Rooted in Nature for Freshly Made Sketches

I went to a birthday party yesterday! It was the party of an old friend who was celebrating a milestone birthday of 70 years. Naturally, I had to make a beautiful card to bring for her and, as I've been itching to play with some more of my new products, I got out my Rooted in Nature Suite*, my absolute favourite of the new 2018/19 Annual Catalogue.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

In order to enter a couple of challenges with this card, I used the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge sketch for this week as the layout:

and I used the colour palette from Colour Throwdown: 

Aren't those colours lovely and soft? And they looked just like they were made for my friend, with their soft pastel shades of pink, lavender, green and gray.

Because none of the Designer Series Paper I have has a palette like this, I decided to make my own horizontal strip of DSP using sponging and emboss resist. For this I used all the veiny leaf images from Rooted in Nature*.

• I used the emboss resist technique on the horizontal panel by stamping the leaf images from Rooted in Nature* in Versamark ink and embossing them with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder. I used all the Colour Throwdown colours to sponge over these images which allows them to be seen as the ink penetrates all the white spaces in and around them. The colours I used were Smoky Slate, Wild Wasabi**, Blushing Bride and Sweet Sugarplum**. Both Wild Wasabi** and Sweet Sugarplum** are retiring this year in the Colour Revamp.
• On the Smoky Slate panel behind, I used the embossing dies from Nature's Roots Framelits* to emboss images of leaves on the panel and then I sponged over them in Smoky Slate ink to help them show up better. The cool thing about these embossing framelits is that, unlike embossing folders, which have a fixed pattern on them, you can design the pattern as you like it or have a single embossed image, or combine embossed images with die cuts. The possibilities are endless.
• The number 70 is die cut with the Large Number Framelits**, which are on the retiring list, from some retired DSP stack paper in Blushing Bride.
• The sentiment is from Milestone Moments** and stamped in Sweet Sugarplum**.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

**Retiring products from the 2017/18 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue and 2018 Occasions Catalogue, only available until May 31 or while supplies last.

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 1, you will be able to order the bundles from the early release Share What You Love Suite. Look over these flyers to see which one you want! Each bundle has free gifts or a discount associated with it!! Contact me to order or order from my On-Line Store.

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

Milestone Moments** Photopolymer Stamp Set [142954] $26.00	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131202] $10.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $11.25	Sweet Sugarplum** 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141418] $10.00	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $10.00
Versamark Pad [102283] $11.25	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130] $6.75	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [131179] $8.50	Wild Wasabi** Classic Stampin' Pad [126959] $8.50	Sweet Sugarplum** Classic Stampin' Pad [141395] $8.50
Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [131172] $8.50	Silver Mini Sequin Trim [144230] $8.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.00	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00	Stamping Sponges [141337] $4.75
Leaf Punch [144667] $21.50	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $40.00	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $46.00	Large Numbers** Framelits Dies [140622] $41.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25

Rooted in Nature Stamp Set*, Nature's Roots Framelit Dies*

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

**Retiring products from the 2017/18 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue and 2018 Occasions Catalogue, only available until May 31 or while supplies last.