HAPPY NEW YEAR!
How was your first weekend of 2021? I’ve been having fun with lots of new products from the new Stampin’ Up! catalog and am so excited to show you! Make My Monday has a great first challenge – “Something New.” For this challenge, I used the new Simply Succulents bundle. After playing with it, I must say that I just love it! Do you know someone who loves succulents? I do! Since this is a birthday card for my daughter-in-law who is definitely a succulent lover, it just had to be perfect. How’d I do??
Once you are finished here, I hope you visit our Design Team gallery for some great inspiration and play along!
My secrets to making this Quiet Meadow project
- This A6 size card came together so easily and I just love how it turned out. For my first attempt, I tried watercoloring and it was very nice but I still wanted something better than my very limited painting skills. So, I made another attempt, this time using Stampin’ Blends and that was exactly the look I wanted. What can I say – I love using alcohol markers!
- Firstly, I made the card base from Pool Party cardstock. Then, I cut the lovely designer paper from the new Fine Art Floral collection and layered it onto Whisper White cardstock.
Now, the FUN Part!
- Firstly, I stamped and colored the large and small succulent images. Once I cut them out with the coordinating die, I thought it would be fun to just fill the entire card front with succulents, so I kept going!
- I stamped, colored and fussy cut three pots. Then, I cut out the succulent pieces from Mint Macaron cardstock and colored them with Stampin’ Blends to get a more realistic color, using Just Jade and Purple Posy.
- Once I had the succulents done, it was time to arrange them on the card. So, I found a wonderful patterned paper in Peony Garden collection and cut it with a stitched rectangle die three times to give it just a little dimension on the card. Then, the succulents took their places on the “table.”
- Finally, I popped the sentiment from Many Messages (already stamped and cut out with its coordinating dies) onto the card base.
Simply Succulents Bundle
SIMPLY SUCCULENTS STAMP SET
Are you a plant person? Do you love succulents? Do you love stamping? Grab the Simply Succulents Stamp Set for a grand adventure in stamping.
* 8 cling stamps
POTTED SUCCULENTS DIES
A large background piece, open dies, and more. The Potted Succulents Dies offer detail that will make you love your die-cut succulents more than you love your actual succulents!
* 13 dies
* Largest die: 5-3/8″ x 4″ (13.7 x 10.2 cm)
I’m sharing my card with these challenges:
- Inkspirational Challenges – Something in Your Home
- Paper Players Challenge – Something New
- Sweet Stampers Challenge – Anything Goes
- Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – New
- We Love Chocolate Baroque Challenge – Feminine
BEFORE YOU GO!
I hope you enjoyed my card today! If you did, please:
- Don’t forget to visit my Gallery for lots of ideas, and…
- And provide your contact information to receive a birthday card from me!
- NEW! Buy any of my cards just by sending me an email at debbie@secretstamper.com!
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- Finally, want to know what’s new with SU? Check it out HERE
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That aloe is Queen of the Card! Your DIL is going to love this! This is a real work of art, Debbie!
If only my house plants were so nicely arranged! Lovely layout and limited color palette! I’m sure your DIL will love it! Thanks for sharing at The Paper Players!
Wowzer! This card is so realistic, it jumps right off the paper. I love all of the fine details, there is a lot of love in this card. Thanks for the inspiration ☺️
A stunning card with gorgeous beautifully coloured stamped images love the subtle shades and your layout,your daughter in law will love it,thank you for your continued support and comments I really appreciate it.
Really liking the tone on tone colours here Debbie and so much lovely dimension, many thanks for sharing and joining our ‘Feminine’ theme at We Love Chocolate Baroque January challenge.
B x
Such lovely layering and colours! It’s a really beautiful card, thanks for joining us at We Love Chocolate Baroque challenge!
A totally gorgeous card, a lovely combination of stamps and die cuts in beautiful tones of green. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin’- Happy New Year!
Chris
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Wow….those succulents look REAL…especially the aloe! This is the first I’ve seen this bundle used and I know it will be a popular set! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at the Paper Players and my “new” challenge!
Oh, WOW, Debbie! This is stunning! I love the layering and the cutouts! So much dimension and texture! Thank you for playing with The Paper Players this week!
Perfect for our challenge and I love the layering of the plants. Thanks for joining in at Inkspirational Challenges.
Gorgeous green creation!
Thank you for sharing at We Love Chocolate Baroque;-))m
Fantastic card.
Thank you for joining us at the Sweet Stampers and i hope to see you again.
Hugs
Kuni
Debbie, this is incredible!!! Your plants look real! Such a beautiful card!
You’ve made a masterpiece here for your daughter-in-law’s birthday. The colors chosen are so lovely and the dimension. Just stunning!
Love love LOVE this card, Debbie!
This is such a beautiful card!
Have you used the large die for the succulents yet, the one that would cover the whole card? I was wondering how easily it cut and if there were bits of paper that were hard to remove?