Birch Press Design

Snowflake Josefina Butterfly

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Poppystamps challenge where the theme is ‘let it snow’.  Can you believe I started working on this card at the beginning of January and only just got round to assembling it! This month has flown by!

I took a slightly different approach to my card and used the Snowflake Screen with the Josefina Butterfly dies to create a snowflake butterfly! I used an old inky panel for the snowflakes and cut the butterfly from vellum before adhering and then trimming the snowflake screen to size. The butterfly body is from Birch Press Design’s Butterfly Basics set.

I wanted to use this fabulous Memory Box embossing folder for my card base but felt that the butterfly needed a little something to ground it so added some silvery thread and a few sequins. The sentiment is by Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello with stitched burst background

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along the Color Throwdown which has a fabulous palette of is grey. navy and white.

I didn’t own any stitching dies until a few weeks ago when I spotted this beautiful background die in the Spellbinders sale. When I saw the combo, I just had to try it out – luckily I had some grey thread to hand!

I adhered the stitched panel to a white card base and chose a shadow sentiment to add a bit more white to my creation! The die is by Birch Press Design.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Dazzling Warm Wishes

Happy Sunday everyone!

I’m so happy to play along with one of my favourite colour challenges – the Color Throwdown which has a fab combo of black, white, grey and magenta.

Although I really wanted to make a card with a magenta bird after seeing the challenge graphic, instead I reached for the beautiful Birch Press Design Dazzle layer set – I love how quickly a card comes together with these layer die sets! They are so much fun to use! After adhering all the die-cut layers together, I embossed a sentiment from an older Simon Says Stamp/Darkroom Door collaboration set and adhered all the layers on top.

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LucieG.

Wispy Trio

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Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Last year I mentioned that I had coveted Birch Press Design’s Wispy Blooms Contour Layers die set from the moment I first saw it! Of course I used it a couple of times and then neglected it! But this week I was reminded of this card and even though I should be concentrating on winter cards to send out, I just HAD to play with it again.

After playing around with distress ink and water colour paints, I chose to use flowers cut from coloured paper. I paired them with a beautiful Simon Says Stamp embossing folder and added a Pretty Pink Posh sentiment to complete my card.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 6

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the Christmas Card Throwdown sketch challenge.

Time is not on my side this week so this was another quick make. I chose the gorgeous Twinkle ornament die by Birch Press Designs as my focal point and added strips of embossed card and Basic Grey paper.

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LucieG.

June 2022 Get Cracking on Christmas

Hello everyone!

Maybe it’s because of the long Platinum Jubilee weekend at the start of the month, but I find it very hard to believe it’s actually the third Thursday of the month! It’s kind of ironic that it’s one of our hottest June days ever, but here I am creating a festive card for Jenn Shurkus’s ‘Get Cracking on Christmas’. Today I’m also playing along with this month’s CAS Christmas card challenge where the theme is ‘wreath’.

I pulled out an oldie but goodie Memory Box die called Frostyville Wreath and used it to cut a reject distress ink background! I added the Dancing Snowmen (also Memory Box/Open Studio) and a sentiment by My Favorite Things.

Of course, after I had assembled it, I remembered that I was going to use an embossed background.. by then it was too late (and far too hot in my craft room) to try to fix it!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.