Such a decision on what retiring product I wanted to get more use out of and highlight on my blog, but finally I settled on this beautiful designer paper from the Occasions Catalog and made this All My Love All-Occasion Card.
In case you haven’t heard, the current Stampin’ Up! catalog is retiring TOMORROW, as is the Occasions 2019 Catalog, so we only have today and tomorrow to make sure we are not leaving any retiring products that we want on the table to be whisked away with the new catalog! The new Stampin’ Up! Catalog should go live around Noon MT (or 1:00 PM Central Time). You will be able to view the new catalog online at that time as well. Ordering from current products will end at 11:50 PM MT Monday night, June 3rd so that’s your deadline!
Even though this All My Love Designer Series Paper might have seemed to be only for Valentine’s Day, given a few sheets have hearts on them, as you can see from the pattern I selected for this card, it can be used in many ways. I love red, so this Lovely Lipstick Red is right up my alley with the red flowers. The leaves are a Soft Sea Foam green, so I used that color cardstock for my layer and found I liked it so much with this paper that I made another card, too, with that color! The little flowers are Balmy Blue so that was another possible choice.
This is a simple card design, just using a card base of Lovely Lipstick (an In Color for one more year) and the Soft Sea Foam layer, then the designer paper. Here is a tip: If you don’t own a coordinating ribbon color, just use a narrow strip of cardstock to appear to be ribbon as I did on this card. I really wasn’t even thinking about it, it was just a scrap I had trimmed off the paper and I saw it laying there!
The greeting is from the coordinating stamp set, also in the Occasions Catalog, Forever Lovely. I stamped it in Lovely Lipstick ink and die cut with the Stitched Shapes dies, then layered it on a die-cut scalloped oval piece of Lovely Lipstick. I cut out some flowers from the paper to add around the greeting, plus had to add a few Rhinestone Jewels! Just because!
This card turned out very pretty. The flowers almost look like they are gold embossed but it is really a Crumb Cake outline. I also brushed some Clear Wink of Stella over the popped up flowers around the greeting. You might be able to tell in the photo that there is a little glimmer on them. Love that stuff!
Be sure to check the Last-Chance products another time today and tomorrow and get your final order in for this current catalog. It seems like it just came out, time goes by so fast, but it’s so exciting to have a new Stampin’ Up! catalog! Don’t forget to check the Discounted Last-Chance Products, too!