What's New at SU Blog Hop with the Coordination Products Birthday Dies

I'm so pleased that you are joining us for our hop. We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world who are Hoppin’ With Exciting Ideas to share with you. Our theme this month is the Coordination Products that match products in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure or the Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue. I hope you'll find some exciting ideas to help you!

The Coordination Product that I'm using for my projects today is the Birthday Dies.They coordinate with the Happy Birthday To You stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure, which I also used to demonstrate. I also used some Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper in the background. Here's a closer look:

                                                                 

• For the card on the right, the birthday cake image was stamped twice in Versamark on Whisper White and embossed in Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder. An Aqua Painter was then used to paint the images with Petal Pink, Smoky Slate, Blackberry Bliss, Rich Razzleberry, Pear Pizzazz, and So Saffron inks.
• The Birthday dies were used to die cut the whole birthday cake on one of the images and just the flowers on another of the images. In addition, the baby's breath die was used to die cut one sprig from vellum.
• On the Smoky Slate card base, some Silver Foil, embossed with the Tufted 3D Embossing Folder, was adhered and some of the Peaceful Poppies DSP in Blackberry Bliss was added after embossing the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Happy Birthday to You stamp set, in silver at the top.
• The extra flowers were added atop the matching ones but offset a little, as shown and popped up on dimensionals. The single blossom was trimmed off and used at the bottom of the cake dish with the baby's breath on the left of it using a couple of Mini Dimensionals.

• The box has dimensions of 2.5" x 2.5" x 3.25". It was made with a retired Gift Box Punch Board. Four panels of the same Peaceful Poppies DSP measuring 2 3/8' x 3 1/8" were added to the vertical sides of the box and one measuring 2 3/8" square was added to the top. The opening mechanism is at the bottom.
• The cake image is embossed with Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder once only this time it's coloured using So Saffron, Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow, Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss Stampin' Blends Combos. The flowers only are die cut and separated between the single and double flowers using the Birthday Dies. The milk jug from the Country Home stamp set was embossed in Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder and coloured using Smoky Slate Stampin' Emboss Combos. Then the flowers are arranged on the top using glue dots and dimensionals, with the addition of vellum leaves and baby's breath, also die cut using the same die set.                                                                                                                                                                                  
  
                      

I hope you enjoyed my design with the Poppy Moments Dies. Now please hop on over to Tricia Butt's blog to see what's new with SU in her world:

Or try moving back to Brenda Copper's blog for her creation:

Here's the list of bloggers in our What's New At SU January Blog Hop to help you keep on track:

February 2020 Blog Hop Roll Call

Joyce Whitman- Stampin’ Scrapper

Sharon Burkert- As the Ink Dries

Brenda Copper- Stamping with the Copper Cropper

Heather Cooper- Playing with Paper Crafting

Tricia Butts- Tricia’s Stamping Creations

Diane Browning- 247inkspiration

Loni Spendlove- Creative Juice by Loni                                                                                Anke Heim- Scraphexe 

Please take a moment to comment at the bottom of this post and let me know how you liked my projects or ask me a question about the technique used. Don’t forget to scroll back up and keep hoppin’ with us! – Thank you!

Keep Creating!

Heather Cooper

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Product List

Happy Birthday To You Cling Stamp Set (English) [152308] $0.00	Country Home Photopolymer Stamp Set [147678] $27.00	Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper [151324] $15.75	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $6.75	Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101910] $13.50
Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101856] $13.50	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131202] $12.00	Neutrals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock [147003] $16.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00
Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] $8.25	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [145058] $12.00	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $10.25	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $10.25	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092] $10.25
Blackberry Bliss Combo Pack Stampin' Blends [147932] $12.00	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091] $10.25	Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144602] $12.00	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [147109] $10.25	So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [149557] $12.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $10.25	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147274] $12.00	Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [148547] $12.00	Silver 3/8" Metallic-Edge Ribbon [144213] $9.50	Whisper White Solid Baker's Twine [124262] $4.75
Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Birthday Dies [153590] $37.00	Gift Box Punch Board* [135863] $27.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Paper Snips [103579] $13.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

*Retired Product - no longer available through Stampin' Up!

Birthday Dies for As You See It Challenges

I'm trying to keep up with trying out all the new products that I have from the Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue, the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue and the new Coordination Product Release. I killed two birds with one stone, so to speak, when I created a card that used a Sale-A-Bration Reward stamp set, the Happy Birthday to You set along with a Coordination Product release die set that coordinates with it, the Birthday Dies. The Birthday Dies are great because they not only die cut the images in the set, but they also add a few new elements to add on to it, as well as die cut the flowers on the cake separately from the cake if you just want to use them.
I created this card as my Design Team sample for the latest As You See It Challenge, which is a Sketch Challenge entitled Hive, for (I think) obvious reasons:

My image isn't exactly hive shaped, but almost! Check it out:

• I hope you can even tell that it is a birthday cake with flowers on it and the stamped image is from the Happy Birthday to You stamp set.
• I embossed the image in a homemade mix of silver and gold stampin' emboss powder - one to one quantity- and it creates a kind of champagne metallic embossing powder - warmer than silver and cooler than gold.
• The icing on the cake is coloured with the Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, while the flowers are the Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, with the leaves done in Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Combo. The centers and baby's breath type foliages are done in So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo.  
• I embossed the cake image twice, but just coloured the flowers on one of the images, not the icing. I just die cut the flowers on that cake and used them to overlap the flowers on the other cake so I could add some of the extra foliage I had die cut from Champagne Foil behind them. 
• I also used the Champagne Foil to die cut a cake plate and a strip to put behind the cake.
• The Designer paper I used is from the Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP set, both the background and the small scripted piece right on the front. 
• Finally, the sentiment is stamped in Memento Black right on the DSP in the lower right side of the card front. And the Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels are added to the DSP strip on the far right for balance. Sadly, they are not orderable right now, with more expected in March.

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