Birch Press Design Block Print: Crane

 Hello everyone!  Can you believe that January is almost over?!  What an amazing month this has been!  Today I'm popping in to share my second Birch Press Design card for the month of January.  For this card I used the new Block Print: Crane die set.  Let's have a look.

I knew I wanted to create a scene where the crane was standing on a shoreline with some reeds.  When I saw the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch I thought it would be a great way to get my card going.  For the banded element in the sketch I tore strips of patterned paper from two different Memory Box 6x6 paper pads (Anemone Plaid and Poinsettia Plaid).  I adhered the strips with glue to a white panel of cardstock.  I left an area with no glue so that I could slip some of my "reeds" and the crane's legs behind the first bluish strip.  I then die cut the panel with a rectangle die.

The "reeds" were die cut from some of the scrap patterned paper that was left after I tore the green and brown strips using the Budding Twigs Contour Layers dies.  There are two dies in the Budding Twigs die set.  Each die cuts three pieces that are supposed to be layered together to create the budding twig.  I only used one layer from each die.  I placed the die on the patterned paper so that I would mostly just cut the piece I needed.  I cut a bunch, but didn't use all of them.  Because the card already had a more masculine feel I die cut the crane from light gray, white and brown cardstock.  I layered all of the pieces and then inserted the crane in behind the first blue strip.

Then I began adding my "reeds".  I inserted most of them into the little pocket I created, but added a few in front to give the reed cluster a fuller look.   I finished off the card with a sentiment from the Sugar Script Sentiments 1 hot foil set that I foiled in matte gold.   

Well, that's it for me.  I'm also going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Birthday and Christmas!

 Hello!  Stopping in to share two cards that I made for a few challenges.  First up is a card for Freshly Made Sketches.  Let's have a look.

I made a recent purchase from Scrapbook.com and along with my order I received this super pretty mini kit from Paper Rose called Winter Blooms.  I just had to make a card with it and thought the FMS sketch was the perfect vehicle.   As you can see I made a Christmas card.  Another one for the stash!  The kit contains two sheets of die cut pieces that you punch out.  You can't see it in my photo, but the large floral piece I used has a beautiful shine to it.  The sentiment was trimmed out from one of the sheets of paper included in the kit.  I used another sheet for the background.  I didn't want to cover up all that lovely pattern so I used vellum.  Love how it turned out!

One of my great nieces is turning three at the beginning of February so this card will be going to her.  I used the colors from Color Throwdown for the three macarons featured on the card.  I did a little stenciling in the background using two different stencils so this card will also be going to the Just Us Girls challenge.  I placed a rectangle stencil on a piece of white cardstock.  Over the top of that I placed a stencil featuring tiny hearts.  I believe both stencils are from MFT.  I used light gray ink to stencil the hearts leaving me with a perfect rectangle of tiny hearts!  I die cut the panel with a rectangle die.  The macarons and candles were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then I colored the macarons with Copic markers using only one color for each macaron and candle.  I die cut everything and then added glossy accents to the centers of the macarons and dunked them in Rock Candy glitter.  A little glossy accents was added to the candles, as well.  I layered the everything on the panel and finished with the tiny sentiment.  All stamps are from Simon Says Stamp.

That's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Birdsong...

 Hello!  Popping in to share a card that I made for a few challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches and Seize the Birthday.   I recently purchased some products from another 49 and Market collection called Birdsong and I used those for my card.  Let's have a look.

I went through one of the packs of laser cuts from the Birdsong collection and pulled out pieces that I thought would work well with the FMS sketch.  I pulled a neutral piece of patterned paper from the 6x8 Birdsong paper pack for the background.  I stamped the sentiment on the tag and then layered up all the elements on a kraft card base.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy!  

That's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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!