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 little girl who loves to pretend she is a mermaid in her backyard pool, this birthday card features not only mermaids, but also a blow-up flamingo float in a pop-up pool.
This card was made with Karen Burniston dies including the newly released Tiny Accessories 4 set, the previously released dies of Cake Pop-Up, Princess and Mermaid, Beach Borders, Beach Charms, Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch and a number of word sets.
Cardbase: I used a purchased 5×7 white cardbase that I covered all four panels with polka dot papers- blue on outside and green inside – using the largest rectangle in the Crosshatch Rectangles and Labels die set. This will be a top-fold card.
Mermaids: Using the Princess and Mermaid set to cut three of the mermaid’s body from green glitter cardstock – one was cut on the reserve side of the glitter cardstock. Cut three long hair pieces from pale yellow cardstock and two head and shoulders from a skin shade of cardstock. The mermaid on the inside needs to have both the front and back finished, hence the reverse cut body and extra hair pieces. Ultra fine tipped markers were used to draw on the face and a light blending of pink ink along with a dots of pink glitter gloss to the checks. Sandwich the head and shoulders between the mermaid body pieces and then attach the hairpieces. Add clear glitter gloss to hair. Make mermaid for card front in similar manner, but do not finish the backside. Cut a small shell from the die set and tint with pink ink. Have front mermaid hold the shell.
Flamingo Float: Using the flamingo float dies in the Tiny Accessories 4, cut one float and two wings. Decorate both sides of float and one front of wing and back of wing. Shade the float and wings with pink ink and add white highlights with gel pen. Color the beak with a black marker and add white highlights. Cut two tiny white circles and with black marker make small circles and add a white dot highlight for the eyes. Glue eyes on either side of float. Slip mermaid into float and then attach wings.
Pool: (Watch assembly video above for this modification of the Cake Pop-Up.) Cut two of the largest cake layer in the Cake Pop-Up die set from water patterned paper. Cut another two using the same die piece from a pattern paper that will be the outside of pool. Trim off bottom tab and four-sided trapezoid top flap from each of the outside pool pieces to form a tabbed strip. Using the four-sided trapezoid as a pattern trace and cut out two pieces from water patterned paper. Assemble as directed adding mermaid on flamingo float. Attach to inside of top-fold card. Decorate the inside cardbase with a beach ball from Beach Charms and tiny flamingo from Beach Borders.
Sentiments: The card front sentiments come from two different sets – Word Set 9 – Love and Word Set 5 – Royalty. “Love you” was cut from white patterned paper and brushed with clear glitter gloss. The “My Little” banner has in-laid letters that are also brushed with glitter gloss. Sequins, acrylic drops and heart are the dimensional accents to the card front.
For the inside sentiment of “Happy Birthday,” both the word set and shadow dies were used with the shadow cut from white patterned paper and the words cut from pink cardstock brushed with pink glitter gloss. The framed label for a personal message has three frames and one label cut using the largest frame die in the Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch die set. Green sequins were added to the corners of the label.
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Materials Used:
Dies
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Tiny Accessories 4 – 1259
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Rectangles and Labels – Crosshatch – 1233
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Beach Borders – 1230
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Happy Birthday Shadow – 1179
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Word Set 9 – Love – 1083
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Beach Charms – 1051
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Princess and Mermaid – 1036
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Word Set 5 – Royalty – 1034
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Happy Birthday – 1030
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Cake Pop-Up – 1028
Papers
- Ink N’ Splatter – 6×6 Paper Pack of Double-Sided Cardstock – Honey Bee Sweet
- DCWV – 6×6 Glitter Cardstock- Glitter Brights – Green
- Core’Dinations – 12×12 Textured Printed Cardstock – Light Blue Small Dot – 377877
- Core’Dinations – 12×12 Textured Printed Cardstock – Light Green Small Dot – 377865
- Pinks, White and Yellow Cardstock
- Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase – White
Ink
- Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Saltwater Taffy
- Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
- Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Red
- Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
- Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
- Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss
- Scrapbook.com – Glitter Brush Marker – Pretty Pink
Adhesives
Tools
- Die Cutting Machine
- We R Memories – QuickStick
- Tweezers
- Craft Clips
- Sponge Dauber
- Scissors
- Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
Miscellaneous
- Kat Scrappiness – Sparkling Clear Droplets Sampler
- Queen & Co. – Lovely Hearts -9mm Acrylic Hearts – Green
- This Calls For Confetti – Crystal Metallic Aqua Violet
- This Calls For Confetti – Opaque iridescent Celadon
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