Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends June Blog Hop 2024-2025 Annual Catalog Bundles

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends June Blog Hop as we explore the wonderful new bundles in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog. What exactly is a bundle? It is Stampin' Up! pairs together a stamp set with a coordinating punch or coordinating dies so that you can save 10% on the price. This makes it a great, budget friendly way to add your favorites to your crafting tool kit. Our amazing Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas using the new bundles to help inspire you to create your own projects.

For my card design, I wanted to use the Hearts & Hugs Bundle to create a sweet birthday card. This bundle stole my heart when I first saw the new catalog and it was one of the first bundles I had to have. I love the combination of adorable images and cute sentiments and having coordinating dies just makes creating with this bundle so simple and fun. For today's design, I chose to use the sweet walruses for my focal image and colored it with Stampin' Blends Markers. The background was created with one of the Meandering Meadows 6"x6" Designer Series Paper designs. Did you know that the reverse sides have wonderful monochromatic patterns that make amazing backgrounds? This is just one example of how you can use this pretty paper in a less traditional way. I added a pop of color with the banner and the hearts using Real Red cardstock to bring the design together. This clean and simple design is so much fun and I love that I was able to use just the stamp set and coordinating dies from this bundle to create my design.

Products Used:

Hearts & Hugs Bundle (item #163667)

Meandering Meadows 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #162735)

Blueberry Bushel Cardstock (item #146968)

Real Red Cardstock (item #102482)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Blueberry Bushel Classic Ink Pad (item #147138)

Memento Tuxedo Black Pad (item #132708)

Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154904)

Ivory/Bronze Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154922)

Pebbled Path Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #161658)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Blueberry Bushel Cardstock

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Real Red Cardstock

Background piece - 3" x 1 1/2" approx.

Sentiment Label die cut with the Hearts & Hugs Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Layer 1 - 5 1/4" x 4"

Sentiment Label stamped & die cut with the Hearts & Hugs Bundle

Walruses image stamped & die cut with the Heart & Hugs Bundle

Meandering Meadows Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5" x 3 3/4" with hearts die cut from the background

(2 of the hearts used for sentiment label)

There is so much to love about this card design, it's hard to know where to start. I love the texture of the background design and how it makes everything else pop. Blueberry Bushel is one of my favorite blues, but it is often overlooked. I used a layer of Basic White cardstock to create a frame around the focal layer and help it stand out from the Blueberry Bushel card base. After adhering the designer series paper layer to the Basic White cardstock, I die cut out the detailed hearts arch towards the top and center of the card front. I added a piece of Real Red cardstock on the back, behind the negative die cut hearts, to give them a beautiful bright red color. For the walruses, I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Basic White cardstock and colored them with Smoky Slate, Ivory and Light Pebbled Path Stampin' Blends Markers. I die cut the image out using the coordinating die from the bundle and attached it to the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals, positioning it in the center just below the hearts. For the sentiment, I stamped the image with Blueberry Bushel Classic ink and die cut the label using one of the dies from the bundle. I also die cut a Real Red label using the same die and cut it in half using Paper Snips. I attached each piece of the Real Red label to the back of the Basic White sentiment label, leaving a small banner on each end to frame the sentiment. I then attached the sentiment label to the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals, centering it below the walruses. To complete the design, I added two of the hearts created from the background, to the sentiment label. I attached the card front to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up and add extra dimension to the design. Isn't this just the cutest birthday card? I just love how it turned out.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore the wonderful bundles in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog to help spark your creativity. Make sure to take advantage of the extra 10% discount on select bundles during the month of June as well as save 10% on Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machines.

Please take the time to visit the Design Team to see their amazing projects by clicking on the links in the Roll Call List. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.