October 2021 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

 

Welcome to our October 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 ...  "HAUNTED!" - make a Halloween card.>For my card today I created my Halloween card using the Bitty Ball Pop-up and Character Add-ons 1 die sets to create a vampire. 

Here is a quick video to see my card in action.

To create the Vampire on the right side of the card, I used the Bitty Ball Pop-up and Character Add-Ons 1 die sets. I used the hands from the Halloween Elements die set to add hands to my vampire.

My finished card is 5 inches by 7 inches adding the flap die from the Flap and Closure die set to the far right of my card.

To decorate the left side of the inside of my card I used Halloween Scene; Halloween Elements and Halloween Charms die sets.

Here is a close up photo of my Vampire. I used cardstock from the Exact Pack 5 Character Add-ons 1 card pack which includes the colors you need to create either the vampire or pumpkin. I did used grey cardstock instead of the flesh included in the pack to all the flesh portions of the vampire.

The vampire is attached to the card using a brad, so it can swivel around. Here is a view of the vampire facing to the left.

A view of the vampire from the back.

And a few of the vampire when it is facing the right.

For the front of the card I added a plain panel of orange cardstock. Along the bottom edge of the card I added a green piece of cardstock that had been die cut using one of the dies included in the Long Nature Edges die set.

For the moon I used a circle from the Crosshatch Circles die set, sponging grey ink around the edge of the circle.

I die cut two fences using the Iron Fence Pop-up die set, trimming off both edges and joining together.

The bat is from the Halloween Scene die set and finally the Halloween Sentiment using the Happy Halloween die set.

Pumpkin Head Halloween Pop-up

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Rebecca Ednie, our challenge hostess for the month finishes off the month with one last challenge.

What’s in season to eat at your farmers market? Make a card inspired by your local harvest. Even if it’s 6 months ago for the Southern Hemisphere. You can but don’t necessarily have to use the actual fruit or veg. You can just use the colours or textures. Like pink and green or pink with black dots for watermelon. Yellow plaid or use a square stencil for corn etc. Leave us a note with your inspiration!

When I was thinking about what to create for this challenge, I realised I already had something made that would work perfectly for this challenge. As I had made it using some of the new dies from Karen Burniston's August release earlier in the month. So the harvest vegetable I decided to use was pumpkins! 

For my card today I have created a Halloween themed pop-up card, featuring a Jack O Lantern which are carved from pumpkins.

Here is a quick video to see my card in action.

To create the pumpkin on my card I used Karen Burniston's Bitty Ball Pop-up and Character Add-ons die sets. I die cut the base of the pumpkin using two different shades of orange and then added the face and stem using black and green cardstock.

I used the largest square die from the Squares - Crosshatch die set to die cut the patterned papers on my card, this was layered to black cardstock and then to each side of my square side folding card.

On the left hand panel, I added the "Boo" sentiment which is from the Halloween Elements die set and layered using the smallest oval from the Ovals - Crosshatch die set.

I kept the front of the card fairly simple, seeing the focus of the card was on the inside. I added another panel of the pumpkin patterned paper.

I added the belly band to my card to help keep it closed when needed. This was created by wrapping a strip of cardstock around the card loosely, layering the different colors and patterned paper.

I added the "Happy Halloween" sentiment to the front of the belly band which used the new Happy Halloween die set.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Nicky Foden

Lois Bak