Blue Birdhouses for the Stamping Inkspiations Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop where we have be challenged to create a monochromatic project using only shades of blue. After a lot of trial and error I opted to use the Garden Birdhouse stamp set to make a blue birdhouse card.

 

 

Colours used in this project are:

 

To recreate the blue birdhouses card, you will need:

Pool Party card base – 8¼” by 5⅞” scored and folded at 4⅛”
Starry Sky card – 5⅜” by 3⅝”
Basic White card – 5¼” by 3½”
Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾” – for the inside
Night of Navy card – 2⅝” by ⅜”

 

Using Pool Party ink, I stamped the leafy branch across the top and down the sides of the smaller panel of Basic White card.

 

The bird houses, poles and hanger were then stamped in Night of Navy ink. I added a tiny bird standing on top of one of the birdhouses.

 

I used the following Blends Pens to colour in all the birdhouses and the poles – Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Tahitian Tide, Starry Sky and the retired Seaside Spray and Pretty Peacock.

 

The background white card looked too stark so I added Pool Party ink, very lightly using a Blending Brush. The panel was the added to the Starry Sky panel using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. The whole panel was mounted onto the Pool Party card front on Dimensionals.

 

The sentiment, from the Friends are like Seashells stamp set was stamped in Versamark ink onto the strip of Night of Navy card, covered it with White Embossing Powder and heat set it with a Heat Tool. I added it to the card front with glue.

 

A trio of Iridescent Rhinestones completed the card.

Please continue around the hop to share the inspiration provided by by friends. Next up is the lovely Tricia Butts.

 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Aurélie Fabre  ●  Gez Carpenter

Jo Blackman  ●  Mo Rootes

Tricia Butts  ●  Teri West   ●  Susan Simpson

Danielle Kassing  ●  Terry Hamilton  ●  Leonie Stuart

Susan Webster  ●  Judith Patterson  ●  Karen Henderson

Vickie Littlewood  ●  Linda Moore  ●  Robbie Susan Chandler

 

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

Supplies used: