Cauldron

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC September 2023 Release Blog Hop. (See 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 9 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

“Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble…. Eye of newt, and toe of frog,” The infamous words of Shakespeare’s trio of witches casting a spell over Macbeth are the inspiration for this Halloween card.

This card uses a new pop-up mechanism in Karen Burniston’s September 2023 release – Stocking Pop-Up as well as her new Witch and Cauldron and Small Script- Halloween die sets.

(Before starting to make a card, I recommend watching the assembly views for all of Karen Burniston’s interactive die sets. The videos are located near the bottom of any linked page in this blog post.)

Cardbase: I started with a purchased A7 (5 x 7 inches) cardbase and matching envelope. The outer panels were covered with a spider’s web paper and the inner panels with a coordinating pumpkin patch paper. The front panel also uses a border panel from the paper collection that says, “There’s magic in the air.” The back panel has a pumpkin fussy cut from the papers.

Cauldron Pop-Up: The Stocking Pop-Up is a versatile mechanism that can be used for more than Christmas cards. I doubled the mechanism which means placing the lower pop-up mechanisms moving in opposite directions and cutting two upper covering pieces joined to form a platform.

Adding pop-stands from either the Christmas Tree Pop-up or Barn Pop-Stand sets, to the decorative stitched rectangles, allows for a cauldron to set atop the platform with witches attached. Add fussy cut pumpkins to the pop-out tombstone pieces. (I ink blended the white frog paper with a gray ink to make it sooty from the fire.)

In the Witches and Cauldron die set are a strip of bubbles that a white pen can add highlights to as well as an eyeball, frog legs and a bone. The fire is the witch’s hair turned upside and stenciled flames with an orange maker.

Spiders: For the spiders crawling out of the cauldron, I cut four spiders from the Witch and Cauldron set from black mirror cardstock. A 12-inch piece of white polyester thread was threaded with two circles (eyeball center circles from Witch and Cauldron) and knotted to the cauldron. The circles were glued to the underside of the pop-out mechanisms from under the platform. Adjust the thread tension to be loosely taunt and test for catchpoints when opening and closing card before gluing spiders to the threads. (I found the best spots for the spiders were near the ends of the threads.)

Witches: I used the stencil features of the witch’s face die to color in the eyes and mouth. The nose can be folded out to ink the edges with green ink. I cut extra dress and hat pieces so that the backs of the witches would look complete. The blond witch has silver pieces from the hat buckle on her shoes. The cauldron witches’ hats have red hat bands cut from red cardstock covered with clear packing tape.

Sentiments: The card front sentiments are stamped sentiments fussy cut into tombstones and a bat shaped banner. Inside the “hocus pocus” on the platform ends are from the new Small Script- Halloween die set and the “Happy Halloween” is from the Halloween Charms set. A white oval for a personal message is cut using the Crosshatch Ovals.

Envelope: The A7 white envelope has fussy cut pumpkins from the paper collection glued to its 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

Stamps

Fun Stampers Journey – Witches Brew – SS-0388

Papers

Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers – Midnight Tales Collection – Abracadabra &Pumpkin Patch
Stampin’ Up – 12×12 Double-Sided Designer Series Papers – Toil & Trouble
Paper Lane Paperie – Holographic Cardstock – Silver
Black Mirror Cardstock
White, Orange, Green, Red, Yellow and Black Cardstock
Paper Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Mowed Lawn
Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide – Lost Shadow
Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
Sharpie – Permanent Marker –Fine Tip – Black, Red and Orange
Farber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen – 1.5 Bullet Nib – White-101 Marker – Snow
Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
Clear Packing Tape
Removable Tape

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
We R Memories – QuickStick
Bone Folder
Stamping Platform
LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
Stamping Cloth
Songe Dauber
Blending Brush
Bone Folder
T-Ruler
Scissors
Needle
Thimble
Stamping Blocks for Paper Weights
Tweezers
Craft Clip

Miscellaneous

White Polyester Thread

This release includes:

2 new Script Sentiment Die Sets
3 new Border Die Sets
2 new Pop-up Die Sets
1 new Add-on Die Sets
1 stand alone 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, 25th September 2023. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter!

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Love this little black cat three-layer stamp by Kat Scrapiness that comes with some great sentiments like the Toil and Trouble one that gives it, its name. I had purchased the Pop-Out die and the Gina Marie Designs Mosaic Triangle Edge Circle dies along with The Toil & Trouble stamp and matching die set all during Kat Scrapiness’ Labor Day sale. I hadn’t planned on combining them, but the more I looked and dreamed about the “Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble” I saw a bubbling, steaming cauldron with the steam opening up into an aerial view of a shaker card showing of the cauldron’s contents.

I found in my stash the fabulous Buttons Galore & More’s Creepy Sparkleletz shaker elements to which I added some green and iridescent sequins and the tiny black and green triangles off-cuts from the mosaic circle frames I cut for the cauldron.

The background of the shaker cauldron is a lime green square of cardstock that I daubed Cracked Pistachio and Fired Brick Distress inks and then spritzed with water to blend. I dried and stamped with Versamark Watermark ink an older bubble background stamp by Hunkydory. The final touch to the background was to stamp “BOO” in the center of the square.

To create the white steam of the cauldron, I took cream cardstock and stamped in grey ink the same bubble background mentioned earlier. Next, I embossed the cardstock using an older Darice embossing folder. (I may have used one too many shims when I embossed, as it almost cut through the card in places.) I centered and taped the Pop-Out die inside the circle die and then die-cut, in one pass, the circle of steam that opens in six triangles to reveal the cauldron’s shaker contents. I free-hand cut a spoon handle that is used to open-up the steam or “stir the pot.”

I tried several inks to stamp the cat but ended up using the cat with just black ink – having lightly stamped each layer to create the shadows. The sentiments, both inside and on the front, are first stamped with the bubble stamp in grey ink then the sentiment in black Memento ink. (I was not paying attention to which ink I was putting on the inside as I moved the background stamp around and inadvertently used the black Memento at the bottom section.)

To finish off the card front, I used a retired Taylored Expressions “Little Bits” spider web die set to cut from vellum the corner decorations including a tiny black spider. I found a bit of spider ribbon that leads the reader to the sentiment.

As it is my style to stamp an image or sentiment that hints at what’s inside, I stamped a witches’ hat (because I have no cauldron stamp) and the phrase “The most Spooktacular night of the year” on the envelope flap. These stamps are from My Mind’s Eye.

To send the card, I will add a hand-written note instructing the recipient “To stir the cauldron using the black handled sticking out of the steam to find out what’s shake’n.”

Supplies:

Dies/Embossing Folders

Stamps