Star Flowers Birthday and a Bonus!

Hi friends - Happy Halloween!! It's the last day for our October Die Cut Diva Challenge and I'm part of the end-of-month team post. Our sponsor Birch Press Design has such wonderful layered die sets and we had such fun with them! Thanks to BPD for providing a $20 gift card to their store for our random winner!

Here's my card for today:

Supplies: Paper - Park Lane A2 card;

My Mind's Eye On the Bright Side;

Hero Arts Arctic; scraps of yellow and green

Stamps - My Favorite Things Itty Bitty Basics

Dies - Birch Press Design Star Flowers Contour Layers,

Delicate Floral Buds Contour Layers, &

Birthday Wishes Sugar Script;

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set

Other - sparkle gold gel pen; foam tape

This summer my favorite local craft store had a sale on BPD, Poppystamps & Memory Box so I bought some of each! This is my first time playing with the Star Flowers and the stems from the Delicate Floral Buds set - so cheery! Thought I'd use them  on a bday card for my cousin Debi. Just die cut and assemble - easy peesy! Since I was just using the birthday word from the set, I stamped a bitty HAPPY on a scrap and adhered it to the b. I added some gold glitter gel to the flower centers - done!

Now for a bonus using a single star flower and a stem. Keeping it clean and simple, I adhered the flower, a "ground" diecut using MFT and another BPD layered sentiment Handwritten Just a Note and Outline.

If you'd like to see another design using the Star Flowers, check out this beauty by teamie Dawn (Dawn's World). I loved her clusters of the flowers in opposite corners! Since my Star Flowers are getting first play, I'll add card one to Darnell's October NBUS Challenge.

That's it for today - hope to see you in the October Diva gallery by 9p PST today! Have fun trick-or-treating!!

Herbarium Layered Christmas

Hi friends - it's my day to post at Die Cut Divas! We're doing layered dies (be it a set or just your own layers) for our October Die Cut Diva Challenge. Birch Press Design has such wonderful layered die sets and the team is enjoying working with them this month. Thanks to BPD for providing a $20 gift card to their store for our random winner!

Supplies: Paper - Park Lane A2 card;

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; Hero Arts Pitch Black;

Tim Holtz Kraft Metallic

Michael's Recollections green glitter & red

Dies - Birch Press Design Herbarium Plate Layer Set &

Merry Christmas Sugar Script and Outline

Other - Recollections gems

I bought the Herbarium Plate Layer Set recently and was excited to use it today. I started with a minty green A2 card then die cut the 3 Herbarium layers in glitter green, white, and red. Assembled, then added some red gems for berries & a BPD Christmas sentiment. I layered the Merry Christmas (love BPD's Sugar Script sentiments!!) with a black shadow and stacked the outline for dimension as well as adding a gold shadow - layering at its most simple.

For my bonus this time, I'm sharing a card I made this summer for my adopt-a-member AJ. If you missed it, alumni from my drum corps days adopted current members (read more HERE). I haven't finished sharing the rest of the cards I made but I'll do that one of these days. One of them used a BPD layered set so I saved it to share on this post:

Supplies: Paper - various - can't remember brands

Dies - Birch Press Design Kinsley Heart Plate Layer Set

Other - Spellbinders ephemera from their June kit; Kaisercraft gems

I couldn't resist the Kinsley Heart set - so gorgeous! I searched my cardstock on hand & found some to coordinate with the Spellbinder's June ephemera. Die cut the 3 layers and adhered them. Added some gems and the ephemera - done! Maybe the birdie gets a bit lost but I didn't want to cover up any layered hearts - love, love, love them!!

Both cverplate die sets got first play here but I'll just add card one to Darnell's October NBUS Challenge since I made it in October.

That's it for today - hope to see you in the October Diva gallery by 9p PST on Halloween 2023!