Karen Burniston New Barn Die May Challenge

Hello and welcome to my Karen Burniston May design challenge post. This months challenge was to use Karens new barn die in a creative way. As a friend has just had a baby I chose to make the barn into a baby cot/crib.

To make the crib I cut two 8cm x 4cm acetate rectangles, two 8cm x 2 cm pink card rectangles, 8 white card barn door fronts and four barn door runner strips. I cut two of the barn door runner strips in half to use as 'legs' for the crib.

I folded the other two barn door runner strips in to thirds lenghways along the cut lines to create the top of the crib.

When I recieved my latest set of dies from Elizabeth craft designs I also recieve some super cute peel offs and was able to use some of the baby set for this card. I coloured the pram with my promarker pens and added some pearls on the carriage.

I used Elizabeth craft designs alphabet and number die set to add the new baby's name and date of birth.

This monkey holding balloons was also on the baby peel off set from elizabeth craft designs and I again coloured it using my promarker pens. I love layering up the cursive word dies you can get from Elizabeth craft designs to give them a shadowed look as I have with the it's a girl on the front of this card.

I have been trying to use different backgrounds for my photos and used this beautiful wisteria at the front of my house in these shots.

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Karen Burniston April design team challenge...

Hi there and welcome to April!! this months challenge is a special one, as each of the design team members got to choose a fellow cardmaker (not on the team) to collaborate with. I chose the wonderfully talented Sandy Diller to be my partner. The brief this month was to choose an accordion die and get creative. Between us and our guests we'll have 21 albums for the post!

Sandy and I chose the star accordion die for our cards and I went for a new baby theme.

I receive the cute peel offs from Elizabeth craft designs and knew they would be perfect for this card. I find colouring very theraputic and had great fun colouring them with my fab set of promarkers

Here are some close ups of the uber cute peel offs.

I finished the card of with my new elizabeth craft design 'it's a boy' word die.

I hope you liked looking at my card and please don't forget to look at the other super talented designers cards.

Donna xx

March Karen Burniston Design team challenge...

Hi and welcome to this months design team challenge post. This months challenge was to Make 'em Laugh! with a Funny card for any theme. It was our chance to use all those funny stamps we have, or make up our own greeting.

I chose to make my card using the rectangle pull card and whiskers the cat in this fun 'crazy cat lady starter kit' ensemble.

 

 I hand wrote the phrase with my calligraphy pen on some newspaper print paper.

My cats have their own cute little paper mouse to chase.

The starter kit wouldn't be complete without a tasty little fish snack.

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Mini Daffodil box......

Hello and happy mothering Sunday everyone. I hope you mums have been thoroughly spoilt again this year.

I recently bought Susan Tierney-Cockburns mini daffodil die set from Elizabeth craft designs and thought I'd have a little play with it.

So then I thought how can a send a few to my mum without them getting lost or crushed by the heavy handed woman in the post office. After much rummaging through my craft cupboard I remember my hubby had bought me a paper box maker for christmas.

To accessories my mini box I used serveral dies that come with different sets by Karen Burnstions. the mini love hearts come with her Katie label accordion set. the Arrow and stamp die are part of the tags die set

 The purple swirl you can see in the picture below also comes as a die with the tags set.....

.......and the butterfly is part of the butterfly pivot set. I used a extra sticky (but quite stringy) clear liquid glue to stick all the pieces in place.

I hope you love it as much as I do....


HAPPY MOTHERING SUNDAY MUM!

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Tag a freind day card...

Hello there and happy 1st of March, this card is for my friend Jenn whose birthday it is today. We had a fab day yesterday in london, seeing the sights and going to the theatre. I dubbed this card Tags a friend day.

Happy birthday Jenn and thanks for a great day!!

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