Love Cats

Sometimes as the end of a catalogue approaches you find a stamp set that hasn't been used, and if it is retiring it's even worse! I bought Love Cats early on in the year and fully intended to use it a lot, but it didn't happen. Over Easter, when it was so cold and wet, I made this birthday card.

Using Delicate Desert DSP for the front, it was die cut with Picture This dies. The same process was used with Rain & Shine specialty DSP, and two of the windows were inserted behind the cats. They have been heat embossed with black embossing powder, it gives them a nice sheen.

Even this one on the inside has been heat embossed but the verse is just stamped in black Memento ink. Best Day is another retiring stamp set with a cat, and that is where that little sentiment came from.

Delicate Desert DSP $14.70

On Sunday night I am sharing 4 more cards using Delicate Desert DSP and an assortment of stamp sets.

            

Rain & Shine DSP $21.60

Best Day - $41.00

 

Love Cats -$37.00

Picture This Dies $54.00

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Elephant Parade

 

The artist who drew these baby elephants did a great job capturing the cuteness of them. While they are certainly a little cartoonish, there is that look of a new baby elephant about the images as well.

Picture This dies create cute windows to place items in, and I will definitely be keeping my dies. From cute creatures, pretty flowers and small sentiments, they can all find their place within this die.

The unfortunate end to this short tale (tail) is that the Elephant Parade stamp has sold out in Australia. The Elephant dies are still in the shop. I've been using Best Day a lot, especially the sentiments. I love colouring the kitty in a cupcake, but having a sentiment for the inside is the icing on the cake.

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Unfortunately, Elephant Parade stamp has sold out.

Best Day $41 - retiring soon

Picture This dies reduced 10% to $54.

Have you been able to pick up any bargains in the Last Chance sale?

Do you have a wish list for the new catalogue? Such an exciting time in the stamping year!!!

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More Pool Party

 

On Wednesday night, for the Colour Creations Blog Hop featuring Pool Party I shared the birthday card on the left with the owl.

After cutting the Dry Brushed Metallic specialty designer series paper (page 43 mini catalogue) with Picture This dies, there were the cut outs just looking to be used in a second project. These dies make it possible to stretch gorgeous paper that little bit further!

This card uses mainly Framed Florets to decorate with very lightly coloured flowers and leaves around that great sentiment.

There was still one rectangle which has been added to the inside. along with some more simple stamping.

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Colour Creations - Week #39 - Pool Party

The participants in AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours alphabetically. This is week #39 and the lovely Pool Party is our chosen colour.

This birthday card developed from an idea to stretch the Brushed Metallic SDSP a little further. I cut a length 10cm wide and used Picture This Dies to cut 'windows'. The card is a longer one, to fit in a business envelope.

The windows allow space to decorate, with Decorative Borders and Awesome Owls providing the focal point, and Hand Drawn Dots and sentiments from Friends Are Like Seashells as the supporting act.

It's always nice to add a little something to the inside too.

I'm sure that Caroline has shared a wonderful project too so let's keep hopping.

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of our host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Cathy Proctor, and she will have the list of all participants.

 

Awesome Birthday Owls

Since one owl wears a party hat, that means I need to make a birthday card. The hats were colour-matched to the owl eyes - aren't they so cute? Easy to colour too.

Another Awesome Owl card, mixed in with current, retired & future product. A mix of colouring with Stampin' Blends and Stampin' Markers.

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Current: - Party Puffins (cake), Warm Welcome (presents), Picture This dies.

Retired: - Hey Birthday Chick (balloons), Birthday Chick dies (Happy Birthday)

Future: - Awesome Owls (sale-a-bration), Dandy Designs DSP (sale-a-bration)

 

Three Scotch Terriers

Christmas Scottie is in the July-December mini catalogue, and as the name suggests, is intended for Christmas. With Christmas a long way off, I wanted to have a play around with this little trio.

Using Blushing Bride helped make this a birthday card, plus a birthday sentiment and balloon sealed the deal. This narrow sentiment fits quite comfortably under the die cut window. It’s from Blessing Of Home and I use it a lot. 

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Selective Masking

Today on Facebook I shared a selective masking technique. This involved using Picture This dies to cut a mask into a sheet of the new masking paper, which you'll find on page 149 of the annual catalogue.

Here is the video

This time I used the circles and stamped with the text stamp in Artfully Layered. This stamp set is about to retire at the end of June, along with the dies and patterned paper - Artfully Composed DSP. The paper is selling at a big saving of $14, the stamp set is $37.80 and the dies are down to $42.70. There are links at the end of the post to allow you to take a closer look in my shop.

The card with pennants is the one that started this, I was trying to make something different for a son whose birthday is next week. Since he's getting a couple of tickets to Hamilton, I tried to indicate theatre tickets on the die cut ticket. Since you don't receive actual tickets these days, it makes it a bit more difficult for gift giving.