June 2025 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our June Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.

Check out Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday (US Time) when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month, plus Karen will have an amazing video tutorial to share with us all.

Our challenge theme this month is ... "ANIMALS & CHARACTERS" - Use any of our Animal or Character dies (Gnomes and People count) for a card of any theme

My first thought when I started making my card was to create a baby card using the animals from the Safari Animals die set, but as you can see I ending up making a birthday card.

I used the Lorna Label Pop-up die set to create a double pop up. I used the grass from the Nature Edges die set to add grass to the top label of the pop up.

I gave the elephant a candle which is from the Big Birthday Charms die set, The balloons the giraffe is holding is from the Lorna Label Add-ons Happy Birthday die set.

Along the top edge of the card, I added the vines & monkey from the Monkryband Lion die set.

The sentiment on the lower label of the pop up is from the Birthday Belated Clear Stamp set.

To finish off the inside of the card I added two presents which are from the Big Birthday Charms die set.

I have been wanting to create a shaker card for some time, so for this card I created a full front shaker using packaging from a stamp set.

I added the birthday sentiment which is from the Lorna Label Add-ons Happy Birthday die set.

I added another giraffe, elephant and monkey to the front of the card.