Mix It Up Monday: Mountain Adventure with a llama

It’s Mix It Up Monday again and time for another project made with a colour combination from my latest set of In Color charts. 

Have I mentioned that I love llamas? Just a few times perhaps? One of the reasons I ordered Mountain Adventure was because of the llama possibilities - I honestly think these sets must have been made for each other. There will be more llamas and mountains to come, I promise! 

And I’m still enjoying the use of a (so on-trend!) photorealistic background in the form of Serene Scenery DSP. I’ll be running out of sky sheets soon though so will have to come up with another idea.

This project uses a Flirty Flamingo colour combo which, I confess, I had to force myself to use so that I don’t spend all of next spring making cards in Flamingo because I’ve neglected that chart. I’m not a pink fan and Flirty Flamingo definitely isn’t my favourite new In Color. So I’ve toned it down with some Island Indigo stamping.

You know how there are no mistakes in rubber stamping? This card was meant to have just two mountains but, in the time-honoured way, I messed up the stamping of the greeting on the otherwise finished project. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I settled on adding a third mountain in the foreground... and this time I stamped my greeting before sticking it down!

Birthday Fiesta Photopolymer Stamp Set [141500] £19.00	Mountain Adventure Photopolymer Stamp Set [142194] £19.00	Best Birds Photopolymer Stamp Set [141525] £19.00	Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack [141642] £9.00	Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] £7.25
Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock [141421] £7.25	Island Indigo A4 Card Stock [124390] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [126982] £6.00
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986] £6.00	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [131179] £6.00

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Mountain Adventure with Serene Scenery sky

After making my Northern Lights card with the fabulous new Mountain Adventure set, I set to wondering about other skies. Then I remembered… Serene Scenery DSP! Here’s the beautiful sky acting as a backdrop to the mountains, which I’ve painted (just a little) in Crumb Cake. I kept the painting to a minimum as the cardstock used is Whisper White and if you get it too wet, if starts to pill. The funky striped Baker’s Twine finishes it off.

Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25	Mountain Adventure Photopolymer Stamp Set [142194] £19.00	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] £6.50
Real Red A4 Card Stock [106578] £7.25	Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack [141642] £9.00	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [126949] £6.00
Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine [141983] £5.50	Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad [138325] £6.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50

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Best Birds negative die-cutting

No sneak peek today I’m afraid but I do have (what I think is) a quite exciting project to show you. 

I was playing around with “negatives” – the bits left behind after die-cutting, and wondered what I could make by planning the negatives carefully. The result was this card. I can’t pretend it was quick. I can’t pretend it was easy. As for whether it was worth it, I’ll let you decide. 

I backed the birdy piece with a sheet of Serene Scenery DSP. It’s a photograph of the sky, which is quite apt for the images, and shows the different shades of blue behind the birds quite well, too. 

Birds & Blooms Thinlits Dies [141477] £24.00	Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack [141642] £9.00	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £8.25	Barnyard Babies Wood-Mount Stamp Set [138664] £24.00
Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad [141394] £6.00	Linen Thread [104199] £4.25	Dapper Denim A4 Cardstock [141419] £7.25

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Best Birds seed boxes

This is another of the projects from my Best Birds workshop. It’s a really simple box with lid, with an aperture to allow you to see the contents: a cello bag full of black pumpkin seeds for the birds. We’re big bird-feeders in this house and my husband was really excited to see a nuthatch in the garden the other week. Sadly I was out and missed it as we’ve been waiting 23 years!

Anyway, back to the box: the base and the lid are each made from a sheet of 6x6; the base is Kraft, while the lid is Serene Scenery DSP (which I absolutely love). the Kraft is scored at 1in from each side, the DSP is scored at 2.5cm from each side. The very slight difference in the two measurements should allow the lid to fit snugly. 

The aperture is created using the old-style circle dies as I don’t yet have the new ones, but I’ve linked to the new ones below as those are they ones which are available. But any size circle will do; you just can’t do it with a punch though, as it won’t reach that far. 

To get the circle in the centre, we drew diagonal lines, corner to corner, with a pencil on the reverse side, so the cross in the middle allowed us to centre the die. 

I made two samples so I had one to show each table and so the ladies could choose which one to make, using whichever sheet of DSP they preferred, as they had one of each design to play with. It’s all held together with that old favourite, linen thread. 

Best Birds Photopolymer Bundle [142315] £38.50	Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack [141642] £9.00	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] £32.00
Soft Suede A4 Card Stock [119982] £7.25	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] £7.25	Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock [138345] £7.25
Kraft 12" X 12" Card Stock [133674] £6.50	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [126978] £6.00	Guesseted Cellophane Bags [141704] £4.25

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