Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop!
This month, the blog hop theme is Orange Theory. The Pal’s Paper Crafting Community hopes to inspire you with card ideas and paper craft creations using Stampin’ Up! products. You will find the links to the participant’s blogs at the end of each post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.
WHERE’S MY ORANGE? In my opinion, Stampin’ Up!’s Petal Pink is the prettiest, softest orange around! I went for it!
simple country woods friend card – perfect for planks
WHAT I LOVE! For today’s simple Country Woods friend card, I let the planks from this pattern of the Country Woods Designer Series Paper (DSP) be my guide. I cut 1/2 strips and cropped them in various lengths (3 1/2 to 4 3/4) for a quick and easy style that I adore.
product Spotlight: country woods suite collection
The Stampin’ Up! Country Woods Suite Collection is a mega suite of coordinating products showcasing fabulous florals and cute birdhouses. The suite consists of 2 stamp & die bundles, 2 packs of designer series paper, an embossing folder, a diagonal trim combo pack and pearl embellishments.
Product colors: Basic Beige, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Gray Granite, Misty Moonlight, Pecan Pie, Petal Pink, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Wild Wheat
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card tutorial: simple country woods friend card
1. measure & cut
portrait card base:
- Night of Navy card stock – 4 ¼ x 11, scored at 5 ½ (top)
snipped envelope flap:
- Designer Series Paper: – 5 ¾ x 2 ½
layers & card stock:
- Crumb Cake card stock – 4 x 5 ¼
- Basic White card stock – 3 ¾ x 5
- Cut Country Woods DSP into ½” strips in random lengths from 3 ½ to 4 ¾
- Sentiment 1 ¾ x 3/4
- Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy, Petal Pink and Basic White card stock – scraps for flowers and leaves
2. stamp:
- Use a Mini MISTI stamp tool to position and stamp the sentiment (Country Birdhouse) in Night of Navy Classic Ink onto the Basic White layer. Watch my 1 Minute to WOW video: The Magic of the Mini MISTI for a quick product demonstration here.
3. crop:
- Crop flowers and leaves using the Country Birdhouse Dies in Night of Navy, Mist Moonlight, Petal Pink and Basic White with the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine (Standard or Mini).
4. assemble & adhere:
- Burnish the fold of the card base with a Bone Folder.
- Assemble and adhere die cut flowers/leaves, “planks” and card stock layers with MultiPurpose Liquid Glue as shown. Adhere the sentiment with Stampin’ Dimensionals
5. embellish:
- Embellish as shown with adhesive backed Petal Pink foiled gems (Petal Pink & Pretty Peacock Foiled Gems)
- Tie Petal Pink ¼” ribbon (Petal Pink & White ¼ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack) in a bow and adhere with a Mini Glue Dot
6. envelope:
- Adhere 5 3/4 x 2 1/2 Designer Series Paper to a Basic White Medium envelope flap with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Flip to the inside of the flap and carefully snip away the excess with Paper Snips. .
learn more:
- Watch my 1 Minute to WOW! Video Tutorial for tips on adding DSP to the envelope flap of my Country Woods friend card here.
- Watch ALL my 1 Minute to WOW Video Tutorials for quick paper crafting tips here.
I hope you loved my simple Country Woods friend card!
more paper crafting inspiration from the pals
MORE INSPIRATION AWAITS! Use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. We hope you will come back for our next blog hop when our theme will be Random Acts of Kindness! Until then, have fun in your craft space.
Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop Line-Up:
- Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
- Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
- Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
- Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’
- Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
- Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
- Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
- Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
- Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
- Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
- Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life
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I love the use of this soft orange shade, and the pretty strips of DSP!
Beautiful card, Mary! Petal Pink is one of my favorites with that slight orange hue.
I never thought of Pretty Pink as a soft orange, but it definitely works. Beautiful card!!
Thanks Mary for the Blog Hop! So inspirational! Love the Orange! You all are so creative! Gotta get busy and make some cards!
While I don’t have this paper, I do have some nice wood grain paper in many colors, think I will give that a try. Your cards and site are always the best.
Beautiful card and layout…lots of little details!
Always a pleasure to see how you put your own stamp on our Pals Hop Mary! This is a beautifully simple creation and I love the Petal Pink too:)
Gorgeous card, Mary! Petal Pink is definitely a favorite orange!