It’s Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s January 2025 release of eight new dies and four new clear stamps sets. For this baseball card I used several of the new die sets including: Paper People, Popcorn and Flower Pot Add-Ons along with the previously released Flower Pot Pop-Up, Tiny Accessories 3, Easter Charms, Space Charms and Rectangles – Crosshatch. The new release will be available on January 27, 2025.

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

Cardbase: I started with an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2-inch piece of patterned paper folded in half to form an A2 side-fold card. The inside was covered with two rectangles of striped paper cut using the largest of the Rectangles – Crosshatch dies.

Baseball Player: Using the Paper People die set Cut one body, one hair piece, one mustache, one t-shirt and one pants. From the Tiny Accessories 3 set cut one of the engineer’s cap. Watch the process video above to see how to style these pieces into a baseball player.

Cracker Jack Box Pop-Up:  Follow the assembly video directions (located at the bottom of the linked page) for the Flower Pot Pop-Up, but add the Popcorn decorator pieces to the pot before installing it in the card. (I made the caramel corn “Cracker Jacks” by coloring the popcorn pieces with alcohol markers and coating with Glossy Accents a clear gel. The peanuts are cut using the jelly bean charm from the Easter Charms set.) The box is attached to the card using the Flower Pot Add-On set’s square scalloped doily with tabs. The Cracker Jack prize packet is a computer generated piece of paper torn open to reveal a pink plastic alien toy charm cut using the Space Charms die set.

Sentiments:  All the sentiments are from the patterned papers and the “Cracker Jacks” was computer generated.

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 size envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Paper People – 1299
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Popcorn – 1295
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Flower Pot Add-Ons – 1294
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Space Charms – 1109
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Tiny Accessories 3 – 1095
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Easter Charms – 1078
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Rectangles – Crosshatch – 1054
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Flower Pot Pop-Up – 1010

Papers

• Carta Bella – 12×12 Double-Sided 65 lb Cardstock – Baseball
• Carta Bella – 6×6 Double-Sided 65 lb Cardstock – Home Run
• Echo Park – 12×12 Double-Sided 65 lb Cardstock – Baseball
• Spellbinders – 8.5×11 100 lb. Cardstock – Pomegranate
• Assorted Colored and Decorative Paper Scraps
• White Computer Paper

Ink

• Pigma – Mircon 05 Fine Tip Pen – Black
• Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Red
• Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Red
• Spectrum Noir – Tri-Blend Alcohol Marker – Gold Brown Blend

Adhesives

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

Tools

• Die Cutting Machine
• Bone Folder
• Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
• Scissors
• Tweezers
• We R Memories – QuickStick

Miscellaneous

• Ranger – Glossy Accents