The Friendly Seagulls stamp set from the 2025 Stampin’ Up Sale-A-Bration sets is just so fun. It has three adorable seagull stamps and some cute sayings to go along with it. I used the “I love you more than french fries” but you can swap the french fries out for chips as well and then there is a chips stamp to use instead of the french fries. However, I liked the french fries because you could color it and make it stand out more, plus who doesn’t love french fries.
For the card base I used Crumb Cake cardstock to look like the color of sand. This is cut to 5 ½” x 8 ½” then folded in half to make a card measuring 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then I cut two pieces of white card stock to measure 4” x 5 ¼”, one for the front and one for the inside. Then you will also need a piece of Crumb Cake card stock cut to 1” x 2” and a piece of white card stock cut to ¾” x 1 ¾”, these are for the word label.
Other items you will need are the following:
- Blending Brushes
- Ink Pads
- Jet Black Staz-On Ink Pad or similar
- Smoky Slate Ink Pad
- Boho Blue Ink Pad
- Crumb Cake Ink Pad
- Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Smoky Slate Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Smoky Slate Dark Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Crumb Cake Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Crumb Cake Dark Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Peach Pie Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Real Red Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Paper Trimmer
- Your preferred adhiesive
- A stamp block
- Scissors
Take one of the cut pieces of white card stock, your blending brushes and the Smokey Slate, Boho Blue and Crumb Cake ink pads. I started with Smoky Slate and blended it lightly for the start of the sky. Then I changed over to the Boho Blue and lightly blended over into the gray for the sky and then much darker for the water. Finally blended with the Crumb Cake to build the color for the sand. This forms your background for the front of your card.
I took a spare piece of white card stock and stamped the seagull with the french fries in his mouth with the Jet Black Staz-On ink. Then I stamped the french fries in the holder in the Jet Black Staz-On ink. Now take the second piece of card stock that you cut for the inside and stamp one of the other two seagulls in the lower right-hand corner in the Jet Black ink as well.
Gather your Stampin Blends pens. I used the light Smoky Slate to color the wings and tale of the french fry seagull and the inside seagull’s wings as well. Then the dark Smoky Slate I used to color the strips on the wings for both seagulls. Then color the feet and beak of both seagulls with the light Peach Pie. I then took the light Crumb Cake to color the french fries, the dark Crumb Cake to color the burger on the fry package and the light Real Red to color the french fry package.
Use your scissors to cut out the french fries and the seagull with the fries in his mouth. Adhere them to the sandy area of the sheet you created with your blending brushes for the front background. Then take your Crumb Cake ink and the shells stamp and stamp shells in the sand, I did one on each side of the seagull. Then take your Smoky Slate ink and the flying birds stamp and stamp that in the sky area, I also stamped those twice. Be sure to leave space for where you want to put your greeting.
Now stamp your “I love you more than French Fries” greeting in the Jet Black ink onto the white label piece you cut that is ¾” x 1 ¾”. Adhere that to the Crumb Cake piece you cut 1” x 2” and then adhere that to your card front. Adhere your card front to your card. Then adhere your inside white piece with the seagull stamped on it to the inside of your card. You are all done and I hope you love it as much I did.
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