Beatiful and Anything but Ordinary

Back to team swaps with Dawn’s thank you card. Stampin’ Up! is so good at the matchy-matchy with multiple patterns in designer series paper packs, aligning colours on both sides of the paper so well. Dawn chose varying sizes of rectangles to show this off beautifully leaving a little space in between for the card base in Balmy Blue to shine through. One great way to use up small scraps of your patterned papers. I particularly like how there are a few cut from the Perennial Postage dies thrown in for accent. Enjoy!

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Birthday Balloon Festoon

Have you tried this? For today’s card, I flipped my embossing layer over to display the debossed side for a change. I think it works really well with the Swirls of Magic folder and definitely worth a try with other folders. Looks great, eh? I’d originally planned 5 or 6 balloons and a greeting, then landed on a heat embossed birthday greeting on the largest. Such a cheery card!

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Floral Vignette as a background stamp in Crisp Cantaloupe

Is this patterned paper on the card front? Nope! That’s the collage stamping using Crisp Cantaloupe ink on Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock. Results in a subtle design as a great background for the greeting. I used my cut-apart Floral Vignette single stamp. Yes you read that correctly! I cut the floral image out of the frame to expand its use. Fits right on the Clear Block E or your Stampin' Positioner. This is a layout to tuck away in your ideas folder for a quick card design. Enjoy!

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Two-Tone Cardstock versatility

Have you tried our Two-Tone cardstock yet? I was a little late to the party on this but since I started last month….I’m really enjoying the rustic look . Two-tone cardstock has a white core and each side is a slightly different tone of the same colour. Embossing breaks down the fibres then adding a wee bit of sanding really takes that to a new level. On this one I stamped one side of the Secret Sea two-tone paper with its coordinating ink, they embossed and sanded the other side. Give this idea a try!

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Front pop out fun fold with Sweet Bugs

Two pics today showing the front and the inside of this great fun fold card created by my daughter (and team member) Michelle for the August swap. What an amazing card for showing off coordinating patterned paper and displaying on a shelf. Must get all the measurements <wink> for the pop out feature. Love this!

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