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Add New Life to Your Stamps! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! Today I am going to show everyone how you can add new life and create a new look to your stamp sets! Simply we can add new lines and details easily… I will be using the Crystal Lingo Stamp Set… This is a great geometric design and is the perfect…
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Summer Rose
by Jeanne JachnaI hope your summer is off to a good start! I’m loving all the color I see everywhere as bold blooms capture all my attention! Living in the Midwest, Summer is usually decked out in shades of red, white and blue – American Flags line Main Street, and are the inspiration for the color scheme…
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Simple Floral Wreath | by Toni M Maddox
Hello, Birch Press fans! Toni here with you today sharing a card that I would call any occasion. Honestly this is among my favorite type of card to make as I can use it for about anything: sympathy, friendship, encouragement, you name it. I started the card by using the Epiphany Plate Layer A with a rubber…
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Tropical Hibiscus Friends
Hello, Birch Press Friends! Allison here, and today I’m sharing a card featuring the new Tropical Hibiscus Contour Layers die set. I started by cutting all of the pieces of the flowers from white card stock. I then blended Distress Ink onto the pieces, but in a very subtle way. The most intense color is…
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Mixed Media Fun with Die Cutting | By Natasha Vacca
Hello Crafty friends – it is Natasha here and I am excited to be back up on the Birch Press Blog today! Today I am sharing a fun and easy way to use your layering dies, as well as the Simple Dragonfly Contour dies to create a colorful mixed media card! So let’s get started!…
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Hope You’re Feeling Better Eucalyptus | by Crystal Komara
Hello Birch Press Design readers! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara sharing a CAS (Clean and Simple) card with you today featuring the new Eucalyptus Stem and Berries Contour Layering dies. Because I intended for this card to be very simple, I wanted to create a card without using the layering part of the…
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Tropical Hibiscus Hello
by Jeanne JachnaHi and thanks for stopping by! Today I’m sharing a colorful card that just screams SUMMER. Living in the Midwest the only time I see beautiful hibiscus in shades of red, pink and apricot is when they arrive at the garden center this time of year. These pretties were really easy to assemble. The flower…
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A Hidden Panel for your Sentiment! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! It is simple to create a decorative panel to hide our sentiments inside of our cards for that little surprise! I got all my die cutting out of the way and layered my mini frame together to have ready. To create your panel on the front of your card you…
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Heart to Heart Thanks | by April Antonio
Happy Friday! April here sharing an elegant, easy to pull together thank you card. To start this card I grabbed on of my favorites, the Kinsley Heart Plate Layering set. I cut out all three layers with Layer A and C cut from white cardstock, and Layer I glued all three layers together using liquid…
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Summer Hugs | by Toni M Maddox
Hello, everyone! Toni here with you today sharing a card using one of my favorite color combo of blues and reds. It’s fab all the time but especially with summer nearly upon us. I cut out the Floral Star Layering Dies using MB Sunny Orange & Berry Red 6×6 paper to create a large floral focal point…
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Tropical Hibiscus | by Crystal Komara
Hello crafty readers! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today and I’m so excited to be sharing my first card(s) created with the beautiful new Tropical Hibiscus Contour Layering Dies! I am so in love with this spring’s new release of the contour layering dies, they are just g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s! If you…
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Dragonfly Hugs
Hello, Birch Press friends! Allison here, and today I’m sharing a card featuring some of my favorite products from the latest release. I started by embossing a navy panel of card stock with the Ringadings 3D embossing folder. I love the texture this embossing folder gives! I then die cut a bunch of kelly green…
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Simple Dragonfly Hello | By Dilay Nacar
Hello and welcome, crafty friends! Dee here today with another clean and simple card that I created using scraps and a few dies! To begin, I cut the Arista Layer die, A, B, and C and adhered them onto the center of a base made by cutting a piece of white cardstock with the Pinpoint Radial…
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Celebrating You – Adornment Peony | By Natasha Vacca
Hi Crafty friends – it is Natasha here and I am excited to be back on the blog today! I had so much fun using the beautiful Adornment Peony die set, paired with the new You Sugar Script Hot Foil Plate and die set! I love all the sugar script dies and the new foil…
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Prime Peony Duo | By Dilay Nacar
Hello and welcome back, friends! Dee here today sharing a foiled floral card created using beautiful new products from the latest release! This card showcases the String Art Hot Foil Plate and Prime Peony Duo Contour Layers. To start, I hot foiled a 4” x 5.25” piece of white cardstock with the String Art Frame…
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Foiled Hello | By Seeka
Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I’m sharing a simple card featuring new hot foil plates and dies. I chose a coral cardstock and warm gold foil for this card; what colors would you choose? I started by using the new String Art Frame hot foil plate to transfer gold foil onto a 4.25″…
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Star Flowers Thank you | By Natasha Vacca
Hi Crafty friends! I am excited to be back today sharing a colorful thank you card using the beautiful Star Flowers Contour Layers die set!!!!! So let’s get started! I started today’s card with the beautiful Star Flowers Contour Layers die set! I love these beautiful flowers! I started by die cutting my flowers using…
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Glitzy Golden Hugs
Hello and welcome back to the Birch Press Design blog. I’m so excited to be joining you this Friday with a project featuring some of items from the newest release. I’m loving today’s project because it is gold galore. To start, I used the new String Art Frame hot foil plate to create the delicate…
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Foiled String Art Hello | By Toni M Maddox
Hello, Birch Press fans! Toni here with you today sharing a card using some of the new hot foil products that Birch Press Design and its parent company, Memory Box, have on offer. How exciting! I’ve been working with hot foil for a while and definitely have my opinions on which brands/styles I like and which I…
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Classic Sentimental Wreath | by Crystal Komara
Hello readers! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today. I know there is a beautiful new release of the hot foils in the shop right now, but I always love to use some of the “oldies but goodies.” Everyone seems to always get caught up in what’s the newest or latest…
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Flora Heart and Eloquent Butterfly Layering Die Sets! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! We do not have to limit ourselves to just one die set for the front of our cards! Today I am going to show you how we can combine two popular layering die sets for the focal point on our card ready for any occasion! I always like to get…
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Spring Peony and Hot Foil Hello
Hello crafty friends! I am excited to be back on the blog today to share a project using some of the newly released supplies. For today’s project I decided to use the new Prime Peony die set. It creates a beautifully, realistic looking peony. The set comes with both large and small peony pieces, including…
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Butterfly Basics | by Crystal Komara
Hello Birch Press Design readers! This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing a slimline card made using the Butterfly Basics die set. I have owned this beautiful die set for a while and for as much as I love butterflies, I can’t believe I hadn’t used it yet! So, while…
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Hot Foiled Hugs | By Allison Frazier
Hello, Everyone! Look who has hot foil plates now! We are very excited to be able to show off these gorgeous plates and how hot foiling can complement the rest of the beautiful Birch Press Design products. Not only are there sugar script hot plates, but one of my favorite background dies is now available…
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Tropical Hibiscus | By Natasha Vacca
Hello Crafty Friends! It is Natasha here and I am super excited to be back today! Birch Press Design has an amazing new release and I couldn’t wait to create!!! For today’s card I am using 2 dies from the new release – Tropical Hibiscus Contour Layers, as well as the new Hello Sugar Script…
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Celebrating Birthday Cards! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! We love to use our Pattern Papers as our background for our card and sometimes we struggle making sure our focal point stands out as well! Today I am going to show we can accomplish this! By choosing colors in a different hue of the colors in our background our…
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Summer Birthday Blooms | by Toni M Maddox
Hello, Birch Press fans! Toni here with you today sharing a rather summery birthday card. I started the card by cutting the Linear Triangle from a sturdy white cardstock. I then cut out the Flora Plate Layer B out of a piece of Ocean Blue paper. I adhered the Flora layer onto the card front, having discarded…
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Foiled Dazzler | By Seeka
Hi there and welcome! Seeka here and today I’m sharing a card featuring a background made by foiling the Dazzle Layer A cover plate. Foiling with dies is a wonderful way to stretch your supplies! I started by prepping my foiling machine. I centered the Dazzle Layer A die over a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel…
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Layered Floral Star | By Allison Frazier
Hello again, Friends! Today I am sharing this gorgeous layered floral star card using one of my favorite color combinations. There is just something about orange and turquoise together, right? It has to be one of the more striking complementary color combos. I love creating texture in the background of my cards, even if it’s…
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Thinking of You | By Dilay Nacar
Welcome, crafty friends! Dee here sharing this card created using scraps to make a bold and colorful focal point! To start, I die cut the Pinpoint Radial die in white, then adhered it onto an A2-sized top folding card base. Next, I cut each layer of the Kinsley Layer Set from white cardstock and adhered them…
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