Enjoy the little things!

Hi Everyone! I thought I would share a quick card today.  I made it when I was playing around with different embossing techniques. I wanted to try partial embossed area as we were shown at the Stampin' Up! OnStage event.  I decided to call this a dipped embossed look, because it sort of looks like how my shortbread cookies look when I dip them into chocolate.  The shininess of the gold makes it hard to photograph the words well, but you really can read it just fine in real life :)   You can see how to do the dipped emboss technique on my blog post from Yesterday.

I based my card off of one that I got from Andra Withers at the Stampin' Up! home office for my help with the displays at the event.  I thought it was so cute I had to make one myself ! Thanks Andrea!
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Enjoy the Little Things ~ Layering Love stamp set

Hello everyone!  Tomorrow is Memorial Day and my family and I will be out marching in the town parade.  My oldest will march with the band and my husband and middle child will march with the cub scouts and my daughter and I are debating whether to be spectators or marchers and go with the scouts.  We will also be having burgers and apple pie, s'mores and potato chips. I love the little things like town parades and apple pie don't you?  Some of you know that my husband served in Iraq and so Memorial Day is a special day to remember loss as well and those special things like parades and s'mores help to make the day a happier one.

 I received a swap card from Jeanna Bohanon that featured this stamp from Layering Love and I knew I had to make one like it.  She used some different papers and Washi tape but the design is basically the same.  Jeanna and I were both part of a group of demonstrators who were display stampers for the recent Stampin' Up! event. We all got together to create a Pinterest page that features cards that we made for the event.  You can see all the cards here, as well as the fun card by Jeanna  that inspired mine.

I used papers from the new Designer series paper 'Pop of Pink'.  This is a really fun paper pack and I know I will be using it often.











The Washi tape is also from the Pop of Pink collection.  I love the little tiny hearts in Melon Mambo and Basic Black.

I added some Whisper White cardstock to the insides of the cards and dressed them up with more Washi tape at the bottom.







The Layering Love stamp set features large sentiment stamps, great for cards as well as home decor and scrapbook pages.  You can see the full set on June 1st when the catalog goes live!  I hope you will check it out!  Let me know if you need a copy!!
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