Retiring Products Review: Coming Home Bundle

 It's been a LONGGGG week and I don't want to spend too long on today's post or I will likely fall asleep in the midst of it. For the rest of the month, I want to alternate showing you sneak peeks from the new Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue which aren't available for sale yet with a review of retiring products which you can still get while supplies last! Today I'm featuring the Coming Home bundle from the Aug/Dec Mini Catalogue.

The Coming Home Bundle was actually a charity fund raiser for Stampin' Up! with $4 from each sale of the stamp set going toward charities devoted to adoption, foster care, and infertility!

The Home Together Dies are now On Sale at 30% off for $32.20, down from $46.00.

This set always looks a little Scandinavian to me, so I decided to make a clean and simple looking Scandinavian-like design:

• With Crumb Cake as my base and front panel, I used a little Real Red as the backing for the front panel. I find that colour combo really pops.
• On the front I added a Gold Hoop Embellishment and a Brass Brushed Metallic Cardstock star, die cut with the Stitched Stars dies.
• I stamped the houses from the Coming Home stamp set with Memento ink and coloured them in with Stampin' Blends Combos in Real Red, Balmy Blue and Daffodil Delight!
• The houses are die cut and the small one is mounted with Stampin' Dimensionals in front of the larger one.
• The sentiment is from the Snowman Season stamp set.

We got some surprise news from Stampin' Up! today! It seems like the factory that has made our beloved Whisper White cardstock for years, has had to shut down for good due to COVID. This was a sudden development and not a welcome one for anyone! Stampin' Up! has had to move swiftly to find a replacement and has called it Basic White and here's a comparison of the two:

          

Here is the ordering information:

I have not yet tried it, but I'll offer some information when I do!

If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Coming Home Photopolymer Stamp Set [153500] $24.00	Coming Home Bundle [155144] $63.00	Snowman Season Photopolymer Stamp Set (En) [150458] $24.00	Snowman Season Bundle (En) [152337] $42.25	Brushed Metallic Cardstock [153524] $20.00
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953] $12.00	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [102482] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Real Red Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154899] $12.00
Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154830] $12.00	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883] $12.00	Gold Hoops Embellishments [152474] $10.25	Home Together Dies [153515] $46.00	Stitched Stars Dies [150653] $52.00
Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Coming Home Lumiere

I've had an idea for a couple of days, but wasn't quite sure how to work out the details. I just had to experiment, it turns out. The idea was to make a slimline card with the Coming Home bundle, but then somehow cut out the windows and replace them with Window Sheets and put the battery powered votive candles or some other light source behind them and let them glow. I thought it would look really cozy. But I had to think about how to successfully cut out the windows and get the window sheets in there nicely.

After I figured it out, (it would have been a lot easier if my exacto knife had been sharp), I added the candles and this is what it looked like:

With the lights on, it still looks nice, thanks to the Coming Home stamp set and coordinating Home Together Dies:

• What I did to make it work was to make the base out of Whisper White Thick Cardstock and I stamped the buildings, trees, car and the lampposts  on the base with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I started trying to carefully cut out the windows with a craft knife on the card base, but it was far too difficult because of the small size and the thick cardstock. So I decided to just roughly cut out the areas of the windows, using Paper Snips.
• Then I stamped the houses and lampstands again on regular cardstock and tried again to cut out the details of the windows carefully, but without success. I finally decided to just cut out the main large rectangles for the windows and stamp the cross pieces on the Window Sheets, gluing them behind the regular cardstock versions of the houses. I would then glue them onto the corresponding houses already stamped on the card base and the Window Sheets would be glued between them.
• I stamped the houses once more on the window sheets with StazOn Jet Black ink, which is permanent, and then adding some Stampin' Right Marker  in Daffodil Delight on the back side to give it a yellow glow. I dried the ink before gluing it on.
• I coloured the finished houses in with Stampin' Blends Marker Combos in Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Misty Moonlight, Old Olive, and Soft Suede. I added some Crushed Curry to windows that hadn't been cut out.

I have been having a blast with the Curvy Celebrations Suite products and soon you will be able to purchase them as well. Tuesday, November 3 is the date and, if you get this suite now, rather than waiting until the Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue comes out in January, you will be able to get a couple of Christmas products that won't be available then: The Curvy Christmas stamp set and the Classic Christmas 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper. Take a close look and you might also want to check out my Pinterest board of samples HERE.

If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Coming Home Photopolymer Stamp Set [153500] $24.00	Coming Home Bundle [155144] $63.00	Poinsettia Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [153475] $37.00	Poinsettia Petals Bundle (English) [155148] $77.25	Window Sheets [142314] $6.75
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $11.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad [101406] $13.50	Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $12.00
Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894] $12.00	Misty Moonlight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [153108] $12.00	Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154906] $12.00	Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154892] $12.00	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883] $12.00
Regals Stampin' Write Markers [147155] $40.00	Paper Snips [103579] $13.50	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Home Together Dies [153515] $46.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $163.00
Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Stampin' Seal+ [149699] $16.25	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25