Birch Press Design

Category: Craft Dies

  • Butterflies in Blue | by Crystal Komara

    Butterflies in Blue | by Crystal Komara

    Hello friends and happy Wednesday! This is Crystal here today sharing two cards created from one layered die! I’m always trying to find the best way to get more “bang” for my buck, whether it’s recycling or repurposing products or making my craft supplies stretch just a little bit further. Who else has one of those “bits and pieces” bins filled with little odds & ends just waiting to be made into a card!?

    Today I have used the Butterfly Garden Layering Dies and the Lingo Thanks stamp set and coordinating dies. I feel like this is one of those cards that you could make in ANY color! I do that quite frequently, especially if I need to replenish my card supply. Perhaps someone really likes pinks or purples, then this design would also accommodate other colors too. Plus, by the time you are done die-cutting all those butterflies, you will have lots of extra ones to add to your “bits & pieces” bin!

    I have created a short step-by-step instructional video for you to see how this card came together. I do hope you will find it helpful!

    Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you have a wonderfully creative day!

    Supplies

    Butterfly Garden Plate Layer Set

    CL8143 Lingo Thanks

    58143 Lingo Thanks die set

  • Petal Burst Rainbow Cards | by Ardyth Percy-Robb

    Petal Burst Rainbow Cards | by Ardyth Percy-Robb

    Good morning! It’s Ardyth here with my first post and today I have two rainbow-blended cards using the Petal Burst stencil.

    I love the classic shape of the petals on this stencil, but it’s really too big to use the whole thing on an A2 card front, so I got a little inventive.

    I started by isolating one of the petals with masks and blending ink through it.

    Then I moved the stencil 1/2 inch to the side and blending the next colour. I used the markings on my grid work surface to make the measuring easy!

    I blended the inks heavier on the pointy ends and lighter in the centres. And when I had worked my way to the left edge, I lifted the stencil (used new masks to avoid ink contamination) and worked to the right. I spritzed the panel with shimmer spray when it was finished.

    For my sentiment, I used the centre portion of the Big Thanks Sugar Script die, and I cut it in black cardstock and also from the centre of my panel (and I kept the letter centres!)

    I adhered the panel to a black 4.25×4.25 inch cardbase and inlaid the black sentiment along with the letter centres. I finished it with some black jewels for sparkle!

    I love the ‘glow’ around my sentiment, that resulted by keeping the centres of the panels lighter in colour.

    Next, I lined the centre of the stencil up with the lower left corner of my panel. I blended ink through the 12:00 and 3:00 petals.

    Then I isolated one petal with masks and filled in the rest of the petals, again using the markings on my worksurface for guidance.

    I finished this one in the same way as the first – but this time with the Hello Sugar Script die.

    I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing how easy it was to create these two bright, happy cards!

    Supplies

    44023 Petal Burst

    Big Thanks Sugar Script

    Hello Sugar Script

  • String Art Frame in Pinks and Jewel Tones | by Kimberly

    String Art Frame in Pinks and Jewel Tones | by Kimberly

    Hello Birch Press fans! Today I bring you two cards using the amazing String Art Frame Die.

    I love the radiating lines. I have selected some wonderful sparkle colors to match the jewel tones in the glitter papers. I water brushed blended them for my background onto the watercolor paper that is now available in the shop.

    I cut the String Art Frame in a light shade of the lovely delicate pastel glitter paper for both cards.

    Some gorgeous purple glitter paper from the Twinking Jewel pad was perfection for the butterflies.

    For the Love you card I die cut the heart sprinkles die directly onto the background and added the word dies.

    The purple glitter papers, as well as all of the jewel paper pad colors are divine!

    I am loving all of the newest release this Spring, and I hope you are enjoying it as well!


    Supplies


    GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad
    GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad
    94112 Heart Sprinkles
    WP101 Watercolor Paper
    Thanks Sugar Script
    57327 String Art Frame
    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline
    94385 Dreamy Butterfly
    Love Sugar Script
  • Love You | By Seeka

    Love You | By Seeka

    Hello there, I hope you’re having a lovely day! Seeka here and I’m so very excited to share my first post on the Birch Press Design blog!

    I started by die cutting the three layers of the Folk Art Heart Layer Die set out of white cardstock. Because I planned to color each heart, rather than letting all of the pieces fall out I left them in their negative space and backed each piece of cardstock with Post-it tape to hold everything in place.

    Next, I used red and green Copic markers to quickly and loosely color the die cuts. The only place I took a bit of care was on the die cut with the darkest red tulips. On that die cut, I made sure not to color over the white frame of the heart, and ensured that the green stems didn’t blend into the red flowers.

    Then, I moved on to the negative space around the tulips. I decided to use Aqua Ranger Alcohol Ink to create a blue sky with a bit of color variation. I added a few drops of alcohol ink to a small piece of Yupo paper, and then added a few drops of Blending Solution. When I’d covered a large enough area, and when the panel was dry, I used the die cut with the largest tulip (Layer C) to cut the piece of Yupo. Using the same Aqua alcohol ink, I also colored two narrow strips of Yupo.

    I stacked and adhered the layers of the heart together and then pieced in the blue sky, backing the entire piece with paper tape to hold it all together.

    Next, I used the Handwritten Love You and Outline die set to die cut white cardstock. I used the same technique of leaving the die cut in the negative space of my cardstock and backing it with Post-it tape to make it really easy to color with a red marker. Then I adhered the sentiment to the shadow layer.

    To assemble the card, I adhered the blue strips of Yupo to the left and right edges of an A2-sized card base. Then I adhered a 4″ x 5.5″ inch piece of white cardstock in the center of the cardbase. To finish, I used foam tape to adhere the heart and the sentiment to card front.

    Thank you so much for visiting!


    Supplies

    56119 Folk Art Heart Layer Set
    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline

  • String Art Frame Thanksby Jeanne Jachna

    String Art Frame Thanks
    by Jeanne Jachna

    Hello my crafty friends! I hope you’re having a great day. There’s more new in the store and I’m excited to share a card made with the new String Art Frame.

    I wish you could see this one in person! It’s a rainbow of sparkly color!

    I started by adding double sided adhesive to a white card stock panel the same size as my card base. Then I removed the protective sheet and adhered the String Art Frame to the sticky panel.

    Next I sprinkled colorful glitter over the open areas of the die cut where the double sided adhesive is exposed. I pressed the glitter into the panel with my finger tips, but you could burnish with a roller or a bone folder.

    The colorful sparkly background is a feast for the eyes!

    I added a simple sentiment using the Thanks Honey Script word die (that comes with a detailed and background die) and a stamped sentiment from the new You Are Awesome stamp set.

    This sparkly technique will work well with lots of your die cuts. I sure hope you’ll give it a try!

    Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5″

    Supplies

    CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

    57327 String Art Frame

    57302 Thanks Honey Script

  • “Love You” | by Crystal Komara

    “Love You” | by Crystal Komara

    Hello readers! This is Crystal Komara, I am one of the new Design Team members with Birch Press Designs and I am honored and delighted to be here with you! I hope I can inspire you with my creations, and I hope I’ll also meet many new faces along the way. It’s kind of an exciting day for me as not only am I making my grand debut on the team, but I am sharing with you my very FIRST crafting video! I’m kind of a go-big-or-go-home girl! I poured a lot of hard work and time into the creation of this video and I’m quite proud of my first attempt, but I’ll let YOU be the true judge of my untrained videography and emcee skills!

    For today’s Valentine inspired cards I have used the beautiful Delfina Layering dies, the all new Flora Heart dies and the Love You Outline dies. I chose to cut all three layers from the Delfina Layering Dies. Layer C (the bottom) was cut from a rose red cardstock, Layer B (the middle) was cut from a carnation pink cardstock and finally, Layer A (the top) was cut from silver glitter paper. I adhered all three layers together with a fine-tip liquid adhesive.

    Please check out this step-by-step video detailing how I created every layer of this card:

    I do hope you found this video helpful and I welcome your kind comments and constructive criticism (bonus points for niceness!) so that I can continue creating content in a way that’s most useful to you.

    Thank you for reading and happy creating!

    Supplies

    57000-DE Delfina Layer Set

    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

  • Building an All Die Cut Card by Tracey McNeely

    Building an All Die Cut Card by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there, it’s Tracey today and I will be sharing an all die cuts card and video tutorial using the Flora Heart Layers die set, the Cherish Plate die set and the Simple Love sentiment die.

    I created two custom ink blended panels from Bristol Smooth cardstock. The first was a 3″ square that will be the base layer for my layered Floral Heart and a second smaller rectangular panel will fit the Simple Love sentiment die. I blended the ink on both panels with distress oxide ink in rainbow order—picked raspberry, orange marmalade, moved law and peacock feather.

    Once they were blended I flicked some clean water on to the panel and lifted some of the colour with paper towel. Once it was dry I cut the largest heart from the Perfect Hearts die set, it fits perfectly behind the Flora Heart Layers dies.

    Each layer from the Flora Heart Layers die set was cut from heavyweight white cardstock and I used liquid adhesive the glue the layers together. To complete the heart I glued the layered heart to the rainbow base layer.

    I cut layer A from the Cherish Plate die set also from white cardstock and glued it to the font of a white top folding card base. The Simple Love Die set comes in two pieces. I cut the larger of the two Dies from the second ink blended panel and then the detail layer from white cardstock. The smaller letters were glued to the sentiment with liquid adhesive.

    I added the heart and the sentiment to the card base. Leaving the card like this allows you to customize the inside to say whatever you want for the occasion. Thanks so much for stopping by today and watch the video below for more details on how I put this card together.

    Supplies

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

    57219 Simple Love

    57110 Cherish Plate Layer A

  • Valentine Gift Tag Trio by Jeanne Jachna

    Valentine Gift Tag Trio
    by Jeanne Jachna

    Hi crafty friends! It’s Jeanne here today and I’m sharing some pretty Valentine Gift tags to delight your favorite Valentines!

    Tags are perfect for dressing up anything from a simple bag of home made chocolate chip cookies to something extra special for your sweetie!

    I assembled several Flora Hearts in different shades of card stock. Each middle layer is cut with glitter paper from the new Memory Box Delicate Pastel Glitter 6″ pad.

    The hearts are topped with Love die cut word sentiments and a stamped “sending” from the Lingo Thanks clear stamp set.

    The hearts are layered over Poppystamps Double Stitched Tags cut from coordinating, and gold glitter card stock.

    I think these hearts are gorgeous and plan to make another bunch that I will adhere to wood picks to top cupcakes!

    Supplies

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

    CL8143 Lingo Thanks

    57311 Love Honey Script

    2055 Double Stitch Tags

    GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

  • Gate Fold Thank You | by Kimberly Wiener

    Gate Fold Thank You | by Kimberly Wiener

    Hello Birch Press fans. Today I bring you a clean and simple gate fold card with a lovely, slightly more elaborate interior.
    I am so thrilled to be working with these gorgeous dies. If you are not already impressed with their lovely intricate dies, and impeccable craftmanship, I’m sure that it will not take very long with all of the design team creations coming your way soon.

    The solid card stock base is cut at 8.25 x 4.25 and scored and folded starting from the left at 2.10 and again at 6.25 inches. The Hello Topper die is a perfect closure for the gate fold style type of card and was cut on white card stock and trimmed to 1 inch, then adhered to the bottom layer of the bottom fold. The Hello word die was cut in black and turquiose and adhered slightly offset against the white backing strip.

    The lovely more layered inside was fitted with a white 4 x 5.5 panel. A solid 5.25 x 2.25 strip was center cut on the Dazzle A die and adhered 1.25 inches from the bottom of the white panel. Some portions of the Dazzle strip was trimmed to have uniform open spaces.

    The sentiment from the Best Friend stamp set was centered .5 inches below the Dazzle strip.

    The lovely heart was cut with the Folk Art Heart layer A in shimmer pastel blue glitter paper and the layer B in the solid turquoise. After adhering the solid layer to the glitter layer, both layers were adhered to black cardstock, hand cut, and affixed to the center of the Dazzle burst.

    I am so smitten with this card and all of the creations I have made so far using Birch Press products. I can’t wait until you see the next release!


    Supplies


    56119 Folk Art Heart Layer Set
    57313 Helllo Topper
    CL8132 Best Friend clear stamp set
    57001 Dazzle A
  • Masculine Floral Valentine | by Tracey McNeely

    Masculine Floral Valentine | by Tracey McNeely

    Hi there it’s Tracey with a card and video. Today I will be using the Flora Heart Layers craft dies to share a way to use a floral die set to create a masculine design!

    I personally love to make or receive a pretty pink Valentine card, but I may not want to give a card like that to my husband. By using colour and simplicity I was able to make the design more masculine taking the focus away from the flowers. I cut Layer A from red cardstock (for love) and Layers B and C from white cardstock. The three layers will all be visible, but the flowers inside the heart are a bit more subtle.

    I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. I like using liquid glue so I have a bit more time to get my die cuts lined up properly. I turned the layered heart over and attached small pieces of foam tape all so over the back so that you will not see the tape from the front of the card.

    The cardbase was made from a soft grey cardstock to add a bit more subtle dimension. The sentiment is from the new Handwritten Love You craft dies which comes in three pieces. The outline was cut with white cardstock and the handwritten ‘Love You’ from a medium grey cardstock. I added that to the bottom of the card before adding the dimensional heart in the top middle.

    By choosing the colours red, grey and white I was able to create a card that focuses more on the heart and sentiment rather than the flowers.

    Thank you so much for stopping in to craft with me today. I hope you’re inspired to use your, more feminine, products in a more subtle way to make a masculine card! Pop back in tomorrow for more Birch Press Design inspiration!

    Supplies

    56120 Flora Heart Layer Set

    57335 Handwritten Love You and Outline