Sandy’s Craft Bag

Birch Press has some really great layering dies and I loved the Dazzle Bevel Layer Set when I saw it.  There are two sizes you can use separately or together.  I used them together here.  I’m always looking for designs I can use for unisex or male cards.  I love flowers but you just need other designs as well.  You could use different colors for the 3 layers but I just used white for all of them this time.  I made 2 cards, one with a navy card base and one in lavender.  I used A6 bases because I already had them ready and I wanted a color border all the way around.  The dies are A2 size.  If you put them on an A2 base they go right to the edges.  I was going to use black sentiments for both, and cut enough for both cards, but it just didn’t show up on the navy so I cut white instead. I decided I wanted silver on both, so even though I had them finished with 3 layers on each sentiment I went back and added it on.   To add a little sparkle I glued irredescent gems on the lavender and si

I just saw a Jennifer McGuire video  about heat embossing that showed a technique I wanted to try.  I’ve done emboss resist with inks before but not using the Lindy’s Magicals, of which I have 2 different sets (and I want to get more because I love them).   I cut a 9x12” sheet of Canson XL watercolor paper into 4 pieces. On 2 of them I used the Taylored Expressions Triangle Tetris background stamp with Versamark ink and heat embossed using Stampendous detail clear powder.   The two Lindy’s Magicals sets I have are Nantucket Pearls and Industrial Chic .  After taping down the paper, one for each set, I spritzed them with water, sprinkled on the powders, and spritzed again.  The one above used the Nantucket Pearl powders and the one below used the Industrial Chic powders. The sentiment strips were cut from black glossy cardstock.  The dies were from Aliexpress.  I thought the kind of graphic industrial look went really well with the design. I kept these fairly simple.  I cut the panels

Birch Press has such beautiful layering dies.  For my Valentine’s cards I chose their  Flora Heart Layer Set and to use Altenew’s Pink Brilliance Glitter Gradient cardstock .  The cardstock is only 3” x 6” but that allowed me to cut 2 from each piece.  This glitter cardstock was great, it cut like a dream.  I used the Pink Diamond, Tourmaline, and Rhodolite.  I also cut a thin strip of the Pink Diamond to put on the side. The Love You sentiment die was from CZ Design .  I cut the shadow from vellum and the words from the Rhodolite glitter cardstock.   The background was embossed using the Sizzix Organic Petals 3-D embossing folder .  I cut it a bit smaller than the card blank and the cut a 1/4” strip off the side to add the glitter strip. The card blanks and envelopes I used were from Sizzix Surfacez in Ballet Pink.   I love the way this card turned out, don’t you?  I’m going to enter it in the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge and the Altenew 2023 February Inspiration Challenge .   Th