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SAYING THANK YOU TO MY CUSTOMERS

I am grateful to every one of my customers because they support my small, growing business.

For those customers who place an order with me, each month, I look forward to sending them one of my hand crafted Thank You cards at the beginning of the following month. If their order qualifies, I also send them a small gift.

One of my goals is to participate in Blog Hops and Challenges more regularly. The DEMONSTRATOR TRAINING PROGRAM BLOG HOP is a great way for me to achieve this.

Each month, the blog hop theme is CUSTOMER THANKS – such a great way to know that I have cards ready to send.

I have LOTS of feminine thank you cards and know that I need many more that are not as gender specific. This was the goal I had for this blog hop – create Thank You cards that could be sent to all my customers – men and women.

For these cards, I used the BEST YEAR and PATTERN PLAY STAMP SETS.

These cards are all about stamping. As you can see I used only two of the patterned stamps from the PATTERN PLAY STAMP SET. And, the cards are all about colour combinations. I definitely got my fingers inky!

The sentiment is from the BEST YEAR STAMP SET. I placed a post-it note over the bottom half of the stamp and then inked up the top half – Thank You.

The STITCHED RECTANGLE DIES had a perfectly-sized die to cut it out. I popped them up using a few STAMPIN’ DIMENSIONALS.

These cards are ready to send to my December customers, in January. I hope that my customers like them!

Make sure you hop along and see all the other projects:

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the product I used to make these cards. If you live in Australia, I would be happy to help you order any of them.

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INTERNATIONAL BLOG HOP

If you have ever struggled to come up with an idea for a THANK YOU CARD, then I hope that you are dropping in on Kylie Bertucci’s International Blog Highlights.

The theme, every month, is THANK YOU.

This International Blog Facebook page, is about reminding us that many people these days forget those two simple words – thank you. #bringingthankyouback

The card I have made, for December, was inspired by my experience at the Dockside Markets on the weekend. I had a customer who wanted to buy more masculine thank you cards than I had in my collection. I have such a huge range of thank you cards that are perfect for women but so few for men. This card begins to address this issue. (Also on the list – more newborn, wedding and congratulations cards.

I hope that you pop over, take a look at everyone’s creative entries and VOTE for my card! Just click on the link below.

I stamped my own background paper, using the PATTERN PLAY STAMP SET, in Misty Moonlight and Cinnamon Cider.

This stamped piece measured 3 1/4″x 4 7/8″ and was cut diagonally, before it was split apart.

The thank you greeting is from the BEST YEAR STAMP SET. Two were stamped in Misty Moonlight and the other in Cinnamon Cider. My go-to dies, STITCHED RECTANGLES DIES, were used to cut around each sentiment.

Without being too blingy, A few of the 2020-2022 IN COLOUR ENAMEL DOTS were added.

THANK YOU for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this card. If you live in Australia, You can order any of them through me.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
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PLAYING WITH PATTERNS

It has been quite a while since I used the PLAYING WITH PATTERNS SUITE.

For this card, I wanted to use some of the PLAYING WITH PATTERNS 6″x 6″DSP and stamp my own ‘DSP’ to incorporate into the card.

I used a piece of PURPLE POSY A4 CARDSTOCK for the card base.

Three pieces of DSP, measuring 5″x 1″, were cut and then adhered to the front of the card base. The direction of the design was alternated.

On a piece of Whisper White cardstock, I stamped my own print using Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry and Night of Navy. I also used four of the stamps from the set.

When done, I cut the background piece into strips measuring 5.75″x 1″. These were popped with Stampin’ Dimensionals and alternated as well.

The sentiment was stamped and cut into a thin panel before using a FOAM ADHESIVE STRIP to place it between the bottom two horizontal panels.

Rather than using the PLAYING WITH PATTERNS RESIN DOTS, I chose some HOLIDAY RHINESTONE BASIC JEWELS to add a little sparkle.

I definitely had FUN playing with these patterns!

Hmmm … what do you think?

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this card. If you live in Australia, you can order any of them through me.

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