A Little Love for Retiring Jar of Love

One stamp set I've had for about three years, but just hasn't had enough love over those years, is Jar of Love, not because I didn't love it, but because there are just not enough hours in the day and days in the year for all the sets I have loved! But I won't let it retire without one more chance to showcase how versatile and amazing it is! You can do so many crazy things with it! Just Google it and you'll see!

But since it's newsletter time again, I thought I would use this as my free photo tutorial for my newsletter subscribers this month.  Here is a closer look at what you will be able to create with this tutorial:

• The main feature is a clear mason jar stamped on and die cut from a window sheet and matched exactly to a stamped image on some Shimmery White cardstock that has a watercoloured background.
• While the sides of the clear jar are adhered to the cardstock the top is left open so that you can stamp and die cut, using the Everyday Jars Dies, flowers, grass and foliage and tuck it into the jar through the opening in the top to create a bouquet. I actually felt like I was doing some flower arranging!
• The colour scheme is based on the Designer Series Paper that I used for the background panels, Twinkle, Twinkle, which turned out to be my favourite DSP in the Annual Catalogue this past year. I love the designs and colours, and the small images make such good backgrounds! Here I used Gray Granite, Night of Navy, Pool Party, Petal Pink and Soft Sea Foam.

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Here are some other posts where I used this iconic set: (Click on the caption to go to the post.)

Watercolour Jar of Love

Fireflies and Bucket Lists for Freshly Made Sketches

July Paper Pumpkin Spoiler

Here are some of the other retiring products in visual form:

            

  

  

Make sure to get the retiring items you want before they are gone!!

The step-by-step photo tutorial will contain a list of all products used, including links and measurements.

One in a Melon Cooper Style - Paper Pumpkin June '17

This weekend, I needed some thank you cards for customers, and I had completely run out of Notecards & Envelopes. I had taken two Paper Pumpkin kits with me camping, but I had only had time to complete one of them, the August kit - Giftable Greetings! I had fun with that one, but really just put it together as is! I enjoy doing that usually, because I don't have to think or design. I just follow directions, which is really relaxing for me - like a holiday!

But I've been hanging on to the June '17 Paper Pumpkin - One in a Melon - because it's so stinkin' cute and I've been meaning to put it together, but I just didn't really have any use for the treat bags and Hooray sentiments on the cards. Yesterday, it occurred to me that I could turn everything into Thank You cards, and I did!

Here's how it was meant to look:


            


And the Cooper version:

• The differences are few for this card. I took one of the treat bags and cut it to make a backing for the yellow watercolour panel. 
• I used the Thanks sentiment from the Jar of Love stamp set instead of the Hooray sentiment that comes in the kit.
• I used some of the gorgeous watermelon tissue paper, which is quite heavy duty, to make an envelope liner.

• These cards use the materials that would have been normally used for the treat bags. I cut the bags up to make panels for the front of the cards. I stamped the tags with the watermelon stamps using Melon Mambo and Emerald Envy. Then I added the sentiment from One Big Meaning in Lemon Lime Twist ink.
• I mounted them on the Daffodil Delight banners and added a double bow in the Melon Mambo Baker's Twine. I attached the bow with a glue dot, but added the cute Lemon Lime twist clothespin over top as well.
• I took some more of the awesome tissue paper and folded it accordion style to make a little fan-like embellishment which I adhered either at the bottom or the top of the banner and attached it all to the front of the card. The card base is Daffodil Delight cardstock.
• Again, I used some of that fabulous tissue to make envelope linings for the envelopes. There wasn't enough to make liners that went all the way to the bottom of the envelope, but they went down far enough to hold well and to be there for all the visible areas.

This is a great segue to remind you about our Paper Pumpkin promotion that goes until Sept. 10th only. New subscribers get half off their first month's subscription fee of $26.95 a month (which already includes shipping and taxes). Just click HERE, go to the Canadian site and follow the prompts to sign up. Use the promotion code: HALF0917 to get your deal! It is easy to manage you subscription, too, including cancelling or putting it on hold for awhile, so you won't be stuck with something you don't want for whatever reason. (I can't imagine one!)

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

One In A Melon Kit Refill [145534]	Jar Of Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [141587]	One Big Meaning Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139420]	One Big Meaning Wood-Mount Stamp Set [138788]	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119683]
Emerald Envy Classic Stampin' Pad [141396]	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad [126948]	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [144086]	Stampin' Trimmer [126889]	Envelope Liners Framelits Die [132172]
Big Shot [143263]	Glue Dots [103683]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]

Coffee Break for Global Design Project

This is my week for playing challenges! I'm having a good time! Today, I'm playing along with the Global Design Project's Stripes Challenge!

I immediately thought about the stripey Designer Series Paper that I thought was in the Coffee Break set, so I had a coffee cup design already planned out. Then I found out that I was out of stripey paper in my Coffee Break series and the paper I was thinking of was actually in the Whole Lot of Lovely DSP series anyway. But I went ahead with the coffee cup design! But due to the fact that it was 40 degrees Celsius here today (that's 104 degrees Fahrenheit, American friends) and yes, that's here in Canada, I had to do a frappucino, not a hot coffee!  Here's my card:

• This one has all sorts of texture on it, which is one reason I love this suite so much. I will be using it for my Technique Night classes this week, because the theme is creating texture!
• The furthest layer on the Soft Suede card base is some of the Coffee Break Designer Series Paper in a Soft Sky design, kind of a herringbone effect. Then comes the stripes from Whole Lot of Lovely, backed with some Tranquil Tide cardstock.
• The cup itself is stamped in Soft Suede and look at the texture in that stamp! I love all the little pieces you can create with the Coffee Cafe stamp set! The whipped cream, the clear top, which I stamped with Basic Black Archival Ink onto a Window Sheet and dried with the Heat Tool before die cutting it with one of the Coffee Cup Framelits so it wouldn't smudge, the straw and the cup sleeve with the Thanks a Latte label are all so cute!  
• The Corrugated Elements are embellishments that are part of the Coffee Break Suite and just add to the texture of the design with the hearts and the backing to the cup label.
• The sentiment is actually from the Jar of Love stamp set and I die cut it using one of the Bunch of Banners framelits. I cut two others, one from Soft Sky, and one from Tranquil Tide, cut them in half and layered them on the back of the sentiment, off-setting them slightly left and right to create the designed backing you see.
• Some Metallic Enamel Shapes in silver added the finishing touches.

I wanted to give you a little motivation here to encourage you to splurge a little in July so that you can earn your Bonus Days coupons! Something big is coming in August that you will want to have some coupons to spend on. The Carols of Christmas bundle is an early release from our new up-coming Holiday Catalogue and I have some samples to show you that will blow you away. The stamp set and framelits together are a must and here's why:

This set is really going to give you a very classy head start on your holiday greeting cards this year, so give yourself a boost by stocking up on some basics in July and earn a $6 Bonus Days Coupon for every $60 you spend. Or get some of those amazing products you've been drooling over in the Annual Catalogue! There are sooo many!

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

Coffee Café Photopolymer Stamp Set [143677]	Coffee Café Photopolymer Bundle [145331]	Jar Of Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [141587]	Window Sheets [142314]	Coffee Break Designer Series Paper [144155]
Whole Lot Of Lovely Designer Series Paper [144110]	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318]	Tranquil Tide 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144246]	Soft Sky 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131203]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [126978]	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [144085]	Corrugated Elements [144158]
Metallic Enamel Shapes [141678]	Heat Tool [129053]	Coffee Cups Framelits Dies [143745]	Bunch Of Banners Framelits Dies [141488]	Big Shot [143263]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]