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String Art Circle Three Ways | By Renee Moran
Hi Everyone, It’s Renee’ from Delaney Jane Cards here. I had the opportunity to play with the String Art Circle Collage die and created 3 different cards showing just a couple ways you can use this really fun die. The first card I created was simply die cut from a piece of deep blue cardstock…
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Sending Rainbow Wishes | By Amanda Wilcox
Happy Saturday everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook popping in today. I hope your day is starting off splendidly! I have been itching to watercolor this gorgeous rainbow image since it released and I finally made it happen. To create my card today, I started by pulling my stamps out and playing around with images…
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A Birthday all for YOU! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today’s project I am focusing on the die, a sentiment die and making it our focal point of our slimline card design! I chose the YOU die from the Happy Lingo die set, later we will add a stamped sentiment from the same named set. I wanted a lot…
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Sending Rainbow Wishes | by Crystal Komara
Hello crafty readers! This is Crystal here with you today sharing a colorful card using the Dahlia Heart Layering Dies and some fun rainbow colored paper. Card details: The base of this A2 sized card is made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. For the first 5 1/4″ x 4″ paper, I dry…
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Eclipse / Inlay Tranquility | By Renee Moran
Hi Everyone, It’s Renee’ from Delaney Jane Cards here with a different take on the eclipse technique. Many times we see it done with words but I thought I could achieve something similar with the beautiful Tranquility Layering Dies and Handwritten Thanks. When I’m feeling stuck I often try to use a favorite technique or…
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Missing You | by Tracey McNeely
Hi There, it’s Tracey back today with a couple of cards that are perfect to send out to someone that you have been missing throughout the pandemic! I began by cutting two each of the Tranquility Layers die set using white heavyweight cardstock. I usually save this cardstock for my card bases. However when I…
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All the Happiness | by Crystal Komara
Hello friends and happy Monday! Welcome back from the weekend. This is Crystal here with you and I’m excited to be sharing STAMPED projects with you today and not the usual beautiful layering dies that Birch Press Design is known for. Do you even know that Birch Press Design also sells stamps?! Surprise, they do!…
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The Best Things In Life | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook stopping by today with this beautiful Arista Layering card featuring some simple ink blending to get a custom look. To start my card, I die cut all three layers from the Arista layering set from white cardstock. Then I chose 3 dye inks and the coordinating blending brushes…
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A Little Note For You | By Dilay Nacar
Hello friends, and welcome back! Dee here and today, I am sharing this intricate card that I created with the Tranquility layer die set! For this card, I decided to use a single color in three different shades for an elegant and sophisticated feel. I hope that you like what I came up with! Let’s…
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Tranquility | by Crystal Komara
Hello friends and happy Monday! I hope you all had a pleasant weekend. This is Crystal Komara here with you today sharing a fun design featuring the Tranquility Layering Set. Card details: The base of this A2 sized card is made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. I cut a 5 1/4″ x…
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Birthday Butterfly | By Seeka
Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I’m sharing a card featuring a butterfly created with the Butterfly Basics die set. I started by using a blending brush to blend a peach-colored ink onto a piece of white cardstock. I blended a rough circle and concentrated the color at the center. Then I centered the…
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Using Layering Dies for Dimension | By Renee Moran
Hi Everyone, It’s Renee’ from Delaney Jane Cards here with a Dimensional card using small layering dies.I wanted to create something that could feel a little Christmas but could be used any time of year. I also enjoyed the challenge of using these small dies to make an entire card. Sometimes it is about stretching…
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A Butterfly for Every Season! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! Today’s project is well out of the box! We have all these beautiful stamps and dies in our stash. Let’s put them on our wall and create a beautiful home decoration! So for this project I created a Shaker Wall Hanging! It’s going to be tough to shake it though,…
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Rainbow Wishes | By Dilay Nacar
Dee (@dilaynacar) here today to share this fun and colorful butterfly card! This card is easy to recreate and combines a few of my favorite elements: stripes, rainbow-colored cardstock, and butterflies! Let’s dive right in! To create the striped background, I cut a piece of cardstock down to an A2-sized base then cut colored cardstock…
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You Are Something Special | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with a fun little technique to try with your heat embossed images. I paired it with some layering die cuts and the beautiful Pinpoint Radial background die too! Let’s jump in and get started. First, I chose the roundabout layering dies and a color palette from…
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White Space | by Crystal Komara
Hello crafty readers! This is Crystal Komara here with you today sharing two cards that both feature a lot of white space. You might call these CAS or “clean and simple” cards. I love white for it’s clean and fresh look and it allows the vibrant alcohol ink colored heart and butterfly to be the…
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Layered Delight | By Seeka
Hello! Seeka here and I’m so glad you stopped by! Today I’m sharing a card featuring the Delight Layer Die Set in pretty coral pink colors. I started off by selecting three coordinating colors of cardstock and cutting three sets of layers, using the lightest color of cardstock for the topmost intricate layer. Next, I…
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Steampunk Butterflies! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today’s project I am making more butterflies featuring the Butterfly Basic and Starlight Layering Die Set! Our butterflies will sit on top of a steampunk background to give our cards a masculine look! As always, let’s get our die cutting done and set those pieces aside. For my butterflies…
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Christmas In July | Marisol Ornament | By Renee Moran
Hi Everyone, It’s Renee’ from Delaney Jane Cards here with a Christmas in July card! Yes, Christmas in July. I also used an unexpected background die to create the “tree”! Sometimes it is about stretching your dies to make them really worth owning. I really wanted to use the Marisol Ornament layering dies because, let’s…
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A Clean and Simple Sentimental Wreath! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today’s project I am featuring the Classic Sentimental Stamp Set! This stamp set creates a beautiful wreath and I will be showing how to incorporate the other images in our stamp layering! Grab your favorite ink and let’s get stamping! I will be using an acrylic block for all…
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Friend, I Miss You | By Amanda Wilcox
Happy weekend everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook with a simple missing you card that I made for a friend that I haven’t seen since before the pandemic. I hope you like it! I started today’s card by choosing cardstock and cutting the layers for the Mini Grandiose Bevel layers. Then I took the mid-tone…
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Dazzle Die Cut Inlay | By Seeka
Hello there! It’s Seeka here today sharing a card featuring the Dazzle Mini Frame dies and a die cut inlay technique. When I chose colors for this card, I had a sunrise in mind but in hindsight, I see a pink flower. What do you see? I started off by using the Dazzle Mini Frame…
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Rainbow Butterfly Mini Slimline | by Tracey McNeely
Hi there crafty friends, It’s Tracey back here today with a mini slimline card using some of the newest products Birch Press Design. We are seeing slimline and mini slimline cards all the time these days and what is the correct size? Well that varies when you start to do a bit of research. If…
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Stretch Your Stamp Sets! | By Renee Moran
Do you get stuck in a rut? You know, flowers, flowers, hearts, rainbows, flowers, more flowers and maybe a cute critter or two? Yep, me too! I’m often searching for ways to create masculine cards with what I have on hand, or looking to find ways to stretch my stamp sets to do more for…
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Arista Hugs | By Dilay Nacar
Hello again, friends! Dee here today sharing a simple to recreate, yet delicately detailed, card featuring the new Arista layering dies! To begin, I die cut the Arista layers (A, B, and C) from white cardstock, then stacked and adhered them together. Next, I die cut layer A only in 4 different colors of cardstock…
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Eloquent Glittering Butterfly | by Crystal Komara
Hello friends! This is Crystal Komara here with you today sharing another way to use the beautiful Eloquent Butterfly dies. I am SOOOoo in love with this latest release from Birch Press Design featuring a variety of unique layering butterflies because the options are truly endless when you combine layers and colors. Today I chose…
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Sending Thanks | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with another variation on the fabulous butterflies that recently released. Today I’m pairing them with a beautiful 3D embossing folder and some ink blending for depth. I chose some of the basic things I wanted to create with straight away and started die cutting and embossing. I…
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Create Your Butterfly! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today’s project I am featuring the Butterfly Basics Die Set! This set will provide many hours of creative Butterflies! This set is perfect to use up those scraps we just cannot put into the trash. So, I dug into my stash and pulled out aqua colors from my ink…
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Dazzle Mini Frame Thanks | By Dilay Nacar
Welcome back, friends! Dee here and today, I’m sharing a fun card featuring the Dazzle Mini Frame Die, but used for a traditional A2-sized card! I absolutely love the diversity of these layering dies! Let’s get started! I began with an A2-sized base and die cut all layers (A, B, and C) of the Dazzle…
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Slimline Rainbow Butterfly Basics | by Crystal Komara
Hello readers and happy Monday! I hope you all had a nice weekend. This is Crystal Komara here with you today sharing a slimline card using the beautiful new Butterfly Basics dies. I am absolutely in love with this latest release from Birch Press Design featuring a variety of layering butterflies like the Eloquent Butterfly…
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