Karen Burniston Campfire and Smores Pop Up for Dies R Us

 It's a Sweet Hello! Complete with a campfire and yummy gooey smores. Tis the season for outdoor fun and today I used several Karen Burniston die sets to create this fun pop up.  On the front I used nesting dies to frame words and the pieced smores with a sprinkle of marshmallows.

The details on the smores are impeccable right down to the dots in the graham crackers.

And on the inside...a pop up campfire accented with marshmallows on a stick.  The sentiment completes on the inside.

Still perfecting the pop up fire.  One of Karen's suggestions is to color the empty fold space.  That's the easy step, the stones aren't too hard either but getting the fire to pop up properly is the tricky part.  It's always best to adhere one side firmly, then add glue to the "loose" side and close the card on it.

Products from the Dies R Us store:

Karen Burniston Tent Pop Up

Karen Burniston Camping Charms

Karen Burniston Word Set Summer

Karen Burniston Word Set 3- Just a Note

Frantic Stamper Rounded Corner dies

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/07/wwc321-tristans-challenge-all-things.html until 8.9 (C8)x

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2021/08/craftyhazelnuts-pattenered-paper-august.html until 8.30x

http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/08/august-challenge-summer-fun.html until 9.4x

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store. For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

click below for:

STORE

CHALLENGE BLOG

FACEBOOK

INSPIRATION BLOG

FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

Thanks for stopping by

Miss Kate Cuttables-Get Outside! Bitten By the Bug 2 Challenge

Welcome to Bitten By the Bug 2's latest challenge, today in the United State we celebrate Labor Day.  As most American's celebrate the day off and the extra long weekend with some outdoor festivities, the challenge for the next two weeks is to use your Cricut machine to Get Outside!  This theme leaves a lot of room for variety such as camping, hiking, swimming, boating, outdoor sporting events or concerts, a picnic or BBQ, or family reunion.  In Cincinnati, we have an annual fireworks display on Sunday night before Labor Day.

I have created a card using some Miss Kate Cuttables images.

The bear was just too cute to put in the tent.  I had to cut the outline three times with different papers until I found one that stayed strong, Bazzill.

Ingredients:

Miss Kate Cuttables  Mountain Range and Bear with tent

Stamplorations die cut Be Kind

Our Daily Bread Designs stitched rectangle dies

Cosmo Cricket S'more Love 8x8 paper stack

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalking inks

misc card stock including Bazzill

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to play along with Bitten By the Bug 2 for the next two weeks.

Alicia

You Light Up My Life: Stampin Up, Karen Burniston and Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Welcome to this week's inspiration for the latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.  I used a galaxy background to begin my illuminating card.  I topped it off with a embossed sentiment, a detailed die cut and glitter washi tape.

I created the background from scratch starting with specially coated paper for using with heavy inks.  The product I used was Judikins Matte Kote paper, however, it is almost identical to Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Specialty paper.  I did a comparison one day and while the Distress paper worked a tad better with Distress inks, the difference was barely negligible.  The process takes many layers of ink, I usually create several at a time and save some for a later project. 

Here is this week's sketch:

Here are the steps in creating a galaxy background, I used Distress Oxides but regular Distress inks or any similar inks would work, but I am sure you know Distress was made for blending!

1. Cover your card base with your "spacey" colors.  I choose Broken China and Squeezed Lemonade for this one, bright pinks and purples work great as well as greens.
2. Layer Black Soot, Hickory Smoke or both with a blending brush or your applicator of choice
3. Introduce water if you want to active the oxide properties at any point in on any layer
4. Layer and spritz while leaving some of the "spacey" colors exposed
5. After hours of layers, spritzing and drying which can be urged along with a heat gun...finally splatter shimmer ink

Ingredients:

Karen Burniston Camping Charms

Stampin Up Pun Intended sentiment and punch circa 2017

Versamark ink

Judikins Lemon Twinkle embossing powder and Matte Kote paper

Tutti Stitched Nesting Ovals

Distress Oxide inks:  Black Soot, Squeezed Lemonade, Broken China, Hickory Smoke

white shimmer spray ink

 glitter washi tape

misc card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2019/04/challenge-109-anything-goes.html until 5/2x

http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2019/04/ch-418-anything-goes.html until 5/4

http://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/04/pinspirational-challenge-237.html until 5/6x

Don't forget to play along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week!

Thanks for stopping by today

Alicia

Happy Camping: Karen Burniston dies with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Hello, today I am providing my inspiration for the latest sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.  I recently acquired the Karen Burniston Camping Charms and Tent Pop Up dies from Dies R Us.  I was so excited to pair them with this neat Cosmo Cricket S'more Love paper.

Here is this week's sketch.

Here is a close up of my die cutting.  These s'mores are so adorable!  It was 3 layers but went together very quickly.  Frankly, I spent a lot more time die cutting the words multiple times, adhering the layers together with liquid glue and finally heat embossing with clear embossing powder.

My second card uses the same paper stack and die sets just a little different take. 

 I used the same s'more stick for a branch to hang my fish on.  The fish began as white die cuts.  I used three different color chalking inks to create an easy but interesting fish color. 

Ingredients:

Karen Burniston Word Set 6 Summer and Camping Charms

Cosmo Cricket S'more Love 8x8 paper stack

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalking inks

Wow Clear embossing powder

misc card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2019/04/cic467-stamplorations-and-double.html until 4/12x

(I hope the fish qualify as "woodland"  Suzanne at DTC seemed to think they would)

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2019/03/challenge-25-with-cupcake-inspiration.html until 4/14x

http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/04/challenge-118-anything-goes-using-dies.html until 4/14x

http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com/2019/04/april-2019-challenge-march-winners.html until 4/25x

https://classicdesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/04/welcome-everyone-are-you-ready-for-our.html until 4/28x

https://scrapfromyourheart.blogspot.com/2019/04/utfordring-32-bruk-dies-use-dies.html until 4/29x

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2019/04/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper-april.html until 4/30x

Don't forget to play along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week!

Thanks

Alicia

Miss Kate Cuttables Guest Designer Camping layouts

Good morning, I am so excited to be today's Miss Kate Cuttables Guest Designer!  There were so many fantastic images with which to work.  It was hard to decide but I always have tons of camping pics, so this great title and the Camping borders were perfect for my many pages.  Really the arrows are so versatile, I am thinking pages of my nephew or masculine greeting cards.

I love how detailed the title is, of course, one could leave off any layers but I chose to use every one.  I also chalk all my edges to give the layers the appearance of even more dimension.

All the printed papers are from the same collection, however they are a bit different so I used the tree border to provide a cohesiveness to my pages.  The tree border is two layers, one in brown for the trunk and a green print for the foliage.

On the second page I utilized scrap paper to create embellishments which I added on top of another arrow border.  I simply fussy cut and added pop dots to the back.  I cut the same border twice in two different papers then off set them on the page. 

I added some of the extra tree cuts from the title in a cluster here.  I also had these adorable camping brads.  As you can see this was a pretty wet camp out and I don't have many great pics.

Ingredients:
Miss Kate Cuttables Camping borders and Camping fun title
GCD The Great Outdoors papers
misc papers including shimmer
brads

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope I have provided some inspiration for you.  Don't forget to check out my blog for more Miss Kate Cuttables projects.

Alicia

Into the Woods Blog Hop

Welcome to the 
Into The Woods Blog Hop

This is a blog hop featuring projects inspired by the great outdoors and our woodland critters!!

You should have arrived from Sandy's blog
if not Connie Can Crop is the beginning of this fun filled hop! 

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday at 10pm to finish hopping and leaving your love for all of these talented crafters.

We have an awesome sponsor for this hop!!

One lucky winner is going to win 4 dies from Cheapo Dies!!

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become  a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments on every blog to be eligible to win. 

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 6/13/18 at Connie Can Crop.

Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!


I have made a scrapbook layout.  I used a Miss Kate Cuttable image for the title but added a manual cut, too!  This is seriously mixed up brand wise.  I don't think I used any two products from the same company, maybe a couple of the card stocks are Bazzill.

The leaves on this title are two layers.  The first layer is a muted green and the top layer is a green vellum.  I thought they looked super cool so I made extras and tucked them behind the popped up title.

I found this vellum quote sticker in my stash.  I have no idea of the brand.

I love this set of stamps and dies from Local King Rubber...there's a hippie bus too!  I use it every chance I get.

Ingredients:

Miss Kate Cuttables The Great Outdoors title

Stampin Up Wild Wasabi ink

Local King Rubber Stamps and die (kayak)

Misc papers from my stash

vellum quote sticker

Up next is Sue!

Here's our line up in case you get lost along the way.

Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Shannon-https://shannonhdesigns.blogspot.com/

Kim- www.pinkzebrapapercreations.blogspot.com   

Cindy- https://inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/ 

    Veronica- https://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com/

Amanda- https://salnclts76.blogspot.com/

Sandy- https://simplycraftycreationsbysandys.blogspot.com/

Alicia- http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
Sue- https://foleysfriend.blogspot.com

Miranda- http://www.nanasscrapspot.com

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/06/challenge-61.html until 6/9x

https://paperminutes.blogspot.com/2018/06/paperminutes-540-im-und-am-teich.html until 6/11

https://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-challenge-optional-twist-summer.html until 6/30

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2018/06/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper-june.html until 6/30x

Thanks so much for hopping today!

Alicia

Karen Burniston Tree Pop Up Card

Good morning,  Alicia blogging today.  I have used the latest Karen Burniston Tree Pop Up dies and Karen Burniston Greetings dies to create a summer theme thinking of you card.  I was so excited when I saw this added to the Dies R Us store, I purchased it immediately.  I have a fondness for trees.

It was so much fun creating the various layers for this 3-D card.

The clouds are Avery Elle but no longer found in the store.  I think the Frantic Stamper Stitched Cloud Edgers and Soaring Paper Airplane are pretty close substitutes.

Here are a couple of tips for using this die set. First I just cut bunches of leaves. The die cuts 6 at a time.  After cutting I inked the edges, as part of this process the leaves get a little shaping and makes the embossing pop.

Another tip is to cut the tire swing twice and adhere the pieces together.  This gives a more 3 dimensional effect and the double layer of paper increases the strength at the loop for tying your "rope".

Dies R Us Products:

Karen Burniston Greetings dies

Karen Burniston Tree Pop Up dies

 

 Frantic Stamper Stitched Corner cut Tags

 

 The clouds are Avery Elle but no longer found in the store.  I think the Frantic Stamper Stitched Cloud Edgers and Soaring Paper Airplane are pretty close substitutes.

 Frantic Stamper Soaring Airplane


 


Frantic Stamper Stitched Cloud Edgers
 

Frantic Stamper Stitched Grassy Hill Edgers



other ingredients:
We R Happy Campers papers
Rusty Pickle black barn board paper
wood grain paper
Quick Quotes Sky Blue and Green Leaf chalking inks
twine

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog.  

There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store. 

 For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below : 

Click below for:

STORE 
 CHALLENGE BLOG
  FACEBOOK
  INSPIRATION BLOG

FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://sunnydaycrafting.blogspot.ca/2017/08/challenge-46-e-is-for-emboss.html until 8/8x

http://craftaholicsrus.blogspot.ca/2017/08/challenge-30-die-cuts.html until 8/8x

http://cagichallenge.blogspot.ca/2017/08/time-to-die-die-cuts.html until 8/11x

http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2017/08/challenge-78-summertime-fun.html until 8/13x

http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/08/178-more-than-one-fold.html until 8/13 (C10)x

https://classicdesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/1st-august-2017-classic-design-team.html until 8/27x

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper-august.html until 8/30x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2017/08/anything-goes-for-august.html until 8/31x

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Alicia