Birch Press Design

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Wispy Trio

Hello everyone!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

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.

May 2022 Get Cracking on Christmas

Hello everyone!

It’s the third Thursday of the month AGAIN (!) and so it’s time for me to play along with Jenn Shurkus’s ‘Get Cracking on Christmas’. Today I’m using the trend from this week’s Just Us Girls challenge – the trend is shaped cards.

I know that I have some hexagon cards from back in the day when I had a stack of shaped card bases. Annoyingly I spent most of my crafty time today searching for said cards…. without success. But I did find this tag card so figured that would have to do.

I smooshed some Salvaged Patina distress ink onto the card base and then splattered some Brushed Pewter Mica Spray on top. While that was drying, I assembled my snowflake using Birch Press Design’s Frosty Flake set. Inspired by Caly Person, I added a couple of white layers to the back to increase the depth – love this idea, it’s so effective.

I adhered the snowflake to the base and added a few dew drops and a My Favorite Things sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.