Farewell to Lovely As A Tree Part 1

I didn't think I'd ever see the day! **Lovely As A Tree is finally retiring! I wanted to give this iconic Stampin' Up! stamp set a proper send off since it has been in Stampin' Up! catalogues an unprecedented 18 years, since 2001! Do you have it in your collection? If not, you only have three more weeks to take care of that! To be honest, I thought maybe it was going last year, when they brought out Rooted in Nature and Winter Woods complete with coordinating dies. I thought, "Oh, yeah, those are replacements for **Lovely As A Tree!", but I was wrong, so I thought it was immortal! Turns out I was just off by a year.

**These products will be retiring and no longer available in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue starting June 4, 2019.
***These products are no longer available from Stampin' Up!

What are your favourite cards that you've made with this stamp set? This week, I'm going to feature three new ones that I've created for my technique night classes and post a few oldies from my archives.

The first new design is a masculine card that would be great for Father's Day or a masculine birthday:

• It features the old oak tree image embossed in Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder on a layered circular panel that's the focal point. It also uses the **Wood Textures Designer Series Paper that will be retiring as well at the end of this month and a strip of 5/8" Burlap Ribbon.
• The sentiment is from the Rooted in Nature stamp set that is a bit of a replacement for **Lovely as a Tree. It's stamped in Cajun Craze here. I used Soft Suede, Sahara Sand and Cajun Craze for my palette.
• The dies I used for the center panels were the Layering Circles Dies and the Stitched Shapes Dies.

**These products will be retiring and no longer available in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue starting June 4, 2019.
***These products are no longer available from Stampin' Up!

Here are some blasts from the past with **Lovely as a Tree:

 Always great for Christmas cards!

 

And Christmas tags!

   

                          

A Fall - Themed Birthday Card

Sometimes in the background...

Northern Lights Technique

Table Decor


And maybe my favourite:

My take on that silly music video by Ylvis!

See how versatile this stamp set is! No wonder it has been around for so long. It's kind of timeless.

Anyway, back on Wednesday with another design with **Lovely As A Tree!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

**Lovely As A Tree Clear-Mount Stamp Set [127793] $27.00	**Lovely As A Tree Wood-Mount Stamp Set [128655] $38.00	Rooted In Nature Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146482] $57.00	Rooted In Nature Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146479] $75.00	Rooted In Nature Clear-Mount Bundle [148353] $99.00
Rooted In Nature Wood-Mount Bundle [148352] $115.00	**Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack [144177] $15.00	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318] $11.50	Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119684] $11.50	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043] $11.50
Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [147085] $10.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $12.25	Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636] $6.75	5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon [141487] $9.50	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25
Heat Tool [129053] $41.00	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $48.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $41.00	**Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50
***Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026] $13.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

**These products will be retiring and no longer available in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue starting June 4, 2019.
***These products are no longer available from Stampin' Up!