Petal Parade of Mini Thank You Cards

One thing I really like to do is to design the little three by three mini thank you cards that I include in all my customers' orders!  I have such a good time with that small space.  This month, I decided to use one of the Sale-A-Bration Stamp sets, Petal Parade, and some of the Sale-A-Bration DSP, Sweet Sorbet, in the design.

• I'm getting a lot of mileage out of the colour palette of the Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper.  I especially like the Summer Starfruit, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pool Party and Sahara Sand combination that I've used here.
• At first I didn't like the flower images on Petal Parade, but now that I've used them together, I think that they work really well together, and when you use them all, you can create what looks like your own Designer Series paper!
• The card bases are all 3" x 6" pieces of Summer Starfruit, scored and folded at 3".  Some have a middle panel of 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" Sweet Sorbet DSP.  Others have the same sized pieces of Sahara Sand polka dotted paper from the Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack.

• I stamped the images from Petal Parade in Pool Party, Summer Starfruit and Crisp Cantaloupe on Whisper White cardstock.  
• The sentiment from Lots of Thanks stamp set is stamped in Sahara Sand.
• I added a Pool Party Candy Dot from the Subtles Collection, and a Tangerine Tango Candy Dot from the Brights Collection. ( There are no Candy Dots in Crisp Cantaloupe.) 

• Not sure which of the two designs I like the best, but the Sahara Sand DSP gives much better contrast to the card.
• These mini cards make great gift acknowledgements, or you can whip one up to thank a friend who has done you a favour.

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Birthday Wishes As You See It

I've been having a wonderful week with my youngest daughter and oldest grandson, Parker.  He's about 27 months old and is chattering continually and I'm getting good at understanding most of what he says!  It's so heart-warming when he says, "I love you, Nana!" They will be staying with us until Monday, when Pat, Jaimie's husband, gets back from a band trip he was leading down to San Francisco.  Yesterday, Parker was with his other grandparents and so I had a chance to make some more cards.  One of the first I tackled was the As You See It Challenge Design Team card for Challenge #29.  Here's the sketch:

As you can see, Amanda has created an amazing sketch for us once again.  I have a Birthday Stamper's Dozen coming up on Monday, so I decided to make this a birthday card.  As I did yesterday, I also used one of my Pinterest Colour Palettes for the colour combination.  Here's the one I chose:

As I mentioned yesterday, Pinterest is a great place to look to find good colour combinations.

Here is my Design Team sample:

• Wow, I love this colour combination.  I'm starting to get awfully attached to Summer Starfruit.  It is slated to be retired in June, but I'm not going to be happy about that.  Let's start a Summer Starfruit rescue campaign!!
• The other colours are Basic Gray, Crisp Cantaloupe and Sahara Sand.  They look so amazing together!
• I didn't have any rickrack designs so I chose to use some Gold Sequin Trim instead and then added a few loose sequins on the background.

• The flowers are again from the Flower Shop Stamp set and punched out with the Pansy Punch which coordinates.  I stamped them in Crisp Cantaloupe, Summer Starfruit and Sahara Sand.
• The sentiment is from the Four You Stamp Set and is stamped in Sahara Sand ink.
• The DSP fragments used here are from the Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stacks and Sweet Sorbet, one of the free rewards during Sale-A-Bration, which ends March 31st.  Don't miss out on the benefits!

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Back Home Again to a Card in a Box!

No matter how terrific your vacation is, it's always good to get back home again! Right? The older I get the more I appreciate my own comfy bed and pillows and having my things around me again. So that part is good. The part I don't like is all the catch up I have to do as soon as I return from a week off! There's the unpacking. There's the laundry that accumulated on holidays. I have two classes and a workshop this week, so after getting home Saturday night, Sunday I hit the ground running!

My workshop hostess had a specific request. She wanted me to do a Card in a Box for her crafters. That was the first project I designed yesterday. Here it is:

• I used Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper for the panels and the same colours for all the flowers, leaves and butterflies, mainly Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Pudding, and Summer Starfruit.
• My hostess loves butterflies, so my design features lots of them, using Papillon Potpourri images and the Flower Shop Stamp Set, but adding a sentiment from Label Love. I wanted images that could be punched out, instead of die cut or hand cut to save time at the workshop, so with these sets I used the pansy punch as well as the Elegant Butterfly Punch, the Bitty Butterfly Punch and the Artisan Label Punch.
• I made good use of the Bird Builder punch as well, to create leaves from Pistachio Pudding cardstock. I used the branch for this as well as the bird's wing, which is a great shape for a larger leaf.

• The back side has the greeting with matching sentiments from Petite Pairs and some more flowers, from Petite Petals stamp set and small butterflies from Papillon Potpourri.

• The cool thing about these Card in a Box projects is that they fold flat into a standard sized card shape, 5 1/2" x 4 1/4", and will fit into a medium envelope if you don't make the embellishments stick out too far from the edges.

I haven't got time to post a whole tutorial right now, but I am planning on doing a video and making a photo tutorial available as well. If you would like to have the photo tutorial, please send me an email with your email address and I will send you the PDF file. The video tutorial will be posted on-line when it is completed.

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