Beauty Abounds Forever Lovely Bundle

It's high time for some Valentine cards. The season goes by so quickly and I wanted a chance to play some more with my Valentine's sets. I had an idea to combine background bokeh images from the Beauty Abounds stamp set with the Forever Lovely bundle to come up with a  pretty combination for Valentine's Day. Both these stamp sets are gorgeous with delicate images and the Lovely Flowers Edgelit Dies, which are bundled with with the Forever Lovely stamp set, has some exquisite die cuts to go with them.

• Layered on the Crumb Cake card base is a panel of All My Love Designer Series Paper. Then another background layer is stamped on the Whisper White panel on top of that. The sentiments from Forever Lovely were stamped in Lovely Lipstick. Flirty Flamingo and Mango Melody were stamped off one or two times and used to stamp the two bokeh stamps. (The bubbles you can see in the background. Flirty Flamingo was used for the hearts, also from the Forever Lovely set.
• The Stamparatus came in very handy for positioning the Soft Sea Foam foliage around the Lovely Lipstick flowers on the cross panel. This is because you could secure the panel with the flowers already stamped on, with the Stamparatus magnets, then position the uninked stamp face down exactly where you want it right on the panel before picking it up with the Stamparatus plate. Then you can ink it up and stamp, confident it's going to be exactly where you want it. 
• Stamp a couple of the larger flowers in Flirty Flamingo and die cut them with Lovely Flowers Edgelit Dies, along with stamped leaves and foliage die cut from Soft Sea Foam. Add them to the cross panel using Glue Dots.
• Heart Epoxy Droplets, coloured with Stampin' Blends Flirty Flamingo and Mango Melody, dark shades, were added as shown for accents.

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 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

Beauty Abounds Cling Stamp Set [148726] $31.00	Beauty Abounds Cling Bundle [150617] $75.50	Forever Lovely Photopolymer Stamp Set [148624] $27.00	Forever Lovely Photopolymer Bundle [150580] $63.75	All My Love 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [148576] $15.00
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146988] $11.50	Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad [147140] $10.25	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $10.25
Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $10.25	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $40.00	Dark Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Marker [147032] $6.00	Mango Melody Dark Stampin' Blends [147944] $6.00	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $10.25
Heart Epoxy Droplets [148583] $8.75	Lovely Flowers Edgelits Dies [148526] $44.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25

Playing Around with Forever Lovely and Online Extravaganza

After my Dashing Deer Discovery class this afternoon, I got out some of my new Occasions Catalogue products to play with for awhile. The first set I tried out was the Forever Lovely Bundle* which includes the Forever Lovely stamp set* and  the Lovely Flowers Edgelilt dies*. I have to say that there is a learning curve associated with this bundle. I had no clear idea from just looking at it what it could do and I just had to play around with it and experiment to see what could be accomplished. The result here is a bit of a mishmash. There's too much going on and next time, I'd focus on one aspect or another, but I did learn a lot about what coordinates with what and how they all fit together.

*New products from the 2019 Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Brochure, available for purchase starting January 3, 2019.

•  I went with Crumb Cake as my base colour and Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo and Soft Seafoam as the other colours, some of which are from the palette of the coordinating All My Love Designer Series Paper. Anytime I can use Crumb Cake with pinks and reds is okay with me!
• I love the watercolour look of the stamped images. It reminds me of the First Frost stamp set from the Holiday Catalogue.
• It was a bit tricky to align the foliage stamp with the multiple flower stamp in the two-step stamping that you see under the die cut outs of the edgelit. Tricky, but if you take your time and match up all the points you can get it to work. The Stamparatus is perfect for this step! You can line up the stamp before inking it that way.
• The edgelit lines up perfectly with the stamped image however, and it's not tough to do. It does cut out some of the foliage though and a flower and some hearts, which is why I chose to add that piece on the back piece of the card which opens like a file folder.

• I think, if I had had time to redo some of it, I would have made the rose swatch in the bottom right corner a little more simple. It looks a bit busy as it is, but I was having fun with all the die cuts from the Lovely Flowers dies. I love the look of some of the foliage dies. I may have gotten a little carried away.
• I used the 5/8" Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon along with some Flirty Flamingo ribbon from the All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack* together to keep the card closed with a bow.

*New products from the 2019 Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Brochure, available for purchase starting January 3, 2019.

Today is the start of the first of three 48 hour sales that are part of the Annual Online Extravaganza!

This is the sale to stock up on PAPER & EMBELLISHMENTS

• Bags
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• Cardstock
• Designer Series Paper
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• Tags
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• There are a few exceptions that will NOT be on sale, such as Copper Foil Sheets and Window Sheets, Boxwood Wreaths, Copper Trim, Silver edged ribbon, Rhinestones and others. Find out exactly what is excluded from the sale by clicking HERE.
• There are two ways to order:
• 1. Place your own order by going to my On-Line Store. If your order is under $200, please use the Host Code: VD97RV33.
• 2. Message me with your order and I will submit it with others to save you shipping costs. If your order is under $!00, this is your best option. I will be submitting the order by 8 pm Friday night, so please have your order to me by 7 pm., Friday, Nov. 23.

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

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122925] $11.50	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146988] $11.50	Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad [147140] $10.25
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $10.25	Whisper White 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon [146912] $10.25	Share What You Love Artisan Pearls [146927] $8.25	Big Shot [143263] $150.00
Big Shot Die Brush - New Configuration [144262] $17.00	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] $54.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50

Forever Lovely Stamp Set*, Lovely Flowers Edgelit Dies*, All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack*, All My Love Designer Series Paper*

*New products from the 2019 Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Brochure, available for purchase starting January 3, 2019.