Woven Basket Sympathy Card

I needed to make a sympathy card for friends, so I pulled out Karen Burniston's Wide Woven Box and the Woven Box die sets and got to work. The 3-d elements are many years old, by K & Company. I still have a nice stash of their elements as I loved them and of course hoarded them for a long time before I could bring myself to use them. 😉

I also used KB's With Sympathy Dies and the Ovals Crosshatch, and wrote our message on the back where I added another oval.

It folds down flat for mailing, which is SO cool.

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 so far - 17 Cards

Additional Supplies:

Patterned paper - Blank Canvas, 1st Edition (old, from my stash)

3d flower & bird stickers, K & Co (old, from my stash)

White cardstock

Rainbow Holographic Cardstock - Recollections

Pooler - Peppermint Scrub

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'Basket of Beer & Cheer' Pop Up Box Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to a SNEAK PEEK of Karen Burniston's upcoming release!  I chose the new Wide Woven Basket Box Card & Bam Box Pop Up & I have all the details in my YouTube video:  

The new Slider Box has some cute rectangle decorator dies - see that neat edge on the sentiment block? - so I used those as well. The new release will be shipping next week, December 14th and we will be celebrating with a Blog Hop. Meanwhile, the Design Team will be sharing sneak peeks all week!

The cute little beer mugs are from the Happy Hour Charms, and I included the Cheers as well. Note - the larger mugs are from MFT, not Karen Burniston. As I said in my video, this card will be going to our son and I know he will get a kick out of it. The fun sentiment is from Riley & Company 😊.

While you can use the new Wide Woven Basket Box Card on it's own, I paired it with the Woven Basket Box Card for the sides. This is probably how I will use it the most often but it's fun to have options! It comes with a grass strip to adhere inside to add your embellishments to but I snipped off the grass blades to leave me with just a long 'platform'. 

... one more look ...

Here is a graphic showing the whole new release!

KB Wide Woven Basket Box Card - shipping December 14/22

KB Bam Box - shipping December 14/22

KB Slider Box - shipping December 14/22

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock
Beers/Cheers - Riley & Company
Two #8 elastics/rubber bands
Patterned paper - Holiday Wonder, Hobby Lobby (old)
Yellow patterned paper - scrap of Basic Grey

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Snowman Woven Basket Pop Up Card

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to the November 2022 Designer Challenge. Karen Burniston challenged her Design Team with the theme: "SNOWMAN" - create a card with any of the Snowman. (Die ideas - 1012 Snowman Twist Circle, 1017 Snowman, 1213 Snowman Add-ons)

Since It had been awhile since I'd played with the Woven Basket Pop Up, I decided to use that one (and re-watched Karen B's assembly video), then I chose the Snowman die I wanted to use. I have all the details on YouTube!  

I love how this card folds completely flat for mailing (photo above) but stands beautifully for display (photo below).

 

When I have finished glimmer foiling and die cutting, there are often useable pieces leftover around the edges and of course I save all of those. I used gold foiled scraps for the bows, hat band, star and candle flame.

On the back side, there is an oval to write our personal greeting and I went over adding a solid backing to the treee in my video. Those cute swirled snow mounds are actually the tree foliage dies from the Long Nature Edges 2. 😊

The rest of the Design Team is 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.

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

Additional Supplies:
Gold cording
White cardstock
Copic markers

Black Sharpie

Shimmer Spray

Scraps of black, orange & brown cardstocks

Woven Basket Box Card for a 99th Birthday

Hello crafty friends ...

Today I'm sharing the birthday card I made for a friend's Mother, who is turning 99 this year! I chose Karen Burniston's Woven Basket Box Pop Up to make this lovely 3-D card that folds completely flat for mailing.

I have a short video for you so you can see the card in action. You can see the video larger or even full screen, by checking it out on my YouTube Channel HERE.

Since it had been awhile since I'd made one of these, I went to the website to re-watch the assembly video. At the end of the video, Karen B features cards from the Design Team and I really liked the one Kelly Booth had made with the flaps on the outside of the basket, and a ribbon bow tucked inside. That was my inspiration for how I assembled this one.

The photo above and the photo below both show the Woven Basket in the flat, folded position.

I added a lot of dimensional bling, since the card was being hand delivered. If you kept the flower centres flat the card would likely mail for a single stamp.

I added the numbers to an acetate strip after the card was assembled, and never thought to also check that it would still fit in a 5 x 7" envelope. Nope - I had adhered it too high. Rather than pull it off and re-attach lower, I found this Hallmark envelope in my stash - 8-1/4 x 5-3/4.  A card stock panel was adhered inside envelope to stabilize it and give the flowers support while the card is in the envelope.

Supplies:
1080 Woven Basket Box Pop Up - Karen Burniston
Kraft, green, pink and white card stocks
Make up brushes
1026 Flowers and Bee - Karen Burniston
1059 Autumn Elements - Karen Burniston
Bling - Queen & Company and Recollections
1030 Happy Birthday
Copic Marker
Sakura black glaze and white gel pens
Stickles
1104 Triple Flip (scalloped rectangle) - Karen Burniston
1031 Numbers - Karen Burniston
Acetate
Craft wire
Seam binding
Washi Tape
Card size - 6 x 5.5"

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Mother's Day Flower Basket Pop-Up Card

Hello my crafty friends

Today I'm sharing a pretty floral Mother's Day card. The front is nice and simple with a stamped and matted greeting and a seam binding bow.

To get the ombre look on the ribbon tails, I lightly spritzed the ribbon ends with water, loaded a water brush with dye ink scribbled onto a plastic palette then touched the brush to the ribbon and let it dry.

Inside I made a Pop-Up using the Cupcake Pop-Up to animate a woven basket filled with flowers and greenery. Karen Burniston's Woven Basket is a stand-alone Pop-Up die set that is proving to be very versatile. There are lots of ways to use it and the Peeps are sharing what they come up with on the Karen Burniston Pop-Up Peeps page on Facebook. If you are on Facebook and you like Karen Burniston dies - you should definitely join this group!

I added a scalloped border at the top and bottom using the Tropical Scene die set. For the woven basket, I cut one piece (that cuts two at a time) and put one of them aside for another day. I cut the weaving strips and assembled the single panel woven basket with some inking for definition.

The stamps and washi tape die are from Your Next Stamp. I love butterflies this time of year, so added a couple of butterflies from the Circle Charm Pop-Up.

I added lots of bling to this card, seeing as it will be hand delivered I didn't need to worry about bulk and extra postage.

I really liked this patterned paper, and enjoyed working with these bright happy colours. Especially with the weather we had here this week ... this is what we woke up to yesterday morning.  Sigh.

Supplies:
Pink, white, Kraft and blue card stocks
Patterned paper - Park Lane
1038 Tropical Scene - Karen Burniston
1008 Cupcake Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
Rectangle dies - Hero Arts
1054 Rectangles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1080 Woven Basket Box Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
1010 Flower Pot Pop-Up (Sprig) - Karen Burniston
1059 Autumn Elements (sprig) - Karen Burniston
1046 Circle Charm Pop-Up (butterfly) - Karen Burniston
Bling - Queen and Company
Seam Binding
Happy Mother's Day - Taylored Expressions
Stitched Wavy Circle die - Your Next Stamp
1056 Squares Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1006 Nature Edges - Karen Burniston
Washi Tape Sentiment Die - Your Next Stamp
Whatnot Sentiments Set 13 - Your Next Stamp
Nuvo Glitter Pen
Peel Off Border - Stamp On It

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Woven Basket Pop-Up Birthday card for St. Patrick's Day

Hello my crafty friends

I have had this card done for over a month, but didn't want to share it until it was closer to St. Patrick's Day. It's for my friend and Teammate Kelly B, who celebrates her birthday on St. Patrick's day!

I used Karen Burniston's new Woven Basket Pop-Up for the card base. Such a fun die set. The basket was cut from both green card stock and gold foil so there is lots of sparkle and shine.

I added these fun stamps from Your Next Stamp, and also clouds from the Outdoor Scene. The coins and rainbow got some glitter as well, and the shamrock stickers are sparkly with gold foil outlines. As usual though, the sparkle gets dimmed in the photos.

I stamped the greeting on the back and added some more stickers, as well as the fun shamrock. That face cracks me up, and it's a separate stamp so it can be used on the shamrock, the pot of gold, or anywhere else you would like to stamp a face. I have some more ideas for that one.

This card folds completely flat for mailing, and since there is very little bulk it will mail for a single stamp. The envelope was in my stash, and it's bigger than an A2 but smaller than a 5 x 7".

Supplies:
Green and white card stocks
Gold foil card stock
1080 Woven Basket Box Card - Karen Burniston
Irish Hello, stamps and dies - Your Next Stamp
Sakura white gel pen
Copic markers
Stickles
1045 Outdoor Scene (clouds) - Karen Burniston
Sakura black glaze pen
Stitched Wavy Circles die set - Your Next Stamp
Stickers - from my stash
Nuvo Glitter Pen

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Box Card with Castle, Princess and Dragon

Hello my crafty friends

One of the new dies in Karen Burniston's January 2019 Release is this Woven Basket Box Card die. It comes with flowers and a sprig to make a lovely bouquet, but of course I had to do something different with it. I chose to use it as a regular 'box card' and made a Birthday Card for a little Princess. Namely, our nephew's little girl who will be turning one soon.

I used a bunch of dies from previous releases, the Castle Pop-Up, the Knight and Dragon, the Princess and Mermaid and Word Set 5 Royalty. All the dies I used are listed in the Supplies below. I wanted to show you how well all of the KB dies work together - old and new releases work seamlessly!

Since Princesses need to sparkle, I used pretty glitter paper for the dress, crown, and also the turret flags and dragon's wings. I like how the two different greys for the woven part resemble bricks - this Woven Basket Box Card goes together so slick!

This is the back of the card, and where we will sign our names.

I hope I've shown you how to think outside the box (pun intended) to use this fun woven basket for more than just flowers. I also wanted to show you that you can fill it with a few items and still have a card with a lot of WOW. Not every box card needs to be stuffed full and take hours to complete. 

While it's a free-standing pop-up card, it still folds completely flat for mailing! Because I wanted some height to the castle and dragon, this one will fit in an A6 envelope and mail for a single stamp.

Here is one more look at the dragon - isn't he just the cutest?

There are SO MANY great dies in the new release, which will be available for PRE-ORDER on the website starting January 21st. You can click on the preview below to see it larger.

Supplies:
1080 Woven Basket Box Card - Karen Burniston (available for Pre-order on January 21 2019)
1036 Princess and Mermaid - Karen Burniston
1035 Knight and Dragon - Karen Burniston
1033 Castle Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
1034 Word Set 5 Royalty - Karen Burniston
1047 Upsy Daisy Pop-Up (banner) - Karen Burniston
1009 Twist Panel Pop-Up (scalloped rectangle) - Karen Burniston
Glitter paper - Stampin' Up
Pink, purple, green, kraft, grey and white card stocks
Black pen
Sakura white gel pen
Words - Stampin' Up

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