Hello, everyone! This underwater scene was so fun to create. I love seahorses. And that jellyfish–look at it!
My first step was to sponge the blue card base with Catherine Pooler inks and one layer of the two-part Light Ray Stencil. I spattered this with water and set aside.
Next I fussy cut the sand layer using a piece of scrap kraft cardstock and sponged it with CP Sand Castle ink.
I cut a few of the Block Print Sea Kelp & Mini Fish from a shimmery green and silver cardstock. I sponged the Sea Kelp with CP ink for a bit of shading.
I diecut the Block Print Proud Seahorse, Block Print Floating Jellyfish, and Block Print Dancing Crabs from a few Memory Box cardstocks with shimmery cardstock scraps for highlights.
I sponged the cardstocks, including the Sugar Script Big Hugs sentiment, with CP inks. I assembled the final scene, tucking the creatures in among the greenery. So cute!
Do visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of ingredients and to check out my other projects.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!
Hello! Christina here, and I’m so excited to share this magical under-the-sea card design with you today featuring products from the beautiful new ocean-themed release. I paired the new Block Print Floating Jellyfish with the new Sea Kelp and Mini Fish dies, inked and spattered everything with bold, saturated color, and then framed up the scene with a simple arched window. Let’s dive into this under-the-sea card design!
My first step was to create the ocean background panel with light rays filtering through. I chose regular Distress Inks in Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, and Uncharted Mariner to use with the new layered Light Ray Stencil. I used Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers for the first layer and then Peacock Feathers and Uncharted Mariner for the second layer. And when stenciling, I started in the upper left corner, using a lighter hand with the ink colors, and gradually increased the pressure and the amount of ink I applied as I moved toward the lower right corner. This helped with the illusion of light filtering down through the water. And now for the fun part! With the stenciling done, I spattered the panel with plain water and with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays in Salvaged Patina and Uncharted Mariner. I just love the texture and interest this gives, especially to a watery ocean scene.
My next step was to die-cut the other elements of my card design from white cardstock. I started with the arched window frame and attached it to my background panel with foam tape. Then, I moved on to the sea kelp. I inked them with a variety of green Distress Inks and then spattered them with plain water and more ink. The green inks I chose were Lucky Clover, Pine Needles, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, and Rustic Wilderness.
Next, I die-cut the jellyfish and inked the components with Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks before assembling them with thin foam squares. Finally, I die-cut the mini fish and inked them with Mustard Seed and Carved Pumpkin.
With the other elements of my design ready, I got to work assembling the scene. I started with the sea kelp, tucking them inside the arched window against the background and also adding some to the outside of the window. I used foam squares or partial foam squares to secure the ones on the outside of the window to the background. Then I added the jellyfish and the mini fish to my scene. Finally, I added sentiment stamped on a fishtail banner, popping it up with foam squares, and finished with a few tropical blue water droplet embellishments.
Thank you so much for reading about my magical under-the-sea card I designed using some of the new ocean-themed products from the latest release. See you again soon!
Hello, friends! Toni here with the first of two cards using the Linear Stripes stencil.
For this first card, I used the stencil along with Catherine Pooler inks to color up a white card base. I allowed the inks to blend every few lines to create a rainbow effect.
I then repositioned the stencil so I could repeat the process, creating a gorgeous gradient. I love the blending of the colors so very much!
I applied ink in a gradient pattern on the Block Print Garden Heart leaves as well as the Sugar Script Big Hello to blend in a bit with the stripes behind it.
I used vellum behind as the Block Print Garden Heart base because obviously more rainbow showing the better!
I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!
Hello, friends! Toni here with you today. You may recall I said I’d made a second card using the Linear Stripes stencil. Let’s dive right in!
Once I’d sponged up the card front of my previous card shown below, I noticed I had a LOT of ink left on the stencil. I certainly didn’t want all that inky goodness to go to waste so I spritzed the stencil with a bit of water and used it to smoosh a piece of Strathmore Bristol.
Once that had dried, leaving me with subtle rainbow lines, I embossed the panel with a textured linen embossing folder. I also cut it out using a deckle edge rectangle die.
Next I constructed the Block Print Radiant Butterfly using a black glitter cardstock as the base.
I had recently seen a video about dot painting on canvas and thought I would try it on the butterfly using Art by Marlene neon acrylic paints and a stylus I had from ancient times when you had to emboss by hand (gasp!). Neat!
I diecut the Sugar Script Big Hugs sentiment from the same black glitter cardstock as the butterfly then topped it with an embossed Vintage Everyday Greeting.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!
Hello friends! Have you been amazed by the projects the design team has created with the most current release? Well, I have! I have been buzzing with excitement to get something made and today is the day! Let’s have a look at what I made.
I had several ideas in mind and tried at least one of them, but wasn’t super happy with how it was turning out. I decided to shift gears and use up some yellow glitter paste I had out on my desk. I really wanted to use the Honeycomb Cut Out die and so I used it to create a stencil to use with the glitter paste.
After doing a quick test to see how my DIY stencil would turn out I decided to diecut it from some sturdier cardstock. For this I chose (and sacrificed) a piece of Memory Box glossy black cardstock. As you can see it would have also made a pretty neat background, too. I die cut a piece of heavy white cardstock with a rectangle die and then taped that to the back of my DIY stencil. The stencil worked pretty well with only a small amount of the paste seeping under. I peeled off my stencil and let my panel dry.
While my panel was drying I die cut my bees using the Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee from a piece of watercolor cardstock that I had initially planned to use for my background panel, but it was a bit of a fail. I think the bees I die cut from it are kind of fun and funky!
Once the glitter paste was dry and full disclosure that did take a long time because of the amount of paste that was applied using the stencil. I let the panel dry overnight to make sure it was fully dry before assembling my card. I even at one point placed something heavy on top so that it would dry flat.
Since I was going for a mixed media vibe. I splattered the fully dry panel with distress ink in Gathered Twigs and appropriately Wild Honey. For the bees I die cut enough so that I could cut some apart to build the bees for my card. The wings were die cut from heavy weight vellum. I assembled my bees and then what kind of sentiment I would use. I settled on the Big Hello Sugar Script. Initially I die cut the hello from heavy weight cardstock and then splattered it, but there was too much splatter. So I used another piece of glossy black cardstock and stacked it on top of the splattered sentiment. Everything was adhered with liquid adhesive and then I added my panel to a kraft cardstock base.
Well, that’s it for me. I hope you enjoyed today’s card. Thanks for stopping by and have a truly lovely day.
Hello friends and happy Tuesday! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing a vibrant card made with some of the latest products from Birch Press Design – the Honeycomb Plate, the Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee and the previously released Butterfly Basics.
The base of this A2 sized card is made from 110 lb. Neenah Solar White smooth cardstock. I created an alcohol ink background using Butterscotch Ranger Adirondack alcohol ink on Yupo paper. Once that alcohol ink dried, I used the new Honeycomb Stencil and sponged Versamark ink over the alcohol ink. I then applied gold embossing powder and heated that with a heat tool being careful not to burn the synthetic Yupo paper.
Using the Butterfly Basics, I die cut the first layer of the two butterflies from a piece of the alcohol ink background. I then die cut the second layer from white cardstock and adhered the two layers together with a fine tip liquid glue. Using the Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee, I die cut the bumblebee from yellow cardstock and then used a fine tip sharpie to “color” the black body. I die cut the wings from vellum cardstock.
I adhered everything to the card and then splattered the entire image with an espresso (dark brown) ink.
The “thank you” sentiment is a foil greeting from sister company Memory Box. You can find those sentiment strips here.
I hope you have enjoyed this vibrant butterflies and bees card. Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day.
Hello crafty friends! Christina here to share this golden beauty featuring some of the new things in the shop. I combined the Honeycomb Stencil and the Honeycomb Cut Out to create a golden, glittery backdrop for the busy Block Print Buzzing Bumblebees.
I started by stenciling the honeycomb pattern on a white cardstock panel using a trio of yellow inks. I concentrated the darkest ink color around the edges of the panel and gradually blended the medium and then the lightest shade of ink, moving towards the center. Next, I aligned the Honeycomb Cut Out die with the stenciled honeycomb pattern and ran it through my die cutting machine. Finally, to finish up my background panel, I layered it on a piece of gold glitter cardstock so it would peek through the cut out and then added a few glittery honeycomb pieces (die cut with the Honeycomb Cut Out) randomly on the stenciled pattern.
With the background panel done, I got to work on the other elements of my card design. First I die cut the bumblebee bodies from yellow cardstock, and then, to create shading and dimension, I inked the edges with a darker yellow ink. To create the stripes for the bees, I die cut the bodies a second time, but this time from black cardstock, and then snipped them along the debossed lines left by the die. I attached the stripes and the antenna to the yellow bodies and then finally added the beautifully detailed white wings.
To finish things up, I hot foiled the Celebrate Today with black foil to coordinate with the bumblebees and then die cut it with the coordinating die before attaching it with foam squares to my card design. Lastly, I adhered the bumblebees buzzing around the sentiment with more foam squares and added a little sparkle to the wings with a glitter brush pen.
Thanks so much for reading about my latest card making project featuring some of the beautiful new additions to the Block Print collection. See you again soon!
Hello and happy May! Rosemary here on the blog today with a fun and some what elegant thank you card. Let’s have a look at what I made.
For this card I used the super pretty Block Print Tapestry Blooms die and the elegant Thank You Scripted die set. I went with a light blue and green color combo for this card.
To keep things simple I die cut all the flowers from a light blue Memory Box cardstock and the stem from the dark green. Then I assembled my flower stem. The sentiment was also die cut from the same light blue.
Time to figure out my layout and it was at this point I decided to pull out the Linear Lines stencil and create a simple partial diamond pattern on my white cardstock base. I used a light blue ink that coordinated with the blue cardstock I used for the flowers and the sentiment.
Now it was time to put the card together. I used cardstock in the same blue for my card base and adhered the background panel with thin foam squares. I then adhered the flower stem with liquid adhesive. Finally I added the sentiment. I purposefully only added glue to the main part of the sentiment to allow for some appearance of movement in the swirls on the sentiment.
I really like the slightly monochromatic look of the card and the simplicity. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Hello friends and happy Monday! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful weekend. It has been incredibly rainy here in the Northeast where I live (Massachusetts). This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing my first card made using the new Block Print Garden Heart dies.
The base of this card is made with 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.
Let’s make this card:
I cut a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock and used Layer A of the Viola Plate Layering set as a stencil. I stenciled directly over the steel die using Ranger Distress Oxide ink in the color Twisted Citron.
I die cut the Block Print Garden Heart itself from white cardstock. I die cut the leaves of the heart from green cardstock .
I die cut various pieces of the flower from three different colored pink cardstock.
I die cut the center of the flowers from yellow cardstock.
I adhered the flower pieces together using a fine-tip liquid glue.
Once both flower hearts were assembled, I adhered them to the card front using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension.
Lastly to create the sentiment, I die cut the Happy Birthday Vintage Sentiment from two different colored pink yardsticks. I adhered the two layers together with a fine-tip liquid glue. Then I adhered the sentiment to the card using 3M foam adhesive.
I really love this beautiful new Block Print Garden Heart die set and can’t wait to create with it again! Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!