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  • Mix & Match those Flower Punches for this Great Dimensional Birthday Card

    Over the last couple catalogs, I’ve collected many of the flower stamp sets and matching punches from Stampin’ Up!  Because you know how much of a sucker I am for stamp sets that match punches – it makes it so easy!  So, I was playing around and started combining my different flowers and it turns out they look pretty great together.  Check it out –

    Tips for this project:

    • Stamp the flower image with the same color ink as your cardstock (in this case, Strawberry Slush) before stamping to create a custom look.
    • Mix in between your layers flower punches out of Whisper White cardstock and sponge with the same color ink you used on the other flowers to create a pop of color and make your flower layers distinct.
    • Use a Bone Folder to curl up the petals of your flower to help make it be more 3D and come to life!
    • The Window Frame framelits make the perfect opening to allow some of your patterned paper peek through behind your flower and frame your flower.
    • Cut your patterned paper to 1/4″ larger than your Whisper White cardstock to give an extra coordinating border.

    I often get asked if I recommend purchasing stamp sets in wood mount, clear mount, or photopolymer – and often I say it depends on the type of stamp set for me.  With these flowers and matching punches, I know that 90% of the time, I’m going to be stamping and punching out my flowers and so I optimized for Easy and Speed in stamping.

    –So I buy them in wood mount

    This is because I know that I won’t need precision placement most of the time and it makes it easy to grab and go when I want to stamp, and especially if I want to punch out a few different flower images from the same set.  I don’t have to clean my stamp and change the block between stamping, they are all ready to go and I can just do all my stamping at one time and then do all my cleaning.  Easy, peasy, done!

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  • Blendabilities Technique Fun with Starburst Sayings

    Last week I had my Blendabilities technique class and it was a lot of fun.  As I’ve mentioned before, one of my favorite things about running a technique class is not only to I get to share some really fun ideas and tips with others, but I also spend a lot of time reminding myself and learning more about the technique and really spending a lot of time playing around.  And let me tell you… playing around with Blendabilities is AWESOME!

    You do have your Blendabilties already, right?

    This was one of the cards everyone did and it showed off using Blendabilities 3 different ways including:

    1. coloring in a stamped image using shading (the flower)
    2. coloring in white space on a black stamped image (words in the starburst sentiment)
    3. and coloring in designer paper for a really great effect (the pattern paper strip across the card front).

    BAM!  3 techniques – 1 card!

    Tips for this card:

      • When coloring with Blendabilities, I like to start with the lightest color first and color in all or almost all of the image and then start building up with the darker colors to shade in and get tone and dimension to your image.
      • Don’t forget you can color in stamped images – just scribble over the black ink and white spaces… the marker coloring will fade into the black image and pop out on the white spaces.
      • And if you have designer paper that seems a bit plain or boring to you, spice it up by grabbing your Blendabilties and start shading!  I started with this black and white pattern:
        image        Then I shaded half of the diamond shape with the lightest color of the Coastal Cabana Blendabilities and then shaded about 1/4 of the shape from the right with the medium shade.  And then finally just added a dab of the darkest color.

    I’m also sharing this card as part of the Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration Stamp Set Spotlight!  They are sharing a number of cards using the Starburst Sayings stamp set which is what I used for that fabulous main greeting.  Plus, don’t you think the starburst is just so much more fun and interesting on a card than a plain circle?  Sometimes you just need those spikey bits. Smile

    Enjoy all the ideas!


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  • Petite Petals & Blendabilities

    Petite Petals & Blendabilities

    Ok, taking a quick break from my Craft Garage sale to finish getting this blog post up for today!  I wanted to share the card I pulled together on Friday using the new Decorative Goodies bundle you can get free right now.  Wanna see:

    Tips for making this card

    • The sentiment comes together really quick with the limited time Decorative Goodies bundle.  This is one of the bundles that you can get FREE with the purchase of a Big Shot this month, or get it for 15% off if you already have the machine (details here).  But I just stamped my image from the Oh My Goodies stamp set in Blackberry Bliss ink and cut it out with the matching Deco Label framelit.
    • Add a piece of the newly redesigned Silver Glimmer paper for a touch of easy sparkle without the muss and fuss.
    • The outline flower from the Petite Petals stamp set works great for quick coloring with the Blendabilities!  I used the new Calypso Coral blendabilities set  along with the new Crumb Cake blendabilities set to do my coloring.
    • Tear the bottom edge of the front of your card for an easy way to get some texture while still leaving your card clean and simple.

    And if you are in the Seattle area, we’ll be open for a few more hours for the Craft Garage Sale!  We sold quite a bit yesterday but still have all this to clear out today.  Come by through 2pm to snatch up a great deal!

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  • Love My Layered Flower Punches and Burlap

    Love My Layered Flower Punches and Burlap

    Every month as I start working on cards for my monthly card class and stamp club, I remember why I love doing this.  It is always fun to create a card of a scrapbook page based on what I see, but for me, it gets even more exciting when I think about what I can share with others and how excited they will be to try it out themselves.  I think it challenges me to come up with something that is not only pretty but really fun to make. 

    Well, today’s card is one that I was soooo excited to try out and I loved it so much that I’m using it for some of my thank you cards this month as well as teaching it in my Cute & Classic cards class tonight and my stamp club next week!

    The card is inspired by a card created by my friend Julie Gunhus who was inspired by a card on the Stampin’ Up Incentive Trip cruise.  I’ve never seen the original and I changed up her version for mine, so if you know who made the original, tell them that I think they are brilliant!

    I made mine a skinnier size so that the proportions looked right to me, so the end result is a card that is 3-1/2” x 5-1/2”. 

    I used the new Itty Bitty Accent punches for the smaller flower to go with my Petite Petal flower.  Seriously, when the Petite Petals stamp & punch came out earlier this year I thought it was the smallest flower I would need… but boy do I love the new itty bitty punch pack! 

    This card is so quick and simple to make and just looks gorgeous, don’t you think?  My burlap is just a 1-1/2” piece that I adhered my twine and flowers to the front with glue dots.

    Stampin’ Up Supplies I Used

    I also used the colors Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Blushing Bride for my flowers.  If you want to come make this card with me, I’d love to have you join me at my card class tonight in Redmond, WA.  Let me know by RSVP’ing on my calendar or email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com and I’ll reserve one of my extra spots for you!

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  • A Long Version of the Pop Up Card in a Box

    A Long Version of the Pop Up Card in a Box

    I planned to post this yesterday but had forgotten about our Fun n’ Crafty Blog Hop (if you haven’t seen the projects CASE’d from the new catalog, you should totally take a look!)  But never fear!  I’m back with my customized version of the card in a box so that it will be a long card AND you can use an 8-1/2” x 11” piece of cardstock.  Here is the card I made as my prototype:

    If you recall, my other card in a box was skinnier and taller.  This was the default size I saw all over the web.  But I really wanted something longer and so I started futzing with the dimensions and other example I saw online.  The important thing for me was to have it only use an 8-1/2” x 11” piece of paper.  Most of the dimensions I kept coming up with would have made me use a 12×12 piece of cardstock, which is totally fine, but I have WAY MORE letter sized paper and so I wanted to use that.

    It still fits in a regular envelope….

    And when you pull it out, it lays flat… see the white looking edges around the cardstock.  Did you know if you sanded Core’dinations cardstock just on the edges you get this cool border look without needing any ink?

    And for the back, I didn’t know what I wanted to say, so I just added more of the Flower Shop and Petite Petal flowers to perk it up.

    I used a TON of tools on this card but that is the fun of this type of card.  You can keep embellishing and decorating to make it as fun and fancy as you want.   I loved the touches of the Hardwood stamp on Crumb Cake cardstock in the background to make it look like a fence.  And making the grass by taking a strip of Pear Pizzazz cardstock and tearing off one edge (the long edge) and then cutting down with the fringe scissors.  It makes it look so much nicer than if you don’t tear and then just cut with the scissors.

     

    I’ve decided to post my instructions for how to make this card/box. They don’t include the decorating instructions for the card above, but it gives you the templates and directions for making both sizes of the base box.  From there you can decorate in whatever way your heart desires!

    Get the PDF Instructions for the Card in a Box

    If you are going to make this type of card at home you can use the supplies you have lying around, but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you use the following for the best effect on your card:

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    Sticky Strip – for making sure everything holds together because you will be folding and opening and moving it a LOTWindow Sheets – So your pop up elements can have some movement and take center stage without cardstock strips getting in your way

     

    So, I hope you enjoy this card and tutorial – and if you do, leave me a comment and let me know!  I don’t normally do tutorials but I thought you might like this one.

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     Stampin’ Up Supplies Used
    Stamps – Flower Shop, Petite Petals, Hardwood, Delightful Dozen (retired)
    Ink – Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight, Blushing Bride, Primrose Petals (retired), Pool Party
    Paper – Crumb Cake cardstock, Whisper White cardstock,  Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack, Raspberry Ripple Core’dinations cardstock (retired), Pear Pizzazz cardstock, So Saffron, Window Sheets
    Accessories – Pansy Punch, Petite Petals Punch, Fringe Scissors, Decorative Label Punch, Wide Oval punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch, Subtles candy dots

  • Group Project Creations from our Team Iron Stamper Challenge!

    Group Project Creations from our Team Iron Stamper Challenge!

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    I have been so excited to watch my Fun n’ Crafty team grow and so I’ve been wanting to start doing more to try to provide opportunities for everyone to get together, learn from each other, and have fun stamping together.  So, I’ve started working on roughly quarterly group events I’m calling Stamp  & Shares.  This last time, I wanted to have some kind of game for everyone to play.  So, I came up with the idea of an “Iron Stamper” challenge for us to do early in the afternoon.  The idea was that everyone would be broken up into teams and we would have to work as a group to create projects using predefined supplies.  No one knew what the supplies would be ahead of time, so it was fun for everyone to brainstorm and create together on the fly! 

    The supplies they all had to work from were:

    They couldn’t use any other supplies than what was provided in the box and the only had 40 minutes as a group to design and create 2 projects using what was in their box.  I have to say, I was so impressed with the creativity that came out in that short amount of time! 

    Check out what they created:

    Team 1 – Liz Mitchell, Kathy Thisted, and Rose Bryson

    First they created a card.  And I love how they came up with using one of the petals from the Pansy punch to make a heart!  Way to work with what you have!  Plus I thought it was such a great idea to add Washi tape to the bottom of a piece of cardstock and THEN punch with the scallop punch.  Aren’t they clever?

    At the last minute, they realized the instructions for the challenge was to create 2 projects, so they pulled together this box very quickly:

    I loved how they stamped and punched the Flower Shop image and then punched out a piece of the Gold Foil vellum and used it as a punched overlay too.

    Team 2 – Tanya Cabral, Annie Lee, Jennifer Blomquist

    This group stuck more to cards but really got into the vellum paper.  And Tanya came up with the fun idea of stamping directly on the vellum for a central layer:

    For the second card, I thought it was cool how Annie came up with the layers of scallop edge punched designer paper on the left side… like a little layer of ruffles!  Then the combination of stamping under the vellum and adhering stamped images over the vellum.

    You can kind of see that the Petite Petals images and the Flower Shop punched flower are BELOW the vellum, and one of the punched out petite petal flowers is ON TOP of the Vellum.

    It was a great afternoon and I’m working on our next group demo event!  It is looking like I may hold it off until July so I can run it right after convention and share all the projects and details I learned at convention with everyone!  If you would like to be on the email list for more details for when the event is announced and registration opens, let me know at jennifer@nwstamper.com and I’ll make sure you are kept in the know!

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  • Quick Spring Easter Treat Bag Tutorial with Punch Art Daffodil!

    Quick Spring Easter Treat Bag Tutorial with Punch Art Daffodil!

    Happy Easter weekend! I don’t know about you, but we still need to do a lot of our prep for Easter.  Today we’ll be spending time coloring Easter eggs – and I’ll be making sure I have everything I need for Easter baskets and Easter dinner! 

    (PS – don’t forget to enter the Retirement List Prediction Contest!  It is free to play along and you could win up to $30 in free Stampin’ Up products!)

    So, back to Easter treats!  I thought I would share a quick spring or Easter treat idea that you can pull together at the last minute!  This was created by my Mom, Kathy Thisted, for our Fun n’ Crafty team Stamp & Share a few weeks ago and I just love it.

    Scallop Tag Topper & Punch Art Treat Bag

    There are lots of fun elements to this treat bag, but the nice thing is that with a few punches, it is super quick to make!

    Start with a 2”x8” piece of cardstock (this is Chocolate Chip) and score at 3-1/2” x 4-1/2” to help it stand up on it’s own.  Then, grab the Designer Frames Embossing Folders and use the oval to one to emboss your frame. 

    Use the Extra Wide Oval Punch to punch out the center of your oval.  LOVE that it is an almost perfect match!

    Punch both ends of the strip of cardstock with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch to give you that pretty finished look!

    Then grab your Petite Petals punch  and the four petal flower punch from the Bitty Punch Pack to make your Daffodil.  I punched one of each shape out of Daffodil Delight cardstock.

    In the sample, the flower is stamped first using the Petite Petals stamp set – and I think it definitely adds something to it.  But for the sake of this tutorial, I didn’t end up stamping.  I hope you don’t mind. Smile 

    Fold up the small punched flower and adhere it to the center of your larger flower with liquid glue or a glue dot!  I love how my mom colored in the center of the little flower with the White Gel pen for a little extra definition!

    Add a scrap of cardstock for the stem and grass at the bottom.  Want to hear a fun trick?  Stamp out one of the flower heads from the Too Kind stamp set and then cut it out and use the backside for your grass!  Neat huh?

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    Add some candy, tie it with a ribbon and you are done!  Easy Peasy!

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  • Lovely Lattices with the Chevron Border Punch

    Lovely Lattices with the Chevron Border Punch

    Today is my day to share some ideas over on the Stampin’ Stylin’ Inkspiration blog and I thought I would share with them and you a technique that has been around for a while but I only recently gave it a try myself – making lattices with the Chevron punch!  If you haven’t tried it yet, this is an easy technique that has lots of possibilities.

    To get started, here is the card that was my first attempt with this idea:

    It was my chance to play with a few of the fun new tools from the Occasion catalog including:

    So, when I would see that lattice or similar looks on other cards, I always thought it was really hard and complicated.  I wasn’t sure that I could make it myself, but I finally figured that since I had the Chevron Punch I ought to at least give it a try. 

    Turns out it is easier than I thought!  Wanna see how to do it yourself?

    Start out with two 1.25″ x 5.5″ strips of cardstock.  Punch the chevron pattern on each one.  Here is where I lined up the first edge of my cardstock to get started punching so that I had the right amount of spacing.

    Now, after you punch the first set of chevrons, slide the paper over and continue punching along the paper strip.  Make sure you only see silver through the punched chevrons as you go!  Otherwise your chevrons will be uneven and won’t braid together very well.

    Once you are done, you should have two strips of cardstock that look about the same.  Lay them next to each other on the table so the chevrons are pointed in the opposite directions.

    Now, start “braiding” the paper.  That is lay the two strips on top of each other in this orientation and start tucking the chevron tips so that the top layer chevron tips are *behind* the chevron tips of the back piece of paper.  I know that is a little confusing to read in text, but if you look up close, this next picture might help!

    Wha-bam!  You have a handy dandy snazzy lattice to use in your projects. 🙂  Now, because you braided them together, your final piece is actually a little bit longer than 5-1/2″.  So you can position it how you’d like on the front of your card and trim off the extra – so, no worries if your ends look a little strange.

    Tuck in some flowers… add some butterflies… stamp your background with the Hardwood stamp set and you have a really fun card!

    I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!  I highly recommend giving it a shot.  There are so many fun things you can do with this technique.  For example, check out another idea for something you can do if you make this lattice with two different colored strips of cardstock!

    In this case, I used Melon Mambo and Whisper White, then I glued it over a piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock for bright look on white.  What do you think?  Pretty right?  Smile  So give it a shot and get creative and you may just love what comes out!

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  • The Wow Factor of Coloring on Natural Composition Specialty Paper!

    The Wow Factor of Coloring on Natural Composition Specialty Paper!

    Have you experienced the coolness of the Natural Composition Speciality Paper?  Once again, I have another project that I can’t believe I haven’t shared yet and my favorite part of it is how the Natural Composition paper makes it look!

    I created this card for a class last month and was playing with a few of my favorite things:

    • Core’dinations cardstock – I used the Pool Party core’dintations cardstock and ran it through my BigShot with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.  Then I sanded off the top of the dots to help them pop a little bit more.
    • Petite Petals stamps & punch – I have to admit I’m totally falling in love with these little flowers!  And the fact that they are so easy to punch out is just awesome!
    • Gold Baker’s Twine – Turns out it just always is the perfect touch of subtle sparkle on your projects.  It took me months to start using it but now I LOVE using it!
    • Perfect Pennants stamp set – the sentiment is my favorite sentiment from the Occasions catalog!
    • and finally – Natural Composition Paper!

    The Natural Composition Specialty designer paper does not look very special in the main catalog and in fact, just about everyone I have in class that uses it tells me that they didn’t think it looked interesting in the catalog but they love it once they try it.  Because you can do things like this:

    So, the thing it it is a stiffer cardstock that looks a bit like cardboard or a stiff kraft cardstock.  But then on one side of the paper there is a clear embossed pattern.  So you can do cool stuff like sponging or coloring!

    In this case, we colored over the flower images with a Real Red marker and after it starts soaking in a little bit to the paper, it will wipe off the embossed image and you get a really cool defined image.  Don’t you think?’

    You can do this with any color or ink (if you want to sponge it) and it is pretty fool proof.  You can’t really mess it up.  Got to love that!

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    Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
    Stamps – Perfect Pennants, Petite Petals
    Ink – Markers (Real Red, Basic Black), Real Red
    Paper –Pool Party cord’inations cardstock, Whisper White, Basic Black, Naturals Composition specialty designer paper
    Accessories – Big Shot, Pennants Framelits, Petite Petals punch, Gold Baker’s twine, Candy Dots (Subtles), Perfect Polka dots embossing folder, sanding block

  • Chalkboard + Polaroid = Unexpectedly Cute Card!

    Chalkboard + Polaroid = Unexpectedly Cute Card!

    My brain has been filled with getting things ready for my Demonstrator Stamp & Share event I’m planning for Saturday (I’m super excited though – 4 hours of stamping, demonstrations, displays, and door prizes! How can that NOT be a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon? Smile )  But that means when it comes time to write a fun blog post for you all, my mind is a bit of a pile of mush.

    So, I think today is going to be a bit short and sweet, but I made sure to share a card that I am totally in love with right now so at least the pretty eye candy will make up for the lack of writing!

    My “Chalkboard technique meets Polaroid pictures” card:

    I don’t know why this card just makes me happy when I look at it!

    It all started with me wanting to do a Polaroid picture style image for a card.  And for some reason, I had in my head the chalkboard technique (where you heat emboss a sentiment in white on a piece of black cardstock and then sponge some extra white ink over the top to look like chalk dust) and so they just came together…. even though if you think about it, they don’t make any sense together at all!

    But it is art, right?  There is no right or wrong here!

    I also am loving the Petite Petals bundle I got recently and just had to use it again.  This time I spiced up the flowers with the little bitty flower from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack.  Add a silver mini brad to the middle and it is a whole new flower!

    The card still needed a little bit of something extra, so I embossed the front of the card with the Mosaic embossing folder, rounded the corners, and then added some Gold bakers twine for the last little pizzazz I needed.

    I may make simple cards, but sometimes they just come together and you don’t need all the extra fuss and muss!

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    134821sPetite Petals Wood-Mount Bundle
    129984sModern Mosaic Embossing Folder
    118309sItty Bitty Shapes punch pack
    122941sSilver Mini Brads
    132975sGold Baker’s Twine
  • Comparing the Different Flower Stamp/Punches in One Card!

    Comparing the Different Flower Stamp/Punches in One Card!

    Last night was my monthly Stamp Club night and we always make a couple cards using the latest stamps and products.  But this month I wanted to focus on different ways to use some of the stamps, dies, and punches they already had and maybe mix in a few new things they hadn’t tried.  Because isn’t that always the big challenge?  You see a card or a project using a paper and stamp and you know you have to have it.  You get it, make the project, and then go… now what?  Smile 

    This card was all about showing how the different flower stamps and punches can go together to make a cool layered flower… check it out!

    I found this card idea from Becky Roberts over at Inking Idaho and thought it was such a cool design.  It also reminded me to pull out that Chevron background stamp and get it inky!

    But back to the flowers…

    This flower uses three different sizes of flowers:

    1. Mixed Bunch flower & Blossom punch
    2. Flower Shop stamp & Pansy punch
    3. Petite Petals & Petite Petal punch

    Turns out they layer together really well, don’t you think?

    I stamped the flowers using the same color ink and cardstock (Coastal Cabana) and then glued them together and used a Candy Dot brad base and Candy Dot to add a little POP to the middle of the card.

    And that fun little polka dot paper behind the flower?  That is the pretty Sweet Sorbet designer paper from the Sale-a-bration catalog.  So, don’t forget you only have a couple weeks left to get your freebies with your $50 order!  So, pick up a couple of these flower stamp/punch bundles and get the paper for free!

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  • Cheery Thinking of You with Petite Petals Flowers

    Cheery Thinking of You with Petite Petals Flowers

    Whew!  I’m back to the land of the living!

    I went to bed last Thursday night thinking of all my plans of what I was going to finish and get caught up on on Friday (aka Valentine’s Day).  Instead, I woke up in the early hours of the morning with a terrible stomach bug!  So, instead I spent the day in bed with a brief period laying on the couch.  Finally I am back to functional again (though now my husband has gotten taken out) and I’m trying to get caught back up. Smile 

    Today’s card was the perfect share today because of the number of people I heard of that were sick recently as well as a sweet friend who just had to suffer a devastating loss.  So, for all of them and for you, here is a card to send a little sunshine your way.

    This card was inspired by a card by Natasha Zandbergen that I had found on Pinterest and of course had to give it my own flair!  So, I loved the idea of cutting out the oval shape from the Oval Framelits and stamping my sentiment from the super fabulous Perfect Pennants stamp set for the focal piece…. and then I started getting a little creative.

    First – I embossed my front layer with the Decorative Dots embossing folder from the Sale-a-Bration brochure.  Then I decided to be a little odd and I sanded the the dots that were embossed.  It is a really subtle thing, but I wanted to soften the dots and give them a bit of texture.  See, when you sand your embossed elements, even if you don’t use core-dinations cardstock, it gives the raised part a bit of a velvety look.

    Then, I wanted to play with the new Petite Petals stamp set.  So I got to stamping.

    Psst – here is a little secret.  If you look at those flowers and wonder why they aren’t punched out very crisply, that is because I was borrowing this stamp set from my mom and she had forgotten to loan me the punch.  I wanted to have the flowers cut out, so I hand cut them.  They look much nicer when you use the punch!

    It still needed something though, and I played with all different options for breaking the So Saffron yellow color up along the bottom of the card and ended up settling on the Natural Chevron Trim as that extra piece. 

    Plus I thought that the chevron looked like arrows for a conveyor belt shuttling along those good thoughts to the card recipient. Winking smile  I know totally dorky… but hi! *waving* I’m a dork!  hee hee

    So, hope you are healthy and having a wonderful weekend at your home!  Until next time!

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    Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
    Stamps – Perfect Pennants, Petite Petals
    Ink – Basic Black, Raspberry Ripple, So Saffron, Soft Sky
    Paper – Whisper White, So Saffron
    Accessories – Big Shot, Oval Framelits, Decorative Dots embossing folder (FREE with a $50 order) Petite Petals punch, Naturals Chevron ribbon, Sanding Block, Rhinestones