May 2025 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our May 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 ... "MAKE IT FLUFFY" - You decide what's fluffy - is it an animal? Clouds? Something in the Kitchen? Incorporate something fluffy into your design.

When I started thinking about what could be classed as fluffy, I decided to go with cupcakes ... you have the yummy fluffy batter the cupcakes are made from and of course the frosting! For the cupcakes I used the Cupcake Add-Ons die set. 

For the pop-up mechanism, I used the Triple Platform Pop-up die set. I used the labels that came in the die set to add to each of the platform panels, plus one for a signature. I also added a cupcake themed sentiment using the Sweet Treats Clear Stamp set.

I also added the "You're Sweet!" sentiment to the lower left hand corner of the card.

As the focus of the card is the inside, I kept the front of my card simple. Adding two sentiments to the oval panels which were die cut using the Crosshatch Ovals die set. and then adding two more cupcakes.

The Sentiments are from the Sweet Treats and the Birthday/Belated Clear Stamp sets.

 

Double Triple Slimline Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends, 

Today I am sharing a Slimline Pop-up card, using stamps and dies from Karen Burniston’s January release which happens on Monday 28th January. There are 8 new dies and 4 new stamp sets that will be released.

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

As you can see I have created a double pop-up card using the new Triple Platform Pop-up die set. This die fits nicely, and as you can see when you create a slimline card there is room for 2. I decided to created a landscape style card and as I wanted to use some of the new sentiments from the Bouquet Sayings stamp set, I turned the labels the opposite way then they were designed to be. You can normally get 3 labels on the pop up (hence triple platform), but I decided to just use 2 each pop up and then added the stars to the top (or side in the case of my card). Because I changed the orientation of the labels and added two pop ups, I did need to be careful where I posted the labels so they they didn’t cause problems when the card closed with the labels overlapping.

For the front of my card I added the Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday Shadow die. I added the lollipops to each side of the sentiment which are from the new Bouquet Bits die set.