Sending Birthday Wishes

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog, today I am sharing a birthday themed Pop-up Mini Slimline card.

For my card today, I have used the Little Twist Panel Pop-up die set which I used on this top folding Mini Slimline card. When this was first released Karen Burniston mentioned that the card needed a mini of 3 1/2 inches for this die to work and I have been wanting to make a top folding mini slimline card using this die set for a while.

To decorate my card I used papers from Made To Surprise. I also used Karen Burniston's Big Birthday Charms; Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday Shadow dies.

The sentiment at the bottom of the card uses a sentiment from a Creative Craft Products stamp set. This was layered using the Labels - Crosshatch die set.

For the front of the card I used the Short Rectangles - Crosshatch die set. I also used the presents from the Big Birthday Charms and the Labels - Crosshatch die set.

The sentiment is from the Stamping Village Birthday Stamp set.

 

Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC February 2023 Release Blog Hop

 

Hi Crafty Friends, 

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC February Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 6 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

 

 

This release includes:

• 1 new Charm die sets
• 1 new Word set
• 1 new Tiny House Add-Ons sets
• 1 new Pop-up die sets
• 1 new Crosshatch die sets
• 1 new Border die set

 

 

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, 27th February 2022. 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 have used four of the new dies to create my "Sea/Ocean" themed card. First up is the Little Twist Panel Pop-up die set which is very easy to use and works with most sizes of cards included Slimline and Mini Slimline cards. Have already shared a Mini Slimline and 5 X 7 version using this die on my blog yesterday and last week, so scroll down if you missed those cards.   I added two of the "little twist panel pop up's" this time, seeing I was creating a slimline card. I hid the mechanism base of the "little twist panel pop-up" underneath the patterned paper, I cut two strips of patterned paper about 1 inches wide which I adhered close to the fold before adding the mechanism, and then once the two pop up mechanisms were in place, I added the remainder of the paper lining up the pattern as close as I could.

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

 

To decorate my card I used the Seas Charms (the animals and shells on the Little Twist Panel Pop-up mechanism) and Beach Borders (the tiny crabs and sharks) die sets along with two previously released die sets ...  Sea Animals and Ocean Animals die sets. I love that the Beach Borders can be used as a border, or cut apart as needed for your card, making them perfect for any sized card. I cut mine apart putting them in groups of 1, 2 or 3 images. In the bottom left hand corner of the card, I added the anchor which is from the Cruise Charms die set.

To finish off the inside of the card, I added a stamped sentiment to the top portion of the card.

I kept the front of the card simple, seeing the focus is on the inside of the card. I added the same patterned paper I used on the front.

I added two different sized crabs, the smaller from the Sea Charms die set and the larger one from the Sea Animals die set. The Octopus is from the Ocean Animals die set.

For the sentiment, I used the new Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch die set, using two of the label dies included in the set. As I was limited on space, I cut the label down slightly. I used the Mini Alphabet and Numbers to add the word "See" the rest is from a stamp set.

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  Suzanne Smit

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

Blog Hop List:

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak

Sue Small-Krieder

Karen Aicken

Jennifer Webster

Frances Byrne. <<<< YOU ARE HERE >>>>

Suzanne Smit

Sandy Diller

Fran Sabad

Nicky Foden

Celebrate Your Special Day

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another sneak peek of some of the new dies being release by Karen Burniston tomorrow.

This card actually looks a lot nicer in real life than it does in the photos, that paper is a nice pastel paper and the red portion of the card is a dark pink ... I tried a number of times to get photos I was happy with and edit them but this was the best I could get. 

I have been having such fun playing with the new Little Twist Panel Pop-up die set, creating cards in various sizes. Last week I shared a 5 x 7 card and today I have a Mini Slimline card, no matter what the size this die will work in it. According to Karen Burniston, you can make a card as small as 3.5 inches square if you really wanted to.

To decorate my card I used the Big Birthday Charms die set. I die cut a number of the presents included in the set and die cut them from coordinating papers. I also die cut the candles which I adhered to the banner piece that goes through the slits in the centre panels.

The rectangle panel at the top of my card, and the label at the bottom are both from the Rectangles and Labels - Crosshatch die set.

For the front of the card, I added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment using the Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday Shadow die sets. I die cut the sentiment twice once from the dark pink card and one from yellow, offsetting the yellow slightly behind the pink one.

I also added a few more of the presents around the sentiment.

Dad's Tools

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another pop-up card using some of the new dies which are being released next Monday 20th February. Even though Father's Day isn't until September where I live, I couldn't resisted pulling out the Tool Charms die set to make this Father's Day card.

For the pop up on this card, I used the new Little Twist Panel Pop-up die set. This pop-up mechanism, glues into the card rather than being die cut into the card as the Twist Panel Pop-up does. This pop-up will work on just about any card size, here I have created a 5 x 7 card, but it will also work on A2; Mini Slimline and Slimline Cards.

I found this fun male themed nuts & bolts patterned paper in my stash so I used that on my card. I used the two larger rectangles included in the new Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch die set for the layers both inside and out. 

Most of the pop-up mechanism base is hidden under the nuts and bolts paper, so I had to trim approximately 1cm off the bottom edge of the paper. I glued the cut off portion of the paper to the back of the card first and then adhered the pop-up mechanism. Once that was in place I could adhered the remainder of the paper onto my card. There was a slight gap where the papers meet, so I hid that by adding a border using the Border Blends - Argyle die set.

I added the Happy Father's Day to the top portion of the card.

The label on the lower panel, uses the two larger labels from the Rectangles and Labels - Crosshatch die set. This is a place to write a personal message.

I found some ruler paper in my stash so I added that for the little flag thing in the centre of the pop-up. 

I die cut the tools from the Tool Charms die set from holographic and black cardstock, layering together before adding to my card.

I added some of the same elements that I used on the inside of my card, on the front. The "Dad" uses the Alphabet die set.