Karen Burniston August Challenge Part 2 - Girly or Ghouly

Hi Crafting friends
I am back with part 2 of the August Challenge and this one is GIRLY OR GHOULY as chosen by Shelley Hickox.

I went for Ghouly as I wanted to use some of the new Karen Burniston Halloween Release. I do love Halloween and although it is not huge over in the UK like the USA I decorate the front of my house and enjoy giving out sweets to the trick or treaters.

Here is the front of the card and I am showcasing MIDNIGHT THE BAT

and the LABELS AND CIRCLES die sets. 

Oh and see that funky Plaid?  I made that using a couple

of Distress ink pads and Karens new STRIPES/PLAID stencil.

Here is the inside and what a WOW this die set produces.  You would not expect

a card that comes flat inside an envelope could contain something so dimensional

and it really is not hard to made either.  As you hopefully know by now Karen

Burniston always makes the best instructional videos which you can search

for on her BLOG or her YOU TUBE CHANNEL

For the inside I used

FLOWER POT POP STAND

HOPPY THE FROG

HALLOWEEN CHARMS

HALLOWEEN SCENE

and the purple goo dripping from top of pot

and top of card is GRASS from the OUTDOOR EDGES

All these items card be purchased from 

CRAFTS U LOVE - UK Based

Elizabeth Craft Designs - USA Based

both offer worldwide shipping.

Karen Burniston will be posting her card idea/Video

or her blog on Tuesday and the rest of the team along with me post Monday.

Check out all the links to the DT Below

• Fran Sabad
• Frances Byrne
• Karen Aicken
• Kelly Booth
• Raquel Mason
• Sandy Diller
• Shelly Hickox
• Summer Hills-Painter
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Karen Burniston Designer Challenge August Part 1

Hi Crafters

Today I am here with part one for the August challenge, part one being today 8th August chosen by Karen and part 2 being 22nd of August chosen by Shelly.

Today's challenge was :  "Flower or Flour" - Make a card with flowers OR make a card with a baking/cooking theme - you decide!

I decided to go with FLOWER but also have a Baking card that I have not shared before so I will share that as an additional card.

Here is the FLOWER card and I do not think it is any surprise for those of you have have seen Karens new release that a lot of us have grabbed the stamp FLOWER POT POP STAND die as the one we wanted to play with.  This, as you will see from the challenge team cards can be used so many different ways, this group is just sooooo inspirational to me!

I needed to make a card for a friend who was leaving work.  I was very sad about her leaving but wanted to make a happy card to tell her how much she meant to me, rather than a sorry you are leaving time card.

Very simple on the front as most definitely the "WOW" is on the inside.

Opened up, the card opens flat and the most amazing pot pops up and you can fill

this with flowers, leaves and the odd or or two :)

Also on the card I used the Labels and Circles for the panels for the words.

I hoped to have posted a post about the new designs on the 1st August so please check FEATURED POST at the top left of my blog.

Remember to check out the other cards the team have posted and Karen will post her

card and video tomorrow over at http://karenburniston.typepad.com/

So that was my "Official" challenge card and here is another card that I just happen to have

made but not shared and actually works for this theme and FLOUR.

This one features Baker the Beaver complete with cake and props

from Props set 8.  Looks like Baker has been beavering away in the 

kitchen to wish someone a Happy Birthday!

I will be back with another KB challenge in a couple of weeks.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Part 2 July

Here is my card for the second part of the challenge this month and this tern is is Kelly Booth who has chosen the theme of STRETCH IT OUT.  use any of the Accordion dies for a project of any theme.

I needed to make a teachers card so I set about making this for Caiden's teacher using the Accordion Star die set.  I decorated with Poppy the Owl holding a few little hand made props.

I used the barn star included on the last panel to add detail.

Here you can see the detail of Poppy a bit better.

Be sure to check out the links to the LEFT for the other

ladies cards for this challenge and check out Karen Burnistons blog

Tuesday for her creation and video.

Poppy and the Star Accordion can be purchased from Crafts U Love UK based worldwide shipping or Elizabeth Craft Designs USA based worldwide shipping.

Designer Challenge - Karen Burniston July pt 1 - "up"

Hi Crafters and today I am here with the new format for the Designer Challenge for  July (and for the foreseeable future).  Instead of one post a month, we are joining in with two posts featuring one card every month. First of which is Karen Burniston's theme and the second theme is a theme that a fellow team member has chosen.  We the designers will post on a Monday and Karen will post on a Tuesday.  So please do check out the others posts.  Links to the left.

This is to spread the KB love and the inspiration through out the month and not just one week in the month. So as well as the Wednesday with posts that run on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog you will see 2 DT posts.  How great eh?!

This first challenge weeks theme is "Up" and we are allowed to interpret it how we want to.  I don't know why but I had a crazy notion to send someone up to space and thus my "JINKS IN SPAAAACE"  card was born  (said in the voice of PIGS IN SPAAAACE from the Muppets)

Here you can see Jinks peering out his space shuttle 

Can you tell what I used to make it??  I will reveal below.

For the card I used :

Jinks the Monkey

Barn Pop Stand

Basket from the Hot Air Balloon for the "Boosters"

Grass from the Fence Set

Star Edges for decoration

Scalloped Circle from Ring Accordion

I had real fun making this card.  I love to look at dies and create new things from them.

Who would have thought a Barn and Basket would create a space shuttle!

Until next time, which is on 25th July :)  and you will have to pop back to see

what and who has chosen this month.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Summer Lovin BONUS Project

I was feeling creative last night and since I accidentally posted Tuesday card on Monday I wanted to make another card for Tuesday, so I have made 3 cards this month for the challenge.

I got some wonderful paper from work and that was the starting point for me.  The lollies on the paper, inspired me to make my own lolly from the Pivot Tag and then I decided to make the whole card from the Pivot Tag set.  The sentiment was sitting one a Penny Black stamp set that I needed to put away and I thought it would be fun to use the "cool" sentiment with Chilly the Penguin.

Chilly is looking very cool with his glasses and ice pop

Inside I kept the decoration simple by just using the decorator tags in bright colours 

and adding a heart and buttons.

Karens post from yesterday is HERE

and today she will be uploading a video showing you how she made her amazing card.

Check out the links on the left for my fellow DT bloggers.

Items Used :

Chilly the Penguin

Tag Pivot

Props 1

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Summer Lovin' Day 2

Opps  Accidentally posted this on Monday, please pretend you are reading it Tuesday!

Hi Crafting Friends and today I am here with my second card for the Summer Lovin' Challenge.  Here is the brief "Summer Lovin'! Make a project to celebrate Summer - this could be nature, or beach or 4th of July or anything that means "summer" to you."

Yesterday I showed you a card with the currently British Summertime weather Status RAIN!!  Today I show off a card with the weather for our Summer Holiday destination in Spain and we are expecting it to be hot hot hot in Spain when  we visit later in August :)

Here I am with ANOTHER Hanging Charm Pull Tab card, yes I am a little addicted to them 

now, after a slow start for me falling in love with this die its one of my favourite dies from

Karen, Characters aside.  And talking Characters, it wasn't a plan to use Jinks for both of the 

cards for this months challenge, but it just happened that Jinks was in the perfect dancing pose.

I cut down a paper flower to create Jinks little Bikini top, and hand cut a little grass skirt too.  I had to narrow down jinks under the skirt to fit.  I also added the leaves from the Palm Tree set and some small flowers on her head finished her off nicely.

Whilst it isn't raining tonight I took the photo on the grass, now got

wet socks, the things I do for a bit of daylight :)

I used the beach edges at the bottom of the card and an old stamp

with the perfect sentiment.

I will list the materials below  :

Karen Burniston - Jinks the Monkey

Karen Burniston - Hanging Charm Pull Tab

Karen Burniston - Beach Edges

Karen has got an amazing video for Wednesday  you must check it out.

And don't forget the links on the left for my fellow DT members.  Their cards blow

me away month after month.

Until next time xx

Caz

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge June - Summer Lovin'

Hi Crafting Friends and today I am here with my first card for the Summer Lovin' Challenge.  Here is the brief "Summer Lovin'! Make a project to celebrate Summer - this could be nature, or beach or 4th of July or anything that means "summer" to you."

Those in the UK might get a smile from my first card.  Unfortunately sometimes the summer in the UK can be wetter than sunnier!  And Here is jinks all ready for a summer day in the UK.  Today when I am typing this (Tuesday) we have had terrible rain storms and now sunshine.  Rainbows are always a welcome part of the sunshine and rain though.

For fun I hung it on my washing line and you can even see raindrops on the washing line!

For this card I used :

Karen Burniston - Die -Jinks the Monkey 

Karen Burniston - Stage it Stencil - Rain

Karen Burniston - Die - Props 6 - For the wellies

Karen Burniston - Die - Baby Charms - Umbrella

ECD - Josets Rainbow set for the rainbow, clouds and sun.

For the large "Summer" cloud I die cut the die onto a folded piece of card to make it extra long.

Check out the rest of the teams cards on the links on the left and as usual Karen will

be posting her own project on Wednesday of this week.

And I will be back tomorrow with my second Summer Lovin' Card. 

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

Hi Crafting Friends
I am back with my second card for the Designer Challenge and this months challenge is to show off the STAGE IT STENCILS.  Karen has 12 stencils in her line and you can see them all HERE. 

I will tell you the story about how this card come about, I was "chatting" to Karen on Facebook and saying that I didn't know what I was going to make and that I was going into shed to watch Game of Thrones and I would see what I made.  To that Karen said "Well obviously you need to make an Iron Throne using the Adirondack Chair! Ha." that got the old cogs in my brain working and that is the inspiration around my  GAME OF BONES card.

The front is mega simple.  I downloaded the Game of Thrones font and printed it on cardstock.

Cut from the Accordion Fancy Label decorator shape and edged with ink.

The paper is from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Through the Lens STONE paper pack.

This paper pack is perfect for this theme, especially the bleakness of Winterfell.

The words also a tongue in cheek bow down to "you know nothing Jon Snow" line

that is used several times in the programme by Ygritte.

Here you can see a fun Buster conversion, I was pondering making a 

Kalisi from Whiskers the cat!  But went for one of my favourite characters Jon Snow.

I have used the Petite Flourish Stencil, another decorator piece from the Fancy

Accordion, Buster the dog, Adirondack Chair Pop up, Props 4 for one of the bones.

I used the stencil two ways on this card.   I inked through with a brown ink pad on the wording panel and I also used Minc Reactive Screen Ink and foiled it with Holographic Foil.

Karen Burniston dies can be purchased from Crafts U Love in the UK

or Elizabeth Craft Designs in the USA.  Both places ship worldwide.

Tomorrow you must check out Karen Burnistons blog for her blog post and do not forget to check out the links on the left of my page to see all the other creations from the DT members.

I hope you have enjoyed this card. Perfect for Game of Throne fans.

Elizabeth Crafts has this amazing deal going on for 20% off

Characters and Props.

Karen Burniston - Designer Challenge - The Great Outdoors - part 2

Hi Friends
I am back again with my second item for the Designer Challenge this month and I decided to make a card.  First to choose what my outdoorsy theme would be and I decided to use Poppy the Owl and the new Through the Lens paper pad from Els at Elizabeth Craft Designs. 

Designer Challenge - April - The Great Outdoors

Hi Crafters
I am here today with Aprils Challenge from Karen Burniston and this months brief was : 
The Great Outdoors - create any sort of outdoor scene.

I was feeling a bit adventurous the other night and I fancied making a canvas to hold a photo.  As the theme was great outdoors I was looking at some photos I had from walks around the beautiful places in Surrey that we visit and I found this lovely one of Harvey from a recent (ish) walk to Reigate Priory.

I started with the canvas and swiped the Tim Holtz Crayons on it, spritz with water and then rubbed with fingers and made a nice background with lots of Autumnal colours.

I decorated the canvas with the following :

Karen Burniston All Season Tree for the tree, leaves and clouds*

Elizabeth Crafts Through the Lense Wood Paper Pack

* for the clouds I used the die to create a stencil to wipe the white

crayon through.

Reason for making a canvas, well we always make stuff for others and I wanted to make something for myself, something I could hang in our home.

Don't worry, Caiden has one coming real soon!

I used buttons and string to finish it off. And I really enjoyed making something a bit different for me, as much as I was tempted to add a critter on the frame somewhere, I resisted and let the trees and photo be the main focus.

I will be back tomorrow with another Great Outdoors creation, most probably a card, I have not decided yet.

Don't forget the check out the links on the LEFT  <---------- font="">

Until tomorrow

Cazx

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge day 2 - GLITTER

I am here with another blingtastic creation and if you see a lady walking about tomorrow in Redhill sparkling like Diamonds that will be me :)

Today I have made a flat card and used one of the new Karen Burniston stencils along with some white paste and glitter.

This card has so much sparkle but sadly my phone didnt want to pick it up very much

Items Used are :

Eiffel Tower Pop Stand Die

Medallion Stencil

White Stencil Paste

Glitter Mixes   read more about the mixes here   I used Lavender Ice and Diva

and also Silver on its own on the tower.

Just a note clear stamps from Karen Burniston

Josets Banners Elizabeth Craft Designs

Here you can see a bit more detail on the card.

I hope you have enjoyed my cards these past 2 days and I hope you check out the

other ladies on the teams cards.  They have all done a great job.

Until next time.

Caz x

Karen Burniston - Designer Challenge - GLITTER

Hi Crafters and I am here today with a new challenge from Karen Burniston and this month it is GLITTER!  Slightly earlier than normal in the month due to the fact the Karen is coming over to the UK in a few weeks!!  yes you heard right.  Karen is coming over to the NEC for a trade show and I will get to meet her when she is there.  YOU could get to meet her to at Crafts U Love in Charlwood Surrey as Karen has kindly agreed to come along to Crafts U Love for a demonstration day.  Saturday 20th Feb and you can see more about it HERE.

Elizabeth Craft Designs has the most gorgeous selection of super super fine, smooth glitter in lots of lovely colours and I used three different colours on this card today.

I call this card  BE Mine.  BE Happy..... Be.......  and you'll have to see the inside to see the next BE word! I made this with hubby in mind for Valentines and I thought a play on words would be funny with BAKER the Beaver taking centre stage inside the HEART PIVOT card.

I have tried to capture the glitter but it was really hard tonight, it is blowing a gale out

there tonight with storm "Imogen" hitting us and gusty rain hitting my Crafty Palace.  It was nice to be pugged up inside there all safe and warm (actually too hot) and watching my neighbours gazebo bouncing up and down, good job they have it tied down or else it might end up in Timbuktoo!

Here you can see the card opened out to see little Baker holding a silver glitter heart.

Materials Used :

Baker the Beaver - Karen Burniston - Crafts U Love

Heart Pivot Card - Karen Burniston - Crafts U Love

Alphabet - Elizabeth Craft Designs - Crafts U Love

Flower from Fitted Frames 5 Lace Circles - From ECD not currently stock at Crafts U Love

Red, Silver and White Silk Microfine glitters- ECD - Crafts U Love.

As usual please check out the links on the left of my blog for all my lovely DT friends and their amazing cards.  Its safe to say we will all be sparkling for the rest of the week with this challenge, but its fun and looks beautiful!

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - DAY 2 - NEW

Hi Friends

I am back with DAY 2 of the designer challenge and this time I have used the HANGING CHARM PULL TAB die to make this pretty heart card.  Another ingenious design from Karen that makes a WOW card and its the dies that do the hard work, you just have to choose what papers to use and how to decorate.  Karen has a great video here for you to look at.

Here is the front of the card.  lots of details here.

I have used Karen's New FLOWER STENCIL and paste for the front, along with the 

PULL CARD EDGES scallop die to make the ric rac.

Now I will let you into a little secret and I don't know about you but I am terrible

at pointing out the imperfections on my cards.  But the last step was for me to 

stick the pull card part onto the base card.  OPPS it was wonky... argh what to do, what to do.So I drew some purposely wiggly lines around the top and bottom that do a really good job in detracting from the centre part being slightly off.  PHEW

Here is the pull card in all its pull card glory!! WOW!  See I told you, a real WOW! card

and you can do that with these dies too :)

A bit closer and you can see the stencil also the stamp from the 

"Just a note" clear stamps.

The Stencils are new to Karen Burniston and great fun to use.

All materials are available from Elizabeth Craft Designs in the USA

or Crafts U Love in the UK.

Check out the links on the left hand side for all my talented DT friends.

Karen will be posting her blog post on Wednesday so check out her blog then.

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - January NEW

This months challenge and a great theme being NEW.  As you know Karen Burniston via Elizabeth Craft Designs have released a whole new collection of dies at CHA and we can choose which ever dies we want to show off this month.

I have chosen the CUP POP STAND for my first card.  Tomorrows card yet undecided!! Typical last minute.com but I have been really trying to get ahead but just got too many things to fit in :)

Above is a bit closer to see the cup and spoon in all its glory.

The flower is an old paper flower had for YEARS!

The PERFECT TEA was a stamp that I have designed for my own use

and made with the MINT machine.

These pop stand cards fold out totally flat with the center piece standing up inside.

Makes for a real WOW!

Here you can see I used the Paris edges to create the look of a doily.

Last but not least here is the outside of the card,  I used Karens lovely

stamps You, me and Tea!  That is sooooo me!  I love my Cuppa

and whilst most will crave wine I love my cup of tea.

Here is the packing sample and as you can see it works perfectly well

 for coffee as well!

Here are all the stamps from the Set.

Check out all the talented DT members on the Links on the left and check out

Karen Burnistons blog on Wednesday for her post.

All items will be arriving at Crafts U Love in the UK soon.  I will post on blog when they are in stock.

Karen Burniston - December Challenge Day 2

Welcome bloggers, back again so soon?  Oh yes, its day 2 of the Karen Burniston Challenge and today I am sharing this cute little Jolly the Mouse card.  He is "Home for the holidays" in his little festive nest.  He has made it look so  beautiful, complete with Holly leaves, stocking hung with care (hand cut by me) and some pretty sparkly stickers that he found whilst scampering around my shed :)  He's trying to wait up for "scamperpaws" which is the mouse version of Santa, but he is just too tired.

For this card I have used the following :

By Karen Burniston - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Circle Accordion with the centre chopped out to make the red snowflake frame,

Jolly The Mouse, just slightly adjusted to put tail on other side and droopy, oh so tired eyelids,

Merry and Bright Stamps

By Elizabeth Craft Designs

Leaf and Berry Branches

Holly Leaves and Berries 

Sparkle Dot Peel offs

I really enjoyed this challenge, and playing with these dies.  A welcome break

from Snowman soup that I have been working on for the last million nights.. OK slight

exaggeration there but it feels like it :)

As usual don't forget to check out the links on the left

my uber talented Karen Burniston Team mates.

Caz xx