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January Mini Catalog · sketches

Timeless Thanks

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We’re going to close out our week of working with the new Stampin’ Up! Hugs for Love bundle with today’s bonus card. I’m pairing it up once again with the Timeless Plaid paper, which is also a new release, and using Sketch #6 from the new January Mini catalog.

We get started with a base of Boho Blue cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of the Timeless Plaid in blue. I used the reverse side of the Pool Party plaid sheet from the same pack as the center background elements and punched the shapes using the To the Point Label punch. Although it’s difficult to see in the photo, there are very faint lines of Pool Party in the blue plaid sheet, making the Pool Party plaid sheet the perfect compliment to really draw out those subtle stripes. The sentiment panel is stamped on white using the Hugs for Life outline stamp and the sentiment from the Heart Shaped stamp set. The panel is punched with the To the Point Label punch. I tied some Night of Navy linen thread around the background panel and passed it underneath the sentiment panel. I added some rhinestone basic jewels and industrial trinkets to finish things off.

Next week is all about birthdays. I hope you’ll pop in!

Products used in this featured design:
Boho Blue, Basic White cardstock
Timeless Plaid DSP
Hugs for Love bundle
Heart Shaped stamps
Natural Tones linen thread
Industrial trinkets, rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Boho Blue 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[161724]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Timeless Plaid 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164678]
$12.50
Hugs For Love Bundle (English)
[165738]
$38.50
Heart Shaped Bundle (English)
[164953]
$31.50
Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad
[153118]
$9.00
Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad
[161678]
$9.00
Natural Tones Linen Thread
[164071]
$9.00
Industrial Trinkets
[163450]
$8.50
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
[144220]
$6.00
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
Add All to Cart
Holiday Mini Catalog · sketches

Sketches & More Sketches

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I love a good sketch, and if you’ve followed along here for any length of time, you’ve heard and seen me refer to sketches I’ve used to make various cards. There are all sorts of places where you can find card sketches and you can even start your own sketch book based on card layouts you see and like. These are two things that I’ve been doing for years. But what I love is that Stampin’ Up! has begun to include a collection of sketches in catalogs.

There are quite a number of demonstrators who have turned the collection of sketches in the 2024-25 Annual Catalog into a large-scale file (letter-sized) that they’ve shared amongst their fellow demos and with their customers. I got mine from Frenchie Stamps and love the larger format because it helps me better visualize where I’m going with design and obviously because it’s much easier on the eyes. *wink wink*

Up until now, however, I have not seen any of the new sketches included in the Holiday Mini catalog in a larger format. So I’ve spent some time over the last week doing just that. About half of the sketches included in the catalog are for gift tags. But did you know they can easily be converted to card fronts? You will see each of those tags included as a card layout in this sketch collection file — to help you better visualize how each of the tags can become a card. But you’ll note that each of the tag sketches is otherwise completely unchanged outside of the outline of a card front.

You can download the full collection of 20 sketches included on page 16 of the 2024 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog by clicking on the link below.

2024 Stampin-Up Holiday Mini Catalog SketchesDownload

Autumn · Fall · sketches · Sketchy Fridays

Sketchy Fridays: Accomplished So Much

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This week is all about autumn, and we’re using unique combinations of Stampin’ Up! products to make some beautiful card designs.

And it’s already time again for another installment of Sketchy Fridays, where each week we’ll be using a card sketch to design our featured card. Right now, we’re working through a full series of designs using the card sketches found on page 22 of the current Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

This week’s card is based on Sketch #14 and features the gorgeous Splendid Autumn designer paper from the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog.

As I was thumbing through the papers in the Splendid Autumn paper pack, I was looking for a sheet that would lend itself to an unexpected combination of products. When I saw this beautiful sheet of the groves of trees separated by a stream with its hues of greens and purples, along with the usual fall foliage colors, I knew I had found the sheet I was looking for.

The beauty of today’s Sketch #14 is it lets us use this gorgeous paper as the focal point and then support it with mats as complements. We get started with a base of Calypso Coral cardstock. I love how this base color makes the oranges in the trees pop over the golden hues. Our sheet of Splendid Autumn is matted in two different colors. We use a very thin mat of Peach Pie glimmer paper right up against the Splendid Autumn, and it’s such a nice complement to the golden hues in our paper. Then we’re using a larger secondary mat of Old Olive Season of Elegance designer paper. Just look at how this brings out the grass along either side of our creek that’s reflecting our gorgeous dusky sky. And in person, the sparkle of the gold foiling in this sheet plays along perfectly with the glimmer paper. The sentiment from Wonderful Thoughts is heat embossed in gold on a sheet of white vellum from the Graceful Greenery vellum pack and then diecut using the Greetings of the Season dies using the extension method to give us a full banner. We finish things off with a twist of ribbons, including iridescent striped sheer ribbon, gold trim, and two colors of linen thread from the new Natural Tones pack, and a few of the new Earth Tones shimmer gems in opposing corners for a little sparkle.

I hope you tune in tomorrow as we round out our All About Autumn card series. I’ll be bringing you another emboss resist project, as well as a BONUS post showing how you can make a simple easel project that packs a big punch!

Products used in today’s card:
Calypso Coral cardstock
Season of Elegance, Splendid Autumn, Graceful Greenery vellum, Gold textured DSP
Wonderful Thoughts stamps
Greetings of the Season dies
Iridescent striped ribbon
Gold trim
Natural Tones linen thread
Earth Tones shimmer gems
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[122925]
$11.50
Splendid Autumn 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164173]
$12.50
Season Of Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164144]
$16.50
2024–2026 In Color™ Glimmer 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper
[163771]
$11.00
Graceful Greenery Vellum 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164118]
$10.00
Wonderful Thoughts Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[161899]
$25.00
Versamark Pad
[102283]
$9.50
Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder
[165678]
$21.00
Greetings Of The Season Dies
[164112]
$32.00
Iridescent 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Striped Trim
[163299]
$8.50
Gold & Silver 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Trim Combo Pack
[161633]
$9.00
Natural Tones Linen Thread
[164071]
$9.00
2024–2026 In Color™ Shimmer Gems
[163781]
$8.50
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
Tear & Tape Adhesive
[154031]
$7.00
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Fun Folds · sketches · Sketchy Fridays

Sketchy Fridays: Brighten Your Day

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I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe that we’re wrapping up the month of August and marching right into September already! I mean, it’s Labor Day weekend. Whaaaaaa?! I feel like the older I get the faster the time seems to fly by.

And speaking of time flying by, it’s time again for another installment of Sketchy Fridays, where each week we’ll be using a card sketch to design our featured card. Right now, we’re working through a full series of designs using the card sketches found on page 22 of the current Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

This week’s card is based on Sketch #20 and features the gorgeous Splendid Autumn designer paper from the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog that launches on September 4th.

This paper pack just turns out sheet after sheet of stunning designs, and I’m loving each and every one. I’m pairing up a fun fold shared by my upline Patty Bennett with Sketch #20 from the Annual Catalog. I’ve taken the liberty of changing the orientation of the sentiment piece. And that’s the best thing about using a sketch — it gives you a place to start and then you tweak things to work for you.

So our fun fold starts with a base of Blackberry Bliss cardstock. Rather than scoring in the center, we score and fold at 3-inches and 7.25-inches to give us our front fold with a standard-sized inside message panel. I decided to double mat the gorgeous sheet of Splendid Autumn patterned paper and used Flirty Flamingo to bring out the pinky-orange hues of the leaves. I cut and mounted the patterned paper so that the panels meet to form a complete picture when the card is closed. When open, there is a small border of Flirty Flamingo visible on the left panel and a slight overhang of the Splendid Autumn sheet on the right panel. The sentiment from Changing Leaves is stamped in black on white cardstock and then diecut using the Greetings of the Season die. I diecut a leaf from gold mercury vellum using the Autumn Leaves dies and adhered to the sentiment panel. The sentiment panel is mounted to the left panel of the card front using dimensionals. We finish off the card front with an assortment of regal foiled dots, which release next week. I felt like it was a shame to waste the remainder of the Splendid Autumn sheet, so it serves as the decorative strip next to the message panel on the inside of the card. I added a few additional gold mercury vellum leaves to tie things together.

I loved this fun fold because it offered the perfect opportunity to showcase a gorgeous sheet of paper. When I have paper that’s so pretty that I don’t want to cut it, I search for layouts like this one that let me put it on full display. Give it a try the next time you have a sheet of paper too pretty to cut up!

Tomorrow, we’re closing out our In the Woods card series with a fall sunset. I hope you’ll stop by and check it out!

Products used in today’s card:
Blackberry Bliss, Flirty Flamingo, Basic White cardstock
Splendid Autumn (coming soon!), gold mercury vellum DSP
Changing Leaves stamps
Autumn Leaves, Greetings of the Season dies
Regal foiled dots (coming soon!)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[133675]
$11.50
Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[141416]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock
[159229]
$11.25
Gold Mercury Vellum 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164142]
$10.00
Changing Leaves Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[164351]
$20.00
Autumn Leaves Dies
[162185]
$38.00
Greetings Of The Season Dies
[164112]
$32.00
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
[144108]
$4.25
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Coming Soon · sketches · Sketchy Fridays

Sketchy Fridays: Cuppa Thanks

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This week we’re exploring all of the ways that we can use our holiday products to make everyday cards. For this week’s Sketchy Fridays, we’re taking a little detour from the Annual Catalog and, instead, are taking a page from my personal sketch book. And today, we’re pairing our sketch with the new Take a Bow patterned paper and Joyful Images ephemera both of which will be available on September 6th.

We get started with a base of Balmy Blue cardstock. Our center strip of patterned paper is from the Take a Bow paper pack and provides a colorful grounding base for our focal panel. Our focal panel backdrop consists of a piece of Garden Green cardstock embossed with the Cute Crochet embossing folder that is mounted on the mercury vellum sheet. The mug of hot chocolate is from the Joyful Images ephemera pack. A few adhesive peppermints add some visual texture and interest. The sentiment from Simply Zinnia is stamped in black on white cardstock and then diecut using the Autumn Leaves die. A faux bow of gold trim behind brings another pop of gold to the design, tying our full focal panel together as one. The mug and sentiment are adhered over a Graceful Greenery vellum panel diecut with the Nested Essentials dies. Iridescent faceted gems across the design help the eye pass across and to the sentiment.

We’re closing out our design series tomorrow with a stunning sympathy card. You don’t want to miss it!

Products used in today’s card:
Balmy Blue, Garden Green, Basic White cardstock
Take a Bow (coming soon!), Graceful Greenery vellum, mercury vellum DSP
Simply Zinnia stamps
Nested Essentials, Autumn Leaves dies
Cute Crochet embossing folder
Joyful Images ephemera (coming soon!)
Real Red & White peppermints (coming soon!), iridescent faceted gems
Gold trim
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Holidays · sketches · Sketchy Fridays · Winter

Sketchy Fridays: Season’s Greetings

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Whew, we all made it to Friday. Anyone have exciting weekend plans? I’ll be hosting a virtual Kit Together this evening where I will be assembling the Hello Hollyhocks kit. If you’re free, I would love for you to join me! Simply click this link to register and join in on the fun.

But for now, it’s time for the second installment of Sketchy Fridays, where each week we’ll be using a card sketch to design our featured card. Right now, we’re working through a full series of designs using the card sketches found on page 22 of the current Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

This week, we’re using Sketch #2 and pairing it up with the gorgeous Seasons of Green & Gold patterned paper pack and coordinating Graceful Greenery vellum pack. Let’s see how it all comes together.

We get started with a base of Garden Green cardstock. Our background panel is a sheet of mistletoe paper from the Seasons of Green & Gold patterned paper pack. The focal panel consists of a mat of gold foil specialty paper and a sheet of greenery patterned paper, which is also from the Seasons of Green & Gold designer series paper pack. Our sentiment panel is matted with a lovely gold banner which is diecut from gold foil using the Greetings of the Season die. The sentiment from the coordinating stamp set is stamped in Shaded Spruce on white cardstock and then diecut with the oval die from Greetings of the Season. The tag holes in each of the sentiment panel pieces are covered with small bunches of mistletoe berries and sprigs of greenery that have been cut with paper snips from a sheet of Seasons of Green & Gold designer paper. Additional sprigs of greenery are cut from the edge of the same sheet of patterned paper, as well as a sheet of vellum from the Graceful Greenery pack. In conjunction with a twist of gold trim, the greenery serves as an eye-catcher for the sentiment panel. A sprinkling of rhinestone jewels across the card front draw the eye across the design.

Tomorrow we’ll be closing out our wintery designs in the snowdrifts. I hope you’ll stop by and check it out.

Products used in today’s card:
Garden Green, Basic White cardstock
Seasons of Green & Gold, Gold foil, Graceful Greenery vellum DSP
Greetings of the Season stamps & dies
Gold trim
Rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[102584]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Season Of Green & Gold 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164324]
$16.50
Gold Foil Sheets
[132622]
$5.00
Graceful Greenery Vellum 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164118]
$10.00
Greetings Of The Season Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[164325]
$25.00
Greetings Of The Season Dies
[164112]
$32.00
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad
[147088]
$9.00
Gold & Silver 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Trim Combo Pack
[161633]
$9.00
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
[144220]
$6.00
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
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Frosted Forest · sketches · Sketchy Fridays

Frosted Thoughts

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We continue our tour of the Online Exclusive bundle by Stampin’ Up! called Frosted Forest. And today, things are cooling off a little bit as we find our forest covered in a light dusting of snow.

Today’s card is also the start of a brand NEW blog series called Sketchy Fridays, where we’ll be using sketches as the basis for our card designs. We’re kicking off this series with the sketches found in the current 2024-25 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. Did you know that there are 22 sketches included in the new catalog at the bottom of page 22? What a fantastic resource we have right at our fingertips to make beautiful cards in a jiffy!

And today, we begin with Sketch #4 which we are pairing with the Frosted Forest bundle. This sketch drew me because of its large focal panel which allows a beautiful product bundle, like Frosted Forest, to take center stage. TIP: remember that a sketch is just a starting point and moving elements around to suit your design is a-okay!

I loved the pairing of the Winter Meadow paper with the lovely evergreens in the Frosted Forest set. So we get started with a card base of Mossy Meadow. The base of our focal panel is a combination of gold foil specialty paper and a patterned sheet from the Winter Meadow designer series paper pack. Our focal panel is a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock where we stamp both the small and large evergreens from the Frosted Forest stamp set in black ink and then shade them in using the decorative masks and a combination of Shaded Spruce, Old Olive, and Garden Green inks. The snowflakes from Merriest Trees are stamped in Versamark and I then used mask #2 to apply Versamark to both trees and a Versamark pen to fill in underneath both evergreens. All of this is heat embossed using the opaque bright white embossing powder. The focal panel is matted with Boho Blue luster paper and then adhered with dimensionals. Our sentiment from Everyday Greetings is stamped in Versamark on Mossy Meadow and heat embossed in metallic gold rich embossing powder. Fussy cutting around the sentiment gives it a more casual feel. The sentiment is adhered to a Gold Mercury vellum mat with dimensionals. Our vellum mat has been diecut with the smallest Deckled Rectangle die and is adhered to the focal panel with a strip of tear-n-tape. I added a dove from Frosted Forest and a few rhinestone basic jewels to finish things off.

Using a sketch is like using a recipe when you’re cooking — it gives you a great place to start but allows you to spice things up with your own variations. For me, it helps a design come together more quickly because I have a great base.

Tomorrow we’ll be finishing up our card series using the Frosted Forest bundle with one of my favorite fun folds. I hope you’ll drop by and check it out!

Products used in today’s card:
Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla cardstock
Gold Mercury vellum, Winter Meadow, Boho Blue luster, Gold foil DSP
Frosted Forest stamps, decorative masks, and dies
Everyday Greetings stamps
Deckled Rectangles
Embossing powder
Rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[133676]
$11.50
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[101650]
$13.00
Gold Foil Sheets
[132622]
$5.00
2023–2025 In Color™ 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Luster Specialty Paper
[161746]
$11.00
Gold Mercury Vellum 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164142]
$10.00
Frosted Forest Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[164344]
$21.00
Frosted Forest Decorative Masks
[164350]
$15.00
Frosted Forest Dies
[164136]
$36.00
Merriest Trees Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[162043]
$25.00
Everyday Greetings Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[165084]
$21.00
Deckled Rectangles Dies
[159173]
$30.00
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad
[101406]
$10.50
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad
[147088]
$9.00
Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad
[147090]
$9.00
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad
[147089]
$9.00
Versamark Pad
[102283]
$9.50
Basics Wow! Embossing Powder
[165679]
$21.00
Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder
[165678]
$21.00
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
[144220]
$6.00
Tear & Tape Adhesive
[138995]
$7.00
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
[144108]
$4.25
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Botanicals · Country Flowers · sketches

Buckets of Birthday Flowers

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This week, we’re using portions of the Stampin’ Up! Country Woods suite to make all sorts of lovely card designs. We’re also using inspiration from fellow crafters as a jumpstart for our designs. Today, we’re taking a sketch from my sketchbook as inspiration for our layout.

When I see card layouts I really love, I try to make a quick sketch or save a photo of the inspiration card. There are many times that I love a card and immediately think of stamps and dies in my own stash that will work with that layout. Great layouts are like that — they can be used over and over and give you completely different looks based on the products you use.

For today’s card, we get started with a card base of Blackberry Bliss cardstock. The background panel consists of two layers. The mat is Pretty in Pink and the foreground is a piece of Moody Mauve that has been machine embossed using the Eyelet embossing folder. The focal panel base is a piece of the lighter grey woodgrain pattern from the Country Woods designer paper pack that has been diecut using one of the larger Spotlight on Nature circles. The milk tin and floral bunches from Country Flowers have been stamped on white cardstock and then colored with Stampin’ Blends. The tin and flowers are adhered to the focal panel with dimensionals with the florals just a smidge higher than the tin they are resting in. A bow of striped iridescent ribbon sits just underneath the flowers at the top of the tin. The sentiment from Something Fancy is heat embossed in white on black cardstock and then cut into a thin strip with the paper trimmer. A few Berry Burst sequins from the sequins trio are placed to draw the eye across the design.

Pop in tomorrow to see what else we do with the Country Flowers.

Products used in today’s design:
Blackberry Bliss, Pretty in Pink, Moody Mauve, Basic Black, Basic White cardstock
Country Woods DSP
Country Flowers stamps & dies
Spotlight on Nature dies
Something Fancy stamps
Embossing powder
Striped iridescent ribbon
Sequins trio
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Botanicals · sketches

Flower for a Friend

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We’re rounding out our week of designs using the Stampin’ Up! Inspiring Snapdragons bundle, which includes coordinating cling stamps and dies. Today, we have a clean and simple design that was inspired by a sketch from my sketchbook.

We get started with a base of Shy Shamrock cardstock. I also cut a quarter-sheet of Shy Shamrock and then embossed using the Cute Crochet embossing folder. The embossed quarter panel is then trimmed down to be 1/4-inch smaller than the standard card front. The panel is adhered to the card front using dimensionals. I next diecut the middle-sized snapdragon from white cardstock using the Inspiring Snapdragons dies. Using Pretty in Pink and Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Blends, I colored the decorative layer of the snapdragon. I used a glue pen to apply adhesive to the decorative layer and adhere it to the snapdragon base. The sentiment is diecut from Shy Shamrock glimmer paper and Basic White cardstock using the Friends for Life dies. I used a glue pen to apply adhesive and adhere to the two sentiment layers together.

To assemble the focal section of the card, I began with a glue dot in the center of the card. I cut linen thread and made a decorative faux bow and used the glue dot to hold it in place. Using dimensionals, I next adhered the snapdragon over the linen thread and then the sentiment over the snapdragon blossom. To ensure the sentiment stands above everything else, the dimensional layer is doubled. I finished things off with a scattering of Shy Shamrock shimmer gems.

I really love this card design because it’s super simple to make and replicate quickly, but it looks like a million bucks. If you have other sentiment diecuts in your stash, you could easily substitute a different one for a multitude of occasions.

Next week, we’ll be focusing on the Friends for Life bundle. I hope you’ll pop in and see how many different ways we can use this fabulous bundle!

Products used in today’s design:
Shy Shamrock, Basic White cardstock
In Color glimmer paper
Inspiring Snapdragons, Friends for Life dies
Cute Crochet embossing folder
Stampin’ Blends
In Color shimmer gems
Linen thread
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Botanicals · sketches

Hi, Friend

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Howdy, friends! Thanks for popping by today for another look at the Inspiring Snapdragons stamps and dies bundle. Snapdragons were one of my Granny’s favorite seasonal flowers. She had the best green thumb when it came to snapdragons. I, however, did not inherit that part of her gardening skills. I have the worst luck with snapdragons, even though I enjoy them a lot. *grin*

We’re revisiting our sketch from yesterday … with a little twist. The fun thing about sketches is that they give you a place to start with design and give you the flexibility to adapt them. And today’s card is a perfect example of adapting, where I scaled down and adjusted the placement of the image panel to allow more of my background panel to show.

So let’s get started on today’s card. We begin with a base of Pretty in Pink cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of Meandering Meadow designer series paper. I chose a sheet that had flowers that, to me, had similar shape and look to snapdragons. I tied silver & white trim around the designer paper panel before adhering to the card base.

The image panel is a base of white cardstock diecut using the Everyday Details dies. I chose to make several snapdragons in the pink color family to really pull the pink blossoms forward in the background paper. I used a combination of cardstock and glimmer paper for the snapdragon blooms, including Berry Burst, Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, white, and Petunia Pop. Each blossom consists of two layers—a base and detail layer. I adhered the snapdragon blossoms to the image panel and varied the height of each using dimensionals. The image panel is adhered to the background layer using dimensionals.

The sentiment panel is cut from white cardstock using the Spotlight on Nature dies. The sentiment from Wonderful Thoughts is stamped in black in the center. The sentiment panel mat is diecut from Pretty in Pink using a larger die from the Spotlight on Nature die set. The layers are adhered using dimensionals and then affixed to the card front using stacked dimensionals to ensure the sentiment panel stands above the layered snapdragons. I added a dragonfly cut from In Color glimmer paper above the snapdragon blossoms and then finished things off with iridescent foil gems.

I hope you’ll pop in tomorrow to see how we can use this fabulous bundle to build a scene! You won’t want to miss it.

Products used in today’s card:
Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop, Melon Mambo, Basic White cardstock
Meandering Meadow, In Color glimmer DSP
Wonderful Thoughts stamps
Inspiring Snapdragons, Everyday Details, Spotlight on Nature dies
Silver & white trim
Iridescent foil gems
Dimensionals
Adhesives