A Gift from the Garden or Stampin' Up!

I'm trying to make a few non Christmas cards but it is difficult as the temptation is to try to be organised this year for the festive season, but why change the habit of a life time.  That said with Stampin' Up! having such a fab deal on designer series papers at the moment it's foolish not to take them up on it and get 4 packs of selected papers for the price of 3.  Hence I'm using some Blooms and Bliss paper here with Stampin' Up! set Gift From the Garden.  Love the Wellies and wish I had more tidy calves to fit in something so pretty as these.  

The colours in this paper pack include island indigo, mint macaron, sahara sand, blushing bride, sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry.  A beautiful combo if I say so myself.

I've also had chance to use my new Stampin' Up! Lots of Labels framelits and Classic Label punch for the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments a craft room staple like salt & pepper to your pantry! 

Have a great week and don't forget this fab paper offer saving you £10.

Zx

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From the Garden

Just a quick post today to share a Happy Anniversary wish with my brother and sister in law.  We celebrate our anniversary's just a week apart, but we were a few years earlier.

Blushing Bride is such a lovely shade of pink and I find it is often one of my go to colours.  Here it's the base for my card featuring stamps from the Stampin' Up! set From the Garden and also papers from the set called English Garden which are absolutely beautiful.

Happy Anniversary Pete and Jude. We wish you a special day.

Hugs Zx

Stampin' Up! Reflection Technique Tip

It's Happy Birthday to our lovely neighbour Dawn today.  She loves her garden and so I've made a card using one of my favourite sets from the Stampin' Up! UK annual catalogue, From the Garden. 

It's such a cute set and perfect for anyone who enjoys their garden.  My friend Mikaela made a fab gift set for her friend's birthday recently and you can see it and find out more here on the Stampin' Up! website.  She bought the set especially to make a gift for her friend who's surname is Spice! 

You'll find that blackberry bliss and mint macaron work really well together from our Stampin'  Up! in colour ranges.  To give some depth to a card like this you can stamp twice in order that you can cut out the plant pots and add them over your original stamped image with stampin' dimensionals to give some depth.  I've also added some epoxy stickers to give more detail.  

I wanted to add the watering can from the stamp set, but wanted it the opposite way around so to do this I stamped the image onto my Stampin' Up Stamp-a-ma-jig imaging sheet and then carefully turned it over the add the ink that stays on the sheet to my card.  Hence you'll see it's a muted image but is just enough to be seen subtly on my card.

I've also stamped another sentiment inside the card which came from Butterfly Basics another current favourite of mine, along with the welly boots from the garden set.  

I've gift wrapped her present in the same colours so it makes a lovely combination.  

Happy Birthday Aunty Dawn as she's known in our house!

Remember you can visit my Stampin' Up! Online Shop to take a closer look at these beautiful stamp sets.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! 

Zx