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Got a family wedding today :)  So pleased the weather has turned sunny.



Cazx

Inspired by Karen Burniston's challenge video

I was inspired by Karen Burniston's recent video on the monthly challenge where she showed you how to make a triple pivot card.  

You can see her post and the video HERE

I choose the Katie Pivot (my fav) and made this cute little card for my Sister in Law's 50th Birthday.  Don't be scared they are sooooooo easy to make.

I used the Cute stamps from Purple Onion Designs

and the wording are dies from Cleary Besotted and were a birthday

gift from my friend Suzie Q.

Here is the inside and you can see the triple pivot in all its glory!

Fly - my second card

Well I didn't think I was going to manage it.  But I made this card tonight, another one for the Karen Burniston Fly theme.  Now this card went in the bin once, but I worked on it a little more and I was happy enough to share it.

All the stamps are from Stampendous from my "stamp stash"

Not sure if they are available still.  They are called

Bee Showers N224

Bee flowery 192

Wish Doodle D150

The Flowers are prima, again years and years old.. I mean as old as my kids! LOL

The paper is new and by Bazzill from Crafts U Love and I used the Oval Accordion by Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs also

from Crafts U Love for the main card.

Karen Burniston Monthly Challenge "Fly"

Another month has past and another designer challenge and I love to see what all the other designers have done and what their take on the theme is.  We will all be posting our projects over the next 2 days.

This month Karen Burniston wrote : The word is "FLY" - how will you interpret it? Use Pop it Ups for a project showing your vision. My post will be on Wednesday, May 21st.

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So here is my post and my card.  I immediately thought of this Penny Black stamp called "Hedgehopper" and using the Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs Garden Bench.  

The Garden Bench is available from Crafts U Love in the UK at http://www.craftsulove.co.uk/elizabethcraftdesigns.htm

Right back to this months card.

1. Cut the Garden Bench pop up by placing the die onto the centre line of the folded blue card.

2. Stamp woodgrain stamp onto some brown card and again cut the bench, stick this over the blue one.

3. Stamp the "Hedgehopper" onto the blue card using black Versafine and I gave it a quick blast with my heat gun to dry the ink before I used my new Spectrum Noir Pencils for the very first time. Love them BTW.

4. I used the cloud/foliage die from the All season tree to create clouds with white hammer card. Stick in place with 3d pads.

5. Cut a piece of green paper and work out where the bench is going to be cut out.  Place the die on the green paper so that the lower half of the bench will be cut out on the paper.  Cut the bench parts away and stick the green paper onto the card.

6.  Take a piece of red card and using the Agatha Edges cut a piece to decorate the bottom.

7. Stamp wording onto a piece of white card using black ink and cut using one of the

Katie Pivot decorator dies.

8. Stamp one of the Hedgehogs from the Balloon Day stamp in black ink, dry and colour with the pencils.  Cut out and stick the hedgehog onto the back of the bench with acetate.

9. Make a folded outer card for the whole card to cover the hole created by the bench.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and you can see the other designers ideas at the links

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STOCK NEWS - STOCK NEWS - STOCK NEWS

Crafts U Love also have the new House Pivot die in stock too I know people 

have been looking for that recently.

NEW RELEASES - NEW RELEASES - NEW RELEASES

So much excitement going on.  I have in my crafty mitts some of the new

Karen Burniston Dies for the next release!!  I can''t show or tell you anything right now

but KB fans will not be disappointed

Cute Critters Accordion Card

I made a card last night with my new pencils, some Purple Onion Designs stamps and the Karen Burniston Fancy Frame Accordion die.  It was nice to make a card just for fun as I have been really busy lately making flowers for my nieces wedding so it was nice to make just for me  and the sake of playing.

The paper is Bazzill Vintage lace from Crafts U Love

Karen Burniston Dies from Crafts U Love too

Purple Onion Stamp are only available from Purple Onion Designs in USA

Papercraft Essentials Issue 107

Flick to page 73-74 and you might just catch some of my cards.

Unfortunately one of my cards was photographed totally wrong and my pivot was

not turned so you miss the magic of the card which is a real shame.  But readers of my blog

will know what the pivot is really supposed to look like.

Nice to have a few cards in print again :)

Harvey's Room Makeover

My brother in law has been living with us for some time and he moved out last week.  Operation "Harveys Room" was in full swing this weekend.  Harvey being the oldest got to choose which room he had and he chose this one.  Caidens room will get a make over next weekend.

This is the room and how it was.  We hadn't decorated since we moved in almost 9 years ago.

Harvey is 11 and loves Minecraft so we set about making it a cool Minecraft Inspired room.

Grey paint for the walls, a new carpet and some lovely stone block wallpaper.

Looking good with a new desk and chair, a blind and new bed cover

Lastly with some "Creeper" green curtains that my Mum made and the Vinyl

on the wall that I cut with my Cameo machine.  A really fabulous room don't you think?!

Happy 90th Grandad

My Grandad was 90 this past weekend and I made this this little card along with a photo frame of the boys for him to add to his collection of family pictures.

Even the little birds on the front are ready to party with their hats on.  As it happened

he didn't want a party or a big fuss but I hope all the cards made his realise how 

much he is loved.

Here is the inside of the card with the bunting and of course the obligatory number 90! 

The main card is my favourite Katie Pivot from Karen Burniston

The 90 is from Marianne as are the Birds

The Bunting was an old Joy! die

The words were Cottage Cutz

All items are available from Crafts U Love

"Owl" love you forever

I made this for Darren my hubby instead of a card for our anniversary.  We got married 14 years ago today in St Lucia and this was after 11 years going out.  So a whopping 25 years together is celebrated today!

Darren loves chocolate and I brought too many eggs for the Easter Bunny so I thought I would fill this box up for him.

The box is the Taylored Expression owl and Sack it dies.

Happy Birthday Card

I just made this card tonight for one of Harvey's friends.  Once again I found myself reaching for the Katie Label Pivot die from Karen Burniston dies.  I also used this cute owl set from Paper Smooches.

The papers are from the Lawn Fern Collection.

I am entering this into the the everything goes challenge at Paper Smooches

The banner on the front was made using the Taylored Expressions die HERE

Super simple, super fun card to make.  I hope you liked it 

Cazx

Karen Burnistons April Challenge Post

Karen's post is up on the ECD blog.  Check it out

HERE

There is a fab video from Karen and lots of inspiration from her Designer Challenge Team

Karen Burniston's April Challenge

Hello Friends, it's the Karen Burniston Challenge time again and this months theme is Mamas and Babies - Use Pop it Ups to celebrate Mum for Mother's Day OR make a Baby card. You decide! 

Go to the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog this Wednesday to see to collaborative post from Karen where she will show you what all us designers have done for this theme and I am sure Karen will have something WOW for us too.

And here is my card.  I decided on "Baby" for my card, since Mothers Day in the UK has already been and gone and I do love to create baby cards.

I used the Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs Heart Pivot die, after all a HEART is perfect to show the love we have for these sweet little bundles of joy. 

 I used some of the heart decorator dies to create the glittered heart frames to decorate the main piece.  

I made my base card from a soft blue card stock and used one of the KB Embosing folders called TRENDY TILES 1 on the edges.,  I used a white inkpad to highlight the embossing further.

The Congratulations die is from Elizabeth Craft Designs

Those cute little Hedgehogs are from Penny Black.  I love these guys.  Margaret Sherry is

my favourite Penny Black designer.  I am a little sad to see that Penny Black don't appear to have any of her designs in the newest collection :(  I hope this is a one off.

I love the dimension these cards give using the Pivot dies.  And I love how easy they are, they really are so simple.  I can not wait to see what Karen has up her sleeve for any new designs!

So head on over on Wednesday to see the complete Designer Challenge Team and their cards. I am sure your socks will be knocked off! as mine are each month.