I should never, ever look at Pinterest! When I see something I love, I just can't get it out of my head and nothing else looks good after I see it. That was the case with Tammy Wilson's card with the Sweet Citrus Bundle! I was dying to play with that bundle and when I saw her card, nothing else would do, including almost all the elements she used! I did change a few things but not much so thanks to Tammy, I used this card for my team's Shoebox Swap that we did yesterday. We had a lot of fun doing it! We like to get together in person at least once a quarter, and because of the new mini catalogue, I suggested that each of us design a card and cut enough material so that the rest could each make one and include it, along with the stamps and equipment needed, in a shoebox sized bin and bring it to the meeting. At the meeting, as we discussed business and chatted, we swapped all the boxes and ended up making 4 other cards besides our own. Here are all the other cards and their creators, all members of my Papercraft Cats team :
Dianne Gough
Kim Findlater
Doreen Austgarden
Carol Hamm
Aren't they lovely? What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon! I have openings on my team if you'd like to spend time like that! Click here to find out how.
I used Basic White Thick cardstock for the card base, then embossed a piece of regular Basic White cut at 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" with the Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder and mounted it on the card front.
I cut a 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" piece of Basic White and ran it through the Cut & Emboss Machine with the second largest Stitched with Whimsey Die. Then I blended some Polished Pink ink on it using a blending brush and adhered it to the card front.
On a quarter sheet of Basic White, I blended Daffodil Delight and Flirty Flamingo, again using blending brushes. I made sure to have darker and lighter areas, areas where the two colours blended together, and some small areas I left white.
Using the Sweet Citrus Hybrid Embossing Folder with the Dies, I placed the cardstock inside, adjusting it so that the paper lay in the best places, then ran it through the Cut & Emboss.
I stamped 3 sets of leaves in Granny Apple Green and die cut them with the coordinating dies.
I arranged the embossed and cut pieces on the card front as shown and adhered them using glue dots and dimensionals.
The sentiment from the stamp set is stamped with Memento ink on a 1/2" wide strip and then cut into 3 pieces which are then adhered to the card front as shown.
The last step is to add embellishments. I used Opal Rounds and Rhinestones.
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My preorder for the 2021 July/December Mini Catalogue arrived on Friday and, of course, you know what I had to spend time doing this weekend - playing with my new toys! The first bundle I pulled out was the Gorgeous Leaves bundle, which includes the *Gorgeous Leaves cling stamp set and the *Intricate Leaves Dies.
*These products are from the 2021 July - December Mini Catalogue and won't be available for sale until August 3, 2021.
I chose those because I wanted to play along with Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #493 and the leaves made the perfect diamond shapes for the bottom. Here's the challenge banner to check it out:
This card also contains lots of other intriguing new products from the July/Dec Mini Catalogue, which won't be available to the public until Aug. 3, 2021. It had to be moved a month forward due to unavailability of many of the products in the catalogue because of COVID shipping delays. But these products are definitely worth waiting for!!
On the Early Espresso card base is a very interesting background paper called the *Cork Specialty Paper.
The strip on top of that is Crumb Cake embossed with a new 3D embossing folder called *Timeworn Type. After embossing it, it has been sponged with Soft Suede ink to bring up the embossed features better. Then the edges are distressed and torn to add to the timeworn look.
Across near the bottom of this strip a piece of *Diamond Weave Ribbon has been added. It's really 100% cotton crochet trim in Very Vanilla.
Two different leaf images from the *Gorgeous Leaves stamp set were stamped on Very Vanilla. The maple leaf was inked in Cajun Craze and some Soft Suede was added to the stamp with a sponge dauber before it was stamped. The smaller poplar leave was inked in Crushed Curry and some Cherry Cobbler was daubed on before it was stamped. Two of these images were stamped.
These images were die cut with coordinating dies from the *Intricate Leaves Dies and mounted on the card front using glue dots for the small leaves and Stampin' Dimensionals for the Maple Leaf.
The sentiment is from the Quiet Meadows stamp set in the Annual Catalogue and it was die cut with the Tasteful Labels dies, also from the AC.
*Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots add a finishing touch as an embellishment.
*These products are from the 2021 July - December Mini Catalogue and won't be available for sale until August 3, 2021.
There were many more exciting products in my preorder which I will be using in the coming days and you can see me do a kind of "unboxing" in my Monday Morning Facebook Live video replay here:
Would you like to be able to see the new catalogues ahead of the general public and preorder the products? I've got to say that that is one of the best perks about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! It would be easy for you to be able to do that as of today!! Simply JOIN MY TEAM by purchasing the Starter Kit, which is an amazing deal anyway. You get $165 worth of your choice of products (including from the new July/Dec Mini Catalogue) for only $135 with no shipping fee!! Then you have a minimum of six months to enjoy a 20% discount on your favourite Stampin' Up! products before you have to make your first quarterly sales minimum to keep your demo status.
If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours.I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.
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