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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!

 

 

 

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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!

Hello!  Today I’ve made a thank you card using the center of the Fiori Layer Egg Layer C for a background, framed in with Double Stitch Circle Frames by Poppystamps.  I love thinking about ways to get the most out of dies, and this is a great way to stretch the Fiori Egg way beyond Easter!

The “thank you” sentiment is from the beautiful Little Birdie stamp set, and the top panel rests beautifully on top of a Pool notecard. In the video, I’ll show how this design looks on many of the new colors of notecards available.

A single sequin from Mermaid Tale has been added to the center for just a tiny-yet-effective bit of sparkle.

These cards are so fast and simple to make, which also makes for  a great bulk project for those spur-of-the-moment thank-you’s to have on hand. In the video, I’ll also show this against a black background, which makes it a great thank you card for more formal occasions, such as a graduation thank you card.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy the video below:

 

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Hi friends, Eloise here and today I have a Best Wishes card to share with you all using the Flutter Plate Layering Die Set as well as the Wishing You The Best stamp set and the Double Stitch Scalloped Rectangle Frames Dies from Poppy Stamps.

To begin, I first pulled out nine colours of cardstock from my stash, three shades of yellow, three shades of pink and three shades of blue. This is because I want three colours of butterflies, all layered up in different colours to stretch this layering plate set die to create a smaller scaled design. Once I chose all my cardstock I die cut each of my layers out. I used the A plate on the lightest shade, the B plate on the medium shade and the C plate on the darkest shade. Once they were all cut out, I layered them up and could cut them apart.

I cut out each butterfly using an exacto knife, making sure I used a different butterfly for each colour. If you had one of the layering butterfly dies that were individual, you could use that and save this step, but I love stretching my supplies so that’s why I’m using the plate dies. Once I cut out all my butterflies, I adhered them together using a glue pen. Next, I used the Scalloped Rectangle Dies and cut out a frame using some cream cardstock and also cut down a card base that fits the frame perfectly. Once they were cut, I went adhered and adhered my butterflies down onto card base, making sure to over lap to cover up the cuts I made on each of the butterflies to get them apart from one another.

Once I adhered all my butterflies down, I adhered over my frame as well. Next I used the Wishing sentiment from Wishing You The Best onto some white cardstock, then cut it out using the coordinating dies. I added foam tape onto the back and adhered it down onto my panel. Next, I white heat embossed the ‘You The Very Best’ sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock that I cut down earlier and adhered that underneath my sentiment. To finish it up I added a brown and white twine bow onto the right hand side of my black strip and also decided I didn’t like the cream frame, so I changed it over to white.

The video is linked down below for you to watch.

That finishes up my card for today, I hope you enjoyed and felt inspired to use your cover plate dies in a different way. Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll catch you all next time.

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Do you love to make?  I don’t think there’s any nicer way to show someone you care than to make something from the heart especially for them!   When you do it yourself you can personalize your design with the recipients favorite colors and embellishments.

My mom loves flowers – when I was little I’d pick her bouquets of wild violets or dandelions.  She made a fuss over each offering making me feel like the best daughter ever.  Now that I’m older I can buy roses from the florist.. but I know these hand stamped beauties will be just as appreciated!

I stamped the Brushed Birthday Greetings in bright bold colors – yellow, orange and red.  This is a double stamp floral with coordinating dies.  I adhered the roses with adhesive foam tape to add dimension.  The leaves are adhered directly to the layered background.

I wanted the background colors to compliment the flowers so I cut the Avalon Frame layers in white, yellow and orange.  I added a simple sentiment from the Sending Love clear stamp set. I love the mixed fonts together.

Send some handmade hugs to your someone special with a hand made card  made specially for them!

Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5″

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