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Vintage Roses for Mother’s Day

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The sweet pinks and reds of old-fashion rose bushes always remind me of their scent. This Mother’s Day card is a loving way to say how much mothers are appreciated.

I used Honeybee Stamps’ layering Bold Backgrounds Vintage Roses dies for the front of the card. The roses are cut from three different shades of pink cardstock and inked with a bright red ink. The leaves were cut in an apple green and inked with a medium green ink. There layering guide which you have to download from the Honeybee Stamps website shows how the the three sizes of roses are assembled. The sentiment banner is a strip of apple green cardstock 4 1/2-inched wide by 1/2-inches tall with fishtails ends cut free-hand and inked to match the leaves. The gold foiled sentiment strip “Appreciate You” is from Spellbinders that I had batched foiled previously.

The inside “Happy Mother’s Day” sentiment is cut from the apple green cardstock using a die by Papertrey Ink. The back of the card is covered with a striped sheet of printed paper from This Calls for Confetti.

I went stash diving to find a old-fashioned looking rose for the back of the envelope and ended up using a stamp set from Pinkfresh Studios called Pretty Paisley. The roses were stamped in melon red ink while the tiny sentiment “It’s the little things that make life big” was stamped in a green pear ink.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Honey Bee Stamps -Layering Dies – Bold Backgrounds Vintage Rose
  • Papertry Ink – Waffer Thin Metal Dies – Happy Mother’s Day

Stamps

  • Pinkfresh Studios – Clear Stamps – Pretty Paisley

Papers

  • This Calls For Confetti – 6×6 Single-Sided Papers – Painted Patterns
  • Three Shades of Pink and Apple Green Cardstock
  • Tonic Studios – Craft Perfect – A6 Cardbase and Envelope – Bright White

Ink

  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Ink Pad – Melon Mambo and Pear Pizzazz
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Fossilized Amber, Lumberjack Plaid and Rustic Wilderness
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black

Hot Foiling

  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil Plates and Banner Dies – Mini Everyday Sentiments
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Matte Gold


Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Tape Runner – 1/2-inch wide

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Craft Mat
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Spellbinders’ Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Scissors

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

A Walk Along Main Street Pop-up Card

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #203 whose parameters included a flip fold card, Main Street colors, walk(s) element and heart(s).

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Concord & 9th – Metal Dies – Bake Shoppe
  • Concord & 9th – Metal Dies – Book Shoppe
  • Concord & 9th – Metal Dies – Fashion Shoppe
  • Concord & 9th – Metal Dies – Pop-Up Shoppe Base
  • Concord & 9th – Metal Dies – Window Shoppe Pop-Up Base

Stamps

  • Concord & 9th – Clear Stamps – Bake Shoppe
  • Concord & 9th – Clear Stamps – Book Shoppe
  • Concord & 9th – Clear Stamps – Fashion Shoppe
  • Concord & 9th – Clear Stamps – Flower Shoppe
  • My Favorite Thinks – Clear Stamps – Coffee Shop CS-734
  • Rubbernecker Stamps – Rubber Stamp – Good Friends 642-13

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – 6×6 Double-Sided Cardstock – Brick Textures
  • My Favorite Things – 6×6 Single-Sided Paper Pad – Finishes and Textures
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11-inch 100 lb. Cardstock – Terra Cotta
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×11-inch 100 lb. Cardstock – Snowdrift
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11-inch Printed Paper – Brick Wall
  • Gold and Silver Matte Foil Cardstock
  • Colored Cardstock
  • Dura-Lar – 9×11-inch .005 Clear Film or Acetate

Ink & Embossing Powder

  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad – Early Espresso
  • VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Antique linen, Salty Ocean, Scorched Timber
  • Gelly Roll – Gel Pen – Gold
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Recollections – Detail Embossing Powder- Ebony (used on “Books” sign)

Adhesives

  • Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
  • Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
  • Double-Sided Tape -1/8-inch wide
  • Double-Sided Tape -1/2-inch wide

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Craft Mat
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Heat Tool
  • Scissors
  • Metal Ruler/Straight-Edge
  • Pencil 

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

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.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope this inspires you and makes you smile. Please like and leave comments 😊

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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