KB House & Fence – Stamper's Blog

This is my Father’s Day card for my dad. I used all kinds of stuff to make this card! The stamps are MFT Animal Farm and the sentiment is Stampin Up’s Stitched All Around. Those cute clouds are Karen Burniston’s Outdoor Scenes. The card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 Crumb Cake with Old Olive patterned paper.

Inside features the Karen Burniston Tree Pop Up and the House & Fence Pop Up. I fashioned the house to match our farm house by stenciling the background with a brick stencil very lightly – going for the look of stone. The grass is also from the Outdoor Scenes die.

I made a few simple boxes to pop up some of the animals and some are attached directly to the back. I had to trim the tree (!) so the horse could peek through! And yes, we raise black angus cattle so the poor dairy cow had to have a make over!

The sentiments are from Stampin Up’s Another Wonderful Year and Truly Tailored (retired.) This is when I realize I’ve used a birthday sentiment!! So in the final version I’ve covered up the birthday part with Happy Father’s Day! Sheesh! Hugs, Fran

It’s time for another Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge and this month it’s Ghosts! I’ve create a large 6 x 6 Basic Black card stock base card to share today. The tombstones from the Halloween Scene dies were stamped in Basic Gray ink on Smoky Slate card stock using SU’s Marbled background stamp. The bats and pumpkin are from Halloween Elements and the fence is from Karen’s House & Fence Pop Up. The background is Distressed Oxide inks pounced and sprayed and smooched until I liked the results 🙂 I added black Nuvo drops scattered around the scene.

The inside uses Karen’s Flower Pot die as a big tombstone with ghosts flying out of it! I repeated most of the outside elements to the inside and added some retired Halloween stamps as a greeting.

The ghosts are attached to strips of acetate to make them float. The bricks on the tombstone/flower pot are done with SU’s brick stencil and embossing paste tinted with Smoky Slate re-inker. I went over the bats and pumpkins with Shimmer pen – gotta have glitter!