Sweet Enough- Karen Burniston September release Blog hop

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC September 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 Script Sentiment Die Sets

• 3 new Border Die Sets

• 2 new Pop-up Die Sets

• 1 new Add-on Die Sets

• 1 stand alone Die Set

Dies are available to order now on the website.

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. Winners will be randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received on our blog posts by Monday,25th September 2023. 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!

This is the order and all the links

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak

Jennifer Webster

Sue Small-Kreider

Frances Byrne

Suzanne Smit

Sandy Diller

Me 😀

This was such a fun card to make, I wanted to use the Oven Pop up in a unique way, so instead of a nice pretty kitchen scene, I went for the kitchen of nightmares. On the plus side I think this is the only card I’ve ever made that used Christmas and Halloween diesets.

All the fun is in the reveal, to see this card in action please check out my FACEBOOK page, feel free to join if you would like to share your own crafty creations. You can also see a video of this card on my INSTAGRAM page.

*I was travelling when I wrote this post, so I found it easier to add all the links at the end instead of through out the post

1A- cut card base as shown, the panels are 5 1/4” square.

B- I used Versa Mark to ink the edges as shown

C- add panels to the card base

2A- cut out the pieces for the oven, I added velum to the oven door.

B- I added the handle and used Versa Mark ink to make the stove look kind of grungy

C- Add the stove to the card, Karen will have a video soon

3A- I die cut the backsplash from the Oven Extras using a Versa Mark marker I added shading to the right side and bottom of each brick, I added white highlights to the top and left of each brick, then used a fine tip black pen to draw in the grout, and the cracks.

B- I used the same technique on the range hood, except I drew stones instead of bricks.

C- I made the shelves by cutting wood grain paper into strips that are 1/8” by 5 1/4”. I made 3 shelves

4A- I started adding the elements to the card, I decided to hang the cupboard doors slightly askew. I also hid the back of the stove behind the backsplash as I wanted it to look more like a woodstove than an electric stove.

B- The witch hair doubles as fire, I used that for the fire on the back of the oven, I also used the fire from the Fireplace Pop up to add more flames. I added the fireplace flames to a box pop up.

5A- now I’m having fun adding all the elements. I pulled out a lot of diesets, I list them at the bottom.

B- I thought it would add to the creep factor if I had a pair of creepy eyes peaking out from the space in the cupboard. I drew them with a white marker, then used a green and black marker for the details.

C- added some the bones and skulls from the Halloween borders and “Enough to Eat” was diecut using the Mini Alphabet and numbers.

6A- I diecut the pieces for the Holiday House, I started with a gel pen for the icing on the roof and then decided to switch to a white marker.

B- I used the OutdoornScenes for the back ground

C- I added my fully decorated the Ginger Bread Holiday House, I added a tiny tree. The gingerbread men and candy canes are from the Christmas Borders

7- I created Hansel and Gretel using pieces from the Princess & Mermaid set, and the Tiny Gnomes. I used a Versa Mark Marker to add shading, a white gel pen for highlights and a black fine-tip marker for the eyes

8A- I diecut then largest Banner Crosshatch, I added 2 score lines aboutb1/4” in then about 1/8” apart. I die cut another smaller banner from green. I had to trim a bit off the flat end so it would fit as shown.

B- adding adhesive to the small flap, add the banner as show, leaving room to see the gingerbread border

As always, the magnet closure was an after thought

9A- I slipped in some mini magnets behind a tree branch, a bush and a candy cane. Add the other magnet on top of the first, add glue to the top magnet, then close the flap for perfect magnet alignment

B- The magnets on the flap should look like this

C- diecut another banner from the same colour and cover the magnets

10- I added the “You’re Sweet” and Hansel and Gretel to the front of the flap

Inside of card dies used

Oven & cupboards- Oven Pop Up

Backsplash & hood vent, pots, cutting board, knife, box pop up Oven Extras

Book- Book Worm

Candle- Fireplace Extras 1

Clock & Plant- Fireplace Extras 2

Cat- Skeleton and Cat

Crow- Halloween Elements

Spider & we- Halloween scene

Bones/skulls- Halloween Borders

Witch/ broom/fire- Which and Cauldron

Extra Fire- Fireplace pop up

Bam box Small Scene Bam Box

Skulls & bones border- Halloween Borders

“Enough to eat” Mini Alphabet & Numbers

Outside of card dies used

Banners Crosshatch

House Holiday House

Tree Tiny Trees

Bushes- clouds from Castle pop up

Gingerbread decorations- Gingerbread Tiny House Add On

Girl- Princess & Mermaid braids and feet- Tiny Gnomes

Boy-Tiny Gnomes Hair is princess’s hair with a trim

Trees background- Outdoor Scene

Gingerbread border and peppermints- Christmas Borders 1

Candy-cane border – Christmas Borders 2

You’re Sweet

Other Tools Used

Fine Tip bottle

Lineco Neutral PH Adhesive 

Quick Stick Tool

White Gel pen

Fiskars Trimmer

Versa Mark ink pad

Verse Mark Marker