Holly Berry Christmas with Stampin' Up!

I host a daytime class every Tuesday - we call it Crafty Tuesday so I am always designing cards that use different Stampin' Up! products and themes. It is such a fun class  and the ladies will try anything I give them!

This week we used a combination of Holly Berry Happiness stamp set and the Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies. I purchased both of these products in Bundles  (saving myself 10% on the price) and therefor have stamps and framelits to match each. I love to demonstrate how versatile and coordinated products from Stampin' Up! can be by mixing and matching different products.

With Christmas on my mind, we made this card. 

It uses papers from the Warmth & Cheer Paper Stack and  the Christmas  Specialty DSP along with the stamps and Thinlits, plus Burlap Ribbon and I've added some retired Seam Binding.

Techniques include: torn edges, stamping off, Wink of Stella (gold) and layering of different elements. It is so much fun to see the variations the class achieves - they are a talented group.

 We fussy cut the Holly Branches and the greeting is stamped using Memento Black Ink.

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Happy Stamping

Vanilla Rhapsody

Last night, after struggling with a project for my next workshop (frames) I had the urge to make a card in Vanilla and Black. "Keep it simple!" I told myself but.... see for yourself what happened.

I set  the task of using just Vanilla and Black inks, papers and embellishments and found it fun to work with  a sophisticated colour range, but instead of the simple card I envisioned at the onset, I ended up combining stamps from 4 different Stampin' Up!® sets - 2 currently available and 2 retired.

I decided to follow the sketch from Midnight Madness challenge MMSC#90 and have used masking to overlay images. Colouring has been done with a blender pen and ink and the thick "ribbon" is a strip of DSP from the beautiful "Love Letter" DSP in the Idea Book  and Catalogue. The thinner ribbon is 3.2 mm Taffeta  - Basic Black.

The textured border is created with the "Square Lattice" Embossing folder, available in the Summer Mini  (page 17) and I've hand drawn a black line around the image to define this area. 

The flowers and butterfly are raised on dimensionals, and I've added Basic Pearls as embellishments.

The entire card front has been spritzed with home made shimmer mist, giving it a lovely subtle sheen.

Thanks for stopping by. As always your comments are welcome, and until next time

- Stay Crafty!