I just got this Bundle and designer paper recently and tried it out with this Abigail Rose Get Well Card. I wish I hadn’t waited so long because it all looks beautiful and I certainly have seen beautiful cards online made with these products! I bought them because I wanted them and the Cottage Rose Bundle is going to be used in the Stampin’ Up! Virtual Event, FREE for everyone, to be held this coming Saturday, October 1st on World Card Making Day! You are invited to join in, whether you stamp along during the event or whether you just watch and enjoy! There will be a replay if you want to watch it again or if you miss the live event. If you don’t have the Bundles they are using, just substitute with what you have.
For my first card with the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper and the Cottage Rose Bundle, I wanted to start with something simple. I’m kind of fascinated with the designs and colors of the paper in the package. I don’t know that we’ve had a package before of “brownish” papers. These are all beautiful.
The card base is Early Espresso with a layer of this brownish floral pattern in the Abigail Rose DSP. Who would think some dark brown floral images on a Crumb Cake background could look so pretty and elegant?! I also purchased the Natural Finish Ribbon in the same suite of products. It is quite wide but very pretty. I haven’t tried it yet, but according to the catalog sample, it can be stamped on! This ribbon is made of flax and a cotton blend so it looks a lot like burlap but a lot more sophisticated! I simply adhered it across the width of the card.
The Cottage Rose Stamp Set has beautiful flowers and foliage and very nice greetings. The greeting on this card is one in the set, stamped in Early Espresso ink. I die-cut the greeting using the label in the All That Dies. To embellish the greeting a little bit, I stamped a few of the small flowers in the set around the edge in Crumb Cake ink.
The die-cut leaves were stamped in Crumb Cake ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and one stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock. The greeting is popped up on the Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals at the top and bottom so they would fit above and below the wide ribbon. Then I just tucked the die-cut leaves underneath, cutting some stems to make them a little shorter to fit better.
On the inside of the card, I added a Very Vanilla layer stamped in the corners with one of the flowers in the stamp set.
For my first try with this Cottage Rose Bundle and Abigail Rose Designer Paper, I made a simple but elegant card with a greeting to send to someone who is under the weather for whatever reason and those are good cards to have on hand, ready to send when needed.
I hope you will try to at least watch part of the Stampin’ Up! Virtual Event on Saturday or the replay. I don’t know what this one will be like but Stampin’ Up! events of any kind are always fun and worthwhile. Maybe you will pick up some new ideas or maybe it will just be some time for yourself to relax and watch some beautiful stamping! Just go to the Virtual Stamping Event page to find the link to join. The time of the event will be 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Mountain Time on Saturday, October 1st.