Creation Station Blog Hop - Up in the Air

 

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. This is the latest hop with the design team at Creation Station, if you have come from Kim Fee or you may have started with me. Please make sure you hop around and see everyone's amazing projects. I'll pop a link at the end of my blog.

The design team at Creation Station are presenting their projects with the theme "Up in the Air" which we can focus our projects on birds, or airplanes, or hot air balloons, or clouds and rainbows. I decided to go with birds for my project and went with Country Birdhouse bundle (163401) which is part of the Country Woods Suite Collection (163418) it's in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue for 2024-25 and is on page 48-51. I love everything about this suite including the gorgeous Designer Series Paper and embellishments.

Country Birdhouse bundle (163401) 

The Country Birdhouse bundle includes the Country Birdhouse stamp set and Country Birdhouse dies. When I saw this bundle in the catalogue, I knew I had to have it because of how cute the birdhouse is and I just couldn't wait to start using it. I love the line art stamped images and using the Stampin' Blends is always fun to colour in the images.

I stamped the images in Basic Gray ink onto Basic White Cardstock then using the following colours Petal Pink, Balmy Blue, Smoky Slate, Peacan Pie and Color Lifter. I wanted to keep most of the birdhouse white and only colour in parts of the house. 

I used the circle die to die-cut out the round window and placed one of the birds peeking out of the hole. I layered a scrap of Basic Black cardstock behind the bird to give the impression that it's dark inside the house. 

There are some beautiful images in the stamp set such as the flowers and of course the bird image as well. All images can be die-cut out with the dies, so no fussy cutting needed. There are also lots of different detailed dies to form the birdhouse which gives you every element, including roofs and a variety of flowers.

The layout of the birdhouse is placed over a pretty blue-sky background, I added Balmy Blue ink with the Blending Brush to the Basic White Cardstock. The sentiment is stamped in Basic Gray ink and layered over the bird stand. To finish off the card I added a few of the Smoky Slate Pearls (163416).

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below. Make sure you pop over to see Elizabeth Price for lots of inspiration with her projects.

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Please email me if you would like a copy of the new Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue, please contact me here.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher