We have a one day reprieve from the snow here in Minnesota. We had beautiful, sparkly snow almost all day yesterday and it will be starting up again late tonight sometime before midnight. Meanwhile, my sister sends me pictures daily of their travels in the warmth of Australia.
Whether you are enjoying winter or summer it is a great day for a blog hop, so today I'm participating in...
... with some cards featuring the Painted Season's Bundle which will be joining the wonderful line up of products you can get for free during Sale-A-Bration. This bundle, featuring botanical images in Stampin' Up!'s Distinktive® style plus gorgeous designer series paper will become available this Friday, February 15.
- The sketch for this card is from the Sunday Stamps Challenge.
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- The blossom and leaves were stamped with the Painted Leaves stamp set and Petal Pink and Pear Pizzazz ink on Whisper White card stock.
- Though framlelits will be available for this set starting in March and are available to demonstrators now I decided to test out the set before I ordered them. Now I know that I will be ordering them! I am impressed with the possibilities of this set. This time the flower and leaves were fussy cut with the paper snips.
- The Lace embossing folder is from the Floral Romance Suite in Stampin' Up!'s Occasions catalog. I used it on both the small oval and the DSP strip.
- I was using up left over elements from previous cardmaking sesssions. Ovals are from both the Layering Ovals framelits and the Stitched Shapes framelits.
- A few Grapefruit Grove Faceted Dots finish it off.
This card shows a little more of this gorgeous DSP. (DSP is short for Designer Series Paper.):
- I used a 1/2" x 5 1/2" strip of the botanical print with a 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" panel of the Pool Party geometric pattern. I used cellophane tape to attach these together on the back side so there would be no overlap. This makes it look as though the paper came with the border.
- I love how the subtle shading changes is these papers make them look handmade.
- These were adhered to a A2 sized Whisper White card. This is a basic US card size of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card.
- The hello greeting from Life is Grand is stamped with Pool Party ink on a 2" x 4 1/4" piece of Whisper White card stock.
- I added 2 leaflets stamped in Pool Party and Granny Apple Green.
- The border above and below the message panel are two trips of the tiny stitched scallop border included in the Be Mine Stitched Framelit dies. I just allowed the scallops to show through on this card. It seemed to call for a bit more simplicity.
- Beautiful card that you can easily mail without a care in the world. No bows, knots or extra embellishments to worry your postal worker.
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Chris
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If you place a minimum $50 (US) order using the February host code, 2MRXBEJM, I will send you the Glitter Enamel Dots . February orders also earn a free Sale-A-Bration item . US customers only. Customers placing an order smaller than $50 will still receive my February thank you.
If you place a $150 or greater order please don't use the hostess code. You will still receive the gifts but you will also get your own hostess benefits.
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