You Always Deliver with DSP

 Buffy, Susan and I are lined up for another 

Stamp Off Challenge.  I'm excited about this challenge, 

because we are featuring our favorite set from the new, 
2019-20 Stampin' Up! catalog!

I like many of the new SU catalog sets.  I usually

select sets based on my personal needs, or those that are 

different.  When it comes to picking my favorite,

it is generally a set that makes me smile.

The You Always Deliver Photopolymer set on page 59 

is a set that always makes me smile.  

I think that we can all resonate with

the excitement that comes when we are waiting for a

 package.  This little delivery guy captures that

excitement and includes sentiments that work for many

different situations.  He is also the perfect image to

color with your Stamping' Blends (Calypso Coral,
Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake, Balmy Blue, Smoky Slate)!

I added a layer of Subtles Designer Series Paper (p 168)

and a layer of Noble Peacock Foil Sheets (p 167) to

brighten up the card.  The Stitched Rectangle dies 

and Stitched Shapes dies (p 196) were used to create the layers.

Thank you for stopping by our Stamp Off challenge.

Please check out the wonderful samples offered by

Buffy and Susan.

Sailing Home with High Tide

I mentioned a while back, how much I like Stampin' Up!

products that coordinate together.  I very much enjoy

the pairing of High Tide (page 152) with Sailing Home

(page 146).   The combination of sentiments from these

two sets enable lots of supportive and masculine projects.

The images go great together!

This is a very quick, easy card, that could actually 

be created as a one layer card.  It could also be 

stepped up to a "fancy" card by using the coordinating

die to layer another lighthouse over the stamped image,
or cutting out the sentiment with a die and layering it .

Magnolia Lane DSP

Friday, I posted a project from one of my favorite new

suites, the Magnolia Lane Suite of products (p 37),

including the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set and

Magnolia Memory Dies (p. 194).  The other piece of this

suite is the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper.

This paper can be layered on cardstock in an unending

collection of patterns, so that you can just add the sentiment.

In this example, the sentiment comes from Beautiful Day

on page 131.  This set is great fun to watercolor, but I

really like the sentiments as well.

Here is more information about the Magnolia Lane Suite

Good Morning Magnolia with Magnolia Lane Suite

Because we are starting off a new Stampin' Up! catalog year,

there are many sets and bundles to choose from.  One of

my favorites is the Magnolia Lane Suite of products (p 37),

including the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set and

Magnolia Memory Dies (p. 194).  This suite also includes

some delicious Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper,

which you will see in the future.

In this example, I colored the images with Calypso Coral,

Ivory and Old Olive Stampin' Blends.  The combination of

Calypso Coral and Ivory create a very nice Petal Pink shade,

to go with the card stock layers.  You can see this card

featured in my Blog Header.  It is difficult to see from this

post, but the image is coated with Wink of Stella, so that

it really glistens.  The Petal Pink background layer

was run through the Subtle 3D Embossing folder and

sponged with VersaMark Ink

Floating Tropical Chic

The new 2019-20 Stampin' Up! catalog is NOW LIVE!

I am really happy about a number of sets that have

made it into the new catalog.

Tropical Chic (page 93), with coordinating Tropical Dies

(page 197) is one of those combinations, which works

really well for floating cards.  Bright color palates make

for really happy cards!   I used a sentiment from the 

Butterfly Gala set on page 46.  I find these sentiments to

be perfect in terms of size, font and wording. 

This is the other portion of this card

Animal Outing

We are on the eve of the release of the 2019-20 Stampin' Up! catalog.  Animal Outing (page 102), is one of the sets 

that will carry over.  This is a great set because it is a

blast to color with Stampin' Blends, and has coordinating

Animal Friends dies for those of us who don't like to

fussy cut.  The balloons, created with retiring DSP,
 were punched with the

Balloon Bouquet punch (page 186).