This Lovely Inside and Out Multicolored Thinking of You Card will certainly brighten up your day with the colors I chose! This is one of the stamp sets that is retiring, but I haven’t stamped with very much.  So sad!

What I was really interested in when I bought this Lovely Inside and Out Bundle was the Lovely Words Thinlits Dies.  You can use these dies in many ways, either like I did on the front of this card, just cutting out the word and shape out of a piece of rectangular paper. Or you can cut the word out by itself. You could have used another heart die on the outside of this die to make it an outline heart with the word inside.

Remember, Bundles in the current catalog will all retire as “Bundles”….in some cases, the stamp set and dies will continue on in the new catalog but separately (as there will be Bundles of the new products in the new catalog). In this case, with the Lovely Inside and Out Bundle, the stamp set and dies are all actually retiring, not just the Bundle configuration. So if you want to save 10% on any Bundles in the current catalog or Occasions Catalog, get them now and save 10% before May 31.

This card has a card base of Powder Pink. The Whisper White layer is stamped with two In Colors, Powder Pink and Lemon Lime Twist plus  some So Saffron thrown in for a third color.  The stamp set is called Lovely Inside and Out.  The die cut piece is layered over a piece of Lemon Lime Twist, but to add a little interest in the background, I stamped the scattered dot image in the stamp set, even stamping off first (when I remembered!!). This would make a great shaker card, too, but I was making something simple.  For a bit of bling, I used some Tutti-Fruitti Adhesive-Backed Sequins.  

You could use this card to send just as a “happy” card to send to a friend or someone you know. You never know who could really use a card on the day that it arrives in their mailbox! They won’t care if it is a simple card, just that you thought of them.

Remember, don’t wait too long on retiring products that you want, especially the ones you REALLY want!  Or ask me if something is showing as “Low Inventory” so you can get your order in right away.

Here are the products that are already sold out as of early this morning:

Make some “happy” cards today and mail them out to people!  Whether you hear back or not (and you probably will!) you will have the satisfaction of brightening someone’s day, not to mention the good therapy stamping cards will be for you! Use this Lovely Inside and Out Multicolored Thinking of You Card as your inspiration!

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One of the fun new products in the Occasions Catalog are the Narrow Note Cards & Envelopes, so I made these Petal Palette Narrow Note Cards and Envelopes using the Petal Passion Designer Paper and the Petal Palette Stamp Set.

These Narrow Note Cards and Envelopes are just the right size for some stamping fun! I used a sample in the catalog for inspiration (that means to copy!) I cut a piece of the Petal Passion Designer Paper just a tiny bit smaller than the note card to layer on top.  Then I stamped some flowers from the Petal Palette Stamp Set, colored them in, and die cut with the Petals & More Thinlits Dies.  I also die cut a Whisper White circle with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies for a background for the flowers.  The flowers on the note cards on the left and rght are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The note card in the middle is simply stamped, no die-cutting! I stamped the flowers, colored in with Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen. I’ve loved the Blender Pens since I started buying from Stampin’ Up! as a customer!  So they have been around almost forever! Trying to blend the bluish background I had scribbled in, though, was making my paper pill a tiny bit since I was just using Whisper White so Blender Pens are really perfect for smaller areas, like the flowers and leaves, unless you use some other kind of paper, like Watercolor Paper or Shimmery White Paper.

The note card with the blue flowers is colored with Stampin’ Blends markers.  These markers were taken out of the Online Store temporarily. due to supply issues. Hopefully they will be back around the time of the new catalog Fingers crossed! The greeting from the Petal Palette Stamp Set is stamped and then the words cut apart to adhere them on the card. I don’t often think of doing a greeting this way, but it’s a cute idea, something different!

The note card with the pink flowers is colored with a drop of ink refill and my Aqua Painter.  That really is almost all you need for coloring, is a drop or two of ink refill.  You can put that drop in the ink pad lid, on an acrylic block, or on top of the stamp case. The just pick up the ink with the Aqua Painter (make sure you don’t have too much water coming out of your Aqua Painter.  Wipe it off on a towel if you do.) and color.  I love using the Aqua Painter.  You get two in the package.  One has a larger brush and one a smaller brush.  I almost always use the smaller brush.

So even without the Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, there are other ways to color with Stampin’ Up! products.  It just depends on which method you prefer!

And don’t forget to stamp a few leaves on the note card envelopes!  Remember, these note cards are too small to mail in these envelopes, they are more suited to put with a gift in person or just hand to someone  However, you could also put the narrow note card in a larger envelope and mail. There are always choices!

Shop Stampin’ Up! Online for all sorts of stamps, paper, ink and accessories for your papercrafting projects. Use my ideas with these Petal Palette Narrow Note Cards and Envelopes to make some cards of your own!

One of the prettiest products in the Occasions Catalog this spring is the Petal Passion Suite with which I made this Petal Passion Black and White All-Occasion Card.  I have seen so many beautiful cards made with the products in this suite!  It all has that watercolored look, so popular right now!

I had actually already colored this flower on one of the patterns from the Petal Passion Designer Series Paper awhile back.  I used the Stampin’ Blends markers, which unfortunately are not available right now, but hopefully will return maybe in June. You don’t have to have those markers to duplicate this card, though, just use another coloring technique such as the Watercolor Pencils, ink pad and Sponge Daubers, ink refills and Aqua Painter.  You can read the post about my coloring therapy with this paper HERE.

When I saw in my package of Petal Passion papers that I had already colored this flower, I just cut it out and cut the leaves off separately. I chose the white polka dot paper in the collection as the top card layer and layered it on Rich Razzleberry Cardstock since that was what color I had made the flower.

I adhered the flower to the cardfront with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up a little bit and adhered the leaves just flat to the card with Snail Adhesive. For a little pizzazz I found a small  gold doily in the package of Metallic Foil Doilies and cut it in half. Then I adhered each half behind the two sides of the flower.

The greeting is from the Petal Palette Stamp Set.  I think it is such a sweet saying.  It is stamped and then die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and layered on a larger scalloped Layering Oval Die. You could put almost any greeting on this card.  It would suit a lot of occasions.

You will love the stamp set and designer paper in the Petal Passion Suite, not to mention the Petals & More Thinlits Dies.  I always forget about these dies for some reason! Order the products you want from this Suite in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and make some cards like this Petal Passion Black and White All-Occasion Card.