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Thoughtful Blooms For Freshly Made Sketches #420

February 3, 2020 Filed Under: Gallery, Project Gallery4 Comments

This is my 2nd card for Thoughtful Blooms. Who would ever think such a simple stamp set could create so much? This Sale-A-Bration set that you can earn for free with a qualifying order has multiple sentiments as well as a matching flower punch you can also earn! I have loved working with it because of how versatile it is.

I only just saw the sketch for Freshly Made Sketches and Thoughtful Blooms came to mind right away. I needed a quick, easy card that would work for this sketch. Something with enough “design” to it for a challenge, but also clean and simple to fit the stamp set. The Freshly Made Sketches #420 Challenge was the perfect design!

For the background, I used water color paper and did a light wash in Balmy Blue. The design was stamped in Pear Pizzaz and Daffodil Delight. I used the Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots in the center of each flower. The color used was Pineapple Punch. But it works for Daffodil Delight designs.

Then, I die cut the stamped design with a Stitched Shape and backed it with a Scalloped Circle from the Layering Circles Dies. The sentiment was stamped on a scrap of the water color paper, punched and layered on punched circle of Pear Pizzaz. The only DSP I even considered was the Pear Pizzaz Gingham from the Designer Series Paper Stack in Subtle colors! The dainty, 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon in Daffodil Delight tied it all together. Simple and spring like. Just the look I was after!

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Music Of The Heart For When Words Are Not Enough

January 30, 2020 Filed Under: Gallery, Project Gallery4 Comments

Music From The Heart

I don’t buy much Valentine’s Day because I generally don’t have enough time after all the rush of the holidays to get much done! So, I love sets that can do double duty as a Valentine’s Day card. And Music of the Heart is one of those sets you will use for soooo many occasions! From Birthday to Thank You to Anniversary to Valentine’s, what you can create with a set like this is limited only by your imagination.

This is a special stamp set because it was inspired by Million Dollar Sales Achiever, Dawn Olchefske. Dawn has had a life long interest in music which inspired her special stamp set. Dawn blogs at DOStamping.com And if you didn’t know, she figures out and shows the measurements for many die sets on her blog posts! I often go to her site just for this info!

But Dawn’s real specialty is creating simple, easy to duplicate cards. The fresh, modern design of this stamp set really has her “look”. With versatile sentiments and easily arranged artwork, this stamp set can create so many looks!

This card was done for a Demo Challenge this week. The challenge is with a group of local Demos who meet once a month, have dinner together, talk stamping and swap cards! Who wouldn’t love to do that? We have a great time and swap cards that will inspire customers with current stamp sets for general or seasonal occasions. Our theme this month is “Love and/or Valentine’s”. I knew immediately I was going to use the Music From The Heart set for my design! And with my personal challenge to use “Swirly Frames” and other background stamps more, the design came together easily.

So, if you are looking for something new and different in stamp sets, I encourage you to take a look at Music From The Heart.

Products Used To Make This Card

151674 $17.00	146519 $21.00	147897 $8.50
149516 $18.00	145058 $9.00	147935 $9.00
131202 $8.75	102482 $8.75	121045 $8.75

You Really Don’t Want To Miss This Paper Pumpkin, Do You?

Deadline to sign up is February 10th! The kit makes 9 full size cards with envelopes. And this Paper Pumpkin coordinates with the Happy Birthday to You Stamp set which is FREE with a qualifying purchase of $50! That would be a 3-month Prepaid Paper Pumpkin Subscription! Click on the image above to learn more!

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Thoughtful Blooms Is Spring Imagined!

January 28, 2020 Filed Under: Gallery, Project Gallery4 Comments

I made this card using a stamp set you can get for free with a qualifying order during Sale-A-Bration. It was part of personal challenge this week to use the Swirly Frames set more. Stampin’ Up! has a number of great accent and background stamps and Swirly Fames is one of those. I wanted to use this particular stamp set as it creates such a unique look for a card by framing other stamp designs or sentiments.

For this design, I decided to combine the Swirly Frames with the Thoughtful Blooms stamp set, which you can’t buy at any price, but you can earn with a qualifying order of at least $50. You have until March 31st to get it!

Also for this card I decided to use the 2018-2020 In Colors. Even though we have had them since the 2018 catalog launch, I am really going to miss these when they retire at the end of June. They are such a bright and happy group of colors.

The design was simple with just one corner rounded off. I kept the look bright and cheery with the gingham InColor DSP background. I wanted it to look like spring and I think it does.