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  • Joy | by Crystal Komara

    Joy | by Crystal Komara

    Hello crafty readers! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today. Hopefully by now you have started making your Christmas cards or maybe even some of you are already done. And then the real overachievers have them all stamped and addressed ready to be shipped! Well. . . I’m not! I’m always late to the game. But, I’ve still got a little time to inspire you with some Birch Press Design products and this festive modern shaker card.

    Card details:

    The base of this A2 sized card is made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White smooth cardstock. I cut a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of red cardstock and used it as the first card layer. Using the Radial Pinpoint Cover Die, I cut the next layer from white cardstock. I cut Layers A and C of the Tranquility Layering Die from pool party cardstock and I cut Layer B of the Tranquility Layering Die from red glitter cardstock found in the Frosted 6″ x 6″ Paper Pack. *Note – I did not use the center pieces from the Tranquility Layering Dies because I used the vacant space to create a shaker card.

    I lined the circle on the back of the Tranquility Layering Die with a piece of acetate. I put about 1 tablespoon of iridescent sequins on the card before adhering the die in place over the sequins. I adhered this entire piece to the center of the card using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension.

    I stamped the “joy” from the new Contempo Christmas Greetings stamp set in red ink on white cardstock. I used the coordinating Contempo Christmas Greetings die to cut out the circle. I adhered the sentiment to the lower right side of the shaker card also using 3M adhesive for added dimension. Lastly, I added a few red rhinestone embellishments for added sparkle.

    I hope you have enjoyed this modern holiday card. Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

  • Blue Frosty Flake | By Seeka

    Blue Frosty Flake | By Seeka

    Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I’m sharing a card featuring the Frosty Flake die set over a background made with Distress Paint.

    I started with the background. I dropped several drops of Broken China Distress Paint onto a craft mat and then sprayed the drops with a few spritzes of clean clear water. Next, I dragged a 4.25″ x 5.5″ inch piece of heavy white cardstock through the drops, covering most of the panel with paint. While the paint and panel are wet, the diluted paint moves around to create a soft and cloudy effect. I let the panel dry a bit and then dabbed it again into the paint on the craft mat to create the more distinct droplets of color.

    While the panel was drying, I used the Frosty Flake Layer die set to die cut two snowflakes. I die cut layer A from white cardstock twice and layer C from Tonic Craft Perfect Silky Sky Satin Effect Mirror cardstock twice; I skipped layer B. I adhered the layers of each snowflake together and then set them aside.

    Next, I used the Simple Joy die to create the sentiment. I cut the detail layer from the same Silky Sky cardstock, and I cut the shadow layer from white cardstock. Then I adhered the two layers together.

    To assemble the card, I adhered the two snowflakes to the background and then used foam tape to adhere the sentiment. Finally, I adhered the card front to a card base.

    Thank you so much for visiting!


    Supplies


  • Frosty Flake | By Dilay Nacar

    Frosty Flake | By Dilay Nacar

    Hi, friends and happy Friday! 

    Dee (@dilaynacar) here today sharing a fun snowflake card featuring one of my favorite layering dies and a background that I created using acrylic sprays and die cuts! Let’s get started!

    To begin, I took an extra background that I had previously created and cut it with the Pinpoint Radial background die (you can use any background that you like!) Next, I die cut three of the Frosty Flake snowflake die (only Layer A), adhered them to the background, and trimmed off the excess.

    Next, I cut the Big Friends Sugar Script die with the leftover acrylic-sprayed cardstock and the shadow  die in white, then adhered them to the card using foam tape. To finish, I added a sub-sentiment from my stash and some clear sequins for a little extra sparkle!

    Thank you so much for joining me today!

    57388 Frosty Flake Layer Set
    57384 Pinpoint Radial Plate
    57177 Big Friend Sugar Script
  • Stunning Mandala | by Toni M Maddox

    Stunning Mandala | by Toni M Maddox

    Hi, hi! Toni here with you today. I’m sharing a couple of quick holiday cards assuming that you’re in a cardmaking panic realizing that Christmas is practically tomorrow. LOL.

    Both of my cards use the Memory Box Stunning Mandala 3D Embossing Folder on top of Glitzy Glitter cardstock.

    Now I didn’t waste all that fabulous glitter cardstock beneath. I cut the Frosty Flake Layering dies from the gorgeous purple and Honey Script Peace out of the blue (for use later).

    I used sentiments from Christmas Mandala for both as well–embossing in silver or stamping in Versafine Onyx Black.

    I must say it’s incredibly difficult to take good pics of the white background of these cards but I wanted to show you the amazing embossing of the Memory Box Stunning Mandala 3D Embossing Folder.

    The blue card uses the mandala with the texture facing out. For the purple snowflake card (look at that snowflake!–swoon), I ran the embossed card panel through my Big Shot to flatten it some and then used the reverse, debossed side. Both are so very beautiful, don’t you think?

    Thanks for stopping by and taking time out of your busy day. I hope you get some (crafty) time to yourself soon!

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    CL8161 Christmas Mandala clear stamp set

     

     

     

    EF1021 Stunning Mandala 3D Embossing Folder

     

     

     

    57388 Frosty Flake Layer Set

     

     

     

    GP1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

     

     

  • A Marisol Gate Fold Card! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    A Marisol Gate Fold Card! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

    For today we will be creating a Gate Fold Card featuring the Marisol Ornament and Frame layering Die Sets!

    We start with getting all our die cutting out of the way and then start laying our card stock with liquid adhesive. For two of the layers, I chose glitter card stock, liquid adhesive is perfect to make sure all our layers stay together!

    From the C Layer of the Marisol Frame Die Set there is a tab, for our card we will be cutting that tab off.

    I cut a piece of card stock to measure 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches and score along the long side at 2 1/8 inches. When these are folded in you can see a light gap between the two panels.

    I grabbed some twine out of my stash and treaded it through the holes already die cut in each panel and started to layer my card.

    I started with each frame panel on each side making sure my twine was not caught under the panel when gluing into place and then only added glue to one side of the card within the ornament opening and setting my ornament.

    You only have to then tie your twine in front and your card is ready to be sent to someone special for the holidays!

    As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

    Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon!


    Supplies


    56114 Marisol Ornament Layer Set
    57441 Marisol Frames Layer Set
  • Honey Script Holiday Sentiments | by Crystal Komara

    Honey Script Holiday Sentiments | by Crystal Komara

    Hello readers! Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and hopefully found the time to do something crafty. This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing two cards using the Honey Script Holiday sentiments “Jolly” and “Believe” and the Linear Triangle Die in festive red and green glittery colors!

    As much as I like using non-traditional colors for my holiday cards, you can never go wrong with red and green, especially when it is red and green glitter cardstock! Glitter adds so much extra sparkle and cheer!

    Card details:

    The base of this A2 sized card was made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. Using Layer C of the Delfina Layering die, I cut this from white cardstock and adhered it to the card as my “background.” I die cut the word “Jolly” from the Jolly Honey Script sentiment die. I die cut the larger shadow from red glitter cardstock and the thinner sentiment from white cardstock. I layered the two words together using a fine tip liquid adhesive and then adhered the sentiment to the card using 3M foam adhesive. I die cut the Linear Triangle die from white cardstock and placed strips of alternating red and green glitter paper behind each stripe. The glitter cardstock was from the Frosted 6 x 6″ paper pack. I then adhered the triangle to the lower right corner of the card. Lastly, I stamped the “ho ho ho” sentiment from the Contempo Christmas Greetings clear stamp set in red ink on white cardstock. I used the coordinating Contempo Christmas Greetings die to cut the sentiment out and adhered it to the card with 3M foam adhesive.

    For this second A2 sized card, I followed all the same card instructions as those shown above, I simply swapped out the “jolly” sentiment for a different sentiment “believe” from the Believe Honey Script die.

    I hope you have enjoyed these festive cards using lots of glitter cardstock. Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

  • Stretch Our Supplies – Using 1 Layering Plate! – Autumn Breeze | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Stretch Our Supplies – Using 1 Layering Plate! – Autumn Breeze | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

    We are always looking for new ways to stretch our supplies! I will be working with the Layer B Plate from the Autumn Breeze Layering Die Set and my favorite technique Ink Smooshing!

    We are going to start out with getting our panels ready for die cutting. Grab your favorite water reactive dye ink pads! You can decide how you want your panels to look as you add your colors. I chose bright and deep fall colors!

    After the panels are dry you want to die cut each panel with your plate keeping your colors separated. I decided to ink around each die cut with vintage photo to add a framed edges to each image.

    I then die cut my plate into a tan cardstock and also cut panels that measured 4 ¼ inches x 5 ½ inches. These panels will be the background for my panel.

    Using my liquid adhesive I added the tan panel on top of the solid card stock panel and placed my leaves around making sure the colors are scattered around! I used double sided foam squares to adhere my leaves and set them off to the side so a showdown would show behind each leaf!

    Simply added a small sentiment from my stash and we are done! With all the die cuts you have these are perfect to create card gift sets!

    As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

    Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon!


    Supplies


    56130 Autumn Breeze Plate Layer Set
  • Framed Ornaments | by Toni M Maddox

    Framed Ornaments | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, BPD fans!  Toni here with you today sharing a couple of cards with glitter and more glitter!

    Both of the cards use the Marisol Frames and Ornament Layering Dies. I think it’s brilliant to be able to frame these gorgeous ornaments.

    I cut both in white and the red from the Memory Box Glitzy 6×6 Glitter Pad. The card base is from the Memory Box Ocean Blue 6×6 Pad. I love this color combo so much!

    As you saw above I created a belly band for the card, embossing the Christmas Mandala sentiment with Gina K Red Hot.

    I did wonder about the having space to write a personal message but there’s plenty of room.

    For my second card I wanted to use the Marisol Frame adhered to the card front without the interactive element.

    I used the Marisol Ornament as a mask and used my Copic Airbrush with BG07 for the center. So so pretty. And easy cleanup: I just threw some 70% isopropyl alcohol onto the die to clean off the Copic and dried it.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s cards and have a great rest of your week!

    Supplies

    57441 Marisol Frames Layer Set

    56114 Marisol Ornament Layer Set

    GP1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

    SP1005 Ocean Blue 6×6 pack

    CL8161 Christmas Mandala clear stamp set

  • Flicker Ornament | By Seeka

    Flicker Ornament | By Seeka

    Hi there, Seeka here and I hope you’re having a great day!

    I’ve got a quick an easy card to share today, it features the Flicker Ornament and Flicker Frames dies.

    To start, I used the Flicker Frames Layer B die to cut white cardstock and then adhered the two sides of the frame to a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of light blue cardstock.

    Next, I used the Flicker Ornament Layer B die to cut a piece of dark pink cardstock. I flicked opaque white paint over the ornament and then adhered it to Layer C, which I cut from white cardstock.

    I used foam tape to adhere the ornament to the background and then added little clear jewels over the background and on the ornament.

    To finish, I used foam tape to pop up a sentiment from my stash and then I adhered the card front to a card base.

    Thank you so much for coming by!


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  • Starburst Layers | By Dilay Nacar

    Starburst Layers | By Dilay Nacar

    Hello, friends! Dee here today to share this fun, geometric hello card! 

    To begin, I embossed a piece of A2-sized black cardstock with the Memory Box Ringadings 3D embossing folder. Next, I cut the Starburst layer die (layers A, B, and C) twice, in white, and adhered them together, forming two stars. 

    I cut both stars in half then adhered them around the edge of the black embossed panel. Next, I ink blended a small piece of white cardstock in rainbow order, then cut it with the Big Sugar Script hello die. I die cut the shadow in silver glitter cardstock, adhered it behind the rainbow hello, then adhered the completed sentiment to the card with foam adhesive. 

    As a finishing touch, I added some iridescent sequins and mounted the card onto a top-folding base. I hope you that enjoyed reading more about how I created this card! Thanks so much for joining me today, friends!

    57415 Starburst Layer Set
    Hello Sugar Script
    EF1015 Ringadings 3D Embossing Folder