Welcome to Canada Envelope Card

I don't know if you are aware, but I've been part of a group at our church who has been working to sponsor a Syrian refugee family to come to Canada. It has been two long years of paperwork and fundraising of all kinds, but last Thursday all our efforts came to fruition when our Syrian friends walked down the airport arrivals ramp into our hearts.  This is a photo of the tired, but happy family here! 

It's been an interesting few days, as our Arabic is nil and their English is very limited and Google Translate is very flawed, sometimes in hilarious ways, but we are somehow able to communicate with each other and have gotten to know each other much better!

We made signs to welcome them at the airport, waved Canadian flags, had bouquets of flowers and other gifts for the family, but we wanted a card for all the team to sign, even if they all couldn't be at the airport to greet them. I needed to make a card with lots of room for signatures!!

Luckily, Ronda Wade  had recently done a Facebook live video on making an envelope card that suited my needs perfectly, so I set out to make my own version - a Welcome to Canada card.

• Of course, I wanted Real Red as one of the colours, and remembered that Crumb Cake is always a good neutral to use with red. The background DSP is from the new Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper* and it was the perfect subdued pattern to use. 
• My favourite new stamp set, Rooted in Nature*, was again perfect to use for a Canada theme with the stump image in Crumb Cake, stamped off, and the tree in Tranquil Tide.
• The sentiments are concocted from Special Celebrations stamp set. I used the Welcome Baby, but masked the Baby so as just to use the Welcome part. I used Thoughtful Banners for the From Us at the bottom. And TO CANADA was made using a brand new set called Pick a Pennant*. It has an alphabet with more than one of the most used letters so that you can create most words on your clear mount block or Stamparatus without having to fill in letters or stamp twice. Unfortunately, there are only 2 As in the set and Canada has 3 so I still had to fill in the last one.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

But the special part of this card comes when you untie the Crumb Cake Classic Weave ribbon:

The two Whisper White envelopes that are the pockets containing the secret message cards!!

Which I have pulled out here in this photo. They are ready for words of welcome and signatures!

This is the last page with more images from Rooted in Nature* and sentiments from the Waterfront stamp set, which is being carried over into the new Annual Catalogue.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

In the end, everyone loved the card, both givers and receivers, and the Syrian family will appreciate it even more once they learn to read English I'm sure!

Are there some products in the Annual Catalogue that you've had your eye on for some time now, but just haven't gotten around to ordering?? Well, if they are on the retiring list, you only have 8 days left to do it! I will be putting in an order before May 31st so call me with your last minute wishes!

Don't let this be you:

Procrastination!!

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

Special Celebrations Wood-Mount Stamp Set [143882] $59.00	Special Celebrations Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143885] $44.00	Thoughtful Banners Photopolymer Stamp Set [141614] $26.00	Waterfront Photopolymer Stamp Set [146386] $21.00	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482] $10.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $11.25	Medium Whisper White Envelopes [107301] $8.50	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $10.00	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [126949] $8.50	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] $8.50
Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [144085] $8.50	Crumb Cake 3/8" Classic Weave Ribbon [144162] $9.25	Brights Enamel Shapes [141680] $12.00	1-3/8" (3.5 Cm) Scallop Circle Punch [146139] $21.50	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00

Rooted in Nature Stamp Set*, Pick a Pennant Stamp Set*, Tranquil Textures DSP*

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

Share What You Love Time Limited Bundles

This is the last week and a half for you to be able to take advantage of the early release bundles of the Share What You Love Suite. You will still be able to buy all these products when the new catalogue is released June 1, but you will not be able to earn the free gifts provided with each of the three bundles. And the Just Getting Started bundle and the A Little More Please bundle are both in low inventory, meaning they could sell out soon, so it would be a good idea to get your orders for those in ASAP. I'll show the flyers at the end of this blog post for your information along with how to order.

In the meantime, I want to show you another sample I made for our last Technique Night class where we focussed on this Share What You Love suite. You can find the other two cards we worked on here and here.

This card uses two of the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper designs with a Rich Razzleberry and Crumb Cake palette.

• The two pieces of Share What You Love Specialty DSP overlap slightly on the card and are embellished with a  7" piece of the Rich Razzleberry Velvet Ribbon tied with a piece of the Nature's Twine* in Blackberry Bliss, one of the new colours in our colour revamp. Using the watercolour background stamp from the Love What You Do stamp set as an Old Olive background, the sentiment from the same set was stamped in Rich Razzleberry over top. I did stamp off the background stamp once before stampin' it on the cardstock.
• It's a little hard to see here, but I took the small bunch of flowers and the leaf sprig stamps, and stamped them in Versamark over top of this sentiment, covered them with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set them with the Heat Tool. It just provides a little extra subtle interest. Then I punched out the shape with the Everyday Label Punch.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

• On the back of this label, using adhesive and Glue Dots, I attached a piece of leftover  Pearlized Doily that I had turned over to the flat-finished side and brayered with Rich Razzleberry ink, trimming it to fit properly. It was actually the doily piece that I had left over from this project. I used the Sponge Brayers to do the brayering. I love what a great job they do. I also attached a couple of vellum leaves punched out with the Leaf Punch, and another couple of leaves punched out of Old Olive cardstock using an old Martha Steward Leaf Punch that I have.
• This whole ensemble was glued to a Crumb Cake oval, die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits and that again was popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals to the card front.

 To order, click on my On-Line Store, and go to Share What You Love Suite and choose the bundle you want, enter it in your shopping cart and check out as a guest or open an account. It will be shipped right to your door. Or contact me and I will place an order for you.

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

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set [148042] $27.00	Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper [146926] $36.75	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $10.00	Rich Razzleberry 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115316] $10.00	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702] $10.00
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650] $11.25	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $10.00	Pearlized Doilies [146936] $6.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $11.25	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130] $6.75
Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] $8.50	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953] $8.50	Rich Razzleberry 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Velvet Ribbon [147016] $11.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.00	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00
Sponge Brayers [141714] $10.75	Everyday Label Punch [144668] $23.50	Leaf Punch [144667] $21.50	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] $46.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25

Nature's Twine (Blackberry Bliss)*

Martha Stewart Leaf Punch**

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

**Non-Stampin' Up! products