On the Birch Press Design Blog Today!

 Hello!  I'm up on the BPD blog today sharing a Christmas card made with several knew products.  Here is a little peek:

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Just Us Girls Guest Designer - Week 4 - Anything Goes with Stencils

 Hello!  I'm back to share my final project as a guest designer for JUGs this month.   Once, again, I had a lot of fun guesting with the JUGs team!  They are amazing.  Thanks so much for having me.  This week is stencil week and that means anything goes with stencils.  I had so many ideas for stenciling but had to settle on one.  For my card I used Waffle Flower Crafts Postage Collage Butterfly stencils and the Postage Collage die.  Let's see what I created.

My card for word week with JUGs featured stenciling and so I had alot of inks out on my desk as I decided what colors I would use.  When I made this card, I had spring on my mind and was thinking about the beautiful daffodils that bloom around here.  When I finished this card, I realized that it was actually giving off a fall vibe!    I used Altenew inks for the butterflies and then when I was finished with the ink stenciling I added some Ranger texture paste in transparent matte to the butterflies using the final stencil that adds the bodies and wing details.  I removed the stencil and then poured on Rock Candy glitter.  I do want to note that I did die cut the panel first with the Postage Collage die.  This made lining up the stencils so easy!   I finished with the sentiment that is also from Waffle Flower. 

That's it for me.  I hope you will pull out your stencils and join the fun at JUGs this week.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

monochromatic cards...

Hello and happy new year!  Popping in with a couple of cards.  One card is for Freshly Made Sketches and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of something new.  The second card is for Color Throwdown and Just Us Girls (new challenge to use dies).  Let's have a look.

 The Simon Says Stamp IG challenge is to make a white on white project so I decided to use the FMS layout and a new SSS die called Forest Ring for my card.  I die cut the Forest Ring four times and layered them together.  Then I applied glossy accents and lots of Rock Candy glitter.   The snowflakes are from an older SSS die set called Merry & Bright.  I also covered those with gloss accents and Rock Candy Glitter.  I used my current favorite PFS post edge rectangle die to die cut the vellum and glued it to a white cardstock base.  Then I added the forest ring die cut, the snowflakes and the sentiment from an older SSS stamp set.   It is gloomy here in Western Washington so this one did photograph very well, but it is pretty in real life.

For the second card I finally used all the Herbarium layering dies from Birch Press Design along with the FMS colors and created a thinking of you card.  I threw in some black glitter cardstock for a little bit of sparkle.  The sentiment is from a new Birch Press Design stamp set called Vintage Everyday Greetings.  I can see myself using this new stamp set alot this year!  

Well, that's it for me!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here in the US celebrating!  I'm popping in with my second Birch Press Design post for the month.  Can't believe that we are less than a month away from Christmas.  Thanksgiving coming so late this year really speeds things up doesn't it?   Since Christmas is so close I thought I would share a Christmas card today.  Let's have a look.

I started my card by picking out two shades of red to use with the new Rosebud Arch Contour Layers die set.  Even though this die is a more spring-like die I thought it would be lovely used for a Christmas card.  I did also use two shades of green for the stems.  I die cut everything and adhered all the pieces together.  I did add a bit of sparkle to the buds with some Rock Candy glitter.  I love that stuff!   The Merry Christmas was die cut from the darker of the two reds three times, layered together and then adhered to the shadow layer that was die cut from white cardstock.   

I wanted something a little more for the background so I decided to pull out my Herbarium Layering die set.  At first I was going to use layer A to emboss the background, but then decided that I would do a little hot foiling with it.  I used silver matte foil and I love the pretty background it provides to the card.  Fun fact:  I have NEVER actually used all of the Herbarium layers together on a card!  I have only used the top layer for embossing and now hot foiling!  Need to use all the layers together soon.

With all the pieces completed it was time to put everything together.  The Rosebud Arch creates the perfect spot for a sentiment, even one as large as the Merry Christmas.   Well, that is it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!  Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.