Remarkable You for Color Throwdown

Did you notice this week's Weekly Deals?  Did you notice that the amazing Remarkable You double stamp set was on sale for $30.75 instead of the regular price of $41.00?

Well, I thought I would show you just how remarkable Remarkable You is! It's got to be on everyone's wish list really! I used this card to enter the Color Throwdown colour challenge this week and Mojo Monday's sketch challenge.

There's just something about the sketchy (in a good way) look of the images from Remarkable You and I love the font of the sentiments as well. Take a look at what I did with them:

• I had to oversize the center circle on the sketch because of the size of the flower image, which meant I had to reduce the sizes of the side circles, but I like how it turned out. 
• The colour palette from Color Throwdown is delicious! I could hardly wait to use it. I chose Daffodil Delight for the yellow and Old Olive for the green in the swatch.
• I stamped the image in our new Basic Black Archival Ink because I wanted to do a minimal amount of watercolouring with an Aqua painter, and the Archival Ink won't run with water based ink. I added just a hint of Daffodil Delight on the flower petals, keeping lots of white space. I added some Old Olive on the stem and leaves, and a tiny shadow of pale Tip Top Taupe.
• The background paper is from the Brights Designer Series Paper Stack.
• The sentiment is also stamped in the Basic Black Archival Ink and die cut using the Project Life Cards & Labels framelits.

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

Remarkable You Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139891]	Remarkable You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139894]	Brights Designer Series Paper Stack [138434]	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953]	Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad [138325]
Basic Black 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon [138430]	Big Shot [113439]	Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911]	Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits [135707]	Aqua Painters [103954]
Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]

Wondrous Wreath for The Paper Players

In all the excitement of the new Holiday Catalogue, the poor old Annual Catalogue often gets forgotten and left behind. But I wanted to show you that there are many great stamp sets and framelits in the Annual Catalogue that are perfect for this time of year as well as for the holiday season. The stamp set I wanted to highlight today is Wondrous Wreath and the coordinating Wondrous Wreath Framelits. It was meant to be a Christmas stamp set and is terrific for making classy Christmas cards, but it can also be used for the other seasons, simply by changing the colour palette. For this card, I gave it a fall theme in line with The Paper Players' Challenge 263:

As this is a Clean-and-Simple Challenge, I didn't want to have a lot of different images. Simply an image, and sentiment and the background.

• The Wondrous Wreath photopolymer stamp set is designed for a 3 step stamping experience, and the great thing is that Stampin' Up! has added a directional tab to each of the 3 stamps so you can line up the images by aligning the tap of each one with the others. The coordinating Wondrous Wreath framelits also have a tab to make aligning them with the images easy.
• I chose an autumn palette for my wreath with Pumpkin Pie ink for the first image, Versamark Ink with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder for the second and Cherry Cobbler ink for the little berries and the bow. The touch of gold elegance on the card contrasts effectively with the rustic background.
• The background is the Hardwood stamp, stamped in Crumb Cake ink on a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock. This wreath needs a fairly non-busy background and the Hardwood filled the bill when Designer Series Paper and other background stamps just didn't work.

• The sentiment is from the For All Things stamp set and I inked up the two lines separately using Stampin' Write Markers in Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Cobbler, cleaning them thoroughly in between stamping them so as not to end up with ghost images of the other part on the sentiment from the residue on the Stampin' Scrub. The stamp has the two lines aligned left, but when I stamped each line separately, I could center each one. The label and it's backing pieces are die cut using the Tags & Labels Framelits.

This was a fun card to make! I hope you'll give it a try. The list of supplies is below.

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

Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set [135047]	For All Things Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135155]	For All Things Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135152]	Hardwood Wood-Mount Stamp Set [133032]	Hardwood Clear-Mount Stamp Set [133035]
Gold Foil Sheets [132622]	Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105117]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [131259]	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262]
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]	Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies [135851]	Tags & Labels Framelits Dies [138282]
Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]