Rainbows, and Unicorns- June release Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends, 

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC June Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 10 new dies and 5 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

• 1 new Interactive Die Set

• 1 new Pop-up Add-ons Die Sets

• 2 new Charm Die Sets

• 4 new Stand Alone Die Sets

• 5 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, 23rd June 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!

This is what I came up with.

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When I make my cards sometimes I don’t have an exact plan. Sometimes I might just start making things and putting them together, and sometimes I change things on the fly. This is one of those cards.

I started off by making rainbow coloured Party Balloons. I am addicted to my white Gelly Roll pen so I always add white highlights. To add a little extra I also add shading to the bottom right with a Versa Mark marker (see the purple balloons ⬇️)

Once I had the balloons I made the rainbows, sun and clouds from the Rainbow Add Ons. The white arc in this set isn’t meant to be the same size as the rainbow but it still works, you will have a little overhang. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen. I sponged blue ink on the clouds.

I had a lot of leftover rainbow pieces, so I thought I could make cute borders out of them. I cut two white borders to 1 1/2” x 6 7/8” x 2. I want the borders to have fluffy clouds so I used the clouds from the Curved Edges to make a stencil and brushed on blue ink.

I did not have the patience to put all the rainbow pieces in order so I just laid them out on the border and bent some of them to fit. Most of them will still lay side-by-side, as the arch isn’t too extreme. As long as you’re not using the top and bottom arches side by side. Most of the middle ones will work quite well. I trimmed off the extra. I added clouds and the sun to one of them. My intention was to have a top border and a bottom border, but once I got making my card, I decided to put them side-by-side.

I cut the card base and panels as shown and layered and assembled. 

I die cut all the pieces for the Arch Pop Up and assembled. (Karen will have a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ shortly) one thing I noticed while making a previous card is that there is a little wiggle room when attaching the bottom arms. So I was mindful to line the top up with the edge of the arch, and when I did the other side make sure that I lined that side up at the same angle so the arches will match up. This will make more sense once Karen releases her tutorial.

Since I made so many rainbows I decided to add the balloons to the arch in rainbow order. I found that one of the 2 piece balloons was flipping the wrong way when I tried to close the card and was jamming so I took the little blue piece that falls out when diecutting the balloons, bent it in half and adhere it inside between the front and back balloons. It holds it in place but still has some dimension.

Since I had rainbows and balloons why not add unicorns. And since I had so many left over rainbow pieces why not have rainbow hair. I diecut the unicorn from the Leaping Animals set from shimmering white cardstock, the horns from gold. I glued some rainbow pieces down to white cardstock and cut out the tails and manes. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen

I cut out the purple frame from the Whirly Wheel and stamped the greeting from the Rainbow Greetings stamp set. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen

I had originally planned to put the borders at the top and the bottom but soon realized I set the card up wrong. So they had to go side-by-side. If I were doing this again, I would’ve made the two rainbows that meet in the middle actually line up properly in the middle. I cut the purple border as shown, added the rainbow borders as shown.

I added the unicorns and frames as shown.

Now for the front. These are the two original rainbows that I made, but they didn’t line up quite right. The bottom edge did so I just marked on the side edge where to cut so it would go flush to the side edge I did this to both sides.

Well what’s a few more rainbows, I wanted the Happy Birthday to have matching rainbow stripes (size and stitch lines) as the other rainbow soooooo you guest it, first I traced the Happy Birthday Shadow onto THIN white paper, and laid out the rainbow pieces making sure to cover the lines. I diecut the Happy Birthday and added it to a purple shadow. I thought it was a little dark, so I added my signature white highlights. I still found it too dark so I very carefully used my Jellyroll pen and outlined the entire Happy Birthday and I really like how it now pops against the purple.

I added foam adhesive to the back and added it to the center. I added some spare balloons, my extra sun and a cloud. I added some mini gems sprinkles from the bottom left to the top right, and a few randomly around the inside.

Almost forgot. I added Wink of Stella to all the rainbow to give that sparkly glimmer

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 the talented design teams cards continue on the hop, and don’t forget to leave your comments to win!!!

Karen Burniston

Lois Bak

Sue Small-Kreider

Frances Byrne

Jennifer Webster

Suzanne Smit

ME -you are here

Sandy Diller