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A Burst of Color!
Aloha, all!
In yesterday’s post, I showed off a card that I’d made using 10 different Stampin’ Up! products, not including the ink and paper. Today I’m going to show off two of those products: The Stampin’ Up! Flower Burst Embosslit by Sizzix and the Circle Rhinestone Brads.
Maybe you remember (back on the 15th) that I showed off a project that I’d made that included the Stampin’ Up! Flower Burst Embosslit. In that post, I showed a Riding Hood Red flower that had the other side of this flower showing. I happen to like BOTH SIDES of this embosslit, even though this seems to be the side that’s supposed to be the "right" side. In this case, all of the other flowers have their conves sides showing, so this is the side I used for this bouquet.
The embosslit dies are little sandwich type dies in which you place a small (2+" square) piece of paper or card stock, then run that through the Sizzix Big shot with the Multipurpose Platform and standard cutting pads. When you open the sandwich, not only is the die cut, it’s also embossed, just as you see here. There’s absolutely no scissors work here at all.
For the center of this flower, I chose to use 3 of the very smallest brads in the Circle Rhinestone collections: Clear Circle, Circle Ice, and Circle Fire.
Check back later in the week for more about the other flowers in this bright bouquet!
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Aloha, all!
What fun I had making this card to show off some great Stampin’ Up! products! I’m going to take some time this week go talk about each of the 10 different Stampin’ Up! products (not including the paper and ink!) on this wonderful little Thank You card!
For starters, two of the colors and at least one of the stamp sets are almost at the point where they will no longer be available! The lovely deep blue is Pacific Point and the red is Riding Hood Red. Both of these are "In Colors" for the 2008-2009 Stampin’ Up! year, and both will be retired at the end of June of this year. The background of the floral bouquet contains flowers and leaves from the Level 3 Hostess Set, Dream a Little. It’s a 2-Step Stampin’ Set, and I’m really going to miss it! Of course, you still have time to get one by hosting a $500 workshop before the last week of June! With that kind of a workshop, you also get to choose an extra $60 worth of products from the Idea Book and Catalog absolutely FREE!
I’ll be here most of the month of June, and would love to plan a workshop with you! Just call (808.854.6145) or e-mail me, and I’ll get started working with you to plan your own unique workshop and party for your friends!
Happy Mother’s Day 2009!
Aloha, all!
And Happy Mother’s Day to all of my readers who are mothers! I know that I, for one, am very happy to have a grown son who calls me often, and a grandson who always ends a phone call with, "I love you Grandma Robin!" What more could one person want on Mother’s Day.
For this Mother’s Day I decided to make a card that I would like to receive.
For one thing, even with those beautiful Hawaiian flowers, bananas, and palms in the background, there are no Dogwood Trees in our garden. In fact, I have never seen a dogwood tree on our island at all, and can find to reference it the tree in Hawaii anywhere. But I digress.
I love the look of the Dogwood Tree in bloom. When I lived in Maryland and Virginia, seeing the Dogwoods in bloom in gardens and out in the wild of the local parks was the sign that Spring was here, and here to stay! So I was delighted when I found this stamp set on our table at the Honolulu Regional in February and then in the Occasions Mini Catalog. My first reaction to seeing it in the catalog was, "Well, they don’t grow here, so why should I bother buying the stamp set." My history with the tree won out and it now sits in the Craft Room, well used on many projects. And what better project than on a Mother’s Day card?!
And here I’ll digress a bit more–the name of the Stamp Set is "Soft Summer." Hmmm. Summer. MY Dogwoods always bloomed in Spring!
OK–digression finished! The stamp, "Happy Mother’s Day," is from the All Holiday Stamp Set. You’ll be seeing a Father’s Day card made with a stamp from the same set right here in early June.
To make this card just a bit out of the ordinary, I trimmed the Very Vanilla Card stock layer below the top and bottom leaves. I used the Fiskars Paper Cutter, stopping the cut just before each leaf and starting just after each leaf. Then I trimmed around the leaves.
The colors for this card are Rose Red and Garden Green. Garden Green is fast becoming my favorite of the Stampin’ Up! greens, overtaking my long-time favorite Old Olive. Maybe it’s because there is so much Garden Green in our Hawaiian Garden! The ribbon is the 1" Rose Red Grosgrain Ribbon, and the brads are the Clear Rhinestone Brads, which are new with the current Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book and Catalog.
For the rest of May, I’m going to be focusing on many of the flowers found throughout the Stampin’ Up! Catalog! I’m going to be on the United States mainland most of the rest of the month, but that won’t keep me from finding a computer and letting you know what’s going on in my world of Stampin’ Up! even when I’m not in my Craft Room! It also won’t keep me from placing orders for you if you’d like. And, no matter where I am, my website is always available for you to place your orders online!
