Sweetest Thing with Doily Builder

Oh my!   We are approaching the end of the Occasions

catalog season and I will be so sorry to see these products go.

Sweetest Thing, with the Jar of Sweets Framelits Dies

(on page 15) pair wonderfully well with the Doily Builder

Thinlits Dies on page 47.  The candy jar looks great against

a little doily detail!

Doily Builder with Wood Textures DSP

I am in a state of mourning over some of the current

product that will be retiring at the end of May.  Doily Builder

on Occasions page 47 is one of those products.  I simply

love these doilies and how intricate they are.

The Wood Textures DSP is also retiring and I can't 

imagine loss of a DSP that looks good with almost

any set or theme.  The sentiment comes from 

Butterfly Gala (Occasions page 35), which will carry over

into the 2019-20 catalog.

Happy Easter

Stamp Off OSW Challenge

Welcome to another Stamp Off challenge, with

Buffy, Susan and I.  Today, we are doing a OSW

(One Sheet Wonder) challenge.

A OSW is a pattern for cutting (DSP) paper, so that you can create a number of different cards.   It is sort of a sketch challenge, where the creator has to figure out how to fit each panel on a card front.  Thank you Susan for designing this OSW pattern!

For my OSW, I used the retiring Wood Textures DSP

(page 191) and designed 4 cards.  

I used the leaves from Painted Harvest (p 139) on each

card, and the retiring In Color Tranquil Tide card bases.

Using a OSW makes for quick cards, as the

patterned paper often dictates your background layer.

Thank you for stopping by!   Please check out
the OSW cards created by Susan and Buffy. 

Retiring Seize the Day

If you've seen the recent Stampin' Up! retirement list,

then you know that Seize the Day is one of the sets

that is retiring.  I really like this set, because of the 

Distinctive Stamp feature, and the outdoor images.

Having grown up in Wisconsin, the images really remind

me of home.   I also appreciate the whimsical look of

the font used with this set.  

This card features the retiring Brights DSP pack

and some SAB Botanical Butterfly paper.  It is 

a simple card, but combining different DSP helps

to elevate the look.  I feel that yellows, paired with black

are always a good combination!

Varied Vases with Rectangle Stitched Dies

I tend to have a hard time throwing interesting bits

of paper away, so when I cut some stitched rectangles 

(Occasions page 28) out of this

Brights DSP pack (page 191), I couldn't throw it away.

A month later, when playing around with

Varied Vases on page 45, a plan came together!

I decided that the openings looked like shelves and a

slot for a greeting.  Anyway, that was my take

on this scrap!