What’s New At SU – Merry Moose

Today, I’m joining The What’s New at Stampin Up Blog Hop. We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world who are Hoppin’ with exciting ideas to share with you.

Today we will feature products from the upcoming Holiday Catalog. I know you will find a lot of wonderful ideas shared today. My project today showcases the brand new bundle Merry Moose. I’m a bit of a sucker whenever we have a stamp set and coordinating punch. I love that with a punch, I don’t need a die cut machine and I have my image all cut out in just seconds. I can have a dozen moose all punched out in just a couple minutes. What’s not to love?

For this card, I wanted something that would look 3-D. I wanted the moose out in front of a bunch of trees but I didn’t want to just use dimensionals. I really wanted him to stand out. I believe this pattern is called a “bendy card” because the two front flaps bend around the front of the card. The flaps are held in place with tabs and well-placed slits in the background piece.  

For this card, you definitely want to do your measuring and use a ruler. You can find patterns for this card on line, but here’s a quick explanation.

• Take a 8.5×5.5″ piece of card stock and score the 8.5″ side vertically at 4.25″, just as if you were making a standard card. 
• The front flap of the card will be cut in a curved line across the front to resemble a snowy hill. This is the curved piece in the middle with the moose.
• I trimmed the right edge where the moose will be so I had a .25″ tab on the end.
• Using a craft knife, I cut a .25″ slit 1″ in from the right side.
• The flap on the right with the raccoon, is 5×1″ long. I scored it at .5″ and glued that to the card base on the right side. This gets covered with the piece of white card stock on the card base so you an’t see it.
• I cut a .25″ tab on the left side of this piece.
• Then cut a slit in the flap with the moose 1.25″ in and the tab gets tucked into that piece. 

Apparently, it was a long snowy night because the moose is covered in snow. Here is a close-up view of all that sparkly snow on the Moose, trees, and hills. 

The footprints in the snow is actually one of the stamps and it comes with a row of them all together. I love that Stampin Up thought about how we would want to create our scenes and included the footprint stamp in the set.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. If you have any questions about the pattern or how to put all this together, just let me know. 

As you go through the What’s New Hop, be sure to leave comments on each page in the Hop letting us know what you liked. To get to the next page in the Hop, click the Next button below to see Heather‘s amazing work. 

To go back to the page prior to mine in the Blog Hop, click the Previous button below and you can see Linda’s fabulous project.And here is a full list of all the Hop participants this month…

Linda a Moore – Moorefunstamping
Diane Browning – 247inkspiration
Heather Cooper – Playingwithpapercrafting
Pia Gerhardt – stampwithscraproomboom
Tricia Butts – Triciastampingcreations
Sharon Burkert – Sharonburkert
Margriet Siekman – Creatiefmarsie
Loni Spendlove – creativejuicebyloni
Anke Heim – Scraphexe

There are so many great things coming in the new Holiday Catalog, which starts September 4th. If you don’t think you can wait that long to get your own moose, contact me asap so we can get you signed up this month. You can add Holiday Catalog products to your order this month if you sign up to be a Demonstrator. Plus we have this awesome special still going on for the rest of the month. What are you waiting for?

Current Specials

If you’re thinking about joining the Stampin Up family, now is a great time. From July 1 until August 31, new demonstrators will receive an additional $30 in products with their Starter Kit, and then they’ll receive a $10 coupon code the following month. That’s $40 worth of EXTRA products when you join my team. Coupon codes will arrive between the fifth and seventh business day; they will expire on October 31, 2019. For $99, you’ll select $155 worth of products in your starter kit, plus the additional $10 off your order the following month.

The Holidays are coming (eek!) and you could probably use an extra hand. September’s Paper Pumpkin kit, Bone Appétit is guaranteed to give you a “helping hand” with your frightful festivities. This kit includes 20 food-safe treat boxes, a unique and exclusive Halloween stamp set, and a spooky, special-edition box. September’s kit also gives new meaning to the word “handmade.” Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Gorgeous Grape, Pumpkin Pie, and Whisper White. You can sign up for September’s kit starting now. If you already have an ongoing subscription, this will ship automatically.

Check out our brand new Storage line! These products are now back in stock. Get them before they sell out again.