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

A Colour Challenge from The Paper Players and a Contest!!

I didn't know what to make of the colour challenge from The Paper Players this week.  It was certainly an unusual combinations and I wasn't quite sure how to make it work.  Here it is:

See what I mean?  Well, I was busy making Easter cards for my family, so that was where I started.  I thought the Always Artichoke could be grass, using the Fringe Scissors, and the other two would be good Easter Egg colours, but I just wasn't' sure how they would all go together.

Here's how it turned out:

• I used the Occasions stamp set, Eggstra Spectacular, for the Easter eggs and the little bunny with the sentiment and the Petite Petals stamp set for the the flowers.  I stamped the eggs in Calypso Coral and Coastal Cabana, punched them out with the Extra Large Oval punch and sponged the edges with the corresponding ink colour.  The flowers were inked up in Calypso Coral and Coastal Cabana and punched out with the Petite Petals punch.
• I did use the Always Artichoke cardstock and the Fringe Scissors to make grass.  Sure makes that job quick!
• The Calypso Coral Chevron ribbon was folded in half and held together by Sticky Strip before mounting it with sticky strip and some glue dots to the grass.

• The little bunny from Eggstra Spectacular was stamped in Always Artichoke right on to the front panel and a Whisper White Candy Dot becomes his tail!
• The background DSP is from Fresh Prints.  I debated for a long time over whether to add it or to just use Whisper White cardstock.  Here's what that looked like:

• To be honest, I'm not sure which I like better.  How about you?  Let me know what you think.

Contest

I wanted to give you a heads up about the Stampin' Up! Retiring Product List.  Stampin' Up! is publishing it on Monday, in preparation for a new catalogue coming out June 2.  Each year some stamps, paper, colours and embellishments retire and will no longer be featured in the Annual Catalogue and will not be available for ordering.  

In past years, the stamp sets were available right up until the new catalogue went live and all the other products were only available while supplies lasted.  This year, BOTH stamps and other products will only be available while supplies last.  That means, if something you like is retiring, you'd better get your order in sooner rather than later!  You know how fast those things go!

Just for fun, I'm hosting a contest to see how well you can predict which stamp sets will be retired this year. Send me an email  (hcooper52@gmail.com) listing 10 stamp sets you think Stampin' Up! will retire this year and the person who gets the most correct will win a GIFT CERTIFICATE with a value of $25.00. This could be used right away or saved until June 2 and used for products from the new 2014-2015 Annual Catalogue!  Looking forward to hearing from you.  (Open to Canadian residents only.)  The contest closes Sunday, April 20 at 8 pm PDT.

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

133068	133071	133152	133155	132996	131297
122925	105119	100730	126972	131175	126983
130018	130934	133325	119859	133322	104294