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Monochrome Love

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Do you often find that making a masculine card is more difficult than making one for a female recipient? I know I do. I try to set myself a challenge that 1 in every 10 cards must be purposely masculine – this way I’ve always got a masculine card for when I need it. I will confess, it’s no easy challenge.

I start by looking through the Designer Series Paper (DSP) available to me in my collection and pick out any masculine patterns. This particular one is from the Peony Garden DSP and the pattern meant I could let that be the focus of the garden with a simple sentiment to finish it off.

The sentiment is from a great stamp set called ‘Banner Year’, it includes many different images and sentiments to suit all occasions – including the little heart, which is so cute! I then finished it off with my favourite embellishment in this year’s Autumn Winter Catalogue – the iridescent pearls!

What do you think? Do you make many masculine cards?

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Polar Hue

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How cute is this gorgeous Polar Bear? Another animal that I get to colour in with my blends – which makes me happy! He looks so happy skating along there.. To make this card, I chose the Designer Series Paper (DSP) to go with the stamp set & my colours went from there. The DSP contains Highland Heather and Pool Party, so this is the colours I used on my Polar Bear to tie the theme together.

Mounting the DSP onto a piece of Highland Heather, I then used the Stitched So Sweetly dies to create a lovely border for my Polar Bear to make him the central focus on the front, finished off with a beautiful ‘For You’ sentiment.

It’s a very simple card, but a lovely one that could quickly be reproduced – I hope you like it!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Glimmer Snowflakes

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How pretty is this card? I can’t take the credit at all, I only glued the bits down – but the star of the show has to be the Balmy Blue Glimmer paper, its so glittery and a lovely colour. I had to make it the star of the show, so didn’t want to do too much to distract away from the glimmer.

The dies and stamp set form part of the new Snowflake Splendour suite, which has just launched in the new Autumn / Winter Mini Catalogue.  With the addition of a Stitched Rectangle Die, this card was made with a focus on the glimmer paper. The dies are stuck onto the glimmer using the adhesive sheets, I prefer to use them for intricate dies as multi purpose or fine tip glue always find a way to sneak out from under the item and show up on the card front. This way, the adhesive stays hidden – where it should be!

To finish off the card, I used matching Balmy Blue ink and the Blue Adhesive Backed Gems, bringing a little bit of bling to the card. I absolutely love it and I’m so happy the photograph was able to show the glitter on the background.

Are you going to invest in the suite?

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Triangular Shades of Purple

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Happy Hump Day to you all! I hope you are all keeping safe and well? Today, I wanted to showcase some dies recently introduced in the Annual Catalogue. I love basic shapes – squares, circles, rectangles – and we have a lot of these available as dies with stitched effect too. However, we didn’t have any triangles until now..

At first I wasn’t too sure how I was going to use them, but I knew I wanted them to be purple and not used around a sentiment. In the end, I kept playing with their positioning and this is what I came up with. I love the differing shades of purple and how they work with one another – another reason to use Stampin’ Up! colours.

I then finished the card off with the ‘Lovely You’ stamp set and kept the card neutral from any event, with a touch of Crumb Cake ink to highlight the floral stamp used. I hope you like this as much as I do?!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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August – December Mini Catalogue Sneak Peek

Eeeek! New product alert!

Thank you to those of you who took the time to watch my Facebook Live stream and show your support when showcasing some of the new products coming up in the new August – December 2020 Mini Catalogue.

I’ve managed to save the video and upload it to my Youtube channel for you to re-watch at your own leisure.

I will be live again on Friday 10th July at 7:30pm with another fun project!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne