Author: birch press

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I have a moving house themed card for you all. I’ll be using the Home Sweet Home dies, along with Sending Love and Time to Celebrate stamp sets. I’ll also be pulling in this gorgeous handmade paper called Bouquet Handmade for my base and colour inspiration for the rest of my project.

To begin my card today, I first started off with die cutting my Home Sweet Home die. I cut it from some watercolour cardstock and separated all the pieces. Then, I watercoloured each of the pieces using my Mijello Misson Gold palette. I used the colours for inspiration from the paper. I coloured the base of my house with a purpley-pink colour, then the roof and window frames with a pink. Then using the Kurtake Gansai Starry Colors palette, I coloured the inside of the windows, and the roof trimmings with a gold. I set them off to the side to dry and worked on my other elements.

Next, I took a piece of vellum and cut it down to 4″ wide by 5 1/2″ tall, set that off to the side and then cut down another piece of watercolour paper a 1/4″ smaller, so it could fit on top of the vellum. I then used the same Mijello Misson Gold palette and water-coloured a blue sky and green land, so my house could be adhered to something grounded. Once it was watercolored, I used my heat tool to speed up the drying time.

Now that all my elements were ready I could adhere them into place. I cut down my Bouquet Handmade paper to 4″ wide by 5 1/2″ tall and adhered it down to a white card base of the same size. Then, I adhered my water-coloured panel on top of my vellum, leaving a 1/4″ gap around two edges. Then, I adhered that panel onto my paper at a slight angle, as I thought that would be a fun design element and also, it lets that gorgeous paper shine through even more. I then used my scissors to cut off the excess around the two remaining edges. I decided at this point my house was too large for the area, so I decided to cut off the second storey of the house and adhere the roof over top to hide the cut edges. Worked out perfectly and I love altering dies to fit my designs better. I then used foam tape and adhered my house into place.

For my sentiment, I pulled both the Time to Celebrate and Sending Love stamp sets and used those together for my sentiment. I used the Happy from Sending Love, stamped it onto some white cardstock and die cut it out using the coordinating dies. Then, I used the ‘So Happy For You’ from the Time to Celebrate set, masked off the ‘happy’ word and white heat embossed that sentiment on a thin strip of black cardstock. Last step was to then used foam squares on the back of all three pieces and adhere them under my house die.

So that finished up my card for today, I hope you enjoyed and were inspired. The video is linked down below if you would like to watch it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I’ll catch you all next time!

Supplies

57091 Home Sweet Home

CL8119 Time to Celebrate clear stamp set

CL8126 Sending Love clear stamp set

58126 Sending Love die set

I hope you’re having a great day!  Masculine cards seem to be a struggle sometimes, but they’re a breeze with the new nautical images in the store!  Two new stamp sets you’ll find include Let Your Dreams Sail and Let Your Light Shine. Both sets have coordinating die cuts making them easy to create scenes.
The new Waves Plates are easy to assemble.   Just choose three shades of card stock, cut them and assemble them.   I chose a dark navy for the most detailed layer (A) and then slightly lighter shades for Layers B & C.  Don’t you love the stitching?  While the swirly curves make the most beautiful ocean waves I can’t help but think of Van Gogh’s Starry Night!
This background is so pretty you might not want to cover it up!   I added a sailboat from Let Your Dreams Sail.  The sentiment is perfect for your favorite guy’s special day !Sometimes images can get lost on a busy background.  I approach the layered background the same way I do pattern paper.  I break up the patterns by adding some solid card stock.   The solid card stock die cut circles as a sun takes the focus off the background and makes the perfect setting for the sailboat.  The Stitched Circle Layers are from Memory Box. 

You can check out all the newest items in the store here!   Thanks for stopping by!

Waves Plate Layer ABPD	Waves Plate Layer BBPD	Waves Plate Layer CBPD	Let Your Dreams Sail StampsBPD
Let Your Dreams Sail DiesBPD

Welcome back for another inspiration post at Birch Press Design. Tracey here today with another post about stretching your supplies. When you purchase a set of craft dies, whether single dies or set that has multiple dies, it always feels good to make good use of your dies. If you are anything like me you never seem to have enough birthday cards on hand. In today’s post and video tutorial I am using the Party Balloon craft die to make three birthday cards.

I started off by sponging some ink onto three 4.25″ x 5.5″ panels of Bristol smooth cardstock. I trimmed each of my panels into two pieces because my Big Shot tool is currently waiting to have a bearing replaced and I am using a smaller die cut tool. You of course do not need to trim your panels.

Here is a short video of my process:

I created three card bases each using green gingham paper from Birch Press Design. Then I added a white panel with my birthday sentiment from the Wishing You The Best clear stamp set with foam tape for dimension. I switched the colours of the balloons for each card, making each one unique. I added a few sequins to each card to add a bit of bling.



The foam taped panel added just a bit more dimension.

I hope today’s post has inspired you to try stretching your dies to make multiples of similar cards to build up your card supply or to use those beautiful craft dies to make more than just one card. Pop back in on Wednesday for another inspiration post. We are posting Monday, Wednesday and Friday every week now at Birch Press Design.

Supplies

57073 Party Balloon

CL8127 Wishing You the Best clear stamp set

Key Lime Gingham