Pet Sympathy Card

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog.  I had to make another pet sympathy card for friends who had to say goodbye to their fur baby. It had come as a surprise to me, and I was feeling pretty down while making the card - so it's fairly simple on the front. I used a printed panel from The Little Book of Muddy Paws that I have been using so much this year, a simple grey mat, mirrored hearts and a stamped sentiment.

Inside I used Karen Burniston's Heart Collage Pop Up which creates a flurry of hearts when you open the card. A heart border and paw print outline, as well as a stamped sentiment finished off the card. 

Having been asked how many cards I make I thought it would be fun to keep track this year. Many of my posts include more than a single card or project and below is my tally. 

Card Tally for 2023
January - 53 cards
February - 56 cards

March - 55 cards

April - 32 cards

May - 43 cards

June - 34 cards

July - 56 cards

August - 106 cards

September - 61 cards

October - 51 cards & 5 Tags

November so far - 19 cards

I decided to cancel the subscription that provided linked thumbnails to what products I used on my cards. It was costing me out of pocket each month, so I’m back to listing what I used with a few affiliate links included.

Supplies:

5 x 7" Card Blank & Envelope 

Little Book of Muddy Paws - Hunkydory

Heart Collage Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Small blending brushes - I-crafter

Catherine Pooler Inks

Shimmer Spray

Short Rectangles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Best Friend (Poodle stamp) - Waffle Flower

Pawfect Sentiments - Waffle Flower

Ornate border dies - Scrapbook .com

Paw Print - Puppy Paws, Whimsy Stamps

Nuvo Glaze

Mini Slimline 'Just Because' Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Karen Burniston's September Designer Challenge with the theme of JUST. I chose to make a Mini Slimline Card using both new and previously released items I have all the details in my YouTube video: 

The gold pearl Thinking of You sits on a vellum heart with gold gel pen accents, and there are mirrored hearts sprinkled around as well.

Inside, I used the Heart Collage Pop Up along with the new Word Set 15 Just Because. The hearts were cut out of the same patterned paper, which makes the contrast a little hard to photograph. These cards are just always better in real life.

I added some stamping and more of those lovely mirrored hearts, and some Wink of Stella too. Lots of sparkle and shine on this one!

One more look ...

I have the rest of the Design Team linked on the right side of my blog, and I hope you will check out what they came up with for the challenge. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Wednesday) on her BLOG.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
White cs
Brown marker
Alcohol markers

40th Anniversary Pop Up Mini Slimline Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Karen Burniston's June Designer Challenge where she challenged her Design Team to create a Mini Slimline Card. Since my husband and I recently celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary, I'm sharing the card I made for him. I have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube as well:   

Inside I used the Hearts Collage Pop Up along with several word dies and linked everything that's available at the end of my post. Pale blue mirror card stock adds shine, as do the mirrored hearts, and I outlined many of the hearts with a gold marker.

Obviously, you can't capture the movement of the expanding hearts in the photos but you can sure see them in the video! There are a LOT of hearts. I didn't actually count them, but there is close to 40 of them. Ha. The Hearts Crosshatch provided a signing blog where I wrote my message to him.

I have the rest of the Design Team linked on the right side of my blog, and I hope you will check out what they came up with for the challenge. Karen Burniston will have her post tomorrow (Wednesday) on her BLOG.

HERE is the link to Karen Burniston's assembly video for the Heart Collage Pop Up.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Gold Sharpie/ Bic Gold permanent marker
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

Slimline Card With Pop Up Balloons

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Masculine Card Monday here on my blog. Today I'm sharing the Pop Up Slimline card I made for our Son In Law! Once again I used the Forest Slimline die by Kat Scrappiness on the card front along with a humorous sentiment from Clearly Besotted. The balloons give a hint at what is inside ...

I used Karen Burniston's Heart Collage Pop Up with the Balloon Collage Add on for the mechanism. The twine was added to the balloons and to the ECD tractor. 

Our SIL has a tractor on their farm and I know he is going to get a kick out of his card. When he finally receives it, that is - it is SLOWLY making it's way through the mail system, and he didn't get it in time for his Birthday. Sigh.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Blue cardstock and scraps
Twine - stash
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Green card stock scraps 
Patterned paper scrap - Basic Grey (old, from my stash)

Slimline Pop Up Anniversary Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog. Today I have a Slimline Anniversary card that is also a Pop Up! I have all the details in a YouTube video as well: 

The dimensional heart stickers came in a single package and I have had them in my stash for YEARS. Time to use them up and since all three fit on the front of a Slimline, and this is for a special occasion - I used all three of them for this card. I added a scalloped vellum rectangle behind the heart stickers to soften the bright patterned paper a bit.

The Happy Anniversary was created with a label maker and added to a scrap of patterned paper from the same package as the floral print and I added a Doodlebug heart too. 

There had actually been a gem on the heart but I peeled it off and replaced it with the resin heart as it's much flatter for mailing than the gem was.

Here is a peek at the inside. The Katherine Label Pop up animates a sweet scalloped heart, and I dangled one of the expanding hearts from the new Heart Collage Pop Up below the heart. {Those details are in the video.} I love the extra movement from this idea, yet it folds up completely flat for folding!

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Heart Stickers - Me and My Big Ideas
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

"Mod Valentine' - Pop Up Mini Slimline Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Karen Burniston's February 2022 Designer Challenge. She challenged the Design Team with  {'"MOD VALENTINES" - make a Valentines or Love-themed card WITHOUT using red or pink as the primary colors. Think blues, greens, oranges, yellows, browns, purples, grays, black and white, etc.}. 

Ahahaha - I added ALL the colours and have a walkthrough on YouTube:

The cute little shaker on the card front was created by nesting two of the hearts from the new Heart Collage Pop Up to make a window, then I just proceeded as usual with acetate and foam tape. Then the little shaker was added to a heart from the new Hearts Crosshatch. The words on the front and inside are from Word Set 14 Hugs.

The heart border on the inside top and bottom is washi tape from Doodlebug Designs. Since apparently there weren't quite enough hearts on this card - I added more with the little Rainbow Hearts embellishments also from Doodlebug. I like the subtle shine they give the card.

What I learned when making this card, is that I should have waited for good light when choosing the colours. I just went through my scrap bin and the orange I used is completely 'off'. Which I didn't realize until I looked at the fully assembled card the next morning. What to do? I didn't want to toss it and start again (although maybe I should have 😂). Finally, I CAREFULLY painted each of the orange hearts with diluted Sauna Catherine Pooler ink to tone it down just a little. I think without that gaudy orange I would have liked the card better. 

I decided to go ahead and share it - I'm sure the rainbow of hearts will inspire some of you and I know just who I'm sending this to and they will be forgiving. Next I need to find the right shade of orange card stock. Nice how I can turn things around into a shopping opportunity, right? Ha.

Notes:  

• I used #110 card stock for the card base, as I knew it would need to support the weight of all of those hearts. 
• I reinforced the arms on the mechanism with narrow strips of the same heavyweight card stock for even more stability.
• To prevent lifting, I added glue to each end of the Washi Tape. 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Scraps of card stock - stash
Tiny scrap of patterned paper - Doodlebug
While I used #110 white card stock for the card base, I did use scraps of this white card stock for additional hearts etc:  White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Card size - 6 x 3.5", fits in a #8 envelope for mailing.

Mail Themed Pop Up Card

Hello my crafty friends!  Today I'm sharing another card that uses some of Karen Burniston's New Release  and I have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube:  

The new mailbox pop up also works great as an embellishment, which is how I used it on the card front. The mail themed embellishments (and all the patterned paper) are by Doodlebug and I have everything that is available linked below for you.

I also added scalloped borders top and bottom and the new Hearts Crosshatch for a signing block.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Brown cardstock scraps
Pink cardstock - stash
White cardstock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

New Release Blog Hop - Butterfly Collage Pop Up Slimline Card

 

Hello my crafty friends! Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC January Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 9 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

• 2 new Slimline Friendly Pop-up Die Sets - Heart Collage Pop-Up; Mailbox Pop-up

• 2 new Add-Ons Die Sets - Balloons Collage Add-Ons; Butterfly Collage Add-Ons

• 1 new Crosshatch Die Set - Hearts - Crosshatch

• 1 new Animals die set - Monkey and Lion

• 1 new Charms die set - Good Luck Charms

• 2 new sentiment sets - Sending Love; Happy St. Patrick's Day

Dies are available to order now on the website.

I created a Slimline card with the new Heart Collage Pop Up and the Butterfly Collage Add-Ons, and I have all the details on YouTube:  

I am amazed at how much depth and movement you get when the card is opened, but how completely flat it folds down for mailing!

I managed to use up a bunch of pink card stock scraps for my butterflies, which I am always happy to do.  I also added some pink mirror card stock because you know how I love shimmer and shine! The little vine across the top of my card comes from the new Monkey and Lion set.

GIVEAWAY:

To celebrate the release Karen Burniston and each of the Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC Design Team members will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to some lucky person who comments on our blog posts, so make sure you join the hop and comment on everyone's blog post. I will also be combining names from the comments left on my YouTube video. Winners will be randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received on our blog posts by Monday, January 31st 2022. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter! Don't forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner!

Blog Hop List:

Karen Burniston 

Lois Bak

Karen Aicken

Frances Byrne

Kelly Booth

Fran Sabad

Sandy Diller

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:

Pattered paper - My Minds Eye (old, from my stash)

Scrap strip of pink patterned paper (old, Fromm my stash)

Lots of pink card stock scraps!

Card size - 7.5 x 3.5", fits in a #9 business envelope

Sending Love Heart Collage Pop Up Slimline

 

Good morning crafty friends - today the Design Team can start to share their projects with Karen Burniston's NEW RELEASE! We've been having so much fun! For my first card I'm sharing a Slimline card that has new dies on the front and inside, and I have a walkthrough of  my card on YouTube:  

Here is a peek at the entire new release, which you can find HERE:

Inside my card is the new Heart Collage Pop Up. This die goes together similar to the Photo Collage Pop Up, but it is Slimline Friendly (YAY!!!) and the mechanism cuts as a single piece. AND there are expanding hearts, which is very cool. AND there are add on sets - the Butterfly Collage Add-On and the Balloon Collage Add-On. Both of them work with the mechanism from the Heart Collage Pop Up. 😊 

Check out those expanding hearts that add even more movement to your card.

There is a new Crosshatch set as well - the Hearts Crosshatch, which I used under the Love You greeting.  I did size this Slimline card at 8 x 3.5", instead of my usual 8.5 x 3.5" but it still fits nicely in a #10 business envelope for mailing.

The Design Team will be sharing sneak peeks this week, and celebrating with a Blog Hop on Monday January 24th when the New Release will start shipping! 

These are the new dies I used today, the previously released ones are linked for you below.

Heart Collage Pop Up - Karen Burniston, shipping January 24/22

Mailbox Pop Up (tiny hearts) - Karen Burniston, shipping January 24/22

Hearts Crosshatch - Karen Burniston, shipping January 24/22

Sending Love - Karen Burniston, shipping January 24/22

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Shimmer Spray
Patterned paper - Flower Market, Carta Bella (retired)
Pink card stock scraps
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)