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Birthday Bouquet DSP

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I’m continuing to look at the mound of DSP and trying to use it to make space for more DSP that I know will be on the way to me in the next couple of months!  I was playing with the hexagon punch at the weekend and, having recently used a circle as a stencil, I decided to cut a number of circles in DSP and see where I ended up. The Birthday Bouquet looked right for this and I cut a few circles out of one of the sheets and decided to use both sides on a card. With about 7 weeks to go before the 2014-2016 in colours retirement, I discovered that I love mossy meadow and watermelon wonder together.

Stampin' Up! Birthday Bouquet DSP and Party Pants

I positioned one of the circles off the card (the trimmer makes it easy to get a good right angle on the paper) and then added the other circle to the card. The sentiment comes from the Sale-a-bration set, Party Pants. It’s one of my current favourite “Happy Birthday to you” images and it’s stamped in watermelon wonder. I cropped it with a 1.5″ circle punch and popped it up with stampin’ dimensionals. The piece of whisper white was then glued to a mossy meadow card base. Then I decided to add some mossy meadow enamel dots (they were in the holiday catalogue and were mostly unused!) Don’t the colours go beautifully? You’re going to miss mossy meadow too, aren’t you?

Stampin' Up! Birthday Bouquet DSP and Party Pants

I used the same paper to line the envelope using the envelope liners framelits to cut it out. There. That’s used up almost a third of a piece of DSP. There’s still a LOT to go! Take a look at your stash and use some up ready for the new catalogue. You know you’re going to be buying more soon!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Suite Sayings are a must

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Here’s another card that I made at the weekend – the Birthday Bouquet DSP was in our goody bags and this is probably my favourite print from that collection.

Stampin' Up! Suite Sayings and Birthday Bouquet DSP and Rose Garden Thinlits dies

This is a bit of a CASE from the Valentine’s day card that I shared on Sunday, – but if you like the design, why not reuse it? I cut the DSP about 2 inches narrower than the card base and then cut a mint macaron mat for the it. Once I’d assembled this, I started looking for the right sentiment. I really like this one from Suite Sayings, in fact of the ten cards I made over the weekend I ended up using it four times! So I have to say that I’d recommend getting this set.

I stamped the sentiment in mint macaron on whisper white and then used the Rose Garden thinlits to cut it out. I then cut another out of mint macaron and cut the ends off to give the mat at the sides and attached this with dimensionals.

I used the envelope liner framelits and the 2015-2017 in color designer series paper stack to create my insert for the envelope. There’s a nice stripe on the other side of this paper but I’ve yet to let it see the light, it only ever sees the glue!

Today I got to see the three new Sale-a-bration items that will be available from February 16th until March 31st and I know which one I want first! I can’t share pictures of them until the 16th (although I could if I bought them today, but I’m waiting to get them free!) but if I were you, I’d have a few items ready to order so that you qualify for them.

See you tomorrow,
Liz

Birthday Blossoms

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I was looking for a challenge yesterday and found the sketch challenge at the PalsPaperArts. I’ve been getting more confident with sketches in the last few months and actually give them a go more often than not. I used to see a sketch and move on. Now I only do that if it’s too fussy for me.

Stampin' Up! Birthday Blossoms and Birthday Bouquet DSP and Botanical Garden Jewels

This card is probably a surprise – it’s a bit more embellished than usual. And there’s a reason for that! I’d finished the card but somehow managed to smear the front with a little mossy meadow on the front (probably due to not enough space since I hadn’t cleaned up my table lately) so I went looking for something to cover it up. The problem was under the leftmost botanical garden jewel (no, you haven’t missed them in the catalogue, they are coming out in the new occasions catalogue which launches on January 5) and it would look odd to just have a single one, so I went with three. I could have applied them with glue dots but I used the leftover adhesive dots from the December Paper Pumpkin which I shared yesterday.
Here’s the sketch which inspired the card

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I decided to use another sneak peek as my three lines – this is the birthday bouquet DSP and it’s a beautiful collection. I cut a piece of the blushing bride and whisper white DSP the right size to get the three lines and then looked for a happy birthday sentiment which would fit in the appropriately sized oval. I love green with pink and mossy meadow is in the Birthday Bouquet DSP so it’s an easy pick. The sentiment is from Birthday Blossoms stamp set which was new in this year’s annual catalogue. I used the envelope liner framelits to crop a liner for the inside of my envelope. I love dressing up the envelopes!

See you tomorrow,

Liz