Did you know that today, May 20, is International Bee Day?
As soon as I heard this on the radio today I knew exactly which retiring product I would feature in my blog today: the adorable Honey Bee bundle.
I resisted purchasing this bundle for a very long time because I had borrowed my mum’s bundle, but it is just so adorable I had to buy a set for my self before it retired.
Here’s the card I made today for a special friend of mine who has her very own bee hive.
The colours I used were Crushed Curry, Basic Black and Mint Macaroon. I punched the “Thinking of you Sweet Friend” using the new Lovely Label punch which will be available to purchase on June 3 when the 2020-21 Annual Catalogue goes live.
A few Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels finished off my card, just in time before I gave it to my very special bee keeping friend, Amanda.
Tomorrow I will be sharing some more cards with you, but in the meantime you can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me 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.
Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Today I’m giving you a sneak peek of the Forever Gold Laser-cut Specialty paper, the Forever Greenery Trim combo pack…and farewelling a beautiful product you might have previously overlooked: The Peaceful Poppies elements.
Let’s take a look at this stunning new Forever Gold Laser-cut Specialty paper. In each pack you receive 6 sheets in total, three each of two different designs. One side of the paper is gold and the other side is white. This photo shows the two different designs in both gold and in white.
Here’s a close up of the white side of the sheets with card front sized pieces.
The other sheet has a wreath, boughs and beautiful leaves.
The two cards I’ve made today also use the soon to be retired Peaceful Poppies Elements. As you can see in my photo below there are three different elements in the Peaceful Poppies Elements: top left is embossed watercolour paper, top middle are card stock die cut images and top right is embossed vellum.
My “Happy Birthday” card uses the white side of one of the Forever Gold Laser-cut Specialty paper card fronts, and the Peaceful Poppies Elements embossed watercolour paper.
To colour my poppies I transferred Flirty Flamingo ink and Granny Apple Green ink directly from my ink pads onto acrylic blocks and then used my aqua painter brush to lift the ink off the block and colour in the poppies and leaves.
Once they were dry I attached them the card front, added a strip of gold from the edge of the specialty paper, as well as a sentiment and a bow of the new gold trim. Some gold sequins from the Peaceful Poppies Sequins complete my card. I love how this new gold trim frays at the end!
The other card uses the wreath from the other sheet of the Forever Gold Laser-cut Specialty paper, and the vellum and die cut Peaceful Poppies Elements. I used my Old Olive Blend pen to colour the reverse side on the vellum leaves before adhering to the wreath.
Again, a sentiment, a bow of the new gold trim and assorted sequins from the Peaceful Poppies Sequins complete my card.
Tomorrow I will be sharing some more cards with you, but in the meantime you can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me 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.
Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Hands up if you love a card kit for super quick, easy to make cards?
With card kits all the hard work is done for you, but I especially love the For the Love of Felt card kit because I’m also a sewer so I have a thing for the feel, texture and look of felt.
The For the Love of Felt card kit comes in the cutest box with almost everything you need to make amazing cards – you just need to add some adhesives and stamps (if you want to add sentiments).
There is a co-ordinating stamp set for this kit but I wanted to use a different stamp set for my cards to show you how you any sentiments work well with this kit. The sentiments for all three of my cards today come from the Free as a Bird stamp set.
There are three different deigns for the card bases in this kit, and three different images on the card tioppers.
Card one uses the floral card base and the plain white card topper. A little “hello” is the perfect touch for my simple bouquet.
Card two uses the plainest card base and the printed vellum layer. I fussy cut the thank you sentiment with my paper snips..
Card three is my favourite, using the wreath topper and the beautiful “Your friendship means the world to me” sentiment stamped onto the wreath topper.
The picture below shows how the cards are supposed to look is you use the co-ordinating stamp set but I think it really doesn’t matter how you assemble your cards or what stamp set you decide to use…with these gorgeous embellishments you really can’t go wrong!
Tomorrow I will be sharing some more cards with you, but in the meantime you can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me 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.
Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Even though restrictions are slowly being lifted here in Australia, it’s going to be a long time until we can interact with family and friends the way we used to.
A lovely way to show you care is by sending a card. Stampin’ Up!’s Share Sunshine digital stamp set has sentiments relevant to the unique social distancing situation we are currently in, with 100% of proceeds going to the World Health Organisation.
Here are some of the cards I’ve made using this digital download, including two that I shared with you yesterday.
I’m going to be sending these cards out tomorrow to connect with friends and family I cannot see in person. I hope these cards will bring a smile to their faces and let them feel the warmth of a virtual hug from me.
The design for this card was created by the amazing Tami White in USA and I changed it to match the colour of the scrubs we have here in Australia.
For this card I used some vellum that I embossed to replicate the look of toilet paper …not something I ever thought I’d be putting on the front of a card!
I only have one image of a house in my current stamp collection – this little one from Still Scenes, but I think it works well with the sentiment.
And here are the two COVID cards I made yesterday, in case you missed them.
Tomorrow I will be sharing some more cards I’ve made with the soon to be retiring For the Love of Felt Kit, but in the meantime you can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me 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.
Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Something old, something new…tonight I’m farewelling the Artfully Aware stamp set and at the same time sharing some cards I made using the Share Sunshine Digital Stamp set.
Here’s a closer look at the Artfully Aware stamp set with its beautiful line illustrations.
As much as I love the sentiments in this set, I decided to pair them with sentiments from a digital stamp set that Stampin’ Up! released last week, because the sentiments match the stamped images perfectly.
The Share Sunshine digital stamp set is packed with both lighthearted and thoughtful sentiments and imagery relevant to the unique COVID-19 and social distancing situation we are currently in. And best of all, 100% of PDF Download proceeds will go to COVID-19 efforts through the World Health Organisation.
Doesn’t this sentiment work perfectly with this image?
For my second card I think the image and sentiment are perfect together too. I kept it super clean in black and white to showcase the stunning simplicity of the line drawing.
Tomorrow I will be sharing some more cards I’ve made with the COVID themed Share Sunshine digital stamp, but in the meantime you can view all the retiring products in my online shop.
Would you like me 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.
Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
