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An Old Favorite with a Peek of the New!

Aloha, all!

     Well the stamp set, Button Buddies, isn't exactly "old."  It's only been around for a year.  But it is older than all the new stamp sets we're going to be seeing in the upcoming Stampin' Up! Catalog.  For now, though, with just a couple of exceptions, I'm not able to buy any of the new sets let alone show them off for you here on my blog.  But I do want to start using some of the brand new products so that you can get a bit of a taste of what's coming June 1st!

     The new products that I'm featuring in this card today are the 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon and the Designer Series Paper set, Floral District.  I was a bit disappointed when all the current 1/4" ribbons were retired.  On the other hand, you haven't seen me use them much recently – because I haven't been using them!.  One of the reasons has been that the current ribbons are sometimes a bit stiff and awkward to use in a card.  These new ribbons, however, wrap and tie beautifully!

     The Designer Series Paper has a ton of colors represented in the set, but (so far at least) my favorite sheet is the one peeking out from behind the stamped layers, and it features Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade, and Daffodil Delight.  The background paper is ALSO from this Paper Set, and is printed only in Daffodil Delight.

     The layout for this card is one that I'm using this morning for an online Chat & Challenge with my SUDSOL Stampin' Up! Demonstrator group.  One thing that seems to be happening to a lot of us demonstrators right now is that we're itching to get our hands on new products to show off – but we can't!  Yes, we do have a few such as these that are in my card today.  But we all want a whole room full of new products so that our creativity can just take off!  So a Chat & Challenge is especially useful for us all right now to help us get going and use what we have to be creative between now and May 31st.

     As always, for the Chat & Challenge – as well as for you here! – I have a sketch!  But before that, let me tell you about all the other details of this card.  First, the two primary colors are Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry.  I originally intended not to have mats behind the layers.  But that Daffodil Delight background paper made the Whisper White of the stamped layer seem a bit washed out.  So off I went to cut mats for the two layers on the right of the card.  The flower stamp is from Button Buddies, and the sentiment stamp is from the stamp set, Petite Pairs.  All of the Daffodil Delight Buttons are from the Brights Buttons set (did you order extra free buttons during Sale-a-bration this year? I certainly did!).  I tied a little piece of Lucky Limeade Baker's Twine through the larger button, but left the smaller buttons to stand by themselves, mostly because they were so close together.

     I hope you're starting to get as excited as I am about the new catalog.  I already have my shopping list made, though as every day goes by, something else gets added to it!  I just love having a shopping list, but usually I don't have one sitting around for this long!

     Have a fun week – I know I'm going to as I get ready for that brand new catalog!

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Dimensional Fun!

Aloha, all!

     It's time for another SUO Challenges project- actually we're a bit late because I'm just now returning from my travels and I'm the one who sends the final SUO Challenge blog post on its way!    

     Thankfully, I prepared my project for this week's challenge before I left! 

     On the other hand, I was limited in the Designer Series Papers I could use before I left because I'd not had the opportunity to see – let along order! – any of the new papers that you'll be seeing in a just a few weeks in the new 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog!  I was limited to the other sneak peek preview paper we had available, Summer Smooches.  Yes, this delightful Lucky Limeade Paper is part of the Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper.  I've been so "in love with" the papers with the graphic colors that I've ignored this sheet.  Until this project came along.

     But what a perfect background for a colorful bunch of flowers!  Oh, yes- the challenge was to make a project with 3-dimensional flowers!  On the other hand, the ribbon I've used for these flowers IS retiring soon!  This is one of the last projects involving retired products that I'm going to be showing off, and I thought I'd try to use up some of the retiring 5/8" Satin Ribbon.  ALL of that ribbon is retiring, and I'm going to be so sad to see it go because it makes beautiful ribbon rosettes.  I did sneak in a product from the 2012 Occasions Mini  - the large pearls. BUT they're still available! I hope that means they'll be in the new catalog. The final product (besides the Pretty in Pink, Real Red, and Bashful Blue Card Stock), is the set of leaves, all punched using the leaves from the Bird Builder Punch.

     I had so much fun making these ribbon rosettes that I made a quick video of how to make them and included it in my last newsletter.  If you're not on my newsletter list and sign up for it in the next week or so, I'll be glad to send you a copy.  I'm going to be making another video soon showing off a box for greeting cards – and I'm hoping to have some new products to show off as well – as I demonstrate it.  That will be something just for my newsletter, too!

    And as I rush off to get packed – two weeks before this posts! – here is a quick sketch for this card layout.  Hmmm.  I'm wondering what I'll be using for envelopes for my 5-1/4" square greeting cards now that the Medium Square Envelopes are retiring?  I may know soon! 

     I hope you're all having as much fun this week as I am now that I'm finally back home and enjoying my craft room again!

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Missing Our Hibiscus! – and a Favorite Stamp Set!

Aloha, all!

     Have I mentioned that I've been traveling on the U. S. Mainland for the last week?  And we'll not be home again for yet another week, and I'm missing our Hawaiian Garden!  I especially miss that gorgeous Pink Hibiscus that you see lying on the table in front of today's greeting card share.

     This Hibiscus is in a large bush just outside my kitchen window, and it blooms up a storm every day of the year!  Oh, occasionally some little bug will get after it and we have to prune it pretty severely.  But that's rare, and it comes back as big and seemingly more beautiful every time.

     And it's because of this Hibiscus that I'm so very fond of the Stampin' Up! Stamp Set, Greenhouse Garden.  Of course, here in Hawaii, we don't grow these lovelies in a greenhouse – they're all outdoors!  But do you see how close in color our Hibiscus is to the Regal Rose that I've used in the stamp on the left of the card – and to the Regal Rose Card Stock that forms the background for the central stamped squares? 

     But the stamp set is retiring.  Oh, my.  This may be one of those sets that I decide I have to keep just because of our Hawaii Garden.  It's perfect for scrap pages featuring the garden, and it will be hard to give it up. 

     We also have Hibiscus of other colors in our garden, including a Daffodil Delight-colored flower in the front garden, which is placed very close to the Real Red flower that is the most popular Hibiscus in our area of Hawaii.  The yellow Hibiscus in our garden is the State Flower of Hawaii, and its center – or Stybus – is an orange not a red color.  And our red Hibiscus has a red Stybus, which would not show up really well on a stamped image.  So this is where artistic license comes in!  But don't those flowers look lovely anyway? 

     The layout for this card is just a bit different from how I first envisioned it.  I'd wanted to punch the stamped images with the 1-1/4" Square Punch.  But the flowers were just a hair too large for them to be shown off nicely punched at 1-1/4."  So I punched them with the 1-3/8" Square Punch, which meant that I had to cut the 1-1/2 squares for the mats by hand (well, by paper cutter!).  I decided to leave the background rectangles (which I'd already cut) the same size and just squeeze those squares in there.  When all was said and done, I decided I liked it just the way it came out!

     Oh, and there's another retiring stamp set that I used for this card – the Heard from the Heart Stamp Set will retire at the end of this month, along with Green house Garden.

     I still have almost another 4 weeks to use these beautiful stamps here on my blog – and you have that same amount of time to buy these stamp sets.  And then they retire for good!

     Here's a layout for this card.  And don't forget that, if you have an image that's small enough, use that 1-1/4" Square Punch for the stamped image and the 1-3/8" Square Punch for the mat – it makes the card a LOT easier to make.  And a lot more fun to make, too!

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A CASE for Mother’s Day!

Aloha, all! 

     And an early "Happy Mother's Day" to those of you who are mothers of one kind or another!  This is the day for the biweekly Stampin' Up! Only Challenges and the theme this week is Mother's Day.  Now you who come here often know that it's not that often that I have something other than a card to show off.  But here is my second 3-D project is as many weeks!

     And it's also once again a project that I have CASEd from another Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  This time the design for this project is the brainchild of demonstrator Kirsteen Gill, who is a member of some online groups to which I belong.  I just could not imagine going for even a day before trying this out!  While I may not duplicate her instructions online, I will be including this in one of the classes in my Craft Room in the next few weeks. 

     The fun thing for me about this project is that I got to use up some of my stash of the Designer Series Paper set, Just Add Cake, which will retire in just 5 more weeks!  I've really enjoyed not only the paper, but also the coordinating Peach Parfait Card Stock, which is a 2010-2012 "In Color" and will also retire at the end of May 2012.  There's also a bit of Wild Wasabi Card Stock in this project, but that color is NOT retiring as it's one of the current groups of core colors in the Stampin' Up! catalog.

     This photo shows the box opened up to display four little boxes that are perfect for earrings or small jewelry, or even paper clips for a desktop!  I decorated the lid with some matching ribbon – some of the Peach Parfait Stitched Poly Ribbon that will also retire at the end of May.

     For the little 3" square greeting card to go with this gift, I stamped the "Packed for Mom" stamp on some Whisper White Card stock using Black Classic Ink.  Then I stamped it again on a piece of scrap card stock and colored in a small area of the stamp with coordinating Stampin' Write Markers.  Finally, I punched it with the 1-1/4" Circle Punch and matted it with a piece of Wild Wasabi Card Stock punched with the 1-3/8" Circle Punch, and then adhered it very carefully onto the black and while image.  This technique is called "Spotlighting," and it's especially fun for a large stamp such as this one.  By the way, the Packed For Mom and the other Packed For… stamps that are in the Occasions Mini Catalog were only guaranteed to be a part of the Stampin' Up! catalog until yesterday.  As I'm actually traveling as this is being posted live, I won't have a chance to update my post to let you know if it's actually no longer a currently available Stampin' Up! product.  But I'll update this as soon as I can.

     Just for a recap:

Items in this project that are retiring or possibly not being continued into the 2012-2013 Idea Book and Catalog:

• Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper (available while supplies last)
• Stitched Poly Ribbon (available while supplies last)
• Peach Parfait Card Stock (available while supplies last)
• Packed for Mom Stamp Set (in the 2012 Occasions Mini catalog which expired yesterday; status unknown as of this writing)

Items in this project NOT retiring:

• Whisper White Card Stock
• Pumpkin Pie Button (part of the Brights Collection of Buttons)
• Wild Wasabi Card Stock
• Markers used to color in the Packed for Mom Stamp (though some may no longer be available for individual purchase)
• The Simply Scored Tool and Diagonal Plate used to score the card stock for the little white boxes.

     As I look at the blog posts that I have planned for the next couple of weeks, I believe that there are no more CASEs involved.  So I'll be able to share my layouts and instuctions with you!  Meanwhile, if you have any question or comments, please leave them here on the blog where I'm most likely to see them while I'm traveling!

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Razzleberry Smooch

Aloha, all!

     If you recall the boxes that we made in my class about which I posted this past Sunday, one of my ladies really wanted to focus on the Rich Razzleberry color that's in the Summer Smooches Product Suite.  So I made up a sample with Rich Razzleberry Card Stock AND I was sure when I punched the squares for this layout that each of them had at least one floral motif in the Razzleberry color.  Making that kind of effort can really make a difference in the overall look of a card.

     While I could have done a bit more with layering this card, I really did want to try to keep it simple so that we'd have plenty of time to make at least four cards to go with the box and not end up with an all-day class!  But to add just a bit of interest to the card, I added some complementary Tempting Turquoise Brads along the bottom left edge of the card.  And didn't they pick up the Turquoise elements in the paper well?!

     As with the card that I posted on Monday, one thing that makes constructing this card so simple is that all of the squares are either Designer Series Paper or card stock.  And those squares are all PUNCHED!!  The top layers made with the Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper are punched with the 1-1/4" Square Punch, and the Rich Razzleberry mats are all punched with the 1-3/8" Square Punch.  Having all three of the squares lined up and going in the same direction is a very effective design, too, and I'm going to show you a layout with this design in one of my posts early next month.

     Speaking of next month, "retiring" is going to be this blog's theme for most of the month, actually starting this weekend (which is still April)! Yesterday, Stampin' Up! released the list of Accessories that are going to retire.  With that list, as well as with the list of retiring Stamp Sets that was released last week, I'm going to have a TON of stuff to show off before it goes away, and not nearly enough time to do it!  But I do want you to see some samples of my favorite retiring stamp sets and accessories just in case you don't have them.  I'm really hoping that you'll like the samples that I post well enough to want to purchase the retiring products before they go away for good!

    There's a link posted up at the top right of my blog home page that will take you to the list of Retired Accessories. 

     With all that's going on, I still had time to record the sketch that I used for this card, and here it is.  As with the first two cards and sketches, there are so many products that you can use – and you can use that Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set  (not retiring) to make a card that's perfect for any occasion whatsoever!  I hope you take the time to enjoy making a card or other paper-crafted project for someone special today.  It always makes me feel good, and I'm sure it will have the same effect on you!

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Smooches Just For You!

Aloha, all!

   Today I'm sharing the second card that my class made as part of last week's card box project.

     As with the first card, the main color is Island Indigo, and the Designer Series Paper is part of the Summer Smooches Suite of Products. 
The floral stamps are from the Stamp Set, Bright Blossoms, also a part of the Summer Smooches Suite.  And, yes, there are two stamps in this image.  The first is the vase with the leaves and the second is the flower.  I inked both stamps up with Stampin' Write Markers (Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, and Tangerine Tango) and aligned them using the Stamp-a-ma-jig, which is a great stamp aligner.  The "just for you" stamp is from the very versatile – and definitely NOT retiring! – Teeny Tiny Wishes.

(Reminder:  Next Monday is the LAST day for you to order the preview of the Summer Smooches paper and other products.  After Monday, you won't l be able to order the products shown here until after the new Idea Book and Catalog is published on June 1st.)

     The layout for this card is also another simple layout, and those squares are made with the 1" Square Punch.  So there's no trying to make 1" cuts all around – very tedious and I never was very successful at it!

    The layout with which I started was a layout provided as a challenge on my online Stampin' Up! Demonstrator group, SUDSOL.  For their sketch challenge, they did not provide the exact measurements; sketch challenges rarely, if ever, do provide exact measurements.  The idea of a challenge is to make a project using the sketch provided as a guide, not to make a project using exact measurements.  The reason I provide measurements is to help you have at least a starting point if you'd like to try it out.

     But when I start a project, I like to have an idea about where I'm going, so I pretty much decide on the measurements up front.  I started with the idea of a 2" square for the stamped layer for this card.  But once I got my image stamped, I decided that I wanted the stamped layer to be just a scosh higher than 2".  So the true sketch for the above card is shown below.  But don't forget that you can alter measurements and still have a fantastic-looking card!  Another change you might want to make is to have that very small layer behind the squares be just a scosh (or a tad, whichever you prefer) larger.

     I hope you have as much fun with this as I did!  And don't hesitate to ask any questions about any of my designs.  I do frequently receive e-mails about my cards, and enjoy responding to all of them!  Or, even better, write a comment below.  I get notified pretty quickly about comments and can respond to them here.  Who knows, maybe someone else has the same comment!!

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Thank You With a Smooch

Aloha, all!

     I hope you enjoyed this past weekend's blog hop!  It was just the right size for me – I got through it and made comments in under half an hour.  And I'm so inspired to get out my scrapbooking materials and get started on some long overdue projects!

     But today I'd like to share one of the greeting cards that were made to go into yesterday's box, this one made with the Island Indigo color scheme which Lucy particularly liked for her box – and, of course, with the Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper.

     This is such a simple design to make as all but one of the layers is cut from Designer Series Paper or card stock!  The flower on the stamped layer is from the Stamp Set, Bright Blossoms, which is also a part of the Summer Smooches suite of products – available for purchase this month, then not again until June 1st with the 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.  The "vase" for these flowers is a piece of the Island Indigo Card Stock, punched with the 3/4" Circle Punch, with a bit of the end cut off to make the flat side.  Or you could also (as I did for this card) slip your punch over the edge of the paper you're punching, but not all the way so the edge of the paper doesn't get punched.  

     And the circular layers are all punched, too!  We used the 1-1/4 Circle Punch for the Designer Series Paper circles and the 1-3/8" Circle Punch for the Island Indigo Card Stock mats.  So simple – and a fun project to make!  I've even done up a sketch for you to use if you'd like to duplicate this card.  And there are so many Designer Series Paper sets and coordinating stamps throughout Stampin' Up!'s catalog that I'm sure you'll find something in your stash to make a gorgeous card!  Or, even better, order some of the Summer Smooches products from me – just click here, and then on the Summer Smooches display under the word, "Promotions."

     I've had several people ask me about a pattern for the box in yesterday's post.  This is a pattern that I found in a library of the online group, SUDSOL.  SUDSOL is a website for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators only, and we are all able to use patterns we demonstrators have posted to the site.  That's what I did with yesterday's project and for the ladies in my class on Friday – I used a pattern posted by Sandi McIver.  If you're a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, it's easy to gain access to all the patterns – just join SUDSOL!  There is a subscription fee, but there is also a 2-week FREE TRIAL available to all demonstrators.  If you'd like to try it out, just click on the SUDSOL Link Here!  And, once you get into your free trial, let me know if you have any questions about the group.  If I don't have the answers, I can get them pretty quickly from Coleen or Patti, the SUDSOL "moms."

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Spring Colors – Summer Smooches!

Aloha, all!

     I originally created this post for a Blog Hop that had Spring Colors for a theme.  For my project for the hop, chose some products from the Stampin' Up! Summer Smooches suite of products.  Products from this suite are available to Stampin' Up! customers this month (April), and then not again until the 2012-2013 Idea Book and Catalog is published on June 1st.  The button brads are ONLY available this month and will NOT be in the new catalog.  So if you like them as much as I do, now's the time to snatch them up!

     Today's project is a box for a half dozen or so cards I plan to make with the Summer Smooches Designer Series Papers and the Bright Blossoms Stamps.  The original designer of this particular box is a fellow demonstrator, Sandy McIver.  She is one talented lady, and I've made this box – as well as some boxes where I've modified the design a bit – many times.  I like that it neatly holds six greeting cards and six A2 envelopes quite nicely.  

     Doesn't that whirlwind of fanciful flowers remind you of all the flowers that bloom in the Spring?  I know the name is "Summer" Smooches, but it all feels like Spring to me!  There are many colors in this paper, and I chose to focus on Tangerine Tango for my box.  But I have two other boxes to share with you – made by two ladies in my class just this Friday morning!

     Lucy made the box on the left, with another of the patterns in the Summer Smooches Paper Set, focusing on the Island Indigo color; and Gala made the box on the right with yet a third design from the set, highlighting the Rich Razzleberry color.  (Other colors in the set are Lucky Limeade, Real Red and Daffodil Delight.)  All of us used Lucky Limeade card stock for the leaves.  We used two punches for the floral decorations – the Blossoms Punch from the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog for the flowers (there are two layered up), and the Blossom Petals Building Punch, featured in the 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalog, for the leaves.

     All three of us chose to use one of the Summer Smooches Fabric Designer Brads for the centers of our flowers, which had been stamped with the Mixed Bunch Stamp Set, also from the Occasions Mini Catalog.  The brads are so much fun to use, especially with the stamps from Mixed Bunch, and I'm really sorry they're no longer available!  Oh, and I do hope that the Mixed Bunch stamp set is one that is carried over to the next big catalog!

         If you stop back here now and then next week, I'll be showing off some of the cards that I made to go in my box.  At least two of the cards will feature some of the stamps from the Bright Blossoms Stamp Set, which is also a part of the Summer Smooches Suite.  And I'm already working on an updated video for making this box using the Stampin' Up! Simply Scored, including the diagonal plate that's now available for it.  I'll be sharing this with people on my newsletter mailing list, so be sure to Subscribe to my list if you'd like to see the video!  I'm traveling beginning next week, but I'll certainly have the video ready before the end of May.

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Spring Colors!

Aloha, all!

     As many of you know, last Sunday Stampin' Up announced over 200 stamp sets that will retire when the current Idea Book and Catalog expires at the end of next month!  The good news is that the stamp set that I'm using on today's card will NOT retire!  Hooray for that, as this is one of my favorite sets to color with markers and blender pens!  But the paper that I'm using today WILL retire, so I enjoyed using it and its colors to make a card with a Spring feeling to it!

     Oh, and there's the little issue of a challenge!  Yes, this card is one I made for a Late Night Stampers Yahoo Group's color challenge.  For this one, we were to use Pink, Green, and Yellow.  Now, no one defined what "Pink" meant, so I took some liberties with the use of a pale version of Tangerine Tango, which is not actually a pink – more of a coral.  But if I showed this to any of the men in my life and asked them what color it was, I can guarantee that a majority would say, "Pink"!  My "out" for this is that the Melon Mambo in the center of the flowers really is a "pink." 

     The yellow – Daffodil Delight – and the green – Wild Wasabi – are definitely what the colors are supposed to be!

     The stamp set for today is called Fabulous Florets, and it really is a fabulous stamp set to use!  For this card, I stamped the flower on the left, and then "masked" it before stamping the second flower.  To make the mask, I stamped the flower image on the top of a Post-It note and then very carefully cut it out before attaching it to the top of the first flower.  Then I stamped the second flower.  Then I said to myself, "Self, you'll certainly be masking this flower again, so why not put the mask away in the stamp set's box."  I did that – and laid it right on top of another such mask that I'd made who knows how long ago!  I have got to use my stamp sets more often!

     The paper that I used for the yellow layer as well as the floral layer is Beyond the Garden.  Yes, it has the same images as the stamp set, and you might wonder why Stampin' Up! would retire it and not the stamp set.  One thing that's happened in the past is that we get the same design in a new set of papers but with different colors.  Wouldn't that be great.  Oh, I can hardly wait to see that new catalog!!! 

     Oh, and the ribbon – I'm always tying cards up with a bow!  It's Daffodil Delight 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon, and I've had it since last summer's Stampin' Up! Convention.  You'd think after I spent two years bemoaning the fact that Stampin' Up! didn't have enough yellow ribbon that I'd be on my third or fourth spool of this ribbon.  But no; it's still spool number 1. 

     This uses a simple sketch, but I think it's really effective with the multiple mats of the Wild Wasabi!  So I thought I'd share it with you and hope you can use it for something that YOU make!

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Just Two More Weeks for the Occasions Mini!

Aloha, all!

     It seems like just last week that we greeted the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog!  But that was back in January, and here we are nearing the end of April and also the end of the Occasions Mini.  Sniff!   And many of us are hoping that some of the stamp sets and embellishments in this mini catalog are carried over into the new 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.  It's hard to predict, though, as Stampin' Up! introduces its new type of Annual Catalog as well as a new type of Mini Catalog later this summer.

     So the Design Team at the Stampin' Up! Only Challenges blog decided to give one last shout of Hurrah! for this Mini Catalog by sharing some of their favorites products that may only be available for two more weeks!  In my case, while I've considered the stamp set, Apothecary Art, a "favorite," I'm almost ashamed to say that I've been admiring it from afar.  Until yesterday morning, I'd not even broken the rubber out of its pack! 

     But now it's all mounted and ready to use!  Oh, I hope it stays in the new catalog (wish, wish, wish!)   But even if it doesn't, it will remain a favorite.  And I used another favorite Occasions Mini Stamp Set – Loving Thoughts – for a greeting to set off the Apothecary Art stamp.

     Along with these Occasions Mini Stamp sets, I broke out my last few sheets of the Twitterpated Designer Series Paper (the Baja Breeze and Blushing Bride sheets are truly a favorite), some of the Large Basic Pearl Jewels, and a strip of the Riding Hood Red 3/8" Pleated Satin Ribbon.   Oh, and I can't forget the Labels Collection Framelits!!!  Surely they will stay in the catalog (wish, wish, wish!)

     There are a couple of techniques that I used in my design of today's card.  After I'd stamped and colored in the flowers on the Apothecary Art stamp, and then cut it out with the 3rd smallest size of the Labels Collection Framelits, I colored in the white space between the stamp and the cut edge with a Baja Breeze Stampin' Write Marker.  I thought that this helped coordinate the stamped layer with the Baja Breeze Designer Series Paper Sheet.  While I stamped the flower image using Basic Gray Classic Ink, I wanted the edge of the stamp to be a bit darker than the rest.  So I used the small end of my Basic Gray Stampin' Write Marker to trace the edge – but after I colored with the Baja Breeze marker.  I had no idea if there would be any bleeding.  There wasn't, but I didn't want to chance it.

     The green color used in the stamped image is Pear Pizzazz.  Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz are colors that will retire this year from the Idea Book and Catalog, leaving space for more colors to be added as 2012-2014 "In Colors."  Can hardly wait to see what they are!

     I hope that you'll find something that you really love from the Occasions Mini to use on a project this week!  If you're anything like me, look around to see if there's something you bought "way back when" and haven't yet used!  And if there's something you still need from the Occasions Mini, well you have another two weeks to buy it!

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