Dear Doily & Well Written with Dandelion Wishes

Yippee Skippee, it's another Friday Stamp Off Challenge.

Today, Susan, Buffy and I are doing a color challenge.  

The colors are Blackberry Bliss, Mango Melody and

Smoky Slate.  I think that this is a great color combo

so check our samples out!

I'm sorry that my picture is so dark.  We've had many a 

cloudy day, so it's hard to harness enough light for a 

good picture.  

As I mentioned Wednesday, I LOVE the Dear Doily

Bundle on page 47 of the Occasions catalog.  You can

just scoop up those framelits and go to town. In this example,
I created the "sun".   The other shapes come from Well
Written Framelits dies on Occasions page 27.  It is so
easy to scatter and layers these lovely images.

Dandelion Wishes, on page 118 of the annual catalog

is a great go-to set for sentiments.  I layered everything
on a piece of Whisper White, run through the Sublte
Textured Impressions Embossing Folder on page 223.

Thank you for stopping by, and now please click
on to see what Buffy and Susan have done with
this color challenge!

Dear Doily with SAB FREE Botanical Butterfly DSP

This is a really quick card, given the FREE Botanical

Butterfly DSP (SAB page 9) and Free but unavailable

(til March) Organdy Ribbon Combo Pack (SAB page 7).

The Botanical Butterfly enables you to create

LOTS of cards, by just adding your sentiment.

The sentiment and framelits come from the Dear Doily

Bundle on page 47.  I must say, I love this bundle so

much that I keep going back for more!

Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies

The Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies, on Occasions page 13,

are an beautiful example of how you can run one or

two dies through your Big Shot, and have yourself

a card!  They layer over each other, so that your

highlights are taken care of.  This set of dies looks

really amazing when foil is used.

In this example, I used my favorite color combination:

Poppy Parade and Grapefruit Grove. 

This set of dies coordinates with the Beauty Abounds
cling stamp set.  As with many of the bundles,
you can use components together, or separately.

Gingham Gala Rectangles with Well Written

This is a card that was inspired by a wonderful

Australian demonstrator; Sharni Haines at 

Sharnihanes.com   Sharni posted her sample to a demo-only

site and kindly gave me permission to CASE her card.

I really liked the layout, with the three rectangle cut-outs

created with the Rectangles Stitched Dies (Occasions page 28).

This card also kind of harkens back to the project
that I presented on February 1st, here, in that I paired
the Gingham Gala DSP with a lot of whisper white.

I used the Gingham Gala DSP strips 

(Occasions page 35), to provide the recessed background for

birthday greetings from the Well Written Framelits

Dies on Occasions page 27.   I added the Whisper White 

flowers, with lots of rhinestone bling.  

Let it Ride on Wood Textures

I continue to play with Let it Ride (Occasions page 45) because

it is a really fun set to use and color.   

I layered the watercolored horse over

a piece of Wood Textures DSP (page 189), which

goes so well, as a backdrop.   The Rectangle

Stitched Framelits Dies (Occasions page 28) are the

perfect cutting tool to emphasize the focal image

and sentiment.   I like this set because the card does not

have to be fussy or filled with accessories.  The image and 

sentiments work so well together, that you're good to go!

Butterfly Gala with Lace Embossing Folder

I can't go long without playing with the Butterfly Gala

set (Occasions page 35), or the Lace Dynamic Textured

Impressions Embossing Folder (Occasions page 11).  The 

Butterfly Duet punch makes it quick and easy to punch

out your images and get that card done!

I really like the sentiments, that line up easily,

and are a good size.   

The downside... this punch is backordered.

Sorry.   Guess that's what happens when a bundle

really gets the job done!  Sales far exceeded predictions

and they will be available a number of weeks from now.