Before I get to todays card, I want to remind you of the end of the Annual Catalog Sale. The sale ends tonight at 1159pm Mountain Time. I stocked up on cardstock and replaced a few of my Stampin’ Blends.
The card I am sharing today is an oopsy on me! I used the Rustic Crate Bundle to showcase one of the bundles that are on sale through today. Except…..This bundle had carried over from last Fall and both parts are still available, just not a bundle. So like I said, oops on me. Even demonstrators, or at least this demonstrator, doesn’t know everything.
STAMPS and DIES
The Rustic Crate stamp set, with the matching Rustic Crate Die set is a great one for almost any time of year. I have used the crate with a Fall harvest. There are also poinsettias, greenery, the gloves, and a few other items. Plus a couple of really sweet sentiments.
The harvest items are stamped using Basic Gray Ink and then colored with a variety of Stampin’ Blends. The gloves are a die cut from Smoky Slate cardstock. I then added some dirt by gently brushing them with one of my Blending Brushes that I used recently with Pumpkin Pie or Peach Pie ink. There was just enough left on the brush to add a bit of color to the gloves.
The sentiment I chose is , I believe, one of encouragement. And on the inside I have used a sentiment that is extra sweet. I also fussy cut the right side pumpkin from the Harvest stamp and added it to the inside. Here is that view.
PAPERS
There are two different sheets used from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper. The background is one that I was not really sure of. But after seeing it paired with Petal Pink and Smoky Slate, I really like it. The second DSP sheet is the crate. It is one of the darker wood sheets.
EXTRAS
The focal layer and sentiment layer are both cut using the Deckled Rectangles Die set. The sentiment is the smallest of the set. And the focal layer is the 4th up from that. The torn edge look pairs perfectly with the rustic images and wood look paper.
The bling on this card is from the Fall Mini Catalog. These are the Regal Foiled Self Adhesive Dots. There are four different colors in this package. Each of the dots have gold foil flecks inside of them. I chose to use the green since there is not anything else to go along with the green of the corn and leaves.
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Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and will come back. I do read and reply to all of the comments individually. They mean a lot to me. Please reach out if you have a question.
Smile and Keep On Stamping,
Jackie
New Scrapbooking Catalog
The newest addition to Stampin’ Up! is an Online catalog of Scrapbooking products. You can see the catalog by clicking the photo below and save it to your computer.
Online Exclusives
New Online Exclusives have dropped. There are Halloween, Fall, Christmas, and many that are great year round. Of course the new Designer Series Papers and Embellishments are fabulous as well!
You can go directly to these in my Online Store by clicking HERE
I have used the Humble Home Bundle several times and love it more each time. It is great for simple and for layers. Today’s card is more layers, but is still extremely simple to do.
STAMPS and PUNCH BUNDLE
This house is different than the previous ones I have created using the Humble Home Bundle. I now really like the look of the brick for the house. Adding the roof was very easy since these are photopolymer stamps. I will say holding onto the windows and door can be tricky! They are really small! My trusty Take Your Pick tool with the putty end was a lifesaver! And since I am still on the Christmas card kick, I had to use the wreath from the set to highlight the eaves of the house. The house is punched using the bundle punch. And then raised using Stampin’ Dimensionals to give it depth.
PAPERS
The Country Woods Designer Series Paper from the Annual Catalog may be a surprise on a Christmas card. But for this more rustic one, it works perfectly. Plus it has the colors I wanted. I based all of the colors, except the wreath, from the wood look DSP piece.
The card base is Crumb Cake, which is always a good rustic starting point. Then I pulled the darker brown from the paper that I used on the roof line of the house. The house itself is Pecan Pie, and is in the paper if you really look. Then I went back to Crumb Cake for the “window” layer. I did not like the look of placing the house directly against the wood paper. So I pulled out a piece of Pool Party and add it behind the “window”. That seems a much better look to me. The pool party is also the sentiment layer just to tie things together.
EXTRAS
The most important part of this card is the “window”. I used the Stylish Shapes Dies for this. The stitching left around the window is an added bonus. Plus the square that gets cut out has the same stitching for a future project. I believe the square Die used is the next to largest one.
To give a bit of emphasis to the window, I added a Bakers Twine bow. This is the darkest of browns included in the Essentials Bakers Twine multi pack. To give it a little more oomph, I made it a double bow. It is not big, but adds to the card in my book.
For the bling, I wanted rustic again. I ended up with a retired product. Sorry!! I added one of the Speckled Dots in the Pecan Pie down on the sentiment. Speaking of retired….I did not realize that the Horse & Sleigh had retired from Online Exclusives. My apologies. The sentiment used is from that set.
BONUS
There is a bonus for you today. I used this card in a class over the weekend and made a pdf for it. Hopefully it is clear enough to be helpful to you. If you would like to view / print it. Click Here
HOST CODE
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Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and will come back. I do read and reply to all of the comments individually. They mean a lot to me. Please reach out if you have a question.
Smile and Keep On Stamping,
Jackie
New Scrapbooking Catalog
The newest addition to Stampin’ Up! is an Online catalog of Scrapbooking products. You can see the catalog by clicking the photo below and save it to your computer.
Online Exclusives
New Online Exclusives have dropped. There are Halloween, Fall, Christmas, and many that are great year round. Of course the new Designer Series Papers and Embellishments are fabulous as well!
You can go directly to these in my Online Store by clicking HERE
Today’s card is a sweet Friendship or Valentine card. The Country Bouquet Bundle is an awesome one. I love the colors of the Designer Series paper. It is a happy paper for sure.
Paper
This beautiful DSP is the Country Floral Designer Series Paper. The colors and designs are somewhat Country, as the name suggests. But they are wonderful together and have a different sort of mix. I love the unexpected bicycle print on the larger piece I used. The vertical strip of Balmy Blue DSP is from the same pack of papers. And of course, all of my other color choices came from the bicycle print.
Stamps
I do have to say that the Country Bouquet Punch is out of stock until April. However, you can still purchase the stamp set. The sentiment and stamps are wonderful and since it is a punch containing the two hearts, you could quite easily cut them out. I stamped and then cut these two hearts. The left and right ones are from the set. As is the sentiment.
Punches
As I said, the Country Bouquet Punch is not in stock, but there are other heart punches. For the center heart with the sentiment, I used the Heart Punch Pack. This is the smaller of the two hearts. I believe it fits perfectly here between the two curvy hearts.
Finishes
To complete the card, I chose the Sweet Sorbet as the background for the bicycle print. That is the color I used to stamp the two hearts also. And since there are hearts in the strip of Balmy Blue DSP, I added one more. The Heart Pearls are a wonderful embellishment to have on hand. They fit in here perfectly.
Thank you for stopping by today !!!
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Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and will come back. I do read and reply to all of the comments individually. They mean a lot to me. Please reach out if you have a question.
Welcome to InKing Royalty’s January 2023 Blog Hop! If your craft projects aren’t already filled with hearts, then you might be behind the eight ball. No worries – we are here to help. We are excited to share our heart-filled creations with you and hope you love them! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.
The Hearts theme was an easy one to follow with the fabulous new Country Floral Lane Suite of products in the new Mini Catalog. I loved this Suite as soon as I saw it and hope you will as well.
Stamps and Punches
My card is sort of a Heart Bouquet. And is not at all what I had planned originally! The Country Bouquet Bundle is a Punch Bundle. That was where I was originally headed. Then I saw the floral heart that I have used and changed directions just a bit. I did use the leaves from the punch. They are slightly hidden by the bow.
However, the floral heart intrigued me and I had to give it a try. It is a two step heart with the flowers and greenery separate. The flowers are stamped using Sweet Sorbet Ink and the greenery is Pear Pizzaz. Sadly with this being a punch bundle, I had to cut out the heart myself. Since a heart is mostly straight lines that was not a huge undertaking. I did use the leaves from the stamp set in Pear Pizzaz as well and punched them using the Country Bouquet Punch. Then decided it needed more greenery to look like a bouquet. So out came the Boughs Punch for the background greens. This punch has been getting a lot of use from me of late.
Papers
To continue with the Sweet Sorbet and Pear Pizzaz, I went with a striped piece of DSP. It is from the Country Floral Designer Series Paper that is also included in the Suite of products. I layered the striped DSP onto a piece of Basic White and then to the base card of Pear Pizzaz.
Finishes
There are several final add on touches to complete this card. First is the sentiment. It is from the Country Bouquet stamp set as well. So this is a one set card basically. I love that!! But it is die cut with a die from the Beautiful Trees Dies. It is nothing flashy, and just has a bit of an embossed border around the edges.
The most notable of the finishes is the beautiful bow. The Sweet Sorbet Metallic Ribbon is so pretty and extremely easy to work with. Due to that I went a bit out of the norm and created a three strand bow. I love how it really pops up. And the final touch is the Festive Pearls scattered around. There are some on flower centers of the heart, and one on the sentiment.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Sheryl Abernathy at Elegant Sentiments. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:
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Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and will come back. I do read and reply to all of the comments individually. They mean a lot to me. Please reach out if you have a question.
I have paired some more neutral type stamp sets to make today’s card. It could be a masculine card with the colors I chose, or it could be just more a “nature” type card. Either way, I hope you like it.
Colors
Are you shocked that I do not have DSP in the card? I sort of was. It is the second in a row without DSP. That is probably a record. So instead of getting colors from the designer paper, I got them from the image.
The pod was what I used to decide the colors. Sadly I cannot name what type of pod this is. But I know it is supposed to be brown. Because of my favorite width for my layers, you cannot really see the Mossy Meadow sticking out from behind the Very Vanilla.
I carried the colors from the cardstock to the Ink colors I used. The leaves are Mossy Meadow, the Pod Soft Suede and then a softer color for the written backgroundj. It is Sahara Sand that is stamped off before putting to the paper.
Stamps
The stamp sets are both of similar, nature theme. They are the Enjoy The Moment for the pods and sentiment. For the leaves and background script stamps I went to Very Versailles. This is a go to stamp set for background images when I want stamped backgrounds or collage type cards.
All of the images are sort of distressed looking. Even the sentiment. It is from the Enjoy The Moment stamp set also. I used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink for it to help it stand out a bit more than the other images. As a finishing touch I relied on my favorite ribbon, the Linen Thread. It is always a go to for a touch of rustic, natural look.
The picture below shows the Designer Series Papers that are included in the Sale. There are 9 to choose from!!
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Welcome to the Pals’ Blog Hop! We’re so glad you’re here because this month’s theme is “Art from the Heart” and we think you’re going to love it! You may be starting the hop here or coming from a previous Pal’s blog. Either way, you’ve come to the right place. You’ll find the full line-up below to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.
My card is definitely from the heart. It is covered in hearts and is perfect for anyone you love. But it does not have to be for Valentine’s Day. This one would be appreciated at any time. Besides the hearts, I have an unexpected choice to pair with them.
I have made a Waterfall Card to share my From the Heart theme. I had not made one of these in years. The ones I have made previously were single layer with the waterfall on the front and you added your wording to the bottom of the waterfall. This one is a bit different in that I placed the waterfall on a full size card. So you have the inside to add extra sentiment and your love.
Here are some of the pulls to show the different images.
I hope this gives you a different perspective of the Over The Moon set ! I think these guys and gals are just adorable and a fit for many occasions..
I am going to do a quick video on how I made this, but I am sure there are several on YouTube already. I will say that the most important aspect of the building of your layers, is to not glue down the cross bar. That has to be secured with brads or in a way that only the edges of the strip are attached. Otherwise your waterfall cannot pull through.
I have listed all of the supplies i used at the bottom of the post. Don’t forget to take a look.
More inspiration awaits! Use the Blog Hop Line-up below to visit the rest of this month’s Design Team. My fellow Pals are excited to show you what they’ve created! Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 11th, for our “Critter Card” blog hop when our Design Team showcase projects with animals, birds, butterflies or insects. Don’t miss the fun!
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