Wanting a basket to put a hatching chick pop-up ball in, I came up with a collapsible basket card for Easter using several of the new die sets in Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release.
How to make this interactive card:
Chick: Make two Mini Pop-up Balls – one entirely yellow and the other half yellow, half white. Assemble chick following Karen Burniston’s assembly video located at the bottom of the Mini Pop-up Balls page. Cut six of the top and bottom eggshell jagged pieces and one hexagon for the top of the egg from white cardstock using the dies from the Animal Add-on 5 die set.
Basket: Cut four of the basket pieces from the Wide Woven Basket Box Card set and assemble as shown in the KB assembly video at the bottom of the linked page. Trim off the side tabs on the four basket pieces. Watch the following video. Cut two of the largest crosshatch squares from brown.
Closure Sentiment: Cut the Shadow from the Happy Easter word set from white. Cur the words from yellow and ink bled to a darker yellow. Die cut eggshell and chick pieces following assembly video for Spring Animals.
Glue assemble chick to sentiment. Cut eight of the smaller eye circles and two of the larger eye circles from the Mini Pop-up Balls die set. Glue four of the small circles onto one of the large circles. Cut a piece of string at least 24-inches long and glue one end on top of small circle stack. Glue the last four circles on top of the string end, thus sandwiching the string in center of the small circles stack of eight. Attach to top of stack the last large circle. Once the stack is dry, glue to the back of the sentiment and then onto top basket flap. Let dry with a weight on top of it.
Envelope: This card would either be hand delivered or mailed in a bubble pack envelope.
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Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC February 2024 Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 12 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW! (Click here to go to the GIVEAWAY section.)
Ever wonder how the Easter Bunny gets all those eggs prepared to hide? He uses gnomes of course!
Instructions for how I created this 5×7-inch card with the gnome kitchen are in video above. The card front instructions are in written format only and are below the video. (Sorry I had a camera malfunction.)
Card Front: To create the scene within the oval frame, I first had to create the scene by gluing the tree, basket and bunny to a strip of grass from the new Easter Borders set. (See assembly videos for tree and bunny on the bottom of their linked pages.)
Next I glued six grassing strips, plus the waste sections between the strip cutouts to form a grassy lawn. The second basket was glued in on a different layer than the bunny.
The oval frame was cut using the two largest dies in the Ovals – Crosshatch set. The scene was glued to the back of the frame and excess bits were trimmed off the oval.
Sentiments: For the card front sentiment of “How does he do it” I cut individual letters from black using the Mini Alphabet and Numbers set. For the “Happy Easter” I cut the shadow from white and the words from yellow cardstock using the new die set Happy Easter. I brushed a coat of glitter gloss over this sentiment to add some magic to the scene.
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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, 26 February 2024. 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!
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.
Inspired by a bookmark card I recently made, I decided to make a bunny bookmark slimline card using Karen Burniston’s new Animal Add-ons 5, Easter Borders, and Happy Easter.
Cardbase: Start with a 7.25×8.75-inch rectangle of heavy white cardstock and fold to create a slimline card that is slightly larger than 3.5×8.5-inches. (I folded my cardbase crooked and had to even up the sides by trimming off some.) Using decorative Easter papers cover the front and back of the card with full sheets. Use scraps to cover the top and bottom of the inside of the card. Make sure to leave a gap where the card fold is in the inside papers.
Bunny Bookmark: Cut a 2×5-inch rectangle from heavy white cardstock. Round corners with a corner punch. Using the Animal Add-ons 5 set, cut the two large ears, two large oval eyes, one double circle piece, one split square teeth piece, one wavy circle tail piece and four arm pieces from white cardstock. Cut two smaller ear pieces and one triangular nose piece from pink. Cut two smaller eye pieces from black. Using a white gel pen use stencil feature to add white highlight to black portion of eyes. With a fine-tipped black pen add three dots to double circle piece for whiskers. Add three small lines to each paw for nails. Ink the edges of the teeth piece very lightly with a pale yellow ink. Assemble the face of bunny using package picture as a guide onto the top of the rectangle. Glue ears to back of rectangle and arms and hind legs to front of rectangle. (Hint: glue the hind legs to bottom corners of rectangle then glue tail to back side just above the hind leg. Then glue arms so that the paw is just above top of tail.)
Basket Pocket: (Follow directions in assembly video at bottom of linked page.) Make one Wide Woven Basket Box Card panel from brown. Ink the slat pieces with brown ink before weaving into main basket piece and glue in place. Trim off tab. Cut from green cardstock a grassy strip and glue to back side of basket top. Using thin strips of foam tape on the bottom and sides of basket panel, attach to card front to form a pocket. Insert bunny bookmark.
Raising Platform: (Follow directions in assembly video at bottom of linked pagetheRaising Platform Pop-Up.) Cut one mechanism piece from double-sided decorative cardstock. (I used a carrot and bunny print.) Assemble onto a flattened cardbase. Cut one of the largest fancy label from white cardstock and fold in half. Glue on sentiment. Train the fold with the sentiment. Attach sentiment label to mechanism.
Decorations: Cut two egg borders from Easter Borders set using two different colors of cardstock. Cut two sets of decorative eggs from the same set in a darker color. Trim egg border to width of card and use left over eggs to decorate egg borders along with decorative eggs. Glue to finished borders to bottom and top of card front. Add any extra eggs to basket grass.
Cut two more grass strips from Wide Woven Basket Box Card set and glue to cardbase above bottom decorative paper inside card. Decorate with eggs and basket from the Animal Add-ons 5 set. Cut two of the carrot borders from the Easter Borders set from orange and two sets of carrot tops from green. Assemble carrots using a Quickstik tool or tweezers. Glue carrots to base of carrot paper inside card. (I had to cut the carrot border to cover the edge aesthetically.) Glue extra carrots to the sentiment label. (I cut some carrots from my decorative paper for the label.)
Sentiment: Using the new Happy Easter set, I cut the shadow from pink and the words from blue then cardstock since they are going on top of the platform label and being folded in half. The large “Just” with shadow is from Word Set 15 – Just Because. I had to do minor word surgery using Word Set 4 – Just A Notetaking the “H” from “Hooray” and replacing the first “p” in “popping” with it to make “Hopping.” The word “by” comes from words in both word sets. “to say” is from Word Set 4.
Envelope: #10 business envelope back flaps are perfect to use border dies on. I cut the hopping rabbits and grass borders from the Easter Bordersset and used fine-tipped pens to add the eyes and noses on the rabbits.
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It’s the Karen Burniston design team challenge for February 2024 using the theme of “Oh My Hearts.”
For this challenge I chose to make some mini valentines that fit into a Candy Hearts Box.
Box: Review the assembly directions on the back of the packaging for the Candy Hearts Box. I used thin double-sided tape to assemble the box. Adhesive sequins were added to the hot air balloon printed on the cardstock. Three hearts were cut from all the hearts without words in the die set from coordinating papers. The top two hearts were attached with a strip of double-sided tape and the sides folded up. Two adhesive backed sequins were glued to the center of the hearts.
Ice Cream Card: A 2-inch by 6-inch rectangle was cut from decorative cardstock and folded in-half for a 2×3-inches top fold card. The inside of the card was covered with decorative cardstock. A second piece 3-inch by 5-inch rectangle of matching cardstock was folded in half and the tiered platform pop-up from the Mini Pops die set was used to cut in to the 3×5 rectangle following theassembly video at the bottom of the link page. Train the main platform’s folds and then center over the top fold card and glue down. Trim excess platform cardstock from edges of card.
Cut the scoop of ice cream from the Sweet Treats Charms set and color in the sprinkles with pens. Cut the silver dish from the bottom of the trophy in the Treasure Charms.
Cut candy hearts with messages using the dies in the Candy Hearts Box set. I cut free-handed the two tiny spoons from silver mirror cardstock. Adhere ice cream assembly to top tier of platform.
Spiral Hearts Card: A 2-inch by 6-inch rectangle was cut from decorative cardstock and folded in-half for a 2×3-inches top fold card. The inside of the card was covered with decorative cardstock. The spiral platform is from the Mini Pops die set and cut from white shimmer cardstock. Follow directions in theassembly video at the bottom of the link page or on back of the packaging for attaching the spiral. Add three sizes of hearts cut from the Candy Hearts Box set and glue to spiral platform. I had leftover hearts and labels from an Easter box project that I used to decorate the card.
Twist Panel Card: A 2-inch by 6-inch rectangle was cut from decorative cardstock and folded in-half for a 2×3-inches top fold card. The inside of the card was covered with decorative cardstock. Using the same patterned cardstock used inside the card, cut one twist panel mechanism using the Little Twist Panel Pop-Up die set. Cut the panel strip and the two banner halves from decorative paper. Follow directions in the assembly video at the bottom of the linked page or on back of the packaging to attach the twist mechanism, panel and banner. Trim the excess paper from edges of card before decorating. The banner ends may need to be trimmed back to fit into the card. Add hearts and check the positioning by closing the card while glue is still wet. I used the tiny heart in the Office Charms die set to decorate, but you could use other tiny hearts from other die sets.
The three cards easily fit into the candy box for a boxed set of mini-Valentines.
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This card was made for Craft Roulette #201 whose parameters included an easel card, quiet colors, sweets element and bokeh.
Cardbase: Cut one rectangle 3 3/4x 8 1/2-inches from heavy white cardstock. Cut a second white rectangle 3 3/4x 8 3/4-inches. On the largest rectangle score at 1/4 inch at one end and 3-inches at the opposite end. (The 1/4-inch is the tab folded under as the card hinge to card back. The 3-inch tab is the ease for the paper doll.)
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Materials Used:
Dies
Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Hello – 1166
Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – You’re Sweet – 1087
Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Ice Cream Sundae Pop-Up – 1082
Studio Light – Misses Dies & Stamps by Karin Joan – Betty
Studio Light – Misses Dies & Stamps by Karin Joan – Tasha
Stamps
Studio Light – Misses Dies & Stamps by Karin Joan – Betty
Studio Light – Misses Dies & Stamps by Karin Joan – Tasha
Papers
PhotoPlay – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock Collection Pack by Becky Moore – Snail Mail
This Valentine was made for Craft Roulette #200 whose parameters included kid’s card, brrrr colors, comic or cartoon element and button(s).
I have had a Peanuts collection of stamps, coordinating dies along with papers and washi tape sheets from Craftstash for a few months and thought the comic parameter was a perfect use of them.
Snoopy has such a cute button nose and the papers have some icy blues. Because a kid’s card needs some interactivity, I used a wiper mechanism by i-crafter to make Snoopy smooch Lucy. The sentiments are all computer generated.
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This birthday card was made for Craft Roulette #199 whose parameters included card with a bookmark, bakery colors, large animal element and horizontal lines.
For this card I used dies from two of my favorite crafting companies – Karen Burniston Pop-Ups and Rubbernecker Stamps (rebranded as Brass & Bliss). The front carousel, as well as the animals and lattice work used on the inside cake are from Rubbernecker’s retired Carousel set. The other dies used are Karen Burniston’s Happy Birthday Shadow, Happy Birthday, Cake Trims and Cake Pop-Up.
Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase and envelope. Cut four 5×7 panels of decorative paper. Glue two to the outside and two to the inside of the cardbase leaving the center fold uncovered. (I used two panels of a London park map paper inside the card, matching up the design at the fold.)
Card Front: The background paper, green border and journaling quote card are all from a Mary Poppins themed paper collection. The carousel is a bookmark tucks into the journaling card pocket. To create the pocket, I used thin strips of foam tape on three sides of the journaling card.
Bookmark: Because the carousel die is one piece, I cut it three times from white cardstock and once from red cardstock. For the animals I used markers to color them and glitter markers to add some magic to each critter. Once all the elements for the carousel were cut, colored and assembled, I glued them together at the top of a 4×8-inch rectangle of heavy white cardstock. Using a ruler, draw with a pencil the bookmark base as a 2-inch wide column centered at the bottom of the carousel. Fussy cut around the carousel and bookmark base. Punch a hole in the top point of the carousel. Thread two 6-strand pieces of yellow embroidery floss through hole for a bookmark pull. Decorate base and back with stickers from the paper collection.
Card Back: keeping with the bookmark theme, more of the collection paper was used to cover the card back featuring books and a sticker related to reading.
Pop-Up Cake: Watch the assembly video at the bottom of the link page for the Cake Pop-Up before die cutting. I wanted the cake to resemble the carousel, so the middle layer is white with the animals from the carousel die attached. The base layer is red and uses the carousel base cut in white trimmed to fit the sides of the cake. The top layer uses the Cake Trims set’s scalloped swag trim and the candle from the Cake Pop-Up set to suggest the roof and flag of the carousel.
Sentiments: Happy birthday uses two dies – the shadow cut in pink patterned paper and the words cut in matte gold.
Envelope: The back flap of the envelope has a carousel tent top.
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