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Friendly Hello CASE

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Another Happy New Year Case

This week, Connie challenged me to CASE a card from the current Annual Catalog.  She picked this card, which can be found on page 111, and I’ll be using the Friendly Hello Bundle for my card.

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Friendly Hello Bundle

Friendly Hello Bundle

I chose to use the Friendly Hello bundle from the new Sale-a-bration brochure, which goes LIVE on January 4th.  This bundle contains a stamp set and coordinating DSP.  You can get this bundle FREE with a qualifying order during January and February!

Hello Friend CASE

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I used colors included in the Friendly Hello DSP.  I chose Fresh Freesia for my card base, which is 5 ½” x 8 ½”, folded in half.

Instead of layering strips directly on the card base like the sample, I chose to add an extra panel of Shaded Spruce, cut to 4” x 5 ¼”.  The strips of DSP measure 1 ¼” x 5 ¼”, 5/8” x 5 ¼”, and 1” x 5 ¼”, and are adhered directly onto the Shaded Spruce Panel.  This panel is adhered to the card base.

Details

Friendly Hello Detail

I stamped the Hello friend greeting in Shaded Spruce on Basic White and cut it out using a die from the Stitched Rectangles Die.  Then, I used the next largest die in the same set to cut a Shaded Spruce rectangle.  I ran Stampin’ Seal just in the center of the Shaded Spruce rectangle, folded a piece of Fresh Freesia ribbon and adhered it to the rectangle.  Then, I used Dimensionals to pop up the greeting over the ribbon. 

The Shaded Spruce rectangle was adhered directly over the DSP.  Of course, no project is complete without a little bling, so I added three Loose Flower Flourishes to finish it off.

The fixin’s

Thanks for visiting

You can see how different my card is from Connie’s, even though we used the same card sample as inspiration!

If you’re in the USA, and need a demonstrator, I’d love to help in any way I can.  And, if you’d like to BE a demonstrator, I’d love to have you on my team.

Shopping

If you’re in Canada, please visit Connie’s blog and shopping link here.

If you’re in the USA, you may shop with me by clicking on any of the products listed above, or on my Shopping link below. Please use the following Host Code. THANK YOU!!

Another Sale-a-bration in August?!

Delicate Dahlias Sympathy Lead Photo

Wait…….what?!

It’s true! For the first time, Stampin’ Up! is offering two Sale-a-bration promotions in the same year! In the USA, that means you can earn FREE items with any $50 or $100 purchase before shipping and tax during August and September.

New Sale-a-bration items

What can you earn FREE? Today’s Blog Hop features some of those new items.

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Delicate Dahlias

I’m using the Delicate Dahlias Sale-a-bration stamp set to make a sympathy card. I think the florals in this set are beautiful, and there are several sentiments to choose from, so you could make this card for any occasion. And, you can get this stamp set FREE with any $100 purchase before shipping and tax!

Delicate Dahlias Sympathy Lead Photo

Two Step Stamping

Delicate Dahlias is a Two-Step stamp set. If you look at my card, you can see the outline of the dahlia is a darker color than the petals themselves. It takes two steps to make the flower. First, I stamped the flower in Pool Party using the flower stamp, then went back and used the outline stamp with Misty Moonlight to add the darker outline.

The leaves were stamped in two steps as well, but using Granny Apple Green in both steps.

Masking

As you can see, there are two flowers, one BEHIND the other. To get this effect, I used a technique called Masking. Unlike painting, where you add the front image last, with the Masking Technique you stamp the front image first, then cover or “mask” it to stamp the other images. This allows them to appear BEHIND the first image.

Be sure to sign up for my Email Newsletter, if you’d like more information on Masking. I’m working on an instructional PDF to send to my newsletter subscribers soon!

Delicate Dahlias Sympathy

Double Layer Technique

Did you notice how the stamped images continue from the front layer onto the back layer? This is achieved using a Double Layer Technique.

First, I stamped the images (using the Masking Technique) onto a 4″ x 5 1/4″ Basic White panel. I then used the Stitched Rectangles Dies to cut a rectangle from the center of this panel.

I cut a piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock using one of the dies from the new Scalloped Contours Die set and layered it behind the cut white rectangle with the stamped images. It’s then centered over the hole and adhered with dimensionals.

Below is a picture of the pieces I used, so you can see how this card comes together.

Delicate Dahlias Sympathy Elements

Details

The greeting is stamped on Basic White and punched with the Double Oval Punch, layered onto a piece of Misty Moonlight that is punched using the scalloped oval from the same punch.

I added a piece of the Gold Fine Art Ribbon and one of the Bumblebee Trinkets to embellish.

Delicate Dahlias Sympathy Detail

Let’s Hop

Visit my friends’ blogs to see more new Sale-a-bration items you can earn FREE!

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Ordering

If you are in the USA, and would like to purchase any of the supplies for this project, I’d love to have your order. If your order is less than $150 before s/t, please use the following Host Code and receive a special Thank You from me.

For orders of $150 or more, don’t use the Host Code and pick FREE Stampin’ Rewards!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!

It’s March 17th and time for all of us to let our Irish show!  Today’s Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop is focusing on packaging, so what better time to make St. Patrick’s Day treats.

 

As you can imagine, being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, I get a lot of packages both through the USPS and through UPS.  When we first moved into our new house, I made it a point to catch both my mail carrier and UPS driver to meet them and find out a little bit about them, including what kinds of snacks and treats they like.

My mail carrier’s favorite is Reese cups, so I try to stay stocked up on those.  I decided to make her a special treat for St. Patrick’s Day.

I took one of our acetate card boxes and filled it with Reese cups wrapped in green and gold.  The candy didn’t fit perfectly in the box and wanted to slide around, so I made a “tray” from Shaded Spruce cardstock to keep the candies in their place.  I wrapped the box with a gold foil belly band around the side so it doesn’t interfere with opening the box and made a pretty label to decorate it.

I like to play with my stamps and use them in ways you might not think about to get double duty from them.  For this project I used a four petal flower from Pretty Perennials and trimmed away one of the petals to make the shamrock.

If you have several people you’d like to treat, this next project may be more to your liking.  It’s very simple, and I could make several of these in the time it took to make the project above.  The secret to this project is the Tag Topper Punch which makes tags very quickly.  Bag it and tag it!

I hope you’ve enjoyed these packaging ideas!  I love to give and get treats, don’t you?

Now, let’s see what the other hoppers have been up to:

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