What a treat to get my pre-order of the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog products! And this Countryside Inn Thinking of You Card is the first time using any of the new products. Demonstrators could order just certain products from the new catalog so we could begin getting acquainted with some of the new things and especially new colors in this catalog, coming May 2! Get ready!

I’ve spent a lot of time this weekend getting some things ready for myself to be prepared with the new colors and getting some things ready to send to my customers who should be getting catalogs hopefully this week! So this card is the first thing I have actually made with anything new that I just got!

I chose just a simple design for this Countryside Inn Thinking of You Card – card base, two patterns of designer paper on the front, a greeting, and a couple of embellishments. The card base is the new In Color, Boho Blue cardstock. Then I cut one sheet of the new Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper to fit on the card. I chose one in the back of the package that you probably haven’t seen as much. This paper coordinates with four colors of blues! Those are Boho Blue, Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight, and Night of Navy. I cut a 4″ wide piece of designer paper, but I played with it a little bit to have one of the flowers sort of centered on the card front and the other two mostly showing on the sides. I liked the balance! Otherwise, I might have had two flowers and one cut off or something! The striped pattern on the bottom is on the opposite side of the top paper! I wanted those stripes going vertically, so I had to cut the paper a little more to get them going in the right direction! The flowery piece is 4″ x 5 1/4″ as usual and the striped piece is 1 1/2″ x 5 1/4″.

I used the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (retired) because I don’t have any of the new ribbons yet and really, I think this ribbon looks good on this card! I may have more ribbon hiding under my piles of stuff, but this is the best I could do. I tied the bow separately and used two pieces of ribbon to make it a little fuller. I really like the long tails that I left, too!

For the greeting, I jumped over to the new Circle Sayings Bundle. This Bundle comes with the new 2 3/8″ Circle Punch and a stamp set of greetings and images that you can use a lot and will fit on that 2 3/8″ circle! At first, I thought I would use the Boho Blue punched circle as a layer and stamp on a Basic White piece of cardstock and punch out with a smaller circle punch. But when I saw how the Boho Blue ink looked on the cardstock, I liked it even with no layer. For some added interest, I stamped the flowers again on Basic White and cut out three to decorate the center of that circle. Then I also added some Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels to some of the flower centers. The whole circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The paper designs in this Countryside Inn pack are really pretty and my favorite is probably the one with a little bunny on it! What cute baby cards we can make with that design or even cards for children!

There’s so much to take in with a new Stampin’ Up! catalog, new products delivered to your door, and a Color Refresh to get straight in your mind! But it’s all fun, and we all know there’s nothing better than a new Stampin’ Up! catalog…..unless it’s the box of new products that are IN the catalog!

Don’t forget to shop the Last Chance List of the outgoing Annual Catalog and the Spring Mini!

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