In Color Week with Parakeet Party

 Here is In Color #5 - Parakeet Party! It seems almost a cross between neon green and the current Granny Apple Green. What do you think?

I had so much fun making this card for you. I love the look of tippy tea cups stacked together. I wanted them to "pop off" the card front so I used the strip of Basic Black mounted on Sweet Sorbet.

Can I tell you a secret? I used two adhesives on the tea cups. Mini Dimensionals at the top edge and Stampin' Seal for the base. That way the cups were angled and fit together better when stacked.

Here's my second tip - I wanted one of the teacups to be going in the other direction. I figured out I just needed to flip the Designer Paper over and die cut the cup on the reverse side and it would come out the way I wanted it when I flipped it over. I felt like a smarty pants for that! LOL

I thought my card needed just a little something more, so the addition of the two stamped and die cut mini flowers with pearl centers were perfect. The retired Stitched So Sweetly die set had the perfect die I needed which I think balances out the card so nicely.

I have loved using the Tea Boutique matching cards and envelopes! They are so much fun to work with and so easy to make a lot of cards at once.

Products used in my Card above:

Tea Boutique Cards and Envelopes, Cup of Tea stamp set, Teacup Dies, Tea Boutique 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper = Tea Boutique Suite

Basic Black and Sweet Sorbet cardstock and Sweet Sorbet ink pad, and two Pearl Jewels

 Retired Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basic White cardstock, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink,

 Parakeet Party 1/8" Metallic Woven Ribbon

Adhesives used were Stampin' Seal, Mini Dimensionals and Glue Dots.

Tools used were the regular Cut and Emboss Machine, Paper Trimmer, Take Your Pick Tool, and Paper Snips.

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Thanks for stopping by. Have a lovely day!

Friendly Ghost and Spiders Halloween Card

Halloween is a week away now. This is the last Halloween card I'm sharing for this year. It's another easy one to put together. 

When I saw this darling layout idea I cased it from MariaStamps.com. I knew I had to try it with the Cute Halloween Designer Series Paper. I changed it up a bit to make it my own.

Sizes to cut from the Cute Halloween DSP

Left piece - 1" x 5"

Top Right Piece - 2-7/16" x 2-5/8"

Lower Right Piece - 2-7/16" x 2-5/8" and colored with the Stampin' Blends (Super fun technique you can do with any black and white paper, talk about customizing!)

Products used to Create this Card and 

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Pumpkin Pie cardstock for card base and die cut tag

Basic Black cardstock layer

Cute Halloween 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper (DSP)

Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends alcohol marker

Stitched So Sweetly Dies

Spider stamp from retired Googly Ghouls stamp set

Boo! is from the September 2018 Paper Pumpkin Kit stamp set

Basic White for inner card layer

Pumpkin Pie ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Retired - Harvest Hellos stamp set for card inside

Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write Marker for tag edge treatment inside card

Holiday Rhinestones Basic Jewels

Paper Snips for fussy cutting images

Have a great time celebrating Halloween however you do it! Boo!

 

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Expanding Peony Cards to Make #3

I hope you are enjoying learning how you can use Designer Series Paper (DSP) in a new way. 

Today's card is my original design.

I think Stampin' Up! knocked it out of the park with this gorgeous DSP. If you love it as much as I do, you should buy another package before the current annual catalog ends on May 3, because after then, it's gone!

Quick disclaimer - even though the colors photographed differently due to the 

backgrounds I used, I assure you it is the same card. (What a difference a little extra

 lighting makes too!)

Let's Make this Card! 

1) Back Panel is Basic Gray 4-1/4" x 5-1/2"

2) DSP 5-1/4" x 12",  scored at 2", 5", 8"

plus one additional DSP strip 3/4" x 5-1/4" which goes on last.

3) Basic White 3-3/4" x 5" for inner card layer

4) Basic White piece 2-3/4" x 4" for Stitched So Sweetly scalloped rectangle die, then stamp birthday greeting from Sweet Ice Cream stamp set in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink diagonally, then the peony blossoms in Petal Pink.

5) Gray Granite 3" x 5-1/4", then use the decorative scalloped edge and cut off just a little bit of the cardstock to make the decorative edge. This piece of Gray Granite is attached behind the front DSP section all the way to the first fold line.

6) Even though I did not add any embellishments, you sure can!

7) Give the envelope flap a little color with a 2-3/8" x 6" piece of 

the matching DSP. Trim excess as needed.

So there you have it! Three days of easy DSP card designs that you can use with any DSP you have on hand. I always love how each piece of DSP gives a new look to the same layout. Give these a try!

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Curvy Christmas Wreath

Here's an eye popping card that is full of rich texture and lovely holiday colors of Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler, and Crumb Cake. These gorgeous collection was released early for sale from the new Jan.-May 2021 Mini Catalog. They are the Curvy Christmas Stamp set, the Curvy Dies, and the Classic Christmas Designer Series Paper (DSP) .

This is the first time Stampin' Up! has produced such fun dies with so many possibilities that you can create with. I decided to try the DSP vertically along with combining the patterns.  What do you think?

Combined with the lovely paper is the Arrange a Wreath Stamp set for the tag, and the Wreath Dies

done in green and gold foil.  

For a close up view, you can see I dived deep into my stash for the perfect Cherry Cobbler retired buttons that are only about 8-9 years old! The 3/8" Very Vanilla with gold trim ribbon is also retired, but I tried for the first time to color the ribbon with my dark Cherry Cobbler Blends marker. It worked! I colored both sides of the ribbon with the brush tip and it dried very quickly. The color didn't come off on my hands when I tied the bow either. I was a happy camper with that technique.

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I hope this card design helped inspire you to give this set a try. Thanks for stopping by today. I'd love to read your comments about this card design.