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Grateful Bunch

One thing I’m grateful for today is the sketch that Jane gave us over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week. Yesterday I shared a card inspired by the sketch and one of the entries into the challenge, here’s another. I’m sticking with yesterday’s floral motif, but today I’m using Grateful Bunch.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Spring Flowers TIEF and Rose Wonder

The embossed square was first cut out and then embossed with another retired folder, Spring Flowers. I love this one – it creates such a happy look, I often use it on envelope flaps for birthdays. I stamped the flowers in blushing bride on the same colour card stock and punched them out with the blossom bunch punch. The stamp and punch are awesome in that they do three flowers at a time in three different sizes. In the event, the smallest flower was too small to have a dot, so I stamped and punched another medium sized flower which was just right (are you thinking of Goldilocks too?). Whilst I had the ink out, I stamped the sentiment, from Rose Wonder and also the #Imbringingbirthdaysback onto the envelope.

Then it was construction time – I used fast fuse to securely fix the embossed piece to the card and then added very vanilla enamel dots to the centres of the flowers. These were from the Holiday catalogue and I hadn’t used any of the cream dots before. Actually I think I’d only used one dot at all before this card! I attached two of the flowers with glue dots and then popped up the lower one on dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Spring Flowers TIEF and Rose Wonder

I completed the envelope with a liner cut out with the envelope liner framelits and using the subtles family backgrounds DSP. I have the new DSP but apparently I haven’t lined many envelopes with blushing bride.

Take a look over at CAS Colours & Sketches to be inspired by the rest of the design team and the challenge entrants.

Happy Pi Day.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

#Imbringingbirthdaysback

Happy St David’s Day.

I don’t know if you’ve heard but there’s a movement started by Stampin’ Up! training manager, Shannon West, to encourage the sending of real birthday cards. Shannon had been bemoaning the fact for years that Facebook reminds people about birthdays on the day which leads to a post wishing the celebrator a happy birthday but no real card. This year she noticed that this practice had extended to Christmas cards and she decided to post an offer. On Facebook! Anyone who wanted a birthday card from her was to let her know and she’d send one. She carved a stamp with #Imbringingbirthdaysback – she said that she wants people to join in and it’s not just hers but we’rebringingbirthdaysback doesn’t work as a hashtag and becomes werebringingbirthdaysback!

What an awesome idea. Which has grown larger than she ever expected and I believe she has close to 1500 people in her spreadsheet now. Stampin’ Up! asked how they could help and between SU and Shannon it was decided that they would manufacture her stamp and yesterday my sister alerted me to a post on Facebook saying that it would be available at midnight MT which is 2:00am here. I wanted one but I was not planning to stay up until 2. For one thing, I’d baked a batch of Mel’s Chocolate Chip Cookies and feared that if the cookies and I stayed up that late, only one of us would survive and the people in the office would not be happy! Yes, the cookies are that good.

Stampin' Up! #Imbringingbirthdaysback

Apparently this was very important to me – it does fit with my plan to send more cards this year, or perhaps I knew what was going to happen. But I happened to wake up at 2:00am on the dot. And figured – why not place an order. So I did and then went back to sleep. This morning I see that Facebook is full of people saying that they ordered their stamp and then that it was on backorder. Yes. In one night. I don’t know how many they manufactured but clearly it was an experiment since Stampin’ Up! had never done anything like this before. As of this morning, the inventory report shows that 120 are on backorder. I say, get your order in asap (item #143573) so that you get one from the next batch. And get your birthday cards ready to send!

See you tomorrow,

Liz