Country Birdhouse Bundle - Sweet Card

When browsing through the 2024 -25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, I was delighted to see a birdhouse stamp. I've always loved birdhouses and have started a collection of them at our holiday house. 

Today I'm sharing the first card I made using the Country Birdhouse Bundle that is part of the Country Woods Suite in the new 2024 Annual Catalogue.

I've combined some stamped images with some die cuts from the coordinating Designer Series Papers - Country Woods

 The background of the card is from the Thoughtful Journey 6 x 6 inch Designer Series Paper Pack. This is such a beautiful pack with lots of gorgeous scenery designs on one side and beautiful colours on the reverse. Here is just a sample of the beautiful colours and backgrounds available in the pack.

                                                             

                    

I stamped the bird and flower images in Memento Black and coloured them with Stampin' blends. I do love using the Blends as they give such beautiful colour that coordinates with everything else Stampin' Up!. I also love that the colours really do blend together, giving you a lot of freedom for creativity. 

HINT:

Colour with the Light Blend first then add a little of the dark where needed and then go back over the edge where they join again using the Light Blend. Work quickly for best results.

I also use the Colour Lifter Blend to smooth out areas that abut white card.

The birds and flowers are die cut with the Country Birdhouse dies.

The Bird house is die cut from the Country Woods Designer Series Papers. Fabulous papers for anything country themed but also great as a base for masculine cards.

The chain on which the birdhouse is hanging is one of the stamps included in the Country Birdhouse Bundle

You will find coordinating embellishments in the Suite, and there are many other Stampin' Up! Embellishments that also coordinate so check out the variety on pages 114 - 115 of the 2024 Annual Catalogue.

I plan on creating so much more with this Country Birdhouse Bundle and I can't wait to share it with you. 

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Happy Crafting

Ann Craig

Stampin Up Convention 2015 Swaps

I'm currently enjoying meeting up with Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over Australia and am enjoying one of the fun activities - that of swapping ideas with each other.

This year I needed to cut back on my swaps a little as I need to make some for the Grand Vacation in Hawaii - just one week later, so as I've been having so much fun with these flowers (see the Hawaii Grand Vacation Blog Hop Post) I thought I'd whip up a couple of ideas using them. 

 You have seen the Birthday card in a previous post - I love the use of IN COLORS on this card and think that the Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Mossy Meadow inks go so well together. And those lovely flowers are just so easy to make because Stampin' Up! have punches to match the stamped images. You can see a list of products used at the end of the post

I also wanted to try a more "natural" card using the same stamp sets, and this is the result.

What do you think?

The colours in this card are Cajun Craze, Night of Navy and Crushed Curry - all members of the Stampin' Up! "Regals" colour family. It makes creating so easy when you know your colours will work together and choosing colours from the one "family" ensure that will happen.

So while I'm having fun and learning lots up here on the Gold Coast in Queensland (and getting a sneak peek at the new Annual Catalogue) I hope you have enjoyed some inspiration from my cards.
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Collage Stamping Made Easy With Stampin' Up!

Collage Stamping is so much fun and Stampin' Up! have made it an easy task with some of the new release stamps in the new Annual Catalogue. You should check out pages 164 - 165 as these pages contain the 3 stamp sets that combine beautifully together to create exciting cards.

Collage, strictly speaking in Art terms, is:

"A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs & pieces of paper onto a  backing."

But it can also mean: "a collection or combination of various things", so I think by combining a number of different stamp sets that we are making a collage. Also the concept of stamping over the top of other images relates to the collage concept.

Kinda Eclectic, Work of Art and Gorgeous Grunge are just perfect for this style, and recently I made some cards using different colours and different layouts to demonstrate just how versatile these sets can be.

I used the Beautiful Bunch Stamp set (page 158 AC) as the focal point for my cards, and employed the method of stamping off to obtain the variety of tones in the colours.

Are you loving the purple of the flower? it is one of Stampin' Up's new In Colors for 2014 -2016 and is named Blackberry Bliss. I think this will be a favourite of many people.

And here is another card using the same sets but different colours.

Quite a different look! These colours are Baked Brown Sugar: Lost Lagoon: Strawberry Slush, stamped onto Very Vanilla Card. 

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Stay Crafty!

Stampin' Up! a Pile of Cards for Ronald MacDonald House

As a company Stampin' Up! invites  it's demonstrators to participate in the Community to "Make a Difference". One way we can do this is to be involved with our local Ronald MacDonald House. I hosted a lovely day this past weekend where friends gathered to create cards, enjoy each others company and raise much needed funds for RMHC.

I delivered the cards and cash today and had a lovely tour of the facility whilst meeting with the very friendly and delightful staff. The staff loved the 34 cards and the cash will contribute to purchasing a new vacuum cleaner - not just any vacuum - it is a Dyson!
I am going to enjoy this association!

Here are some samples of the cards we donated. They had to be fairly simple as each session was just 2 hours  and we had to complete 6 cards plus enjoy a Devonshire tea.

The first 2 cards  are in the Gate-fold style. Lots of fun to make and quite quick to assemble. Designer Series Papers create pretty panels and the Big Shot Window Frames Collection Framelits is wonderful for creating frames and shapes for the main focus of the card.

It's easy to change the look of the card, simply by changing the paper patterns and the embossed patterns.

This is a gorgeous card idea I cased from Brandy Cox
I stamped these in Basic Black and Elegant Eggplant, then topped them with a little bling. These cards, using the Delicate Doilies Stamp set from Stampin' Up! could be stamped in any colour you choose - just change the greeting and you have a card for a different occasion.

And the final design uses the lovely Serene Silhouettes stamp set by Stampin' Up! and some Designer Series papers. The Ovals framelits again make framing the focal shape a snap and a little Crochet Trim hides the join between the 2 papers. 

Thanks to all the girls who joined me on the weekend - it was fun and your participation is much appreciated.

If you would like to be involved in the next Stamping Get Together to benefit Ronald MacDonald House in Canberra, you can contact me via my website and you can order any Stampin' Up!® products via my on-line store. Check it out now to see all the new items from our newly released Annual Catalogue.

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Happy Stamping

Stampin' Up!® Papers Make Pretty Card Backgrounds

I love to use my Stampin' Up!® Designer Series Papers on cards - particularly when I'm in a hurry to achieve a fabulous result without too much effort.

Today's card is one of the 2 cards made in my June Stamp A Stack class.

The only stamping on this card is the greeting - "Happy Birthday" from the gorgeous and soon to retire "Curly Cute" (#121500) stamp set. The clear mount stamp set is sold out but you can still order the wood mount set up to June 30, 2013.

The butterfly is from the "Papillon Potpourri" (#123757) stamp set. It coordinates beautifully with "Elegant Butterfly" punch (#127526 ) making it so easy to create these lovely embellishments.

The detail photos shows the use of a Blender Pen to add a touch of colour to match which ever papers you are using. 

For this card I used papers from "Tea For Two" DSP (item # 129311) - it can be found in the Occasions catalogue, but like the Curly Cute stamps set, it will only be available until June 30. I simply punched the circles out of the paper and mounted them on some scrap card, then sponged the edges with Soft Suede ink.

Actually I love this paper so much I think I am going to order some more via my on-line store before it retires.

that's it for today - a quick card and a quick post.

Until next time,

Stay Crafty!