Category: Birthday

  • Block Print Elegant Koi | by Crystal Komara

    Block Print Elegant Koi | by Crystal Komara

    Hello friends and Birch Press Design fans! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and found a little time to craft. This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today and I was so excited to finally be able to use some of the amazing new ocean themed block print designs that BPD has to offer right now! Let’s take a look at my first card using the Block Print Elegant Koi.

    This is an A2 sized card made from a base of 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. I pulled a pre-made background from my “scraps” pile to use as the water in the card. This background was actually made with Lindy’s “Butter the Toast” Blue Magical shaker. Then using the Block Print Elegant Koi dies, I cut the fish layers from white, peach and darker orange. The whiskers and eyes of each fish were cut from black cardstock.

    I created two koi fish ad adhered them to the card using 3M foam adhesive for addd dimension. I then used a pre-made “Happy Birthday” white foil tab from Memory Company (a sister company to Birch Press Design) to add a quick sentiment.

    I really love how this card came out and I hope you do too. I think koi fish are so elegant to look at, so I’m happy I was able to use these new dies to create an equally elegant card.

    Thank you for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

  • Whale Watching | by Christina Rannow

    Whale Watching | by Christina Rannow

    Hello! Christina here to share another card featuring products from the latest ocean-inspired release. I adore this release, and I have many favorites so far, but this whale from the Block Print Whale Duo is at the top of the list! I paired him with the new Corner Waves Die for a fun cool blue ocean scene. Let’s jump in!

    For this card, I started with the wavy ocean water. I die-cut the corner waves multiple times from two shades of teal cardstock as well as white cardstock. I inked the edges of the teal pieces and then spattered them with Uncharted Mariner, Peacock Feathers, and Salvaged Patina Distress Inks, and with a couple of Distress Oxide Sprays -Salvaged Patina and Uncharted Mariner. I stacked these, along with the white wavy pieces, onto a light blue cardstock panel trimmed to 4 x 5 1/4 inches. As I was stacking them, I layered the white pieces under the lighter teal pieces, letting only a small border peek above, and used foam tape to attach all the pieces, fitting them together like a puzzle.

    Next, I die-cut the whale and his spout. I used blue cardstock for the whale and teal for the spout. I gave both pieces the same treatment as the wavy water pieces, inking the edges and adding plenty of spatter. Then I assembled the diecut pieces and attached them to my card front, tucking him slightly behind the water. 

    To finish things up, I added the Happy Birthday Vintage Sentiment diecut, choosing black and white cardstock, and a scattering of sparkling sequins for embellishment. 

    Thank you so much for visiting today and reading about my latest ocean-inspired card design using products from the latest release. See you again soon!

  • A Whale of a Day | by Toni M Maddox

    A Whale of a Day | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, friends! Today I’m sharing a a cute birthday or any occasion card that’s perfect for summer.

    To start my card I used one of the two-part Light Ray Stencils along with Catherine Pooler ink to create a sunny backdrop.

    I then cut out the Corner Waves from two different shades of shimmery blue cardstock and loosely adhered them to a third piece of shimmery cardstock.

    Next I cut out the Block Print Whale Duo, sponging them to create shading on that fun orange. I particularly love the spout and plume–so cute.

    My last step was to stamp the Vintage Everyday Greetings directly onto the card front using Versafine Clair Medieval Blue.

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

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

    Supplies

    57630 Block Print Whale Duo

    57607 Corner Waves

    42049 Light Ray Stencil Set

    CL8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings

  • Block Print Passion Fruit Flower Butterflies | by Crystal Komara

    Block Print Passion Fruit Flower Butterflies | by Crystal Komara

    Hello friends and happy Tuesday! Welcome back to another post with Design Team member Crystal Komara. Today I have gotten a little extra creative and turned the new Block Print Passion Fruit Flower dies into butterflies. It sort of happened by serendipity – or a fortunate accident, but I’m not mad!

    The base of this A2 sized card is made from 110 lb. Neenah Solar White smooth cardstock. This is my go-to cardstock for all my card bases because it is nice and sturdy. First, to create the background I cut a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of lilac purple paper and adhered it directly to the white card base.

    Using Plate B of the Flora Plate Layer Set, I cut a piece of white cardstock and adhered this directly over the lilac purple cardstock to create visual interest.

    Now for the flower/butterflies: Using the Block Print Passion Fruit Flower dies, I create flowers from various colors of purple cardstock (with green stamens. I create a total of four flours and then I accidentally dropped two of them on the flower and they kind of fell into a butterfly shape and I thought hmmmm. . . . if I cut off the stems and glue them together, they DO look like butterflies, so I went with it!

    I adhered two of the flowers together to create a butterfly and then I added a second set to the front of the card.

    Lastly I added a tab foil sentiment from Memory Box Company (a sister company of Birch Press Design) and voila – a butterfly card made from flowers!

    Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

  • Birthday Fishes | by Rosemary Dennis

    Birthday Fishes | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello, hello! Have you seen the new Birch Press Design release? It is full of absolutely amazing fish themed designs. I have so many ideas rolling around in my head. I’m starting off with a fairly simple design today. Let’s have a look.

    When my package arrived in the mail my niece and her family were on a vacation in Bali. The photos she shared on Instagram got some ideas going and one of them was this card. Along with all the dies there is a really fun stencil set that allows you to create beams of sunlight shining in the ocean. I immediately knew I was going to use the stencils for my card.

    I inked up my panel of cardstock with Tumbled Glass distress oxide ink and then used on of the stencils and Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink to add the sunlight streaming into the water. Once that was done I splatted the panel with water to create little bubbles.

    I then inkblended another panel with Mowed Lawn distress oxide ink, Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey. I die cut the kelp and little fish from that panel using the new Sea Kelp and Mini Fish die set. I added a bit of a darker green distress oxide ink (I don’t remember which one) to the kelp for some color variation.

    The I figured out the arrangement of the kelp and fish. Since this card was going to my great niece who was on vacation in Bali with her parents I found a round Memory Box Tabs birthday sentment and inked it up with some of the green ink. I purposefully chose the sentiment tab with the wavy birthday to mimic the ocean waves. I adhered everything to my panel with glue and then added it to a cardstock base.

    I just love how this turned out. Well, that’s it for me. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

  • Block Print Garden Heart | by Crystal Komara

    Block Print Garden Heart | by Crystal Komara

    Hello friends and happy Monday! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful weekend. It has been incredibly rainy here in the Northeast where I live (Massachusetts). This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing my first card made using the new Block Print Garden Heart dies.

    The base of this card is made with 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.

    Let’s make this card:

    1. I cut a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock and used Layer A of the Viola Plate Layering set as a stencil. I stenciled directly over the steel die using Ranger Distress Oxide ink in the color Twisted Citron.
    2. I die cut the Block Print Garden Heart itself from white cardstock. I die cut the leaves of the heart from green cardstock .
    3. I die cut various pieces of the flower from three different colored pink cardstock.
    4. I die cut the center of the flowers from yellow cardstock.
    5. I adhered the flower pieces together using a fine-tip liquid glue.

    Once both flower hearts were assembled, I adhered them to the card front using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension.

    Lastly to create the sentiment, I die cut the Happy Birthday Vintage Sentiment from two different colored pink yardsticks. I adhered the two layers together with a fine-tip liquid glue. Then I adhered the sentiment to the card using 3M foam adhesive.

    I really love this beautiful new Block Print Garden Heart die set and can’t wait to create with it again! Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

  • Oh Happy Day | by Rosemary Dennis

    Oh Happy Day | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello Birch Press Design friends! Rosemary here on the blog today with a fun design I created using more new dies from the Block Print line. Let’s get started!

    I don’t know about you, but I’m loving the new Block Print line of dies from Birch Press Design. They just keep getting better and better with each release! The butterflies in this release are amazing! For this card I used the Block Print Brilliant Butterfly and the super fun Block Print Stems and Berries.

    Here you can see the products that I used. I started by diecutting everything from white cardstock and then placing the pieces on a sticky mat so I could apply the distress oxide ink. Once the inking was done I set everything aside to dry.

    Once I had all my pieces assembled I needed to figure out my layout. It was at this point I decided to throw the new Linear Stripes Stencil into the mix. I used the purple ink that was left on my brush to add the stripes. I just wanted them in the area where I would be putting the stem. After I did my stenciling I left the panel on the sticky mat so I could determine final placement of the pieces.

    With placement determined I removed the panel from the sticky mat and placed it in my MISTI stamping tool to stamp the sentiment from the Vintage Everyday Greetings stamp set. The sentiment was stamped in black ink and then I adhered all the pieces using liquid adhesive.

    I just love the fun graphic look that the Block Print Stems and Berries and the stenciled stripes provide. The beautiful Brilliant Butterfly provides a little softness to the design. Well, that’s it for me. I hope you enjoyed today’s card. Thanks for stopping by!


    Supplies


    CL8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings
    42041 Linear Stripes
    57599 Block Print Stems and Berries
    57596 Block Print Brilliant Butterfly
  • Bright Birthday Bird | by Toni M Maddox

    Bright Birthday Bird | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, Birch Press fans! Toni here and ever so glad to have the blog back. Let’s jump right in!

    I cut out the Block Print Tufted Bird from Memory Box Lavender Bloom and Golden Wheat cardstock which I then sponged using bright inks.

    Assembling the bird was very straightforward–whew!

    I cut out the Rosebud Arch Contour Layer using Memory Box Key Lime cardstock and sponged that as well.

    I placed that on the card front along with the bird and one of the sentiments from Vintage Everyday Greetings, spattering the lot.

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


    Supplies


    57583 Block Print Tufted Bird
    CL8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings
    8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings clear stamp and die set
    57561 Rosebud Arch Contour Layers

  • Birthday Wren | by Rosemary Dennis

    Birthday Wren | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today with a birthday card featuring the new Block Print Little Bird. Let’s have a look at what I created.

    When I saw the new collection of Block Print birds I was so excited! I just love them and can see so many possibilities. For today’s card I decided to create a little wren. Besides papercrafting I enjoy cross-stitching and one of my favorite fabrics to stitch on is 32 count Lugana in the color Wren. So that was my starting point for my little “wren”. I die cut water color cardstock using the Little Bird die, as well as the Hillside Branch and Bramble Contour Layers die set. I then colored each of the pieces with various watercolors.

    My coloring is very simple, but I did spend more time on the bird in an effort to achieve variation in the colors on the bird. Once I was done I set everything aside to dry.

    I pulled out the watercolor panels I had created months ago using the Crystal Lingo stamp set. I had two different blue panels, one dark and one light. I went with the lighter version and die cut it down with a Memory Box A2 Rectangle Frames die. I found a complimentary piece of blue cardstock in the Memory Box Lagoon solid core cardstock pack and die cut it with a larger A2 Rectangle Frames die. The two rectangled were then layered together.

    With all my pieces dry I adhered everything together using liquid adhesive and then determined how I would arrange all the pieces on my panels. I used liquid adhesive to adhere everything and then added my panels to a light gray cardstock card base.

    I finished the card with a Memory Box Birthday Greetings Tab. I really love how my sweet little “wren” turned out. I can see creating other types of birds with the Block Print Little Bird die set. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

    Supplies

    57577 Block Print Little Bird

    57524 Hillside Branch and Bramble Contour Layers

    cl8155 Crystal Lingo clear stamp set

  • Gilded Birthday | by Crystal Komara

    Gilded Birthday | by Crystal Komara

    Hello friends and welcome to October! Wow, how the seasons fly, but things sure are getting pretty with the fall foliage here in New England. This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here today sharing an elegant black and gold birthday card today using the Floral Balloon Layer Set.

    I love the large size of these balloons, they really make a statement. By layering the balloons with black, gold and white, it really makes the card seem more elevated and elegant.

    Card details:

    The base of this A2 sized card is made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. Using the Pinpoint Contour Plate, I die cut the background from black cardstock. Next I die cut the balloons using the Floral Balloon Layer Set. I cut one white ballon and then added strips of gold and black cardstock. For the second balloon, I die cut Layer A (the top layer) from gold glitter cardstock, Layer B (the middle layer) from black cardstock and Layer C (the bottom layer) from white cardstock. I adhered all three layers together with a fine-tip liquid glue. I adhere the top gold balloon to the card using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension. The white balloon is adhered directly to the card base, without foam.

    For the sentiment, I heat foiled the “happy birthday” in gold foil on white cardstock. This sentiment is from the Sugar Script Sentiments 2 foil plate and coordinating die. I used the coordinating die to cut the sentiment out and adhered it to the card using 3M foam.

    Thanks for being here and spending time exploring all that Birch Press Design has to offer for your creative paper craft hobby! Have a wonderfully creative day!

    Supplies

    57433 Floral Balloon Layer Set

    57511 Pinpoint Contour Plate

    BPF505 Sugar Script Sentiments 2 Hot Foil Plate and Die Sets