Hop over to the Elizabeth Craft Design blog to see how I made this cute Lucky the Rabbit card 🙂
Bunny hugs, Fran
Tag: Karen Burniston
Karen Burniston Design Challenge Day 2 – Busy Baker
This month’s challenge is stencils! I used Karen Burniston’s new Stage It Stencil – Cherries Layering. This fun stencil has the cherries on one end and the stems on the other. Put them together and this is what you get! This card is 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 and the cherries are stenciled with pearlescent embossing paste colored with Real Red ink. Can you see the shine?
The stems are done in Garden Green ink. It makes such a pretty background. Baker the Beaver is celebrating with cherry cupcakes while on an action wobble! The cupcake is part of Baker’s die and the cherry is from Stampin Up’s Cupcake builder punch. (retiring)
Make sure to check Karen’s blog to see all the wonderful ideas using stencils! Hugs, Fran
Pop It Ups Design Team Challenge Day 1
The May Design Team Challenge is using the new Stage It Stencils by Karen Burniston! These stencils are super fun! They have 2 designs on each stencil that can be used as is or combined to make one darling design! Today I’m using the Baby Pajamas stencil and Baby Clear stamp, along with Stampin Up’s Something for Baby stamp set and matching die all on a Accordion Rectangle card. There’s also a surprise in the middle 🙂
This is the front. I start by stenciling the baby pajama in pink with red hearts on my paper and then die cutting the Accordion Rectangle pieces. The pram is stamped in Wisteria Wonder.
When you open it up, there’s a new matching baby pajama charm hanging in the center.
I sandwiched the Baker’s Twine between the patterned paper and the card stock. Then I added some elements from Something For Baby.
I found a sweet poem about baby girls to decorate the third Rectangle. So sweet! Make sure to check out Karen’s blog to see all the other amazing cards from the design team using her new products! Hugs, Fran
Graduating Poppy
It’s graduation time and I have a few to send out. Karen Burniston’s Poppy the Owl seemed like the perfect character to grace a graduation card! The numbers are the Stampin Up’s Number of Year stamp set with matching die. One of my graduates had blue and white as their school colors. I used the Schoolhouse Designer Series paper for this one.
Poppy’s cap is made from the bowler hat in Props 1. Karen has a diagram on her blog showing how to cut it to make it a cap. The hassle and diploma are hand cut.
Another graduate’s school colors are red and gray. I simply copied the same design and changed up the colors. These card are large – 4 1/4 x 9 – and will easily accommodate a check 🙂
Here he is in Smoky Slate. He looks so smart! The Number of Years set makes this a easy card to put together. Hugs, Fran
Wedding Wishes Pop It Ups
It’s almost the wedding season and these new new bride and groom Hanging Charms from Karen Burniston for the Pop It Ups Hanging Charms Pull cards are perfect!
This card is 6 x 6 and the middle square is edged in pearls. The bride and groom are separate charms, so you can use them as you need them! The sentiments are from Karen’s new Best Wishes Clear stamp. I kept my card “postcard style” – with a white back so I can write a nice message.
The card stock is the beautiful Irresistibly Yours from Stampin Up! and it has beautiful patterns embossed on them – hard to see. It’s all tied off with white satin ribbon. Hope you’ll find lots of uses for these darling charms. I will! (hint, hint!) Hugs, Fran
Congrats to the New Vet
This card is for a sweet young woman who just finished vet school! So of course I had to corral some Karen Burniston animals to congratulate her 🙂 They are posing in front of the Barn Pop Stand. The card is 4 1/4 x 9 and will easily accommodate a check or gift card.
The idea is that all the animals have come to wish her well. Check out the bandages on each one.
Looks like everyone is healing nicely! Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Let’s Hang Out
This card is Karen Burniston’s Jinks the Monkey hanging out as a cowboy. The card is large – 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 – and the background is stenciled with stencil paste over a patterned paper. (Retired SU)
I used several piece from the Props 6 dies for the hat and bandana to finish him off. Hugs, Fran
Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Day 2
Today is Day 2 of the Great Outdoors Challenge. Today I’m heading to the skies with the Elizabeth Craft Design Rainbow Skies die, Karen Burniston’s Partly Cloudy stencil and Stampin Up’s Tin of Cards sentiment. The base is Daffodil Delight – bright and sunny!
The card size is 5 x 7 with the patterned paper being 5 x 5.
And inside is the wonderful Hot Air Balloon Pop It Up!
The front balloon has a cloud at the bottom of the basket – which is the top of the Pop It mechanism.
Fly over to Karen’s blog to see all the awesome creations for this month’s challenge! Hugs, Fran
Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Day 1
Today is day 1 of the Karen Burniston Challenge for April – The Great Outdoors – and I’m doing something new. I saw a beautiful card here by Kittie Caracciolo and I’m casing it 🙂 Here is my version
I started by sponging the top of the card with Soft Sky and the bottom with Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz. The small flower are from Stampin Up’s Floral Wings and are in Rose Red. Then I took an Elegant Eggplant marker and started making the little dotted flowers around it. To soften things out I used a white gel pen and some Pink Pirouette and Daffodil Delight markers. The picket fence is a very, very old Sizzix die (I mean really old!) and the butterflies are an old SU embosslit. The grass is from Karen Burniston’s Outdoor Edges, cut is Pear Pizzaz and sponged with Old Olive. The flowers are a mix from an SU punch and the flower in the KB Garden Bench die. The gate swings open by just creating a score line. I added a banner and sentiment.
On the inside I repeated the sky, grass and die cut grass and flowers from the front. The tree is from All Season Tree. The focal point is the Garden Bench die (fav!!) and the bird from SU’s An Open Heart. More butterflies, more flowers!
Thanks to Kittie for the awesome inspiration and a chance to try some “new to me” techniques. Check out what the other designers have done for this challenge on Karen’s Facebook page and blog! Then stop by tomorrow for some challenge fun! Hugs, Fran
Sparkly Pink Cake
Pretty Pink! The sentiment on this card is from Remembering Your Birthday and it’s perfect for this card. I used the retired Hearts Framelits to make a series of hearts – one stenciled with Karen Burniston’s Flower stencil and glitter, one with the sentiment and one small heart.
Open it up – and you have a pink Pop It Up Cake with lots of glitter!
Karen has a great video showing how to make this background. But be careful – glitter is addicting! Hugs, Fran
