Hello! Thank you so much for stopping by! Today I’ve made a thank you card using the gorgeous Pink Folia handmade paper available right here at Birchpress Design, along with the stunning Calen layers A and B.
For the Calen layers, I used two shades of brown for the base layer, and a gold vellum for the top layer. I love the extra details in Layer A that seem to float above the design. So pretty!
For the top and bottom borders, I chose the darker pink. To bring it all together, the Big Thanks Sugar Script is cut using white, with the lighter pink background.
Check out the video below for more info on how this card was made! Have a great day, and I’ll see you again soon!
Hello there, everyone! It’s Ashlea back with you today with this fun card using the Amour Arch layer set in a way you may have not thought of before. But before we get into that, let’s just address this sentiment. I love a good pun and this one was just a sitting duck while I was putting this card together. A “boo”, of course, is a loved one or a significant other and putting that together with “rainbow” to create the new word “rainboo” is definitely one of my proudest moments of the day. For this I used the Lingo Alphabet dies which made creating my own sentiment a breeze.
Moving right along, let’s get into the images. I started by cutting out each layer from the same piece of card stock. Because they’re curved it made it easier to fit them all onto one. I took the hearts that each layer cut out and put them into their own little piles of layer A hearts, layer B hearts, and layer C hearts just to be sure to not mix them up. This will become important in just a moment.
I started to pull the image together by choosing my Copic colors. I chose R29, YR16, Y08, YG08, B29, V17 and V06 for my ROYGBIV rainbow. Obviously, there are only 3 layers here, so I improvised and created ombre hearts by blending red, orange and yellow onto the layer A hears, green and blue on layer B, and my two purple colors on layer C hearts. This ensured all colors of the rainbow were used and represented. TO assemble these hearts onto my card front, I used the arch cut out of the Amour Arch layer A and placed it over a 4″ x 5 1/4″ near the bottom. I made sure that it was evenly centered on the lower half of my card front, and then used the openings as a guide and stencil for where to adhere my layer A hearts. I placed a very small bit of glue into each open heart and then placed a heart into each opening. Once I removed my arch stencil, I was left with an arch of beautifully colored rainbow. hearts
I then used glue to adhere layer B hearts so that the bottom of the heart matched up with the bottom of layer A hearts and repeated this method with layer C hearts. To create a bit more of a true rainbow, I colored six of the smaller hearts that each layer cuts in rainbow colors and adhered them between each heart, approximately where they are positioned on the die.
Finally, I created my sentiment which I explained earlier in the post, and arched it a bit over the hearts. I hope that I’ve inspired you to create outside of the box with your layering dies! Thank you so much for stopping by today, I’ll see you again very soon!
Hello all! Ashlea here, and I’m back again playing with more alcohol inks because I just can’t get enough lately. This time I’m creating a very simple card featuring rainbow alcohol ink art. Before we get into the basics, check out this video from my YouTube channel:
To begin, I chose my alcohol ink colors: Cranberry, Sweet Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Lettuce, and Purple Twilight. I thought these best represented rainbow colors and would work well next to each other. My favorite AI technique is a drop of ink, a drop of blending solution, and small puffs onto the solution with my air puffer (camera lens cleaner).
For the sentiment, I used the Big Lingo Type Wow in black and white to contrast the colors of the inks. Before I adhered the die cuts, I trimmed the card front down to 4″ x 5 1/4″ and adhered it with foam tape to an A2 sized card base. I then adhered the middle “wow” so that I could evenly space the top and bottom words.
To finish it off, I used the sentiment “You Mean The World To Me” from the Thanks Lingo stamp set and adhered that to the center die cut.
I hope that you’ve enjoyed learning a little about how I created this quick and simple alcohol ink card today! Thank you so much for stopping by. I’ll see you very soon!
Well, hello there everyone! It’s Ashlea, and I’m back today with a very quick and simple DIY Mother’s Day card using Alcohol Inks and, of course, some Birch Press Designs stamps and dies! Check out my video below showing how I created this eye catching Mother’s Day card.
My technique for Alcohol Ink art is a simple one; a drop of ink, a drop of blending solution right over that, and then blow some air with my air puffer while rotating my Alcohol Ink card stock. It’s great for a nice feathery look with lots of movement. I then add some blending solution splatters which helps to add texture and some more movement to the piece, but be sure to have a designated paint brush for these splatters! The blending solution will cause the bristles to become rough and course.
One of my favorite die sets from Birch Press isn’t a layered one at all. It’s the Alpha Lingo letter dies, and I love them because they’re legible and small enough to create whatever sentiment/word without worrying it won’t fit. I chose to cut mine from a gold metallic card stock and add the same cuts from white card stock just off center behind them to create a shadow. This shadow technique draws the eye a bit more and makes it easier to read. To really drive this home, I added a small strip of vellum underneath the die cut word. Finally, I added the sentiment “So Glad We’re Friends” underneath the word and adhered it all to an A2 sized card base.
I hope you’ve enjoyed learning a bit about how I created this card! Be sure to check out the video for the entire supply list as well as more tips for alcohol ink art! Thank you for stopping by and I’ll see you again soon!
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Hello! Thanks so much for stopping by! Today I’ll be sharing a “Grateful for You” card that I made for a friend who has given me lots of great advice and direction over the years.
This is a tri-fold card, so the oval from the front peeks through to the compass on the second layer of the card. I sketched a quick line with a watercolor marker, and filled in with water for just a touch of color. I’ll show the details in the video below.
Once opened, the “Grateful to have you in my life” sentiment is seen under the compass. The font size and line thickness makes for gorgeous embossing. This is embossed out of gold.
Open the flap once more to reveal the last sentiment and room for writing. The “Thanks for always being there” script came from the Sending Love stamp set, and I thought both sentiments went together nicely for a complete message.
Are you looking for Father’s Day card ideas? This would also make a great card for any dads on the list. I love how the sentiments are very versatile, and can be used to thank anyone who has given advice or direction. It’s a great one to have on hand!
Check out the video below, and you can watch me make this card. Have a great day! I can’t wait to see you again soon!
I used the stencils from the Shining Mandala Stamps and Stencils to create this super fun background in a variety of shades of pink. I topped it off with the Friend die and added a small stamp underneath which is embossed in white on black cardstock.
These two cards, I tried something I’ve never done before and I used all the pieces from my die cut – the pieces that were intended to be cut out as well as all those little pieces that fall out. I arranged them with the help of the frames. I can’t even tell which card I love more!
The card above is made with all the pieces that I would normally have thrown in the garbage. I didn’t use every single layer but enough of them to get enough contrast.
This is what the card looks like by layering the standard dies. You can see all those holes where I got the pieces from for the previous card.
Hello, there! It’s Ashlea and I’m thrilled to be back again sharing some inspiration with you. I don’t know about you, but I have recently be re-obsessed with alcohol inks. They’re so fun to play with and I love the looks I get when playing around with different colors. I always end up with tons of alcohol ink panels and try to brainstorm ways that I can use them on my cards and projects. I’ve shared a few ideas in this video on my Youtube channel. Check it out here:
For my first card in the video I used alcohol ink on a die cut piece of card stock. I used the Peony Blooms layer A die and created a floral texture with the alcohol ink by using my darkest color (Cranberry)in the center of the flower shadows, then the lighter color (Pink Sherbet) and using my “air puffer” while rotating the card stock. This technique gives a great feathery texture that lends itself really well to alcohol inks, in my opinion.
For my next couple of cards, I used pre-made alcohol ink panels and used word dies on one of them while I used the other as a card front. In this first one I cut out both the shadow die portion of the Big Friend Sugar Script die and the word die. I used these inversely with white card stock cut outs of the opposite dies (white shadow die for alcohol ink word cut out and white card stock word cut out for the alcohol ink shadow cut out) and created clean and simple cards with them using also the Aurora dies.
And finally, my alcohol ink card front consisted of a pretty clean and simple alcohol ink art panel using just the color Eggplant and the gold mixative. I trimmed the card stock down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ and paired it with the inside dies of the Aurora layers A and B. For my sentiment I used the “smile” die and the “so glad we’re friends” sentiment from the Lingo Thanks clear stamp set.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope that you’ve gotten some ideas on how you can use those alcohol ink panels that you’ve created! I’ll see you again very soon!
Hello! Isn’t it great to see signs of spring finally arriving? Today, I wanted to make a card that was light, bright, fun, and would be great for a quick Easter card, or just springtime greetings.
The card base is made out of clear acetate. The front is the beautiful Fiori Egg layering die set. There are four layers to the egg including the Stitched Egg background.
The top two layers are both white, the third layer is gold, and the background layer is a holographic pink. I love how the top two layers of the white give it dimension with the stitching showing through, while the gold and background offer such colorful, beautiful elegance to the card while still keeping it clean and simple.
I die cut the Layer A from the Avalon Frame out of white vellum, and used the negative spaces to glue onto the inside of the acetate that will show to the front of the card. Using a hole punch, I added little centers to the negative spaces of the flowers.
Using vellum allows for color to show through from the back panel, and adds to the light, springy feel of the card. Glue dots are a wonderful adhesive for the vellum. It doesn’t show through the vellum or the acetate!
The inside backing to the Fiori Egg is a background cut out of pink, with the Spring Blessings sentiment from the Spring Blessings stamp set. Room for a personal note is on the inside, hidden by the egg when closed.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and Happy Spring to you!
Hello all! I’m glad to be back here with you today trying a new type of video for me. I love watching videos that show how many cards you can make with a limited number of techniques so, I put together one of my own today! I hope that you enjoy it and get some ideas on ways to stretch your own supplies.
For my first set of cards I’m using the Butterfly Garden layer set. I have a confession here: there is technically a third die in this step, infinity circle dies. But they’re basic and this step could technically be done with scissors or a craft knife if you wanted. I love the way these two came out and that they’re both any occasion cards so that I can use them whenever I find myself needing a card.
For my next set, I used the Big Friend Sugar Script die and created this one with some patterned paper and also some embellishment hearts from the Amour Arch layer A. To create this colorful stacked look, I used the word die on four pieces of different colored light weight card stock and adhered them all together slightly off center from each other. This way, all the colors peek out and create a wonderfully simple yet impactful piece.
Finally, I created the card you see above on the far left. It’s a a very simple card using the negative pieces of card stock from the “friend” word die. I love this as a masculine card and I often have trouble creating those, so this technique will definitely be one I use again and again!
Thank you so much for stopping by today! I’ll see you again very soon!
