Hello Birch Press Design fans! I am sticking with the “Spring” theme in my creations today. This design is a total glitter-ful stunner that will please any receiver.
I stamped and die cut the Lovely Butterflies clear stamp and die set in black versafine ink. The gorgeous wings were colored with blendable alcohol markers in bright pinks and lavender shades. Drops of Pansy and Topaz Gleam Glitter Glue were added to the body as well as the circle details on the wings.
The Leafy Rows Stencil was blender brushed on a heavy weight white cardstock in a light citron green, a darker green shade, and a muddy yellow amber distress ink.
A layer of clear glitter gel paste was stenciled over the ink layer. Once dry, the stenciled cardstock is trimmed to 5.5 x 4 to make two card front panels.
The sentiments from the You are Awesome Clear Stamp Set stamped in black ink and a .25 inch strip of black card stock placed beneath the stencil layer.
I just love this soft and very Spring ombre effect that shines through. You will love the results too if you are able to try this technique. Happy crafting!
For today’s project lets pull out our pattern paper and vellum along with the Floral Layering Die Set to set the stage for our focal point…
First gather your materials and then let’s get to cutting our die cuts, focal and sentiments and paper backgrounds!
Using your liquid adhesive, we can layer our die cuts and sentiment and set them aside to dry!
You want to cut from your pattern
paper a 4 ¼ inch x 5 ½ inch panel and from your vellum you can to cut a 4-inch
x 5 ¼ inch panel. Now your vellum can be
cut to any size you want based on your focal point!
We are ready to get our cards
together! First, you want to attach your
Floral Star to the front of your vellum along with your sentiment just
below. Once you have your pieces in
place and they are dry, you can then use those areas to adhere your vellum
panel onto your pattern paper.
All panel were set onto a Standard A2 size top folding
card base (4 ¼ inch x 5 ½ inch)!
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As always, I hope you enjoyed
today’s project… and if you want to
see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come
together step by step!
Make sure you stay tuned for more
wonderful projects coming soon! Have a
great day and always remember… Be Creative!
Hello there creative and awesome Birch Press Fans. We are still celebrating the newest release with a Giveaway!
We will be having giveaways on our Instagram Account March 21-29, 2020. One comment will be chosen at random from each of the Instagram posts during the blog blitz. Only one prize per person per giveaway. We use a random number generator to select winners from comments. You have until midnight US EST April 1 to leave a comment on each and every Instagram post that you want to enter. Winners will be announced on the Instagram posts on April 3.
For a chance to win the Honeycomb Bevel Layer Set…..
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I have created two spring themed cards for you using the Honeycomb Bevel Plate Layer Dies.
I have used the backdrop of a few of the lovely spring and floral papers in the new Memory Box Cottage Meadow Paper Pack.
The Honeycomb Bevel Plate Layers Set can be used as a single card cover die as well as in layering. For the “Happiest Birthday” card you will die cut the “C” die twice and cut to piece across the entire A2 size card front.
Have you seen the new Fairy Sugar Glitter Glues? I have had some sparkly fun by adding some onto the Lovely Butterflies Clear Stamp Set.
I really loved all the various sentiments from the Poppystamps Greetings Basics Clear Stamp Set and used one for each card.
The butterflies were embossed and colored in bright colors matching the papers. Drops of glitter glue in Pansy, Strawberry Ice, and Goldenfinch were placed on the edges of the butterfly wings.
The sentiments and butterflies were popped up on double sided foam tape for extra dimension.
I hope you are enjoying the Spring paper colors, sparkle-licious glitter glue collections, clear stamps, and amazing dies, offered in this newest release!
Good morning! It’s Ardyth here with 4 ideas for using the new Mod Alphabet Stamps & Dies!
The stamp set has regular and outline letters and the die set has matching sets for both letter styles, making layering fun and easy!
I created a blended plaid background using the Bold Stripes stencil and this helped guide the placement of my letters. My little sentiment comes from the You Are Awesome stamp set.
For this card, I used the new Twinkling Jewels Glitter Pad and cut LOTS of ‘fat’ and ‘skinny’ o’s. My sentiment is from Lingo Thanks stamp set along with the coordinating die.
Cutting all those O’s also gave me lots of dots from the O centres, which I used to create another card! This sentiment is also from You Are Awesome, along with the Big Lingo Type Happy die.
Finally, I used the O stamps to create a similar pattern, and added colour by stamping the regular O inside the outline O. My sentiment was created with the regular THANKS letters!
Here’s a video showing how all these cards came together:
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Hello! Today I’m excited to share some bright, happy cards that are super easy and fun to make! I’ve used the brand new Vivid Bloom Stitched Layer Set to create a couple of different looks with the same basic design. The video below will show the techniques and how-to’s for these cards.
The Honeycomb Beveled Layer Plate made a great, subtle background that was tone-on-tone for just a little bit of dimension and interest. I also used crystals on each of the base petals. These petals are simply staggered to create a unique look.
These nested dies can be stacked on top of each other to reveal the layer below, but in this case I created frames by running two of the nested dies through the die cutting machine at the same time. This creates a frame that can be nested in one layer.
Different looks can be achieved with the same basic design just by using different color combinations and frame sizes. I used a scrap piece of a watercolor. Patterned paper also makes a beautiful center! I used the Cottage Meadow 6×6 paper pad from Memory Box for the middle card above.
Check out the video below for more info, and keep reading for giveaway info!
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Hello, friends! It’s Leigh here, and I hope this day finds you well. I’m thrilled you stopped by because I am so excited to share this project featuring Birch Press Designs’s Lovely Butterflies stamp and die set. And not only that, you can enter today to win this stamp and die set… it is a MUST HAVE for all my fellow butterfly fans! All the details to enter are below.
Have you ever noticed how pretty the little negative spaces are when you die cut your Birch Press Designs layering dies? I can never bring myself to throw them away, so I decided to make this card using those pretty little pieces to accent my focal butterfly. I started by stamping my sentiment from Birch Press Designs’s Greetings Basics stamp set onto a dark navy cardstock panel, heat embossing it in white. I then die cut a butterfly from the Lovely Butterflies stamp and die set to use as a placeholder. I save the little negative die cuts in little bags that I store with my dies, so I put them in bowls so I could start my layout.
I continued arranging my little die cut pieces, adding color and details with alcohol markers and gel pens, and layering the pieces to create dimension and interest.
As shown here, when I settled on an arrangement I was happy with, I would adhere the pieces down with low tack tape. I also decided at this point to add some white paint splatters on my background to make it look like a starry night sky.
Now that I had my elements arranged to my liking, I glued them down and started on my butterfly. I heat embossed the butterfly image with gold embossing powder and colored in the image using the same alcohol markers that I used on the florals. After die cutting the butterfly with the coordinating die, I used a dark blue marker to trace around the white border so the image would blend in with the background of the card. I carefully folded the butterfly down the center and adhered it on the fold like so the butterfly’s wings would pop up from the card, creating more dimension.
And with that, the card was finished! I definitely took a “more is more” approach to this card, but those little die cuts were just so much fun to color. I wish photographs captured the dimension that all these die cuts give to the finished product… I hope that you give these techniques a try so you can see it for yourself! It is so fun and easy to create a lot of texture and dimension.
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Today, I’m excited to share a happy little bookmark that makes such a wonderful gift. This could be given alone as it is so easy to mail with a handmade card, or could be included with a gifted book.
This bookmark nestles into the book and leaves a butterfly delicately perched on the top (or side) of the pages. I used the Midnight Mandala stencil to create a pattern for the front.
When the bookmark is taken outside of the book, a colorful design opens up to a mini-booklet for writing notes on!
These gorgeous flowers come from the Cherry Blossom Wreath stamp set from Open Studio.
I’ve used just one of the Lovely Butterflies for this bookmark, but there are so many to choose from in this stamp set. I love all of these flowers and butterflies. They are so easy and fun to color, and all of these can be made in so many ways.
Make sure to check out the video I’ve made to show each step for making this fun bookmark, or check it out right here on the blog! Have a great day!
For today’s project lets have some fun with the Petal Triangle Layering Die Set! Just by setting your layers in different angles we can get many cards just from one die…
Let’s get to cutting our die cuts – and there will be lots of them! I settled on two color families, a warm and cool! Then of course we need to get all these wonderful die cuts together, and yes, we do that with our liquid adhesive!
I then cut two panels measuring 4 ¼ in x 5 ½ and one panel measuring 4in x 4in and another 5 ½ in x 5 ½ in and grabbed three of my oxide inks and a blending brush. Each panel was ink blended in a different way based on how I was going to place the triangles.
For our first card, let’s place the triangles on the top and the bottom of the card front! I made sure the ink blending was along the same edge of the panel… before I attached my triangles, I made sure I stamped my sentiment,
For our second card, let’s place the triangles in opposite corners of our card front! Made the ink blending a little heavier on those corners as well! Got the sentiment in place again before I attached my triangles…
For our final card… just a little more was added… I took the larger panel and ink blended around all four edges. I then used the small panel to place my triangles together to actually make a square! The design is absolutely gorgeous when we match each of the layered triangles together! I stamped my sentiment onto a separate piece of card stock and placed in the center of the panel…
As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!
Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!
Good morning! Ardyth here with a card showing a different way to use the Lumina layered dies. These dies are the size of a full A2 card base, but there is a semi-circle that cuts separately for the rest, so I decided to use two of these to create my layout.
I used alcohol markers on the B layer, to create a rainbow effect, and then decided to create black backgrounds for each semi circle for some additional drama!
I finished the card with the Honey Script Thanks die set – I love how easy it is to fit the word onto its shadow.
I have a video showing how I made this card – I hope you enjoy watching it!
Hello, crafty friends! It’s Leigh here, am so excited to be here with my first blog post for Birch Press Design! I am here today sharing a spring-inspired butterfly card I made using pretty patterned paper and wash tape. This card came together so easily using Birch Press Design’s Butterfly Garden Layering Dies.
I used Layer Plate C to make this card. I started by die cutting a panel out of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110# cardstock. I used Copic markers to do some quick and simple coloring on the leaves and flowers.
To add some extra texture and dimension, I then added some hand stitching. This is so simple… I simply used a small embroidery needle and two strands of embroidery floss to stitch through the stitching lines created by the die. At this point, I adhered the stitched panel to a pink base and added my leaves.
Then came my favorite part of making this card… the butterflies! I made these using a gorgeous patterned paper from Memory Box’s Cottage Meadow 6×6 patterned paper pack and some washi tape. To make the washi tape butterflies, I took strips of washi tape and adhered them to some thin cardstock. I then die cut through the strips.
To make it look like the butterflies are flying, I folded them in half lengthwise and adhered them to the panel along that fold line.
To finish the card, I added some flower sequins, some washi tape flowers (made the same way as the butterflies), some colored dots I made with the white dots cut from the original panel, and a sentiment from Birch Press Designs’ Lovely Butterflies Stamp Set.
I had such fun creating this card! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and see you soon!
