Stamp & Share Crew Double Feature- Garden Birdhouses

 

Not one, but two Tutorials today from the Stamp & Share Crew Design Team! This fabulous cards use the Garden Birdhouses stamp set and show two different ways you can stamp with it! 

Garden Birdhouses Card

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Supplies:

·       Stamp Set: Garden Birdhouses (155090)

·       Card Stock and Paper: Basic White Cardstock (159276); Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper (158822); Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper (149612)

·       Stamp Pads: StazOn Jet Black Ink Pad (101406); Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ Pad (147110)

·       Miscellaneous: Watercolor Assortment 1 (141709); Water Painters (151298); Scalloped Contours Dies (155560); Stylish Shapes Dies (159183); Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430); Paper Trimmer (152392); Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755); Polished Dots (158134); StazOn Cleaner (109196)

 

Measurements:

 

·       Basic White Base: 4 ¼” x 11” scored at 5 ½”

·       Basic White: 2 ½” x 1 ¼” (for die cutting the sentiment)

·       Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper: 4” x 5 ¼”

 

Instructions:

 

1.     Using StazOn Jet Black ink, stamp your images onto the Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper that has been die cut with the Scalloped Contours die

2.     Color in the images using the Watercolor Assortment 1 package of pencils and then lightly smooth the lines out with the Water Painters

3.     Set off to the side to dry

4.     Using Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ Ink, stamp your sentiment on the Basic White cardstock piece

5.     Adhere your Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper onto the Basic White cardstock base using Multipurposed Liquid Glue

6.     With Stampin’ Dimensionals, adhere the water-colored scalloped piece to your card base

7.     Add one Stampin’ Dimensionals to the back side of the sentiment piece and then glue on the other side so that when placed on the card, both the sentiment piece and the water-colored die cut piece are the same height

8.     Embellish with three clear Polished Dots!

Garden Birdhouses

All images © 1990-2022 Stampin’ Up!^®

 

Supplies:

 

·       Stamp Sets: Garden Birdhouses (155090

·       Card Stock and Paper: Soft Sea Foam (146988); Basic White (159276); Abstract Beauty DSP (158039)

·       Stamp Pads: Memento Ink Tuxedo Black Pad (132708)

·       Tools: Label Me Fancy Punch (151297)

·       Miscellaneous: Bronze/Ivory Stampin’ Blends (154922); Soft Seafoam Stampin’ Blends (154902 Natural Tones Stampin’ Blends Medium (159462); Evening Evergreen Stampin’ Blends (155517); Pool Party Stampin’ Blends (154894); Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430); Stampin’ Seal Adhesive (152813); Rhinestone Basic Jewels (158130); Linen Thread (104199)

 

·       Soft Seafoam: 8 ½” x 5 ½” (Base)

·       Basic White: 2 ½” x 1 ½” for sentiment and scraps for birdhouses

·       Abstract Beauty DSP: 5 ¼” x 4”

·       Linen Thread: 13”

 

Instructions:

 

1.     Score you base at 4 ¼” and crease using bone folder.

2.     Find the Abstract Beauty DSP as shown in the picture and cut it to 5 ¼” x 4”

3.     Stamp your tree branches directly onto this layer using the Memento Tuxedo Black ink and color with blends.

4.     Wrap the linen thread around your DSP securing on the back of the left side, wrapping around front, then around back, then around front again, securing on back of right side.  Adhere this entire layer to the front of your card base.

5.     Using the Memento Tuxedo Black ink stamp the strings from the branches; the birdhouses on to scraps; and the Hello and birds as show on the Basic White layer and punch out with the Label Me Fancy punch.  Color the birds with Pool Party Blends.  Also, color 5 of the small Basic Jewels with the dark Pool Party Blends (optional).

6.     Layer punched image over twine on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

7.     Color birdhouses with blends, fussy cut, and adhere the left birdhouse flat from the string image and the right birdhouse popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals from the other string image. Add your five gems as desired.

Happy Stampin' Everyone!!!