Hello friends! Rosemary here on the blog today sharing a birthday card with a little more of a masculine feel to it. I used the fun Block Print Pine Trees die set, as well as a sentiment from the Plain and Simple Birthday Greetings stamp. Here is what I created.
I started by pulling shades of green from the Memory Box Greenery 6×6 cardstock pad and die cutting trees. I then mixed and matched the different colors to make the different trees and adhered them together with glue.
As the trees dried I tried out different arrangements and settled on the one you see. Now for the background. What to do, what to do? I know… a woodgrain background, lol! I also decided to add a sun in the background and used a yellow from the Memory Box Sunrise 6×6 cardstock pad.
I love the Memory Box woodgrain cardstock and decided to use a piece of the white woodgrain cardstock. I die cut it down to fit a card front and then searched for a sentiment.
I settled on the happy birthday sentiment and stamped it on to the woodgrain panel. I did stamp it several times to make sure I got the best coverage I could.
I adhered everything to the card front with glue as I didn’t want to add any more bulk to the card. I then adhered the panel to a off white cardstock base to provide just a little bit of contrast.
Well, that is it for me. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by the blog today. Have a wonderful day.
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.
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.
Hello everyone! Rosemary here with a sweet birthday card and tag made with the Linear Boho Butterflies dies and pretty papers from the Memory Box Anemone Grove 6×6 pad. Let’s look at what I created:
As I started thinking about how I wanted to use the Linear Boho Butterflies dies I thought it would be fun to use some patterned paper. I looked through my Memory Box 6×6 pads and settled on the Anenome Grove pad. I went with papers that both had a light purple hue to them and a subtle pattern.
I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to use the butterflies so I decided to die cut multiples from each piece of patterned paper. The bodies of the butterflies were also die cut from the same papers. As I played around with ideas I thought it would be fun to use the Pinpoint Contour Plate to provide some movement on the background. The panel was die cut from white cardstock and set aside.
There are three large butterflies and two tiny butterflies in the die set. I decided to layer all three of the larger butterflies together by alternating the different patterned papers. The look is very subtle, but pretty. I also layered the two tiny butterflies in the same manner. To finish off the butterflies I added clear Memory Box fairy jewels to the bodies of all the butterflies. To keep the subtle purple going I ink blended a light purple ink around the edges of the background panel and then added the butterflies and sentiment to the card.
After I finished the card I still had one large layered butterfly and two tiny layered butterflies left. So I thought it would be fun to make a little tag. I used a scrap of white cardstock and die cut it with the Pinpoint Contour Plate and then die cut it further with a Memory Box Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die. I added the same light purple ink around the edges and stamped the sentiment. Both sentiments are from the Plain and Simple Birthday Greetings. I finished with a little bow made with purple twine.
I love how both the card and the tag turned out. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. I had a lot of fun creating them.
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.
Welcome Birch Press Design friends, Annette Allen (myclevercreations) here with you today and I am sharing my first post as one of the newest design team members. YAY! So let’s get started…
I first started with die cutting the Block Print Glider Fish three times on colored cardstock. I did not plan the colors I just picked out some scraps and started die cutting. Adhere all the pieces together using liquid glue.
Don’t worry about how the colors go because as you can see, you can mix and match most colors and they just look fun. I might add that the Block Print Glider Fish is very easy to piece together.
Create a card, A2 size on white cardstock.
Cut a A2 panel on white cardstock and ink blend three colors. I went more with the traditional colors of the sea. Pick colors that you love to ink blend together. I used Oxide inks, so I am going to sprinkle a little water. If you use this technique, make sure to let your panel dry completely before adhering it to your card base.
Once dry, adhere to card base.
Add some foam tape to the back of our cute Block Print Glider Fish and add them to the right side of the card. Try and leave an even amount of space between them.
Adhere some small white sequins in front of each fish. Gives the appearance of bubbles.
Stamp the sentiment from the Elegant Birthday Sentiments clear stamp on one of the colors of cardstock you used on the fish using black ink and die cut using the coordinating dies. Add foam tape to the back and adhere to the left side of the card.
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.
If you’ve been wanting to try the Block Print Soaring Hummingbird from Birch Press Design — consider this your sign. This die set is one of those that looks incredibly intricate but is so satisfying to put together once you understand how all the pieces work. Pair it with the Block Print Mod Branches and you’ve got a card that feels lush, layered, and alive. Let me walk you through how this “Thanks for Everything” card came together!
Starting with the base
My card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock — my go-to for any card where I want the colors to really pop. White was the right call here because the color palette on this card is doing a lot of beautiful work and I didn’t want anything competing with it.
Building the branches
Before the hummingbirds even come into play, the Block Print Mod Branches die sets the whole scene. I die cut the branches from Birch Press Leaf Sprout cardstock — that bright, fresh lime green is such a perfect backdrop for everything that gets layered on top. The branches arc across the card and give the whole design that botanical, nature-forward feeling I was going for.
I added the leaves in Birch Press Pool Party and Deep Turquoise, and the little berry clusters in Cranberry. Before assembling everything I did some light ink blending on many of the individual pieces to add depth and dimension — it’s a small step that makes a big difference in how finished and rich the final card looks.
Die cutting the hummingbirds
Now for the stars of the show. The Block Print Soaring Hummingbird die produces the most beautifully detailed little birds — the layered wing feathers, the delicate tail, the sweet little beak. I made two hummingbirds for this card, which felt right for the branching composition — one perched toward the top and one hovering near the bottom, both facing inward toward the center of the card.
For the coloring I used a mix of Birch Press cardstock — Cranberry and Cherry Red for the wing feathers and tail detail, Pool Party and Deep Turquoise for the body and larger wing layers. The contrast between the deep cranberry reds and those cool aqua blues is what gives this card its energy. Both hummingbirds are foam mounted onto the branch for a lovely dimensional lift — that little bit of elevation really makes them feel like they’re in motion.
Adding the sentiment
For the sentiment I used the Vintage Everyday Greetings stamp set. The phrase “thanks for everything” stamped directly onto the card base in black dye ink — clean and simple, which felt right given how much is happening visually with the birds and branches. Because of the space available in the lower right corner, I stamped “thanks” on one line and “for everything” just below it, which actually turned into a really nice little layout moment.
A little sneak peek for the curious
I’ll be honest — this die set has a lot of pieces, and figuring out the layering order is half the fun. I’ve been working on cut maps for my Birch Press dies to help me keep track of exactly how everything goes together, and I made one for the Block Print Soaring Hummingbird. I’m not going to say too much about it just yet — but if you look closely at the photo below, you might get a little preview of what’s coming. 😉
Stay tuned — there’s more to come on this one.
The finished card
The end result is a card that feels like a little piece of botanical art. The white card base lets all those rich, saturated colors breathe, the two hummingbirds bring movement and life to the design, and the Mod Branches tie everything together into one cohesive scene. It’s one of my favorite cards I’ve made with these dies so far — and I have a feeling it won’t be the last version of this one.
Have you made a card with the Block Print Soaring Hummingbird? I’d love to see what you’ve created — tag Birch Press and share your version!
Are you ready for nicer weather, my friends? Toni here and I’m very much looking forward to spring so I channeled that into a cheerful card.
To create the background, I used two layers of the Flora Plate set, one from Memory Box Cilantro cardstock and the other from Key Lime.
Next, I cut out a branch from the Floral Arch Contour set from kraft. I then added Abundant Branch blossoms which I had cut from Memory Box Summer Squash cardstock.
Creating the butterflies might have been my favorite part. I cut the Linear Boho Butterflies from Memory Box Golden Wheat cardstock then sponged them with an orange and magenta ink to create a gradient. They’re so pretty!
Finally, I added the Thinking of You Vintage Sentiment, using black on white to really draw the eye.
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.
