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  • Building an All Die Cut Card by Tracey McNeely

    Building an All Die Cut Card by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there, it’s Tracey today and I will be sharing an all die cuts card and video tutorial using the Flora Heart Layers die set, the Cherish Plate die set and the Simple Love sentiment die.

    I created two custom ink blended panels from Bristol Smooth cardstock. The first was a 3″ square that will be the base layer for my layered Floral Heart and a second smaller rectangular panel will fit the Simple Love sentiment die. I blended the ink on both panels with distress oxide ink in rainbow order—picked raspberry, orange marmalade, moved law and peacock feather.

    Once they were blended I flicked some clean water on to the panel and lifted some of the colour with paper towel. Once it was dry I cut the largest heart from the Perfect Hearts die set, it fits perfectly behind the Flora Heart Layers dies.

    Each layer from the Flora Heart Layers die set was cut from heavyweight white cardstock and I used liquid adhesive the glue the layers together. To complete the heart I glued the layered heart to the rainbow base layer.

    I cut layer A from the Cherish Plate die set also from white cardstock and glued it to the font of a white top folding card base. The Simple Love Die set comes in two pieces. I cut the larger of the two Dies from the second ink blended panel and then the detail layer from white cardstock. The smaller letters were glued to the sentiment with liquid adhesive.

    I added the heart and the sentiment to the card base. Leaving the card like this allows you to customize the inside to say whatever you want for the occasion. Thanks so much for stopping by today and watch the video below for more details on how I put this card together.

    Supplies

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

    57219 Simple Love

    57110 Cherish Plate Layer A

  • Cherish Hearts Inlay | by Jennifer Svare

    Cherish Hearts Inlay | by Jennifer Svare

    Hello! With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it might be time to make some fast, simple cards! Birch Press Design has you covered with this quick, easy Valentine. I am sending out many cards this year. It’s such a great time to tell close friends and family that I love them! With a large family, it was important to have a simple design. This is it!

    I die cut the Cherish Layer A several times out of white and different glitter cardstocks. Check out the video below for tips on coloring glitter paper if you don’t have colors! I also used a dotted embossing folder to add some extra texture to the white layer.

    The Simple Hearts, which are nested heart dies, were used to cut a large heart out of vellum, and a smaller one for the inside to match the band. The Handwritten Love You went on the top of all layers. Make sure to watch this short video for more detailed views of this card being made:


    Supplies


    57045 Simple Hearts
    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline
    57110 Cherish Plate Layer A
  • Valentine Gift Tag Trio by Jeanne Jachna

    Valentine Gift Tag Trio
    by Jeanne Jachna

    Hi crafty friends! It’s Jeanne here today and I’m sharing some pretty Valentine Gift tags to delight your favorite Valentines!

    Tags are perfect for dressing up anything from a simple bag of home made chocolate chip cookies to something extra special for your sweetie!

    I assembled several Flora Hearts in different shades of card stock. Each middle layer is cut with glitter paper from the new Memory Box Delicate Pastel Glitter 6″ pad.

    The hearts are topped with Love die cut word sentiments and a stamped “sending” from the Lingo Thanks clear stamp set.

    The hearts are layered over Poppystamps Double Stitched Tags cut from coordinating, and gold glitter card stock.

    I think these hearts are gorgeous and plan to make another bunch that I will adhere to wood picks to top cupcakes!

    Supplies

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

    CL8143 Lingo Thanks

    57311 Love Honey Script

    2055 Double Stitch Tags

    GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

  • Gate Fold Thank You | by Kimberly Wiener

    Gate Fold Thank You | by Kimberly Wiener

    Hello Birch Press fans. Today I bring you a clean and simple gate fold card with a lovely, slightly more elaborate interior.
    I am so thrilled to be working with these gorgeous dies. If you are not already impressed with their lovely intricate dies, and impeccable craftmanship, I’m sure that it will not take very long with all of the design team creations coming your way soon.

    The solid card stock base is cut at 8.25 x 4.25 and scored and folded starting from the left at 2.10 and again at 6.25 inches. The Hello Topper die is a perfect closure for the gate fold style type of card and was cut on white card stock and trimmed to 1 inch, then adhered to the bottom layer of the bottom fold. The Hello word die was cut in black and turquiose and adhered slightly offset against the white backing strip.

    The lovely more layered inside was fitted with a white 4 x 5.5 panel. A solid 5.25 x 2.25 strip was center cut on the Dazzle A die and adhered 1.25 inches from the bottom of the white panel. Some portions of the Dazzle strip was trimmed to have uniform open spaces.

    The sentiment from the Best Friend stamp set was centered .5 inches below the Dazzle strip.

    The lovely heart was cut with the Folk Art Heart layer A in shimmer pastel blue glitter paper and the layer B in the solid turquoise. After adhering the solid layer to the glitter layer, both layers were adhered to black cardstock, hand cut, and affixed to the center of the Dazzle burst.

    I am so smitten with this card and all of the creations I have made so far using Birch Press products. I can’t wait until you see the next release!


    Supplies


    56119 Folk Art Heart Layer Set
    57313 Helllo Topper
    CL8132 Best Friend clear stamp set
    57001 Dazzle A
  • Flora Heart Trio! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Flora Heart Trio! | By Desiree Kuemmerle

    Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!

    For today let’s make a trio of hearts for our Valentine’s Day Card!

    Let’s start by cutting our cardstock making sure we have three of each die. For the Hearts I chose the traditional red, pink and white, but the card base I went with a deep teal. While I had my die cutting machine out I made sure my sentiment was cut also.

    Using my liquid adhesive, I layered all my die cuts together.

    I grabbed my standard A2 size top folding card base and a slightly smaller panel of the same color cut to 4 in x 5 ¼ in. Checked my placement of my hearts and sentiment to ensure they would fit on my panel and card base so I would not have to cut any excess.

    Used my liquid adhesive to set my die cuts in place and used my pearl embellishments to accent each of the hearts!

    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


    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline
    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set
  • Masculine Floral Valentine | by Tracey McNeely

    Masculine Floral Valentine | by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there it’s Tracey with a card and video. Today I will be using the Flora Heart Layers craft dies to share a way to use a floral die set to create a masculine design!

    I personally love to make or receive a pretty pink Valentine card, but I may not want to give a card like that to my husband. By using colour and simplicity I was able to make the design more masculine taking the focus away from the flowers. I cut Layer A from red cardstock (for love) and Layers B and C from white cardstock. The three layers will all be visible, but the flowers inside the heart are a bit more subtle.

    I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. I like using liquid glue so I have a bit more time to get my die cuts lined up properly. I turned the layered heart over and attached small pieces of foam tape all so over the back so that you will not see the tape from the front of the card.

    The cardbase was made from a soft grey cardstock to add a bit more subtle dimension. The sentiment is from the new Handwritten Love You craft dies which comes in three pieces. The outline was cut with white cardstock and the handwritten ‘Love You’ from a medium grey cardstock. I added that to the bottom of the card before adding the dimensional heart in the top middle.

    By choosing the colours red, grey and white I was able to create a card that focuses more on the heart and sentiment rather than the flowers.

    Thank you so much for stopping in to craft with me today. I hope you’re inspired to use your, more feminine, products in a more subtle way to make a masculine card! Pop back in tomorrow for more Birch Press Design inspiration!

    Supplies

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline

  • Hello | by Kimberly Wiener

    Hello | by Kimberly Wiener

    More lovely dies to feature today! For this card I selected a lovely turquoise blue card stock as the base card and ran all of the Folk Art Heart dies in the same turquoise.

    The center heart layer was cut in a light blue shimmery glitter card stock and adhered inbetween the two turquoise hearts.

    For a stunning background for the centerpiece heart, I cut the Dazzle A in a shimmery light glitter card stock. I removed all of the die cut peices except for the center zig zag round.

    The Handwritten Hello and Outline were cut with black and turquoise card stock and adhered together.

    A snippet of black paper was added behind the hearts.

    I adore how the Dazzle background really intensifies the focal hearts. I sure hope that you are having as much fun as I am experimenting with layering the dies in all of the lovely combinations possible. I can’t wait to see what you create!


    Supplies


    56119 Folk Art Heart Layer Set
    57333 Handwritten Hello and Outline
    57001 Dazzle A
  • Magnet Gift Card | by Jennifer Svare

    Magnet Gift Card | by Jennifer Svare

    Hello! I’m so excited to share today’s project! The gorgeous Flora Heart Layer Set is the focal image of the card, of course, but it’s also a refrigerator magnet that can be removed and used.

    For the background, I traced the outline of the heart onto watercolor paper, and watercolored a background piece. I’ll show two ideas for this in the video. I chose to watercolor because I love how the colors mix, but many different mediums could be used to create endless color combinations. It could even be made to match the recipient’s kitchen. Great gift idea for sending a Valentine to a friend, or a congrats to a new home.

    My fridge is white, but this would look stunning on a stainless steel fridge! In the video below, I’ll show you my favorite, extra strong magnets to use, and how I put this together. It’s such a fun, easy project! Many, many of the Birch Press dies would work for this project. Go through your stash and have FUN!


    Supplies


    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

  • 1 Die, 3 Ways | by Justine Hovey

    1 Die, 3 Ways | by Justine Hovey

    Hey crafters,
    today I am on the blog featuring a card with no stamping. Pretty easy to do when using the layers from Birch Press dies I have to say. I love this Regal Peacock and I’ve been meaning to use it for quite some time now.

    In today’s video I show you how to use this die in 3 different ways – normally, as an in-laid die cut and. lastly in between other dies.

    I tried to use elegant colours for the peacock and tried to be creative by not using the standard colours. So I chose some holographic cardstock, golds and blacks.

    I added in the Big Sugar Birthday Script die in between the die cut for a fun look and birthday card.


    Supplies


    56099 Regal Peacock Layer Set
    57207 Big Birthday Sugar Script
    56102 Grandiose Bevel Plate Layer Set

  • Valentine Hugs | by Kimberly Wiener

    WOW! Have you see the newest release by Birch Press? I am so excited to join the other designers in bringing you some sweet inspiration. I’m showcasing the Flora Heart Layer Set.

    For this card I selected four shades of pink and ran the three heart dies four times and stacked the layers in different color combinations.

    The dies are so lovely and intricate with gorgeous pin point details. I paired the heart dies with the Hugs Topper die.

    The Hugs Topper solid die was cut on the lightest paper and then layered on top with two darker colored 1/2 inch strips of cardstock. The words were cut in that darkest shade of pink.

    After selecting a focal heart I chose a second favorite to use to cut in half and place beside the centerpiece.

    The layering is smooth and flat, creating a rich elegant texture without bulk. This card has a finished size of 4.25 x 5.5.

    I am very impressed with how lovely these dies are layered and as stand alone dies. I know you will be pleasantly surprised how beautiful your projects will be!


    Supplies


    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set
    57312 Hugs Topper