There are just a few more days left for the retiring In Colors 2018-2020 so I thought I would make some cards with them before they are gone. I found these In Colors pretty likeable, especially the Lovely Lipstick, since I love red. But somehow I don’t use my In Colors as often as my regular colors. Maybe I will with the incoming In Colors next week!
These are the retiring In Colors that came out in 2018. In Colors are available for two years and each year a new group of five colors, colors that are the trendy, in style colors come out.
To make this card, I started with a card base of Pineapple Punch layered with Whisper White. I used the Small Bloom Punch (you may have earned it for free during Sale-A-Bration and now it is in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog!!) to punch three flowers out of each In Color. I didn’t know how it would all work out, but somehow I got all the flowers laid out on the card so that they looked balanced and not too crowded.
I thought a regular greeting on the card would be too large, so I used my Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and simply stamped in between the flowers, in the In Color Inks. It was a little risky! I should have placed, but not glued down the flowers, and then stamped so if I messed up, I wouldn’t have ruined the whole card! But sometimes you don’t know that ahead of time! It worked out with just one imperfection! (All three Itty Bitty stamp sets…Greetings, Birthday, and Christmas are carried over into the new catalog which I am very happy about! I use these a lot!)
For the flower centers I used the Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots which have three In Colors in them. They worked very well, I think!
And here is another In Color card using the retiring 2018-20 In Colors:
I made this one because I found the die cut already in the bag with the Grapefruit Grove Cardstock. The die cut is in the Stitched Labels Dies which are retiring now. I stamped a greeting in the Forever Lovely Stamp Set on Whisper White and die cut with an oval in the Stitched Shapes Dies.
The Whisper White layer is first embossed with the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder. I thought the white layer needed a little something so this provides just a little texture in the background.
The die cut greeting piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and two of the flowers in the In Colors are popped up also, but the others are just glued flat onto the Whisper White layer. I also used the Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots on the centers of these flowers.
Here is another card I made using the In Colors and the Small Blooms Punch during Sale-A-Bration, for another card idea.
And that’s it! Two fun and easy cards using the last of the 2018-20 In Colors as they retire!