Interactive cards

Egg Shaker Card for Easter

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I saw a side-fold of like this card on social media and decided to make my own version using a top fold A6 (4 1/2 x 6 1/4-inches) purchased card base and the egg die from Karen Burniston’s Spring Animals die set.

Cardbase: Using a purchased A6 card base, I used double sided patterned paper from Kat Scrappiness to make a mat frame on the front panel, piecing it together as the patterned paper was 1/2-inch smaller than the card height. Added a yellow 5 3/4 x 4 1/4-inches panel over mat frame. On the back panel, I used the leftover pieces to make an interesting symmetrical design utilizing both patterned sides of the paper.

Egg Panel: A 4×5 1/2-inches rectangle cut from white cardstock, I lightly marked in pencil lines at 1 1/8-inches, 2 3/4-inches and 4 3/8-inches. Along the tops and bottoms of these lines I marked 5/16-inches from the edge. These “T” marks where to center the top or bottom of the egg die. I used the center crack in the egg die to center on the vertical lines.  After die-cutting out the six eggs, I erased the pencil marks. (I found it easier to sketch out the egg placement on the back side of the card, tracing around the die to see if it looked right before die-cutting from the front of the panel.) (I added two clay flower shaker elements to the front of the card.)

Shaker Assembly: Position the white panel over the yellow panel and mark the corners of the white panel on the yellow as well as tracing the egg cut-outs onto the yellow. Using double-sided tape, adhere a 4×5 1/2-inches rectangle of clear acetate/film to the back of the white panel. Add strips of narrow foam tape to create boxes around the traced eggs on yellow panel. Using an anti static tool to apply powder to the inside of each box (including the sides of the sides of the foam tape) and back side of acetate/film on white panel. Add confetti and clay sprinkles to each box, avoid putting too much in each box and level out any high points to below the foam tape level. Holding the card base, carefully peel off the backing paper on the foam tape. Remove any confetti from tape. Using the corner marks on the yellow panel line-up the white panel and adhere to foam tape, sandwiching the confetti inside the boxes. (I like to use the confetti sequins from This Calls For Confetti who have a variety of colors, sizes and finishes and have wonderfully quick customer service/delivery time. They also have the best anti-static tool for making shaker cards.)

Sentiment: I cut out the words only using Karen Burniston’s Happy Easter word die from purple cardstock for the inside of the card.

Envelope: I cut out a sticker from the decorative paper to embellish the back of the envelope flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Kat Scrappiness – Slimline Sized Patterned Paper (10.75×4 inches)– Easter on Parade
  • White and Yellow Cardstock
  • Dura-Lar .0005 Clear Film Acetate
  • Park Lane Paperie – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Shaker Elements

  • This Calls For Confetti – Bokeh Bliss Teeny Tiny Mix
  • This Calls For Confetti – Crystal Metallic Aqua Violet
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Blue
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Blush
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Celadon
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Scarlet
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Vanilla
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Blue
  • This Calls For Confetti – Opaque Iridescent Blue
  • Hobby Lobby – Inclusions – Flowers
  • Spellbinders – Sweet Sprinkles

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • This Calls For Confetti – It’s No Secret Anti Static Powder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • T-Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A

Potted Pets Baby Pop-up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette#206 whose parameters included Project type of card with a heart, vintage colors, plant(s) element and lace on the base.

In honor of Craft Roulette’s host Mary Gunn’s new grandchild, I made a new baby card using the parameters listed above.

Cardbase: I used a 5×7-inch purchase cardbase and covered all four panels with vintage green patterned paper. The decorative stripes and lacy decorations were scraps from the opposite side of the paper.

Potted Plants: I decorated the panels with potted animal planters that were made from solid color cardstock using My Favorite Things Potted Pets die set.

Pop-Up Twist Panel: I used Karen Burniston’s Twist Panel Pop-Up die set. Watch video below for instructions.

Sentiments: I used Karen Burniston Welcome and Baby Charms die sets to create the “Welcome Baby.” In the video above I explain how I used Karen Burniston’s Connectors word set dies to perform “word surgery” to create the phrase “oh baby.”

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Hot Off The Press – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper Pack – Spice Market
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Black, Browns, Greens, Pink and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase – White

Ink

  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Spectrum Noir – Tri-Blends – Orange Blend
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dark Daffodil Delight

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Craft Clips
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Corner Punch
  • Scissors
  • T-Ruler
  • Pencil

Bunny Cake Easter Card

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It’s time for the Karen Burniston March 2024 Design Team Challenge with the theme of Bunny Ears.

I decide on a pop-up bunny cake using the Cake Pop-Up with the Animal Add-Ons 5 and Easter Borders along with the new Happy Easter sentiment and paper doilies.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Hot off The Press – Paper Pazazz – 12×12 Single-Sided Paper – Soft Tints Green Stripes
  • Keep It Simple – 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock – Jade Collection Pack – Random Dot & Solid
  • Black, Green, Orange, Pink and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Vintage Photo
  • Sizzix – Luster Wax – Lilac Rainbow
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Tweezers
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tweezers
  • Ruler
  • Pencil

Miscellaneous

  • 6 Heart Shaped Paper Doilies

Pop-Up Chick In A Basket

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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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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Hot off The Press – Paper Pazazz – 12×12 Single-Sided Paper – Soft Tints Green Stripes
  • Black, Blue, Brown, Orange, White and Yellow Cardstock

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Fossilized Amber and Vintage Photo
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Tombow – Mono – Sand Eraser -512A

Miscellaneous

  • 24-inches of Baker’s Twine

Coffee Loving Couple

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Different things bond couples together, but for one couple I know it is coffee. This is a card to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

I used two of Karen Burniston’s new February 2024 release dies – Tea and Coffee Borders and Tea and Coffee Pop-Up along with several previously released dies – Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch, Word Set 12 – Anniversary and Cupcake Pop-Up.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 12×12 Double-Sided Textured Cardstock Collection Kit – Gather At Home
  • Bazzill – 12×12 inch Cardstock – Travertine
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 Shimmer Cardstock – White Gold
  • Black, Brown, Pale Green and White Cardstock
  • Clear Vellum
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft Brown

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Black Soot, Gathered Twigs and Saltwater Taffy
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Ball Tipped Shaping Tool
  • Stiff Foam Mat

How Does the Easter Bunny Do It All?

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Hi Crafty Friends,

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!

This card uses five of the new release die sets including: Happy Easter, Easter Borders, Animal Add-ons 5, Baking Borders and Kitchen Borders as well as eight previously released die sets by Karen Burniston.

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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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Violet Studio Designs – 8×8 Single-Sided 180gsm Paper Pack – Hoppy Easter
  • The Paper Cut – 8.5×11 Cardstock – 10PT Kromekote -Glossy White
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Colored and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Dried Marigold, Frayed Burlap and Salty Ocean
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Pink
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

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, 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!

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Bunny Bookmark Pop-Up Easter Card

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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 page the Raising 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 Note taking 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 Borders set and used fine-tipped pens to add the eyes and noses on the rabbits.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Kat Scrappiness –10.75×4-Inches Double-Sided, Slimline Sized Patterned Paper- Easter on Parade
  • Spellbinder’s – 8.5×11 Color Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift
  • Blue, Brown, Green, Orange, Pink and Yellow Cardstock
  • #10 business Envelope – White

Ink

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scoring Board
  • Bone Folder
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Large Corner Punch

Oh My Hearts

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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 the assembly 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 the assembly 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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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Craftwork Cards – 8×8 Single-Sided Paper Collection – Flying High
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 White Gold Shimmer Cardstock

Ink

  • Gel Pens – White and Pink
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Red
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scissors

Miscellaneous

  • Stampin’ Up – Adhesive Backed Seasonal Sequins

Waving Hello For Valentine’s Day

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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
  • Pink, Brown, Cream Cardstock
  • Heavyweight White 100lb Cardstock
  • Clear Vellum
  • #10 Business Envelope – White

Ink

  • VersaMark Ink – Watermark
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pigment Ink – White
  • Gel Pens – White and Pink
  • Black Glossy Embossing Powder

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Scoring Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Craft Clips
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Kat Scrappiness – Anti-Static Tool
  • Heat Tool
  • Scissors
  • Paper Cutter

Miscellaneous

  • Mini Woobler Spring