Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you a very pretty card featuring the To a Wild Rose Stamp Set from Stampin' Up!. The To a Wild Rose stamp Set is the Million Dollar Achiever set Inspired by Mary Ellen Byler. Once a demonstrator hits a Million Dollars in sales they get to go to the home office in Riverton Utah for a special trip and they get to help design a stamp set. Isn't that just the coolest thing. Mary Ellen has spoken about her set and how it was inspired by her Grandmother who always grew roses. I thought that little story and the stamp set both was so cute and wonderful. It made me want this set even more; not that I didn't already want it when I saw it in the catalog. And, it was a three step stamp set plus matching dies; it was a no brainier. Here's a look at my card.
Like I said before this stamp set is super cute and so easy to stamp. I just used my clear blocks to stamp the images on my project today, but if you want exact placement you will want to use the stamparatus. My colors for today's project are Pineapple Punch, Old Olive and Early Espresso. I have created a little graphic for you to pin to Pinterest so you don't have to try to remember what I used.
I started off by stamping the most solid image of the rose but before I stamped it on my project I had to stamp off one time to get the excess ink off. I wanted it to be a very light shade of Pineapple Punch. The next layer (the next solid rose stamp) was stamped at full strength. The outline image was stamped with just Early Espresso. For the leaves I only stamped with the second solid image full on straight from the ink pad in Old Olive. And, the out line in Early Espresso. Once I had the three flowers and leaves done on my card front I then stamped a few extras so I could cut out using the matching Wild Rose Dies. If want this set make sure you get it with the Cost saving bundle code in the catalog or in my online store. Why not save that extra 10%.
Before I stamped the Blessed and Grateful Stamps I laid out my die cut rose and leaves to make sure I had the perfect placement. Once I was sure I did I stamped the Blessed first in Early Espresso and then stamped the and Grateful sentiment under it and slightly to the right of the card front.
I layered my card front (4 x 5 1/4) onto a Old Olive mat cut at 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, and attached it my Pineapple Punch card base (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4). I then needed to stamp the inside of my card and so I added one rose and a few leaves at the top of a whisper white panel and attached it to the inside. To finish off the presentation of my card I stamped the envelope to match. Because, you should never send a naked envelope.
Well, that finishes my Blessed and Grateful Card using the stamp set To a Wild Rose. I hope that you like it and if I have inspired you to give it a try. If you don't have a demonstrator you work with I would love to earn your business. You can pick up all the supplies I used today in my online store by clicking on the item in the shopping list below. I will be back tomorrow with the next episode of Saturday Simple Stamping see you then.
Happy Stampin'
Rick
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Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you my June 2019 Thank You cards that I have sent out to anyone that placed an order with me this month. My Thank You Cards this month featured the New Wonders Host stamp set and the new 2019-2021 In Colors. I created a card using each of the new In Colors so I created five different cards using the same design but just changed up the colors. So every time a customer placed an order they were sent one of my thank you cards. Some customers even got all five cards this month. Here's a look at my June Thank You Cards.
Each card features the same stamped image but I changed up the colors and the designer series paper that I used. I used the 2019-2021 In Color Designer Series Paper Pack which has 40 sheets inside (4 each of 2 double sided designs). I used all five of the new in colors on my cards; so I used Purple Posy, Seaside Spray (Front row Left to right), Rococo Rose, and Pretty Peacock (2nd row left to right) and Terracotta Tile (top row). All of these colors are very pretty and just make me smile. I may have one that I originally liked more than the other but I have really came to love them all. Sometimes with In Colors it takes a little while to fall in love with them. This happens to me almost every year. But, this year it didn't take as long.
Here's a closer look at the New Wonders Hostess/Host Stamp Set. It features this cute little fairy that is just adorable. This host stamp set is only available with Stampin’ Rewards. "This fairy visited us, and our designers just fell in love with her. So they decided to dedicate a stamp set to her. Here she is, in the New Wonders Stamp Set!" this was the description on the website and it just makes this stamp set so much more adorable to me. You can see in the above image that there are three different poses or actions for this little cutie. I love the one where she's turning the page and you see leaves, holding the pen, okay I love them all. It features sentiments for all kinds of occasions, and the fonts are to die for. They had me with the cute little fairy and the font, I really didn't even look at what the sentiments said after I saw how fabulous those two features were. Yep, that's one way to get me a cute image and a wonderful looking font. So are you wondering how I made them; well I have a quick video showing you how I did it along with my coloring and a few tips along the way.
Video Tutorial:
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Tips & Tricks:
So once I knew which stamp set I wanted to use and believe me that was no easy task with this years Stamps from the Annual catalog. This has been one of the best catalogs since I've started. There are a ton of great products inside those two little covers.
I knew I wanted to use the 2019-2021 In colors, so I picked the designer series paper that featured them the most, but didn't have designs that were to busy or didn't wouldn't fit with any stamp set. So then I laid out a few of my choices and went from there. When I pulled the New Wonders stamp set and saw the sentiments along with the font and the little images I knew. I just thought that the little fairy holding the pen was perfect for a thank you note. For the video I shared how I made the Pretty Peacock version but all of them are made the exact same way. I just changed up the coloring a little. I used all the same colors but would change the dress to match the designer series paper and ink.
I started out with a 3 3/4 x 5 piece of Whisper White Cardstock and stamped the little fairy in Tuxedo Black ink. I picked this ink because I knew I was going to do a little Stampin' Blend coloring. As long as you use the smaller nib to color this image you are fine. Just don't use the brush end it's way to large to get into the smaller areas of the stamped image. For the Terracotta Tile coloring I used my Stampin' Write marker to do that; but you could totally use dark Calypso Coral because they are so close. That's one of the reasons they didn't make a Stampin' Blend in Terracotta Tile, because they are so close in hue. Here's a little image you can pin to your Pinterest account to remember what colors I used.
This was such a fun stamp set to color and I did color a lot of them. I figured out that if you color one item that's the same color all at one time it goes so much faster. For example everything that had to be colored with the Pretty Peacock Stampin' Blends I colored all of those on each card in a row, then moved on to the next color. And, this made my coloring time so much less than coloring each card all at once. So remember when you have a lot of coloring for mass produced cards assembly line it. Do all of the same coloring at one time then move to the next color and do the same thing and just keep repeating the process. Again this saved so much time.
Here's a closer look at all the cards.
Pretty Peacock
Purple Posy
Rococo Rose
Seaside Spray
Terracotta Tile
I hope that you found this post inspiring and that you enjoyed my little look at my June Thank You cards. If your a customer I hope that you enjoy getting your thank you card/cards in the mail as much as I did making them. If you need any of the supplies I used today you can pick them up in my online store 24/7 online. You will find a full list of supplies in the Stampin' Up! Shopping List below., along with this month's host code and free gift offers. If you do want any of the supplies I used and order from my shopping page you too will be getting one of these little cuties in the mail before the end of June. Remember this is a Host/Hostess only stamp set and can only be earned with Stampin' Rewards.
Happy Stampin'
Rick
June Host Code: Q9PRMKP7
This Host code and
offer only good from June 14, 2019 till June 30, 2019
1.Spend any amount in my online store
using this month’s host code and get the June Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle
Free
2.Spend $75.00 (before taxes &
shipping) in my Online Store using the current host code and get a Combo Pack
of Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Blends Markers Free (Sent to you in July once I
close out the host code).
3.Spend $150 or more (before taxes and
shipping) and get both my June Monthly Card Class kit (until the 20th, after
that I will put you on the list for the July Monthly Card Kit), the Pretty
Peacock Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (sent in to you in July) and the June
Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle FREE as my gift to you.
Remember if you use the Host Code on Your
Orders you cannot use that order for KCRPs (Kinsmon Crafty Rewards Points) See
Details here!
Rick's Slizzin' Summer Promotion:
Get your name in the hat for my Sizzlin'
Summer Kick off Promotion during June, July, & August with every $30
(before shipping and taxes) you spend. Get your name in the Coconut for a
chance to win some products from the 2019 Holiday Catalog in
September. Click here to see other ways you can be entered
to win!
The Purple Posy stamp pad and ink refill are not currently available due to quality issues and being fixed. You can still recreate my card by using your 2019-2021 In color Stampin' Write Markers. This is why you don't see it listed in the supply list.
