Hello Fellow Stampers ~
I'm running a little late with getting the posts off the ground this week! Been busy cleaning up my messy messy studio!! LOL I really want to try to do a nice walk-thru video of DDS Studios for ya'all once and for all!! It's been a year since we took this room down to the studs, and put it back together with a breath of fresh air, and my custom-build studio area. Many of you have been asking for that video tour; so stay tuned! I'm planning to "walk you thru" soon!!
In the meantime, boxes and boxes of new goodies have been arriving here at the Studio. I've finally got the shares all separated and packaged up; and all the new goodies organized and put away. Now I'm ready to play play play!! Yippee! I hope you have started to enjoy your new Annual Catalog!! It's a short ride this year; the Stampin' Up! catalog cycle is changing; and we'll be seeing the Holiday/Winter Catalog very soon! So get ready!
I've been so excited to start playing with all the beautiful flowers we have in this catalog.
Today, I'm kicking off with the Jar of Flowers set. I played around with a couple of ideas - and learned a little something about the new Mason Jar Shaker Domes - so we'll revisit those with a fun design in the near future!
In the meantime, this pretty little card materialized - and of course, it's in a wonderful blue & yellow combination, which is one of my favorites!!
Design Colorology . . .
This card base is Balmy Blue, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", scored at 4-1/4" - fold to the side (a normal A2 card).
A background mat of Whisper White, cut 4-1/8" x 5-3/8".
Then inset matting and focal background as follows:
Balmy Blue, 3-5/8" x 4-7/8"
Daffodil Delight, 3-1/2" x 4-3/4"
The center Daffodil Delight has been embossed with the new Dainty Diamonds 3D embossing folder. And the center panel has been wrapped with a piece of the new 1/4" Bumblebee Gingham Ribbon. I love the "country" feel of this ribbon and it's perfect with a "jar" of field flowers - don't you think? 😉😉
**[Lesson Learned Note: I initially tried to use the Daffodil Delight designer series paper - DON'T!!! The 3D embossing folders make too deep and impression and the DSP is too thin! It basically tore it into little pieces! Yikes!]
The Jar of Flowers bundle comes with the new Jar Punch which is perfect and easy peasy to punch out your cute country jar!!
This jar was stamped with Balmy Blue ink on Shimmery White cardstock; then punched.
I added the stems in Pear Pizzazz; then colored them in with a Light Old Olive Stampin' Blend pen.
Then I colored in the "water" in the jar with a Light Balmy Blue Stampin' Blend. Using a "flick" technique, and working at the diagonal (with the stamped hash marks), this really almost looks realistic!!
The "lid" was stamped in Daffodil Delight on a piece of Daffodil Delight Designer Series Paper, then fussy cut and added to the top of the jar with tombow glue.
Then the flowers were stamped in Early Espresso ink, and colored with Stampin' Blends; and finally fussy cut to go with the top of the jar. The whole thing is popped with dimensionals on the front of the card - and everything is finished off with Clear Wink of Stella for a lovely shimmery glimmer!
If you look at the photo you can "just" see the shimmer on the jar.
The sentiment is from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set, and was fussy cut and popped with dimensionals as well.
I'm definitely going to be playing with this set somemore this week!
I really love it! -- How about you?? 😊😊
Hope you had fun with today's design ~~
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