Texture Chic Dragonflies

Today's card features the beautiful TEXTURE CHIC Specialty Designer Paper, but I added a layer of VELLUM CARD STOCK to soften it and to let the Dragonflies stand out. The stamp set DRAGONFLY GARDEN is on the LAST CHANCE LIST as well, but they are keeping the DRAGONFLIES PUNCH for one more catalog.

I stamped the dragonflies onto SHIMMER WHITE card stock (on the LAST CHANCE LIST) with STAZON ink, then I colored in the dragonflies with our watercolor pencils and a blending pen. 

I was super sad to see that the White Seam Binding Ribbon is on the LAST CHANCE LIST - it has always been my go-to because I can color it any color I want with my Stampin' Blends Markers.

The ladies will be making this card at an upcoming Tuesday class.

"Celebrate You comes from DAINTY DELIGHT and I heat embossed it with gold. Thankfully the STYLISH SHAPES Dies are staying. That is what I used for the banners in white and blushing bride (a retiring color)

this card was inspired by Marisa Alvarez 

I LOVE Blushing Bride, but I can see that I am also going to love the new BUBBLE BATH color- 

Speaking of Bubble Bath - This is a product that my hubby makes for his soap line

This is our grandson, Liam. Isn't he just the cutest!! He is 2 + years old now and we haven't seen him is a while. We sure do miss his smiles! He's such a good boy! Dale has a product for each of our grandkids and they get some money each year put into their saving from the sales.

                                 

           

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There are some pretty deep discounts for you to grab

They are also doing a COLOR REFRESH this time

Here is a list of some of maybe your favorite colors 

that will be leaving our online store.

• Blushing Bride
• Pear Pizzazz
• Mint Macaron
• Rich Razzleberry
• So Saffron
• Merry Merlot
• Pacific Point
• Mango Melody
• Soft Suede
• Sahara Sand
• Bermuda Bay

So I would suggest to stock up on re inkers, card stock & embellishments in the retiring colors ASAP before they are gone.

2023-2025 In Colors Sneak Peek!!!

You can see how all these colors blend together so well. That was the first thing that brought me to using Stampin' Up! products. A big thanks to Rachel Tessman and Breina Burgin for sharing these wonderful images.

Here is a visual of all of the color families

I know it is not the easiest to read on my blog so I cannot wait to get a new catalog into your hands.

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       May Paper Pumpkin Kit

Say hello to mountain landscapes and new In Colors! This month’s kit features nine outdoors-themed cards in our new 2023–2025 In Colors plus exclusive FREE stickers. Want more? Get the cards & envelopes add-on (available 2 May while supplies last) and continue your creative adventure!

NEW IN COLORS 

This kit features outdoors-themed cards in our new 2023–2025 In Colors. It’s an easy way to introduce your customers to new colors. And then when they fall in love with the colors, you can show them all of the In Color products in the annual catalog and help  them start creating their own projects. Reach out to your current and past subscribers and let them know that whether they love color, the outdoors, or both, this is a kit they’ll want to get!

 

FREE STICKERS! 

This kit includes a special bonus: FREE STICKERS! Look around and you’ll see stickers everywhere—on water bottles, laptops, coolers. And, of course, on paper crafting projects! It’s an on-trend extra that your customers will love.

EXPLORING IN COLOR CARDS & ENVELOPES ADD-ON

This month, we’re offering a cards & envelopes add-on to keep the crafting adventure going! We’re sure your customers will love creating cards with the new In Colors and outdoorsy images, so we’re giving them opportunities to create even more. This add-on includes 18 cards, 6 each of 3 designs, plus 18 coordinating envelopes. This will give your customers lots of supplies to stay crafty and celebrate good friends and great adventures.

The add-on is available starting 2 May while supplies last, so don’t wait!

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• All the supplies you need to create 9 card, 3 each of 3 designs, plus 9 coordinating envelopes.
• A 7-piece all-occasion stamp set that celebrates good friends and great adventures!
• 1 Copper Clay (new In Color!) Classic Stampin’ Spot.
• Twine and die-cut accents
• FREE stickers to put on your projects or anything you want—water bottles, laptops, coolers, and more!
• Finished card size: 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" (10.8 x 14 cm).
• Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Boho Blue, Copper Clay, Daffodil Delight, Moody Mauve, Mossy Meadow, Pebbled Path, Wild Wheat

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Team Swap Cards

Today I will share the cards that my team made for our New Catalog Swap. None of my team members manage a blog post so I have no links to share with you. They may have cased or been inspired by another demonstrator, but if so, I am not aware.

Please enjoy

Dawn used TURTLE FRIENDS

Debbie made a sweet note pad cover using PLENTIFUL PLANTS

Marlane used DRAGONFLY GARDEN

Bonnie used VERY VERSAILLES

Anna loves penguins so used the PARTY PUFFINS Stamp Set

Pam used SEASCAPE and she said she cut the seahorse and coral from Basic White and just sponged on the color. I love it because it is so soft and sweet

Jodie used all of the in-colors. since there were 15 of us in the swap, she switched things up so each card had a different look even though she used all the same products. 

Susan also used TURTLE FRIENDS, but she also used the PATTERN PARTY Designer Paper that is a hostess exclusive product. Well, worth holding your own private "party" to get this.

Inez used AFTER THE STORM which is the stamp set that France Martin designed for her $1,000,000 in sales. Such a special perk for working hard (don't expect to see mine reach that anytime soon!)

Chris used ETCHED IN NATURE - This set was causing difficulties so it is no longer available to purchase. However I do have a set that I will sell if anyone is interested. 

Chris teamed her stamp set up with the BEAUTY OF THE EARTH Designer Paper

Carla used ELEGANTLY SAID Stamp Set & Punch Bundle, and Just Jade as her color

Janell used HAND-PENNED PETALS making a criss cross card and she tucked in a packet of seeds for everyone. Great idea! A Card AND a gift.

Linda could not be with us for the meeting, but sent her cards on ahead. She used the HYDRANGEA HAVEN Stamp Set 

Stephanie is one of our out-of-state demonstrators on our team. Due to a postal glitch her cards arrived late, but oh, how cute! using Peekaboo Farm.

Christi - This was my swap card and I used ARTISTICALLY INKED Stamp Set and Very Vanilla card stock and the brand new MACRAME 3D Embossing Folder.  I cased my card from Amy

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It's a Beautiful Day!

Mixing 2 stamp sets for this pretty card today:

Dragonfly Garden Bundle with the Dragonfly Punch (#156224) and Very Versaille (#149275)

Two colors to keep it simple: Misty Moonlight and Bumblebee (I stamped off the Bumblebee)

Card Inspired by Gail Ellis

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Angled Corner Layer Card

The final card that I had out at Tuesday's Come Stamp With Me class is this fun card with the bumble bees.

Some call this a Angled Corner Layer Card while others call it a Quadrangle Cut. It boils down to the fact that you take a 6" x 6" and you get 4 duplicate angled pieces like this.

I decided to use the Dandy Garden 6 x 6 Designer Paper (#154297) and Misty Moonlight card stock. I have a 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Misty Moonlight that I embossed with the Old World Embossing Folder (#153200).

I used my favorite die set, Stitched So Sweetly (#151690) for the 3 focal dies

Dragonfly Garden bundle (#156224) and Many Mates Stamp Set (#152633) for the sentiment.

Do you love that added piece of ribbon? so cute, right!! It is the Bumblebee 1/4" gingham ribbon (#153658)

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Dandy Laser-Cut Paper

 One of the new products in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog is the Dandy Laser-Cut Paper (154300)

Sometimes items like this get over looked so I wanted to pull it out and  see what I could come up with 

It's kind of hard to see in the photo because they are all white pieces.

And there are so many more options than what I came up with because you can color each piece with your Stampin' Blends or sponge daubers. In fact, you can use some of the pieces as a mask and double your pleasure.

However - this is what I came up with 

Card #1 - I left the sentiment off becasue I'm not sure what I will be using it for yet. I also added one of the small sprigs to make it look fuller. I also added and extra layer with a scalloped circle (Layering Circles Dies #151770) in Mossy Meadow and a stitched circle for the sentiment. (Stitched Shapes Dies #152323). All popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Card #2 - This front piece made me think of the fence that Mr. McGregor may have had up to keep Peter Rabbit out of his garden. I was looking through my bin of extras and found this cute FABLE FRIENDS (retired) bunny and even the Crushed Curry "happy" die cuts (Well Written Dies #151816) which I actually layered 3 on top of each other to make it stand out.

Card #3: I LOVE the Seaside Spray card stock color and HOPING that Stampin' Up! will bring this color into the main color families line-up next time they do a color re-vamp. I pulled in the HAPPY THOUGHTS Stamp Set (#154507) for the sentiment. This is where I took a little liberty...I found a VersaMark Marker at a local craft store so that I could use it for just the "happy thoughts" portion so that I could heat emboss it with white embossing powder onto black card stock. Then I stamped the full image using Memento Black Ink onto Basic White (new product that replaces Whisper White #159276), and I cut the words apart as seen. The little flowers are from Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set and punched with the coordinating Strawberry Builder Punch (#154239) AND the beauty is that you can buy the stamp set and punch as a bundle and save 10% (#156214)

Card #4 - I am using the Dandy Garden 6x6 Designer Paper again (#154297)  I have seen many examples using this piece and I'm wishing that I could buy just this piece in bulk. I embossed it with my new favorite Embossing Folder PAINTED TEXTURE 3D (#154317). I'm using the same HAPPY THOUGHTS Stamp Set, but this time I stamped the sentiment in black before I embossed it, then I stamped it a second time with Bumblebee ink onto scrap Basic White and fussy-cut the "happy thoughts" to pop it up using the MINI STAMPIN' DIMENSIONALS (#144108).

I pulled in my DRAGONFLY GARDEN Stamp Set (#154411) and coordinating DRAGONFLIES PUNCH (#154240) to stamp the dragonfly. BONUS: Purchase the stamp set and punch as a bundle and save 10% (#156224). Optional: there are dragonflies on some of the designer paper that you can punch out and use on your card.

Card #5: This particular piece of designer paper is a "WHAT?" - way too 'out-there' for me - however - using the dragonfly piece on the front really tones it down, and as I laid this piece on all the different patterns, I really fell for this one the best. Another dragonfly is added onto the front. It's so nice to have cards that have no sentiment on the front so that I can use it for whatever occasion comes up.

Card #6: Other than the Seaside Spray card (#3), this card is my favorite. I actually had this cute little turtle from BACK ON YOUR FEET (#149385)  all ready to go in my left-over stash, and it was already colored and mounted onto an Old Olive scalloped circle (Layering Circles Dies #151770). I used the MESSAGES DIES (#154422) for the sentiment. This is such a great one piece die but you get a multitude of cut outs. Check it out: Awesome, right!!??

There is a stamp set that bundles with the Messages Die - Many Messages Bundle (#156222)

This stamp is ONE STAMP with many words that match up exactly to the one piece die. HOWEVER - what I ended up doing is cutting my words apart so now I have individual word stamps and I can use them with any of the die openings available.

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Sneak Peek & Baby Liam Update

I will share my most recent photo of our sweet grandson, Liam

He is one week old today. He is off the CPAP, oxygen and his IV's. What you are seeing is his feeding tube. He needs to keep his food down on a regular basis and gain some weight before they will discharge him. He dropped to 3# 11oz. but he is doing well, sleeping good - especially on his tummy where he doesn't spit up as much.

Here is a fun little treat box that I made for display at his baby shower. It holds one pair of baby socks as the bun the tis in the oven.

At this point in time we had no clue that he would arrive so very early.

This past weekend - Thursday night through Saturday, Stampin' Up! held their yearly ON STAGE event virtually. Of course, if life was normal I would have traveled to to Utah for this event. I was gifted this fun virtual event from my friend and fellow stamper, Janell & her mama, Nell. 

We started by watching the opening evening on Thursday with 12 of our team members, and then 4 of us who purchased the event spent Friday and Saturday together watching a variety of break out classes and some amazing stamping - showing off some of the new stamp sets.

Oh - I just cannot wait until I can pre-order from the January - June 2021 Mini Catalog on December 1 and then start making up cards and projects for classes coming in January.

One of the stamp sets that we were given is called DRAGONFLY GARDEN and that is the set that we had for our "make & takes" (they were called something different but I cannot remember what they called it).

We were also gifted the DANDY GARDEN 6x6 Designer Paper along with some ribbon and some ladybug elements.

The talented Kylie Bertucci, a demonstrator from Australia, made this cute card using both Dragonfly Garden Stamp set and Dandy Garden DSP

I loved it so much I had to case it, and I plan to use it for an upcoming class once the products are available to purchase.

Another stamp set that we were given (if we purchased the swag bag) was the stamp set called ENJOY THE MOMENT.

I decided to try this same card using the Enjoy the Moment Stamp Set and make my own Designer Paper

The sentiment I used is from BEST YEAR. Everything is heat embossed with White Embossing Powder.

I am looking forward to using both of these new sets on future cards. I hope you liked them as well.

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