Doily Builder with Butterfly Gala

As the 2018-19 Stampin' Up! and Occasions

catalogs retire, I wanted to present those products

for the last time.  In this example, I used the Doily Builder

Thinlits Dies with Whisper White Cardstock and the 

Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper layered behind.  

I added some pieces

of the retired SAB ribbon and a Dear Doily flower center.

The sentiment comes from the Butterfly Gala set

on page 35, which will carry through to the new 2019-20

Stampin' Up! catalog.  I never get tired of pairing

shades of yellow with basic black.

Dayton Tornados

Dayton Ohio tornados touching down about five

miles north of my house.  

We are fortunate that there were not record

deaths, although teams are still searching rubble.

I'm waiting for our water to be restored, but glad that I am 

adept at "camping showers".   

Please say prayers for those who have lost everything.

We are grateful for organizations that are kicking

in to help with food, water and material goods.

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

Come Sale Away and Colorful Seasons

This is a bit of a sneak peak, on retiring DSP.

As part of a demo pre-order, I picked up the Come Sale Away

set with coordinating Smooth Sailing Dies.  I love it as a

stand-alone bundle, or intermixed with the High Tide set

(I did not combine them for this card).   

I used the Brights DSP and the Wood Textures DSP.

The sentiment comes from Colorful Seasons.

The Stitched Rectangle Dies were used to create 

several of the layers.

Geared Up Garage on Gingham Gala

I continue to use my retiring DSP stash because 
I love all of these papers.   And what better

way than to pair some Lemon Lime Twist Gingham Gala

paper with the returning Geared Up Garage set and

Garage Gears dies.  

Years ago, guys in the family were all agush over Lemon Lime

and race car drivers who were sporting this color.  

I thought that it was a little intense, but was glad they were

fired up about any kind of topic other than the cars themselves.  

So putting Basic Gray, silver

and Lemon Lime together was fun.   I'm sure

that it will be well received! 

Flourish Thinlits on Wood Textures

Friday we had our Stamp Off challenge and I decided

to follow it up with another Flourish Thinlits dies card.

This one layers the die on pieces of Wood Textures

DSP.  This shows how easy it is to create a card with

a bit of DSP and your favorite set of dies!