Karen Burniston – Page 35 – My Messy Craft Room

Birthday, Little Twist Panel, MOTION CARD, Slim Line, slimline, Uncategorized

Champagne Birthday

Posted on March 14, 2023March 13, 2023 by mymessycraftroom5

When I saw this paper I knew if I teamed it up with this die-set it would make a fun masculine birthday card, and I think I was right. I needed a birthday card for my son who was turning 24 on the 24th that’s what makes it a champagne 🥂 birthday (in case you were wondering what a champagne birthday is 🥂 🎂)

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 anyone who typically follows me you may notice that I will be making a few changes. I am trying to stream line my blogging a bit as I am finding it quite time-consuming. I have decided that since the majority of my cards, I use die sets from Karen Burnkston. Karen makes amazing videos, so if she has a video that explains the assembly of her mechanism or other dies I will link it. I will still give dimensions and helpful hints, and will definitely still explain any changes I make or other important info. The links I share are to her product page for that item, scroll down the page and she has video directions. Because of these changes I will add the links as I work my way through the post instead of at the end. So there in no mix up on what dies I used for each steps.

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Character Card, designer challenge, fathers day, Slim Flaps and Frames, Uncategorized

Vacation at the Lake, designer challenge card

Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 by mymessycraftroom5

Welcome back, today’s card is for the Karen Burniston design team challenge. This months challenge was “Vacation” and she asked us where we would like to go. I scratched my head a bit with this one because I don’t typically go on “Vacation”, not that I don’t go anywhere it’s just that I don’t typically consider it a vacation. Thinking back on the years of the vacations we went on while raising our children we typically went to my home town. But is “home” a vacation? And the more I thought about it, I decided yes, it was. I was raised in northern Ontario on the north shore of Lake Huron, but I’ve spent my adult life in the Prairies, so when ever I have taken my family there it has always been a fun time, hanging out on one of the many beaches or relaxing at my parents feeding the chipmunks, squirrels and a sneaky racoon peanuts and what ever other snacks that were handy. Once the seed was planted in my heard there was no turning back, and this is what I came up with.

I am not typically a colour artist, but I have been just drooling over some of the amazing cards by Jennifer Webster and thought I’d pull my markers out to add a little dimension to the some of the elements on this card. I don’t give directions as I am just winging it, lol. I used some older Stampin Up alcohols markers and some Chameleon Alcohol Markers

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interactive, Tiny House, Uncategorized

Fun in the Sun Beach Bar card

Posted on February 27, 2023February 26, 2023 by mymessycraftroom5

What’s better than one beach bar, what about 2, or one beach bar and one surf shack? I thought it would be fun to make a little beach scene.

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Birthday, blog hop, Castle Pop Up, interactive, Pop up card, Uncategorized

Under the Sea- February Release Blog Hop

Posted on February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 by mymessycraftroom5

Hi Crafty Friends, it’s BLOG HOP DAY

Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products – KB Riley LLC February Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 6 new dies. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

• 1 new Charm die sets

• 1 new Word set

• 1 new Tiny House Add-Ons sets

• 1 new Pop-up die sets

• 1 new Crosshatch die sets

• 1 new Border 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, 27th February 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!

I am soooo excited to share this card, it has been brewing in my brain for a really long time. I had visions of an under water castle with mermaids and sea creatures but never took the time to actually make it and then….. Karen came out with this release and I knew that it was time. The jellyfish and sea horse from the Sea charms are so adorable and the crabs, well there is a whole family of them now. I also used the new Beach Borders, a few pieces from the Beach Bar Tiny House Add on and the Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch. This is what I came up with

All the fun is in the reveal, and this card has so much detail, it’s hard to get it in a photo, 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.

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Birthday, Charm Label pop up, mini slimline, Uncategorized

Monochromatic Label Charm Birthday card

Posted on February 17, 2023February 26, 2023 by mymessycraftroom5

Here today with another NEW release dieset, no, not the Label Charm, that was a previous release, not the Big Birthday charms, have you figured it out yet. It’s the new Labels crosshatch from the New Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch die set. The new labels stack beautifully with the labels from the Label Charm Pop up set AND we now have a frame to go around the front window which gives the card front that finished look. I was pretty excited when I saw it. It is definitely a must-have if you already own the Label Charm set, plus the rectangles in the new set were made to fit 5” x 7” cards. I have used these so much already, you will have to keep your eyes open in upcoming posts.