A Daring Adventure!

Here's a card that I case'd (oh, yeah!)  from the brand new 2012 Stampin' Up! Catalog. The complete card was done digitally - I'm hooked! 

I absolutely love how it enables you to change the size of the stamp sets. For instance, the typed area is actually a background stamp that I reduced and then repeated twice to fill in behind the banner.

There are no embellishments on this card - but I don't think they're missed! I think this could qualify for  a graduation card, don't you?

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Simple with beachy kind of colors! Using the largest blossom from Betsy's Blossoms, I stamped it twice. I used one full blossom and then cut just the center area out of the second blossom to add a little dimension. The leaves were stamped on Crumb Cake card stock with Crumb Cake ink. I hand cut the Baja Breeze card stock at a bit of an angle and then embossed it with the Stripes embossing folder. Tied up with a little Linen thread and a "hello" tag finish it off. And now a close up...

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Fun Flower Package

I had a couple of thank you's to send out that needed something extra with it - like some of our great product. I chose some Designer Buttons to hide between the layers of this flower!

  

                                                                                                                                                                  

  

 I began by cutting a large scalloped circle using the Big Shot! and the Scalloped Circle #2 Die (only available until May 31st!). I then adhered a Shaker Frame filled with Designer Buttons! It was topped off with two flowers created with the Fun Flowers Bigz L Die and a Brights Designer Button. You could fill it with anything - brads, ribbon, candy, die cut flowers....

Here's a side view - now you'd never have a reason to actually look at it like this but

I wanted to show you to help explain how I sandwiched the pieces.   

And another color scheme!

   Floral District DSP    -   Rich Razzleberry card stock     - Calypso Coral card stock

                                     Designer Buttons, Brights    -       Shaker Frames
                                    Fun Flowers Bigz L Die    -  Scalloped Circle #2 Die

Hostess Set Sneak Peek

Here's another sneak peek! This time another look at the Floral District DSP and a wonderful hostess set that will be available June 1st in the new catalog. It's a great stamp set with a number of "Keep Calm and" sentiments paired with images of a crown, cupcake, and.... well, I don't want to give it all away! Let's just say you'll use this set for all those girlfriend cards you need to make this year.

The sentiment is stamped onto Whisper White card stock and die cut using the smallest of the dies in the Apothecary Accents Framelit set. I adhered it to Tangerine Tango card stock and hand cut  it 1/8" around the edges to set it off a bit. A little paper piercing on two adjacent corners (look for a brand new set of paper piercing tools and designs coming soon!).

For this card I cut the floral DSP @ 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" - the same as size as my finished card. I placed the new Apothecary Accents Framelit in the center of the paper, cut it out using the Big Shot! and then used the leftover frame for the inside of the card. Makes the inside almost as pretty as the front.  I rounded the corners to match the card - no waste at all!

2012-14 Stampin' Write Markers 

                        Floral District DSP                          

    Apothecary Accents Framelits       

   Betsy's Blossoms      

              Carry On                     

       Baja Breeze Seam Binding            

      3/16" Corner Rounder Punch           

And There's More!

So, what do you think of this new paper? It's one of the all-new Floral District Designer Series papers. Pretty, isn't it?

It teams up with Rich Razzleberry, Baja Breeze and Daffodil Delight. I think it's great and look forward to using it many, many times!

It's a little hard to see in this picture, but the card also sports a brand new die cut - a rectangle with a place on each end that's perfect for tying ribbon through. It's one of the  new dies in the Apothecary Accents Framelit collection.

Stay posted - there's more coming every day until you've seen all this paper has to offer! 

A Sneak Peek!

So I've been working with my brand new products... so fun!

Scrumptious colors like Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green and Primrose Petals. This card is using Betsy's Blossoms, a great new stamp set - flowers, birds and a great leaf stamp with almost a tropical feel to it. Love the clean feel of so many of the new products.

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I do have to tell you what happened tho'!

The UPS man arrived Thursday afternoon with a box which I knew was my new catalogs. However, because I have been gone and have let the housework go a bit, I was in the middle of cleaning and still had the refrigerator to go. So I sent a text to my upline to make sure someone knew how good I was being by finishing work before play. I was going to finish my work, brew a cuppa and then sit down with no interruptions to browse. I did (it's amazing how fast you can clean when you've got a new cattie waiting for you!), got my cup of coffee and with my 15 yr old daughter watching proceeded to open the "box". It had to be a production - this only happens once a year, right?

Well, here's what I found in the box!

Aarrgghh! Well, these were exciting a year ago! Not so much today! 

So... called Becky - yep, the Becky Roberts cause I had to tell her. Do you want to guess the next part of the story?

I decided I'd sit back down at the computer and look at the cattie again online - the doorbell rings and here's Becky with a brand new catalog for me! I wish I'd gotten a pic of that to share with you!

The happy ending to the story - a call to Stampin' Up! and as always they made it right. Thank you Stampin' Up! and Becky for always making good things happen!