Friday Five - For the Birds...

 

Love these three sweet and simple cards as they are such great examples of how you can create your own #SimpleStamping cards with just a few supplies and simple steps.

All three cards use just the one stamp set—the Garden Birdhouses Stamp Set—and yet each card uses a different technique to create a unique style.

Each card features only two ink pads and one or two colours of cardstock.  The Birthday Wishes card is the simplest with just one colour of cardstock and a couple of images, all stamped on a single layer.  The Hello card uses more images, layers, and the Everyday Label Punch. Spot that the punch shape is customised to fit the sentiment a little better—all it took was a couple of snips with our trusty Paper Snips.  And lastly, the third card has some additional colour added in, which is easy to do with a set of Watercolor Pencils.

Want to see more using this stamp set... which is one I absolutely adore!! Though I guess a lot of you knew that already.... as I have shared a thing or two on birdhouses over the years! Well here you go... so now there are 5 (in case you were wondering!)

Tuesday Tips - 25 Products under £25

Just highlighting 25 products coming in under the £25 mark... from across the Autumn Winter and Annual catalogues...

5 of my favourite products in here... would you care to guess which some of those may be!!? Yup... leading question... though I have already declared on 2 or 3 of them...

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Magnolia Lane Simple for Saturday #1

 

Simple white embossed magnolia images on Crumb Cake card...

Coloured in with Whisper White craft ink... using my trusty Aqua Painter... and then left to dry...

Then Petal Pink and Mossy Meadow ink applied using Sponge Daubers...

So simple, quick but very effective... and very therapeutic to create too!

Magnolia from Good Morning Magnolia...

Greeting from Kindness & Compassion

More on Monday... Bitty Blooms & Flourishing Phrases Thank Yous...

So before I put the Flourishing Phrases away... I made up a few Thank You cards to send out to my lovely customers that ordered in March...

And finally put the finishing touches to my card design... care of the Bitty Blooms Punch Pack punches ... which I am so glad to have in the catalogue as ... for a few years now... I have been really missing some quick little flowers just to finish things off...

Though do remember that the Bitty Blooms Punch Pack comes as a bundle (with 10% off) with co-ordinating Bloom by Bloom stamp set 

And a few shiny embellishments...

I used Rhinestone Basic Jewels  and Gingham Gala Adhesive Backed Sequins ...

And if you look closely I did play around with the placement of those embellishments....

As I always like to take that opportunity when I have a few cards to make...

And I also coloured a Rhinestone with my dark Night of Navy Stampin Blend as
(a) I could...
(b) the pen happened to still be out!

Also note that I have added extras to the flourish image... as I have also stamped the more solid leaf duo to the bottom right and centre left (behind the greeting banner) ... just adds the bit of balance (and extra imagery) required to the overall card design!

More details on the card and sizing information in this post here... along with another couple of versions/colourways ... and more information on the Flourishing Phrases stamps used too...

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Simple Sympathy for Sunday - Flourishing Phrases

So whilst I was busy creating for the Neutrals Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop post... I needed one of these to go in that days' post... and so here it is...

Even simpler than all those gone before.. just Gray Granite inking with a touch of Night of Navy in the greeting...

And I just happened to have a Colourful Seasons Night of Navy flower stamped cut & ready at the side of me...

Though I could have used a cut-down Flourishing Phrases flower if I hadn't happened to have had that flower sitting there! Click here for more details on the cut-down flower....

Really had forgotten how good the Flourishing Phrases stamp set is... and the Colourful Seasons too!

Card & mats the same as in yesterday's post...

And more on these lines tomorrow... much more!!

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