I’m very grateful to Stampin’ Up! for bringing out a new catalogue, full of new goodies. The catalogue went live on January 6th along with the big Sale-a-bration sale. See more details here. I was trying to make a birthday card for my sister whose birthday is next week but the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals stamp set wanted to make a thank you. So I went with it. It’s a supremely simple card and yet rather effective. I’m sure that I’ll make it in numerous colour ways. I love the typeface of the “thank” too.

I was having a very unusual day for me. I was having a “use DSP day”. In fact some cards had DSP AND ribbon. Which I think is a first. Anyway, I’d pulled out some Color Me Autumn to show that it could work with the new spring stamp sets and got my palette from that – crushed curry, mossy meadow and cajun craze. But after I’d stamped the stems in mossy meadow and some flowers in crushed curry, the DSP didn’t fit and the card was screaming for the Thank you to be stamped in crushed curry. Apparently cards sometimes have minds of their own.

I did eventually get my card done for my sister – and another for my brother to send her, but I made a bunch of other cards along the way. Apparently I needed time to create whilst still thinking about her card. There is pressure of course, she’s a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator herself so her cards had to be as perfect as possible!

I don’t know who will get my new thank you card, but it’s good to have some on hand. And it’s such a happy spring like thank you. I finished it off by adhering the very vanilla mat to a base of crushed curry and lined the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in crushed curry.