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A BIG THANK YOU CARD

Hello and welcome to each of you. Thanks for popping by to see what I’ve been up to.

Today I wanted to share a ‘slimline’ card that I’ve made. Don’t be mistaken in thinking that it’s a small card; it’s actually 8-1/2″ long and 4″ wide. I made it this size so that I could use the new Thanks and Hello Embossing Folder and the Biggest Wish Stamp Set.

I used my Stamparatus to stamp the large ‘thanks’ greeting around all four corners of the card. The embossed panel was made by using the folder to emboss all three cardstock colours. These were then cut into pieces that allowed me to overlay and adhere each of them at 2″ intervals.

The tricolour panel was popped up over the centre of the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I used a length of the Real Red Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, from the Playful Pets Trim Combo Pack, to tie a bow. I did think about adding some Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels but then thought it might be too much – what do you think?

The Biggest Wish Stamp Set is going to be so versatile. I love the combination of the big, bold upper case font and the lovely, looping lower case font in this set. I’m looking forward to creating some more projects using it.

Is this set on your wishlist? How would you use it?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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SKETCH CHALLENGE

Hello and welcome to another Wednesday Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop. Thank you for joining me, and the other wonderful Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators taking part.

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This week’s theme is a SKETCH CHALLENGE. The sketch comes from Pagemaps.com – #bfpsketch121 #cardmaps

This is the first Sketch Challenge I have ever done. This is such a terrific layout for using yp scraps.

May be an image of food and text that says 'sentiment ©pagemaps'

I dusted off my PLAYFUL PETS SUITE for this project.

The sketch looks like it has washi tape strips. I decided to ‘replace’ the washi tape with a strip of vellum, a fussy cut cat and a dangling bone.

Phew – there were eight different designs, amongst the PLAYFUL PETS DSP, that I could use to match the sketch.

Although I am not a cat ‘person’, I do find this sinister cat adorable. Fortunately the mice are well out of reach.

To switch things up a bit, I thought that I would make a second card in portrait style.

Oops – I didn’t even notice the Dimensional backing had drifted onto the card!

I used the DSP strips in the same order but in different widths. Then I fussy cut cat and dogs to pop onto the card front, instead of washi tape. I gave the centre dog a cute bow.

For the card insert and envelope, I used a few more strips of DSP to finish off the project.

Make sure you pop acroos to see what the others have created:

I’m rather chuffed with the way the cards turned out. I have from now until April 1st to make sure that I have used every stamp set and coordinating product in my collection – my goal before I will ‘let’ myself place a preorder from the new 2021-2022 ANNUAL CATALOGUE.

How many stamp sets do have that you have not used yet?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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SWEET TREATS

I can’t believe that I missed these new acetate boxes when I first looked at the 2020-2021 ANNUAL CATALOGUE.

They are perfect for holding a set of 3″x 3″ cards and envelopes.

I decided to use the LITTLE TREATS STAMP SET and LITTLE TREAT BOXES DIES for this project – a gift box of small greeting cards and a gift box with a small box of Smarties.

I used all the 2020-2022 IN COLOURS – BUMBLEBEE, CINNAMON CIDER, JUST JADE, MAGENTA MADNESS and MISTY MOONLIGHT.

This was a fun project and it will make a great little gift for someone special.

Who would you give a gift, like this, to?

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

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

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00