Monday, April 6, 2020

New Karen Burniston Dies, A Blog Hop and Prizes!!!

WHAT'S NEW?  
For us crafters, this is a happy day, we get to see new products with projects from the design team and nothing is more fun than a chance to win a great prize.

Karen Burniston - KB Riley - has a brand new release for us with some wonderful new dies that will be a hit with young and older alike.

This is one stop on the blog hop where I will be featuring the new Pattern Plates, three beautiful designs. These plates are a great way to make beautiful card fronts or accent the inside of your cards.
Be sure to stop by each blog linked below to see all of the fun ideas from the team and don't forget to comment so you have a chance to win a great prize.


I have started some cards to show how beautiful these dies look when used on a card front.  I will be finishing off these cards for a later post so stay tuned.


In my video, below, I will show you all the new dies and I have some ideas for using the Pattern Plates as well as some tips and tricks for cutting out large detailed dies.  Weather you are a seasoned crafter or a beginner, there may be something new and helpful for you.



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, April 13th 2020. 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 the lucky winner.

Karen Burniston

France Byrne

Karen Aicken

Lois Bak

Fran Sabad

Kelly Booth

                        Sandy Diller  (You are here)

Stay crafty and don't forget those comments -
Until Next Time,
S@ndy

53 comments:

  1. The die cover plates are going to be so much fun! Great cards.

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  2. Great introduction to the new release

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  3. Great tips on how to remove the die-cuts from the dies, Sandy!

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  4. Sandy, lots of great ideas here. Thanks for sharing your creativity! This new release has so many great items in it. I love what you did with the pattern plates! kReN@afourthlife

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  5. You really know how to show off Karen's design elements! And thank you for showing the actual plates. I love your color combinations, too! I would love receiving cards like this.

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  6. I really like how you used the background dies for the card fronts. Adding ovals and circles and espeially the ribbon reall dressed them up.

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  7. I'm liking the card fronts that you have prepared and looking forward to seeing the 'innerds' when you complete them.

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  8. These are very beautiful dies - TFS

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  9. Thanks for your helpful hints. (I didn't know about the ejection hole.) These pattern plates really dress up a card quickly. I like how you used them swirl plate for the inside of your card. Thanks.

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  10. Those background dies really have caught my attention. Thanks for sharing the closer up look of them

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  11. Great video, especially for new crafters. I loved the way you used the swirl pattern plate on the inside cornes, genious!

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  12. Three fab cards, purple and green is a fave palette of mine. Thanks for sharing your tips and the technique video.

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  13. I love these I am sure they will be added to my stash

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  14. Love Karen Burniston’s work! Can’t wait to play with some of these new die cuts.

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  15. I love these background dies. The colors you have chosen are bold and beautiful and really show off the details.

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  16. I love how you used the background plates. Very nice!!!

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  17. Your cards are beautiful Sandy, thank you.
    Rene from Oz x

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  18. Thank you, Sandy! I really like the plate designs, and was trying to decide which ONE I should get. Now, I think I may need all 3! :P

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  19. Thank you for the video tips. There is always something new to learn!

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  20. Think these dies will be very versatile! I just ordered the Swirls die but may end up ordering the other two!

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  21. Beautiful card! Love the green, purple, black combination of colors!

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  22. Love your cards. Gives me Lots of ideas on how to use these new dies!

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  23. Great way to showcase the Pattern Plates!

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  24. I love these cards you made with Karen's latest release

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  25. It looks like there are many possibilities with the plates.

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  26. These dies look so
    neat on the covers.
    Very pretty.
    Carla from Utah

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  27. Love the helpful hint video! Super love how you wove the ribbon through the design and cut out the shape in middle so everything was flush! These new plates are beautiful and I can wait to create with them. The ideas are running through my head! What a fun release, perfect for summer crafting!
    Thank you,
    Debbie H.
    Debbiehauxhurst@gmail.com

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  28. Love the dies, I like what you did with the ribbon on the green one. There is a lot that can be done with the dies. Love the dies love the cards.

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  29. Loved the tips. The die fronts are very nice.

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  30. I had to go to my TV to watch your video, my Windows 10 tablet crashes with videos. Why I can't hang out much on Facebook group anymore.

    I have to say I like the Swirl background the most and LOVE how you trimmed it to inside corners. ANOTHER reason to put it at the top of my must have list! I'm even more grateful that the last time I got to go to my Hobby Lobby 45 miles away, that I picked up the same metal base plate you showed on your video! I have more reasons to need it now. And I've had TWO brushes from two different companies for a few years now. Invaluable for those intricate dies. I have TWO so I can temporarily lose one... :)

    I wanted to mention that I had watched your video on the Surprise Ball when I got it just before Christmas. I want to thank you for giving me even MORE ways to use that ball. So far, I haven't used that ball in traditional ways at all yet!

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  31. Using those new background plates add such interest to the cards.

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  32. Thank you so much for the tutorial. I am very excited about the plates and now I will have an idea of how to use them right away.

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  33. Weaving ribbon through the Patten Plate is a great idea! Love the color combination!

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  34. Great ideas. The pattern plates add a wow factor to cards. I like the look of the swirl pattern in the corners or the card.

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  35. Love those pattern plates!

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  36. These cards are beautiful! I really like the the green one with the white flowers.

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  37. Love your BEAUTIFUL cards using the new Pattern Plates.

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  38. The pattern plates are so pretty and enable one to make up a beautiful card fast. Thanks for the tips too.

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  39. I always make a larger card but it looks like I could just cut 2 of the pattern pieces and it should fit together nicely for a background.

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  40. Very bright and cheery cards for spring.
    Carol b

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  41. Love these beautiful Pattern Plate designs! Awesome cards! The flower design is my favorite!

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  42. What great cards! Thank you for showcasing each of the backgrounds so that you can really see how great they look on the front of cards!!

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  43. Those Pattern Plates are so great for adding that special touch! Thanks for the ideas!

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  44. Thbe tricks & tips were great. Love the ribbon laced through the die.

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  45. Love all the tips and tricks.Pretty card.

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  46. Thank you for addressing the first thing that came to mind when I saw the beautiful pattern plates in this new release. With all your helpful tips and tricks, I think I can be brave enough to give these intricate full sized dies a try!

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  47. At first glance I thought those were embossing folders...to find out that they are dies cut out is a whole new game changer...eek!...

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  48. Beautiful cards using these dies.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  49. The pattern plates are awesome and I love how you've used them. At first I didn't think that I'd use the Frame Die set but after seeing it in action I've changed my mind!

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  50. These dies look great. I especially like the card you made on the right, in the back. The design of the die is great, and your colors on all of the cards are wonderful.

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