all the shaker holes. To hide the small gaps, I die cut four strips of scalloped lace from thin white paper using an un-named die by Joanna Sheen in my stash. There are five circles in the lace, I cut out the top, middle and bottom inner circles to correspond with the shaker circles. I glued the four lace pieces over the inner and outer panels’ circles.
The front of the card has a die cut scalloped oval with “Happy Mother’s Day” die cut from a recycled chocolate’s box. A multi-looped button is from tiny grosgrain red ribbon from my stash.
Materials:
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