Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack and the Perfect Pennants Stamp Set.

I received the Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack in my order this week and I love the colour combo.
I immediately thought of the Circle Thinlets and the Banner Blast Punch and had to get crafting to put together some thank you cards for my customers.
The colours in the papers are Coastal Cabana, Real Red, and Crumb Cake.
The Scalloped Circle and the star are included with the Circle Thinlets. I cut the star out of Red Glimmer Cardstock for a bit of extra bling!

The thx sentiment is also in the pack of Circle Thinlets and gives a quick greeting on the card.

I then got out my new Perfect Pennants Stamp Set and the matching Banners Framelits dies and made the above card. The tiny heart and star accent stamps are in the Banner Blast set which is one of the Saleabration items that you can get free with a £45 order until March 31st.
The thin zig zag border on the left hand side was cut out of Coastal Cabana Cardstock using one of the Finishing Touches Edgelits. This one is very useful for Men's cards.

Here is a picture of the Wood Mount Perfect Pennants Stamp Set. When Monica came over to do a training day in January I put the stickers and stamps on the wood mount blocks for her and then we could not remember how they fitted into the box as it was a very tight squeeze. So this photo is for the benefit of those who have the same problem as I have now found the solution.

Peaceful Petals 2

I am amazed at how versatile the Peaceful Petals Stamp Set is. I was asked to make a Sympathy Card this week and immediately I knew which stamp set I would use. I really enjoyed using the Blender Pen with Elegant Eggplant and Almost Amethyst (retired) ink pads. The base for the card is Elegant Eggplant and the mount for the Chalk Talk Tag is Certainly Celery.
The sentiment is from the Close as a Memory Stamp Set which retired a while ago. Taffeta Ribbon,glitter pen and some pearls added the final embellishment.

On this card I stamped with Black Stazon on to Watercolour Paper and then coloured the flowers in using an Aqyuapainter. I splattered the Tangerine Tango background with water from an Aquapainter!

On this card I stamped three flowers, painted them with an Aquapainter and then cut them out in ever decreasing sizes. I then layered them up with Dimensionals to give the 3D effect.
The leaves were cut out of Gumball Green Cardstock using the Bird Builder Punch.
The Window Frame Framelits provided the background for the sentiment which came from the same stamp set.
The DSP is the Watercolour DSP from the Spring/Summer Seasonal Catalogue.

Peaceful Petals

These cards were made using the Peaceful Petals Stamp Set which is also in the new Spring / Summer Stampin Up Catalogue.
I embossed both cards using the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder which is one of the free Saleabration Products you can choose with a £45 order.

Here is another flower from the Peaceful Petals set. I stamped it on to a tag which I die cut using the Chalk Talk Framelits. I cut a mount for it from Coastal Cabana Card Stock and added some Coastal Cabana Ruffled Ribbon. The Thank You sentiment is from the same set. There is also a Thinking of You sentiment.
I used one of the stamps from the Background Builders set for the decorative edge on the left hand side.

Happy Watercolour Cards.

The first page to leap out at me from the new Stampin Up Spring / Summer Catalogue was page 22 with the Happy Watercolour Stamp Set and the pack of 20 Watercolour Wonder Designer Note Cards and Envelopes. There are two examples of the Designer Note Cards above. I stamped on them using Stazon Ink and then enjoyed using an Aquapainter and ink pads to colour in the flowers. I embellished them with three gold sequins from the reel of Gold Sequin Trim.

This is one of the cards which we made at our Training day recently. It was designed by Monica Gale.
The base card is Pistachio Pudding stamped with the dotty stamp from the Happy Watercolour set. It was stamped on a Tag which had already been punched out using the new Scalloped Tag Topper Punch.
The Lattice framework at the back of the card was taken from Simply Fabulous Simply Sent Kit from the Annual Catalogue on page 161. If you look carefully you will also see a piece of the Saleabration Sweet Sorbet paper. and some Calypso Coral Ruffled Ribbon.