Category: Block Print

  • With Love on Your Birthday by Rosemary Dennis

    With Love on Your Birthday
    by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today with a simple design using the Block Print Lovely Flower and Elegant Birthday Sentiments stamp and die set. I also used some papers from the Memory Box Anemone Grove 6×6 paper pad. Let’s look at what I made.

    I guess this month I have a theme of using patterned paper, lol! I’m often hesitant to use patterned paper for die cutting, but decided that I would give it a try, again. For this card I decided to make sure that I used a more neutral pattern for the flowers. For that I chose a cream paper with gold foiling.

    I chose a light blue paper with gold foiled flowers to use for the flower centers. A strip of the flip side for the blue paper was used as an accent as well.

    I adhered all the pieces of the flowers together and set them aside to dry. I love the Memory Box woodgrain cardstock for backgrounds as it adds a nice subtle look. I trimmed down a piece of cream woodgrain and then added the strip of patterned paper.

    The flowers were then adhered to the paper strip. I used a thin foam square for the large flower and then glue for the two smaller flowers. A dot of a crystal lacquer was added to each of the little stymens and I set aside the panel to dry.

    I finished with the sentiment that I stamped in black on the reverse side of a piece of the cream woodgrain cardstock thus achieving a nice cohesive look. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

    CL8166 Elegant Birthday Sentiments
    57632 Block Print Lovely Flower

    Supplies

    PP1026 Anemone Grove 6×6 pack
  • Thinking of You by Annette Allen

    Thinking of You
    by Annette Allen

    Welcome Birch Press Design friends… Annette Allen (myclevercreations) here with you again and today I am sharing a Thinking of you card. We always need these kind of cards in our stash.

    Create card from white cardstock A2 size.

    Cut an A2 panel on purple/lavender cardstock and adhere to your card base.

    Die cut the Block Print Mod Branches stem three times on green cardstock and adhere them together using liquid glue. Now adhere the stem to the card. Center the stem the best you can.

    Die cut the remaining pieces on colored cardstock and adhere to the branch using liquid glue. Pick colors that you love.

    I added a little white gel pen to the berries.

    Now for those cute bees. Die cut the Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee on black, yellow cardstock and the wings on vellum. adhere the pieces using liquid glue. Add some foam tape to the back and add them to your card.

    Die cut the Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment on white for the backer and use one of the same colors you used on the leaves for the front. Now adhere them together and add some foam tape to the back and add it to your card.

    Finish with a few white small sequins.

    That is it… the dies do all the hard work. We just have to pick the colors and that is easy if you ask me.

    Thank you for stopping by.

    Happy Crafting!

    57573 Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment
    57598 Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee
    57633 Block Print Mod Branches
  • Bright Floral Friendship Card by Toni M Maddox

    Bright Floral Friendship Card
    by Toni M Maddox

    Greetings, my friends! It’s Toni with you again. Today I have a bright floral card perfect for any occasion.

    I started by randomly cutting out the Block Print Lovely Flower from an orange panel of Memory Box Sunrise 6×6 cardstock.

    I adhered this panel to a base of Memory Box 6×6 Lagoon cardstock. Look at those complentary colors–love!

    Next, I diecut the flower centers from the Sunrise pad with the white stamens from scrap white.

    I used the same yellow for the sentiment layer, embossing the Plain & Simple Birthday Greeting in white.

    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.

    57632 Block Print Lovely Flower
    CL8167 Plain and Simple Birthday Greetings
    SP1010 Lagoon 6×6 pack
    SP1013 Sunrise 6×6 pack
  • Proud Seahorseby Christina Rannow

    Proud Seahorse
    by Christina Rannow

    Hello friends! It’s Christina, and I have an under-the-sea-themed birthday card to share with you featuring the Proud Seahorse craft dies from the Block Print Collection. This handsome guy looks right at home tucked into some aquatic plants with a deep blue underwater backdrop. I love how this card design turned out, and I can’t wait to tell you how it came together! Let’s get started!

    My first step was to create the under-the-sea background panel. I used my darkest blue ink and blended it onto the bottom of a cobalt blue cardstock panel, gradually getting lighter near the top of the panel. Then I used a stencil with small circles and more of the dark blue ink and stenciled them across the panel for tone-on-tone bubbles. 

    Next, I die-cut the components for the seahorse and the seaweed from white cardstock. Before assembling them, I added color with ink and blending brushes. I chose chartreuse and apple green ink for the seaweed and sunbeam, honey, and creamsicle ink for the seahorse. Then I arranged the die-cuts on the background and attached them with glue.

    To finish things up, I die-cut a free-form watercolor shape from white cardstock, and before layering it onto the background panel to frame up the scene, I stamped “Happy Birthday” with coordinating blue ink along the bottom. The finishing touch was a few cobalt blue gems for embellishment.

    Thank you so much for reading about my under-the-sea-themed birthday card featuring the Proud Seahorse craft dies. See you again soon!

    57616 Block Print Proud Seahorse
    57628 Sea Kelp and Mini Fish
    CL8167 Plain and Simple Birthday Greetings
  • Wishful Daisies by Toni M Maddox

    Wishful Daisies
    by Toni M Maddox

    Greetings, friends! Toni here with you today and I’m sharing a cheerful birthday card featuring Block Print Daisy Flowers.

    I cut out a few of the Block Print Daisy Flowers using Memory Box 6×6 Lagoon cardstock for the petals. I then used Catherine Pooler ink to add some variation in the color.

    In addition, I sponged the Memory Box 6×6 Greenery cardstock with a bit of ink to create shadow on the stems.

    I used a Poppy Stamps Fanciful Flowers stencil with Catherine Pooler ink to add the idea of more greenery behind the daisies.

    For the Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee, I used the same shade of Memory Box 6×6 Sunrise yellow I had used for the flower centers. Super cute!

    My final step was to add the Elegant Birthday Sentiments at the top, stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne.

    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.

    57634 Block Print Daisy Flower
    57598 Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee
    CL8166 Elegant Birthday Sentiments
    T108 Fanciful Flowers Stencil Set
    SP1010 Lagoon 6×6 pack
    SP1011 Greenery 6×6 pack
    SP1013 Sunrise 6×6 pack
  • Thinking of You by Rosemary Dennis

    Thinking of You
    by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today sharing a card created with the Block Print Wise Fox, Block Print Starry Night Scene and Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment die set. Let’s have a look at what I made.

    I started off my card by making all the pieces for my fox. I had been doing another rummage through my supplies and found my Distress watercolor pencils. I hadn’t really used them before so thought this would be a good time to give them a try.

    I cut down a piece of watercolor cardstock and then scribbled on a combination of Gathered Twigs and Ripe Persimmon and then blended with water. The first generation of color was pretty light so I let the area dry and then scribbled on more color to get a slightly darker patch. To get an even darker value I got heavy handed with my scribbling and was able to get a nice darker tan color.

    Once my panel was dry I die cut all the parts of the fox from different areas on the sheet to get the varying shades. I used the white parts were cut from the sheet of watercolor cardstock that wasn’t colored. I assembled my fox with liquid adhesive. Now it was time for the background. For this I used a Tonic Studios aqua flow pen in a dark blue on another piece of watercolor cardstock. I love the variation in the color that I was able to achieve.

    I let it dry and then worked on the top panel that features the arched opening for the background piece. I die cut cream Memory Box woodgrain cardstock down with a rectangle die and then die cut the Starry Night Scene from the panel. I then die cut the trees and the star from scraps of cardstock that I had left over from the card I posted earlier this month. I trimmed out the trees and adhered them on top of the die cut panel.

    The larger trees were also die cut from scraps. The background panel was dry and so I tried adding some “stars” to the background. I discovered that the blue is so deep and intense that the white just disappeared into the background. So I added drops of Nuvo jewel drops in a clear glitter. Once the panel was dry I adhered it to the top panel using thin foam squares.

    I then adhered the fox and the large trees using thin foam squares. I finished with the sentiment that I die cut from a strip of watercolor cardstock that I colored with the same blue Aqua Flow pen and the woodgrain cardstock. I adhered them together and added to the card front with thin foam squares.

    That’s it for me! I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for coming by and have a lovely day.

    57573 Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment
    57649 Block Print Starry Night Scene
    57640 Block Print Wise Fox
  • Bountiful Bloomsby Christina Rannow

    Bountiful Blooms
    by Christina Rannow

    Hello! It’s Christina, and today I’m sharing a bold but simple card that is bursting with beautiful blooms. I chose an analogous color palette of yellow, green, and blue and used the Block Print Lovely Flower craft dies, layering multiple flowers across my card front. I wanted a big bold leaf to match these blooms and settled on using the wing of the Block Print Crane craft dies and finishing with the Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment. 

    After choosing my color palette, this card came together quickly. First I die-cut and assembled multiple flowers and arranged them on a peacock blue cardstock panel. I attached some of the flowers with glue and others with thin foam squares for some dimension. Then I die-cut the wings of the crane multiple times from chartreuse green cardstock to be the leaves and tucked them into the flowers. The final steps were to die-cut the sentiment from more chartreuse cardstock, attach it using glue, and then secure the card front to a side-fold card base.

    Thank you so much for checking out my bountiful blooms card I made featuring the Block Print Lovely Flower craft dies. I hope I’ve inspired you to create something beautiful today!

    57582 Block Print Crane
    57632 Block Print Lovely Flower
    57573 Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment
  • Happy Birthday by Rosemary Dennis

    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
  • A Vibrant Hello by Christina Rannow

    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
  • Elegant Peacocks by Toni M Maddox

    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