January Release Blog Hop- Teacher Thank You cards

Hi 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 8 new dies and 4 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

 • 1 new Pop-up Die Sets

 • 3 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Sets

 • 4 new Stand Alone Die Sets

 • 4 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

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, 3rd February 2025. 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!

I decided to have a good play with the paper people and thought they would look good inside the photo frame. I also wanted to try to see if I could get 2 Triple Platform bases in a gatefold card. I personally have no need for a teacher card so decided I would send it to my granddaughters and realized I would need 3 cards. So l had a bit of fun making them.

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.

For those of you that follow me and know I typically attach my links throughout my post, because there are so many for this card I decided to add them all to the end of this post.

I choose a fun patterned paper from my stash for colour inspiration. I cut out several of the photo frames (13 needed per card) and blue backgrounds. When I diecut I try to cut as many pieces from a colour at the same time so I cut out pieces from the Paper People, Princess and Mermaid, and the Tiny gnomes, from multiple skin tone colours. I also chose multiple hair colours. The clothes and accessories were cut from colours in the pattern paper. Some of the shirts were even cut from coordinating paper patterns

I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen. I thought it would be cute to let the characters have pieces of them coming out from behind the limit of the frame.

HINT******* the Princess/mermaid bodies are smaller than the paper people bodies so I had to tweak them to fit some of the clothes. So for this little cutie, I cut off her arms and attached them further down the sleeve, so her hands would come out the end of the sleeve. I trimmed the Tiny Gnomes braides and added it to the short mermaid hair to get this cute hairstyle..

As you can see, I played with multiple pieces to come up with all of these fun, configurations, I could have played all day lol.

I wanted to have some school like images so I used pieces from the Bookworm set and the Office Charms. I stamped one of blue backgrounds and added all the elements. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen

Now for the card base, with the directions below I was able to use one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 card stock per card cut as shown for the card base. And then cut the panels to layer, dimensions below.

Put the panels on the front and back of the flaps, and the inside of the card. I then glued the flaps to the back of the card. Then covered the back with the white panel.

The  patterned paper below coordinates with the other pattern paper used. Cut the panels and layer as shown,and add to the card front.

I wanted a large panel for the front that covers both flaps. I wasn’t sure how I was going to adhere it so it is not stuck down yet. I die cut and layered the “thank you”, I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen

Now for the Triple Platform mechanism. Since I was making 3 cards with 2 mechanisms each, it gave me the opportunity to take photos of the different steps in creating the mechanism. Karen will have an assembly video soon.

I wanted to have some layered panels for the inside as well so, I created them using the dimensions below.

I added the panels and the mechanism as shown. I had to put the one on the left upside down, to have it as low as I wanted it. Otherwise, the mechanism folded down, so it would go beneath the limit of the card. It will be visible when the card is closed. With having them added to the card this way the left one folds up, the right one folds down when the card is closed. 

I started adding my little characters and school supplies. Opening and closing the card after each to watch for catch points or jamming in the folds. I wanted a square in the middle so I cut one to the dimensions below. I wanted it bigger, but I had pretty much used up most of the dark pink card stock so I wasn’t gonna have enough and I wanted to follow the same pattern of colours that I had used so far. 

I added the square and a couple more photo frames.

I decided to add my front panel on a diagonal, being mindful to only add adhesive to what will be the left side. I added the last of the photo frames and the “Thank You”.

Triple Platform

Photo Collage Popup – photo frames and blue background

Paper People – children, clothes, hair

Princess and Mermaid-children, hair

Tiny Gnomes – children, braids

Tiny Accessories 1 – glasses

Tiny accessories 2 – glasses

Tiny accessories 3 – football

Holiday Charms– Teddy Bear

Happy Birthday Lorna add on– balloon

Book Worm – bookworm, books, apple

Office Charms– scissors, pencil, crayons (altered pencil)

Thank You

Thank You Shadow

Photo Memories Stamps stamp used

Other Tools used

Fine Tip bottle

Lineco Neutral PH Adhesive 

Quick Stick Tool

Gelly Roll White Retractable Pen

Fiskars Trimmer

To see the rest of this fun Blog Hop and the other amazing design team members post check these out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Karen

Lois

Sue

Frances

Jennifer

Suzanne

Me- you are here

Sandy

Ken