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Designer Tin of Cards

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What’s a Designer Tin of Cards? Well I’m glad that you asked!  It’s a project kit that Stampin’ Up! sells which contains the consumables to create 16 cards and a tin to store them in with organising tabs. But it doesn’t include the stamp set, ink or adhesive. I bought the designer tin of cards and also the stamp set of the same name to complete the set.  But the sentiments are fun and definitely aren’t confined to the 16 cards in the kit. As you can see here:

Stampin' Up! Baby Bear and Designer Tin of Cards

Here’s an image showing the project kit. It’s only $27 and if you gather with your friends or demo, you only need one stamp set.

Designer Tin of Cards Project Kit

The sentiment is actually bigger than just Thanks, but I coloured just the Thanks in with my Stampin’ Write marker in cherry cobbler. For the bear, I used Baby Bear and intended this to be the start of a recent design card at CAS Colours & Sketches. I stamped the first image in soft suede, stamped off twice, then the second image in the same ink, stamped off once. The final image is stamped, would you believe, in elegant eggplant. There was a colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches but the cucumber crush just didn’t want to play with this as a starting point. But I didn’t want to waste the bear. I love the elegant eggplant with the soft suede, it works really well. After getting a smear of ink on the card, I decided to rescue my bear and fussy cut him out. After adding the cherry cobbler sentiment, I popped up the bear on dimensionals. Then I noticed a little cherry cobbler dot but I “fixed” that by putting a cherry cobbler enamel shape over it.

This works well because this card is for a 4 year old. One of my friends at work signed up for Paper Pumpkin’s special offer last month and her sons had a lot of fun playing with it. They both made me a card so I wanted to make cards for them too. This one seems perfect. I dry embossed the envelope with Lucky Stars to match the enamel shape.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Baby Bear Thank You

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When I first saw the Baby Bear set in the catalogue, I knew he was going to be on my first order. It’s not as if I have masses of friends having babies at the moment and need welcome baby sort of cards, but the set was still necessary. Immediately! I didn’t realise until this morning when I stamped him, just how incredibly detailed and realistic he looks.

Stampin' Up! Baby Bear and Vertical Greetings

I messed him up the first time, but then found that by stamping the most detailed colour first – since it’s the darkest colour – it’s much easier to line everything up. I also concentrated on getting the bottom of him right and everything else fell into place. Concentrating on his paws or ears doesn’t work because not all of the three stamps have the details at the edges. So I started with soft suede and did the detailed layer, then moved to the middle less detailed layer and stamped in crumb cake. The final layer which is just a block of colour, I did in crumb cake stamped off once.

I was planning on stamping the ribbon and did so – in sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry but I felt that the bear looked so real, he needed a real bow. I found some pear pizzazz cotton ribbon in my stash and that set the rest of the colour scheme. The sentiment wasn’t planned – I just happened to stamp the practice bear on a piece of scrap which had the Thank You from Vertical Greetings and it really fit. I added a skinny soft suede mat before adding that to the pear pizzazz card base. I happened to have an envelope liner cut out already so I used that to dress up the envelope.

I hope you are having a great start to the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz