Up, Up and Away

Continuing the retired stamp theme... I saw a very similar card on Pinterest and decided it would be fun to pull this retired stamp set out and CASE it. There were lots of steps since you have to stamp the ballons and fussy cut, cut the scallop square behind the scene, freehand cut the hillside, adhere to the white card square, run that piece through the Big Shot embossing folder, emboss the Pistachio Pudding cardstock through the embossing folder, then layer all the various pieces, remembering to add the lace trim, punch the little posies and adhere with glue dots and add the pearls. Whew! But such a pretty card!

Cute Little Fold

I saw a very similar card on Pinterest.  Stampin' Up's! Designer Series Paper is two-sided and makes this card so easy to make. The stamp sets used are Field of Flowers and Teeny Tiny Wishes. Field of Flowers has become my favorite set from this year's Sale-A-Bration. If you want it you have to hurry... Sale-A-Bration 2016 ends tomorrow!

Another Card Using Happy Home

This card also uses the Happy Home stamp set and the Heart and Home Thinlits. I also used the other thinlit in the set to make the window sill planter. The flowers were punched using the punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack and the leaves are punched using the Owl Builder punch. I used my white chalk marker on the clouds and placed everything on top of card stock that was run through the Big Shot suing the Brick Wall Textured Embossing Folder.

Retired Products

I always wind up with some retired Designer Series Paper because you get so much in a pack. Last week as I was online searching for a card layout/design I saw a sample on Linda Heller's Stamping School site that used the Flirtatious pack from several years ago. I knew I had some of it. When I pulled the pack I realized I had never used a single sheet of the paper. I'm that way sometimes when something is especially pretty; I can't decide how to use it or want to save it for something really special. It's a habit I'm trying to break!
So, since my card inventory is at an all time low. I challenged myself to use the entire pack of paper. Two days and 40 cards and envelope liners later I thought I was done. But on the third day when I was cleaning up my work space I found two more good sized scraps of DSP under my paper trimmer. So, I got a sat down and made two more cards and cut liners to coordinate. I don't put my liners in envelopes until I'm ready to send them.
If you don't make liners for your envelopes you can get a lot more cards out of a pack of DSP.

 This is my attempt at the card I found on Linda Heller's site. It is pretty but almost too many elements for me; so tomorrow I'll share another card I made by scaling back on the elements.