Category: Craft Dies

  • Dry Embossing with Plate Dies | By Dilay Nacar

    Dry Embossing with Plate Dies | By Dilay Nacar

    Hello, friends! Dilay here and I’m back to share another simple technique that you can use to stretch your layer dies! Today, I’m featuring the brand new Kinsey Heart Plate Layer Set, but for this card we’re only using one of the dies! Let’s get started!

    To begin, I cut down a piece of white cardstock to the exact size of the Layer A die plate, 4.25” x 5.5”, then used the die plate to dry emboss the cardstock. The order of the plates for this step will vary depending on your specific die cutter. Using die plates to dry emboss is a great way to stretch your dies and give your creations a new flair!

    Below is a side-by-side comparison of the embossed panel and the intricate die cut, both made from Layer A. 

    For the ink, I chose to go with Distress Oxide since they are my go-to for blending embossed projects. For this card, I used colors Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Squeezed Lemonade and blended them using a large blending brush. I prefer to emboss first, then ink blend, both for the appearance and to avoid any ink transfer onto the die. 

    To finish, I die cut the Big Hugs Sugar Script die 3 times in white cardstock, stacked the layers for dimension, and adhered it onto the center the panel. Once the glue was dry, I adhered the finished panel to a top folding card base. 

    I hope that you found some inspiration today and enjoyed this card! Be sure to follow #birchpressdesign to share your creations!

    Thank you so much for stopping by!

    57402 Kinsley Heart Plate Layer Set
    Big Hugs Sugar Script
  • Hugs and Hearts | By Amanda Wilcox

    Hugs and Hearts | By Amanda Wilcox

    Hi everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you for the first time this year! Happy New Year and I hope 2021 is starting off well for you all. I pretty much dove in head first to love and heart themed cards since the new year and I’m loving it all! I have a pair of slimline cards to share with you today and I hope you enjoy them.

    When I can’t make decisions in the craft room, it either leads to making multiple cards or creating a rainbow of something. Today, it led to two cards which were really fun to create! I started by choosing colors and die cutting my hearts.

    Then I moved on to backgrounds. I settled on making an inky mess with the ink smooshing technique using my Tombow Dual Brush markers. I colored on my acrylic block, spritzed with water and smooshed it on my paper. When I do this, I use a heat gun to dry each layer so they don’t blend together.

    After these were done I used liquid glue to adhere them to card bases and also glued my hearts together at the same time. I put acrylic blocks on top of everything while it dried to help it flatten out.

    For my sentiment, I kept it simple using the hugs honey script dies. I love this font and it fits just perfectly across these hearts!

    I cut the shadows once and the words 4 times each and used liquid glue to adhere them all together. After they were glued to the middle heart I moved on to finishing touches.

    I used Nuvo Crystal Drops in a coordinating color for each card. On this one, I just used a like teal scattered across the background of my card.

    For the purple one, I decided to also add them to a few select spots on the hearts as well. This was totally new to me and I like how it turned out. Just a little extra interest.

    I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

    Supplies

    57399 Kinsley Heart Layer Set

    57396 Petal Heart Layer Set

    57300 Hugs Honey Script

  • Ombre Kinsley Heart || by Crystal Komara

    Ombre Kinsley Heart || by Crystal Komara

    Hello crafty friends! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing a beautiful Valentine’s Day card featuring the latest new release products from Birch Press Design. The focal point of this pink ombre card is the ink blended background peeking through the Kinsley Heart Layering Plate.

    On a 5 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Bristol smooth cardstock I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in the colors Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Candied Apple. I began with the lightest color (Spun Sugar) at the top of the cardstock and the richest color (Candied Apple) at the bottom.

    Using 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Crest cardstock, I die cut the top layer (Layer A) from the Kinsley Heart Plate.

    I placed this intricate heart layer directly over the ombre background adhering it with LineCo ph neutral bookbinding glue (my go-to liquid adhesive).

    Using the Lingo Thanks stamp set, I stamped the word “love” in Versamark ink on ballet pink cardstock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I used the coordinating Lingo Thanks die set to cut it out. I also stamped the sentiment “you’re in my heart” in Versamark ink on fuschia pink cardstock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder as well. I die cut one large white heart to serve as the center focal point of the card. I adhered the sentiments to the lower right corner of the heart using 3M foam adhesive. Lastly, I added a few iridescent sequins with glue dots to the card for added dimension and sparkle.

    I hope you will enjoy these beautiful new products from Birch Press Design! Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

    Supplies

    58143 Lingo Thanks die set

    CL8143 Lingo Thanks

    57402 Kinsley Heart Plate Layer Set

  • A Few More Foil Christmas Cards | Tracey McNeely

    A Few More Foil Christmas Cards | Tracey McNeely

    Hi crafty friends, it’s Tracey here today and Happy New Year! Before putting Christmas stamps and dies away for next year, make a few cards while you still feel the holiday spirit. Life in quarantine doesn’t always mean that your ahead of the game and then Christmas shows up. So it’s always good to have a bit of a head start.

    I wanted to make some of the Birch Press Design Ornaments using foil paper. I chose to make all of my ornaments primarily using the Marisol Ornament Layer Set. I chose red, light aqua and silver foil from the Memory Box Polished Foil Pad and made three cards all using the same three colours each with a different outcome.

    To start off I prepared three top folding card bases. I die cut the Pinpoint Radial Plate from white cardstock then trimmed them down to 5 1/4″ x 4″. I adhered the panels to card bases using foam tape and set them aside.

    For the first card I die cut Layer C of the Marisol Ornament Layer Set from white cardstock. Using the polished foil paper I cut the Marisol Ornament Layer B from the light aqua and Marisol Ornament Layer A from red. The ornament cap was die cut in silver foil using the Ornament Basics die set. I carefully assembled the ornament using liquid adhesive.

    TIP: If you get any glue onto your foil die cuts while assembling, set it aside to allow the glue to dry slightly. Then gently use a microfibre cloth to wipe the marks away.

    I drew a string for the ornament onto the Pinpoint Radial panel with a Copic Mutiliner and adhered the ornament with foam tape. The word ‘Joy’ was die cut in red foil using the Simple Joy die set.

    The foil papers work just beautifully with the layered ornaments.

    For the next two cards I cut the ornament shape from the Ornament Basics die set in white carstock. I cut the Marisol Ornament Layer A in both light aqua and red saving the interior pieces so I could inlay the red pieces into the light aqua bauble and the light aqua pieces into the red bauble.

    The ornament caps were die cut in silver foil using the Ornament Basics die set. I drew the ornament strings with a Copic Mutiliner and adhered the ornaments with foam tape. The word ‘Joy’ was die cut in red foil using the Simple Joy die set for the red inlay card and the light aqua for the light aqua inlay card.

    These cards turned out even more elegant than I thought they would. There is something so beautiful about cardmaking with foil.

    Thank you for stopping in today to craft with me. I hope I have inspired you to make a few more cards before for close the door on Christmas for 2020. Come back again for more inspiration here on the Birch Press Design blog!

    Supplies

    56114 Marisol Ornament Layer Set

    57314 Ornament Basics

    57384 Pinpoint Radial Plate

    57218 Simple Joy

    FP1001 Polished Foil Pad pack

  • Dazzling New Year | with Ardyth

    Dazzling New Year | with Ardyth

    If there’s one thing we can probably all agree on, it’s that we’re happy that 2021 is almost here!

    I created a colourful New Year’s card with a fun technique using alcohol inks and the Delicate Pastels Glitter Card pack.

    I started with a 6×6 inch piece of white glitter cardstock:

    I liberally spread rubbing alcohol (you can use blender solution) over the cardstock and dropped in lots of colours of alcohol ink. I used my lens cleaner (air pump) to spread the colours around and then left it to dry.

    I used mostly bright colours and I added some darker (Eggplant) ink around the edge to see how I liked it. I preferred the bright colours for this card, but I wonder about creating a ‘galaxy’ sky with more of this darker ink…..

    When it was dry, I used the top layer of the Dazzle set to cut it. This gave me a sparkly circle from the centre which I used a little later.

    I cut the bottom 2 layers from black cardstock, as well as a black cardbase, to really let the glittery colours stand out!

    I used the sparkly circle from the centre of my top layer, and placed it over the bottom layer die to cut a smaller circle. I glued it in and that created a black pointy frame around it, which has a really energetic look!

    For my sentiment, I used the rest of my glittery alcohol ink panel and the Mod Alphabet, using white cardstock for the shadow layers to try and make sure that the visibility was high.

    Wishing you all a very happy and healthy New Year!


    Supplies


    GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad
    57001 Dazzle A
    57002 Dazzle B
    57003 Dazzle C
    58139 Mod Alphabet
  • Hello Friend | By Seeka

    Hello Friend | By Seeka

    Hello there, it’s Seeka here and today I have a card featuring the Viola Plate Layer die set over an ink-blended background.  I picked a pink and red color scheme, fitting for Valentine’s Day; what colors would you choose?

    I began by creating the ink-blended background.  I used foam blending tools to blend Candied Apple, Abandoned Coral, and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide inks onto a 4.25” x 5.5” panel of Bristol smooth cardstock. Next, I used the Viola Plate layers A and B dies to cut pieces of white cardstock.  I layered and adhered the two die-cut pieces together and then adhered them to the ink-blended panel.

    Using the Big Hello die set, I die cut “hello” three times from white cardstock.  I used a foam-blending tool to color one piece with Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink, and then I stacked and adhered all three layers together, with the pink piece on top.  I adhered the piece to the shadow layer, which I had cut from white cardstock, and then used foam tape to adhere the sentiment to the background.

    Next, I stamped a sentiment from the Awesome Ticker Tape stamp set in black ink onto white cardstock.  I trimmed the sentiment down so that it just said “friend,” backed it with foam tape, and adhered it just under the “hello” sentiment. 

    To finish the card, I adhered the card front to a card base and then adhered some small pink gems to the centers of each of the flower shapes in the background.

    Thank you so much for coming by!


    Supplies


  • One Layer Friend | By Dilay Nacar

    One Layer Friend | By Dilay Nacar

    Hello, friends! Dilay here and I am back to share a clean and simple card that I created using one of my favorite dies: the ‘Kinsley Layer Set’. However this time, I used it a bit differently – I only used one layer! By using just the first layer, I was able to create an intricate background easily and quickly!

    To get started, I cut multiple shades of teal cardstock (you can use any color for this step) into thin strips. I then used tape runner to adhere the strips onto a piece of white cardstock to create a background design to later die cut. I then set this aside to dry and started on the next step.

    Strips of teal cardstock adhered to cardstock

    For the background of the card, I cut a piece of heavyweight white cardstock to an A2 size base (5.5” x 4.25”) as the panel. Next, I die cut only the ‘Kinsley Layer A’ die 3 times in white cardstock and adhered the 3 onto the panel in a design that I liked, trimming off any extra.

    Die cut ‘Kinsley Layer A’ only 3 times
    Adhered all 3 to A2 base to create background

    I then die cut the same die 3 more times from silver glitter cardstock and used the negative pieces to fill in the center portions of the ‘flower’, adhering them with liquid adhesive. I set that aside to dry.

    Die cut ‘Kinsley Layer A’ in silver glitter cardstock 3 times
    Filled in centers using negative pieces of glitter cardstock

    Next, I die cut the ‘Big Friend Sugar Script Die’  using the teal strip design sheet, and once again in white to adhere behind it for added stability and extra dimension. Finally, once the layers dried, I adhered the the sentiment onto the base and added silver flat bobbles to the center of the flowers. 

    Die cut strips in ‘Big Friend Sugar Script Die’

    This technique is great if you’re looking to stretch your dies or create something a little more subtle. You can recreate this card with just about any layer die and color!

    I hope you you enjoyed my post today and found some inspiration!

    56123 Kinsley Layer Set
    57177 Big Friend Sugar Script
    GP1005 Holiday Glitter Pad
  • Pink Poinsettia Joy | By Seeka

    Pink Poinsettia Joy | By Seeka

    Hello there! It’s Seeka here and today I’m using the Floral Star die set which, this time of year, reminds me of a poinsettia. For a modern twist on traditional Christmas colors, I used pinks and teals instead of reds and greens.

    I started by die cutting the three layers of the Floral star set in three shades of pink. I glued the layers together, the darkest fullest layer on the bottom. To allow some flex in the petals, I only added glue to the centers of the flowers, leaving the tips unglued. When all three layers were adhered together, I curled the tips of the petals around my fingers so they’d curve upward a bit for added dimension.

    Next, I used the Big Joy die set to cut the sentiment three times from white cardstock. I adhered the three layers together, for dimension, and then adhered the combined piece to the shadow layer, which I’d cut from vellum.

    For the background, I used an ink-blending tool to blend aqua ink onto an 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of white cardstock. I concentrated the color at the four corners and when I finished, I splattered some white paint onto the panel, to mimic snow.

    To assemble the card, I adhered the sentiment to the center of the Floral Star and then adhered the Floral Star to the ink-blended panel. Finally, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.

    Thank you so much for visiting and I hope your holidays are warm and cozy!


    Supplies


  • String Art Nativity Star by Jeanne Jachna

    String Art Nativity Star
    by Jeanne Jachna

    Hi and thanks for stopping by! Today I’m sharing a glittery card made with the String Art Nativity Star background die. It’s got me singing “Star of Wonder” while I make!

    I wish you could see the sparkle on this one in person! Here’s how I made it!

    I wanted to cut the die and leave only an impression to color. I didn’t want the cuts to go all the way through the paper. You can accomplish this indifferent ways.. you can emboss the die or add a piece of packing tape to the back of your cardstock. My machine is getting old and requires a shim to cut completely. So all I had to do is remove the shim.

    You can use any media you like to color the design. I used Copic markers. You don’t have to be clean and stay in the lines – you’re going to cover this panel with a clean die cut image.

    To add some sparkle I mixed Ranger Glossy Accents with Gina K Glitz Gliter Gel. This made the gel more fluid and easier to spread. I added the clean die cut image die while the paste was still wet.

    I stacked a second clean die cut to the first to add dimension and to give the look of stained glass.

    This is a fun technique that will work with lots of different dies – I sure hope you’ll give it at try!

    Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5″

    Supplies

     

     

    57380 String Art Nativity Star

     

     

    57304 Peace Honey Script

     

  • Stitched Stripe Background | By Leigh Houston

    Stitched Stripe Background | By Leigh Houston

    Hello, friends! Thank you for stopping by today! I’m here sharing this card featuring Birch Press Designs’s Frosty Flake layering dies. I accented this perfect snowflake with a stitched stripe background, and I’ll walk you through the process today!

    I started my card with my background. I cut an A2-sized panel of blush cardstock and some coordinating 1/4″ strips of coordinating pink and white cardstock. To create the background, I would glue one strip down at a time and then add a quick and simple line of backstitching down its side before adhering the next strip. I did the stitching by hand, but this would be equally easy to do with a sewing machine.

    To make the snowflake, I die cut all three layers of the Frosty Flake layering dies from white cardstock, adhering them together with liquid glue. I then cut an additional layer A from heavy 110# vellum, adhering it on top of the snowflake only in the center to allow the edges to raise up for some dimension. I finished the snowflake by adhering a silver gem in the center.

    To finish the card, I die cut my “thanks” sentiment from the Thanks Sugar Script die (die cutting it from white and a darker pink, slightly offsetting the white on top to create a shadow). A few glittery sequins and this card was finished!

    I hope you enjoyed this project. Links to the products I used are below. Thanks again for stopping by and I’ll see you again soon with another Birch Press Designs’s project!


    Supplies


    Thanks Sugar Script