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Happy, happy Friday! Today I’m sharing a technique that will allow you to stretch your dies even further!

This card came about as one of those crafting “happy accidents”. I was flipping through my dies in search of the Perfect Pears Die Set and a saved die cut (I never throw away full cover plate die cuts but store them for future use) fell out onto my desk. The die cut was one that I had cut out of silver cardstock with the Delfina A die. As I was getting the pears out to die cut the through occurred to me that the two would look great together!

I knew that I didn’t want to use the silver but thought gold would be a better choice for my pears. So I die cut two of the Delfina A layers from gold cardstock. I also die cut two of the largest dies from the Perfect Pears die set.  I sponged ink on them using Distress Oxide inks. To add some extra texture, I splattered the pears with both dark green and gold paint.

I adhered the gold die cuts on top of the pears and trimmed around the pear edges.  The Perfect Pears die set included the leaf and stem dies, so I die cut those out of green and Kraft cardstock.

For the background of my card, I sponged some turquoise Distress Oxide ink.  Again, for added texture, I splattered on both water and gold paint.

I chose the “We’re the Perfect Pear” sentiment from the Love and Miss You stamp set.  I created a little banner by trimming each end and then adhered to the card using dimensional foam.  For embelllishment, I sprinkled on some gold sequins from the Not So Heavy Metals sequin mix.

I have to say that I really love how this turned out!  The gold die cuts add a touch of elegance, giving the pears a whole new look!

I hope this has inspired you to look through your dies to see what you might be able to combine to create something new and unexpected!

Supplies

57019 Delfina A

57093 Perfect Pears

CL8123 Love and Miss You clear stamp set

No So Heavy Metal sequins

Happy Monday and welcome to another inspiration post at Birch Press Design. I have a clean and simple card for you today along with a video tutorial to show you how I made it.

I used the Birch Press Design Simple Church craft die to create my card which could be to celebrate Easter or any other occasion that you would attend church for. The die can be used in one colour where you can clearly see all its detail or you can use a variety of colours to highlight the details like I did today. I started off by sponging a panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock using Distress Oxide ink to create a beautiful blue sky.
Here is the video of my process:

As I was creating the card and filming the video I decided to change the border of the clock, the border of the windows and the main door of the church from white to silver sparkle cardstock to really make the church shine.

If you look closely you will see that the die was able to etch the texture of the shingles right into the silver sparkle paper, just gorgeous!

Thank you so much for joining me today and I hope that I have inspired you to look at the Simple Church craft die in a new way. Be sure to come back and visit us on Wednesday for more Birch Press Design inspiration.

Supplies

57077 Simple Church

CL8119 Time to Celebrate clear stamp set

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have some Easter Egg Goodie Bags to share with you all using the Stitched Egg Die Set along with the Fiori Egg Die Set and Time To Celebrate Stamp Set.

To begin my bags today, I first used the largest Stitched Egg Die from the set and cut it six times from some white cardstock. Once they were cut, I pulled three shades of three colours of cardstock and cut each layer of Fiori Egg from each of them. So the A die cut from the lightest shade, B die cut from the middle shade and C die cut from the darkest shade. One I had three layers of blue, purple and pink I adhered all three layers together using some liquid glue and then those three layers onto a white base.

Next, it was time to create the base of my bags. I took some white cardstock, cut them down to 1 1/4″ wide by 6 1/2″ long and then scored each long side at 1/4″. Then, using my bone folder I creased along the scored lines and added thin adhesive to each flap. I then cut some slits up to the score lines on both sides of the strips in the middle of each piece. Then, cutting out every other one to make the strip bend easier. Lastly, I cut small triangles from each of the four sides that were left untouched, so again they would bend easier. I removed the adhesive off each side and adhered it onto my egg layers. One side when on the plain white egg and then I adhered the pretty Fiori Egg on top of each of them.

Now that my bags were assembled, I took some fake grass and filled each of the goodie bags. Makes it look a little nicer when you add the eggs. For my sentiment, I took the Time To Celebrate stamp set and white heat embossed the ‘From All Of Us’ sentiment onto thin black strips. I then added foam tape onto the backs and adhered them onto my bags.

So that finishes up my goodie bags today, I hope you enjoyed. I love using dies in unexpected ways! Also, just wanted to add here that they don’t stand up well, obviously because they are round it’s hard for them to stand up and also, they are quite open at the top, so to resolve the eggs falling out, you could punch a hole at the top and add some twine through, that would probably help and also, these bags are only 3/4″ deep, if you wanted to make them deeper, you could to fit a larger egg or more eggs/gift in, but I just wanted them smaller, but really the possibilities are endless.

So thank you so much for stopping by and watching today, the video is linked above and I’ll catch you all next time!

Supplies

Fiori Egg Layer Set

Fiori Egg Layer A

Fiori Egg Layer B

Fiori Egg Layer C

Stitched Egg Set

CL8119 Time to Celebrate clear stamp set

Hello there crafty friends!  Laurie here with you today sharing a bright and cheerful peony card.

Some of my favorite Birch Press Design dies to date are the Peony Bloom Cover Plates!  With these dies, it is so easy to create beautifully detailed cards in no time at all!

To create my card, I started by die cutting the Peony Bloom Layer A die out of red cardstock and Peony Bloom Layer B die out of a coral cardstock.  For the background, I sponged some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink onto two of the corners of a white cardstock layer.  I then spritzed it with water, lifting off some of the ink to leave white splatters.  For the final touch, I splattered on some gold paint.

I adhered the two Peony layers together and then attached to the sponged background layer.

I really love that the Peony Layer dies come with separate leaf dies, making it easy to customize the flowers.  I chose to die cut the leaves out of a shiny gold cardstock.

I didn’t want to add a sentiment to the front of the card as I didn’t want to cover up any of those lovely flowers.  I chose to carry the design over to the inside of the card and add my sentiment there.  I die cut another Peony Bloom Layer A out of red cardstock.  I trimmed off one of the flowers and adhered it to the upper right corner.  I stamped the Miss You sentiment from the Love and Miss You stamp set in black ink.  I also wanted to carry over a little bit of the gold from the front design so I added a gold die cut butterfly (from the Butterfly Cluster die set).

Thanks so much for joining me here today!

Supplies

57070 Peony Bloom Layer A

57071 Peony Bloom Layer B

57084 Butterfly Cluster

CL8123 Love and Miss You clear stamp set

Hi it’s Tracey here today for another Birch Press Design inspiration post.  Today we are colouring some Easter eggs! Not the hard boiled kind, but gorgeous jeweled paper kind.

I used the newly released Stitched Egg craft dies along with alcohol inks to create some gorgeous gold embellished Easter eggs. .

The video below will show you how I created the jeweled and gold embellished eggs.

The card base has a white Tilter Layer A Stackable die cut on top which acts as a basket for our eggs.

One thing with colouring your eggs this way is that no two eggs will ever be the same. With alcohol inks the results are always unexpected. Lets have a closer look at the elegant jeweled finishes on these eggs.

These were cut out from three separate alcohol inked panels. They eggs end up with a glossy finish and every egg has a vibrant blend of colours and no two are the same.

Each egg has either a little or a lot of shimmery gold detail on them. When gold Mixatives are added to the alcohol inked panels and moved around with the Alcohol Blending Solution you can never tell where the gold will settle. When you cut your egg shapes using the Stitched Egg craft dies you can place the die wherever you want to cut the egg giving each one it’s own unique look.

The card was finished off with sentiments from the Sending Love clear stamps and dies. I hope you enjoyed seeing another way to add colour to your Birch Press Design craft die cut shapes. Join us again on Wednesday as we have another inspiration post for you. You can now find inspiration on the Birch Press Design blog Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s!