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Mixed bunch of feelings

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Every year Stampin’ Up! retires items from the annual catalogue prior to bringing out the new catalogue. There are, apparently, 112 stamp sets on the list (no, I didn’t count them), twenty of which I own so I thought I’d pull some of them out and play. They are also retiring the 2013-2015 in colours to make room for the upcoming 2015-2017 ones. Whilst there is excitement at seeing what will be in the new catalogue, I’m sad to be losing strawberry slush which is my favourite pink. Twenty is a lot of stamp sets but of course it could have been a lot more. This card uses two of my soon-to-be-retired sets, Mixed Bunch and Lots of Thanks.

Stampin' Up! Mixed Bunch and Lots of Thanks

It looks fairly simple but it took a fair amount of work with ruler and pencil. I made the piece of very vanilla 5 inches across so that each stamp had an inch and I marked the centre of each inch – as well as having a horizontal line. After I stamped them and erased the pencil lines I managed to smear the ink and the lines didn’t erase completely. I’d show you the smeared result but it is now glued to the card that you see in the photo. It’s so useful that there are two sides to a piece of card! This time I had only a bottom horizontal line and vertical lines below it to show the centre of each stamp. I then erased the part of the horizontal line that would be stamped over and tried again. As you can see, no smearing. The ink colours are strawberry slush and sahara sand – a combination I got from another retiring item – the colour coach. The sentiment is from Lots of Thanks – a very useful set. I assume that there will be a replacement.

The sahara sand mat is 1/8 inch bigger in each dimension and is mounted on a strawberry slush base. I dry embossed the envelope flap with spring flowers since it was still out after a class last night.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

A Thousand Thanks

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I’ve mentioned before that I struggle to use DSP (Designer Series Paper) so I’m quite proud to present my first card where there’s a lot of DSP! I confess that I did start with one in only two colours to make it easier. Naturally, it’s a retired DSP, but you can’t have everything.

crushed curry thousand thanks eastern elegance

This is a clean and simple card (definitely my stamping style) and easy to mass produce using different DSPs.

Details

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ crushed curry

Stamp set: Stampin’ Up! Lots of Thanks

Mat: 4″ by 5.25″ Eastern elegance (retired) DSP

Other: Oval framelits 3 and 4 (counting from the smallest), Versamark, crushed curry embossing powder, embossing buddy

I rubbed the embossing buddy over a scrap of whisper white and then stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink and sprinkled the crushed curry embossing powder over it. Then, my favourite part, I heated it with the heating tool until the text was glossy. I used the #3 framelit to cut out the oval and then used both the #3 and #4 to cut out an oval frame in crushed curry cardstock. Then it was a simple matter of assembling the card by adhering everything together. I initially grabbed a very vanilla envelope and lined it with the background DSP in crushed curry since I use the very vanilla most of the time. After photographing the card and envelope, I noticed that it should’ve been whisper white and had to redo it. At least I now have a lined very vanilla envelope ready to go!