Gift of Love for FMS239

This week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge gave me the inspiration to make a super-sweet “thinking of you card” for a friend.  While I strayed a bit from the sketch to fit the pieces where they needed to go, the overall inspiration is still there.  Here’s my sweet-and-simple card:

And here’s the banner created by my kind and talented friend, Cindy Hall, for this week’s challenge:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Three Quick-and-Easy Steps.  Boy, oh, boy!  I love this bushel of gladiolas.  The stamp set, Gift of Love, is one of many Host Sets you can earn with Stampin’ Rewards.  It only takes three quick-and-easy steps to create this beautiful image.  I stamped the outline in Archival Basic Black, stamped the flowers in Blushing Bride and stamped the leaves in Mint Macaron.  No messy watercoloring to create a beautiful, watercolored look – I like it!  If you missed the first card I made with this set, you can see it here.  Here’s a look at this amazing set:
  

  Gift of Love Host set, Stampin’ Up!

• Three Stamp Offerings.  You likely already know that Stampin’ Up! offers three types of stamps – wood-mount rubber, clear-mount rubber and photopolymer.  Stamps are generally offered in either (a) photopolymer or (b) your choice of clear-mount rubber or wood-mount rubber.  Did you know that some of the stamps in the Annual Catalog are offered in all three types of stamps?  Butterfly Basics (the sentiment and small butterfly showcased in my card today) is one of those sets.  Here’s a list of the stamps offered in all three stamp types (you can click on the stamp names to see the photopolymer version of the stamp):
  • Crazy About You #138856 (wood), #138859 (clear), #137137 (photopolymer)
  • Butterfly Basics #138813 (wood), #138816 (clear), #137154 (photopolymer)
  • Guy Greetings #138825 (wood), #138828 (clear), #137178 (photopolymer)
• A Little Pop of Black.  Let’s just agree that Mint Macaron and Blushing Bride were made for one another, OK?  Thanks.  While the colors pair perfectly, it’s the thin borders of black around the flowers and the panels on this card that make these sweet and soft colors pop.  If you like these colors together, too, feel free to save this:

Stamp Sets:  Gift of Love, Butterfly Basics  Papers:  Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Basic Black, Whisper White  Inks:  Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Archival Basic Black  Accessories:  2″ Circle punch, Circles Collection Framelits (retired), Bitty Butterfly punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals

I hope you’ll pop over to Freshly Made Sketches to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

Stamp Sale and Open House.  I’m hosting a sale of my retired stamps, punches, dies, papers and accessories on Saturday, June 11 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Doors will open at 9am and will close between noon and 1pm.  I hope that all of my retired items will have found new homes during those hours.  🙂  Please email me at [email protected] for more information or directions.Trying to Narrow Down Your Wish List?  I’ve shared two days of My Favorite Things from Stampin’ Up!’s 2016 Annual Catalog.  Perhaps my lists can help you narrow down your choices?  You can check them out here and here.

Do you like free stamps?  You’ll earn two from stamp sets when you buy Stampin’ Up!’s Starter Kit in June.  What a great way to check off your wish list of the items you already want!  Click on the picture below to read more about this awesome promotion.   

Earn $35 Additional Stampin’ Rewards in June.  Yippee!  With qualifying orders of $35o or more, you can earn an additional $35 of Stampin’ Rewards to spend on whatever you want.  Click on the picture below to read more about this great promotion.