Author: birch press

  • Holographic See-Through Card | by Jennifer Svare

    Holographic See-Through Card | by Jennifer Svare

    Hello! Watching Jennifer McGuire make see-through cards this morning inspired me to make a mad dash to the Interlocking Frame and String Art Circle. I was so excited to make this card, it felt a bit like morning aerobics, except way more fun!

    Jennifer’s video is the original and I highly suggest watching that for overall instructions; however, I wanted to offer some additional tips and tricks specific to the Interlocking Frame. This frame has a lot of intricate detail, which may offer some challenges to a card design such as this, but it’s totally doable, easy, and the results are stunning! Make sure to check out the short video below for some tips in using this particular die for this card design.

    The mixture of the dies, holographic paper, and see-through design makes this an absolutely stunning card. As it sits on display, different colors appear just depending on the angle of light that is catching it. It’s almost like glass etching. In the photos above, blue turns to a gold, and even pastel as seen below:

    The details of the String Art Circle are so stunning, with so many options. In the photo above, I’ve die cut one out of black. All the pieces were left intact to create a background for the holographic outline. Left over negative pieces were used to embellish the center, along with an iridescent black pearl. Wow! This has to be one of my all-time favorite cards.

    For the interior, I added another String Art Circle cut out of the holographic paper to match the exterior. A light gray paper creates the background, with a white center for an embellishment. It’s a great card to have on hand because it’s so versatile. Depending on colors used, this could be very masculine or very feminine, and is great for any occasion from wedding, anniversary, birthday… even a holiday greeting would be beautiful. The inside font could be casual or formal, so it’s great for any style, too! Room for writing a note or even a larger sentiment is on the back.

    No matter how hard I try, photos simply do not do this card justice. Check out the video below for some tips, tricks, and to see this card in action!

    Thank you for stopping by today!


    Supplies


    57346 String Art Circle
    57350 Interlock Frame
    CL490 Greeting Basics
  • Pumpkin Lacework | by Crystal Komara

    Pumpkin Lacework | by Crystal Komara

    Hello readers! This is Crystal Komara here with you today sharing two cards using the beautiful new “Autumn Breeze” layering plates and “Pumpkin Lacework” stamp set and coordinating dies. Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year and I couldn’t be more excited about these new products!

    I stuck with a traditional fall color palette of white, orange, olive green and gold for these A2 sized cards.

    Just look at that beautiful stitching from the Autumn Breeze Layer Plate A!

    Here is the second card I created using the “Pumpkin Lacework” stamp set and coordinating dies:

    I have created a step-by-step YouTube video tutorial showing how both of today’s cards were made. I hope you will enjoy it!

    I still look forward to creating even more cards using these beautiful new fall products! Thank you for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

    Supplies

    8153 Pumpkin Lacework clear stamp and die set

    56130 Autumn Breeze Plate Layer Set

    GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad

  • Masked Marisol Ornament | By Seeka

    Masked Marisol Ornament | By Seeka

    Hello! It’s Seeka here, and today I have another example of stretching your supplies!

    I began by using the Marisol Ornament Layer B die to cut three masks out of masking paper (I happened to use Avery Removable ID Labels).

    Next, I remove the release paper and stuck the three masks onto an A2-sized piece of bristol smooth cardstock. Using foam daubers, I applied Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink over the masks, making sure to ink all the little openings.

    Then I used a foam blending tool to add Seedless Preserves between the masks. This color acts as the background. Since the foam blending tool doesn’t allow for precise color application, a bit of Seedless Preserves colored the edges of the ornaments. To use this to my advantage, I used another dauber to blend Blueprint Sketch ink over the areas where Seedless Preserves and Shaded Lilac met, to soften the transition from wine to purple.

    Next, I removed the masks and adhered some small clear jewel embellishments to the ornaments.

    For the sentiment, I used the Simple Joy die and cut the shadow layer out of white cardstock, and the detail layer out of silver glitter paper. I adhered the detail layer to the shadow layer and then used foam tape to adhere the sentiment to the background.

    To finish, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.

    Thank you so much for visiting!


    Supplies


  • Ornaments and more Ornaments! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Ornaments and more Ornaments! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

    For today let’s make some Ornaments! The layering dies we will be using today are Bella, Twinkle, Marisol, Flicker and the Basic Set… When you combine all these together your possibilities for your creations are endless!

    What was even better I was able to dig into my stash and use up some scrap pieces of cardstock and started die cutting all my pieces!

    I made sure I die cut two of every layer I wanted to use for each ornament. This way we are able to make our ornaments double sided and place our hanger inside the two layers!

    When we look at our stash, we also have the opportunity to choose colors that we normally would not consider, sometimes we get stuck on the traditional colors for the holidays! Choose any color to brighten up your Christmas Tree!

    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


    56115 Belle Ornament Layer Set
    56114 Marisol Ornament Layer Set
    56116 Twinkle Ornament Layer Set
    56117 Flicker Ornament Layer Set
    57314 Ornament Basics
  • Stenciled and Stitched Balloon Card | By Leigh Houston

    Stenciled and Stitched Balloon Card | By Leigh Houston

    Hello, friends! I am so happy you stopped by today. I’m here sharing how I made this stenciled and stitched balloon card using Birch Press Design’s Party Balloon dies.

    These Party Balloon dies are truly a must-have for creating birthday or celebratory cards. I love their stitched details! To start my card, I die cut my largest balloon and added stenciled details using Poppystamps’s Romantic Blooms stencil and Distress Oxide Inks. I then die cut two smaller balloons and added color with the same shades of Distress Oxide inks, being sure to keep a highlight area for some realism.

    To add some more interest to the balloons, I stitched through the stitch holes using gold metallic thread and a simple backstitch. I then adhered some of the same thread to the back of the balloons to create their strings.

    To finish the card, I splattered a sky-colored background panel with some white paint. I then cut my “celebrate” sentiment from gold mirror cardstock. I popped up my largest balloon with foam tape and adhered my balloons to the cards, wrapping their strings somewhat loosely around the back of the panel to add to the floating effect. A few sparkly sequins and this card was finished!

    I hope you like this simple but pretty celebration card! Links to the products I used are below. Thanks again for stopping by and I’ll see you again soon with another card project!


    Supplies


    57073 Party Balloon
    T101 Romantic Blooms Stencil
    Celebrate Sugar Script
  • Quick and Easy Stenciled Cards | By Amanda Wilcox

    Quick and Easy Stenciled Cards | By Amanda Wilcox

    Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you again. Today I’ve got a set of 4 cards that I made fairly quickly and would be a great design to mass produce or pull together if you needed something in a flash.

    Here’s a peek at all of them. But let’s back things up and I’ll show you how I created them.

    I used removable adhesive on the back of my panel and stuck it to my glass mat. Then I used post-it tape to tape my stencil in place.

    Then I used blending brushes and dye inks to ink up my panels one at a time. I did them all back-to-back, assembly line style.

    Here is a look at all of the panels before I trim them down at all.

    I trimmed the 3 panels down to 4×5.25 and trimmed the one along the stencil lines. Then I backed them all with foam tape. Next, I grabbed my sentiment dies and cut the shadow and words from various cardstock and adhered them together with liquid glue. Then I added foam tape to the back of these as well.

    At this point I popped all the panels on white card bases and also added the sentiments that I chose.

    I went through my stash of embellishments and chose a different one for each card, adhering them differently for each design.

    This card is my absolute favorite from today. Something about those colors together and the simple confetti bits adding interest here and there.

    And I love how different this one turned out as well. So many possibilities with this simple design. Did you have a favorite?

    I appreciate you sharing your time with me. I hope you have been inspired to create something wonderful. Have a fabulous day!

    Supplies

    8139 Mod Alphabet clear stamp and die set

    57300 Hugs Honey Script

    57177 Big Friend Sugar Script

    57302 Thanks Honey Script

    42031 Midnight Mandala Stencil

  • Sunny Hugs | By Seeka

    Sunny Hugs | By Seeka

    Hello there, it’s Seeka here and today I have a sunny card featuring the Cora Layer die set.

    I started by cutting three Layer As out of light green cardstock, and three Layer Bs out of light blue cardstock.

    Next I adhered the green layers to the blue layers.

    I created a yellow frame by cutting a rectangle out an A2-sized piece of yellow cardstock. I adhered the frame to a panel of white cardstock and then adhered the three Cora blooms across the panel.

    I trimmed the Cora die cuts where they hung off the panel.

    Using the Big Hugs Sugar Script die, I die cut the sentiment from teal cardstock and then adhered it to the shadow layer, which I die cut from vellum. I used foam tape to adhere this to the card front along with a stamped sentiment from the Blooming Spring stamp set.

    To finish, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.

    Thanks so much for visiting!


    Supplies


  • Ideas for Using Ornament Layering Dies | by Ardyth Percy-Robb

    Ideas for Using Ornament Layering Dies | by Ardyth Percy-Robb

    Good morning! Ardyth here with loads of ideas for using three of the new ornament die sets: Ornament Basics, Marisol Ornament and Twinkle Ornament.

    First, I made some cards. For the one on the left, I used the outline of the Marisol ornament as a negative stencil and blended ink through. Then I put the top layer of the Marisol set over and blended more ink to create tone-on-tone stripes.

    I used the Marisol ornament die cuts as layered stencils to create the one on the right, along with the Big Sugar Script Joy sentiment.

    The new Memory Box Polished Foil paper pad has 12 different colours of foils and I used them for my ornament toppers and sentiments.

    Next, I used them to make some tags. The top and bottom tags used the top layer of the Marisol set, along with foil papers from the Polished Foil paper pad.

    I used one of the Christmas Plaid patterned papers to make the Joy tag (left).

    I also used one leafy layer from the Marisol set along with a solid background from the Ornament Basics set (right).

    Finally, I made two ornaments. The one on the left uses the top two layers of the Twinkle set – that oval is the perfect frame for photos. And I added the same two layers to the back, with a photo of my son, so that this ornament has 2 ‘pretty’ sides!

    The one on the right uses the die cuts I used as stencils for one of my cards, also doubled-up so that the back is pretty.

    There are so many ways for these die sets to be used and combined to create fun and meaningful projects for the holidays!

    Here’s a video:


    Supplies


    57314 Ornament Basics
    56114 Marisol Ornament Layer Set
    56116 Twinkle Ornament Layer Set
    57164 Big Joy Sugar Script
    57218 Simple Joy
    PP1009 Christmas Plaid 6×6 pack
    FP1001 Polished Foil Pad pack
  • Ornament Tag Trio | By Amanda Wilcox

    Ornament Tag Trio | By Amanda Wilcox

    Welcome everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today to share a trio of Christmas tags I made with the new ornament sets.

    Let’s start with making the tag bases. I took a regular sheet of cardstock and folded it down the middle length-wise.

    Then I place my base ornament die hanging off the folded edge about 1/4 inch and ran it through my die cutter. I got 3 tag bases out of 1 sheet of cardstock.

    Then I moved on to creating the ornament fronts. I die cut the layers from different colors of cardstock and adhered them with liquid glue. Here are the layers to the Marisol ornament.

    Then I moved on to the components from the original ornament basics set and created one from just those.

    And lastly, I decided to create a twinkle ornament today too. These are so fun I really could have kept going.

    As I mentioned earlier, I used liquid glue and adhered all of these layers together to create the fronts to my tags. Then I added the tag bases to the back of them. I die cut the ornament topper from the basics set and attached those to the tops. Let’s look at the finished product of each ornament.

    This is the one using just the ornament basics dies. Once it was finished I thought the middle was empty so I added the word “friend” across the middle. I love how this turned out!

    Here is the marisol ornament all finished with some baubles added for extra texture and interest. I think this one is just gorgeous! Definitely my favorite.

    And the twinkle ornament with some gems added to it to finish everything off as well. Isn’t it just so pretty? I can’t wait to try this one in silver and blue.

    I hope you enjoyed these ornament tags today and find some inspiration to create something wonderful.

    Have a fabulous day.

    Supplies

    57314 Ornament Basics

    56114 Marisol Ornament Layer Set

    56116 Twinkle Ornament Layer Set

    57177 Big Friend Sugar Script

  • Creating Multiple Cards with One Design | by Tracey McNeely

    Creating Multiple Cards with One Design | by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there it’s Tracey. Today I am going to show you how easy it is to use one basic card design and by changing just one element you can make multiple cards each with a different theme.

    Each one of my four cards uses the newly released Kinsley Layer Set. The background paper for each of the die cuts was custom made using Distress Oxide Spray Inks. I sprayed some ink on my glass media mat and then sprayed some water onto the ink. I picked up the water with a foam blending tool and ran it back and forth across a panel of white cardstock until the whole panel was covered. I left some time so the first coat dry and then gave each of the panels a spritz of the same colour Distress Oxide Spray Ink direct to paper to add some subtle interest. I let the panels dry completely and then I cut four of the Kinsley Layer Dies Layer C from each panel. I chose to use only Layer C because on its own it creates a beautiful stitched pattern.

    Next I used the new Jumbo Lingo word dies to create glittery sentiments from the Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad to co-ordinate with each of the die cuts. I used Jumbo Lingo Hello, Jumbo Lingo Thanks, Jumbo Lingo Hugs and Jumbo Lingo Happy. I cut the shadow from vellum cardstock and the individual letters from the glitter cardstock.

    Each white A2 sized card has a 5 1/4″ x 4″ mat that I adhered the Kinsley Layer die directly to and the sentiments added to the top with liquid glue. The mat was then adhered to the card base directly making the card nice and flat for mailing.

    Thanks so much for stopping in today. Give it a try, choose a simple background and change up your sentiments to make a collection of cards to have at the ready. You never know…

    Supplies

    56123 Kinsley Layer Set

    57353 Jumbo Lingo Hello

    57354 Jumbo Lingo Thanks

    57352 Jumbo Lingo Happy

    57351 Jumbo Lingo Hugs

    GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad