Red Poinsettias

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Well as most of you who follow me know, I haven’t done much card making this year due to ill health. However with Christmas approaching I wanted to get some Christmas cards made. When I saw this Festive Poinsettias Betterpress Plate from Spellbinders, I just had to order it. I haven’t purchased many card making supplies this year.

One bonus of Betterpress plates is not only can they be used with the Betterpress, but you can hot foil with them as well, so a few weeks ago I pulled out my hot foil machine and few different coloured foils and spent the day foiling. I had lots of fun!

A week later I took all those foiled backgrounds and turned them into cards. I made 14 all up, way too many to share in one blog post, so I will share them over the next few weeks.

The first three cards I am sharing, are cards I created using black foil. I then used the coordinating stencil and coloured the poinsettias in various shades of red. All these cards are 5 x 7. 

This first card I created a portrait style card, the base is white. I added a white panel to the front of the card that I embossed using Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott’s Festive Tartan Embossing Folder.

All the sentiments used on my cards were also hot foiled using foil plates. The “Merry Christmas” is the negative image using a Waffle Flower Crafts foil plate.

My second card is a landscape style card and is side folding. I used green cardstock for the base. For the foiled background, I used a dark gray foil. I didn’t add an embossed panel to this one. 

The sentiment is from an older foil set from Spellbinders called Yana’s Christmas Sentiments.

My final card today is similar to the second one, except I used black foil for the poinsettia panel. This card is top folding and I added the embossed panel to the front, I added another sentiment from the same Spellbinders set I used on the second one.

Sending a Birthday Pug

 Hi Crafty Friends,

It was my youngest daughter's birthday recently and as she loves pugs, and is the mother of a pug, when Spellbinders/Bibi Cameron came out with the Pug Collection I just had to add it to my stash.

As I love shaped cards, of course I decided to make a shaped card using this die set. My grand puppy is named Frankie (a girl) and named after me :). 

This card uses the Spellbinders Big Pug and the Cats and Dogs Accessories die sets.

I found a tiny birthday sentiment in a The Greeting stamp set to add to the pugs bone tag.

For the inside of the card, I added a pop up, using Karen Burniston's new Postage Frame Pop-up die set. I just had to see if it would fit and use the mechanism. I love how easy this die is to use.

I added a pug themed birthday sentiment which is from an older Newton's Nook stamp set.

I also added the paw print to the lower right hand corner of the card which is from Whimsy Stamps.

And one final photo, to show how the Postage Frame Pop-up mechanism looks from the side.

Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC October 2024 Release Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends, 

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC October Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 10 new dies and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

 

 

This release includes:

• 2 new Pop-up Die Sets
• 3 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Sets
• 2 new Stand Alone Die Sets
• 1 new Sentiment Die Set
• 2 new Charm Set Die Set
• 5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

 

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,4th November 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!

For my card today I decided to create a Christmas card using the new Penguin and Reindeer Snowman Add-ons which works with the Snowman Pop-up die set.

First up I created my card base which is 5 inches square. I added snowflake pattern digital papers that I found on Etsy. I created the penguin using the two dies mentioned above and also added two candy canes to the penguins wing which are from the Christmas Borders 2 die set.

I used the new Merry Christmas Lorna Labels Add-ons die set to add the Christmas Sentiment at the bottom right hand side of my card. This die set also includes snowflakes which I added to the sentiment.

I also added a blank label to the top right hand side of my card which is from the Lorna Labels Pop-up die set. This is a place to write a personal greeting.

For the front of my card I used the postage frame from the new Postage Pop-up die set. I die cut the frame from dark blue cardstock snd then the panels from white and sponged each of the panels using Suede Blue Catherine Pooler Ink.

I decorated two of the panels using sentiments from the Seasons of Cheer stamp set which is also being released today.

I aded the penguin using the Winter Animals die set and also added another snowflake from the Merry Christmas Lorna Labels Add-ons die set.

To finish off the front of the card, I added the candy canes to the postage frame.

Well that's about it from me today, thank you for dropping by. To continue on the blog hop, click on the next person on the list, which is Jennifer Webster

Here is the complete blog hop list in case you need it.

Blog Hop Order

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak

Sue Small-Kreider

Frances Byrne  <<<you are here>>>

Jennifer Webster

Suzanne Smit

Nicky Foden

Sandy Diller

Ken Chien

Happy Birthday Hayley

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another card using new pop-up dies from Karen Burniston's October release. These dies & stamps will be available to purchase on Monday 28th October.

For my card today, I used the new Photo Fan Pop-up card to create a birthday card for my granddaughter who is celebrating her birthday in November.

I added two of the Photo Fan Pop-up mechanisms onto this card, one to add the letters of my granddaughter's name. If I ever make this card with a name on it again, I would add it to the top photo fan mechanism as it has more room up there to spread out. The letters are from the Alphabet die set which I die cut from pink glitter cardstock. The "12" on the top row is from the Numbers die set.

I used the charms from the Big Birthday Charms die set to decorate the top row.

The two stamped sentiments are from the new Photo Memories Stamp Set.

I kept the front of the card very simple as the focus is on the inside of the card. I just had enough designer that I used on the inside to decorate the front.

The birthday sentiment uses the Happy Birthday Lorna Add-ons die set.

Poinsettia Merry Christmas

 Hi everyone,

It's been a while! I am excited to share a card I created using two of the new dies from Karen Burniston’s upcoming release which become available on Monday28th October. For my first card, I have created a Christmas card.

I am loving the new additions for the Lorna Label Pop-up, for this release Karen has added the Merry Christmas Lorna Label Add-on to the collection. I love being able to have a sentiment as the pop-up. I die cut the Lorna Label from green cardstock and the pieces from the Merry Christmas Add-on set from bright pink and silver holographic cardstock before assembling to the centre of my 5 x 7 card.

I added the "fa la la .... sentiment to the box portion of the pop-up from the new Season's of Cheer stamp set. I was going to use the "and Happy New Year" from the set until I spied this sentiment in the set and it appealed to me for this card.

I created a pink poinsettia using the new Poinsettia die set which I added to the bottom right hand corner of my card. I also added a couple of berry springs to the top left corner and the bottom of the label pop-up.

To finish off the inside of the card, I added the white label for a place to write a message.

For the front of my card, I created two more pink poinsettias and added them to the top left and bottom right of the card.  I also added another of the sentiments from the Seasons of Cheer stamp set.

Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC June 2024 Release Blog Hop

 Hi Crafty Friends, 

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC June 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 and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

 

This release includes:

• 2 new Pop-up Die Sets
• 2 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Sets
• 2 new Lorna Add-ons Die Sets
• 1 new Fancy Label Add-on Die Set
• 1 new Fancy Label Frame Die Set
• 2 new Border Die Sets
• 1 new Sentiment Shadow Die Set
• 1 new Charm Set Die Set
• 5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

 

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,8th July 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!

Before I get onto my card I created, I want to apologise for the lack of photos in this post. I was unexpectedly admitted to hospital last Monday and I am still there, so I am having to write my post on my iPad from my hospital bed … the other photos being on my computer at home. When I finally get home I will edit this post to add them.

I just love this new release and can’t wait to get to play with all the new dies. For my card today I have used 4 of the new die sets and 2 of the new stamp sets. 

I created a 5 x 7 card. For the pop up portion of my card I used the Just a Note Lorna Labels Add On along with Lorna Labels Pop Up die set. I then added the Piano Keys Pop Up die, adding it to the rectangle base of the Lorna Label Pop Up. I love that the Piano Keys Pop Up can be added to a number of other previously released pop up die sets.

I used the labels from the Lorna Labels die set for the stamped sentiments on the base of my card. For the sentiment I used stamps from both the Music Sentiments & Birthday Belated Sentiments stamp sets.

To finish off the inside of the card I added music notes from both the Piano Keys Pop Up & the Music Charms die sets.

For the front of the card I used the Happy Birthday Lorna Labels Add-ons die set with the Lorna Labels die set to create the Happy Birthday Label. I used the Grand Piano, Treble Clef, Music Notes & Staff to decorate the front of the 

Well that's about it from me today, thank you for dropping by. To continue on the blog hop, click on the next person on the list, which is Jennifer Webster

Here is the complete blog hop list in case you need it.

 

Blog Hop Order

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak

Sue Small-Kreider

Frances Byrne.   <<<you are here>>>

Jennifer Webster

Suzanne Smit

Nicky Foden

Sandy Diller

Ken Chien

Rebus - Weather

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time to share another rebus puzzle swap with you! This month the theme is "Words relating to Weather - seasons, weather events etc"

If you would like to solve my rebus puzzle, why not post a comment on my blog post with your answers. I will let you know what the correct answers are next time I post a rebus card here.

How did you go solving my April Rebus which was "Songs by Rolling Stones"

 Here are the correct answers so you can check how you did.

1. Paint It Black
2. Brown Sugar
3. Under My Thumb
4. Sway
5. Moonlight Mile
6. Tumbling Dice
7. Angie

You can find all my past Rebus Cards here.

Rebus - Songs by the Rolling Stones

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time to share another rebus puzzle swap with you! This month the theme is "Song by the Rolling Stones"

If you would like to solve my rebus puzzle, why not post a comment on my blog post with your answers. I will let you know what the correct answers are next time I post a rebus card here.

How did you go solving my March Rebus which was "Books Written by Nora Roberts"

 Here are the correct answers so you can check how you did.

1. An Irish Wish
2. Birthright
3. Year One
4. Born in Fire
5. Inner Harbor
6. Bed of Roses
7. The Law is a Lady
8. High Noon

You can find all my past Rebus Cards here.