Category: Winter

  • Lovable Polar Bear | by Christina Rannow

    Lovable Polar Bear | by Christina Rannow

    Hi friends! Christina here to share another card featuring products from the Block Print Christmas release. This release has some wonderful winter and holiday-themed die sets like the handsome Block Print Polar Bear. He’s an adorable addition to your wintertime cards, especially when paired with one of the new Block Print Scene die sets. I decided to combine elements from both scene sets to create a starry Arctic night perfect for our polar friend. Let’s take a closer look at how this wintertime card came together. 

    I started by creating the starry night sky that will peek through the circular cutout from the Block Print Forest Scene die. First, I applied ink to a white cardstock panel, softly blending two shades of navy ink from top to bottom. Then I spattered the panel with a sparkly liquid watercolor to create a starry sky. 

    Next, I die-cut the Block Print Forest Scene from a white cardstock panel and, using whatever ink was left on my teal blending brush, very lightly blended small areas of ink to create an icy look to the panel. There is one tree attached to the forest scene, and I inked this tree along with some other trees I had die-cut with green and brown ink colors. Then I attached this panel to the starry night sky panel with thin foam tape and attached the other trees to the scene.

    With the background scene completed, I moved on to die-cutting the pieces for the polar bear. I used white cardstock and added shading to the body pieces with a light gray ink and inked the eyes, nose, and ears with a little Black Soot ink. Then I assembled the polar bear, layering the pieces and securing them with thin foam squares. This, along with shading the body pieces, gives the polar bear incredible dimension. And to really bring him to life, I added Glossy Accents to his nose and a black glaze pen to his eyes with a tiny white gel pen highlight. 

    To finish up my card front, I attached the bear to the nighttime forest scene and added the star from the Block Print Starry Night Scene. I gave the star some sparkle with more of the sparkly liquid watercolor and then stamped a sentiment in the bottom right corner. 

    Thank you so much for checking out my wintertime card featuring a starry Arctic scene that I created using new products from the Block Print Christmas release. See you again soon!


    Supplies


    57638 Block Print Polar Bear
    57649 Block Print Starry Night Scene
    57650 Block Print Forest Scene
  • Merry & Bright Snowman | by Rosemary Dennis

    Merry & Bright Snowman | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello! I hope everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Can you believe that Christmas is just a few weeks away? I can’t! I’m still making Christmas cards. Today I’m sharing one that I made using the new Block Print Debonair Snowman and Block Print Evergreen Trees die sets. Let’s have a look at what I made.

    Since I really loved the look of die cutting the big snowman from woodgrain cardstock I thought it would also be fun to do the same with the Block Print Debonair Snowman. I love how he turned out!

    I also die cut the snow hill (using the Wavy Hillside) from the woodgrain cardstock. I added some glitter to the hillside using swirls of glue and Rock Candy glitter. I die cut all the pieces of the snowman from the woodgrain cardstock and then colored certain pieces with Copic Markers. When you are die cutting all the pieces make sure you keep track of the tiny eyes, nose and buttons so you can insert them back into the snowman once he is assembled.

    The Block Print Evergreen Trees are a fun die set. There are the main tree dies and then layering dies. That means you can have two different looks. For my trees I decided to use just the base layer. I cut them from smooth white cardstock and then colored them with a Copic marker. I let the pieces sit for a little bit and the frosted them with glue and Rock Candy glitter.

    Now it was time to get the card base ready. For this I started with a card base I made from dark blue cardstock. I then inked up the top and sides with Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot distress oxide ink. Once the ink blending complete I placed the card base in my splatter box and splattered on white paint for the look of snow. I let it dry for a bit and then built my little scene. I finished with a Memory Box banner tab.

    I just love how my little scene turned out. The Debonair Snowman has to be one of my favorites from this release! He is just too darn cute. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

  • Find Joy Cardinal | by Toni M Maddox

    Find Joy Cardinal | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, crafty friends! Toni here with a masculine holiday card featuring a blend of our new and older release products.

    I started my card by diecutting a piece of Memory Box Nutmeg Forest 6×6 Paper using a postage die.

    Next, I cut the Simple Pine Needles and Bright Snowflakes from Lagoon 6×6 Paper. The Block Print Winter Pinecone is cut from kraft cardstock then sponged with Catherine Pooler ink.

    I used Catherine Pooler ink to shade the Block Print Winter Cardinal as well. Isn’t that bird gorgeous? I particularly love the detail on the tail.

    Finally, I added the Find Joy sentiment cut out from the same bright red as the cardinal. That really shows you the difference between shading your diecuts with ink and not doing so.

    Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!

    Supplies

    57635 Block Print Winter Cardinal

    57660 Block Print Winter Pinecone

    57657 Simple Pine Needles

    57644 Bright Snowflakes

    57452 Find Joy and Outline

    SP1010 Lagoon 6×6 pack

    PP1034 Nutmeg Forest 6×6 pack

  • Pink Penguins | by Toni M Maddox

    Pink Penguins | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, friends! Toni here with you today with a winter card featuring rosy pink penguins. How cute!

    I started my card by cutting out the Design Block Print Forest Scene from the card front.

    I laid that over large scrap of a white glitter cardstock on which I had adhered Bright Snowflakes. Those are cut from Memory Box Lagoon 6×6 cardstock.

    Next I cut out the Block Print Superb and Peaceful Penguins using Memory Box Blush 6×6 cardstock, shading the pieces using Catherine Pooler inks.

    I cut the Warm Wishes Vintage Sentiment from a scrap of the Memory Box Lagoon 6×6 cardstock. A few clear sequins finish off the card.

    Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!

    Supplies

    57639 Block Print Superb Penguin

    57641 Block Print Peaceful Penguin

    57650 Block Print Forest Scene

    57644 Bright Snowflakes

    57539 Warm Wishes Vintage Sentiment

    SP1010 Lagoon 6×6 pack

    SP1012 Blush 6×6 pack

  • Majestic Deer | by Christina Rannow

    Majestic Deer | by Christina Rannow

    Hello! It’s Christina, and I’m excited to share this masculine holiday card with you today. My card showcases products from the latest Block Print Christmas release with the majestic Block Print Deer front and center. He makes quite an impact all on his own, so I kept the background simple with a tone-on-tone diecut technique. I love using this technique because it’s a unique alternative to embossing folders, stencils, or background stamps. Let’s take a closer look at how this masculine holiday card came together. 

    I started by die-cutting the elements for the Block Print Deer from colored cardstock. I used two shades of brown, ivory, and black. After die-cutting, I added shading and dimension to the pieces by inking the edges with a coordinating ink color. Then I assembled the pieces, securing most of them with glue but attaching his head with foam squares for even more dimension. There aren’t very many pieces to assemble for the deer, and they layer together so easily. It’s truly an impressive image when he is complete. 

    Next I worked on the background. I chose pine green cardstock and die-cut multiple Simple Evergreen Sprigs. I glued these sprigs randomly across a pine green cardstock panel, letting some overhang the edges and trimming them after the glue had set. These sprigs are delicate, and applying glue to them without making a mess was a little challenging, but I think the results are worth it. My last step for the background panel was to apply white spatter using thinned white gouache paint. 

    To finish up my card, I attached the Block Print Deer to the center of the panel with thin foam squares and added the Warm Wishes Dapper Script. I chose ivory cardstock for the sentiment and stacked three of the diecuts together before adding to my card design.

    Thank you so much for stopping by to see how this masculine holiday card came together! See you again soon!


    Supplies


    57578 Block Print Deer
    57653 Warm Wishes Dapper Script
    57656 Simple Evergreen Sprigs
  • Masculine Deer Holiday | by Toni M Maddox

    Masculine Deer Holiday | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, my crafty friends. Toni here and today I’m sharing a masculine holiday card with unconventional colors.

    For the background, I kept everything very neutral using Catherine Pooler Macchiato with the Poppy Stamps Nordic Motif Stencil (used at an angle) on the front.

    The diecut oval is cut from kraft cardstock then embossed with holiday sentiments.

    I got my hands on some Memory Box Lagoon 6×6 paper and thought it would really jazz up the Block Print Deer. I love it so very much!

    Feel free to visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, for a full list of supplies used and to check out my other creations.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!

    Supplies

    57578 Block Print Deer

    sp1010 Lagoon 6×6 pack

    t106 Nordic Motif Stencil

  • Modern Holiday Greetings | by Toni M Maddox

    Modern Holiday Greetings | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, everyone! Toni here with a stylized greenery holiday card.

    I was really struck by the stark lines of the Block Print Stems & Berries set. How could I really allow that to shine on the card?

    I used bright Memory Box Cherry Red, Cilantro, and Leaf Sprout cardstock without sponging, making the design really pop on that white base.

    And how could I not use red glitter cardstock for the Find Joy word die. Mounting that on black along with the card base and stems in black–chef’s kiss!

    Be sure to 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!

    Supplies

    57599 Block Print Stems and Berries

    57452 Find Joy and Outline

    SH44015 Cherry Red Paper Pack

    SH44006 Leaf Sprout Paper Pack

    SH44007 Cilantro Paper Pack

  • Peace Love Joy | by Rosemary Dennis

    Peace Love Joy | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello, hello! Rosemary here on the blog today with a snowy scene card that was so much fun to make! Let’s have a look.

    For my card I used the new Littletown Home, Wavy Hillside, and Peace Love Joy word die sets. The next few photos will show a little bit of my process for creating the card. I try to remember to take these kinds of photos, but sometimes get so involved in the process that I forget. This time I remembered!

    I started by cutting piece of light blue cardstock from the Lagoon 6×6 cardstock pad to 5 1/2 by 4 1/4. I pulled out several distress oxide inks in shades of blue and blended them onto the top of the cardstock. I knew I would be covering up the bottom so no need to waste time and ink there! Once I had the blues blended to my liking I added in some black using Black Soot distress oxide. I used Blueprint Sketch, Prized Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire for the blues (could only fit the Chipped Sapphire in the photo).

    Once the ink blending was done I put the panel into my splatter box and liberally splatted the panel with white acrylic paint. I let the panel dry and moved on to the next step in my card process: creating the wintry hills for my little houses!

    I used Glossy Accents to cover the hill pieces, but I didn’t cover the cardstock pieces completely as you can see in the above photo. I did this because I wanted a more realistic snow look to each piece. Giving it the look of high and low areas in the snow that are there in real life. I then covered each piece with Rock Candy glitter and let them dry.

    Now it was time to make the little houses, trees and sentiments. I die cut the houses from white, grey and yellow cardstocks and then adhered them together. Glossy Accents was added to the roofs and then Rock Candy glitter for that icy, snowy look. For the trees I simply added some liquid adhesive and then sprinkled on the Rock Candy Glitter. I had a scrap of the light blue cardstock so I ink blended that with the blue distress inks I used and die cut the shadow layer of each word from that. The words were die cut from white and then adhered to the shadow layer with liquid adhesive.

    For the snowy hills I adhered the bottom one with foam tape. The middle layer was adhered with thin foam squares and the top layer with liquid adhesive. I layered the hills this way so that I could tuck the trees behind the bottom hill layer and the houses. The trees were adhered with a combination of liquid adhesive and thin foam squares. The houses were adhered in the same manner. The sentiments were adhered simply with liquid adhesive.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and seeing a little bit of the process I used to create the card. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

    Supplies

    57567 Littletown Home

    57543 Peace Love Joy Confection Script

    57563 Wavy Hillside

  • Adornment Dove Tag | by Rosemary Dennis

    Adornment Dove Tag | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello! Rosemary here on the blog today. Today is July 25th and so I decided to make a “Christmas in July” project. I used several older products and one newly released product for today’s project. Let’s have a look at what I made.

    Today’s project is a large tag that can be used as a deco piece at Christmas time. I really enjoy making these kinds of projects to share. I started with a Tim Holtz thickboard tag. I pulled out a piece of plaid paper from the Poinsettia Plaid 6×6 pad that had various shades of red in it and trimmed it down to fit the tag. The top of the paper has a hole in it so that the pad can be hung and I used that to my advantage. I aligned the hole in the paper with the hole on the tag, trace around the tag and then trimmed out the paper. There was a little bit of the tag not covered at the very top, but in the end you don’t really notice it.

    I then adhered the paper tag to the thickboard tag using distress collage medium and let it dry. I then decided to add another layer of texture to the tag by adding the large Pinpoint Snowflake that I die cut from the reverse side of the paper used for the tag. I adhered the snowflake to the tag using the collage medium, as well, and once things were dry trimmed off the one side. Once I had the base of my tag put together I worked on the focal point of the tag. For this I used the pretty Adornment Dove die set. Initially I die cut solid layer of the dove from three different papers from the Poinsettia Garland 6×6 pad and determined which one I wanted to use. As you can see I went with the lightest paper dove.

    I then die cut the top layer from gold foil cardstock from the Vintage Pastel Mirror 6×6 pad. To give the base layer of the dove a little more stability I adhered the other two doves I wasn’t using behind the main one. The Vintage Merry Christmas sentiment was also die cut from the same papers and adhered together. I used liquid adhesive for both. Then I got out distress crayons in festive berries and ground espresso to blend onto the edges of the dove, the tag and around the snowflake. Once I had done that the small gap at the top of the tag almost completely disappeared!

    As I was working on my tag the newest release from Birch Press Design landed in my mailbox. It is absolutely gorgeous! So I decided to make sure to incorporate one of the new products from the release into my project. I made the decision to use the Pine Needle Twigs Contour Layers dies. I die cut them from scraps of the paper I used, as well as the gold foil cardstock and then layered them together using liquid adhesive.

    Once they were dry I began layering the elements on to my tag. I started with the Pine Needle Twigs using liquid adhesive to attach them. I used a combination of liquid adhesive and foam squares to attach the dove. Foam squares were also used to attach the sentiment. I finished off my tag with some ribbon looped through the hole in the top and then tied with some red twine.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s project. I had a lot of fun making it! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

    Supplies

    57519 Pine Needle Twigs Contour Layers

    57538 Merry Christmas Vintage Sentiment

    57385 Pinpoint Snowflake

    57479 Adornment Dove

    fp1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

    pp1024 Poinsettia Garland 6×6 pack

    pp1023 Poinsettia Plaid 6×6 pack

  • Snowflake Thank You | by Rosemary Dennis

    Snowflake Thank You | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello everyone! Rosemary here today. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas celebration with family and friends. Now that Christmas is past it is time to think about thanking people for the gifts given. With that in mind I made a wintry thank you card using several Birch Press Design snowflake dies. Let’s take a look at what I made.

    When I made the light blue snowflake ornament for my last post I had lots of scraps of the panels I had made left over. I decided to die cut lots of snowflakes using the Felicity Snowflakes die set with the idea to use them on a card.

    I then pulled out the Frosty Flake Layering die set and determined an arrangement of the flakes that I liked. I then die cut the Frosty Flake layers from a very pale blue cardstock, silver glitter cardstock and white.

    To give the layered snowflake more dimension and movement I only adhered the layers together in the very center. Adhering the snowflake together this way also created some off-setting of the layers which I think looks really pretty.

    I die cut a piece of white cardstock with a rectangle die and then arranged all the snowflakes on the panel as you see. When adhering the smaller snowflakes I only used the liquid adhesive on the centers of them so that there is a little bit of dimension and movement. I foiled the sentiment using Thank You Noted Script hot foil plate using a light blue foil and then die cut with the matching die. I adhered that to the card using a combination of foam squares and liquid adhesive. An icy blue fairy jewel was added to the center of the large snowflake to finish off the card.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a very, very happy new year!

    Supplies

    BPF511 Thank You Noted Script Hot Foil Plate and Die Set

    57453 Felicity Snowflakes

    57388 Frosty Flake Layer Set

    GP1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad