Karen Burniston Dies

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

Spring Is Here Interactive Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #204 whose parameters included: thinking of you project, fairy tale colors, hear(s) or ear(s) element and stamped background.

To learn how I made the card, watch this process video.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Word Set 5 – Royalty – 1034
  • Spellbinders – Cutting Dies by Vicky Papaioannou – Umbrella Bloom – SS-554
  • Spellbinders –Small Die of the Month – March 2022 – Floating Bunny – DOM-MAR22

Stamps

  • Nellie’s Choice – Motive Stamps – Burst of Drops -TXCS016
  • Penny Black – Clear Stamps – My Universe – 30-796
  • Scrapbook.com – Clear Stamps – Sunshiney Day
  • Simon Says Stamp! – Unmounted Rubber Stamp – Sun and Moon Mandala – sss102337

Papers

  • This Calls For Confetti – 6×6 Single-Sided Papers – Speckled
  • American Crafts – 12×12 inch Single-Sided Papers – Everyday Papers
  • Colored and White Cardstock Scraps
  • Tonic Studios – Craft Perfect – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – Bright White

Ink

  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink – Party Collection – All That Jazz
  • Catherine Pooler – Premium Dye Ink – Spa Collection – Mandarin Spice
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitively Saturated Ink – SunBeam
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Faber-Castell – Pitt Artist Pen with Bullet Nib – White 101

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Scissors
  • Metal Ruler/Straight-Edge

Miscellaneous

  • Riley and Company – Mini Action Wobbles Spring
  • Nuvo – Vintage Drops – Yellow Brick Road

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

A Practically Perfect Birthday Card

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It’s time to see more of Karen Burniston’s February 2024 release of new dies.

There is a wonderful scene in the Julie Andrew’s movie Mary Poppins, where she takes measure of the children with her tape measure and when her measure is taken it says “practically perfect.” This is a birthday card for the “practically perfect” person in everyone’s life.

Cardbase: I used a purchased A7 (5×7-inch) cardbase and envelope. Cut four 5×7 panels of decorative paper. (I used a Mary Poppins themed paper collection from Carta Bella.) Glue two to the outside and two to the inside of the cardbase leaving the center fold uncovered. (I used two panels of striped paper inside the card, matching up the stripes at the fold.) Decorate the front and back with journaling cards from the paper collection. (I used two heart paper doilies to go under the front journaling card which was popped-up with foam tape, while the back had a copier paper scalloped border cut using the scalloped rectangle die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch set and trimmed to fit.)

Double Lorna Platform: Fold a piece of pink decorative cardstock 4×8-inches to form a 4-inch square. Using a bone folder, make the fold crisp. With the paper folded, place the largest die from the Lorna Label Pop-Up set with the open tab above the fold matching the score line with the fold. (I found that I had to use a shim to cut through the double thickness of the cardstock to get the die to cut through both layers. You may have to adjust the sandwich for your die cutting machine. Test first before cutting your decorative cardstock.)

Train the folds. Place the center fold of the double mechanism along the inside center fold of the cardbase. Tuck the tiny tabs on either side of the label base under and glue to the cardbase with both the mechanism and cardbase flat. Close card to train label base to pop-out. (I used a pencil to pop the tube-like base out the first time.) Glue the upper tabs to cardbase as shown on package directions.

Cut a label from white copier paper using the largest stitched label die and glue to the bottom label platform.

Tea Cup and Spoon Mechanism: When gluing the mechanism from the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set onto the double Lorna platform, a strip the width of the Lorna platform must be cut from the bottom tab of the mechanism.

Spoon: Cut from a heavy silver foil cardstock using the spoon die in the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set.  (I used some silver packaging.) Glue the back of spoon to angled top mechanism making sure the position will be within the cup when open and within the card when closed.

Tea Cup and Saucer: Emboss the cup and saucer onto lightweight pink cardstock the die cut using the cup and saucer dies in the Tea and Coffee Pop-Up set. Leaving the cup in the die, ink through the stencil feature with pink ink. Remove from die and ink the cup’s handle, base and rim stripe with pink ink. Ink saucer base. With gold marker trace embossed lines on cup and saucer. Glue to front of mechanism.

Sentiments: A journaling card with “Sweet and Kind and Smart and Cheery” and a word tape measure border from the paper collection were used for the front and back of the card. “Happy Birthday” was cut from light blue cardstock using Word Set 2 – Birthday.

Envelope: The back flap of the envelope is covered with a border strip of a tea party.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Carta Bella – 12×12 Double-Sided textured Paper Collection Kit – Practically Perfect
  • White Copier Paper
  • Pale Blue and Pink Lightweight Cardstock
  • White Heart Shaped Paper Doilies – 4-inch wide
  • Silver Foil Packaging
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Saltwater Taffy
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Crafter’s Square – Metallic Marker .05 in Point – Gold

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Craft Mat
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Pencil

Wakey Wakey Eggs N’ Bakey

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #202 whose parameters included a 5×7 inch card, formal & informal colors, warm(s) element and crisscross. Specifically, this card was made for a son starting a new job that requires an early morning wake-up time.

I use several of Karen Burniston’s new food borders and label dies from her February 2024 release including: Kitchen Borders, Baking Borders, Lorna Label Pop-Up and Good Luck word set as well as previously released Oven Pop-Up and Oven Extras.

Cardbase: Cover a 5×7-inch wide top-fold cardbase with two patterns of decorative paper – one for card front and inside top (think wallpaper) and another pattern for the back and inside bottom (think flooring.)

Card Front Decorations: Using the Kitchen Borders die set, cut one silverware border from matte silver cardstock for the top of the front panel. From black cardstock cut the frying pan/skillet border twice and trim one border down to three pans. Glue the two pan borders together by overlapping skillets. (Skillets are 1-inch wide, so should have seven skillets to cover all the way across card panel.)

Stove, Cabinets and Counters: Watch assembly video for the Oven Pop-Up at the bottom of the page link before starting. I used glossy white cardstock for the stove with a piece of clear packaging for the oven window. For the oven and cabinet base I used a textured silver cardstock and also cut a square piece to cover the back wall of the oven in textured silver. For the cabinet doors on the uppers and lowers, I used the large door die in the Oven Extras set (cut from a coated black cardstock) with the matte silver knobs from the Oven Pop-Up set.

Food: Using the Kitchen Borders set, cut out 8 eggs from white and use die as stencil to color egg yolks yellow. Using the ribbon border die from the Border Blends – Trims die set, cut one from brown cardstock. Using a white gel pen color the bacon fat along one edge of ribbon. Cut ribbon into strips small enough to fit into skillet.

Using the Kitchen Borders set, Cut two pieces of bread from kraft cardstock and using tweezers to hold, ink the edges to look toasted. For the toaster, cut a toaster border from black cardstock. Cut two of the toaster covers with slots from matte silver cardstock. Cut two of the toasters from the border leaving on the tiny levers that connect the toasters. (I cut the levers off and had to use the tiny waste pieces from the stove burners as toaster levers.) Glue the silver piece atop the black piece and insert bread before glue dries positioning it according to the lever position – up with toast almost out or down with toast mostly inside toaster.

For the plate, I used the circle border piece in the Baking Borders set and cut the plate from glossy white cardstock and used the die as a stencil to draw the blue circle in the center of the plate. The spatula is in the Oven Pop-Up set and is cut twice from different cardstocks and the handle trimmed to fit.

Sentiments: The front sentiment of “Wakey Wakey Eggs N’ Bakey” were cut using the Mini Alphabet set’s shadow and letter dies. Inside the card, The Good Luck die set was used along with a computer generated “On your new job” cut out with the banner in the Lorna Label Pop-Up. On the card back the largest label from the Lorna Label was used for a personalized message space.

Envelope: Leftover toaster and frying pan are glued to the back of the envelope. (I would put the card and envelope in a padded envelope to mail, but it will be hand delivered.)

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • DCWV – 12×12 Single-Sided Cardstock – Jet Black Stack
  • The Paper Cut – 8.5×11 Glossy Cardstock – White
  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Textured Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Black Coated 8.5×11 White-Core Cardstock
  • Matte Silver Cardstock
  • White Marble Cardstock from Tissue Box Packaging
  • Black, Blue, Brown, Kraft and White Cardstock
  • Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Vintage Photo
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dark Daffodil Delight
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Blue
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Computer and Printer

Adhesives

Tools

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