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Celebrating the New Year of 2025!

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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.

Celebrate the new year early with this glittery card that fills the night sky with fireworks and a fun celebration.

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

Cardbase: The cardbase is an 8.5x 5.5-inch rectangle of black cardstock that was scored and folded in half to form a side-fold A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) card.

Fireworks Pop-Up: Inside the card is a fireworks pop-up made with the Fireworks and Photo Fan Pop-Up sets.

Sentiments: “2025” was cut using the Numbers dies set while the “Happy New Year” used the new layered Happy New Year set. The card is decorated with stars from the Fireworks set and confetti streamers from the Photo Fan Pop-Up set.

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

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • American Crafts – 12×12 Patterned Paper – Starry Night – 320409
  • DCWV – Mat Stack 6×6 – Glitter Cardstock – Glitter Pastels
  • DCWV – Mat Stack 4.5×6.5 – Glitter Cardstock – The Spooky Time
  • Black and White Cardstock
  • A2 Envelope

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • Glue Eraser

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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I hope this inspires you and makes you smile.

Please like and leave comments 😊

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Disclaimer: Karen Burniston products are provided free of charge by the manufacturer for review and use. All other items were personally purchased. Compensated affiliate links used where or when possible, meaning I will receive a small percentage commission from these manufacturers at no cost to you. This will allow me to add more content to my YouTube channel and help out a lot. Thank you.

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

64th Anniversary Wishes

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It is wonderful when people get to celebrate 64 years of marriage, so a special card is needed.

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.)

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 video 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.

Use two rectangular foiled gold leaf die-cuts for the cake platter, cutting them in half where they go over the fold. Glued each layer down.

Align the cake center fold with the card base fold on top of the platter+. 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. The heart on the front with “Happily Ever After” is covered with Nuvo Glitter Drops in red. The “64th”was cut using a numbers die from The Greetery and the “th” was cut from one of the word dies in a Hunkydory-Moonstone die set.

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Other Anniversary cards I’ve blogged about:

SUPPLIES Used:

Dies

Miscellaneous:

Other Supplies:

  • Papers by BoBunny and Recollections’ Shimmer Cardstock
  • Colored and mirror cardstock scraps
  • Nuvo Dream Drops – Cloud 9
  • Nuvo Glitter Drops – Red Sunstone
  • Stampin’ Up – Crumb Cake ink pad
  • Neenah Social – A7 envelope – Bare white techweave
  • Heart dies & stamp set from Papercraft Inspirations, issue 176, April 2018