Come To Gather for a Catalogue Case Work Around

I finished a successful Catalogue Launch last Saturday, with a number of card displays set up around my living room, focusing on several of the suites featured in the Stampin' Up! 2019 Holiday Catalogue. I had quite a few of the products I needed to complete these projects, but some things I didn't buy because I already had current product that was very much like it.

One such situation involved the Gather Together Stamp Set with it's coordinating Gathered Leaves Dies. I bought the stamp set, but not the dies, because I felt I already had what I needed for leaves with the Seasonal Layers Dies. I didn't realize the cool things you could create with them with their embossing capabilities. These feats of prowess are used frequently in the samples for this set! To make the card you see above, I had to simulate that effect! But I did it!                                                                                                                             
Take a close look and see if you can figure out what I did:

• The base of Early Espresso has the large leaf from Gather Together stamped randomly on it to make a background paper. 
• Two patterns from Come To Gather DSP are used next as a banner and a circle frame.
• The sentiment is embossed in white on Pretty Peacock.
• The large leaf was stamped again in Early Espresso, but this time on the wood grain DSP from the same set. Without the dies, I had to fussy cut!
• The workaround involved the two smaller leaves which, in the catalogue, were die cut/embossed with the dies. Spritzing them with water first, created the lighter coloured ribs that were so effective. 
• What I did, was to use the Colourful Seasons stamp set to emboss the leaf pattern on the cardstock in white and then use the Seasonal Layers dies to simply die cut the perimeter of the leaf. To tone down the white embossing powder, I used the dark Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends to colour over the white white lines and turn them more brownish.
• The pumpkin is simply stamped in Cajun Craze and coloured in with Cajun Craze Blends as well as Pumpkin Pie.

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Product List

Gather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set [150589] $22.00	Gather Together Bundle [153036] $51.25	Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set [143726] $34.00	Come To Gather Designer Series Paper [150454] $15.75	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119686] $12.00
Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880] $12.00	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [115318] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $8.25
Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $10.25	Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [147085] $10.25	Cajun Craze Combo Pack Stampin' Blends [147931] $12.00	Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144599] $12.00	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144601] $12.00
Seasonal Layers Dies [143751] $45.00	Layering Circles Dies [141705] $48.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Feels Like Frost Again for As You See It Challenges

It's time again for a new As You See It Challenge, and this time it's a recipe challenge, cooked up by Chef LeAnne Pugliese! A recipe challenge gives us elements that we have to include on our project, but where we put them, what size and colour they are, and how we visualize them are up to us. And I'm still on a Feels Like Frost kick (as I make samples for my Catalogue Launch tomorrow) so that suite forms the basis of my card. Here's the Challenge Banner:

And here's how I put the ingredients together:

• I have several die cuts on my project, including the leaf and the tag, but the main ones involve the Frosted Frames dies, one in Petal Pink and the inside sentiment panel that I just used as a Smoky Slate backing to another Feel LIke Frost DSP panel. The Feels Like Frost inside panel was cut with the same die as the one that cut the Smoky Slate panel, but I had to readjust it and run it through several times to accomodate the size of the smaller panel.
• The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings and is stamped on Petal Pink, then die cut with one of the tags from the new Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies.
• The leaf is die cut from the Seasonal Layers Dies.
• The twine is tied to the tag then run around the DSP layer, anchoring the tag in the straight position with a glue dot.

Hope you find time to play along with us this weekend!!

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

Itty Bitty Greetings Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151331] $49.00	Feels Like Frost Specialty 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [150444] $20.00	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131202] $12.00	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985] $12.00	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $10.25
3/16" (1 Cm) Braided Linen Trim [147808] $9.50	Seasonal Layers Dies [143751] $45.00	Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies [150644] $46.00	Frosted Frames Dies [150658] $39.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25

Something Old, Something New for Fab Friday

For my Technique Night classes this month we are focusing on Coordinating with the new Holiday Catalogue; in other words, using our existing products and supplies from the Annual Catalogue and working them in with the new products from the  Holiday Catalogue! Each year, I hate how as soon as the Holiday and Occasions Catalogues come out, everyone forgets about the Annual Catalogue. We just don't get enough time with the amazing products in it until we move on to other things. So this year, I was determined to coordinate the new with the old! So no one is getting married, we're just 'marrying' the two catties so to speak.

My project today shares the amazing Designer Series Paper Come To Gather along with the old Seasonal Layers Dies and the new Frosted Frames Dies and wraps it up with a sentiment from Painted Harvest stamp set. It makes a great combination, don't you think??

My layout comes from Fab Friday's latest sketch:

Here's a closer look:

• The background designer paper is from the Come To Gather DSP package, but there is one more element from that paper as well. Can you guess? Yes, it's the 3 pumpkins on the front that I fussy cut to add to the project from another design in the series. These are unusual colours for fall designer paper, but they also have patterns in rich Merry Merlot and Cajun Craze, which are more traditional.
• I die cut maple leaves and other foliage from Mint Macaron and Pretty Peacock cardstock using the Seasonal Layers dies and the  Frosted Frames dies and layered it behind the pumpkins which are adhered with glue dots and Stampin' Dimensionals.
• The ribbon is Scalloped Linen Ribbon in Pretty Peacock and the little twine bow is made from the Mint Macaron twine from the Nature's Twine collection.

 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] $27.00	Come To Gather Designer Series Paper [150454] $15.75	Gray Granite 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146983] $12.00	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880] $12.00	Mint Macaron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138337] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083] $10.25	Pretty Peacock 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Scalloped Linen Ribbon [149751] $11.00	Nature's Twine [146342] $12.25	Paper Snips [103579] $13.50
Seasonal Layers Dies [143751] $45.00	Frosted Frames Dies [150658] $39.00	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50