Let’s Set Sail

Art With Heart, Birthday Crafts, Card Making Basics, Cards For Kids, Crafts For The Boys · January 18, 2023

Rays of Light in Pear Pizzaz

Today’s card features Pear Pizzaz and the Rays of Light stamp set to create this stunning birthday card.

Speaking of colour, you’ll find 10+ simple and creative card ideas using Pear Pizzaz to inspire your next crafting session in the Blog Hop below!

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Welcome to the Art With Heart Pear Pizzaz Colour Creation Blog Hop. We are thrilled to have you join us today. Our hop features some of your favourite Art With Heart Team Members sharing projects made with Stampin’ Up! products. In fact, you may have just come from fellow creative Kate Morgan’s blog.

I am joining in with the Art With Heart Team’s Colour Creations Blog Hop with this Pear Pizzaz Rays of Light birthday card I made for my 12 year old son.

The Pear Pizzaz colour from Stampin’ Ups!® Subtle colour family is our focus and I have gone with the Rays of Light stamp set for a stunning card front background.

The Rays of Light stamp set is a large stamp that creates gorgeous backgrounds for your cards. The effect is fantastic!

How gorgeous is the little boat sailing through the light and the funky placement of the words. Pretty suitable for a 12 year old I should think {smile}

What You Need

Stamps/Bundles: Rays of Light background stamp, Let’s Set Sail bundle, Biggest Wish
Inks: Pear Pizzaz, Memento Black, Real Red, Soft Suede
Paper: Pear Pizzaz, Old Olive, Basic White
Other: Sailboat Builder punch (it comes in the bundle), Multi-purpose liquid glue, Stampin’ dimensionals

Rays of Light Birthday Card Recipe

Take a piece of A4 Old Olive card stock, cut in half and fold to make a card base.
Cut a piece of Pear Pizzaz card stock 14.3 cm x 10 cm.
Stamp the Rays of Light in Pear Pizzaz onto this piece. Trim edges so the rays of light go all the way to the edge.
Using Stamparatus, stamp the sail boat base in Soft Suede and the sails in real red.
Punch out with the Sailboat Builder punch.
Adhere the sailboat to the card front layer using foam dimensionals, placing it over the centre of the ray.
Stamp ‘Happy’ at an angle in the top left corner and stamp ‘Birthday’ at an angle below the sailboat.
Cut a piece of Basic White card stock 14.3 cm x 10 cm and adhere to the inside of the card.
Decorate the inside of your card.

And inside the card…

I hope my son likes the card I made him!

Product List

Rays Of Light Cling Stamp Set $32.00	Let's Set Sail Bundle (English) $57.50	Biggest Wish Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) $30.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock $18.00
Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz $16.25	Old Olive A4 Card Stock $16.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad $10.50	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad $14.00
Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad $14.00	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad $14.00	Stampin' Dimensionals $7.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue $7.00

Thank you for stopping by today. I am excited to explore ways you can save time and organise your card making supplies so that busy card makers like you can make more cards, more often. That’s what it means to be ‘eager to stamp’!

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Next on our Pear Pizzaz Blog Hop is the very talented Rosa Leyden. Click on the link below.

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If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants go to Cathy Proctor’s blog.

Crafts For The Boys, Thinking of You & Get Well Crafts · March 19, 2022

Let’s Set Sail Mini Farewell Male Card

Hello! I’ve snuck in some crafting on a recent long weekend and the Hearts & Home Cards & Envelopes card bases made the perfect canvas for some mini farewell male cards.

Moving away from the red dust and mud flats, where it was only possible to swim at high tide to the fine white sand beaches of home, has got me thinking of all things aquatic.

Middle son is back to sailing which inspired me to play with the Let’s Set Sail stamp set and punch bundle.

I paired the Let’s Set Sail stamp set with the Hearts & Home Memories & More Cards & Envelopes card pack and created this farewell male card using the mini cards.

The mini cards are sized 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm and have a wood grain design already printed onto them. I think that wood grain and the sailing boat are a match made in heaven!

Using a template and the Stamparatus I stamped the sailing boat image in Balmy Blue. I could then simply punch the entire image out.

On a 7.8 cm x 10.3 cm piece of Basic White card stock stamp the background image in Night of Navy to represent water. [TOP TIP: to lighten the ink colour, stamp it off onto scrap paper before stamping onto your card stock]

In Balmy Blue stamp the sentiment in the top right corner and use Night of Navy to stamp the birds in the top left corner.

Adhere foam adhesive strips to the back of the punched out sailing boat and sails. [TOP TIP: cut strips to fit behind the mast and along the hull]

Place the hull and mast in your desired position on the sea background.

Adhere the sails.

Turn the card base to landscape orientation, so it opens up from the bottom, and adhere your layer to the card base with multipurpose glue.

I love how this turned out. I hope it inspires you too!

Use the links below to see the products I used and start your shopping.

Product List

Let's Set Sail Bundle (English) $54.75	Let's Set Sail Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) $30.00	Sailboat Builder Punch $31.00	Heart & Home Memories & More Cards & Envelopes $17.50
Basic White A4 Cardstock $17.00	Stamparatus $85.00	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad $13.00	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad $13.00
Foam Adhesive Strips $14.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue $7.00

Amie

HELPING YOU TO FIND TIME TO CREATE, ESCAPE SUPPLY CHAOS AND MAKE MORE CARDS!

Card Making Basics, Crafts For The Boys, Find Time To Create · March 12, 2022

Limited Cardmaking Supplies Challenge

Moving house across the state (2500 kilometres to be precise!) came with a few challenges, not withstanding the limited cardmaking supplies!

Challenge 1: When my job finished, so did our accommodation.

Challenge 2: Our family home was currently tenanted and the lease still had three months to go.

Challenge 3: Our belongings would need to be stored until we could move in.

They say “All good things come to those who wait.”

It was 2019 all over again but this time we knew it was happening.

A challenging class. No school stuff.

A strange house. No personal belongings.

Past experience has proven that having a crafty outlet is so good for my mental health.

Packing my ready-to-go bag of card making supplies was, in my mind, ESSENTIAL!

Limited Cardmaking Supplies List

I packed the Pattern Party patterned paper which also gave me my colour palette of ink pads and card stock to pack.

In went two stamp sets and co-ordinating punches, plus one label punch.

These limited cardmaking supplies would satisfy any crafting urges over the next three months…

…Until the January to June 2022 Mini Catalogue came out!

So many MUST-HAVE items! I HAD to add the Rainbow Of Happiness stamp set, Let’s Set Sail bundle and the Heart & Home Memories & More Cards & Envelopes pack.

And of course I HAD to add the Rainbow patterned paper which came free during Sale-A-Bration.

I’ve managed to have three crafting sessions since returning to my hometown. One on my own in our accommodation and two with my old crafting group at their home.

I played with the Rainbow Of Happiness stamp set and co-ordinating patterned paper in my first session.

At my second session I made these cute cards using the Let’s Set Sail stamp set and the small card bases from the Heart and Home card pack.

The striped card in the Heart and Home Memories & More Cards & Envelopes pack was my next source of inspiration for my third session. I really love the Let’s Set Sail stamp set, especially with the background stamp Gentle Waves.