Share What You Love – Gotta Have It All

Stampin’ Up! Pre-order

Welcome to our May Blog Hop.  This month our theme is Stampin’ Up! Pre-Order.  As an Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, we get to order certain items from the upcoming new annual catalogue, before it is released, this is Stampin’ Up! Pre-Order.   If you have hopped over from Carrie at The Inky Nook, then you may already have gained lots of inspiration, I hope to offer you more.

I have chosen the ‘Share What You Love’ suite.  this is an amazing suite that uses flowers and fresh spring/summer colours, that coordinate in that wonderful Stampin’ Up! way.  I adore the delicate flowers in the Designer series Paper, (DSP), they remind me of wild flowers growing in a meadow.  I can picture it now, lying in the tall grass with the hills behind.  Bees humming and birds singing, on a warm spring day, with the sun high in the sky.  Oh someone take me there  now!

The suite has two stamp sets, ‘Love What You Do’ and ‘Make A Difference’.  ‘Love What You Do’ has a  wonderful watercolour image, four beautiful sentiments and several delicate flowers.  These make gorgeous focal points as well as marvellous backgrounds.  ‘Make A Difference’ has three full alphabets, in upper and lower case, and all the punctuation you could wish for.  Plus # tags galore!  Just perfect for adding that personal touch.

To complement these stamp sets perfectly, there is also an embossing folder, artisan pearls, velvet ribbon, pearlized dollies, an embellishment kit and the DSP.  Everything you could want to make wonderful cards and gifts.  I have made many projects with this suite and I have chosen three to share with you today.  These would make a beautiful gift for anyone.

For the card use an A6 ‘Grapefruit Grove’ card base, stamp small flowers along top and bottom in ‘Grapefruit Grove’ ink.  I love tone on tone.  Cut a layer of ‘Mint Macaron’ card stock and a slightly smaller piece of DSP, adhere together and wrap bakers twine (from the embellishment kit) around twice.  Adhere to your card base, in the middle.  Punch out a ‘Whisper White’ circle and a slightly larger ‘Grapefruit Grove’ circle.  Stamp your chosen sentiment and small flower image onto ‘Whisper White’ circle and adhere to ‘Grapefruit Grove’ circle.  Using ‘Dimensionals’ place in the centre of your card.  Finish with a pearl, placed in centre of flower.

I made a ‘milk carton’ gift box and decorated a note book to complete my set, using matching DSP.  I think this set looks fantastic and I’m sure whoever receives it will be very happy!

This suite is available to you on early release, until the 31st May.  There are three bundles available; ‘Just Getting Started’, ‘A Little Bit More’ and ‘Gotta Have It All’.  Something for everyone and every budget.  Each bundle comes with  at least one FREE item.

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I hope you found some inspiration and look forward to next time!

Blog hop list:

Caro at Craft with Caro

Gina at Emerald Kreations

Ginny at Celebrate the Journey

Cheryl at Stampin’ n Crafting with Cheryl Diana

Deborah at DJC Creativity

Sandra at Sandra’s Stamp & Craft Studio

Carrie at The Inky Nook

Leighsa at Leighsa’s Loft