Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Butterfly Basics

Hi

Welcome to another Artful Stampers blog hop!

My card today uses the Bird Builder Punch as the focus of the card. I stamped on the bird with the netting stamp from Butterfly Basics in Melon Mambo and I sponged around the edges for definition. I used the sketch this week from Freshly Made Sketches and rather than use a white background (which is my usual style), I thought I would go BOLD and use Night of Navy as the base. I had some vintage DSP which I thought would look good on here too.

The Melon Mambo Stitched Satin Ribbon provides a striking splash of colour against the navy.

How good do these colours look together!!? Beautiful!

Here are our colours for the challenge...

Here is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches...

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Card recipe

Stamp - Butterfly Basics

Ink - Night of Navy, Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron (for sponging) 

Cardstock - Night of Navy, Night of Navy DSP (vintage), Whisper White, 

Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron

Accessories - 2015-2017 In Color Blossom Accents, Melon Mambo Stitched Satin Ribbon

Tools - Big Shot, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Bird Builder Punch, Stampin' Sponges, 

Stampin' Dimensionals, Fast Fuse, 

Glue Dots, Stampin Trimmer

Cheers

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Less is More #147 - Stampin' Up! Bird Punch Christmas Card

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I had seen earlier today that the challenge this week at Less Is More was to use a bird on your card. This afternoon, my little boys were playing with their box of discarded punched pieces and they were making little collages on cardboard....it was all very cute. I found this little bird that I think was punched from a random piece of card or backing of something...it's not quite kraft or Crumb Cake...it's more like thin cardboard but it has a nice colour & feel, so I picked it up from where they were playing and put it on my craft table for inspiration. 

I had already made a couple of Christmas Cards this evening and I found some vanilla card stock that had already been cut into 3 rectangles (left over from a card class kit). I put my little cardboard bird on one of them and the card just came into being from there....

If you like this card and are inspired by it to make your own, then support my business & creativity and purchase your craft supplies at my online store. :)

Cheers
Alison 

Materials used:

Stamp - Greetings of the Season

Ink - Baked Brown Sugar

Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake (for bird...unless you have some random cardboard for your bird).

Accessories - Pearls

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Bird Builder Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals, Two-way Glue Pen.