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Make Cards With Retiring In Colors!

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Retired In Colors Card

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:

Retiring In Colors Lovely Day Card

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!

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Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents

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Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents

This Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents took me a little longer than I expected to get it exactly right. Not that there is ever an “exactly right” in stamping and cardmaking, but I always know when I finally hit something that pleases me. Just keep going if you aren’t happy with your creation because you may just be one step away.

For this card, I had the idea of using a cluster of flowers in the bottom corner, maybe three flowers. What took some time for me was finding the right layer for the sentiment at the top. Some dies were too big, some too little, a plain rectangle too plain. I kept working and came up with the combination you see. Adding the bits of ribbon, I think, jazzed it up just enough to make me happy.

The card base is Basic Black, so plan on putting a Whisper White layer inside the card for your greeting or personal message. I added two extra flowers I already had punched out plus some stamped leaves to the inside layer down in the right-hand corner.

The designer paper layer on the front of the card is the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper. This is the paper with the bees and coordinates with the Honey Bee Bundle in the Occasions Mini Catalog. You can earn this Golden Honey DSP FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products! Besides the bees and beehives and honeycombs on some sides of the paper, there are also plainer designs like on my card today, so even if you’re not into bees, you can still use this paper!

Since my Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set was still out on my table, I decided to just use those flowers again. I made a card yesterday with those flowers. Today I wanted to stamp the outline image of the stamp and color them in with my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I wanted some bright colors so I used Lovely Lipstick, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, and Pumpkin Pie.

There is a punch for these Thoughtful Blooms flowers that you can earn during Sale-A-Bration with a $100 purchase called the Small Bloom Punch. I wish there had been a little leaf punch, too, but there isn’t so I just cut out some leaves and the sprig of leaves by hand. A little tedious and I left some white margin so I didn’t have to be perfect, but since they are small it took a few minutes! But I like the look of having them! I just played around with grouping the flowers down in the lower-left corner, gluing two of them flat on the card and the rest are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. These are the first six flowers I used in this grouping. When I was all finished with the card, I added the Gold Glitter Dots to the flower centers, which I loved, and also added one more flower at the “top” of the grouping and at the bottom left. This, to me, was the finishing touch!

The greeting is from the Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set. It is die-cut with a die in the Painted Poppies Bundle. I tried to find a Gold Foil layer that I was happy with. Finally, one in the Stitched Rectangle Dies seemed to fit about right! I also punched a hole in each side and threaded some Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon through.

If you like this Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents, add the Golden Honey Paper and Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set to your Stampin’ Up! order(s) during Sale-A-Bration in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store!