Wildlife Wonder

Our Card Ministry group at church can't meet this month due to Covid restrictions. Our stash of birthday cards for seniors is dangerously low, so we are making some at home this month:) We're so blessed to have such generous ladies in our community!

 I initially thought this stamp set would pair beautifully with the New Horizons Designer Paper and the Grassy Grove bundle, I've discovered it works beautifully on its own! Two inking techniques help make these quick and simple designs pop! Fellow Demo, Laura Ofthelake, shared the retiform ink technique with us on the Stampin' Up! Demo group. It is sooo simple, you just take a piece of scrap paper, lay it down, use your blending brush to apply ink and repeat. In the sample below, I used Misty Moonlight and Old Olive inks. The bear was stamped in Early Espresso. The mat is Misty Moonlight and the card base is Old Olive. 

The Grassy Grove bundle and the Wildlife Wonder stamp set can be found in the new January - June Mini Catalog which begins on Tuesday, Jan. 4th.

Using geometric ink patterns again, this time I used the stitched rectangles die to create a 'window' stencil. Then I held it on my paper and used a blending brush to apply Bumble Bee ink. I could have used the same procedure for the circle, but instead I used the moon stamp from the Mountain Air stamp set inked in Pumpkin Pie. The mat is Soft Suede and the card base is Crumb Cake. The 'grass' image is stamped with Garden Green and the sentiment with Pacific Point.

Cardstocks, inks, blending brushes and the Mountain Air stamp set can be found in the annual catalog.