Category: Birds

Fuchsia & Hummingbird
by Rosemary Dennis

Hello, hello! Rosemary here on the blog today sharing a card made with the new Block Print Fuchsia Flowers and Block Print Flashy Hummingbird. I love all the hummingbird dies that Birch Press Design has released, but this one just might be my favorite. Fuchsias are one of my favorite flowers and so I was super excited when I saw the new fuchia related dies! Let’s look at what I made.

Growing up we always had a fuchsia hanging basket on our front porch as both my parents liked fuchsias. I remember being fascinated by the little bell shaped flowers that hung down amongst the green leaves. When I saw the new Block Print fuchsia dies I was in heaven! I went with a similar color palette as the one on the front of the packaging as it is a classic fuchsia color way and still one of my favorites!

I die cut the majority of the pieces for the hummingbird and fuchsias from colored cardstock. I only used white for the body of the hummingbird that all the other pieces get layered on. I then used Copic markers to color the pieces allowing me to change the colors and provide contrast.

For the bird I started with a light aqua colored cardstock and then added color using Copics in shades of teal. Additional pieces were cut from a medium green and then shades of green Copics added to deepen the color. The pieces were set aside to dry before glueing together.

The same process was done for the fuchsia except for the stems and the little stamens that hang down. I let them dry and then adhered together with glue. White cardstock was die cut, stamped with the sentiment from the Vintage Everyday Greetings stamp set and then I added a little bit of distress oxide ink in blue to the area where the fuchsia and hummingbird would be placed. They were then adhered with a combination of thin foam squares and glue. Added the panel to my light gray cardstock base and finished with a tiny dot of black Nuvo jewel drops for the bird’s eye.

I just love how this turned out. Clean and simple yet a little on the bold side. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for taking the time to visit the blog. Have a wonderful day!

57658 Block Print Flashy Hummingbird

57667 Block Print Fuchsia Flowers

CL8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings

SP1010 Lagoon 6×6 pack

SP1012 Blush 6×6 pack

SP1011 Leafy 6×6 pack

July 9, 2026
Distressed Floral Birthday Card
by Toni M Maddox

Happy summer, my friends! Toni here with you today and I’m ever so excited about the mini release featuring fuschia and birds, the perfect complement to my own garden.

Let’s start with the blossoms where I combined the Block Print Fuschia Flowers along with the Block Print Fuschia Spray. In my mind this is like a hanging basket of fuschia.

Of course, they’re irresistable to the Block Print Flashy Hummingbird. I sponged all the diecuts with Catherine Pooler inks then spattered them with water.

For the background, I embossed a panel with a 3D basket-weave then spattered Copic Opaque white over the top. But, as I was assembling the card, I discovered that the white wasn’t fully dry so it smudged. I ran with it and randomly swiped a white pigment ink over the top to make it intentionally smudged!

My final step was to add the Elegant Birthday Sentiment which I had inked up with a couple of green inks. Fabulous!

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

Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

57658 Block Print Flashy Hummingbird

57661 Block Print Fuchsia Spray

57667 Block Print Fuchsia Flowers

8166 Elegant Birthday Sentiments clear stamp and die set

July 8, 2026
Time for Cake Cake Cake!
by Toni M Maddox

Ahoy, friends! Toni with you today sharing a nautical birthday card that’s sure to get a chuckle from the recipient.

I started the card by sponging the background with a cloud stencil and Catherine Pooler ink.

Next, I added the Birch Press Design Corner Waves cut from a few shades of scrap blue cardstocks beneath an angle-cut piece of kraft cardstock with the Birch Press Design Waterfront Pilings to represent a pier.

The birds, Birch Press Design Block Print Curious Seagull and Block Print Pelican, were fun to assemble and ever so cute. Notice how I sponged just a touch of yellow on their bellies for a bit of shading.

My final step was to add the Birch Press Design Plain & Simple Birthday Greetings stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne. I can totally hear the seagulls overhead!

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

Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

CL8167 Plain and Simple Birthday Greetings

57618 Waterfront Pilings

57625 Block Print Curious Seagull

57609 Block Print Pelican

57607 Corner Waves

June 8, 2026
Happy Birthday
by Rosemary Dennis

Hello, hello! Rosemary here on the blog today share a fun mixed media card that I made with the new Block Print Tropical Perched Bird and Handwritten Happy Birthday and Outline dies. I also used the Honeycomb Stencil for the project. Let’s take a look at what I made.

When I started the card I used just going to use some colored cardstock to create my bird. Then I started going through my supplies and I found containers of some Ken Oliver color burst medium that I had purchased long ago. So I decided to grab a sheet of watercolor cardstock and see what happened. Below is what happened, lol.

Bit of a mess, right? But I knew I could make something out of it once I cut all the pieces. I cut both dies multiple times so that I would have enough pieces to come up with the right combination.

Here are the majority of the pieces.

And here is the combination that I decided upon. Originally I was going to have more red in the bird, but in the end decided to limit that color to just the wing.

I adhered the bird with liquid glue and then set him aside to dry. I used a sketch layout for my card and decided to use the Honeycomb stencil for the background. I thought I would just do some ink blending, but then decided to take a look at some of the stencil butters that I had. I decided to combine a bright yellow and bright green and came up with this darker green that you see. I die cut white heavystock cardstock and then applied my stencil butter mix.

Once the panel was dry I got to work putting the card together. I adhered the bird with glue and then added the sentiment (which I had already had die cut and ready to go) with rolled up glue dots and glue

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. I had a lot of fun creating it using supplies that to be honest I had forgotten I had! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

57571 Handwritten Happy Birthday and Outline
57586 Block Print Perched Tropical Bird
42046 Honeycomb Stencil

April 17, 2026
A Vibrant Hello
by Christina Rannow

Hello! It’s Christina, and I’m excited to share this vibrant card featuring the unique Pretty Peacock Craft Dies. These dies are unique because the showy display of tail feathers is made up of the small negative spaces after die-cutting them from a cardstock panel. Then you can back the negative spaces with beautiful ink blends, iridescent spatters, or your prettiest cardstock to complete the magnificent display. For this card, I chose a yellow ink blend and a spritz of Distress Mica Stain for a little shimmer. Then I complemented this magnificent bird with some green foliage and pretty blooms. Let’s take a look at how it all came together.

I started by die-cutting the feathers from a white cardstock panel and then ink-blended Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, and Bluepriny Sketch Distress Inks over them. Underneath the feathers, I added a tropical green ink color for the suggestion of foliage. Next, I created the backer panel for the feathers. After inking another white cardstock panel with two shades of bright sunshine yellow inks, I then spattered the panel with Flickering Candle Distress Mica Stain. I let the inks dry for a few minutes and then secured this panel behind the first one. Finally, I die-cut a circle from one last white cardstock panel and layered it onto the other panels. This last panel framed the peacock and gave it a little more definition.

My next step was to die-cut and ink the remaining elements for my card design, including the pieces for the body of the peacock, the foliage, and the flowers. I used white cardstock for all the pieces and inked them with more of the Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint Sketch, tropical greens, and sunshine yellows. After inking them, I assembled the pieces and then secured them to my card front using either glue or thin foam squares.

To finish up my card design, I added the sentiment die-cut from black cardstock and a few yellow enamel dots for embellishment. The last step was to secure the card front to a top-fold card base.

Thank you so much for checking out my vibrant card featuring the magnificent Pretty Peacock Craft Dies. See you again soon!

57546 Hello Scripted

57588 Foliage Bunch

57590 Block Print Tapestry Blooms

57591 Block Print Pretty Peacock

April 15, 2026
Elegant Peacocks
by Toni M Maddox

Hello, friends! Toni here with you today with a couple of thank you cards using the Block Print Pretty Peacock from the latest release.

I used an “ugly” origami paper behind the tail fan. It’s just one I didn’t prefer but looks amazing through those feathers.

I chose the colors of the Block Print Pretty Peacock from it, using Memory Box 6×6 cardstocks.

It occurred to me that the tail fan could be used twice to create a cool symetrical background. I decided they looked like mums that the Block Print Soaring Hummingbird is exploring.

For both cards, I used the Sugar Script Big Thanks die which is one of my favorites–such a great size and font!

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

Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

57591 Block Print Pretty Peacock

57659 Block Print Soaring Hummingbird

57142 Big Thanks Sugar Script

SP1011 Greenery 6×6 pack

SP1012 Blush 6×6 pack

SP1013 Sunrise 6×6 pack

April 7, 2026
Festive Thank You
by Rosemary Dennis

Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today with a thank you card featuring the new Block Print Festive Bird die set, as well as two older products. Let’s have a look at what I created.

One of the things I like about the packaging for all of the Birch Press Design products is that it shares an image of the finished design in color. This provides you with a great jumping off point for creating your own little bird. I have done that in the past, but this time I decided to use colored cardstock and glitter cardstock to create my little bird. I kept my color scheme fairly simple.

You can see all the pieces of my bird laid out above. I used cardstock from the Memory Box Lagoon 6×6 pad, as well as glitter cardstock from my stash and a tiny piece of yellow cardstock for the beak.

I did want to mention that before I started making color choices for my little bird I did die cut all the pieces from a scrap of cardstock so I could make sure I knew how all the pieces fit together.

I used liquid adhesive to adhere my bird together. Once I had the bird finished I set it aside to figure out the rest of my card. Originally I was going to have the bird perched on a large die cut sentiment, but nothing was working. So, I decided to go through all my BPD dies and came across the Abundant Branch die. Perfect for my little bird to perch on!

I die cut the branch from kraft cardstock and then from green cardstock. I trimmed the leaves off the green branch and adhered them with liquid glue to the kraft cardstock branch. I did that a second time and then trimmed apart that branch to I could position the pieces as you see. Then adhered my little bird on the branch.

The sentiment is from the Vintage Everyday Greetings stamp set and was stamped on the same light blue cardstock I used for the background. I die cut it, a second layer, adhered them together with liquid adhesive and added it to my card front.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

57575 Abundant Branch
CL8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings
57587 Block Print Festive Bird

March 26, 2026
Sweet Bird Duo
by Rosemary Dennis

Hello and happy March everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today with a sweet birthday card that I think just says “spring”! I used the new Block Print Bird Duo, Block Print Mod Branches and Elegant Birthday Sentiments for my card. Let’s have a look at what I made.

This card is similar to the card I posted at the end of February in that I die cut white cardstock and then blended on the ink. But this time I decided to use Memory Box white woodgrain cardstock for all my die cutting to give the the birds and branch a little bit more interest.

To do the blending on these small pieces I love to use my Waffle Flower 0+ blending brushes. You can see them in the photo. Inking tiny pieces with them is a breeze!

I decided to keep a relatively cohesive color scheme to keep things simple and allow me to complete the card rather quickly. I used two shades of green ink for the leaves, stem and parts of the bird. Then I threw blue, yellow and a little bit of red for the berries into the mix.

Here I have the branch mostly completed. Below are all the pieces of the birds inked up and ready to be assembled.

I love dimension on my cards, but with the cost of postage being so high now days I often refrain from using foam squares. In order to obtain some dimension without adding thickness I will often not completely glue down pieces. For example, the leaves are only glued down at the base of the stem and the wings of the birds at the top. That way I can lift up the pieces and give the illusion of dimension.

Once everything was assembled I die cut another piece of white woodgrain cardstock with a medium sized rectangle and adhered that to a bright green cardstock base with double sided tape. I then adhered the branch (which was a little tricky, lol) and the birds using glue. I finished with the sentiment that was stamped and die cut with the matching die.

I hope you enjoyed today’s card. Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

57585 Block Print Bird Duo
57633 Block Print Mod Branches
8166 Elegant Birthday Sentiments clear stamp and die set

March 11, 2026
Tropical Birthday Greetings
by Toni M Maddox

Hello, my friends! Toni here today sharing a birthday card for any bird lovers in your life. Who am I kidding? This is perfect for anyone with a birthday!

I used the Pinpoint Contour Plate on the pale blue card front then sponged it with a darker blue Catherine Pooler ink (aquatini?).

Setting the panel aside to dry after spattering it with a bit of water, I die cut the Abundant Branch and blossoms from Memory Box cardstock.

I particularly enjoyed assembling the Block Print Perched Tropical Bird where I used Memory Box cardstock sponged with Catherine Pooler ink for shading.

My final step was to emboss and diecut the Elegant Birthday Sentiments. Such a great font, isn’t it?

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

Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

CL8166 Elegant Birthday Sentiments

57586 Block Print Perched Tropical Bird

57575 Abundant Branch

57511 Pinpoint Contour Plate

SP1011 Greenery 6×6 pack

SP1012 Blush 6×6 pack

SP1013 Sunrise 6×6 pack

March 9, 2026
Birthday Greetings
by Rosemary Dennis

Hello everyone! February is winding down and I am starting to think of spring even though we really haven’t had much of a winter here in the Pacific Northwest. While there are lots of pretty dies in the newest Birch Press Design release the beautiful Soaring Hummingbird and Daisy Flower dies from the Block Print line caught my eye and I just had to use them first. Let’s look at what I created.

I love the other hummingbird die set from Birch Press Design (Block Print Hummingbird) and so was delighted to see this new hummingbird die. I started by die cutting all the hummingbird pieces from white cardstock. Initially I was just going to use them to help me determine how the bird went together, but then I decided to use distress oxide ink color the pieces instead of diecutting from colored cardstock which was my original idea. I used small blending brushes to color all the pieces.

In the photo you can see some of the inks I used as well as the inkblended pieces.

I die cut the daisies and centers from white cardstock as well. You will need two die cuts per flower to create the daisies on my card. I think it would be fun to die cut a third flower to create an even fuller daisy – like a gerber daisiy. In this photo you can see the small blending brush I used to color the die cuts. My blending isn’t perfect because in real life flowers are perfect, either!

The bird and the flowers were assembled using liquid adhesive and then set aside to dry.

Then I die cut the stems and leaves added the inkblending and added the leaves to the tall stem. I die cut white cardstock using a Memory Box Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die and then layered that onto light gray cardstock that I die cut with a rectangle die.

Now it was time to layer on all elements. I used liquid adhesive to adhere everything to the card front except for the hummingbird. For him I used a combination of liquid adhesive and foam squares. I stamped the greeting from the Elegant Birthday Sentiments stamp set with black ink and die cut it with the matching die. The die was used to die cut two more layers that were adhered behind the stamped sentiment and then adhered to the card with liquid adhesive.

I really love how this card turned out. It will be going to my sweet mom who will be turning 89 at the end of April. I hope she loves it too!

CL8166 Elegant Birthday Sentiments

57634 Block Print Daisy Flower

57659 Block Print Soaring Hummingbird

February 25, 2026