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String Art Frame| by Crystal Komara
Hello crafty readers! Thank you for visiting during our exciting Blog Blitz celebration! All week long the Creative Team is inspiring you with their amazing designs, but also giving YOU a chance to win some of these fun NEW products! This is Crystal here today sharing two vividly detailed cards using the new String Art…
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Lovely Butterflies Card | By Leigh Houston
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…
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Sweet Petal Triangles | By Seeka
Hello, crafty friends, I’m so glad you’re here! Today I’m sharing two cards that feature the pretty Petal Triangles Layer die set, and sentiments from the You Are Awesome stamp set. I started by creating two square ink-blended panels. Starting with Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock, I used foam blending tools to blend on Squeezed Lemonade,…
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Frilly Triangle & Giveaway
By Jeanne JachnaHi Friends! I hope you’re having a great day! We’re celebrating our new Spring Release with lots of giveaways! My favorite item this release is the new Frilly Triangle Layer Set. I love the intricate layered design that reminds me of peacock feathers. My tip for getting these as tightly together as possible is to…
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Hello Spring | by Kimberly Wiener
I don’t know about you, but I am ready for Spring! I am glad it is finally here. We are having some great sunbreaks and blooming flowers that been brightening my day. Lovely lavender, light oranges, spring greens and pops of small bright flowers are so cheerful. The sweet Hello Honey Script paired with the…
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Dimensional Butterfly Bookmark | by Jennifer Svare
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…
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Colorful Floral Stars | by Crystal Komara
Hello crafty readers! This is Crystal here with you today sharing three cards featuring the beautiful new “Floral Star” Layering Dies. These dies, like all of the Birch Press Design products, are simply gorgeous and after initially making the purple card, I wanted to show you how these dies look in other colors too! This…
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Many Turns for a Triangle! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! 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…
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Ring Tile Stencil Thanks by Jeanne Jachna
Hi friends! I hope you’re having a great day. Have you seen the new products in the store? I’m excited by all the wonderful designs…. dies, stamps and STENCILS!!! Today I’m playing with the new Ring Tile Stencil. I love the large open areas and intricate design. The most important part of working with stencils…
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Rainbow Thank you Card | by Ardyth Percy-Robb
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…
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Colorful Dimensional Butterfly Card | By Leigh Houston
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…
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You Are the Best | by Tracey McNeely
Hi there, it’s Tracey back today with an ink blended thank you card created with the new Bold Stripes stencil. I also have a process video to share how I created this bright and cheery card. I placed the stencil over a panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock and then blended a rainbow of Distress Oxide…
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Golden Thanks | by Crystal Komara
Hello readers! This is Crystal here today sharing another way to use the beautiful Butterfly Garden Layering dies. If you recall, just last week I shared these two cards created using these same exact layering dies, yet they look vastly different when they are done in a completely different color scheme! I can’t decide which…
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Floral Star Layering | By Seeka
Hello, crafty friends! Seeka here, and today I’m sharing a card that features the beautiful three-layer Floral Star Layer die set. I don’t own a lot of color cardstock so when I play with layering dies, I like to ink up the layers with watercolor, markers, or ink blending. For this card, I used just…
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Vellum Shaker Cards! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today let’s make some shaker cards using vellum and only one of the layers from the Calen Layering Die Set! As always let’s start by cutting our cardstock, shaker back panels (4 in x 5 ¼ in), shaker front panel (4 in x 5 ¼ in) and vellum panels…
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Creating Custom Backgrounds with Stencils | by Tracey McNeely
Hi there, it’s Tracey back today with a little more inspiration using the Folk Art Heart Layer dies set. When I was planning my card I was thinking spring, but as I finished up my card a big snow storm was blowing in. To create my custom background I used the Circle Burst stencil to…
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Butterflies in Blue | by Crystal Komara
Hello friends and happy Wednesday! This is Crystal here today sharing two cards created from one layered die! I’m always trying to find the best way to get more “bang” for my buck, whether it’s recycling or repurposing products or making my craft supplies stretch just a little bit further. Who else has one of…
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Petal Burst Rainbow Cards | by Ardyth Percy-Robb
Good morning! It’s Ardyth here with my first post and today I have two rainbow-blended cards using the Petal Burst stencil. I love the classic shape of the petals on this stencil, but it’s really too big to use the whole thing on an A2 card front, so I got a little inventive. I started…
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String Art Frame in Pinks and Jewel Tones | by Kimberly
Hello Birch Press fans! Today I bring you two cards using the amazing String Art Frame Die. I love the radiating lines. I have selected some wonderful sparkle colors to match the jewel tones in the glitter papers. I water brushed blended them for my background onto the watercolor paper that is now available in…
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Vivid Bloom Frames | by Jennifer Svare
Hello! Today I’m excited to introduce the new Vivid Bloom Stitched Layer Set available now at Birch Press Design! So many wonderful things can be done with nested dies, and this set has 6 sizes to offer endless possibilities! The video (linked below) shows how I created frames using the dies, and also put a…
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Love You | By Seeka
Hello there, I hope you’re having a lovely day! Seeka here and I’m so very excited to share my first post on the Birch Press Design blog! I started by die cutting the three layers of the Folk Art Heart Layer Die set out of white cardstock. Because I planned to color each heart, rather…
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String Art Frame Thanks
by Jeanne JachnaHello my crafty friends! I hope you’re having a great day. There’s more new in the store and I’m excited to share a card made with the new String Art Frame. I wish you could see this one in person! It’s a rainbow of sparkly color! I started by adding double sided adhesive to a…
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A Folk Art Valentine’s Day! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today I am going to make a Valentine’s Day Card featuring the Folk Art Heart Layering Die! Let’s start by cutting our layering dies in the cardstock colors you chose. Once they are cut I then grab the same colors and cut my squares using my paper trimmer. For…
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“Love You” | by Crystal Komara
Hello readers! This is Crystal Komara, I am one of the new Design Team members with Birch Press Designs and I am honored and delighted to be here with you! I hope I can inspire you with my creations, and I hope I’ll also meet many new faces along the way. It’s kind of an…
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Building an All Die Cut Card by Tracey McNeely
Hi there, it’s Tracey today and I will be sharing an all die cuts card and video tutorial using the Flora Heart Layers die set, the Cherish Plate die set and the Simple Love sentiment die. I created two custom ink blended panels from Bristol Smooth cardstock. The first was a 3″ square that will…
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Cherish Hearts Inlay | by Jennifer Svare
Hello! With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it might be time to make some fast, simple cards! Birch Press Design has you covered with this quick, easy Valentine. I am sending out many cards this year. It’s such a great time to tell close friends and family that I love them! With a large family, it…
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Valentine Gift Tag Trio
by Jeanne JachnaHi crafty friends! It’s Jeanne here today and I’m sharing some pretty Valentine Gift tags to delight your favorite Valentines! Tags are perfect for dressing up anything from a simple bag of home made chocolate chip cookies to something extra special for your sweetie! I assembled several Flora Hearts in different shades of card stock.…
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Gate Fold Thank You | by Kimberly Wiener
Hello Birch Press fans. Today I bring you a clean and simple gate fold card with a lovely, slightly more elaborate interior. I am so thrilled to be working with these gorgeous dies. If you are not already impressed with their lovely intricate dies, and impeccable craftmanship, I’m sure that it will not take very…
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Flora Heart Trio! | By Desiree Kuemmerle
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! For today let’s make a trio of hearts for our Valentine’s Day Card! Let’s start by cutting our cardstock making sure we have three of each die. For the Hearts I chose the traditional red, pink and white, but the card base I went with a deep teal. While I…
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Masculine Floral Valentine | by Tracey McNeely
Hi there it’s Tracey with a card and video. Today I will be using the Flora Heart Layers craft dies to share a way to use a floral die set to create a masculine design! I personally love to make or receive a pretty pink Valentine card, but I may not want to give a…
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