New Year... New Birch Press Design!

 Hello, hello!  Popping in to share a card I made with new products from Birch Press Design!  The BPD blog is still down so I will continue to post my projects here on my blog until further notice.  Let's have a look at what I made.

Birch Press Design recently released a new line of dies called Block Print featuring beautiful birds.  No one does birds better than Memory Box and since BPD is a part of Memory Box this bird dies are absolutely amazing!!  I chose to create something using the Hummingbird die set.  How sweet is that hummingbird?

I die cut all the pieces from white cardstock and then used small ink blending brushes from Waffle Flower to apply the inks (pinks, greens, yellow, and dark gray)  For the belly of the bird I applied the yellow ink and then brushed on some of the pink to create the more orange portion of the belly.  Once the ink blending was done and I had assembled the hummingbird, I brushed on some glossy accents and then added some Rock Candy glitter for a little sparkle.  I applied a light blending of blue ink to white cardstock and then die cut it with a Memory Box arched die.  That was layered on a rectangle of cream woodgrain cardstock from Memory Box.

To finish the card I used the brand new Foliage Bunch and the Floral Cross die set that was released last year to create my little flowering stem.  The sentiment is from the new Vintage Everyday Greetings stamp set.   The stem was adhered and then I stamped the sentiment.  The hummingbird was adhered with glue and a thin foam square.  

That is it for me.  Hope you will head over to the Birch Press Design website to check out all the new products.  Adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of clean and simple.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

one more for ctd...

Couldn't resist making another card for Color Throwdown so I combined it with the current Freshly Made Sketches layout and the Simon Says Stamp Exotic Blooms die set.  Let's have a look at what I made.

 Pretty simple.  Die cut the flowers from black and light gray cardstock and the flower centers from vellum.  I then layered them as you see.  Die cut the circle using a Pinkfresh Studio circle die and layered them one.  I found some black and white patterned paper in a paper pack from Altenew that I trimmed down for one of the elements on the sketch.  I used vellum and a strip of the light gray for the other element in the sketch.  I layered everything on a white cardstock panel making sure to allow the patterned paper to peek through the vellum  I then layered on the circle with thin foam squares.  The one larger bloom was tucked in at the bottom and then I added the stamped and die cut sentiment.

That's it for me.  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!

good tidings and cheer...

 Hello!  Popping in with a Christmas card!  Yep, a Christmas card, lol!  Might as well get a head start on cards for next year, right?  This is for the December Pinkfresh Studio challenge, as well as the Sunday Stamp challenge which is a sketch.  Also adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  Let's have a look.

I had wanted the Pinkfresh Studio Floral Bauble bundle of products for along time.  PFS had them on clearance and then after Thanksgiving there was an additional amount of savings so I jumped on it and got everything.  I used Pinkfresh Studio inks in Coral Reef, Passion Fruit, Berrylicious, Emerald City and Evergreen for my color palette.  I love how the stenciling turned out!  Die cut everything with the matching die and then decided how I was going to use the Sunday Stamps layout.  I decided to die cut a Simon Says Stamp snowflake from silver cardstock for the side elements.  I adhered the snowflakes with glue and then popped up the floral bauble with foam squares on white cardstock die cut with the largest PFS postage edge die.  The sentiment is from the Floral Bauble set.  I stamped it in black, die cut it and adhered with glue.   I love the sparkle from the snowflakes. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a very happy new year!

Christmas Makes...

 Merry Christmas to everyone!  I hope everyone had a wonderful day spent with family and/or friends!  As my blog post indicates, I have some Christmas makes to share so lets get started!

First up is a Christmas decor piece that I created using lots and lots of fun Tim Holtz Idea-ology Christmas products.  I was 100% inspired by the amazing Emma Williams.   If you have never seen her blog, check it out now.  She creates incredible works of mixed media art!   I had a lot of fun making this even though the mica flakes I used are alittle messy, lol!

This next piece is something I have wanted to make ever since I got Chilly and Freezy two years ago as a freebie from Simon Says Stamp.   I finally got the time last week after my son had his wisdom teeth out last week.  Again, I had a lot of fun creating this little scene with the snowmen watching Santa fly across the sky with his reindeer!  I cheated a little and used some patterned paper from Simple Stories that already had the snowy scene on it.  I just darkened up the top with some distress oxide ink in Uncharted Mariner and Black Soot.  Adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge and Wednesday challenge. 

The Simon Says Stamp December card kit included a decoupage kit from Craft Consortium.  I put these cards together using that kit and Prima patterned paper that also came in the kit.   I gave the cards to my great nephew and great nieces with some "Christmas Cash".    I jazzed them up a bit by adding glossy accents and Rock Candy glitter to some of the snowy areas on the images.  I still have 5 more left and have plans to create some Christmas decor pieces with them. 

These cards were made with patterned paper, laser cuts and ephemera bits from the 49 and Market Evergreen Season collection.  I made these for my mom to give to the big grandkids.  I went with a postal theme and used the Pinkfresh Studio Post Edge dies to die cut the papers.   The sentiments are Memory Box Christmas labels.  So glad I had these products on hand to put together some cards quickly!

And finally a card made with a very old, but one of my most favorite stamp sets from Simon Says Stamp.  I gold embossed the sentiment and the floral sways on Spellbinders Mahagony cardstock.  I fussy cut the swags and die cut the sentiment with a Pinkfresh Studio elegant die.  The gold cardstock was also die cut with PFS die.  Everything was layered on a Mahagony cardstock base and then I finished with tiny gold pearls.

Thanks for making it to end!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Winter Wonderland Tag

 Hi friends!  Popping in to share a project that I made for one of my monthly Birch Press Design posts.  I have had this idea rolling around in my head for several months now and it pretty much turned out exactly has I had envisioned it would.  Let's have a look.

I started out by painting a #8 Tim Holtz thickboard tag with white paint.  Once it was dry I sanded off some of the paint (even though you don't really see it), applied some multi matte medium to the tag and adhered the patterned paper that came from the Memory Box Poinsettia Plaid 6x6 pad.  I roughed up the edges of the paper a bit and curled some of the corners, as well.  Then I added some Memory Box snowflake rubons to the tag.  

I die cut the Holly and Berries Contour Layers die from vellum and then added the "berries" using Nuvo drops in a matte gold.  As my blog title indicates, I was really going for a winter wonderland look so kept everything muted.  I had previously die cut the large circle from Memory Box cream woodgrain cardstock and had tucked into the envelop with the dies so I had that already to go.  I then die cut it further using the Wavy Hillside dies and adhered the layers to another die cut circle.  I used different heights of foam squares for the bottom and middle layers.  The top layer was adhered with glue.   I die cut the Littletown Village pieces from white cardstock and the patterned paper used for the tag base.  The houses were adhered together, glossy accents added to the roofs and then I dipped them in Rock Candy glitter.  

Before adding all the elements I applied some Icicle crackle paste to the tag and let it dry.  When the houses were dry I added them to the hillsides along with the trees.  The circle was adhered to the tag and then I added the vellum holly piece.  I trimmed the stem a little and removed one of the leaves that I tucked in behind at the top of the stem.  I finished off the tag by adding the little twine bow, the Memory Box white Christmas labels and some Snowfall grit paste.

I'm going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge to use die cuts.  Well, that's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wondeful day!