I been working all week on putting together a BOGO sale, intending to start it this weekend. Since Stampin' Up! just got in the Trucking Along Builder punch, I decided to move up the start a few days so that you can order this beloved little truck punch or it's bundle along with my BOGO promotion.
Isn't this truck just the cutest? There are so many possibilities!
Basically you place an order with my host code and get free retired product free from me. I've chosen some of my all time favorites for this sale.
These are just a few of the bundles I have included on my BOGO sale. I'm happy to include extra DSP and card samples as available!
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Welcome back to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop. Maybe you are already hopping along and have come here from the talented Sharon Hashimoto Burkert's blog.
This is our group and where in the world we all come from:
This month our Around the World on Wednesday group is taking a walk! Whatever that means to each of us. It will be so much fun to see how everyone approaches this.
Earlier this year my husband and I sold our downtown St Paul condo and set about looking for something with a little more of a backyard. We ended up moving to one of the Twin Cities older, first ring suburbs, Roseville. Roseville has had some wonderful city planners and they strive to have a park within a 10 minute walk of anyone's home. I think that may be an ongoing work in progress but we certainly find it true. We are enjoying not only our walks through the nearby, Willow Pond Park but the surrounding neighborhoods too. We find joy in such gems as the feed the chickens dispensers, rhododendron gardens, book nooks and flocks of turkeys. I love to see how everything changes with the seasons.
Speaking of changes, our weather recently went from the 90's to 50's and we are getting an advance taste of sweater weather. I think it's also a good time to share some of the cards I've been making with Stampin' Up!'s All About Autumn Suite and the Autumn Leaves Bundle.
I putzed with this first one for quite awhile. It's my favorite print in the seemingly hard to get All About Autumn Specialty DSP and I didn't want to waste the 6"x 6" piece I had after sharing some DSP with my team members. When I wasn't confident of either Basic White or Very Vanilla, I pivoted to our watercolor paper. Perfect! When I added in Gray Granite, along with the new In Colors Pebbled Path and Copper Clay, I knew I had a winning combination.
The leaves are lightly sponged around the edges with Pebble Path. I think that helps meld the colors with the sweater knit.
This card sketch is one I refer to as my daisy sketch as I've done it with just about every daisy Stampin Up! has given us over the last several years. I like to think that the secret to its success is that at least one of the elements has to go off the edge of the card. I don't know why that is so satisfying to me but it just is.
Don't you love this greeting? It seems to bring more coziness to this situation and I just love the fonts.
Layers: the greeting is over a regular layer of Pebbled Path that leaves maybe a 1/16th" border above and below. The vertical Pebbled Path is kind of a faux layer. I really just glued down a skinny strip of Pebbled Path next to the DSP. I've done these for years without thinking about my process so I thought it through and made a little video you will see after the next card.
This next card uses another DSP piece with fallen oak leaves. With this one your DSP won't feel quite so rare since it's just an inch or so strip! I kept Gray Granite and Pebbled Path as supporting cast members.
This card uses the Timber 3D embossing folder. In the following video I used the Leaf Fall 3D Embossing Folder (online exclusives) and show a few of my construction tips for border cards like this. Please note: I've just started trying videos again and I did this one just before we headed north so there would be no temptation for me to redo it. I downloaded it from Facebook and it seems there is some word skipping. I'm not sure that it my northwoods connection or what but I think you'll get the idea...
The skinny strip of Moody Mauve/Metallic DSP is simply the reverse side of the oak leaf print. eta: While these became available again this week as I expected they are once again unavailable and on order. This stuff is SO popular!
Here is the other card I showed in the video. I haven't run across owls yet during my morning walks but my daughter told me they saw one just Saturday night on a night time walk. This was one of my swaps when I recently attended Stampin Up's Backstage.
This is the un-stamped die cut owl from the Winter Owls Bundle. It has three parts: two detailed wings to add to the owl with smaller wings that could be used alone. The greeting is stamped with Lost Lagoon ink on a print from the One Horse Open Sleigh DSP. That DSP is in the Online Exclusives and is currently available.
As shown in the video, I just used a skinny strip next to the DSP, not a whole layer underneath it.
I so appreciate that you took the time as you visit my blog today. Let me know what you think and come back again soon! Feel free to ask questions if something isn't clear.
If you would like to receive my newsletter please click on the Stay in Touch link at the top of my blog. You can also check out the Stampin' Up! catalogs link in the same location. If you don't have regular Stampin' Up Demonstrator and would like hard copies of any of our current catalogs please feel free to email me at [email protected]
I would love to help you with your stamping journey and have you shop with me! You can click on "Shop with Chris Smith" at the top of my blog.
If you place a minimum $50 (US) order using the September host code, 9AF9Q32N, I will send you a gift with a make and take project. US customers only. Customers placing an order smaller than $50 will still receive my thank you card.
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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