Designer Challenge Happy New Year Card

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Welcome to the second Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge for December 2016 - this time teammate Sandy Diller issued the challenge:   Team theme - Sandy Diller - "Party Animals" - use any of the Character dies for a card celebrating the New Year or anything else!

For my card, Jinks the Monkey is off to a Black Tie New Years Eve Party where he has just tossed his top hat into the air so he can catch a glass of pink champagne. 

I used this cool patterned card stock with embedded glitter, along with kraft and red card stocks. Love this colour combination!

When you pull the tab, the oval slides up for display, revealing a penned greeting underneath.

Jinks is popped up with three layers of foam tape, but I still needed to curve his hand and the top of his head up slightly, to slide the oval back into place.

This is a flat, post-card style card, but I did add some pattern and colour onto the back where I'll write my note & add our signatures.

Another peek at Jinks ... his black bow-tie and snazzy glasses are embellished with Glitter Dots. I cut his face piece 3 times from kraft card stock then layered them together for dimension. The top layer got some glitter from a Wink of Stella pen - because any monkey going to a New Years  Eve party should wear some glitter. Ha! Jinks also has a sparkled bow on his tail.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Designer Challenge Team, which are linked on the right. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Tuesday) on her BLOG.

***NOTE:  I will be moving my cards and paper crafting to Painted Mountain Cards in the New Year. I will leave this blog open, as there are frequent hits from Pinterest and over 5 years worth of cards etc to reference.

Supplies:
Hanging Charm Pull Tab, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Evergreen Pivot - Stars, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Flourished Gift Frame (Celebrate), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Wedding Charms, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Steam Punk Charms, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Jinks the Monkey, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Midnight the Bat (small bow), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 1, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 2, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper - Recollections
Kraft, red, black and white card stocks
Fine point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Numbers & More 1 - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Fitted Frames 3 - Curvy Rectangles - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Fitted Frames - Stitched Rectangles - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Water colour pencils - Derwent
Dove Blender pen
Wink of Stella
Clear double sided adhesive, 1/8" width
Heart hold punch
Fitted Frames - Ovals
Metallic Gel pens - Sakura

Card size - just over 5 x 7"

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Colourful Brownie the Cow Pop-Up Card

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I wanted to play with some colourful striped paper and thought it would pare perfect with Els new Chevron Background die (Elizabeth Craft Designs). I cut the chevron piece out of white card stock, then adhered it to a slightly smaller striped panel. Just for fun, I added a few of the negative pieces back into the design - I love the stitched detail Els included on some of them.

She also added holes, so you can use the negative pieces as banners! I chose to add my banner pieces back into their spots with foam tape and Bakers Twine. Joset's sentiment was perfect - but I stamped it in a lighter colour that seemed lost on the card front. So I outlined each of the letters with a fine point black marker ... and I like the hand drawn look!

Here is the inside - I made it a Pop-Up card using Karen Burniston's Lucy Label Pop-Up and Brownie the Cow. Couldn't resist adding the cheerful stripes to Brownie's face.

Here you can see where I trimmed the bottom from the chevron piece, and attached the top portion to the top of the card and the bottom piece at the bottom of the card. This is something I wanted to try as soon as I saw the chevron background, and I'm happy that it worked out this well. I'll be doing that again for sure.

All in all I am quite happy with this card - it just makes me smile.

On a personal note - yesterday wan an uneventful day (yay!) and I know that now I am on the mend. That second hospital visit set me back a few days in my recovery, but I think I've finally realized that it's going to take another full week to 10 days to really feel like myself again. That alone is progress as I'm not a very patient patient. Ha!

Supplies:
Chevron Background Die - Elizabeth Craft Designs
White card stock
Striped patterned paper - Echo Park
Bakers Twine
Fun foam
General Sentiments - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Lucy Label Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Brownie the Cow, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
All Seasons Tree (Clouds), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Black glossy card stock - packaging for Elizabeth Craft Designs Embossing Folders

Card size - standard top fold A2

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Olivia's Midnight the Bat Card

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Our Granddaughter loves PINK and PURPLE ... and she will tell you with vehemence if you ask her what her favourite colours are. I chose not to add pink onto her Halloween card, but did make a purple pearlized Midnight the Bat!

The background was lightly stencilled with the new Bats Stage it Stencil by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs, then the piece was cut with one of the new Labels and Circles dies. I added some black Glitter Dots on her eyes and stamped Trick or Treat from the Halloween Clear Stamps.

Inside is another stamp from the set. I was so happy that there were words to use inside the card. Everyone seems to make the titles or greetings, but never think of words for inside a card.

Supplies:
Purple card stock - Soft Finish Perfect Purple - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Purple metallic card stock
White card stock
Double Sided Adhesive - 6" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Copics
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White Soft Finish Card stock 85#
Bats Stage-it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Halloween Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Card size - A2

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Blue Bat Halloween Card

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This Halloween card is for our Grandson Ethan, who loves blue. Blue Blue Blue. Of course, I had to make Midnight the Bat in blue, just for him!

The blue and orange background was done with the new Stage it Stencil by Karen Burniston - stencils make it so easy to customize the colours of your background.

Here is a peek at the inside ...

Supplies:
Midnight the Bat, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Blue, black and orange card stock scraps
Clear double sided adhesive, 6" and 1/8" width's - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fun foam
Iron Fence Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stripes/Plaid Stage it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Bat Stage it Stencil - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs

Card size - Standard A2

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ROYGBIV Octobr 2016 Designer Challenge

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It's time for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge, and this month it's: "ROYGBIV" - It's the monochromatic challenge but YOU pick your color from any of the colors of the rainbow. Make a card featuring predominantly Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo or Violet.

For last months Designer Challenge, Karen Burniston made the most amazing Twist Circle Panel Pop-Up card, with inspiration from her cousin Jessica. These Pop-Up panel cards have taken the paper crafting world by storm so I was pretty excited that she had come up with a way to make this type of card with a Pop-it Ups DIE instead of complicated measuring or template. There is a link to Karen Burniston's card and video at the bottom of my post today.

For my challenge card this month, I chose YELLOW.

The front of my card uses clouds from the All Season's Tree, and the new Labels and Circles. The patterned papers were in my stash, which worked out well. Love using up things from my stash.

I added Stickles around the edges of the clouds, and outlined the scalloped ring and the word 'Hi' with a fine point marker.

Here is a peek at the card as it is unfolding ...

And here it is completely opened up. Amazing how different the Twist Circle Pop-Up looks simply by extending the arms. 

To create the large sun, I used the Circles and Labels set, and the rays are the triangle banners from the Anita Frames Pop-Up. I lightly doodled on each one then tucked it under the circle edges.

It's so much fun decorating all the little panels!

The first panel has Lucky the Rabbit. To keep it monochromatic, I coloured his ears, nose and feet with an orange pencil instead of pink.  I stamped words on the second panel and added glittered clouds to the third. The fourth panel has the little yellow woven basket from Props 7 with a heart inside, and a sun from the Oval Pull Card.

Note - because I love my foam tape, I popped the embellishments up. And I like the way that looks! However, it makes for a very thick card when folded up and one that will have to be hand delivered or sent with lots of extra postage. I'll have to remember to keep the images flat on the panels for mailing.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Designer Challenge team came up with for the rainbow of colours - their blogs are linked on the right. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow, Tuesday, on her BLOG.  

Here is the link to Karen Burniston's video tutorial for the Twist Circle Pop-Up.

Supplies:
Twist Circle, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Yellow card stock - Papertrey Ink
Sunshine Patterned paper - Bella Blvd.
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 1/2" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Hello polka dot paper - American Crafts
Anita Frames (triangle banner & labels), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Happy stamp - Taylored Expressions
Staedtler fine point marker
Zutter corner rounder
All Seasons Tree (clouds), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Spiral Circle Pull Card (circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Lucky the Rabbit, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Pencils - Prismacolour
Xyron
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Oval Pull Card (sun), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 7 (basket), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stickles

Card size - 6 x 5"

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Hoppy Cauldron Pop-Up card

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Welcome to Karen Burnitson's first Designer Challenge for September 2016 "Halloween" - Cute or creepy - you decide!" For my card I combined some of the awesome new Hallowen Collection with some older Pop it Ups, since they all work together seamlessly.

I kept the front somewhat simple, with hand lettering, stamps from the new Halloween Clear Stamps and black glittery bats from the Halloween Scene set.

Inside I made a little Halloween Scene with the Halloween Scene dies, Hoppy the Frog wearing a Witches Hat from the new Props 9, a fun cauldron (details below) and the Lucy Label Pop-Up.

Tee hee hee - love that Witches hat. All the Characters looks great in it! The moon was created using the circle from the Sports Charms with the hanging hole trimmed off and coloured with Copic markers. It's the perfect size for the tombstone edge. There is another glittered bat as well.

I had so much fun making the cauldron. The bowl is the cup from the Cup Pop Stand, with about 1/4" trimmed off the top edge, and the handle also trimmed away. Bubbles were cut from white pearlized card stock and the feet of the cauldron are from the Bath Tub Pop Stand. Because they were cut from black glittered card stock you can hardly see the edges, but using a black sharpie on those edges helped too.

The spider web from the new Halloween Charms and the steam from the Cup Pop Stand were cut from vellum. I stamped the Happy Halloween in black, then outlined the spider web with a green metallic gel pen and added eyes to the spider with the same pen.

Here is another look at the card opened. 

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Designer Challenge Team has come up with for this fun challenge - their blogs are linked on the right. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Tuesday) on her BLOG.

Supplies:
Cup Pop Stand, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Bathtub Pop Stand, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hoppy the Frog, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Halloween Scene, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 9, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Lucy Label Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Sports Charms (circle for moon), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Halloween Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Outdoor Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Black glittered card stock - Michaels
Purple card stock - Stampin' Up
Green patterned paper scrap
White card stock
Clear Double sided adhesive - 6" roll and 1/8" width's - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Stitched Rectangles - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Green card stock scrap
Sakura Glaze pen
Pearlized paper scrap
Vellum
Metallic Gel Pen - Sakura
Tombow markers

Card size - Standard A2

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Love Bats, a Pop-Up Card (NEW RELEASE)

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I am so happy to share today's card with you. It's been made for almost a month, in fact - it went to the Trade Show with Els in July to showcase some of Karen Burniston's NEW RELEASE which should be shipping mid-August. The front has the spooky branch and stamped greeting, and look at those cute little bats! The small bat image is on the Halloween Clear Stamps, and Midnight the Bat (the latest Character die) comes with a small bat die that perfectly cuts out the stamped bat leaving a narrow white border.

LOVE that 'spooky' branch - it's so fun!

Here is the inside, using Midnight the Bat, Soft Finish Card Stock and the new Anita Frames Pop-Up. I have to say, this is one cool Pop-up. It's completely generic and can be used for any theme or occasion.

When we get the sample dies, there is no packaging.  I took some scrap card stock to cut the Anita Frames the first time, and looked at all those cuts and score lines and thought ... oh my. Then, simply by looking at the card sample Karen Burniston had for the Designer Challenge team, I figured it out. Karen B then filmed a video and honestly DO NOT be intimidated. It is easy peasy but what a WOW factor. After the first time I folded it on that scrap card stock - correctly, it didn't even phase me for subsequent cards. Easy Peasy I tell you.

And how CUTE is Midnight the bat? The Designer Challenge team is pretty much in love with Midnight.

I had seen something on Pinterest last year, that said "I love you to the Moon and Bat".  So glad I remembered that phrase as it worked perfectly to hand letter with my Midnight Bat couple.

Now here are just some different views of the card ...

I was SO happy with how this card turned out - it's one of my favourite makes.

Supplies:
Midnight the Bat, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs) - shipping mid-August
Charcoal Stardream
Soft Finish Card Stock in Perfect Purple, White, Lavender, Silver Grey and Perfect Pink - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 2-1/2" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
White card stock
Anita Frames Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs) - shipping mid-August
Halloween Scene, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs) - shipping mid-August
Labels and Circles (small circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs) - shipping mid-August
Copics
Poppy the Owl (small heart), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Twist Circle (circles on front), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs) - shipping mid-August
Halloween clear stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs) - shipping mid-August
Wink of Stella

Card size - 5 x 6"

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Karen Burniston's August 2016 Designer Challenge "Flour or Flower "

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It's time for the August Designer Challenge "Flour or Flower' ...  Make a card with flowers OR make a card with a baking/cooking theme - you decide! What a FUN challenge! I opted for 'Flour' and this is what I came up with.

I can't tell you how much fun it was making this card. I just smiled the whole time it was coming together.  Sweet Baker has been busy baking and decorating a birthday cake, and the card base is a Stand Up card made with the Rectangle Pull Card die.

Here is the card in the closed position, ready to be put in an envelope.

I love it when I can get extra use out of my dies, and using the Rectangle Pull Card as a Stand-Up (or Easel) card is a great example of that. Also the cake layers - they are supposed to be layered onto the Cake Pop-Up but they also work great as a flat embellishment!

The little slice of cake was cut from Soft Finish Card Stock, then brushed with Wink of Stella (several coats). It looks so SHIMERY - I love it. The fork was coloured with a metallic marker.

I added a second oval inside the opened card as a spot to sign the card, and another little cupcake to carry on the cake theme.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Designer Challenge team has come up with for this challenge. Karen Burniston will have her post on her BLOG tomorrow (Tuesday).

Supplies:
Rectangle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Baker the Beaver, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Pull Card Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cake Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 8, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Coffee & Tea Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Soft Finish Card Stock - Soft Sky, Dark Chocolate, Cafe au Lait, White 85#, Rosebud, Perfect Pink,       Taken with Teal - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Seam Binding
Patterned paper - Carta Bella
Clear Double Sided Adhesive, 1/8" and 4" Widths - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fine point tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Chalks - Craft T
Tombow Markers
Black Sharpie
Sakura Glaze Pen
Wink of Stella
Fun Foam
Metallic pen - Sakura
Fitted Ovals - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Dotted Scallop Ovals - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Metallic card stock - Stardream

Card size - 6 x 5"

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Racoon and Beaver Valentine Cards

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It's Throwback Thursday here on my blog and I have a couple of Valentine's to share. I really want to get those pictures filed and not hold onto them until next February. :-)

This 'Clean and Simple' Valentine was made for my parents to give our son. I had done a Valentine with both the Racoon and Heart previously, but had stamped and coloured two of each so decided to assemble them to make a second card. This one is a different layout and not going to the same family as that first card so it all works.

I had just received my new Elizabeth Craft Designs order and wanted to play with Els new Curvy Ovals. I'd had my eye on them when they were first released, so I happily added them into my Spring order and they are FUN! The Valentine papers were on my stamping table so I decided to add a Baker the Beaver character (love him!!) and get a Valentine made for next year. So technically this one doesn't qualify for 'Throwback Thursday', but hey - it's my blog and I can bend my own guidelines. And now I can get that photo filed as well.

Supplies:
Racoon stamp - The Alley Way Stamps
White card stock
Pink card stock
Heart stamp - Verve
Pan Pastels
Coloured Pencils
Blender pencil
Blueprints #23 - My Favourite Things
Stamps - Verve
Grass - My Favorite Things
Inside - A Stamp In A Hand
Wink of Stella

Baker the Beaver, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper - Recollections
Kraft, red and white card stock
Fitted Frames 4 - Curvy Ovals - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Sakura Stardust Pen
Copper Pan Pastels
Oval Pull Card (heart), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Clear Double Sided Tape, 6" width
Banner Sticker inside - Recollections

Card sizes - A2

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Cocoa the Horse Birthday Pull Tab Card

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Today I'd like to share the birthday card I made for our 'Daughter In Law' who loves horses. The first photo shows the card folded flat and ready to put in the envelope.

I used the Hanging Charm Pull Tab for the card base, adding a layered rectangle to cover the frame and make it a solid panel for embellishing.  When the tag is pulled, the Cocoa horse scene stands up and reveals a sentiment below. I did add extra card stock strips to the reverse of the 'arms' before assembling, so the weighty panel would be easily supported.

I like to add some decorating to the reverse of my HCPT cards, since I make them as flat post-card style cards. Here is the back of this one ...

Supplies:
Cocoa the Horse, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Western Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hanging Charm Pull Tab, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stage it Stencil - Cloudy Day- Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs
Cocoa Clear Stamps- Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs
Lucky Birthday Clear Stamps - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs
Fitted Frames - Stitched Rectangles, Elizabeth Craft Designs
7048 Glitter Flowers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Charcoal Stardream
White card stock
Xyron
Copics
Blue card stock - Papertrey Ink
Green card stock - Papertrey Ink
Hills and fence - My Favorite Things
Fine Point Tweezers - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Dot stamp - Stamps by Judith
Stitched circle - My Favorite Things
Bakers Twine
Words on back - Papertrey Ink

Card size - 5-3/4 x 4-1/2"

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