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Diva Fun With the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini

Aloha, all!

     Oh, no!  Stampin' Up!'s 2010 Summer Mini Catalog is almost at its end!!!  The good news is that there are a lot of products that will continue to be around until at least next summer!  Tons of great stamp sets and embellishments that are in the 2010 Summer Mini are already in the new 2010-2011 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.

     Today's featured stamp set WON'T be around, though!  I just love this set, and haven't used it nearly enough.  The set is called Bouquet Bunch and makes such a nice greeting card and is perfect for accents for small scrapbook page elements. 

     Now you may be interested in how I came to use this stamp set with this delicious set of colors!  Of course it's Wednesday, and that means it's time for a Diva Coffee Break Design Team challenge!  This week the challenge was a color challenge:

     I have to tell you that, when I saw this color grouping, I thought "Autumn."  Nope, I'm not doing Autumn yet!!  Too early for that, even though we're getting an evening chill in the air here on Hawaii's Big Island.  Nope, it's still summer, gosh durn it!!!  So where do I turn?  To the Stampin' Up 2010 Summer Mini Catalog, of course!  And that's how I chose this stamp set with which to work, and it was a blast to put together!

     Not everything in this card is from the Summer Mini, though.  A favorite product from this year's new 2010-2011 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog is the Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack.  With each paper stack you get an assortment of ALL the colors in a particular family in four different patterns on two 2-sided papers.  How cool is that?  All four of these colors are in the Brights Collection of colors, and I almost ended up making a card showing off just the Designer Series Papers.  But rubber and ink called out to me, so I relented.

     There are so many different elements to this card that I thought I'd just make a set of bullet points so you can check them out:

• I stamped the flower pots on Rich Razzleberry Textured Card Stock using Rich Razzleberry Ink, then cut them out for adhering to the Very Vanilla Card Stock.
• Before I adhered each flower pot, I tied some Linen Thread around each of them.
• I stamped three flower images on Very Vanilla Card Stock, then colored each in (Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, and Old Olive) before cutting them out loosely around the end of the flowers.
• I added a Razzleberry center to each flower in the Daffodil and Tangerine bunches.  For the Olive bunch, I colored in the flowers in Old Olive, then used a blender pen to add a lighter color of the Old Olive for the background.
• I'm having a 3 x 3 brad fit this week!  In Monday's post , I added three brads in a vertical row in the upper left corner, and in a horizontal row in the lower right corner.  No explanation – I just felt like it.  Then today I added these new Basic Rhinestones in the same layout.  Hey, that's what creativity's all about, isn't it!  Artistic license gives us all the right to do stuff like this!  Then I added just a little touch of rhinestones in the center bouquet.
• And knots are in in Robin's Craft Room this week, too!  For this card, as well as for Monday's, I took a length of ribbon a bit larger than the width of the card and tied a knot in the middle.  Remember that this is a textile, and you can twist and turn it within an inch of its little life until it looks JUST like you want it to.  Perfect knots if I say so myself – that ribbon behaved itself quite nicely, thank you!  And then I just taped the ends of the ribbon behind the layers it covers before adhering the group to the greeting card base.
• The final touch with this card is the border punched with the Scallop Trim Border Punch.

     And here's the sketch for today's card:  This is a very versatile layout and I'll probably use it again before long!

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