It’s new Stampin’ Up!® Mini catalogue time! And I have a beautiful stamp set from the new Jan-June Mini Catalogue to show you today. The set is called In The Moment and is in the same style as other popular sets we’ve had such as Beautiful Moments and Beautiful You. It’s a very popular style with good reason – the images are beautiful and so satisfying to colour in.
Browse the new Jan-June Mini Catalogue here
There are three images in the set but
so far I have only used the lady reading her book in bed with her canine
companion, probably because that matches my winter mood!
I made this slimline card for my lovely friend Mrs B, whose birthday was yesterday. She loves reading and has a beautiful whippet but this pup is the nearest I could find. I made this card to fit one of our gorgeous new slimline envelopes, and decorated it with a panel of Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper to match the Pale Papaya background.
The image is coloured using Stampin’ Blends, which I don’t use often enough, and the gold elements are from the Expressions in Ink Ephemera Pack... including the scalloped strip which I cut from the leftover pieces using the new Brilliant Rainbow Dies.
The standard-sized cards were inspired by US Stampin’ Up!® demonstrator Chelsey Christensen, who demoed a similar card at a demo event towards the end of last year. I made mine as part of my demonstration at my annual Twixmas Party last week. This was held on Zoom and guests could vote on various elements to help me create the card.
To begin with they voted to use the image of the lady reading her book... which is another reason all my projects are made with this design! I was glad they did though, as it gave me the opportunity to show them how fab it looks with the paper piecing technique.
I stamped the image once on the Very Vanilla circle and again directly onto this Pale Papaya piece of Designer Series Paper with its delicate polka dot pattern. The DSP image was cut out and pieced on top of the Very Vanilla circle so the duvet cover and pillows could feature this pretty dotted design.
After I’d coloured the image and stuck the DSP down, I went around the edges with a Blending Brush and some Pale Papaya ink.
This
Designer Series Paper is from our fabulous new Sale-a-Bration
collection and is called Daffodil Afternoon; it features bold floral
illustrations on one side of the papers, with more subtle designs on the
reverse.
Browse the Sale-a-Bration brochure here
For the torn rectangular panel, I gave guests a choice
of the dark green side with its lush foliage, or the reverse pattern of
delicate green hearts. They chose the little hearts, as I suspected
they would, so I had already created a version using the darker side to
show them, too.
Underneath this is a panel of new vellum called Layering Designs. This features black and white printed designs, including this fine print which I’ve used in white across the base of the card, and in black as a tiny element beneath the greeting.
On
this version of the card, I coloured some silver Simply Elegant Trim
using a dark Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blend. To be honest, while this
works well, I don’t think it did my marker much good so I would only use
this technique in small doses – and be very gentle if you do try it.
This version of the card uses linen thread because I didn’t want to go down the colouring route again and, frankly, linen thread goes with everything.
If you are in the UK and would like to order, please
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