Category Archives: Animals

It’s Feeling A Lot Like Christmas!

Good Morning Crafters Back from a whirlwind trip to California! So many places to see and relatives/friends to visit and seven days is just not long enough! I had not visited since 2019 that there was a lot of catching up to do. But I’m home now and so glad to be back. For today’s card, I am using the un-brrr-lievably adorable All Bundled Up Stamp Set. Honestly, the only… Read More »

Heron Habitat Stamp Set by Stampin’ Up!

Good Morning Crafters! For today’s project, I am using the Heron Habitat Bundle with the Oceanfront Stamp Set. The bundle includes five all-occasion messages to express joy, celebrate together, and show appreciation. You can create a tranquil scene with a blue heron in flight or calmly wading in water or you can expand your habitat with cattails, marshland patches, and a royal tern seabird or two. I stamped the Heron… Read More »

Friends Forever with Elephant Parade

Today’s share is the sweet Elephant Parade Stamp Set for a slim line card. You know the saying, “Elephants never forget”? Using this set, you can make adorable cards to remind those you love how much they mean to you. The slim card measures 8 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. The envelope measures 9″ x 4″. I had such much fun coloring these little guys. They were all colored with the… Read More »

A Beautiful Sunset Scene with Grove Dies

You can create a beautiful sunset scene using the retired Horizons Designer Series Paper and the large die from Grove Dies. And, if you want to make masculine cards simply, yet striking, then the Grassy Grove Bundle is for you! Since I used this die for a winter scene on Monday, I decided to go with a summer almost sunset card. I used Basic Black Cardstock for the top panel… Read More »

It’s The Best Time of the Year

You can make a simple silhouette winter scene card in minutes using the Grove Dies and New Horizon Designer Series Paper as the background. To start, die cut the Basic White cardstock with the silhouette die from the Grove Dies. Also die cut one of the small deer with the same cardstock. Adhere the silhouette and deer dies to the background (from New Horizons DSP) using Multipurpose Glue. I then… Read More »

Peaceful Deer for Christmas

I love quick and easy Christmas cards. The Peaceful Deer Stamp Set and Deer Builder Punch by Stampin’ Up! creates a nature filled center fun fold card that is really easy to make. I used the Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper as a background for the card. Here’s the sketch I used to make the card. The deer was stamped with Early Espresso Ink onto Basic White Cardstock. They were… Read More »

Stylish Sketches Stamp Set for a Friend

I’m using the Stylish Sketches Stamp Set for today’s project. You can get this free during Sale-a-bration (August-Dec 2022) with a qualifying order. These artistic stamp images look great as outlines, but you could also try coloring them with Stampin’ Blends for a more dramatic look. Well, I’ve had an exciting (certainly not boring) couple of weeks since I last posted. On Wednesday, 5 July, I went in for a… Read More »

Miss You by Peekaboo Farm Cuties!

I had so much fun making this card! I love the cute, adorable farm animals in the Peekaboo Farm Stamp Set. You can create so many cute cards – choose from a cow, pig, horse, and more! Though it does have a stone fence stamp in the set, I used the Picture This Die so that the cuties are peeking out! The images were stamped with Tuxedo Black Ink onto… Read More »

If you like to fussy cut, this is the stamp set for you!

Today’s card features the Free as a Bird Stamp Set from the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog. It will be retiring when the new catalog comes out (May 2022). This set includes a combination of sweet birds, flowers, branches and friend-centric greetings. The bird images were stamped with Tuxedo Black Ink on Basic White Thick Cardstock. They were then colored in using the following Stampin’ Blends: Light Pool Party for the upper… Read More »

National Puppy Day with Sweet as a Peach

It’s National Puppy Day – I think this day should be celebrated every day – but then that’s me! If you love puppies as much as I do, share a photo of your puppy on my Facebook group at Stamp with Rachel Facebook Group. I’d love to see what your puppy looks like. Yes, that is my puppy Chloe – she is 6 months old and we love her to… Read More »