Day six of farewelling retiring products and I’m saying goodbye to the Abstract Impressions stamp set…a stamp set that makes anyone look like an artist!
These layered stamps give you an amazing depth of colour using just the one ink pad. For my card today I’ve only used Mango Melody and Granny Apple Green.
I’ve achieved that painted look by “stampin off” my inks for some of the stamps and stampin at full strength for the other layers of flower and grass.
This is a stamp set that works with any colour and it’s so quick and easy to make cards with! I love the sentiments that come with this stamp set – especially the one I’ve used on my card today “If flowers were hugs, I’d send you a thousand”!
Tomorrow I will be featuring another stamp set that is retiring from the 2019 Annual Catalogue and the 2020 January to June Mini Catalogue and thanking it for its service by showcasing a card (or two) that I’ve made with the stamp set.
You can view all of the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like a copy of the Stampin’ Up! 2020-21 Annual Catalogue?
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2020-21 Stampin Up! Mini Catalogue, the 2019-20 Stampin Up! annual catalogue, or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Day five of my farewell to retiring products and I’m farewelling another absolute favourite: the Dashing Deer stamp set and its co–coordinating Detailed Deer dies.
I used a Memories and More whisper white pre-made card as my base, added a layer of champagne foil and then another layer of whisper white embossed with the softly falling textured impression embossing folder.
The beautiful deer are stamped in gray granite onto whisper white using the Dashing Deer stamp set, then cut out with their matching Detailed Deer thinlits.
Don’t you love the pattern on the biggest deer?
The sentiment is from the same Dashing Deer stamp set, stamped in gray granite and the embellishments are die cut out of foil using the detailed deer thinlits. A tiny double bow of linen thread is the final touch.
Here’s another card I made using the Detailed Deer dies, some sparkly glimmer paper and strips of washi tape. You could also cut up strips of Designer Series paper to get the same effect.
Can you see how sparkly my deer is in this photo?
Tomorrow I will be featuring another stamp set that is retiring from the 2019 Annual Catalogue and the 2020 January to June Mini Catalogue and thanking it for its service by showcasing a card (or two) that I’ve made with the stamp set.
You can view all of the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like a copy of the Stampin’ Up! 2020-21 Annual Catalogue?
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2020-21 Stampin Up! Mini Catalogue, the 2019-20 Stampin Up! annual catalogue, or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
We’re up to day four of my “Marie Condo” farewell to retiring products and since it’s only a week until mother’s day I thought it would be the perfect time to farewell a stamp set with a mother’s day sentiment.
The Tea Together stamp set has matching tea time dies, which makes card making super fast and easy.
I’ve used this card to make both birthday cards and mother’s day cards – I love this mother’s day sentiment. I’ve made my teapot for this card using Gorgeous Grape card stock and some retired butterfly DSP but it looks lovely cut out of any patterned paper, especially floral designs.
Here is another card i made with this set …this time using a Christmas paper to make a birthday card.
I picked up on the Poppy Parade and the Mossy Meadow colours in the DSP and used my blender pens in these colours to colour in stamped flowers from the Tea Together stamp set. The teapot, cup and saucer were also stamped from this set and then all cut out using the matching dies.
The happy birthday sentiment is from the Itty bitty Birthdays stamp set die cut out with my stitched rectangle dies.
I also used the stitched rectangle dies on my Mother’s Day card.
I hope you’re enjoying my farewell to retiring products?
Every day I will be featuring a stamp set that is retiring from the 2019 Annual Catalogue and the 2020 January to June Mini Catalogue and thank it for its service by showcasing a card (or two) that I’ve made with the stamp set.
You can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me to send you your very own Stampin’ Up! 2020-21 Annual Catalogue?
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2020-21 Stampin Up! Mini Catalogue, the 2019-20 Stampin Up! annual catalogue, or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another card or two to farewell another retiring stamp set.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Day three of my “Marie Condo” farewell to retiring products brings me to one of my absolutes faves…First Frost and its matching dies, the Frosted Bouquet Framelits Dies.
This set is just so incredibly feminine and beautiful and even though it is a Christmas set it’s also perfect for birthday cards and congratualtions cards.
I’ve only used the one pink for these cards: Melon Mambo. The variations in the depth of pink colour you see on my cards are due partly to the watercolour effect of the stamp set I used and partly by simply stamping off once for every second flower.
In addition to Melon Mambo, the other colours I’ve used are Crumb Cake, Old Olive and Pear Pizzaz. I really love this colour combination.
This second card was made with the pieces left over from making my first card – so I literally threw it all together in under a minute. And with the addition of a strip of the gorgeous burlap ribbon (which is also retiring) a second card was quickly created!
First Frost “For You” Card
Here’s another card I made using First Frost – this time with Real Red, Crumb Cake and Old Olive. I just love the watercolour effect this stamp gives.
Every day I will be featuring a stamp set that is retiring from the 2019 Annual Catalogue and the 2020 January to June Mini Catalogue and thank it for its service by showcasing a card (or two) that I’ve made with the stamp set.
You can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me to send you your very own Stampin’ Up! 2020-21 Annual Catalogue?
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2020-21 Stampin Up! Mini Catalogue, the 2019-20 Stampin Up! annual catalogue, or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another card or two to farewell another retiring stamp set.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
It’s day two of my “Marie Condo” farewell to the retiring products from the 2019 Annual Catalogue and the 2020 January to June Mini Catalogue. You can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Every day I will be featuring a stamp set that is retiring and thank it for its service by showcasing a card (or two) that I’ve made with the stamp set.
And today’s stamp set is (drum roll)….. Accented Blooms.
This is such a fun set to play with because the two large sentiments can be punched out using the Tailored Tag punch. However, for my first card today I’ve taken a different approach, using the smallest circle in the Stitched Shapes Die set to die cut out sections from the largest stamp in this set.
After stamping the image in Memento Ink and die cutting the circles I used my blends to colour in the flowers. Here’s a close up of these beautiful flowers.
A simple Crumb Cake Card base is always my go to for any colour and here I’ve added a strip of the retiring Burlap Ribbon to layer my sentiment onto before the final touch – a simple linen thread bow. I die cut the sentiment using a stitched rectangle die to match the stitched circles.
I loved the look of Crumb Cake with this card so much I made a simple square monochromatic card using the large flower image again, but this time featuring the hello stamp, punched out with the tailored tag punch.
Did you notice the bling on this card? They are the brand new Gilded Gems from the Ornate Garden Suite. These are an early order item from the new catalogue and available now. I love these gems!
I hope you are enjoying a daily hit of crafting inspiration…I’m certainly enjoying taking the time to create every day.
Here is the list of products for the card I made today.
Would you like me to send you your very own Stampin’ Up! 2020-21 Annual Catalogue?
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2020-21 Stampin Up! Mini Catalogue, the 2019-20 Stampin Up! annual catalogue, or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another card or two to farewell another retiring stamp set.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
