Lovely Arrangements Sneak Peek

Hey everyone!  Is it time to start counting down the hours until the new year yet?  It's getting very close, but not quite there yet.  The new 2026 Jan - April Mini Catalog still has a few days left until January 6 when it goes live.  Have you gotten your catalog yet?  If not and you're one of my customers, let me know please so I can get one to you.  Today's card features one of the new Online Exclusive items that will be available in January.  So, let's take a sneak peek at the Lovely Arrangements stamp and die bundle.  It's a great basic set with nine sentiments that are very generic and two flowers and one leaf cluster to round out the set.  And wait until you check out the dies.  There are two really fun dies that I'm sure will be showing up in all kinds of places.

I've been focusing on getting cards ready to make for the shut-ins at church.  For some reason, I seem to be drawn to a blue and white theme this month for all the designs.  That just seems to be really cheerful to me right now, so that's what I'm doing.  I saw a card that Alisa Tilsner made that ended up being the inspiration for this card.  Of course, I made a multitude of changes from her original card so thought you'd like to see my version.  Thank you, Alisa, for getting my mojo working with your lovely inspiring idea.

The card base here is Basic White that measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and is scored at 4 1/4" and folded in half.  Next is a layer of Basic White that measures 5 1/4" x 4".  This layer is embossed with the newish Beautiful Pattern Embossing Folder.  I love the raised dot design that seems to enhance so many cards.  After embossing, this layer was attached to the Basic White card base using "green glue".

Since I was going for a blue and white with a pop of color theme, I looked around in my piles of DSP to find something that worked.  Countryside Inn DSP has lots of blue and white prints to choose from.  You can barely tell the print on the two 1/2" x 4" strips that I added to the card base.  These have a tone-on-tone navy stripe that was subtle but still gave some extra interest to the design.  They are attached with "green glue".

The larger piece of navy DSP print measures 5" x 2 1/2".  Make sure if your pattern is directional here that you pay attention to how you cut it.   Before attaching this to the card front, a little bit of pizzazz was added to it.  I mentioned a couple really fun extra dies in the set.  There is a die with four rows of six dots each that are all attached together.  I cut a strip that was only about 2 dots wide.  One row of the dots was attached behind the navy DSP print using adhesive so there was only 1 row of dots for the design.  Then this layer was attached to the card front with "green glue".

Next the two full flowers and 1 half flower were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored.  I used Daffodil Delight Light & Dark Blending Pens on the flowers.  Instead of carefully blending in the colors, I went with a 'messy coloring' technique.  You scribble in the flower centers with the darker color and add quick strokes from the center out on the petals.  Then you go back and just make strokes out from the center again with the lighter color.  If needed, add another layer of dark color on the flower centers - which I did.

The flowers were die-cut with the coordinating dies in the set.  Then leaves were die-cut from Granny Apple Green cardstock with two different leaf dies.

While doing the die-cutting, I also used the larger label die in the set to cut a Basic White label.  Then stamped one of the sentiments from the set on the label with Night of Navy ink.

Now it was time to finish adding all the bits and pieces to the card front.  Two of the flowers were attached flat with adhesive.  And the lowest flower was added with a Dimensional in the center to pop it up.  The leaves were tucked in around the flowers to finish the design.  I love the look of navy and white with that pop of yellow.  So cheerful!

The sentiment label was added to the card using Dimensionals.

For the added bling on the design, I used three of the Holographic Dots.  They really do a good job of enhancing the yellows and greens on this card.

Hope you liked this sneak peek showing one of the new items that will be available in the Online Exclusive area of the Stampin'Up! website.  There are so many lovely new items, but this one in particular was calling out to me!

One other important piece of news for you today.  Do you remember Bonus Days last year?  Well, they are coming back in January.  From January 6th through February 2nd, for every $50 you spend, you will earn a coupon worth $5.  The coupons must be redeemed anytime between February 3rd through the 28th.  Make sure you don't lose those coupons as you'll need the code on them to redeem them.  Woo Hoo!  Start getting your lists ready and have fun shopping on January 6th!

FYI - you still earn Rewards on your orders during this time also!

If I don't get another post in before the end of the year - have a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Happy stamping and creating,

Sharon