Very Simply Susan

Here is a sweet Thinking of You card using Woven Heirlooms stamp set and the Woven Threads DSP, two of my favorite things in the new catalog! I love the vintage fonts on Woven Heirlooms. The sentiments almost look like 18th century handwriting. Its a very small set, but you have sentiments for sympathy, weddings, love, thank you and just thinking of you.  That’s a lot of card making options for a small stamp set!

And the matching Designer Series Paper is wonderful because it is a perfect match to all the new In Colors for 2019-2021! The patterns are soft and very vintage. This card front is all DSP. I layered one of the plainest patterns over the card stock base and as the sentiment background You get a solid color background with some texture.

To set off the sentiment, I kept thinking I needed something else. The card already had a lot of layers plus ribbon, thread and some faceted gems, so I can’t imagine why I wanted more! But I did.  I tried punching out a few leaves in vellum, but the plain vellum wasn’t working.  So I colored the vellum with a Stampin Blend, which gave them a slight bit of color. It was just enough.

If you like vintage, you will love the Woven Threads Suite!

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How’s this idea for a tropical Christmas card!  I had a “Christmas in July” swap with a group of Demonstrators last week and I decided to go tropical for it! After all, it is July!  And we always need tropical holiday ideas. I grew up in Florida where the holidays don’t necessarily mean snow and hot chocolate! Plus, south of the equator, the holidays occur in summer.  Bright holiday colors using the Tropical Chic set seemed like a great idea for a “Christmas in July” swap!

Actually, my card revolved around wanting to use the Red Rhinestones. I decided I needed a card design with bling and I wanted to use the red. The rhinestones are not a deep red, definitely more on the bright side, so I thought they looked great with Lovely Lipstick and Call Me Clover, the 2018-2020 In Colors.  And this bright take on “traditional holiday colors” seemed to be a better fit with the Tropical Chic stamp set rather than Real Red and Garden Green or Olive. The card was a really “simple” design I CASED from Connie Stewart that you can see HERE. I had this card on my Pinterest Board forever and this was finally the time I needed the idea to figure out my “Tropical Christmas” card.

What I love most is the corner rounding on opposite corners and the simplicity of the card layout. Connie used a simple black and Lovely Lipstick design for a thank you card. But it was easy to convert that idea to a holiday look.  And of course, I carried the theme through to the inside sentiment!

For those of us who are used to celebrating Christmas in a sunny, warm climate, here’s a great take on using the Tropical Chic set for your holiday card.  And you can start now!  The holidays will be here before you know it!

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I wish this card featuring Free As A Bird would photograph as pretty as it is in person.  Can you believe I wasn’t that crazy about Free As A Bird when I first got it? How crazy am I? I bought the bundle because I wanted the dies in the bundle. And I though, well why not get both for 10% off? That made the stamp set very affordable. And as it happened, I have made several cards featuring this really pretty stamp set. You can see a card in bright colors HERE and a more subtle version HERE both using the Stitched Nested Label Dies I was so eager to get!

Today’s card features a great paper from the Woven Threads DSP. I love dark-light combinations in colors. And this mix of the very pastel Purple Posy with the dark Pretty Peacock is a great contrast of the new In Colors for 2019-2021. This card feature the darling little bird from Free as a Bird along with some flowers that have all been fussy cut to make this card. The sentiment on the front is from Woven Heirlooms and die cut with a Stitched Rectangle die. And the inside of the card shown below features a sentiment from Free as a Bird.

If you love birds and love coloring images, the the Free as a Bird set is for you! I really enjoyed using Stampin’ Blends to color in these images.  Stamp sets with outline images like this allow you to customize stamps to any color combination you might need.

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That’s right! It’s Bonus Days again. For every $50 you order during the month of July on a single order, you will earn a $5.00 coupon you can use in August. It’s like a 10% bonus on your order! Pretty cool!