Hello, my friends! Toni here with a heavily layered floral thank you.
I especially enjoyed making today’s card because I used up some leftovers, including the sentiment and the background coverplate, in addition to working with fabulous new dies!
To start, I adhered the Flora Layer Plate to a white card base.
Next, I assembled the Block Print Brilliant Butterfly and Block Print Tapestry Blooms using Memory Box Key Lime, Leaf Sprout, Orange Peel, Pool Party & Summer Squash cardstock with Catherine Pooler Inks.
I decided the bottom of the card needed a bit of filler behind the embossed Vintage Everyday Greetings sentiment. So, I cut out Foliage Bunch from Memory Box Key Lime and sponged it before adhering it to the bottom of the card front.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!
Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today. Have you seen the all the new Block Print products that have been added to the Birch Press Design website? They are absolutely AMAZING and I can’t wait to create some projects with them! Today I’m sharing a card I made with the Block Print Tufted Bird die set. Let’s have a look.
For this card I went with a softer approach using some Tim Holtz woodless distress watercolor pencils to color the pieces of my bird.
In the above photo you can see the watercolor pencils that I used and the pieces prior to assembling my little bird.
Once all the piece were dry I adhered everything together using liquid adhesive. Once I had the bird together I worked on the rest of the card. I decided to use some plaid patterned paper from the Memory Box Anemone Plaid 6×6 pad for the background for my little bird. Diecutting the paper with a rectangle die. I also diecut pine branches using Pine Needle Twig Contour Layers die set from watercolor cardstock and then sprayed them with distress spray stain in Rustic Wilderness.
I decided to create a frame around my plaid background by using a die from the Memory Box Curved Cap Pinpoint layers die set. I die cut cream Memory Box woodgrain cardstock with the same rectangle die I used for the plaid paper and then die cut the Curved Cap die from the center. The frame was then adhered to the plaid paper with liquid glue. I die cut the Just A Note Scripted die from watercolor cardstock twice and adhered them together.
Now all my pieces are ready to adhere to my card front. I adhered the pine branches and the sentiment first using liquid glue. To finish off the card I added the bird with a combination of thin foam squares and liquid adhesive.
Well, that’s it for me. I hope you enjoyed by project today. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Hello, friends! Toni here today and I’m still loving the Block Print Birds. They lend themselves to all sorts of card designs.
For this one, I created a Scandinavian folk style of sorts using the Block Print Bright Bird, Foliage Bunch, and Hello Scripted on the Flora Plate Layer Set.
I love the boldness of the black against the more muted Memory Box Muted Squash and Pool Party colors.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!
Hello! Christina here to share a sunny tropical card perfect for sending a quick note of happiness to someone. For this card I paired the beautiful new Block Print Hummingbird with the Tropical Hibiscus Contour Layers and added a fun polka dot patterned paper as the backdrop. Keep reading to get all the details for this sunny notecard!
I started by die cutting all the hummingbird and hibiscus elements for my design from brightly colored cardstock. I used yellows, oranges, and teals, with a pop of fuchsia on the hummingbird. All of the die cuts layered together beautifully, plus the Tropical Hibiscus flowers come with a layering guide to make assembly super easy too.
After I assembled and secured my die cut elements with liquid adhesive, I created a simple background. I trimmed a piece of yellow polka dot patterned paper to approximately 4 x 5 ¼ inches and then used a large circle die to round the corners. A corner rounder paper punch would work great for this step if you have one! Then I adhered this rounded panel to an A2 top-fold card base.
Next, I attached the flowers to the card base with foam squares and tucked the leaves under them, securing the leaves with liquid adhesive. I attached the hummingbird with thin foam squares, giving my design multiple levels of dimension. The last step was to die cut the sentiment, the Handwritten Just a Note, from a dark gray cardstock and secure it to my card.
And that completes this sunny tropical card using the Block Print Hummingbird and the Tropical Hibiscus sets. See you again soon!
Hello, hello! Rosemary here today and I am back with a card featuring another super sweet Block Print die set. This time I’m using the Block Print Perched Bird. Let’s have a look at what I made.
I knew I wanted to perch my little bird on one of the big Sugar Script die sets and settled on the Big Hello die set. I die cut the word from white cardstock and the shadow from a light gray. I did this because I wanted the focus to be on my little bird.
I decided to go with a blue/purple/green color combo because I thought it would be fun to add some flowers around the word and little bird. Since spring is on the way I decided to use the Sprouting Crocus Contour Layers dies.
I pulled out the colors of cardstock I wanted to use and then die cut all the pieces. To add some depth to the diecuts I did a little bit of inking to each piece with an ink color that was about two shades darker than the cardstock. Once everything was inked up I let the pieces dry a bit before adhering them together with liquid adhesive.
I wanted to add more interest to the background that my little scene would be sitting on. I initially had a different idea, but as I was looking through my products I saw the Memory Box/Open Studio embossing folders and decided to use one of them. I went with the Gracious Floral embossing folder. I embossed the white cardstock and then die cut it with a rectangle die. I did this because I wanted the embossing to be flattened just a little bit.
Now it was time to put it all together. I adhered the embossed panel to a white cardstock base and then arranged all my elements as you see. I used a combination of liquid adhesive and thin foam squares to adhere everything.
Well, that is it for me. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
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!
Hello crafty friends! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing the first of a few fall themed pumpkin cards that I have made featuring the Adornment Pumpkin Set.
The Adornment Pumpkin Layer Set is one of my go-to products for fall cards. I love the large size of the layering pumpkin. Plus, it comes together easily with only two dies – a solid inside layer and a thin outline layer. For this card, I combined it with a variety of other products from Birch Press Design to include:
There is a lot to this card, so let’s break it down:
To create the pumpkin, using the Adornment Pumpkin die, I die cut the large solid pumpkin from the 6″ x 6″ Gladiola paper pack from Memory Box Company. I die cut the outline layer from white cardstock. I adhered the two together with a fine tip liquid glue.
Using the Phlox Blooms and Leaves contour layer set, I die cut a bunch of flowers from a mustard orange and rust colored cardstock. I also cut the inside of the flowers from chocolate brown cardstock and the center of of the flowers from gold glitter cardstock. For each flower, I layered the three colors togethers with a fine-tip liquid glue.
Next I simply die cut a bunch of orange, yellow, mustard, gold and brown leaves from the Tiny Tufts Flowers and Leaves contour die and tucked them in and around the pumpkin.
I splattered gold paint all over the card for some “distressing” or a “mixed media” look.
Lastly, I stamped the sentiment “forever grateful” using the Brush Sentiment stamp set. I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I used an oval punch to punch the sentiment out and adhered it to the card using foam adhesive for added dimension.
I know at first glance that a lot of these intricate layered cards can seem intimating, but all it really entails is a LOT of die cutting. My little tip* – I don’t even count or measure as I’m die cutting, I just keep cutting until it seems like I have a lot. Any extra pieces can be used on the inside or saved for another card!
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!
