Saying "farewell" with Pierced Blooms Dies

 Hello Crafty Friends! 

This week I'm showing you a little project that I worked on to give away as a keep-sake for a co-worker that will be leaving our team. 

The Pierced Bloom Dies are one of those sets of dies that can be used all by themselves without any stamping necessary and that is exactly what I did for the 3"x3" cards for this project.

It may be hard to tell from the image above that all of the die cuts have a pierced outline. When the 2021 Mini Catalog came out I completely missed this and was shocked when I saw samples of these dies being used.

Even though a lot of the Mini catalog products are retiring, thankfully, the Pierced Blooms dies and the coordinating In Bloom stamp set is in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog, so you can get this set if you haven't done so already.

I paired some of the new In-Colors with the Gilded Leafing to make a set of 20- 3"x3" cards. These are then stored in the Scalloped Kraft Treat Box as shown below.

Cardmaking Tips:

• Use Basic White Thick cardstock for the card bases. The finished size is 3"x3", which is a 3" x 6" piece of cardstock scored at 3".
• Cut a 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" piece of Basic white cardstock and adhere two strips of Tear and Tape Adhesive then place some gold Gilded Leafing using a dry paint brush. As you can see in the image below, it's a little messy but the leafing sticks very well with no problems. I find this process satisfying, LOL.

• Cut out different pieces of leaves from the Pierced Blooms Dies using Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. Cut out pieces of flowers from Pale Papaya and Fresh Freesia cardstock.
• Arrange and adhere the flowers and leaves onto the Basic White piece of cardstock. Adhere onto the Basic white card base using dimensionals. A few close-up samples below.

• The box came together rather quickly using the Scalloped Kraft Treat Boxes, a few flowers, leaves, a white stitched circle and some white twine. 

• The sentiment "Especially for you" is from the Little Treats retired stamp set from the 2020 Holiday catalog. I created the name "Lani" using the retired Make a Difference stamp set from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. Both sentiments were gold embossed.

Products List: 

Click on the following link for a full list of the products I used on this project: https://s.tamp.in/pF1AeS 

Please note the following products are retired and not in the product list: 

Stamps - Little Treats, Make a Difference

Dies - Stitched Shapes 

This is all I have for you this week. Let me know if you've played with the Pierced Blooms dies for your projects! I'd love to know what you think about them.

Until next time... 

#TGIFC309 - DSP with the 'In Bloom' stamp set & Gilded Leafing

 Hello Crafty Friends!

I'm returning for another fun blog post inspired by this week's TGIF Challenges #309 -  a designer take-over. Tanya Rees has challenged us to stamp your own DSP (designer series paper). 

I've been itching to use my In Bloom Bundle and so this was a good opportunity to do it!

I decided to create a flowery DSP and add a little shine and pizzaz with my Gilded Leafing. This was done on an 8.5" x 11" piece of Basic White Cardstock.

You can watch my video below on how I did this.

As for the final product using my DSP, I put together a 3" x  3" card with a matching Curvy Keepsake box. I'm LOVING the spring colors, especially the purple hues of Purple Posy and Highland Heather!

TIPS on making the Card:

>> Finished dimension: 3" x 3".

>> The "DSP" was cut to 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" and matted with a 3" x 6" piece of Purple Posy cardstock.

>> I lengthened the stitched frame by using the technique where you partially cut the Purple Posy cardstock with the die twice. See instructions below. ** The important thing to note is that the top cutting plate needs to be fed into the Stampin' Cut machine first. Otherwise, you will have problems with the die moving or not advancing at all if you feed it with the die edge first.

>> Use the Springtime Joy stamp set for the sentiment and the little butterfly.

>> The little butterfly was colored with the Seaside Spray (for wings), Highland Heather (for dots on wings), Old Olive (for body) Stampin' Blends.

>> cut two stitched flowers and curl the petals of one of the flowers then layer with a dimensional for some extra dimension.

>> the inside of the card was kept simple. I cut out one of the flowers that I stamped to create the DSP and adhered it to a 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" piece of basic white cardstock.

TIPS on making the Box:

>> I used the regular-sized Curvy Keepsake box dies, but if you hurry, you can purchase the Mini Curvy keepsake dies since they're retiring.

>> The tag was created very similar to the mini card. Only difference is that I stamped "welcome spring" from the Springtime Joy stamp set and punched it out with the Classic Label punch, which is also retiring (arghh...). I cut the label between the two words then adhered as shown. 

>> finish off the box by tying the tag with some white twine and a piece of 1/2" white faux linen ribbon.

Product List

Click on the following link to view the full list of products used for this project, except for the Purple Posy cardstock which is not orderable: https://s.tamp.in/-l0TlI 

Retiring Products

If you would like to see what products are retiring from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog, check out my blog post here or head over to my Online Store.

This is all I have for you this week! I do hope you're inspired to create your own DSP with whatever stamp set you own! I'd love to hear from you so leave me a note in the comments below.

Until Next Time...