Recapping My Favourites from the Holiday Catalogue - Frosted Floral

The Frosted Floral Suite

Well, you've been able to purchase products from the Holiday Catalogue for two months now and I've been working with them for three months. There are two more months left to purchase from this catalogue and I thought that this week I would do a little mid season review of my favourite products from it. I'm starting with my favourite suite, maybe of all time: The Frosted Floral Suite!

If you haven't purchased anything from it yet, I'm standing here with my jaw dropped, gasping, "Why on earth not?" I cannot remember a suite of products that allowed me to create such beautiful cards before, even Everything Eleanor!! The paper alone, the Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper, is just gorgeous, with beautiful colours and watercolour patterns, and a shimmer that photography just can't capture. You have to see it in person.

The First Frost stamp set has a series of flower and plant images rendered in a beautiful watercolour style that take your breath away, they are so artistic. And the Frosted Bouquet Framelits not only easily coordinate with these images plus add one more of baby's breath, there is also a sentiment frame with an inner frame and it's the perfect size for the larger rectangular sentiments that we've needed for a long time!

Finally, the embellishments, including the Tranquil Tide Velvet Ribbon, the Frosted & Clear Epoxy Droplets and the Iridescent Boxwood Wreaths add elegant touches to any creation.

Let me share a few of the creations I've made using this suite and link you back to their original posts:

A Get Well card

A 40th Anniversary Card

 

A Sympathy Card

What you may have noticed was that none of these were Christmas Cards. Just let the Christmas part go when considering the purchase of this suite. It is versatile enough to be added to your regular collection, and will, in fact, become one of the most valuable parts of it.

And while we're on the subject of valuable sets to add to your collection, right now there is a really great set that is only available for a limited time - the end of November to be exact OR until supplies last! It's got the definitive snowflake collection, but it's also versatile enough to last year round, by turning the snowflake shapes into flowers. It's the Snowflake Showcase, which includes the Snow is Glistening stamp set and the Happiness Surrounds stamp set and the coordinating Snowfall Thinlits plus some great accessories. Check it out below:

Let me know which of these great products you would like to order, and don't wait until they are sold out!

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

First Frost Clear-Mount Stamp Set [148420] $30.00	First Frost Wood-Mount Stamp Set [148417] $41.00	First Frost Clear-Mount Bundle [149943] $67.50	First Frost Wood-Mount Bundle [149942] $77.25	Frosted Floral 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [147800] $19.00
Frosted Bouquet Framelits Dies [147895] $45.00	Frosted & Clear Epoxy Droplets [147801] $12.25	Tranquil Tide 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Velvet Ribbon [147802] $11.00	Iridescent Boxwood Wreaths Embellishments [147803] $8.25

Flourishing Phrases With First Frost and Cross of Hope Sympathy Card

A close friend of ours lost his mom recently, and though she lived to be 100 years old and had a full life, losing a parent is never easy, no matter when it happens. We wanted to have a beautiful sympathy card for the family to express our support for them and prayers for their comfort in their time of grief.

I find myself drifting towards First Frost frequently these days for the sheer beauty of the stamp set and coordinating dies and also the lovely Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper that is part of that suite. Simply gorgeous does not do it justice, and you really have to see it in real life to appreciate the shimmer of the paper. Photography is so inadequate.

Here's how I combined First Frost images with the Cross of Hope Framelits and Flourishing Phrases sentiments to create this card:

• I chose a palette of blues and teals for the peaceful, healing vibe they give and added some Sahara Sand for contrast. I have Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay and Tranquil Tide as well.
• I love the frame from the Frosted Bouquet Framelits which gives you the option of making a thin border around the outside. I used the Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper in Tranquil Tide to create that frame and also the intricate cross from the Cross of Hope Framelits.
• I layered several different types of foliage and flowers around the cross including some baby's breath die cut from vellum card stock. The roses are stamped in Tranquil tide and Bermuda Bay.

This past Saturday, I held a very successful Holiday Catalogue Launch at my house and I thought I would share some images of the decor I used:

Many of the designs you see were CASEd right out of the Holiday Catalogue. There are far too many to make in a short time for me to come up with all my own designs, but I added my own touches to some and some are entirely my own, but they were effective in giving my customers a good look at what the different products could do and what they looked like. We had a good time with games, door prizes, make & takes and food (pumpkin roll bar is delicious!) And it was free. And my retired products were on sale! You'll have to come out next time!

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

First Frost Clear-Mount Stamp Set [148420] $30.00	First Frost Wood-Mount Stamp Set [148417] $41.00	First Frost Clear-Mount Bundle [149943] $67.50	First Frost Wood-Mount Bundle [149942] $77.25	Flourishing Phrases Wood-Mount Stamp Set [141531] $67.00
Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141534] $50.00	Frosted Floral 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [147800] $19.00	Joyous Noel 6" X 6" Glimmer Paper [147817] $20.50	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $12.25	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100867] $11.50
Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $10.25	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [147096] $10.25	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [147117] $10.25
Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [147146] $10.25	Cross Of Hope Framelits Dies [145654] $37.00	Frosted Bouquet Framelits Dies [147895] $45.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $13.50
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25