Karen Burniston New Release - Day 3

As I mentioned in my first sneak peek post, the Karen Burniston new release includes three add-on sets to the Stage Pop-up.  Another one of the add-ons is the Grass Stage Add-on.  

 I used that set (along with the Rainbow Add-on to the Arch Pop-up) on this St. Patrick's Day card.  

Also included on this card are the cauldron from the Witch & Cauldron set and the figure from the Gnome & Santa set (dressed as a leprechaun).

We're having a blog hop next Monday, Feb. 2nd.  I hope you'll check it out; make sure you comment on the blogs.  Each DT member is giving away a $25 gift certificate to the Karen Burniston website.  The more you comment, the greater the chance you have to win.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- Rainbow

It's time for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge for July.  This month our theme is "Rainbow," the perfect reason to pull out the new Arch Pop-up die and Rainbow Add-ons.  

The front of my card is rather simple -- just a happy birthday greeting.  However, keeping with the theme I did use rainbow paper.  I also added some enamel dots in rainbow colors.

For the inside I popped up the Rainbow Arch, adding a pot of gold using the cauldron from the Witch and Cauldron set.  The sentiment is from the new Rainbow greetings stamp set.

Here's a close-up of the pot of gold.  As you can see, I scored across the cauldron and glued the top portion to the rainbow and the bottom portion to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Wicked Cool Birthday

Many years ago I read Wicked by Gregory Maguire and enjoyed it very much.  Since then I have seen the play.   Hopefully, I'll get to see the movie.  But, in the meantime, I have made a card.  That patterned paper from My Favorite Things seemed to be the perfect choice.  

 

On the inside we find Glinda and Elphaba resting on the Karen Burniston Little Labels Pop-up.   The sentiment stamps come from two different KB stamp sets, Photo Memories and Birthday/Belated.

I like that several of Karen's label dies have different size labels, so you can mix and match.  I used labels from two different sets -- Little Labels Pop-up and Paper Frames.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you come back again.

Halloween Fence

As I have mentioned before, I love making Halloween cards.  I don't get many trick-or-treaters where I live, so I make cards and mail them out to my family and friends.  Today's card was made with the Landscape Rectangle Accordion and the Fence Add-ons, along with several Halloween sets.

The front of the card has the cauldron from the new Witch and Cauldron with one of the Small Sentiments Halloween on it.  I added the skulls from the new Halloween Borders and a jack-o-lantern from the previously released Halloween Elements.  You can see a skeleton peeking out from inside the card.

The inside of the card has a few more Halloween elements.  Again I used the skulls from the Halloween Borders.  In addition to the cauldron, I also added the witch.  She wasn't tall enough to be stirring the pot, so to speak, so I made a little stepstool, using one of the trapezoids from the Surprise Ball Pop-Up.  It gets her high enough to mix her potion, which includes some interesting items.

To balance out the witch, I added the skeleton on the other side of the card.  I made a sign using another one of the Small Sentiments Halloween and attached it to the fence with two small brads.  I added the two jack-o-lanterns at the bottom, and I was done.

I really enjoyed making this "spooky" card.

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 Sneak Peeks -- Day 1

It's time to get the excitement going -- new release time from Karen Burniston.  My first sneak peek uses a Christmas die set -- Stocking Pop-up -- but for Halloween.  It just shows that Karen's dies are very versatile.

Actually, this card was made with several new dies besides the Stocking Pop-Up.  The sentiment on the front is from a new set called Small Sentiments - Halloween.

On the inside are a couple of new sets -- Halloween Borders (those spiders across the top and bottom) and Witch and Cauldron.

This short video shows how the mechanism for the Stocking Pop-Up works.  As you open the card, the contents of the cauldron pop up.

I appreciate your stopping by my blog today.  Be sure to come back tomorrow for another sneak peek.