A Sneak Peek at the Summer Mini Catalog
Aloha, all!
I'm going to take a bit of a break from the attention that I've been paying to the retiring Stampin' Up! colors to show off something of what you'll be seeing when the 2010 Summer Mini Catalog is released on May 1st. I know that I tell you every time a new catalog comes out that I'm "so excited"! But this time, I'm really, really excited because there is a whole section featuring tropical colors and stamps – and I live tropical! OK, maybe we don't sit around sipping Mai Tais all the time. But we do enjoy a lot of what tropical is here on the Big Island.
Despite the fact that we don't sit around sipping Mai Tais, my first card featuring the new Island Oasis Designer Series Paper and the Tropical Party Stamp Set, features a tropical beverage. Love those coconut cups! ( I couldn't resist really showing off our garden in the background when featuring this tropical-themed card.)
The Designer Series Paper, as always, is double sided, and this card features two sides of the same sheet of paper. The colors on the card reflect the colors of the little umbrellas – Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Tempting Turquoise. These are great tropical colors. I can hardly wait to show off some of the other colors featured in this set. It may have to wait until the end of the month, though, as my first workshop featuring this catalog is going to feature some projects using this paper set and I have to conserve. But I'm still playing with a lot of the paper.
To make the coconut cup stand out a bit, I stamped some Close to Cocoa card stock (oh, no! Close to Cocoa's retiring!!) with Chocolate Chip Ink and cut out the coconut to glue onto the image stamped on Whisper White Card Stock. I also stamped the umbrella part of the image on a scrap of the Designer Series Paper and cut it out to give the stamped image even some more texture. I drew the line at cutting out the straw, and just colored it in with the Tempting Turquoise. The greeting is (as so many of my greetings are) from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. Great Father's Day card!
I had three of my neighbors over for a bit of crafting yesterday. I use them shamelessly as my focus group when I have something new that I want to try out, such as this card and color combination. But we all sit around and make cards using papers and inks and stamps that I gather on the dining room table (I have GOT to get the craft room cleaned so we can work in there) and have a great time. Deme decided to make the same card, but she switched out the papers and brads a bit – another great use of this new set! Later this week I'll show off Lucy's card using different paper, stamps and layout.
This card layout is one that you'll see frequently. For one thing, you can show off different designer papers and the central motif is definitely resizable to fit whatever kind of stamp or embellishments you'd like to use. Here is the layout for the cards as shown. Have fun with it!
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