CHA Samples for Sizzix Designer Karen Burniston

Hey there I am sooo excited that I got to participate in this little adventure.  Thank you Karen and Bonnie.
Ok so what adventure??  I got to make samples with brand new not even released die shapes designed by Karen Burniston for Sizzix.   As I'm still new to blogging my text is all up here above the pictures so you'll have to scroll down and figure out which one I'm describing.

The first picture is a flower pop-up die that I have glittered and attached to a small gift box that I covered in coordinating paper and blinged the sides.  When one pulls the stem the flower pops open and displays the text "a gift for you".

Next I have a card that I made with neutral colors for grandpa.  On the front is one of Karen's new dies and then inside is her scalloped circle pop-up die and a small celebrate die.  Both of these are also new dies.

Now for the colorful card with the butterfly on front.  I actually made the butterfly with one of Karen's new flourish dies  I simply used two and placed them together by one edge and twisted the top part so that it would look like antennae  add a little bling and voila a butterfly.  Inside of the card is Karen's new floating frames pop-up die  and on top of the frame set I stapled her new fold out balloon die.

Ok next I made a simple scrapbook page using a new pull-out/pop-up tag die.  I featured my twins with the neighbors dogs the four love each other so and I don't have to take care of dogs we just get to enjoy them I've even made one of Justus' chores to clean their pen and walk them.  Also, cures them of begging me for a dog.

On to the next card fold out thingy I did.  I am the most excited about this one.  I actually used 7 of Karen's new die shapes for this fold out card.  First the card is tri-fold so that I could use two pop-up dies.  In the center of the card is a pop-up cupcake die that I embellished with satin flowers that I made myself by burning circles of satin and sewing them together then added a few beads for a pretty center.  At the top of the card I used a scalloped edge pop-up die that I put one of her small flourishes on to give my word SWEET a base.  To the left of sweet I used a small round scalloped die as the base of my satin flower. On the top of the fold I used her new princess crown.   On the outside of the card I used a couple flourish shapes.  Ok I know there were seven but right now I am blanking on the last two as Karen has my card in LA.

Next I have a family wheel wallhanging using Karen's new photo wheel die.  I put little pictures of my kids inside the wheel so that when you turn it you can see them and in their corresponding age in the circle.  To the left of the circle I used a family picture that we took out in the woods.  I sewed buttons around the picture to give it a little punch.  We used a necklace chain to hang it with and created a little bauble using mismatched jewelry pieces that we got at the thrift stor to hang from the center of the chain.


All in all I'm relatively pleased with the results especially considering I only had a little over two days to get all this done.  When I find my picture I will be posting a necklace I made for Karen to wear at the convention.  I used one  of her new dies on this one also!!!

Have a wonderful day  and thanks sooo much for stopping by.

Beautiful Cloche

CLOCHE noun. ...   a close fitting, bell shaped hat, for women   
Well not really a women's hat but a "hat" of sorts for pictures and other decorative items.    My friend had a wonderful idea of pairing candle holders with a base to form what she calls a cloche.  Flip the glass from a sconce over on top of some decorative base and you have a cloche.  These were created pairing  various things together.  The tops/handles on two of them are lamp finials.    One already had a glass tip that I glued an old ring to to give it a little bling.  For the two tall metal stands I punched holes in them and added some crystals.

 For the large cloche with the angel inside.........  on the  bottom:  a dessert plate glued to a flipped over votive cup ...
 the top dome portion:   an electric light "globe" that I then glued a fluted votive cup  into the hole that was left from where the glass sat over the lightbulb and then to hide the seam I glued together shower curtain rings from the simply shabby chic line from Target.  I then glued the rings to the globe.

The best part of this project was the hunt.  I scoured thrift stores for pieces that would inspire me.  I'm sure many a person wondered what the weird woman was doing as she ran around sitting candle holders upside down on top of everything from plates to candle holders to records.