Million & One for Pals Paper Arts

Planning for this week's blog posts, I wanted to join in on Pals Paper Arts Colour Challenge today, and this week, I am featuring retiring products to help you decide if there are some products that you need to get before they are gone for good on June 2.  Million & One is a set that is on the retiring list and I just love the script used for this set. The colour palette for the challenge is as you see below:

Really, I would much rather be showing you sneak peeks of the new Annual catalogue, but I'm not at home and there is a box of new products sitting inside my front door waiting for me to get there. You can imagine how antsy that makes me feel! But as much as I love getting new stamping products, I love these two even more, and I haven't seen them for six and a half months:

               

This little girl on the left is One Year Old today and I wanted to be there for her birthday!  So I'll just have to wait for a few more days to play with my new stuff.

Let's look at how I used the colour challenge shades in this card:

• The card base is Baked Brown Sugar, as are the vines from Flowering Flourishes, a stamp set that you will be seeing more of in the new Annual Catalogue.
• Hello Honey is the colour of the stripes in the DSP from the Lullaby Designer Series Paper which is retiring and the cardstock that forms the matte for the sentiment label. Some of the Petite Petals are stamped in Hello Honey as well and punched out with the Petite Petals Punch. The bow on the sentiment is made from Hello Honey Satin Stitched Ribbon which is also retiring.
• And the sentiment from Million & One is stamped in Coastal Cabana ink as are a number of the little Petite Petals flowers. The background panel is backed with Coastal Cabana. As Coastal Cabana is one of the retiring 2013 - 15 In Colours, any products using that colour will be retiring.

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 Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Product List

*Million & One Wood Stamp Set [126375]	*Million & One Clear Stamp Set [126377]	Flowering Flourishes Clear Stamp Set [126367]	Flowering Flourishes Wood Stamp Set [131998]	Petite Petals Wood Stamp Set [133152]
Petite Petals Clear Stamp Set [133155]	*Lullaby Designer Series Paper [133695]	*Baked Brown Sugar 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131296]	Hello Honey 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133678]	**Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131297]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	**Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin' Pad [131174]	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad [133643]	**Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [131175]	*Hello Honey 3/8" Satin Stitched Ribbon [133671]
Petite Petals Punch [133322]	*Labels Collection Framelits Die [125598]	Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]

* Retiring June 2/15

**Retiring and Sold out

Kinda Eclectic Million and One

Hola! I'm in my last couple of days of holidays here in Zihuatanejo, Mexico and I wanted to share with you a card I cased from a design I love on Pinterest.  The original is created by Laura Mackie and I didn't change a lot.  I used a different colour, a different cardstock, and a different sentiment, from Million and One. I also added an extra butterfly, but I loved her design so much that I didn't want to change much. The leaves from Kinda Eclectic Stamp set are the only ones that I thought would be effective in this technique!

It involves stamping the same image in the neutral, the colour and Craft White Ink to form a frame!

• I started by stamping the sentiment from Million and One Stamp set in Sahara Sand ink on Sahara Sand cardstock, then adding the leaf image from Kinda Eclectic, also in Sahara Sand to frame the sentiment.
• I added the same leaf image in Bermuda Bay and then Whisper White Craft Ink.
• The butterflies are each stamped twice, once in Bermuda Bay and once in Sahara Sand and punched out using the Elegant Butterfly and Bitty Butterfly punches.  They are layered using Glue Dots and added to the card front.
• The card is layered with a Sahara Sand card base, a Bermuda Bay layer and then the main image panel.  Quick and easy and very effective!  Hope you like it.

I'll return on Thursday with my regular posting schedule!

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 Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Product List

Million & One Wood Stamp Set [126375]	Million & One Clear Stamp Set [126377]	Kinda Eclectic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135350]	Kinda Eclectic Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135347]	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197]	Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad [101731]	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [126976]	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [131171]
Elegant Butterfly Punch [127526]	Bitty Butterfly Punch [129406]	Glue Dots [103683]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]

Forty and Fabulous

My friend and fellow stamper, Amy, just turned 40 and her hubby threw a surprise birthday party for her which I attended.  Of course, I needed a card for her and it couldn't be just any old card.  Amy is a very creative and artistic person and she has lots of card makers as friends.  She regularly inspires me with her papercrafting projects so I needed a super card for her birthday!  What came to mind right away was the phrase Forty and Fabulous, because she is!  I knew I had a stamp with Fabulous on it and I had the numbers in 40 from Memorable Moments stamp set and I found a funky ampersand in the Notable Alphabet set.

Here's how I put them together, using one of my favourite palettes of Pistachio Pudding, Island Indigo and Very Vanilla:

• I love how this turned out, with the different fonts still working together, the beautiful DSP from Venetian Romance and the little clusters of Petite Petals flowers.
• I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to get my images placed just right.  Give it a try if you haven't used it yet.
• The Fabulous is What You Are stamp is from is from Million and One stamp set which, by the way, coordinates with the Simply Fabulous Simply Sent Kit.

• I used the Petite Petals stamp set to stamp a variety of flowers in Island Indigo and Pistachio Pudding and then the Petite Petals punch for cutting them out.
• I should have taken a before and after photo for when I added the Pearls Basic Jewels, because they just upped the quality look of the card a hundred fold.

New Class Schedule

I have updated my Classes page with the new class schedule for April, May and June.  Check out the new and repeating classes in which you could participate.  Also, email me if you would be interested in being part of an On-Line Stamp Club.

Thanks for dropping by my blog today!  I would encourage you to leave a comment telling me what kind of celebration you had/would like to have when you turn forty!

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

126375	126377	132047	126357	132039	126682
133152	133152	133155	130144	122923	131294
101650	126986	131177	101049	133322	119247