April 2018 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our April 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 .... "HIP TO BE SQUARE" - incorporate a square (or squares) into your project of any theme.

I decided to create a card using Karen Burniston's Spinner Square Pop-up die set on a square card.

I created three panels for my card insert using white cardstock which I decorated using distress oxide inks and added the grassy hills to the base using the Nature Edges die set.

I stamped, colored and cut out images from the Winnie & Walter's Happy Dance Clear Stamp set which I have been wanting to play with for a while. I added a stamped sentiment from the stamp set to the square pop up panel and added the cat and a birthday cake to the spinner which pops up from behind the square panel.

The speech bubble is a die included in the Spinner Square Pop-up die set.

I die cut five balloons from white cardstock and colored them using colors I used on the front of my card and adhered them to the top portion of the card. 

Here is a short video which shows my card in action.

Here is a look at the front of my card ... I created my card and scene on a square panel. I added the # 6 die cut from the Numbers die set to the little bear on the left. 

One last photo showing how the cat holding the cake spinner portion of the card moves up towards the top of the card when it is closed.

Don't forget to visit Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month.

Supplies:

Other:
Stamps - Happy Dance by Winnie & Walter
Cardstock - White
Copic Opaque White
Copics
Foam Tape

Merry Christmas From My Cup To Yours

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I have another card for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop which is being held from Friday 8th December to Friday 15th December.

After making my coffee card that I posted on Sunday, I discovered I had another Coffee Cup die set which I hadn't used as yet. I also found some fun Christmas Coffee themed digital stamps from Verve Stamps and I ended up buying a couple of sets ... I love the sentiments, So I decided to make another card so I could make use of both.

I die cut the coffee cups from Christmas themed patterned papers and printed out two of the digital sentiments onto kraft cardstock to create the wrap around the coffee cups. 

I have also been wanting to play with a new cute Owl stamp set I purchased recently so decided to incorporate that into the card, so I stamped and cut out the owl couple and attached them to the card so that each is sitting on the lid of one of the coffee cups.

The cups and owl are layered to a piece of patterned paper which has been die cut using the Stitched Mod Rectangles die set.

To finish off the card I added some red and green Nuvo Drops around the top of the card.

For the inside of the card, I printed out another of the sentiments from the digital stamps onto white cardstock. Die cut the sentiment using the Stitched Mod Rectangles die set and then decorated the panel using the ornaments and owl from the owl set. I also added a small coffee cup beside the owl seeing the sentiment refers to a 'cup'.

Stamps: Cup of Kindness Digital Stamps; My Cup to Yours Digital Stamps - Verve Stamps;  Perfect Blend - Honey Bee Stamps; Coffee4Two - Stamps of Life; Happy Owlidays - Winnie & Walter

Paper: White; Kraft; Red; Always Christmas Paper Pad - Craft Smith; Trim the Tree Paper Stack - SU

Dies: Stitched Mod Rectangles Stax; Coffee Cup - MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; White Gel Pen; Black Glaze Pen; Clear Glitter Wink of Stella Pen; Bottle Green & Berry Red Nuvo Crystal Drops; Foam Tape; Copics