Friday, August 31, 2018

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards from the New Holiday Catalogue


One thing I really like about the new Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue is that there are a lot of ways for you to come up with simple solutions for your holiday greeting cards and today I want to show you another possibility! This one is made possible by some photorealistic Designer Series Paper in rich Christmas colours and some great Christmas sentiment dies. It's a really quick and easy design. Let's take a closer look:


  • It starts with that great DSP. It's the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper*, which alternates photorealistic images with cute graphic designs. The realistic images make great cards!
  • I mounted one of these panels on a Cherry Cobbler card base. Then I added a panel of Crumb Cake cardstock that I had run through the Big Shot using the Corrugated Dynamic Embossing Folder*.
  • Using the Merry Christmas Thinlits Dies* I ran the two words through the Big Shot with some Cherry Cobbler cardstock and some Gold Glimmer Paper, both backed with the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets, so that you just need to pull off the backing and stick them down on the card front when done. 
  • The final touch is to tie a bow in the Crumb Cake twine from Nature's twine and add it to the card front on the corrugated strip using a glue dot. I then coloured a Rhinestone with the dark Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends marker and added it to the middle of the bow.
  • Voila! Your card is done! Can you see yourself mass producing these?
*new products from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue, available for purchase Sept. 5, 2018


WHATTTT! YOU'VE LEFT IT TO THE LAST MINUTE AGAIN???
Yes, this is the last day to earn Bonus Days coupons to spend on the Holiday Catalogue in September! And this is the last day to order the gorgeous Blended Seasons Bundle before it's gone for good! Contact me if you need help to get your order in on time! You can order yourself at 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
Big Shot
[143263]
$150.00
Glue Dots
[103683]
$7.00

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Autumn in a Country Lane


As summer winds down, and we look towards the Labour Day weekend coming up, it's with more than a twinge of regret and a heap of relief for myself and many British Columbians, as we anticipate cooler weather, more rain and hopefully, the end of the forest fires and smoke-choked skies. The regret is for the summer that we had to spend half of indoors because of the poor air quality, which at times, was the worst in the world. But we had some rain which washed away the smoke temporarily and gave us a glimpse of clear skies and a bit of hope. And honestly, it was easy for us. We weren't among those who had to battle the flames, or be evacuated or who lost everything in the fires, so we count our blessings and pray for those who had it much worse.













These photos show a little of what it was like. The map shows the number of forest fires burning in the province a week or so ago. It looks like someone with a bad case of the measles!


So, yes, we're ready to write off summer and look forward to autumn, which brings me around to the card I want to share with you today. It uses a new suite from the up-coming Holiday Catalogue, Country Lane!






  • There are so many elements of this Country Lane Suite that I adore, I almost don't know where to start, but the Country Home stamp set* is as good a place as any! I love the two containers: the rustic jug and the milk can and then there are two bouquets of fall designs that you can stamp on top of either container. (The Stamparatus comes in handy here.) There are 8 sentiments, a tin tile design and a little plaque that fits the smaller sentiments.
  • If you look behind the stamped panel you see a portion of an embossed Tin Tile layer. To make this I used the new Tin Tile Dynamic Embossing Folder* and the Galvanized Metallic Paper*! It's so effective. Some of the other elements of the suite not included in this sample are Chicken Wire Elements*, Braided Linen Trim* and Galvanized Clips*, plus the Country Lane Designer Series Paper*.

 *new products from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue, available for purchase Sept. 5, 2018




Three more days to earn Bonus Days coupons to redeem in September (earn 1 $6 coupon for every $60 you spend in August per order.) And three more days left to order the Colour Your Season products. Contact me for details.


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
Heat Tool
[129053]
$40.00
Big Shot
[143263]
$150.00
Glue Dots
[103683]
$7.00