Stampin' Up! Fabulous Florets and Beyond the Garden DSP

How about some bright happy flowers for summer? The lovely Fabulous Florets stamp set and the Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper from the new Stampin' Up! 2012 Summer Mini Catalogue is just what you need. This DSP features lots of bright happy colours like Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Wild Wasabi, and repeats the gorgeous pattern in the Fabulous Florets stamp set. Every gardener will love the fabulous quote in this stamp set "The earth laughs in flowers " by E.E. Cummings.

In this card above I have used the Fabulous Florets stamp set, Beyond the Garden DSP, the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Curly Label Punch and the word is from Fabulous Phrases stamp set. I just love this stamp set for greetings. It gives me so many great words to use on cards. Sometimes a single word is all you need.

Now you know how Stampin' Up! loves to coordinate it's products, so we also have a gorgeous embossing folder which matches the Fabulous Florets stamp set and Beyond the Garden DSP. It's called Flower Garden Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

In this card I have used the embossing folder as the focal point. I trimmed about 1/2" off the right hand side of the front of the card and then used the Scallop Border Punch on that edge. I then placed a 1" wide strip of DSP on the inside back, so that it showed to the right of the border when the card was closed. My greeting is again from Fabulous Phrases, this time embossed in Melon Mambo onto Whisper White, cut out using the Word Window punch and then nested onto a coordinating piece of Wild Wasabi cut from the Modern Label punch . I'd be lost without my punches. They make for such quick and easy cards!

Here is this card again with the exact same card in Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi.

You might notice when you get your embossing folder, that the image that will emboss is on the right hand side of the card front. I preferred it on the left, so played around with my trusty BigShot to get the placement where I wanted it. It just meant turning the card and embossing folder on it's side and embossing over the card fold. Here's how it looked when I embossed it (I still had to put the last perspex plate on top in this photo).

and here's the inside of the cards too:

I hope that has given you lots of great ideas for using these fabulous new products. Give me a call or email me if you would like to order these products today by mail order and have them sent straight to you anywhere in Australia. You can view the new Summer Mini catalogue online  to see these gorgeous new products, or email me  and I would be happy to pop a copy of the Summer Mini Catalogue in the mail for you as well.

Be back soon with some more inspiration, until then stay happy!

Claire xx

Comments

[Bronwyn Eastley]

What beautiful cards, Claire, so fresh and summery.

[Nikki Spencer]

These are great Claire, love the bright summer colours and thanks for sharing the bigshot/Embossing folder tip, ...duh! makes perfect sense now l can see it, l may actually use it more now..:0)

[Nerida]

These are beautiful Claire, such a gorgeous set for Summer and I love the two designs!