Hi, it’s Karen Burniston with the June Pop it Ups Designer Challenge. Each month I challenge my Designer Challenge team to use Pop it Ups dies for a specific theme. This month the theme is What’s in a Name? I challenged the team to incorporate a Pop it Ups die corresponding to their first and last initials. They were allowed to get creative with how they chose dies, as long as it could be defended. So, for example, my initials are KB and I chose to style Whiskers the Cat as a “Kitty” in a beach-themed card using the Adirondack Chair, Palm Tree & Pail and the Beach Edges.
Here is the video tutorial:
When the card is closed you see Whiskers sitting in the house looking longingly at a beach scene framed on the wall. The caption (computer generated) gives a hint to Whiskers’ future . . . after all, if you can dream it, you can do it! My thought was that this could be a nice congratulatory card for any reason – promotion, graduation, engagement, new baby, new job, dream vacation, etc. It’s about visualizing something improbable and then making it happen.
The video tutorial walks through all the specifics of assembling the beach dies plus styling Whiskers the Cat with different expressions. Using the detail/shadow outlining technique is a great way to change the facial features of any of the Character dies.
To add a Character inside the chair, the video explains the technique for placing an L-support through one of the slats of the chair. This is my preferred method, as it puts no stress on the chair folds themselves. However, it is also possible to animate items inside the chair by building a simple box pop-up into the seat of the chair and/or by using the Spinner die from the Rectangle Pull Card to create an angled platform. (Donna Wright does this brilliantly in her mer-dog card that you’ll see later on in this post) Here is a side view of the L-support method from the video:
The Farm Greetings Clear Stamps offer plenty of generic greetings that are not farm puns, and by selectively inking certain phrases, you can create custom greetings, like this one:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Supply list:
975 Adirondack Chair
981 Beach Edges
983 Whiskers the Cat
987 Palm Tree & Pail
972 Rectangle Accordion (two nested rectangle dies)
973 Tags Pivot Card (two tag dies)
CS001 Farm Greetings Clear Stamps
Detail Scissors
Detail Tweezers
Shimmer Sheetz – White Iridescent, Yellow Iridescent, Red Iris
Double Sided Adhesive
Other Supplies:
Patterned Papers: Sand (Farm House), Clouds (Echo Park), Cat Fur (Kaiser Craft)
Cardstocks: Bazzill
Bakers Twine: Creative Impressions
Black ink: Versafine (Tsukineko)
Brown felt
Now let’s take a look at the fabulous creations of the Designer Challenge Team plus guest designer Sandy.
Frances Byrne chose the “fly” from the Hoppy the Frog die set (Frog also counts, or Farm Greetings Clear Stamps) plus Brownie the Cow (or Barn) and created this colorful and inviting farm-themed birthday card. I l just love her pebble path, the hay blob used as hair for Brownie, and especially the fly on Brownie’s nose. So cute!
Fran Sabad created a wonderful patriotic 4th of July album. She used “frame edges” (in this case the Star Fancy Frame Edges) for her “F” and the Star Accordion for her “S”. Make sure you click over to her blog post to learn more about the flag banner and the barn star styling, plus see the front of the album.
Summer Hills-Painter had an extra challenge with a hyphenated name, but had no trouble combining the Spiral Circle Pull Card, Hay There Pop Stand and Props2 (along with Virgil the Pig and Farm Greetings Clear Stamps) into this fun birthday card. The pinks/reds look so great with the teal green. Great color scheme!
Karen Aicken went hog wild with this amazing 3-panel card featuring the Barn on the front (love that pen detailing on the edges of the cloud and hay) and Katie Label Pivot Card (with All Seasons Tree) inside the card. She used the Farm Greetings Clear Stamps and Virgil the Pig (notice the toupee) as well. Fun!
Raquel Mason got very clever with her beachy accordion. Her R was covered nicely by Ring Accordion, Ring Frame Edges 1, and Rocky the Crab. Then she added the “Mask” from Props3 for her second initial. Love this! The “shell-a-brate” greeting is so clever.
Kelly Booth created a birthday card with bright fun colors. She used the Katie Label Pivot Card and the accessory dies from the Butterfly Pivot Card for her initials and then added the script Happy Birthday and Butterfly Accessory dies as well. Lovely!
Sandy Diller joins us this month with a very clever Spiral Circle Pull Card with Dutch the Fox. She also used the Barn, Hay There and Cheepers the Chicken dies to make a fox in the henhouse card. Brilliant!
Caz Counsell made her son Caiden a very special birthday card. She used Cheepers the Chicken and Brownie the Cow along with three Lucy Labels, Props 1, Props 2, Virgil the Pig, and more! Who doesn’t love a chicken with a bow tie?!
Frances Byrne had lots to choose from with her initials. For her second card she used Hoppy the Frog and the Bathtub Pop Stand die. She also incorporated the Paris Edges and the party blower from Props 2 as a frog tongue. Brilliant!
Shelly Hickox got extremely clever and adapted the House Pivot Card into a garden planter box and filled it with beautiful flowers, including some cut with the All Seasons Tree die. The Lots of Pops poles worked perfectly for feet and she used barn doors for molding details. Amazing!
Fran Sabad made this gorgeous Fancy Accordion using the Star Fancy Frame Edges and the matching butterfly label peel-off stickers. I love those little pearls on the antennae and flower centers. The colors are superb.
Talk about the perfect man card! Karen Aicken created this card for her husband’s recent retirement. She used the Katie Label Accordion (front of the card) and the Adirondack Chair for her initials. It was such a clever idea to incorporate the glossy lake paper and cut the pop-up right into the scene. Brilliant!
Raquel Mason made this sweet friendship card using the Rectangle Pull Card and the Mouse from Whiskers the Cat. She used the spinner to animate her greeting. What a cute card!
Kelly Booth created the perfect metal barn! I just love all the textural fun of this Katie Label Accordion using Brownie the Cow, Cheepers the Chicken and the Barn Pop Stand dies. She used Shimmer Sheetz to create the metal barn. Perfection!
Donna Wright made a beach scene for her card and used Buster the Dog and the Waves from the Beach Edges for her name dies. She also got very clever and converted Buster into a mer-dog by making a mermaid tail from the Palm Tree die. Love it!
Helen Cryer has such a way with colors and patterns. Her House Pivot Card using Brownie the Cow is a perfect example. The front of the card is just as beautiful as the interior, featuring the Farm Greetings Clear Stamps embossed in white powder on pink cardstock.
Shelly Hickox made this wonderful shaker card using the Spiral Circle Pull Card and the Happy Birthday dies. Notice how the tag lines up over the tuck slot and the clever use of the “th” from Birthday to make the 4th part of the greeting. Shelly includes videos of her cards opening and closing on her blog posts, so definitely check it out!
Caz Counsell made a second card for the challenge featuring Brownie the Cow and the All Seasons Tree Clouds for her initials. She used the Lorna Label die to animate her super cute pink cow (I believe this is where strawberry milk comes from!) Also note Brownie’s cute flower, eyelashes and pen detailing.
So there you have it. Such variety in the ideas this month – as varied as the names themselves! Join us next month on July 15, 2015 for the next Pop it Ups Designer Challenge with a theme of “Homegrown Holidays”. The team will be showing Christmas (or other winter holidays) in July ideas.
Happy Crafting!
You all are so amazing with all the varieties of cards that are created. You inspire us all. Thanks so much…
Love all of the cards!!! Can’t wait to try one using my name!!
I can’t name a favorite, they are all so great
I love how you pick a name for all your dies. The critters are the absolute cutest and I have to have them all in my collection. My absolute favorite is the crab and the adirondack chair. It reminds me of our long summer days. Thank you so much for all your inspiration .
I love all the characters but I have to say, Brownie is my new favorite (used to be Whiskers, OK, he’s still a top fav :-)). Growing up, my uncle was a cattle dealer and we used to go out to his farm often. I used to love chasing and trying to catch the baby cows – thinking surly I could. But no, they were much too quick for me. Anyway, Brownie just brings back fond memories of my adventures on the farm. Thanks for your ongoing creativity and wonderful ideas. I always learn from your videos.
It would be cool to give each character die a name. Love these cards!
Rocky is his name. I love the beach too.
I love the diversity of samples the “Name” challenge inspired!
Karen, your design team is so creative with your challenge. I’m just curious, does Whiskers the Cat’s “mouse” have a name?
Love your style!
Nomen est omen/The name is the sign
What a lovely idea to use the initials in your name to create a card!
It was fun to see what everyone came up with for the What’s in a Name challenge. What a great idea for a challenge. It is a good thing your grandfather’s name was Virgil, it gave me the “V” I needed to play along. Thanks for another great video.
I love the idea of using your “name” for this months challenge. The cards were so cute. Love the pop-up dies! So fun!! My favorites are “rocky” and “kitty”.
Great idea to use a name to inspire the card!
I love this card and went to your web site and blog archives. Very amusing. Will have to go back when I have more time. Love your humor. I am looking forward to trying some of your card design ideas. Thanks for sharing.
This card is Purrrfect. I love watching your videos it inspires and brings out my creativity. Thank You
There’s a lot in a Name when it comes to your critters! They are adorable
Hope that I will be named the winner of this fabulous beach themed line. Thanks for giving us the chance to win!!!
I love these animals, when I saw the chicken I knew her Name had to be “chicken licken ” I can’t wait to see what you do next.
The only thing needed to finish up all those critter cards is to give the lovely animals a NAME and invite them into our home.
I am so glad that I am not the person who has to come up with a name for new dies. I love all the names that have been picked for your die characters. They are just so cute!!
I love the names of the animals! I had to get the whole barnyard release! I just took a class with your designer Raquel Mason. Now I have so many samples to try! Keep them coming! I am addicted!
I love your post and examples and really couldn’t NAME a favorite!! They are all wonderful!!
Adorable cards by a very talented team. Hope you pick my name for your generous give away. Thanks for the chance.
I love how you changed the expression of Whiskers the cat. My cat’s name is Betsy. I love it when you have a challenge for all the designers. Such inspiration. Thanks so much.
What’s Ina name? Lots of creativity – that’s for sure!
Love, love all the great cards and all the terrific ideas…..would be very hard for me to name which one I love the best!!!
What a fun idea to take the initials of the designers name to choose the dies. Love the tatally different cards all the DT members created.
Great challenge having the designers use their name. Very creative people.
Thanks for all the great inspiration. The Name game challenge was great.
What’s in a NAME!!!!!!! So many beautiful creations!
I would love it if my name was the chosen one for this competition
Karen Burniston, what a cute card! I enjoyed watching the video & seeing all the cards. It was interesting to see what dies were picked for each persons name.
What wonderful, cute names for your characters!! I can think of many names to send these cuties to, can’t wait!
a name says it all & is unique & important of course these critters would all have a name that really means something…love them especially the PIG
Here is hoping you will name me the winner. I love the chair. I have been using Rocky on some great beach scrapbook pages.
I always enjoy all of your design team ideas and I would never be able to pick just one NAME on the design team that I like the best, because all of them are so awesome!!
What a wonderful set of cards. I love the challenge to use the initials of your name. The resulting cards were so varied and awesome.
I absolutely LOVE the use your NAME challenge! To NAME just one of the cute and adorable critters is just NAMEly impossible!! Although I would have to NAME ECD and Karen Burniston as one of my top favourite Companies and Designers! Unfortunately I don’t have many of your products to NAME in my collection as being on a pitiful carers pension is NAMEly the reason!!
What a creative idea to use your own NAME in making a card. Mine’s SvB still struggling with the v! Can use the dies in a beach theme!!
What’s in a name? The cutting dies are just plain cute. I love working with them.
Love the Name, Whiskers, for the cat. So appropriate and cute!
Such clever use of the artists initials of their NAME
I love the NAME you have given to each character. So cute! Now you can pick my NAME as the winner. 🙂
I wish I had the time to name ALL of the diesel want to buy from Elizabeth Craft Designs but that would take too long!!! Hope I win yay!!!!
Oh Wow!!! The NAME of the game is to having fun with all the designs. Love them all. Great ideas.
Fabulous cards from a very talented, creative group of designers. Terrific tutorial. Hoping you pick my Name!!!!!!!!!
I love the beach chair and can’t wait to make one with my NAME on it. The design team has so much creativity! Thanks for sharing.
Love the name theme!! You have some awesome challenges!
Love the idea of matching a die to a NAME!! How fun is that! Can I just say that LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beach scene dies…total yum!
Fun, fun, fun is the Name of the game!
Craft on my friends! These are adorable.
Love these cards – you all are such wonderful mad talent! I feel like there a chair on the beach with my NAME on it!
Awesome inspiration and fun name theme! Love the pop-up chair die.
Love your name challenge. The projects were so cute. I love the animals.I have the bench and use cats and dogs on it.But the chair would be great fun.
I couldn’t begin to Name all the ways to use these dies to have a fun card to give someone-Your creativity never ends
When you name this designer…you are naming the best one out there!
Oh Sooooooooooo many inspiring cards. Now I have looked at the dies and decided that I must try something using my “Name” (and or Initials). Thinking of the Evergreen Pivot and Eiffel Tower for Elizabeth, and Holiday House, Hoppy, Honey and or the Holly Edges for my maiden last name Hahn. … You don’t have one starting with “M” for my new married name. ** I think you should definitely add a Sheep, Goat and Horse to your character line. A Llama would be fun too ! Think of where we could go with that. Mountain climbing in the Andes maybe ? — I have got to stop, my mind is racing !! Liz
Love the cards that use the chair. Talent is the NAME of the game!
Great way to use the initials of the people to name the dies!
Clever to use the initials of their Name! You are always clever Karen:) They are a talented group of ladies also and love all their ideas!
Lynda
Fabulous name challenge. The dt did another great job.
That’s a great way to name the animals.
Love your name challenge. It was fun to see who used what dies to represent their name. Thanks for a fun share.
Love all your dies and how you decide their names!!!
I love watching your videos. You certainly make things look easy. I am glad you name the products used so I can make a shopping list. 🙂
Who knew when they said What’s in a Name that such a creative team could rise to the challenge. My favorite is Dreams Come True – thanks for sharing this talent with us.
What a FUN collection! I’m glad you used initials, not full NAMEs. 😀 They’re all so inventive!!!!
What a fun name game. I found myself looking more closely at the designs to see how the DT met the challenge.
Love all you & your designers unique ideas to use the initials of their name for this months challenge.
I gave Whiskers a new NAME. CHICO for my kitty kat. But I don’t have a dog so Buster will remain Buster. I have both these dies and can’t wait to try some of these great ideas.
What a fun way to design a card with using your initials in your name! I think I am going to have to try that one some time! All the cards are just fabulous!!!
I can’t even begin to NAME which is my favorite die OR card – LOVE them all!!!!
What a great blog post! So many great creations, I couldn’t NAME one I liked the best! 🙂
I just love the chair pop up! All of the cards are fabulous, it’s really hard to name just one. The chair, water, tree, farm, animals, etc. You are so creative, and I also love that you name the cards with the designers initials. So clever of you! but, that’s not surprising, is it! LOVE YOU!
I can never get enough of these dies. Like the challengewith the name initials. All the uses you have shared are so inspiring. Keep them coming! Thanks for sharing.
Whenever I make cards from your dies I always make sure I NAME drop and tell people that I use the Pop It Ups collection from Karen Burniston! They are awesome! YOU are awesome! LOL
Fabulous projects. Thank you for highlighting their initials in their NAME in red!
Great cards. can’t name which is my favorite as they all are beautiful
Wow, so many to NAME. I don’t know where to start…. they are all so, so cute.
I love all the pop up dies, and think the NAMEs for the characters are so cute.
I’ve been collecting your card ideas for some time and have many of the dies – or HAD. Our house burned down i March and with it all my stamps and dies, so I’m starting all over. Love your characters, but favor the frog.
Great job ladies! Love the idea to use their name to choose the dies, certainly added variety.
Not sure what’s up, but my last comment never showed up. Hope I’m not commenting twice. I loved the name game challenge and thought everyone did a great job, though some had to finaggle (sp?) a bit (but I’m not naming names). Thanks to all, as you keep coming up with all the cutest and best ideas.
This is a great challenge I would use Buster the DOG and WISKERS the cat for the initials in my NAME !
What fun cards and a fun challenge for them to use the initials of their name for ideas….the DT did a great job! I have several favorites – LOL!
Paper Hugs,
J C
Love this challenge! Lots of wonderful designs using the initials of your name! The designers are amazing!!
I love the idea of initials of your name for the ideas. That could be quite a challenge. The beach chair would be great on a card.
Just love all of the Designers creations, fab inspiration. Love the NAMES you have used for each individual character.
What’s in a Name, the Kitty Die is meant for me. Hee hee. Hope I am a winner.
I wish I can NAME a favorite, but I just can’t! They are all sooooo cute! All the characters have really cute names too! truly wonderful projects!
The Name Challenge was awesome! I wish I had this much creativity. I will have to continue to rely on you and your designers good sense for inspiration!
These cards are the cutest, most creative I’ve seen in a long while, keep up the great work. Love the beach card.
I love the challenge. Your DT is always so creative. Using the names is a way to personalize the cards. Thanks always for your creativity. Have a blessed day!!!!
You ladies have such wonderful mad talent! Love it all. Feel like there’s a chair on the beach with my NAME on it 🙂
The new dies are so great, just love the crab. Love the names you have given all the animals
Wow! You are so creative in thinking of these great ideas of using their “Name” initials to choose their dies for the card. Just makes it so versatile that any of your dies can mix and match (not that we don’t know). Love them all!!!!!!
I love seeing all of these creative cards. Just bought the cat–can’t wait to use it!
What a great idea using the initials in your NAME as a challenge. These designs are so unique and look so wonderful,,,thanks for sharing these great looks! Have a great day 🙂
So many lovely cards and great ideas. I love all these dies and the NAME for each is adorable!
It is a Nixe idea. I Can use hoppy and Kitty for my Name. Thanks For Chance to Win.
So many ideas here in this challenge and having to use a NAME as the stimulus for the design is great fun! I love the chair die as it is such a useful prop for a card and character.
Hi…love the cards…would be a hard challenge for me as my NAME is Yve!!
Hi Karen, lovely new products! I love the names and I truly hope my name is picked as a winner this time! It’s funny I always take part in the monthly drawings but never know who wins.
The winners get contacted by e-mail and I also announce them on my blog. There is a category called “giveaway” on my blog that will sort the blog into those posts, although I have occasionally forgot to categorize a post. Here you go: http://karenburniston.typepad.com/i_am_not_lefthanded/giveaway/
Lovely cards, it is hard to put a NAME to my favourite. Maybe SD – Sandy Diller with her funny chicken card.
I LOVE the idea of using your name to create your card! All of the design team did a fabulous job. Lots of variety and interest. Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
Robbie
love all your dies. the animals in the farm set are so so adorable. the secret work is NAME. my name begins with l so I would use them all because I like them all. great work by you and your team.
All the Name cards are awesome. Hmmm, I’m going to figure out which ones I’d use D H.
Beach & Cats two of my favorite things! LOVE THIS CARD! All the cards were awesome. Loved the Retirement card & also Fran’s Butterfly & Flower card. I could go on and list them all. You are all very good at what you do. Thank you for the great cards! What’s in a name was very creative.
I love every card you do. I’m not going to NAME it because there are so many.
NAME,
What amazing creations!! I love how the designer’s had to use the initials of their names to decide what to use for dies!
I would really love to know how you name your character dies also! Curiosity is my middle name you know!
Have a great day!
Barb, sometimes I name them based on their personalities or features (Hoppy, Chilly, Honey, Whiskers, Brownie, Rocky) and some have namesakes (Poppy for the Pop it Ups Designer Challenge Team, Cheepers for Shelly’s actual chicken, Virgil for my late grandfather, who loved pigs, Dutch for the van de Burgt family, Buster for a stray dog our family called Buster)
It’s fun to see how each designer expresses their creativity. Each animal name adds to the charm of these cards.
These are so cute!! I would get these dies, and name every single one!!
What a creative way to use your NAME! All of the card ideas in the designer challenge are so clever. Can’t wait to incorporate some of these ideas into my own cards.
Hi, I enjoy looking at the delightful card creations and the various techniques used to make them! Thanks to all of you artists, for sharing your cards. I don’t know the name of the critter that I would put in the adorable Adirondack Chair…
Many thanks, Cindi
jchoppes@hotmail.com
Whats in a NAME? I have defiantly put a NAME on these cute characters!
The name of the game is die cutting. I love all the dies.
Wow, all the cards in the NAME challenge are amazing! So much fun to see hiw each designer incorporated her initials!
Wonderful and inspiring projects. Love how you highlighted their initials in their “NAME” in red!
Love love love all the dies and characters. They all have such cute NAMEs. I look forward to seeing more.
My cards with your dies turn out so nice that I frequently don’t want to spoil them by signing my NAME!
I think using people’s NAME was a very clever way to design a challenge. My initials are LK so I guess I could use the Lorna Label and Whiskers the Cat, AKA Kitty. Whiskers the cat is one of my favorite dies and I use it a lot. I think if I won, though, I would choose the cow die. I don’t have him yet. He is equally cute to Whiskers the Cat!
Oh Wow!!! The NAME of the game is to having fun with all the designs. Love the all. Great ideas.
Well done!!!!!
It is great fun to see what designer come up with in a challenge. Name(ly) because it exercises the creative process. Grea fun.
All of the cards are just beautiful!! Your DT is amazing always love seeing what they have come up with, and Karen you rock!!! Using your “name” has a way to pick your dies is very clever!! Thanks for sharing all of your wonderful ideas!
A very fun challenge to use the designer’s initials of their NAMEs. I would have a somewhat difficult time using my name to do the challenge .. “LL” … altho .. Lorna Label would take care of it using just one die!
I love all of the cards. They are truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Well done.
Such clever and amazing projects from the whole team. Loved every one!
This was such a fun challenge, love what the DT created using their initials. Another awesome KB video too.
Love your card, Karen B! And your video is amazing – again. I always learn tricks from your videos. AWESOME DT projects too. Wow!