Garden in Bloom Inlaid Sentiment

I saw a great technique over at a past Global Design Project post. It was a CASe the Designer, Paula Dobson, challenge! I decided that I would feature this technique in my next free newsletter tutorial, so I wanted to give you a quick look today, so you would have a chance to sign up for my newsletter in time to get it.

Here is the original inspiration photo of one of Paula's cards:

                                       
and here is a sample by Kylie Bertucci that was the first to catch my attention:

The technique involves die cutting a sentiment from your image panel and then embedding it back in the same area after increasing the thickness of the sentiment.

For my card, I chose to use the Garden in Bloom stamp set, and some of the new In Colours, Flirty Flamingo* and Peekaboo Peach*.

*New Products, available June 1st from the 2016-17 Annual Catalogue

Can you see that camouflaged hello in there?

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Botanical Builders for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown

This week, Color Throwdown's colour swatch reminded me of my hanging baskets by my front door, with all these lovely pastel florals:

Such pretty colours! I chose to use Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron to match the colour swatch. It was a great opportunity to get out my Botanical Builder Framelits again. And, as it would happen, Freshly Made Sketches had the perfect layout for this card:

So put it all together and you get a floral cascade with a die cut sentiment:

• There's no actual stamping on this card. I used ink only to sponge the centers of my larger flowers with Pumpkin Pie.
• I made use of all the flower framelits in the Botanical Builder set when I was coming up with this bouquet. It's the uniqueness of the die cuts that make them such a good seller. They are so versatile. I used the Precision Base Plate in my Big Shot for the thinlits in the set.
• The Hello You Thinlits provided the thanks sentiment, using Pumpkin Pie cardstock, quick and easy!
• And it's back to the Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack for the background DSP here. I do seem to gravitate toward the script design a lot.

There is nothing in this design that is retiring, but don't forget that you only have until May 31 to get any of the retiring products. Don't be disappointed:

You can view the retiring products for sale in my Online 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

Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack [138437]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Pink Pirouette 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [111351]	Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122924]	So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105118]
Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105117]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Stamping Sponges [141337]	Botanical Builder Framelits Dies [140625]	Hello You Thinlits Dies [137363]
Big Shot [113439]	Precision Base Plate [139684]	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Thanks for the Pals and Important News from Stampin' Up!

It's my first event with a new phone but because of that, I've encountered some technical issues downloading all the photos I took, so I'll have to just give you a photo of the new Occasions Catalogue and hope that will tide you over!

In the meantime, I have a Thank You card that I created for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge.

I feel I need to defend myself a bit for this one! I needed some thank you cards for orders going out, but I also wanted to enter the Pals Challenge because these colours are so warm and inviting, so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and make a thank you card for the challenge. I wanted Blackberry Bliss to be my base layer, and then I pulled out the Hello You Thinlits and saw that there was a Thanks as part of it! I thought it would look great with Hello Honey and for the Tangelo Twist, I could stamp a flower or two. Aha! Petite Petals! I haven't used that stamp set in ages, and I could punch out the flowers and add them to the card. Anyway, I had it all designed and went to the challenge site to download the Challenge banner and right there at the top of the entries was...my card's doppelganger, more or less! Honestly, I did not peek once at it. All I saw was the banner for the challenge and a couple of the Design Team Samples. I guess great minds think alike!

One thing I did that I do not often do was to use another company's product for the little spiky leaves. It's a Martha Stewart punch that I've had forever and I've always really loved it, but I haven't used it in a long time. I thought it would work well with the small Petite Petals flowers. So I ended up with a somewhat clean and simple design that works for me!

And now for some important news from Stampin' Up!:

This is the first time ever that Stampin' Up! is publishing a retiring list for the Holiday Catalogue. It's a new policy which will help everyone to know which products they need to get before they are gone for good and which products will be carried over and still available after the catalogue period has ended. It will be a regular feature with every catalogue now.

You need to know that the stamp sets will all be available until Jan. 4, 2016, but the other products will be available only as supplies last. That means you need to act fast on those items before they sell out. 

Here is the link for the list:

2015 Holiday Catalogue Retiring List

You will also be able to access it from the right menu on my blog until January 4th.

Phone or email me with your orders and I will get them submitted promptly so that you don't miss out. (I need to be able to group orders, however, to reduce the shipping rate for everyone, so I will need to wait to gather enough to make shipping only 10%. If you want to pay the flat rate of $9.95 so that you can get your order in sooner, let me know.)

And now for the Weekly Deals:

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

Petite Petals Wood Stamp Set [133152]	Petite Petals Clear Stamp Set [133155]	Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes [131527]	Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133675]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Hello Honey 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133678]	Tangelo Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [133646]	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [133642]	Brights Candy Dots [130931]	Petite Petals Punch [133322]
Hello You Thinlits Dies [137363]	Big Shot [113439]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]