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Creativity Now Splendid Thoughts New Life Together Card

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Creativity Now Splendid Thoughts New Life Together Card

Last month Stampin’ Up! offered a virtual event for Demonstrators called “Creativity Now”. It was all stamping, no business, as they said. Just a gathering of Demonstrators from all over, stamping together following different presenters making several cards plus a couple of interviews with designers talking about the Splendid Day Suite and the Sweetest Christmas Suite. I always love “behind the scenes” information! I didn’t get to watch and stamp live last month but I did get to catch up and watch the recording and make most of the cards. This card, Creativity Now Splendid Thoughts New Life Together Card, is the first one that was shown.

This card sort of fits into “Watercolor Month”. Although it’s not really watercolored, it has that look in the background made with Stampin’ Blends markers rather than true watercoloring. The card base is Soft Sea Foam cardstock with a layer of Basic White cardstock and a piece of the Splendid Day Specialty Designer Series Paper. We started with the Basic White piece on which we “scribbled” light and dark colors of Pool Party and Fresh Freesia Stampin’ Blends markers. The top half of the Basic White is colored with the Light Pool Party and the bottom half (not quite out to all the edges) with Light Fresh Freesia. Then halfway down the Light Pool Party, it is colored with Dark Pool Party down to the Fresh Freesia. Likewise, the Light Fresh Freesia is half-colored with Dark Fresh Freesia. We were told just to scribble back and forth and you could do this as solidly or less solidly as you liked. If you wanted to, you could have used water and ink to achieve the same look. Just be cautious on Basic White so that you don’t get too much water.

After coloring the bands of color on the Basic White piece, we stamped the bee in the stamp set a couple of times, randomly, in upper and lower halves both in Pool Party ink and Fresh Freesia ink.

The greeting is stamped with one from the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set in Fresh Freesia ink on a piece of Basic White, then the ends were “flagged” with Paper Snips. On the back of this sentiment piece, an 8″ piece of Soft Sea Foam Ribbon is folded in half and adhered to the back with a loop on the left side and the ribbon tails hanging out on the right side. The ribbon can be secured with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

We also used the Splendid Stems Dies to die cut two of the leafy stems in Soft Sea Foam. These are adhered to the back of the greeting, top and bottom, using Mini Glue Dots. This greeting piece is adhered to the center of the Basic White piece. Then this Basic White piece is adhered, at an angle, to a piece of the Splendid Day Specialty Designer Series Paper. We used the Fresh Freesia print side of one of the patterns, not the foil side. Then this layered piece is adhered to the card base popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. It is adhered at an angle. The presenter said she tried to place it so that the Basic White top piece is straight and then the designer paper underneath is angled slightly. You can do that or have it all straight as we usually do it.

You can take this idea and change it up a bit. Add a different greeting, different diecuts, color in the background with true watercoloring or different colors or even blocks of cardstock, stamp a random design on the card base, add some bling! So many possibilities, yet this card is soft and beautiful just as it is. It could be an engagement or wedding card or change the greeting for another occasion. This design idea is very versatile.

I think this Splendid Day Suite is kind of a sleeper in the Holiday Mini Catalog that might be overlooked. The designer paper is just gorgeous and the coordinating colors make for soft, colorful, and even relaxing impressions. There are lots of choices in the stamps and dies for leafy stems or stamped images. Be sure to check out the Splendid Thoughts Bundle for a savings of 10% if you want both the stamp set and dies. If you also want the designer paper and embellishments of Soft Sea Foam Ribbon and Open Leaf Trinkets, then just order the whole Suite!

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Splendid Thoughts Sale-A-Bration Card and Envelope

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Splendid Thoughts Sale-A-Bration Card and Envelope

Just as I had made this card using the Sale-A-Bration Pool Party & Soft Sea Foam Cards & Envelopes I saw that Stampin’ Up! had an update that this product was SOLD OUT! Ugh!! It was a great product to have a package of card bases and decorated envelopes ready to go….for FREE! However, we can still make something similar on our own with designer paper, half a sheet of cardstock, and an envelope!

Although I used one of those card bases, you can simply use a very light designer paper background or stamp your own background on Soft Sea Foam cardstock.

I used the Splendid Thoughts Bundle in the Holiday Mini Catalog to decorate this card. The die-cut flower pot is the Texture Chic Specialty Designer Series Paper. I thought it looked fancy with the gold foil design on it plus has a little distressed look to it like a flower pot might have. The rest of the plants are all die cut with the Splendid Stems Dies. There are more dies for stems and leaves than there are stamps in the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set so you get a lot extra with the dies! In fact, if you needed to save money, you could just purchase the dies to make the stems and leaves and cut out cardstock or do your own coloring. Be aware that the stamps that you would think would color the leaves and flowers(?) of the other stem do not line up with the outline and that’s how they are supposed to be! Maybe a more modern look? It’s fine, but just know that your stamp is not defective or that you’re not crazy!

I popped up the pot on Stampin’ Dimensionals just at the bottom so I could stick in the plants wherever I wanted from the top. I had two that I stamped and overstamped with the “coloring in” stamp and the others were simply diecut from cardstock. I cut quite a few extras so I could play and arrange them in different ways. With this set, as long as you are diecutting some of the plants, do extras and keep them on hand! Some of the stems I cut shorter to fit properly.

I already had the second half-circle die cut in my cardstock in Soft Sea Foam cardstock so I copied a sample in the catalog and stamped a greeting on it. There are very nice sentiments in this Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set. Then I used Stampin’ Dimensionals on the right side of the piece so it could overlap the flower pot and be even. I also added some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels for a little bling!

If you wanted to decorate the inside of the envelope, just stick a piece of designer paper inside and then you’ll have to trim by hand the top portion to follow the line of the envelope flap but below the glue portion….or cover the flap entirely and add your own glue to mail the envelope. Or easier, adhere the designer paper to the outside of the flap and then trim around the flap to cut off the excess designer paper. A friend I sent a card to the other day noticed and asked about the flap of the envelope I had decorated in that way!

These card bases and envelopes may not still be available during Sale-A-Bration, but you can still make cards in Soft Sea Foam and Pool Party for sure! Remember to shop in increments of $50 if you can during Sale-A-Bration so you can earn the products you want in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! If you have a large enough order, you may be able to choose $100 level products or mix in some $50 level and a $100 level! Nice choices!

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Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card

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Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card

These stamps, paper, and ribbon to make this Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card are the only new things I have at the moment from the new July-December 2022 Mini Catalog that just went live a week ago! But a box of many new things is coming in another day! I can’t wait!

The reason I have this new Splendid Day Suite is that Stampin’ Up! held a virtual stamping event for Demonstrators recently! It was only stamping, no business! We could order this Suite ahead of time so we’d have all the materials to stamp along. I didn’t get to watch it live but “any minute now” I’ll sit down and watch the recording and make my projects along with the Stampin’ Up! stampers. It sounds like so much fun! Even though I haven’t made those projects yet, I just got out the products and came up with this card.

This Suite is something unexpected, I think, in this Holiday Mini Catalog. It’s not holiday, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or even fall. It’s just soft and pretty. While it may not have jumped onto my Favorites list the first time I saw it, I think it has lots of potential. And the Splendid Day Specialty Designer Series Paper is very gorgeous with its foil sheets and white printed accents on one side and a more generic pattern on the other side.

I realized I was getting my “greens” mixed up while making this card! The card base is actually Mint Macaron, but I first was thinking it was Soft Sea Foam. I originally was going to have a strip of the foil paper on the left side of the card which is actually on the other side of this dotted pattern paper. But I just didn’t feel like it was working and I really liked this dotted pattern so I scrapped the foil paper! I added a layer of Basic White under the designer paper just to help set it off a bit from the card base with just a narrow margin.

The plant image is in the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set. I stamped the outline image of the plant in Soft Sea Foam ink. Then I stamped over it with what looks to be the solid image of the leaves to fill in the color. However, this image does not line up perfectly with the outline leaves as we usually have and that’s how it’s made to be. So it’s a little more modern stamping look. You might like it fine or you might hate that look! If you don’t care for it, then just stamp the outline leaves and color them in with whatever coloring technique you like, maybe Stampin’ Blends markers or Watercolor Pencils. Whatever. I inked up the solid leaf stamp and VERY lightly stamped it off on my Grid Paper, then stamped over the outline. So it is barely there!

I used the beautiful Fabulous Frames dies to die cut that lovely frame. I did one in Basic White to get the inner portion on which I stamped the leaves and Mint Macaron to get the actual frame. The greeting is in the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set along with some other very nice sentiments. I stamped it in Memento ink and die cut with one of the banner dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. It just barely fit but it worked. I didn’t want anything too wide or it would cover up too much of the plant. I popped up the greeting on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Before adhering the designer paper to the Basic White layer, I adhered the new Soft Sea Foam 3/8″ Seam Binding Ribbon around the designer paper, then tied a separate bow and adhered with Mini Glue Dots. This ribbon is very soft and beautiful. I think since it is so light in weight and color it wasn’t too much with the large Fabulous Frame on the card.

To jazz up the card a little bit, I added some Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels for a little sparkle on the card. I think these are some of the best jewels Stampin’ Up! has had because they can pick up the colors on the card very lightly. A little bling and sparkle on a card is almost always good!

In this Suite are also some Open Leaf Trinkets in gold that you can adhere or tie on to your projects. These are very pretty and will be a great embellishment on projects.

Along with all the holiday stamp sets and products we are drawn to in the new July-December Mini Catalog, be sure to take a look at this Splendid Day Suite Collection on pages 64-65. The Splendid Stems Dies will be fun to use also. I think the colors on this Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card and the greeting are very calming and will be a great card to make and send to someone who needs a card that day.

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