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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Retro Valentine Trio

One just wasn't enough. I got on a roll and had to make a trio of retro Valentine cards using the Retro Fresh products and the Crazy Mixed Up Love stamp set. One card was the one I shared yesterday, and the other two are new projects.

Aren't they cute? You've got to admit that Crazy Mixed Up Love is a great set for light-hearted, funky Valentine cards. Let's take a closer look at the two new designs.

This one was created for Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #122 and also features the Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper and the same colour palette as yesterday, but with more emphasis on the So Saffron. I also added a little Woo Hoo! from Just Sayin', presumably exclaimed by the one who gets to pucker up! It was die cut using the Word Bubbles Framelits.
Here's the Freshly Made Sketches challenge sketch:
I used the Deco Labels Collection framelits and the 2 3/8" Scallop Punch to provide a backing for my pucker-up lemon. I added a few little hearts from the Just Sayin' stamp set in Tangerine Tango to add some pop to the otherwise subdued citrus fruit.
The So Saffron background is embossed using the Scallops Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Here's the last of the trio, a tribute to the icon fashion item of the seventies, Bell bottoms:

This was a super fun card to make because I had to create the bell bottoms from scratch. I folded some scrap paper in half and sketched half a pair of pants, then cut them out, opened the fold and voila! A great template for bell bottoms!
To add detail to them, I used Retro Fresh Designer Washi Tape for a bottom border and some pocket inserts. Then I did some paper piercing using the Essentials Paper Piercing Pack and the Piercing Tool.
The Hung Up Cute Clips had the perfect hanger to use with the sentiment from Crazy Mixed Up Love.

And do you see more washi tape? I'm loving that stuff now. I created a little tag by rounding the corners of a Very Vanilla rectangle, and stamped the sentiment on it with Baked Brown Sugar ink.
The backing is another 2 3/8" Scallop Circle punched from So Saffron. Don't you love the little diamond pattern from the Retro Fresh DSP?
The wooden mini-clothespins are from the Heartfelt Banner Sale-A-Bration Kit which you can earn free with a $60 order during Sale-A-Bration. The twine is from another Sale-A-Bration set called Sweet Sorbet Accessories Pack.

To purchase any of the products listed below used to make this project, simply click on the links which will take you directly to my On-Line Stampin' Up! Store, where you can view the products and make a purchase if you like. You can have it delivered right to your door!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

I Lived Through The Sixties and Seventies!

I did live through the sixties and seventies. I AM retro! I tend to have a different view of the colours and styles of that era than the newer generations who are all into retro. I actually remember the seventies especially, with dismay - not the planet's best decade! Polyester bellbottoms! Avocado and harvest gold appliances! And don't get me started on disco music. In my memory, the colours and hairstyles all look like the yellowed photos that we took back then.

But I was ready to wade back into the 70s just for you, to create a retro Valentine card. And in case you haven't guessed by now, I'm using the Retro Fresh products and colour scheme.

Get ready to go back in time:

I used Washi Tape again! (Little dance, patting myself on the back) It's the Retro Fresh washi tape which coordinates with the Retro Fresh DSP which you see on the bottom panel. I'm kind of warming up to this colour palette of Baked Brown Sugar, So Saffron, Coastal Cabana, Tangerine Tango and Very Vanilla.
I didn't actually have a lava lamp back then, but I think one of my boyfriends did, if I remember correctly. In the days before Facebook, it was quite entertaining to watch the globs of "lava" change and transmutate! This image is from the Crazy, Mixed Up Love stamp set, and I'm planning a couple more quirky Valentines using this set. Keep tuned.

The Coastal Cabana panel was embossed using the new Arrows Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. Wow! That's quite a deep texture!
The circle was created by laying strips of washi tape over an area about 2 3/4" square, then using the 2 1/2" Circle Punch to punch it out, tape and all. It works very well and you still get nice crisp cuts. The So Saffron starburst shape behind it was die cut with a Starburst Framelit die.

I just finally took delivery of the Just Sayin' stamp set and Word Bubbles framelits. I ordered them as a bundle and saved 15%. This one is just perfect for this card. I'm going to have some real fun with these, I can see.

What was your favourite decade? How about your least favourite? And the most important question of all - what do YOU think about disco music? Let me know in a comment below!

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Soft and Subtle Congratulations!

Hmmm! Should congratulations ever be subtle? I can't think of any occasion where you wouldn't want the congratulations to be hale and hearty! Maybe you'd want them to be subtle if you had finally been able to make off with the Mona Lisa successfully and you didn't want the world to know about it!

Or maybe if you had just broken the world record for the most days without sleep!

I don't know, but this card is for the Dynamic Duo's Subtly Yours Challe nge #86:

I had a special congratulations card to make, so I combined the two and got... a subtle congrats card:

I used the new Occasions stamp set So Very Grateful. I wasn't going to get this one at first, but then I started seeing so many beautiful cards with it so I had to try it out. I heat embossed the image on Watercolour Paper with Black Stampin' Emboss Powder and watercoloured the image using Stampin' Write Markers in Pool Party and Pink Pirouette and a Blender Pen.
The image reminded me a bit of the embroidery I used to do back in the eighties with products from a company called Creative Circle. I still have some of them framed. So I thought it needed a frame and so I dug out Papaya Collage and heat embossed that frame in Pool Party Stampin' Emboss Powder. To get it thicker and bolder, I re-embossed it twice, adding the embossing powder immediately after heating the last layer with the Heat Tool.
The DSP on the panel behind it is from Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper, another one that I totally missed until I opened up the package.

The sentiment is from the Pomp & Circumstance Stamp Set, for graduates, but it fit nicely on a Very Vanilla flag here. I sponged the edges for definition and added some Pool Party splashes using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.
A few pearls finish off this card with just the right touch.

Now, speaking of congratulations, I am hoping to be able to congratulate you on your rewards during Sale-A-Bration this year! What is Sale-A-Bration, you may ask? Well, it is Stampin' Up's biggest promotion of the year! It runs from January 28 to March 31 this year. There are three ways to earn rewards with Sale-A-Bration:

Purchase products from me. With every $60 you spend (before tax and shipping) you earn one free Sale-A-Bration product. You can check over what you'd like to earn by downloading the Sale-A-Bration brochure when it's available. Trust me, you're going to love it!
Host a party! Invite your friends over to make Valentine cards or some home decor type projects or some beautiful birthday cards, your place or mine! If you host a party where sales (before tax and shipping) are $400 or more, Stampin' Up! is adding an extra $40 dollars to your free product. For a $400 party, that would be $70 plus another $40 dollars, giving you $110 in wonderful Stampin' Up! products from any current catalogue. It is sooo worth it to do this and I can help you make your party successful. I'm booking parties for Sale-A-Bration right now, so give me a call or send me an email.
Join my Papercraft Cats team! When you purchase the Stampin' Up! kit during Sale-A-Bration, you will get $190 worth of products for only $125. Usually, you would receive $155 dollars worth of products, plus a business pack, with free shipping. During Sale-A-Bration, you would get $35 more. This is all in addition to 20% discounts on your stamping supplies, a little extra money (or a lot, depending on how much you want to work it) and a first time Demo order discount of 30%! There's really nothing to lose! Plus you get all the benefits of a demonstrator, with a sneak peek of the new Annual Catalogue and the chance to pre-order from it a month before the public.

Get your wish lists ready for January 28th!!

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