Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC January 2026 Release Blog Hop

 Hi Crafty Friends, 

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 10 new dies and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!

This release includes:

2 new Pop-up Die Sets
4 new Add-on Die Sets
2 new Lorna Add-on Die Sets
1 new Charm Die Set
1 new Stand Alone Die Set
5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets

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, 9th February. 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!

My card for our Blog Hop uses the new Peacock Add-Ons and the Arch Pop-Up.

I'm not going to lie, this card was ALOT of work, but I'd do all the these steps again in a heartbeat. I absolutely love how this card turned out. Hands down my favourite one in this release. So let's get started on how I made this one. 

I started with a 5x7 card base using heavy weight smooth white cardstock. I went through my patterned paper stash and found this pretty floral paper. I'm not usually one to use paper like this, as I find when you use busy paper it takes away from the pop-up in the centre, but this one worked perfectly with my Peacock. 

I die cut the Arch Pop-Up from a green cardstock and also die cut the Peacock arch piece from the same cardstock. I added both of these to my card base. 

You know me, my peacock had to look realistic, so I found a picture of a peacock and got to work. I started with die cutting the feathers from green cardstock. Then I die cut all the pieces for the tip of each feather. This was a light green, a yellow, teal blue and black. 

Now for the time consuming part lol. For each light green feather tip, I added some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink just around the edges of each one. Then I did the same for each yellow piece. I just Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink and went around the edge of each teal blue piece. Then I glued each piece to the tip of each feather. This took in total about and hour or more. I was trying to be careful because I just wanted ink on only the edges. It's subtle but it makes a difference. 

I then began adding my feathers to the Arch Pop-Up. Once I had them all on, I was trying to figure how to add the tiny feathers that are on a Peacock from the bottom of the neck up to the feathers. I was going to draw them on and colour them but it looked terrible. Then I decided to die cut several of the smaller feather tip pieces from the same light green cardstock. Then I used Copic marker YR24 Pale Sepia to go around the edges of each piece and add the little line going up the middle. Once I had them all coloured, I began adding them around the base of my peacock. I did this before adding the neck/face piece. 

I then die cut the neck/face pieces from smooth white cardstock and coloured them in with Copic markers. I glued this head onto the body and tested the card to make sure it opened and closed properly. I did that a lot while adding the feathers, just to be sure. 

For the rest of the card, I die cut two pieces from a dark teal cardstock and ran them through an embossing folder to give them some texture. I added more light green cardstock behind each piece to make them pop. Then I added the Happy Birthday sentiment along with the ribbon banner sentiment which comes from the new Strut Your Stuff sentiment stamp. I used the frame from the Whirly Wheel die set to add a place to sign the card. 

For the front of the card, I added more Peacock feathers and some more of the same paper from the inside of the card. I added another great sentiment from the Strut Your Stuff stamp set. I am so in love with this card. This is definitely one to get with this new release. It's a show stopper!! 

Thank you so much for stopping by on our Blog Hop day. Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Teams fantastic creations and please leave a comment with your name and way to reach you for your chance to win a $25 online gift certificate to spend at Karen's online store!! Below the Blog Hop list, is a list of all the supplies I used to make this card. Thank you again and Happy Crafting!

Karen 

Lois Bak 

Sue Small-Kreider 

Frances Byrne 

Jennifer Webster --- you are here!

Suzanne Smit

Nicky Foden

Sandy Diller

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