Category: Craft Dies

  • You Are So Awesome | by Tracey McNeely

    You Are So Awesome | by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there, it’s Tracey here today and I have a card and video to share with you. I remember as a kid that is was very common to receive funny store bought slimline cards for birthdays and other occasions. Slimline cards seem be popping up all over the web lately so today I created a 3 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ card that can be mailed in a standard No. 10 envelope and a video to show you what I did.

    One of the challenges with creating these cards is what to fill all that space in with. The Regal Peacock layer set is a great design to work with this tall, slim card size.

    To begin I cut a 7″ X 8 1/2″ piece of white cardstock for my card base and I scored it at 3 1/2″. Then I cut a 3 1/4″ x 8 1/4″ panel from Bristol Smooth cardstock that I blended Distress Oxide inks onto. I used Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks to create a blue background. Once I had the panel blended out I mixed some Perfect Pearls with water and splattered it on to the panel then set it aside to dry while I prepared the Peacock die cuts.

    The main die for this set is Regal Peacock Layer A which cuts the peacock body and the solid tail. I created a rainbow tail because we could all use a little colour right about now. I die cut all the layers with cardstock–Layer A with a bright blue, Layer D with green, Layer C from bright pink and Layer B from orange. All the layers were glued together with liquid glue and I set it aside. I folded the card base along the score line and then attached the inner blended panel with tape runner.

    The two line sentiment is from the ‘You Are Awesome‘ clear stamp set. I stamped and white embossed the large word ‘awesome’ near the bottom of my panel and then the line ‘you are so’ was white embossed on a strip of black cardstock and added just above.

    The peacock was added to the top of the panel with foam tape. A tiny piece of foam tape was added behind the peacock’s head to give it a bit more support. You want your card to survive the mail and allow your recipient to enjoy it once it comes of out the envelope too!

    Thank you so much for joining me today and I hope you are finding time to be crafty while you are staying/sheltering at home. Enjoy the rest of your week! Stay safe.

    Supplies

    57253 Regal Peacock Layer A

    57254 Regal Peacock Layer B

    57255 Regal Peacock Layer C

    57256 Regal Peacock Layer D

    CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

  • Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday! | By Amanda Wilcox

    Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday! | By Amanda Wilcox

    Hello everyone. Amanda Wilcox from Twiddler’s Nook here and I’m so excited to be joining Birch Press Design Creative Team. Today I have my first card share for you. It looks a little involved but it really is simple. Let’s get started.

    I die cut each of the layers for the Frilly Triangle twice and glued them together.

    Next, I moved on to ink smooshing my background. This is a fun technique that gives a great effect. You just color Tombow, or other water based markers, on a clear block, spritz with water and smoosh your paper on it.

    After the first round, I used a heat tool on it and smooshed it on the liquid that was still on my block for a layered effect.

    And a quick tip: If you have a laminator, run the panel through that once it’s dry to flatten it back out. It really helps.

    Next, I moved on to my sentiments. I die cut the Big Lingo Happy 3 times – the shadow from white and the letters from black. I used my Quickie Glue Pen to adhere them together. This pen is great for skinny little spaces and keeping your fingers out of the glue.

    For assembly, I adhered the smooshed panel to a card base and the frilly triangles to opposite corners. Then, I die cut the happy shadow 9 more times from white cardstock. See how the letters will overlap the triangles? We need to raise parts of the word up to meet those. So I cut the “H” off of 3, left the middle 3 alone and cut the “Y” off the last 3. Then I adhered everything together and then to my card.

    Last, I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from Awesome Ticker Tape Messages and cut it out. This is popped up with foam tape on the middle Happy.

    For finishing touches, I added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the banner sentiment and the die cut letters and some gems to both of the frilly triangles.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and found some inspiration to create something beautiful.

    Supplies

    56109 Frilly Triangle Layer Set

    57226 Big Lingo Type Happy

    8149 Awesome Ticker Tape Messages clear stamp and die set

  • Glitter Flutter Butterflies by Jeanne Jachna

    Glitter Flutter Butterflies
    by Jeanne Jachna

    Happy Saturday! I hope you’re having a great day and that the sun is shining so you can spend some time outdoors today! I am so happy the weather is warmer and I can feel the sun on my face!

    Today I’ve got a glittery card so share made with the Flutter Plate Layer B. Here’s how I made it sparkle!

    I applied packing tape to the back of a card stock panel before I die cut the panel. The tape prevents the panel from cutting all the way through providing an outline for me to color with markers.

    I colored the panel with Copic markers but any marker will work. Don’t worry about staying in the lines.. no one will see!

    I mixed Glossy Accents with micro find crystal glitter and then spread it over the colored panel with a spatula and then attached a panel cut from white card stock. When it was dry I attached another white die cut panel to add some depth and give a stained glass look.

    This card is so sparkly and glossy it’s like candy for the eyes.

    The simple sentiment is from the Best Friend stamp set.

    I hope you’ll give this technique a try!

    Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5″

    Supplies

     

     

    57062 Flutter Plate Layer B

     

     

    CL8132 Best Friend clear stamp set

     

  • 2 for 1 Rainbow Thank You Card Design | by Ardyth Percy-Robb

    2 for 1 Rainbow Thank You Card Design | by Ardyth Percy-Robb

    Good morning! Ardyth here with a duo of rainbow thank you cards using the Floral Star layering set.

    I wanted to see if I could get a layered look on a flat piece of cardstock, by using the die cuts as stencils. I thought about the order of layers and ink blending for a while (and made a mistake or two) before I was successful.

    Here’s what I learned:

    1. use the top layer (the one with the biggest holes) first and blend ink very lightly.
    2. repeat with the second layer, with slightly more ink
    3. finish with the bottom layer, and go heavy with the ink.

    I love that I got a 4-layered look from the 3 die cuts – 3 different shades of colours and the white ‘on top’!

    And of course I was left with 3 pretty, blended die cuts to use on another card. As I was gluing them together, I had a simple idea to add some interest and instead of lining up the petals (yellow on yellow etc), I turned each layer so that different colours were underneath.

    Here’s a video:

    Supplies

    56118 Floral Star Layer Set

    Big Thanks Sugar Script

  • Thankful Mandala | by Crystal Komara

    Thankful Mandala | by Crystal Komara

    Hello crafty friends! This is Crystal here today sharing two cards made using the beautiful Thankful Mandala background stamp. I chose to work with this stamp set because it was something very different for me, and I am so happy that I decided to challenge myself because I love how these cards turned out! In fact, I had so much fun experimenting with this stamp set that I’ll be sharing even more cards using it at the end of the month!

    The very first thing I did after receiving the stamp was to actually cut down the Mandala! Yes, this was equally as scary as it might sound! I knew this could go wonderfully right, or horribly wrong really quick and that I was taking a chance at potentially ruining a $25 stamp set! I didn’t particularly like the large square shape of the mandala, so I trimmed off the outermost layer to give it more of that peacock edge shape. Fortunately, it worked out just fine! Phew!

    Card details:

    The base of this A2 sized card is made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. I stamped the large mandala in Versamark ink on black cardstock and then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I cut the mandala in half in order to separate it on the card. I adhered each half to the top and bottom of the card base. I die cut the larger outline word “thanks” from gold foil paper and the smaller word outline from black cardstock. I mounted the two together using a Tombow tape runner and adhered both to the center of the card using 3M foam adhesive. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment “for all you do” in the middle of the card in Memento Tuxedo black ink.

    For the second card, my card base is a sheet of turquoise cardstock. I stamped the mandala in Versamark ink on another sheet of turqoise cardstock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed the image down to 5″ x 3 3/4″ and mounted this stamped mandala onto a scalloped sheet of white cardstock. I adhered both sheets to the card base. I die cut the word “hugs” from both gold foil paper and white cardstock, layering the two together using a Tombow tape runner. I stamped the words “it’s your birthday” in Versamark ink on a thin strip of white cardstock and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I notched both ends before adhering it to the card below the word “hugs” using 3M foam adhesive.

    I hope you have enjoyed these cards featuring the Thankful Mandala stamp set. Thank you for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

    Supplies

    CL8142 Thankful Mandala

    Hugs Sugar Script

    Thanks Sugar Script

  • Sun Ray Triangle | by Jeanne Jachna

    Sun Ray Triangle | by Jeanne Jachna

    Hi and thanks for stopping by! It’s Jeanne here today! You know I can’t resist a rainbow of color! Today I’m playing with the Sun Ray Triangle layering die set.

    Birch Press Design has three new layering triangle sets that this technique would work well with.

    I started by cutting the top and bottom layers from white card stock. I die cut the center layers from colored card stock. Once the layers were assembled I adhered a slightly lighter shade of card stock behind them.

    After the panels are assembled I noticed some weren’t completely smooth on the edges. I used an inexpensive nail file to make them flat so they would fit together tighter.

    I topped the panel with a sentiment from Awesome Ticker Tape Messages inked in shades of blue Versafine Claire ink.

    I love the candy stripe look of the colorful stripes!

    Supplies

    56108 Sun Ray Triangle Layer Set

    8149 Awesome Ticker Tape Messages clear stamp and die set

  • Stencilled Die Cut | By Seeka

    Stencilled Die Cut | By Seeka

    Hello there! It’s Seeka here, and I thank you so much for spending a bit of your day with us. For my card today, I used a die cut as a stencil to create a clean and simple (and easy!) card.

    I started by using the Prism Triangle Collage die to cut a piece of scrap 80# cardstock. This pretty die doesn’t cut out a triangle, rather it leaves a beautiful triangle-shaped lattice pattern in your paper. This became my stencil.

    I used low-tack paper tape to hold an A2-sized piece of bristol smooth paper on my glass work surface and then placed and taped my stencil over top. Using foam blending tools, I blended Abandoned Coral and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide inks over the stencil, blending the two to create an ombre effect. Because my stencil was made out of paper and not as durable as a plastic stencil, I took care not to drag my blending tool too much. Instead, I used a strong tamping motion.

    When I finished, I removed the stencil and rotated it 180 degrees. I aligned the base with the triangle I’d just finished stencilling, and shifted it a bit to the left. I used the same colors to ink blend and then removed the stencil.

    For the sentiment, I used the Big Hello Sugar Script die to cut a piece of white cardstock. I cut the shadow layer out of vellum and then adhered the two together. Then, I stamped “crafty friend” (from the Just Because stamp set) in black pigment ink onto white cardstock.

    To assemble the card, I adhered the die cut sentiment with foam tape and then adhered the sentiment strip flush to the card front. Then I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.

    Thank you so much for visiting!


    Supplies


  • Thanks | by Tracey McNeely

    Thanks | by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there, it’s Tracey back again today. I hope that you are managing well as we continue fighting the virus to flatten the curve. Being creative is relaxing for me and it helps keep my mind settled while we are social distancing and staying home. I think I have had rainbows on my mind lately and today I am sharing a really quick and easy thank you card using rainbow colours and one essential die!

    The Honey Script dies have become essentials in my cardmaking these days. The perfect balance of script and curve and this die duo comes with the word and a shadow! Today’s card uses the Honey Script Thanks die, five times.

    The word ‘thanks’ was cut five times with five different colours of cardstock. In this case a rainbow of pink, yellow, green, blue and purple.

    I cut my white panel to 5 1/4″ x 4″ and the word thanks fills the space from left to right perfectly. There was just the right amount of space between the top and bottom of the white panel to fit the word five times comfortably.

    TIP: I glued the top pink and bottom purple die cut to the white panel first. Then the green die cut to the middle. By doing this is made it easy to space the dies out evenly.

    The die cuts were adhered to the panel with liquid glue just to allow for a bit of wiggle room if necessary. The panel was attached directly to a blue cardbase making it nice and flat for mailing. Really simple and very pretty, don’t the colours make you smile?

    Thank you for stopping in today and I hope I have inspired you to try making a card with just die cut words. You could use any colour scheme you would like–rainbow, monochromatic, ombre, anything goes!

    Supplies

    57302 Thanks Honey Script

  • Enchantment by Jeanne Jachna

    Enchantment by Jeanne Jachna

    Hi friends! I hope you’re all safe and well! Now more than ever I’m turning to crafting for a sweet escape and a way to deal with stress.

    Today I’m sharing a card made with the beautiful new Enchantment layered die set. The set includes three full size (A2 4.25 x 5.5″) cover plates with lots of versatility.

    Not only can you mix and match the three layers , you can also switch out the colors of the half circles on the left margin of the die. I cut the die from shades of red, yellow and orange and layered them over a glittery panel of card stock from the Memory Box Pastel Glitter Pad. TIP: When layering dies always complete the entire bottom layer first, then the entire middle layer etc. This allows you to fit the die cuts tightly together with no gaps.

    I die the the Thanks Honey Script word die from three shades of blue. I chose a contrasting color so the word die would contrast with the background.

    This die set has so much potential – imagine all the different shades and colors you can assemble the layers in!

    Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5″

    Supplies

     

     

    56113 Enchantment Plate Layer Set

     

     

    57302 Thanks Honey Script

     

     

    CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

     

     

    GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

     

  • Midnight Mandala Stencil | by Kimberly Wiener

    Midnight Mandala Stencil | by Kimberly Wiener

    Hello there creative Birch Press fans! Today I bring you a very simple and easy way to make multiple cards without stamping or coloring. My supplies are the Mandala Stencil and the Big Hello Sugar Script die.

    Stencils are an excellent way to quickly add color and dimension to your projects. I really like to have several shades to my blended colors and stencils are very forgiving in that you don’t have to be perfect. The imperfections are what adds to the wonderful uniqueness of your creations.

    To create a set of these cards for yourself you will need to cut several 4 x 5 white cardstock panels. Center the Midnight Mandala Stencil onto the panels and blend your colors darkest to lightest rotating outward in a circling motion.

    Cut the stencilled panel to 3.5 x 5 and adhere to upper postion of a standard A2 (4.25 x 5.5) card base, leaving equal distance between the top edge and doth sides of the card base. Onto the lower base of the card, add a black card stock strip 5 x 2 and add the Big Hello Sugar Script word die.

    For these samples I have used distress inks, however any ink used with the newest blender brush type of blending tools will be just as striking. I hope that you are inspired to enjoy experimenting with stencils and finding out just how easy and fun it is!


    Supplies


    57201 Big Hello Sugar Script
    42031 Midnight Mandala Stencil