Rose Garden for Pals Paper Arts

I'm a little preoccupied today, as I try to decide what I will be ordering from the new Annual Catalogue, through the Demonstrator PreOrder Program. It's important to have a strategy, especially this year, because the 2016/17 Annual Catalogue is epic! It's amazing! Start saving up your pennies loonies and toonies because you're going to need them. You might consider a second mortgage even, or at least selling off one car. You're going to be holed up in your craft room anyway - you won't want to be driving anywhere! But seriously, I haven't squealed this many times looking through the catty in a long, long time! I can hardly wait until my order comes in so I can give you some sneak peeks!

My Technique Night Classes are on this week and the theme is Mother's and Father's day (with alternate sentiments available)! I needed one more sample and decided to get out the Rose Wonder stamp set and Rose Garden Thinlits. These two coordinating sets come in a bundle, and if you're seriously thinking of ordering them, do it before the end of May. Although they are not retiring themselves, the bundle will be. Stampin' Up! has a new policy regarding bundles. Products will be bundled only as long as the catalogue they are first featured in is current. They will not be bundled in subsequent catalogues. Which means you should be getting any bundles from the current Annual Catalogue or Occasions Catalogue before the end of May.

This card was designed roughly using the sketch from the Pals Paper Arts Challenge this week:

• The roses, die cut with one of the Rose Garden Thinlit Dies, represent the two front panels. They are mounted on some Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper. I was going to use the piece that has those beautiful shaded roses on the front, but the die cuts got lost with that paper, so I found a more subdued design from the same package and I liked the way they became much more visible.
• I die cut the roses from a Silver Foil Sheet and some Blushing Bride cardstock. I used the Precision Base Plate to do it. If you don't have a Precision Base Plate yet, you're going to want to get one. The number of intricate (and really beautiful) dies in the new Annual Catalogue has increased exponentially and you will have so much better success at getting all the little pieces fully cut when you use it.
• I added a piece of Sahara Sand Lace Trim to the bottom, because the card just seemed to need something else.
• The sentiment, from the And Many More set, which is retiring come June, fits perfectly inside the label stamp from Rose Wonder, and then you can die cut them using the label framelit from Rose Garden.

Only one month until this new Annual Catalogue goes live, and you're going to want your own hard copy of it so you can plan your strategy. Regular customers will have a copy delivered in their next order, so the fastest way to get one is to place an order with me. Otherwise, let me know that you would like a copy and I will mail you one (or hand deliver if you're in my area) for just the cost of postage.

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

Rose Wonder Photopolymer Stamp Set [140697]	Rose Wonder Photopolymer Bundle [140804]	And Many More Clear-Mount Stamp Set [134276]	And Many More Wood-Mount Stamp Set [134273]	Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper [138444]
Silver Foil Sheets [132178]	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Blushing Bride 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131198]
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [131172]	Sahara Sand 7/8" (2.2 Cm) Lace Trim [137866]	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247]	Rose Garden Thinlits Dies [140619]
Big Shot [113439]	Precision Base Plate [139684]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Delicate Ornament Thinlit Dies and the Precision Base Plate

Two of the new products from the Holiday Catalogue, (which just went live yesterday),that I have not had the opportunity to use yet, are the Delicate Ornament Thinlit Dies and the Precision Base Plate for the Big Shot. When I was designing one of my cards for my Technique Night classes, I decided to give it a go. I found a design on Pinterest that I liked and I decided to adapt it to Stampin' Up! products and I love the result: a shaker card!

• I used the Precision Base Plate to die cut the shape of the ornament from the Always Artichoke card front, at the same time as cutting the shape out of a 3 1/2" x 3 3/4" piece of fun foam. This created an embossed frame line around the ornament shape.
• I didn't really see the genius of the Precision Base Plate until I die cut the ornament itself out of a piece of Gold Foil. Wow! One pass through the Big Shot and it was perfectly cut and it was an easy matter to use dryer sheets to remove all the little bits from the die and the shape. I also used it to die cut the sentiment from the gold foil with equally good results.
• I added some adhesive on the back of the front panel all around the ornament-shaped hole and around the edges as well, and adhered a piece of Window Sheet to cover the hole. I then added more adhesive in the same places and added the fun foam piece, making sure that foam was back a little ways from the margin of the hole. The foam stretches to make that easier.

• I added lots of sequins, some from the Gold Sequin Trim and others from some that I had left over from last year's Holiday Catalogue, with snowflake shapes and silver sequins. I then removed the backing from the fun foam (which has adhesive on one side) and attached a piece of Whisper White cardstock just slightly smaller than the card front. (3 3/4" x 5").
• Then I just had to adhere the shaker card front to the card base. I added the die cut ornament and the sentiment using the new Fine Tip Glue Pen. I found that it takes a while for this adhesive to set up, so just put a Clear Mount block on top of it to hold it down and leave it for 5 minutes and it will be great. Don't use too much glue either, as I have found that it is hard to remove excess with the Adhesive Remover.
• A bit of Gold 1/8" ribbon on the top and in a bow and the card is finished.                                             (No stamps were used or harmed in the making of this card!)

Since I have sequins, ribbons and a slight bit of embossing on this card, I am entering it in The Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge this week, going for the diagonal line.

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

Window Sheets Base Material [114323]	Gold Foil Sheets [132622]	Always Artichoke 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105119]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Gold 1/8" Ribbon [134583]
**Frosted Sequins [135835]	Precision Base Plate [139684]	Big Shot [113439]	Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies [139667]	Greetings Thinlits Dies [138275]
Fine-Tip Glue Pen [138309]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]

**Retired product - not available for sale