Busy with the Cricky

Blog Hop with Gratitude

Hello friends. Today I am joining the Monthly Team Blog Hop with Kylie's Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Training Program. We are a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from all of over the world who are part of Kylie's training group. If this is your first visit to my blog, welcome!!

I jumped right in to this blog hop with this happy blue bird card I created using the Birds & Branches Bundle found in the 2020-2021 Annual catalog. I chose an almost monochromatic palette for this Z fold card.

This card showcases on of our new in colors, Misty Moonlight. The base card and the circle die were created with Misty Moonlight. The Z-fold design card features an attached inner card with three decorated panels, the front, the middle, and the inside back of the card. The inner card is made with Night of Navy card stock. On the Whisper White front I featured the circle die from the bundle, cut out with a scalloped circle die, the bird's nest, and mama bird watching over her eggs.

The bird stamp is a two step stamping process. I used two colors of ink, Misty Moonlight and Seaside Spray.

The middle panel in the card features the same Flowers for Every Season designer series paper used on the back area of the Z-fold, and another sweet little blue bird.

The back inside panel again features a sweet blue bird, but also the follow up sentiment which coordinates with the Thank You phase stamped on the front of the card.

To complete the card I embellished with little light blue flowers accented with in-color enamel dot Bumblebee centers and a double ribbon bow.

Below you will find the links to continue on the blog hop. Thanks for hopping by and I hope to see you again soon.

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Wildly Grateful Bird House

Birds and Branches Bundle · Card · Stampin' Up!

Hello friends! Today I am participating in Phase I of Kylie's International Blog Highlights. Kylie is an amazing Australia based Stampin' Up! Demonstrator from whom I have been receiving training for the last ten months. Next week I will be joining the training group's monthly blog hop. But ahead of that, I thought it might be fun to join the International Highlights group today.

Today's card features the Bird and Branches bundle, along with geometric shapes, stitched dies, and circle dies. There is a darling little nest included in this bundle, but like the three little pigs, I thought my birds might need to upgrade their straw and twig nest to an actual covered house!

To make a house I used a technique I call, "eye-balling it." What that actually means is, I had no real plans, but I began with two rectangles, one in Whisper White and one in Seaside Spray. I used my Stampin' Up! paper trimmer to cut the two rectangles into pentagons, the blue being about one-half inch larger than the white.

My pentagon was an elongated version of the photo above. I used my circle dies to cut out a "door" in the white layer, and then I used the Pinewood Plank embossing folder to add wood texture. A scalloped circle die was used to cut trim for the door.

The roof was crafted by cutting two Stitched So Sweetly labels and mitering the corners together. The seam was covered with the greenery and flowers.

The birds were stamped and then touched up with markers. I used Stampin' Dimensional dots to add depth to the card front.

The top ten cards in Kylie's International Blog Highlights will be featured at the end of the month in an International blog hop. Please visit Kylie's blog at THIS LINK and vote for my entry!

The products used on today's card are:

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Transparent Whiskey Business Man Card

Man card · Stampin' Up! · Whiskey Business

Hello friends, happy July 4th. Apparently I have been sitting on this post for a couple of days - completely unintentionally. I went to pin the photos and found the post had not published.

Today I am sharing another Whiskey Business card - an acrylic card covered in "man" designer series papers and stamping.

The acrylic cards are not a Stampin' Up! product but something I purchased from Amazon (Clear Presentation Cover - 100-Pack Transparent Binding Cover, PVC Report Cover 10-mil, Clear 8.5 x 11 inches). Each sheet provides two cards, just like regular cardstock.

For this card I cut the transparent sheet to be 4.25 x 11 inches, and scored at 5.5 inches (I have a thing for top fold cards). An important thing to remember when using transparent cards is where to hide the adhesive. In this case, I placed the map print matting inside the card, adhered to the front transparent layer, behind the front of the card.

Design Series Paper from World of Good specialty paper was used to make this card also with a gold grid card front from the Forever Gold Laser Cut specialty paper (I adore this pack of paper!). The card was finished with Gilded Gems and diagonal strips of map paper.

The inside of the card is made much like the front, only more simple. I stamped and colored a drink on the inside sheet and adhered it to the transparent card. I then added a matting to the back of the card, facing front, and hid the adhesive inside the layers.

I hope you enjoyed today's card. Supplies used are linked below: