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.

Birthday Delivery for Freshly Made Sketches

Today was one of those days!! What kind of day, you ask? Well, the kind of day where you waste all sorts of time looking for things you shouldn't have to be looking for! Take my card design for Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #285:

I love this sketch and I could hardly wait to get at it, but I first had to finish my tutorial for my May newsletter (more about that later). I had it all worked out in my head and my plan was to use the Birthday Delivery Bundle* that I got with my Product Purchase Premier order at OnStage. It's such a cute set and I haven't had the time to play with it yet, so I was all excited to get to use it.

I got the card base ready, and the first two layers done, but the third layer needed the Birthday Friends Framelit Dies* in order to diecut something from the Designer Series Paper! (Yes, the dies also coordinate with the DSP! How exciting is that?!!) But do you think I could find those framelits anywhere? I looked high and low but no framelits. I have everything else from my Product Purchase Premier except them. I know they arrived with the other stuff, but I have no idea what happened to them and that really ticks me off, since I will have to probably buy the framelits again. And then I'll probably find the missing ones as soon as I do! Sigh!

*New products from the 2017-18 Annual Catalogue, available on June 1.

So I had to fussy cut everything. Sigh again! Take a good look - this one cost me:

• So cute though, isn't it? The Real Red Designer Series Paper is from the Birthday Memories DSP*. The designs remind me, as one of my downline described it, of pictures in my elementary school readers, with the art work and colours.
• The Stitched Shapes Framelits die cut the Crumb Cake circle that gives a more neutral background against which to place the focal point of the cake and the baker.
• I fussy cut the birthday cake from the DSP because I couldn't find the framelits. (Grrr!) I stamped the baker image from the Birthday Delivery stamp set* in Basic Black Archival Ink, and then I added colour using Stampin' Write Markers in Soft Sky, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, and Blushing Bride. I also used a Watercolour Pencil in Calypso Coral to add a lighter flesh tone to the hands and face. Then I also had to fussy cut the baker!!!
• The sentiment is from the Birthday Delivery stamp set* as well and the banner is punched using the Banner Triple Punch. 

The whole effect is very lively and I enjoyed the process despite the futile search for the framelits!

Now, speaking of my newsletter tutorial: the card that I will be providing the tutorial for is a version of this card, but using a darker ink for the flower, so that the technique, Watercolouring with Marker Outlines, works better. Here it is:

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Starting on May 1 through May 31, you will be able to order this wonderful suite of products on an early release from the new Annual Catalogue. I have seen some amazing projects completed with these bundles. You will have the choice of ordering one of two bundles outlined below:

If you want to get a good idea of the beauty of the cards you can make with this set, check out my Pinterest Board with these bundles.

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]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101910]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Subtles Stampin' Write Markers [131263]
Brights Stampin' Write Markers [131259]	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [131261]	Watercolor Pencils [141709]	Banner Triple Punch [138292]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]
Big Shot [143263]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Birthday Delivery Bundle*, Birthday Delivery Stamp Set*, Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper*, Birthday Friends Framelits Dies*
*New products from the 2017-18 Annual Catalogue, available on June 1.