Author: birch press

  • Butterfly Hugs | By Seeka

    Butterfly Hugs | By Seeka

    Hello! Seeka here and I hope you’re having a nice day! Today I have a quick and easy card featuring the Glimmer Butterfly die set.

    I started off by cutting the three layers for the butterfly. I used the solid layer from the Butterfly Basics die set to cut light pink cardstock, and then I used Glimmer Butterfly layers A and B to cut white and dark pink cardstock, respectively. I also used a die from the Butterfly Basics die set to cut the butterfly’s body out of light gray cardstock.

    I adhered the layers of the butterfly together using glue and glue dots only at the center of the butterfly so that the layers could lift away from each other at the tips of the butterfly’s wings.

    Next, I created a quick background by spraying a shimmery blue spray over a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of white cardstock. I concentrated the color towards the bottom left corner of the panel. When the panel was dry, I trimmed 3/8″ off both the length and the width of the panel and then stamped a sentiment from the Brush Sentiments stamp set.

    To finish, I adhered the butterfly to the background and then used foam tape to adhere the background to an A2-sized card base.

    Thank you so much for visiting!


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  • Rainbow Hello | By Seeka

    Rainbow Hello | By Seeka

    Hello and welcome! It’s Seeka here today sharing a card featuring the Viola Plate Layer die set. These intricate layers are standouts on their own, or they can be a great way to finish off a ink-blended panel, as I’ve done here.

    I started off by using foam blending tools to blend a rainbow (minus a couple of colors) onto a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock. For this background, I used Distress Oxide inks: Cracked Pistachio, Twisted Citron, Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, and Abandoned Coral.

    Next, I used Viola Plate Layers A and B to die cut white cardstock.

    Next, I adhered the layers together.

    Using the Big Hello Sugar Script die set, I die cut the sentiment from blue cardstock and its shadow layer from white cardstock. I adhered the two pieces together and then used foam tape to adhere the sentiment to the background. To finish, I adhered the card front to a card base.

    Thank you so much for visiting!


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  • Square Fall-Themed Thanks | By Dilay Nacar

    Square Fall-Themed Thanks | By Dilay Nacar

    Hello, friends!

    Dee (justcallmedee.com) here, and I am back today with another fall-themed card using some of my favorite dies! This square card features the Linear Triangle and Autumn Breeze Plate dies! Let’s dive right in! 

    First, I trimmed down a piece of white cardstock down to a 4.25” x 4.25” size. Next, I die cut two of the Linear Triangle’s and adhered one to each corner, covering the entire panel. 

    For the leaves, I die cut layer B from Autumn Breeze Layer die set and used only the negative pieces (in this case, the leaves) to ink blend! I blended each pink, orange, and green with small ink dangers and then set them aside to dry.

    Before assembling the leaves, I first die cut the Big Thanks Sugar Script die and shadow in white, then stacked and adhered them together. I die cut it once more in gold and adhered that over the top. 

    To begin assembling, I adhered the ‘thanks’ to the center then added the leaves with foam adhesive.  Finally, I added gold metallic pearls and mounted the card onto a 4.25” x 4.25” top folding card base.

    Thanks so much for joining me today!

    57393 Linear Triangle
    56130 Autumn Breeze Plate Layer Set
  • Fall is in the Air | By Amanda Wilcox

    Fall is in the Air | By Amanda Wilcox

    Hello crafty friends! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook popping in with a festively, fun fall-themed card for you today. We got a little taste of fall at home this week and I’m so ready for pumpkins and leaves changing and all the things!

    I knew that I was using the awesome Autumn Breeze layering set so I started looking at what I wanted my layers to be. Since the bottom layer shows mostly leaves I did some ink smooshing on watercolor paper with a green tombow marker and lots of layering.

    Remember, if you heat your paper in bewteen layers, you will get those cool imperfections and lines. If it’s still wet, it just flows together smoothly. Both can be beautiful, it’s all about what you are trying to achieve.

    Then for my middle layer, I chose a plaid paper from the Memory Box Madras Plaid paper pad. I love the gold foil lines in this plaid paper. It’s just gorgeous!

    Next, I die cut the top layer from kraft cardstock and used a blending brush with brown dye ink to ink up all the pumpkin openings. It just gives it some depth and interest. I really love the effect it had on the whole card.

    Last, I pulled out the Pumpkin Lacework stamp set and stamped a sentiment on the same kraft cardstock with brown ink. Now it’s time to assemble everything!

    Sometime the watercolor paper can ripple so I heated up my laminator and ran it through a few times. This always helps flatten it out and makes it easier to adhere to other elements.

    I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together and to a white card base. Then I plopped a few acrylic blocks on top and left it to dry for a bit.

    Once they were dry, I added foam squares to the back of my sentiment and popped it in place on the lower right side. I really love these pumpkins so I chose a space that would cover up the least of those.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and found some inspiration to create something wonderful!

    I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

    Supplies

    WP101 Watercolor Paper

    56130 Autumn Breeze Plate Layer Set

    8153 Pumpkin Lacework clear stamp and die set

    PP1013 Madras Plaid Coral and Green 6×6 pack

  • Frame your Scraps! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Frame your Scraps! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

    Today’s project uses up some of those scraps that we just cannot seem to part with! By cutting them in different widths and creating our background it is the perfect backdrop for our Mini Frame Layer Dies!

    I pulled out my bag of scraps from the Memory Box 6×6 card stock paper pads and had a great time cutting them into strips of different widths and also matched them up into color themes!

    Once completed I started on my die cutting of the mini frames and only used white card stock. These will easily become our focal point! I used my liquid adhesive to layer my dies cuts and matched them up to the colors mixed together for each background.

    I cut my striped panels down to 3 ¼ in x 4 ½ in and added a white matt measuring 3 ½ in x 4 ½ in to each one. These were then placed onto of a standard A2 size top folding card base measuring 4 ¼ in x 5 ½ in.

    I added my layered panels to each striped panel making sure they were centered. This actually creates an illusion to the eye that your striped panels were inlayed into the die cut image!

    I heat embossed my sentiments and popped up using double sided foam squares placing them down towards the bottom of each image.

    The bling came to town and added jewels to each image accenting the colors used for the card stock strips.

    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! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!


    Supplies


    56092 Dahlia Mini Frame Layer Set
    57391 Mini Snowflake Frame Layer Set
    57406 Dazzle Mini Frame Layer Set
    SP1006 Stormy Blue 6×6 pack
    SP1002 Sunny Orange 6×6 pack
    SP1004 Fresh Aqua 6×6 pack
    SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack
    SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack
  • Thanks for Everything | By Dilay Nacar

    Thanks for Everything | By Dilay Nacar

    Hello, friends! Dee here and today, I’m sharing a clean and simple fall-themed card that features the Classic Sentimental Wreath stamp and die set combined with the Petal Triangle layer dies. Let’s get started!

    To begin, I cut down a piece of ivory cardstock to 4” x 5.24” then stamped and gold heat embossed a sentiment from the Classic Sentimental Wreath stamp set. 

    Next, I cut the Petal Triangle layer dies (A, B, and C) in the same ivory-colored cardstock, stacked and adhered them together, then mounted them onto the panel with foam adhesive. 

    For the leaves, I stamped each in three different colors then tucked and adhered them behind the Petal Triangle layers. 

    To finish, I mounted the completed panel to an A2-sized, top-folding card base! 

    I hope that you liked this clean and simple design! Thank you so much for stopping by, until next time!

    CL8157 Classic Sentimental Wreath stamp set
    56107 Petal Triangle Layer Set

  • String Art Circle Three Ways | By Renee Moran

    String Art Circle Three Ways | By Renee Moran

    Hi Everyone, It’s Renee’ from Delaney Jane Cards here. I had the opportunity to play with the String Art Circle Collage die and created 3 different cards showing just a couple ways you can use this really fun die.

    The first card I created was simply die cut from a piece of deep blue cardstock from the Ocean Blue 6×6 Paper Pad. I ink blended a couple of oxide inks over the top to give the front panel an ombre look.

    To further the ombre feel I added fairy jewels to the larger openings in three different shades of blue, using both the pastel and brights Fairy Jewels. And I stamped the simple sentiment Hello in the center of the center circle from the Rainbow Days Lingo Notes Stamp Set. I adhered down that inner rim of the circle and popped the panel up with foam adhesive to create some cool dimension.

    Cards two and three were created at the same time but look drastically different. I used the negative cuts from the String Art Circle Collage die to create this card here, featuring the Proud of You sentiment from that same Rainbow Days Lingo Notes stamp and die set. I added foam adhesive to the larger of the shapes, so the outer three rows. The inner two rows were adhered directly to the card front as was the center circle.

    This created a super cool textural feel to this very sleek card.

    Card three was created from a deep toned rainbow blended panel. I cut two additional panels with the String Art Circle Collage die cut in the same exact position so I could stack them for a bit of dimension. I splattered the background with shimmer spray and some plain water drops.

    I stamped a sub-sentiment below the die cut window I created with the String Art Circle Collage die. A stamped and die cut a main sentiment on white cardstock was layered and adhered to the center of the design, both featuring the Rainbow Days Lingo Notes Stamp and Die set.

    Also, if you’d like to see how my card came together, you can click on the video below.

    Thank you so much for checking out my card today.

    As I always say,

    Give Cards Generously

    -Renee’

    Supplies

    57392 String Art Circle Collage

    JWL002 Pastel Jewels

    JWL003 Bright Jewels

    SP1005 Ocean Blue 6×6 pack

    CL8159 Rainbow Days Lingo Notes clear stamp set

    8159 Rainbow Days Lingo Notes clear stamp and die set

  • Sending Rainbow Wishes | By Amanda Wilcox

    Sending Rainbow Wishes | By Amanda Wilcox

    Happy Saturday everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook popping in today. I hope your day is starting off splendidly! I have been itching to watercolor this gorgeous rainbow image since it released and I finally made it happen.

    To create my card today, I started by pulling my stamps out and playing around with images and sentiments. I found that the rainbow and clouds from Rainbow Days Lingo Notes worked fabulous with the extra large sentiments in the Happy Lingo set!

    I stamped and heat embossed the images on Bristol smooth cardstock with clear embossing powder. Then I watercolored them with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and a water brush pen.

    I used the coordinating dies to cut the images out and moved on to my background. For that I blended distress oxide ink in tumbled glass and mermaid lagoon on a white panel. I spritzed it with water and flicked some pearl watercolor on it.

    When I ink blend I tend to use a larger panel so I can choose how to cut it down. After everything was dry, I trimmed it down to A2 size and adhered it to a white card base.

    I added foam squares to the back of my rainbow and some clouds and adhered them to the background. Then I added the HUGS sentiment the same way. I adhered the clouds in the background with liquid glue next.

    At that point I thought there was something missing so I took a look at the sentiments in the Rainbow Days Lingo Notes and was so excited to see “sending rainbow wishes!” I stamped and heat embossed it on a strip of black cardstock and adhered it with a foam strip.

    I love adding general purpose cards to my stash and this one will be amazing for a huge variety of occasions, or just because, which is my very favorite to send!

    I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

    Supplies

    8159 Rainbow Days Lingo Notes clear stamp and die set

    8156 Happy Lingo clear stamp and die set

  • A Birthday all for YOU! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    A Birthday all for YOU! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

    For today’s project I am focusing on the die, a sentiment die and making it our focal point of our slimline card design!

    I chose the YOU die from the Happy Lingo die set, later we will add a stamped sentiment from the same named set.

    I wanted a lot of sparkle for this card but also keep it clean and simple. I used the Memory Box 6 x 6 Jeweled Glitter Cardstock pad and plain white card stock.

    I die cut from each of the colors a chose from the rainbow and then die cut four more layers using white card stock from my scraps! Best way to clean up that bin!

    Using my liquid adhesive and layered all my die cuts together. While they were drying, I grabbed my slimline card base measuring 3 1/2 in x 8 1/5 in.

    On my panel (measures 3 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in) I marked the center and made sure I set my sentiments along that mark and then went to each end. This helped when making sure they were equally spaced across the front panel, and yes you guessed it, I do not like to use a ruler! LOL…

    Once they were set in place, I cut another panel that measures 3 ½ in x 8 1/5 in using black card stock. Stamped and embossed my sentiment and layered that over two of the die cuts, while making sure not to block any of them!

    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! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!


    Supplies


    8156 Happy Lingo clear stamp and die set
    GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad
  • Sending Rainbow Wishes | by Crystal Komara

    Sending Rainbow Wishes | by Crystal Komara

    Hello crafty readers! This is Crystal here with you today sharing a colorful card using the Dahlia Heart Layering Dies and some fun rainbow colored paper.

    Card details:

    The base of this A2 sized card is made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. For the first 5 1/4″ x 4″ paper, I dry embossed a piece of white cardstock using a basket weave embossing folder. I adhered this embossed paper directly to the card base.

    To create the two hearts, I die cut Layer A (the top layer) of the Dahlia Heart Layering Dies from white cardstock. I die cut two of these pieces as I have two hearts. I layered the Dahlia Heart outline over some scrap pieces of rainbow paper and fussy cut around the hearts:

    I adhered the two hearts to the card using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment “sending rainbow wishes” in Tuxedo Memento Black ink. This sentiment is from the Rainbow Days Lingo stamp set. I adhered the sentiment to the front of both heart using a Tombow adhesive runner.

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

    Supplies

    57244 Dahlia Heart Layer A