Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Jack-O-Lanterns

It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge, and this month's theme is JACK-O-LANTERN.  How appropriate -- with Halloween right around the corner.  I pulled out several Karen Burniston Halloween sets to decorate my card, a slimline card featuring the Little Labels Pop-Up set.

The front of my card is relatively simple, with a Jack-o-lantern made with the pumpkin from the Autumn Elements set with the face cut with one of the dies in Halloween Elements.

But the inside is a bit less simple.  I love that skeleton from the Skeleton & Bat set, dressed up with a top hat and bow tie.  I used two of the brand-new Halloween Borders set to span the card.

 You'll be seeing more of those Halloween Borders.  I love them!

Karen Burniston New Release Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC September Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 9 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

• 2 new Script Sentiment Die Sets
• 3 new Border Die Sets
• 2 new Pop-up Die Sets
• 1 new Add-on Die Sets
• 1 stand alone Die Set

Dies are available to order now on the website.

I love to make cards for Halloween, so I used the new Stocking Pop-up die and several other Halloween dies (both new and not-so-new) to make my card for the hop.  One of the new Halloween dies is the Witch and Cauldron.  What I like about the witch is that she is in several pieces, so you can use her in many different ways.  In this case, she's standing behind her cauldron stirring the pot.  BTW, the same die is used for her hair and the fire!  Two other new dies are on the front of my card -- Small Sentiments - Halloween and Halloween Borders.  

There are dies from several different Halloween sets used on the inside -- as well as the Stocking Pop-up.  The pop-up mechanism animates those two ghosts behind the house.  The skulls along the bottom and the two Jack-O-Lanterns are both part of the same Halloween Borders set as the spiders on the front.

Here is a short video so you can see how the pop-up mechanism works.

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, October 2, 2023. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter!  

Below are the links to the Blog Hop participants.   IMPORTANT:  Don't forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner!

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak (you're here)

Sue Small-Kreider  (visit next)

Frances Byrne

Jennifer Webster

Suzanne Smit

Nicky Foden

Sandy Diller

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- Holiday House

For this month's Designer Challenge, Karen asked each of us to use the Holiday House set.  As Halloween is right around the corner, I chose to make a Halloween slimline card using this die.  Karen has several Halloween-themed dies, so I had a lot of dies from which to choose to make my spooky scene.

For my scene, I started with gray cardstock and sponged some Hickory Smoke ink around the sides and top to give the sky a bit of depth.

Inside the card I decorated the Little Twist Panel twice with some spooky images from the various Halloween sets.

I know the rest of the team has some great Holiday House cards as well.  Be sure to check them out.

Karen Burniston Sneak Peek 7

My final sneak peek of the new Karen Burniston release is again a Halloween card -- this time made with Haunted Tiny House Add-ons.  I love that Tiny House and the two new add-ons are so fun.  The front of my card uses the Halloween Scene, the new Happy Halloween sentiment and shadow, and the ghost from the new add-on.

The inside has a cute little scene with the Tiny House all dressed up for Halloween.  I had planned to put a Tiny Tree in the yard, but I made a mistake when I was decorating the house.  I put the door on the back panel instead of the front panel.  When I attached it to the card base, it folded in such a way that the tree got entangled with the roof.  So . . . as the saying goes, "there are no mistakes in card making, only opportunities to be creative."  I cut the long panel and added the spider from Halloween Charms and the web from Halloween Scene.

Here you can see the front of the house.

Be sure to check out the Blog Hop tomorrow for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - "Inspired by . . . "

It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.  This month's theme is a very cool one -- "Inspired by . . . . "  Karen put our names in a hat and drew them out in random order to determine who is each person's muse. We were to choose any project, color combo, technique, etc. by our muse as inspiration and then link to that person's project in your blog post with our inspired creation. The person chosen as my muse is Sandy Diller. I was a bit intimidated when I found that out because Sandy is so very creative, but I dove right in. As I was checking out all of Sandy's projects on her blog, I found a cute Halloween project that I liked. If you click on the picture of her card, it will take you to her blog post.

The Woven Basket is one of my favorites, but I love making it into a double-wide basket. Karen Burniston made a video explaining how to do that. You can find that video here. In addition to the Woven Basket die, I used both Halloween-related die sets -- Halloween Elements and Halloween Charms for my little graveyard.

In the very back is the graveyard scene from Halloween Elements. As Sandy did, I attached that little spider to the tree, which is a separate die. I used both ghosts, one from the Elements set and two from the Charms set. There's a raven sitting on one of the gravestones -- and lots and lots of jack-o-lanterns.

The two gray bats are mounted on a piece of acetate so they appear to be flying overhead.

I hope Sandy likes my attempt to channel her creativity.