Tasteful Touches for Global Design Project

 I'm excited to be able to use the Tasteful Touches stamp set again. Sometimes it seems that we get so many new products to demo that some of my favourite sets take a back seat for a long time. I'm happy that this one will be carrying over in the new Annual Catalogue though, so I have more time to enjoy it.

I'm entering my card in the Global Design Project's current challenge #286:

I'm also entering it in the latest The Paper Player's challenge #535:

Here's my entry:

• This is a square design, the base being 4 1/2" x 4 1/2", in Magenta Madness, one of the 2020 - 2022 In Colours.
• It's topped with a 4" square in Soft Sea Foam, die cut with a circle in the middle, using the largest of the Layering Circle plain dies and embossed using the retiring Subtle 3D embossing folder.
• On the Whisper White panel behind (3 3/4" x 3 3/4") I've stamped the leafy branch in Just Jade ink and the tiny squares texture image in Soft Sea Foam.
• The flower was stamped on a scrap piece of Whisper White in Magenta Madness ink and fussy cut.
• The feathers were embossed in White Stampin' Emboss Powder on vellum and fussy cut. They were mounted behind the flower with glue dots and the whole piece mounted on the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals.
• The sentiment, also from Tasteful Touches, was embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder on Just Jade cardstock, then cut into strips and mounted on the card front as shown.
• The final touch was some black sequins left over from a Paper Pumpkin kit.

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Product List

Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set (English) [152562] $31.00	Tasteful Touches Bundle (English) [154098] $65.50	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101856] $13.50	Magenta Madness 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [153080] $12.00	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146988] $12.00
Just Jade 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [153079] $12.00	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $8.25	Magenta Madness Classic Stampin' Pad [153117] $10.25
Just Jade Classic Stampin' Pad [153115] $10.25	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $10.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] $13.50	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $48.00
Paper Snips [103579] $13.50	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $163.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

In the Woods with Foil Accents

I feel like I shouldn't even be posting this here today, since it's a glorified CASe of this card by Cindy Elam, which I think I may like more than mine, but I do love the foil effects here and wanted to share them with you.

My process started out by wanting to use some more of my Noble Peacock Foil Sheets for Christmas Designs and I thought that the Old Olive Foil would be perfect for a die cut tree. I got out my In the Woods dies and die cut the 3D Christmas Tree out of the foil. Then I started to wonder how to properly display it and I wanted to also use the bare deciduous trees as well, in either white or foil. I knew they would look best on a dark background, but also wanted a snowy feel to the background. That's when I found Cindy's wonderful card on Pinterest.

So I rearranged the design, added the fir tree and made the snowy hills and black background bigger, but I used some of the great elements that I  admired so much from Cindy's design.

• Doesn't the Subtle 3D Embossing create a great frosty look in Silver Foil sheets when it's used as background for a winter scene? I thought so!
• Cindy cut her silver foil into a frame, but I just cut another sheet of Basic Black to glue over top of it. Before I did, though I embossed the sentiment, from Winter Woods stamp set, in Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder.
• I die cut 2 hills of snow from Whisper White cardstock using the edgelit that comes in the In The Woods dies. The 2 trees were die cut from the silver foil and one was tucked behind one of hills, while the other was adhered in front with glue dots.
• The Old Olive evergreen was added with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals on the back of each of the branches that pops out. That makes them stand out more.

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Winter Woods Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151359] $31.00	Noble Peacock Foil Sheets [149495] $13.50	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $6.75	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25
Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] $8.25	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] $14.00
In The Woods Dies [147919] $45.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50

Wonderful Moments in Living Colour (and White)!

For our Technique Nights this month, our theme is techniques with ribbon and one of the techniques we're going to explore is dying ribbon. The card we're making using this technique is one that uses the Wonderful Moments Stamp Set because it has the stamp with the image of the Bride in it. What if you could create a wedding card for the bride that would incorporate her wedding colours in it and have elegant ribbon to go along with it.

Well, as long as Stampin' Up! has a Stampin' Blends alcohol marker that approximates that colour, you are in luck. Let's say that the bride had coral as her wedding colour. All you would need to do is to get out your Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo and you could not only colour around the image of the bride, but you could also take some white ribbon and use the Stampin' Blends to dye the ribbon as well! So easy! Here's how it turned out:

• I used the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder for the background. The Heirloom Frames Dies and 3D Embossing Folders were used to create that elegant frame around the image of the bride.
• The ribbon used is the Silver Metallic Edged Ribbon, which was coloured with the Calypso Coral Light Stampin' Blends Marker, using the brush tip. It dries so fast, due to the alcohol base.
• The bride image is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and I used the So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo and the Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo to colour it in.
• The sentiment is from the same stamp set and is stamped in Calypso Coral ink.

• The same design in Mint Macaron, only this time the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder was used for the background panel, and the Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Combo instead of the Calypso Coral Combo.

• And the same card, only using the Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Combos.

This way you could totally coordinate the wedding card with the wedding colours of the bride!!

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Product List

Wonderful Moments Photopolymer Stamp Set [147529] $33.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $11.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] $10.25	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147276] $12.00	Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144045] $12.00	Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147283] $12.00
So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [149557] $12.00	Silver 3/8" Metallic-Edge Ribbon [144213] $9.50	Scripty 3D Embossing Folder [149634] $14.00	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] $14.00	Heirloom Frames Dies And 3D Embossing Folder [152325] $39.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50