Share What You Love for Freshly Made Sketches

My upcoming Technique Night classes are using the Share What You Love Suite of products as their theme this coming week and I'm working to create some samples for the class. I just got the Designer Series Paper that goes along with the suite called Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper and you have to see it to fully appreciate it. Photos just don't do it justice. Many of the designs have a pearlized finish on the flowers that is so elegant. And the colours are just lovely. I picked my favourite design of them all for this card.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week for my layout:

I always love cards with oval shapes in the middle. It's such a classic layout! I knew I wanted it to be a cutout rather than a die cut on top. Here's how it turned out:

• The colours in this card use some of the colours in the Designer Series Paper, some of which are new colours in the colour revamp in the new 2018/19 Annual Catalogue. The card base is the perennial Crumb Cake, nothing new there, but it goes so well with the new Petal Pink, (which forms the frame around the oval cut out in the middle) and Grapefruit Grove, an new In  Colour, with which I stamped the colour on the larger flowers and which is the colour cardstock that the YOU is die cut from. The other colour is So Saffron.
• I stamped the flowers, from the Love What You Do stamp set, which is part of the Suite with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and added the watercolour area stamps in Grapefruit Grove and So Saffron over top. I had to fussy cut because there are no coordinating dies, unfortunately, but they were not that difficult to do.
• To the bouquet, I added a sprig of leaves die cut from a die in the Petals and More Thinlits and one punched with the Leaf Punch, both out of vellum. These elements were all added to the side of the oval opening using glue dots.
• The sentiments were die cut with dies from the Celebrate You Thinlit dies*, which were Sale-A-Bration rewards this year and not available to order right now, but are included in the new Annual Catalogue, so you'll be able to purchase them on or after June 1.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

I wanted to give you an idea of the pearlized finish of the DSP and I'm hoping you can see it better in this photo. It's why you really have to see it to appreciate it.

This Share What You Love Suite is available RIGHT NOW as an early release in a choice of three bundles, depending on your expertise level in stamping. Here are the details:

These bundles, along with the free gifts that go with them, are only available until June 1, when you will have to buy these products separately. Contact me if you want to order or go to my On-Line Store to place an order yourself.

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

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set [148042] $27.00	Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper [146926] $36.75	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $10.00	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $10.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $11.25
Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $10.00	Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad [147142] $10.25	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [126957] $8.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.00	Leaf Punch [144667] $21.50
Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] $46.00	Celebrate You Thinlit Dies [146840] $0.00	Petals & More Thinlits Dies [145655] $45.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25
Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25

Grapefruit Grove 8 1/2 x 11 inch cardstock*, Petal Pink, 8 1/2 x 11" Cardstock*

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

Painted Harvest for As You See It Challenge

I could hardly wait for this beautiful colour challenge from As You See It Challenge today. I've been planning different designs for two weeks now, and I'm sure I'm going to use this colour combo more than this once:

The nice thing about a colour challenge is that it's so easy to pair it up with other challenges, like Freshly Made Sketches sketch for this week:

I decided to go back to one of the carried over products from the Holiday Catalogue, one that I loved and said it was versatile enough to use all year round, the Painted Harvest Stamp Set. See what I mean:

• Aren't those 'sunflowers' gorgeous in Powder Pink and Smoky Slate. Those soft pastels make all the difference between spring and fall! I first stamped the flower on the left (two step stamping that doesn't have to be too precise), then made a mask from Post It Notes and stamped the flower on the right. This gives it the perspective of being behind the other flower.
• I tried stamping some of the leaves from the same stamp set masked behind the flowers as well, but something about them just didn't look right, so I eventually fussy cut the flowers and cut off the foliage I had stamped.
• Instead I used some vellum leaves punched with the Leaf Punch and some smaller foliage die cut with a die from the Petals & More Thinlits. You could also earn the Petals & More Thinlits free with a $120 order before the end of March. And be eligible for my Double Papercraft Cat Reward points promotion until Mar. 31 as well.
• The circle needed to be large, too large for my Layering Circle Framelits, so I got out my retired Circles Collection Framelits which are larger. I used one of the Petal Pair embossing folders on the bottom half of the Whisper White panel to help create the horizontal element of the sketch along with the Tranquil Tide 1/2" Finely Woven Ribbon. (The Petal Pair embossing folders are also among the third release of Sale-A-Bration rewards which you can earn free for a $60 purchase and still be eligible for the Double PCC reward points!) You can see it a little better in the photo below:

• The sentiment is actually one from the March 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit, which was just perfect for this project! I die cut it with the label die from the Rose Garden Thinlits, along with a shadow backing in Tranquil Tide.

That's a wrap for this week! Have a great weekend and don't forget to get your orders in so you don't miss out on the deals of Sale-A-Bration! Last week!!

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

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set [144783] $26.00	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $10.00	Tranquil Tide 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144246] $10.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $11.25	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131202] $10.00
Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [144084] $8.50	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [131179] $8.50	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [144085] $8.50	Tranquil Tide 1/2" Finely Woven Ribbon [144136] $9.25	Leaf Punch [144667] $21.50
Petal Pair Textured Impressions Embossing Folders [145656] $11.75	Petal Pair Textured Impressions Embossing Folders [150035] $0.00	Petals & More Thinlits Dies [145655] $45.00	Petals & More Thinlits Dies [150048] $0.00	Rose Garden Thinlits Dies [140619] $41.00
Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911] $33.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00	Big Shot Die Brush - New Configuration [144262] $16.50	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	Fast Fuse Adhesive Refill [129027] $10.00
Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25