Here’s a new product that will be in the upcoming Occasions catalogue which I am certain will be really popular. I went clean and simple with it today (no surprise there, right?) to produce an elegant birthday card. The product is rose garden thinlits dies – I’m looking forward to using it as a stencil too.

Gorgeous right? But in case your heart sinks at the thought of pushing out all the little pieces of card stock, let me tell you about a new tool that debuts in the new catalogue – the big shot die brush. You just roll the brush over the back of the die and the pieces are pushed out along with a lot of the wispy pieces of card onto a foam pad. I stamped the sentiment in real red on very vanilla card stock and then used the fine tip glue pen to attach the real red die cut. I then mounted this on a real red card base. I finished off the card with an envelope liner in real red inside a very vanilla envelope. I forgot to add the new brights designer paper stack to my last order so I’m still using the retired backgrounds DSP in brights.

The upcoming Occasions catalogue has a lot of birthday products in it, hence my recent spate of birthday cards. And I still have more product in my Stampin’ Up! box that I haven’t played with yet. Although I have added the new products to my online store, you won’t be able to add them to your order until January 5th.