Sending Wishes

This is the final design in the Irresistibly Yours Specialty DSP.  Before using this design, I didn't think I liked it.  I used the Blackberry Bliss ink pad in a direct to paper technique to color the background.  I also used the Blackberry Bliss ink pad and blender pens to color in the flowers.  The center of the flowers is Hello Honey and the stems and leaves are Mossy Meadow.  I think this is my favorite card in my Irresistibly Yours series.

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Thinking of you

I started out coloring this beautiful image from Butterfly Basics with my Blendabilities.  Then the dreaded announcement came that Stampin' Up! was suspending the sale of these markers due to a quality issue from the manufacturer.  I had already colored the flower and now I had to decide what to do about the stem and leaves.  I pulled out my ink pad and my blender pen and proceeded to color it the way I did before Blendabilities were introduced.  The background paper is one of the designs from the Irresistibly Yours Specialty DSP.  I have one more design left to show you.

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Love Who You Are

Three tone card using Soft Sky, Marina Mist, and Night of Navy.  This is another one of the designs that comes in the Irresistibly Yours Specialty DSP.  I sure hope they offer something similar to this in the next annual catalog.  I just love it.  I used the sponge daubers to create this background and to do the different colors on the stamped image.  

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Happy Birthday

Using sponge daubers and ink pads, the stars have come out.  Yet another pattern in the Irresistibly Yours Specialty DSP.  I used the 1 1/4" punch to punch the balloons.  I really like the color combination of Rose Red, Perfect Plum, and Island Indigo for this card.

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Thinking of You

Yes, another background using the Irresistibly Yours Specialty DSP.  This time I used Cherry Cobbler to sponge the background.  I love the flowers in the Beautiful Bunch stamp set.  We also have a punch called Fun Flower that matches the stamp set.  The punch makes it easy to cut the flower out.  I don't know about you, but I am not good at fussy cutting.  The sentiment and leaf stamp are from the Crazy About You stamp set.  The die cut "you" is from the Hello You Thinlits dies.  This stamp set and the dies come in a bundle.  If you buy them in the bundle you can save 15%.  I just love buying the bundles offered by Stampin' UP!.  They save me money.    

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Paper Pumpkin On Sale

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Everything Will Be Okay

I am just loving this Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper you can get for free.  You can get a package for free when you spend $50.00, before shipping and taxes, during our big Sale-A-Bration event.  You have until March 31st to place your order.  Keep checking back to see cards made with the other designs in this paper pack. 

For this card, I sponged Crisp Cantaloupe on the resist paper and layered it on Whisper White.  I used Crisp Cantaloupe ink to stamp my sentiment from our stamp set, Really Good Greetings.  Stampin' UP! has a wonderful thick bakers twine in our 2013-2015 in colors.  I used my Big Shot and my Chalk Talk Framelits to cut out the sentiment and popped it up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

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