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Featuring Some More Retiring Colors

Aloha, all!

I've been making a lot of cards lately using colors from Stampin' Up! that are going to retire effective with the new Catalog on July 1, 2010. It's kind of like going through all the things that you really loved once and are getting ready for a big garage sale. Sniff! I'm going to miss them, but… Well, life would get boring if everything stayed the same all the time. And I'm ready to make some space in my craft room for some new papers! I definitely will not be keeping the old because I'll want to love the heck out of the new.

Retiring Colors Card Meanwhile, I'm still going to enjoy the old, well, um, current-but-not-for-long.

One of my all time favorite colors from Stampin' Up! is the Retiring Brilliant Blue. The best time I had with it was in 2008 when my then 7-year old grandson, Quin, decided to make his Sizzix Snowflake using Brilliant blue (check it out on YouTube sometime!). But I digress (been doing a lot of that lately!)

The top and the bottom of this "cake" from the On A Pedestal Stamp Set was stamped with the Brilliant Blue Classic Stampin' Pad. The greeting and the candle are stamped in Retiring! Only Orange Ink. The word "everything" is stamped and then layered on top of the cake with Retiring Brocade Blue, and the whole center motif is set off with Brocade Blue Brads from the Rich Regals Brad Collection (while no one's made an announcement, I'm betting that these brads will retire also?). I used Only Orange to mat both the center motif as well as the Brocade Blue card stock that makes up the background for the card. I used a Stampin' Up! Exclusive Sizzix Texturz Plate to texturize the Brocade Blue. It's all finished off with a bit of card stock cut to look like a piece of layered ribbon at the bottom right.

Pedestal Card Layout Here's the layout for this card. It's an easy layout and lends itself to all kinds of uses of Designer Series Papers and Cards Stocks and Stamped Images. If you have real ribbon, the ribbon even looks better!