Beautifully Celebrated for As You See It Challenge #365

Crazy busy and complicated week. My head is overwhelmed, both with things at home and things happening in the world. It's like someone turned the world upside down. So I don't have the bandwidth for a long blogpost today. But I wanted to bring you my card for the As You See It Challenge #365 Recipe Challenge, Rhapsody in Red, my own concoction!

Here's the banner:

And here's my card, incorporating all 5 elements of the recipe:

• I started with a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of Poppy Parade cardstock, scored at 4 1/4".
• I added a piece of retired DSP from the Bloom Impressions set that I got from last year's Sale-A-Bration. 
• I die cut 3 circles using the Spotlight on Nature dies: the first and third on vellum and the center one on using some leftover Ombre Specialty Glimmer paper in a similar hue.
• I heat embossed the sentiment, from the new Beautifully Celebrated stamp set, in gold on Poppy Parade cardstock and fussy cut it out. I mounted on top of the circles with Stampin' Seal and Stampin' Dimensionals on the ends.
• I finished by tying a double finger bow from Cherry Cobbler & Gold Satin Ribbon, and adding to the card front with a glue dot. I also added some clear Faceted Snowflakes.
  
  

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Product List

Beautifully Celebrated Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [166968]	Beautifully Celebrated Bundle (English) [166975]	* Impressions 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [164944]	Poppy Parade 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119793]	*Ombre 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [155784]
Vellum 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [167099]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder [165678]	Embossing Additions Tool Kit [159971]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]
Faceted Snowflakes [166077]	*Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Satin Ribbon [164028]	Spotlight On Nature Dies [163580]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Stampin' Seal [152813]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]

*Retired and no longer available

Nature Walk Suite for As You See It Challenge #364

Happy New Year and welcome back to more As You See It Challenges. We're excited to fill your 2026 with creative and interesting papercrafting challenges. Our first one, Challenge #364, is a Fill In the Blank challenge thought up by team member, Deborah! Here's the banner:

Well, my latest craft purchase is from the new January/April Mini Catalogue and it's called the Nature Walk Suite of products, which includes stamps, coordinating dies, DSP and Specialty paper, ribbon and embellishments. It was the colours and versatility of the suite that drew me to it, lots of great texture and distressed elements! Take a good look at my greeting card again:

I filled in the blank with "Nature Walk Suite of products", a new collection including DSP, Specialty Paper, stamps and coordinating dies, ribbon and embellishments. I purchased it for its elements of beautiful blues and greens, texture everywhere, nature elements, masculine embellishments, and potential for vintage creations. Take a look at the illustration below:

Here's how I made the card:

• I used a card base of Mossy Meadow, 5 1/2" x 11", score at 4 1/4".
• On that, I adhered a piece of Nature Walk DSP, 5 1/4" x 4".
• I added another piece of the script design of the DSP, 2 1/2" x 4" to the card front.
• I used a 3" x 3 1/2" piece of Natural Hues Textured Specialty Paper, which reminds me of the weight and texture of the paper we used to come up with when we home made paper with a blender. 
• I first carefully ripped it down one side, then embossed it with the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folded. 
• Lastly, before mounting it on the card front, I used Pecan Pie ink and a small blending brush to add ink to the raised areas and the edges to enhance the distressed look.
• I stamped the foliage and the sentiment in Mossy Meadow ink on Very Vanilla cardstock using the images from the Nature's Symphony stamp set.
• I die cut the foliage with the coordinating Nature's Symphony dies. I also die cut a second shadow piece for the foliage using the same dies and the Natural Hues Textured Specialty Paper and blended Pecan Pie ink on the edges of that piece as well.
• I used glue dots and liquid glue to adhere the foliage to the shadow, then Mini Dimensionals to attach the whole piece to the card front, as shown. 
• I fussy cut out the sentiment and glued it to the card front as shown, as well.
• The last touch was the Faux Bronze Pentagons. I added 3 of them, as you can see in the photo.

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Product List

Nature's Symphony Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [166919]	Nature's Symphony Bundle (English) [166926]	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111]	Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665]	Nature Walk Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet (English) [166935]
Natural Hues 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Textured Specialty Paper [166929]	Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133676]	Very Vanilla 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166784]	Faux Bronze Pentagons [166931]	Exposed Brick 3 D Embossing Folder [161600]
Nature's Symphony Dies [166925]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Stampin' Seal [152813]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]

Ornamental Christmas for As You See It Challenge #363

Well, can you believe it? Our last As You See It challenge of 2025! Where has the year gone?? It seems like just yesterday we were starting the year fresh! And we're ending it the same way we started it - with a colour challenge! This one is a Neutral Colour Challenge and it was designed by our former team mate, Jane. Take a look at the challenge banner:

Some of you may not agree that Mossy Meadow and Night of Navy should be classed as neutrals, but they are in the Neutral family of colours at Stampin' Up! I decided to get out my Ornamental Christmas bundle for this card and I was happy with the results of the card it made.

• I started with a regular card base of Night of Navy cardstock and covered that with a 4" x 5 1/4" layer of Peaceful Garden Garden cardstock in Pecan Pie design. 
• Over that is a Basic White layer, 3 1/2" x 4 3/4", embossed using the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder.
• Using the Ornamental Christmas dies, I die cut the circle from Night of Navy cardstock and added it to the card front as shown.
• I stamped the skinny tree image in Mossy Meadow ink and die cut it with the coordinating Ornamental Christmas die and added it to the card front.
• I stamped three of the star images in Night of Navy ink and die cut them using the coordinating die and added them to the tree. The top star I used a mini dimensional, and the other two I used a glue dot.
• I used a Rhinestone Basic Jewel in the center of each star.
• I stamped the sentiment in Pecan Pie ink and fussy cut it out. I glued it on the card front as shown. Simple but effective. This would be a good design for mass production.

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Product List

Ornamental Christmas Cling Stamp Set (English) [165991]	Ornamental Christmas Bundle (English) [166001]	Peaceful Garden 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [165917]	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110]	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111]	Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665]	Ornamental Christmas Dies [166000]	Exposed Brick 3 D Embossing Folder [161600]
Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220]	Paper Snips [103579]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]