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Pretty Petals and Endless Birthday Wishes

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The new 2016-2017 catalogue will be revealed to demonstrators in a couple of week’s time, we’ll be able to pre-order certain items in May and the entire catalog will be available to everyone for purchase in June. If you’d like to be able to see the new catalogue early, it’s easy – just go to the “Become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator” tab, press join and choose $125 worth of product for $99. I’m excited to see the new in colours and all the new items, including papers but that means that my current stash of paper is going to be retired. So last night I decided to focus on DSP for my card.

Stampin' Up! Pretty Petals and Endless Birthday Wishes

This DSP is from the Pretty Petals stack and I bordered it with a thin mat in old olive – taking the colour from the DSP. The other choice was calypso coral. I really like that there were more papers with very vanilla in them in this year’s catalogue, I hope this is true in the upcoming one. I stamped the sentiment and then cut it out with the die from the Rose Garden thinlits dies and then cut out another in old olive. I cut this in half – and trimmed the top and bottom so that it wouldn’t show. This enabled me to create a thin border (matching the width of the one behind the DSP) around the sentiment. I added a bow paper clip embellishment for some fun and then popped the sentiment up using dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Pretty Petals and Endless Birthday Wishes

I encourage you to pull out your soon to be retiring DSP and have some fun!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Watercolor Wishes meets Grateful Bunch

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I bought the Watercolor Wishes card kit a while back and put it to one side to wait until I put a class together to do it. One of the great things about this kit is that it’s all inclusive – as in the stamp set is included. I recently pulled out the stamp set and started playing with it. The sentiments are really pretty.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wishes and Grateful Bunch

I had cut this piece of DSP in mint macaron from the Pretty Petals stack a while ago when I was doing a sketch challenge but this one was put to one side. I recovered it from my “save for later” pile and decided it was time to continue. This card is actually the cause of the card that I shared yesterday because I was stamping and punching out the flowers from Grateful Bunch in both melon mambo and watercolour wonder. I love the way that both the stamp and the blossom bunch punch can create three flowers at a time. I decided that the watercolour wonder went best with the mint macaron but I didn’t quite like the overall combination of colours. Then it hit me that I had used whisper white card for the flowers and the DSP and base were very vanilla. Once I’d remade the flowers in very vanilla, I was happy. It also means that I have a few more flowers sitting on my desk asking to be used.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wishes and Grateful Bunch

Once I had all the pieces ready for construction, I put the DSP in the right place and first stamped the Thanks (isn’t that a great typeface?) in watermelon wonder. Stamping completed, I glued down the DSP and then glued down 2 of my flowers, popping up the third. The very vanilla layer was then glued to a very vanilla card base. Once that was done, I added the pearls to the centres of the flowers. The envelope is lined using more of the same paper so that it coordinates.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Pretty Petals DSP stack

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Today’s card features products that you can actually order today rather than those that are in the upcoming catalogue! A surprise I know. It’s so easy to get caught up in what’s coming that the current items get neglected.

Stampin' Up! Pretty Petals DSP stack and Birthday Blossoms

This card started when I was flicking through the Pretty Petals DSP stack and deciding that this paper is so pretty it just has to be used. I then looked at the front of the stack to get which colours are included – in this case, it’s very vanilla, calypso coral and old olive. So I carefully cut a mat out of the green and it just didn’t look quite right. This is when I realised that I’d grabbed pear pizzazz instead of old olive – my boxes of paper aren’t in the usual place after the Christmas festivities. Once I’d corrected the colours, I really liked how the green framed the DSP and went with the calypso coral card stock.

The sentiment comes from Birthday Blossoms – I love the typeface; I’ve used this one a lot. It’s stamped in old olive on very vanilla and I just cut the very vanilla down to where it felt right and matted it in more old olive. I had some scraps since it didn’t seem to be my day yesterday – I managed to cut the mat for the DSP a little too small the first time. I popped this up with stampin’ dimensionals.

So there you have it. A very clean and simple card showcasing the Pretty Petals DSP stack. When I really like the DSP, I don’t want to cover much of it up. I have another 3 pieces of this print so I should come up with another few cards using it in another way. I definitely have too much DSP, I’m going to try to use it more in 2016.

See you tomorrow,

Liz