Author: birch press

Hello crafty friends! Are you getting into the holiday spirit yet? I certainly am, and I’d love to show you how I created two individual cards using the same process. These cards were quick to make and the outcome is beautiful, and whats more, sparkly! Who doesn’t love a little sparkle in their holiday cards?

For my first card, I’ve created this traditional red and gold palette card using the new Grandois Bevel Plate and Mini Grandois Bevel Plate layer sets. These sets work perfectly together to create a full A2 size design, leaving a small space in between for a sentiment. For mine, I went with the new Falala Honey Script die, which comes with the word and shadow dies. It fits perfectly in this space and I didn’t feel that it needed any sub sentiment with it, as it’s large enough to make the point come across. I just love how the larger Birch Press dies command the space of cards and become the focal point. I added quite a bit of sparkle to this card with both the top layer in a red sparkle card stock, and also the word “falala” in a gold sparkle card stock. I love the way red and gold look together on Holiday cards, especially.

For my second card, I used the same type of bevel dies, only this time it’s the Dazzle and Mini Dazzle Bevel Plates. Again, I added my sparkle layer (silver, this time) as the top layer and decided to use a more winter color palette of blues. These dies are great and easy to switch up as I did here, rotating my card front to leave the space at the bottom half of the card. This shifts the focus and would be an especially great thing to do if giving a set of these cards as a gift. It changes the dynamic just enough to appear as a completely different card.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed learning about how I added some sparkle to these holiday cards using some of the newest Bevel Plate Sets. I’d love to hear what you think and which is more to your taste! Thank you again, and I’ll see you very soon!

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I’m using the Only Fish In The Sea Stamp Set to create a simple Thank You card.

I started off with white heat embossing the school of fish image and a couple of the singular fish as well onto some watercolour cardstock. I then ink blended some Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Evergreen Bough Distress Inks over the entire background. I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool.

I then white heat embossed the ‘Thank You’ sentiment onto a thin strip of black cardstock. I added a hemp cord bow to the side and adhered it down.

I finished off by adding googly eyes onto a few of the fish just for a little added interest. I also cut the panel at an angle and adhered it to a grey card base.

The video is linked below if you’d like to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjzC7yvnDU

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

Hello! Thanks for stopping by! Today I’ve made a Thanksgiving place card. We have a large family, so now’s the time to start creating them! We also draw names for Christmas gifts between siblings, so each year our place cards go into the name drawing and these cards a really fun, festive way to draw names after dinner.

This year, I’m using the gorgeous Regal Peacock Layer Set along with the Lingo Alphabet to create the cards. The background is Layer A from the Delfina Layer set.

I used a clear acetate for the card base, but any color would work. Check out the video below for more details on how this place card was made! Thanks again for stopping by, and have a great day!

Supplies

Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

For today, let’s layer some stamps, but this time they are 6 x 6 background stamps! The two sets used are called Hugs Tile and Wishing Tile. Not only do you get a 6 x 6 back ground stamp but also some sentiments and accents that all work together! These sets are perfect on their own, but they work beautifully together!

From the Wishing Tile I pulled the 6 x 6 stamp and used a dye ink to stamp onto my shite card stock. I stamped this twice since it was the first time, I used the stamp.

Once it was set, I then pulled the 6 x 6 stamp from the Hugs Tile stamp set and layered it onto top of my image. These stamp sets layer together perfectly and accent each other well! Instead of ink for this layer, I used my yersamark ink and embossing powder.

Pulled two dye inks and started stamping the small flower stamp into the areas that were open. After I got the first layer down, I used the same stamp and added the dye ink only to the center of the stamp with a sponge dauber. This added a little shading to the center of the flower.

I then finished the flowers with the center circle stamp with the same ink I used to add the shadows.

I cut my stamped image down and was able to make two cards from this one panel. One measured 4 inches x 5 ¼ inches and the other was 1 inch x 5 ½ inch. These were backed onto card stock from my stash and then placed onto my standard A2 size card base.

Stamp a sentiment on one of the cards using due ink and embossing powder.

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Here are some close ups of the finished cards!

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!