SHARE IT SUNDAY BLOG HOP

Today I am excited to participate in my first Blog Hop ever! I hope you will hop along with me for Share it Sunday sponsored by Crafty Collaborations!  

The card I am sharing today is made with the Adorable Owls Stamp set and the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper (DSP).

These little owls are so cute!  Ms. Owl is flying over a beautiful wreath which was fussy cut from the Dainty Flowers DSP.  She is colored with Smokey Slate Stampin' Blends and then fussy cut.  Her little hairbow was made by stamping the bow tie from a different Owl and coloring it with Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends. There are many colors in the DSP that I could have chosen for her bow, but Ms. Owl insisted that she is royalty -- so she wanted a "purple" hairbow.

Ms. Owl's wreath was fussy cut from the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper (DSP).  If you love flowers, you will love this paper collection.  And even better, you can get it for FREE with a $50 order during Sale-A-Bration!  The front of the card base is the reverse side of this same DSP.  I love the watercolor look of this design, and it makes a pretty backdrop for the wreath and Ms. Owl.

To complete the card front I added a small bow from Fresh Freesia Ribbon, a Fresh Freesia Opal round on Ms Owl's hairbow, and a couple of additional Opal Rounds on the card front.  Can you find the one hidden on a flower?

The sentiment is also from the Adorable Owls Stamp Set.

In keeping with my mantra of "No Naked Insides", I decorated the inside of my card by adding a strip of the same "watercolor" Designer Series Paper.  It is a quick & simple way to add a little pizzaz to the inside of a card.

Behind the inside of the card, you can see a little peek of the envelope.  I used the same watercolor design paper from Dainty Flowers DSP to decorate the flap.

If you would like a FREE TUTORIAL with more details on how to make this card, you can download a copy by using this link.

I hope you will hop on over to the next participant of the Blog Hop.  Enjoy your Sunday!

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Below is a List of the Products I used for this card.

Product List

Adorable Owls Cling Stamp Set (English) [160269]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Starry Sky 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159263]
Dainty Flowers 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160834]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154904]	Parakeet Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [159220]
So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154905]	Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155518]	Stampin' Blends Color Lifter [144608]	Stripes & Splatters 3 D Embossing Folders [157980]
Fresh Freesia 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155615]	2021 2023 In Color Opal Rounds [159185]	Paper Snips [103579]

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IT'S YOUR DAY!

The 2023 January - April Mini Catalog is now LIVE!   And Sale-A-Bration has begun.  There is no more waiting to get these cute little ADORABLE OWLS that I have featured this week.  Also, the many additional Sneak Peek Products I have been sharing not only this week, but for the last couple of weeks are now available.  The most difficult thing is going to be deciding which items you want.  If your wish list is long, consider the awesome New Demonstrator Promotion going on during Sale-a-Bration.  See yesterday's post or the short video below for more details!

My last Adorable Owls card for this week is a colorful and cheery Fun Fold card.

I decided to let the Designer Series Paper (DSP) do most of the work for me today.  This is the Design a Daydream DSP that can be selected as a Host Stampin' Rewards and you will find it in the current Annual Catalog.  Do you really need to host an event to get this paper?  No, as long as you submit a qualifying order you will receive Stampin' Rewards and this DSP can be received for free.  How much is a qualifying order you wonder?  For this paper, the order needs to be about $180 USD (before shipping and tax).  The value of this DSP is $30.  It includes 48 sheets of 12" x 12" DSP and coordinates with many Stampin' Up! Colors.

My card today is an easy Fun Fold.

The above image shows a bit better how the fun fold works.  The square focal point opens to the right and the narrower striped flap opens to the left.

I used the Party Owl again today, but this time I also gave him a tie by stamping and cutting it out from one of the other Owls.  My Happy New Year card used the owl with the tie.  

I used mainly Smokey Slate Blends to color my owl today, but to see all the colors I used, please download the FREE Tutorial.  It also includes all the cutting and scoring information along with step-by-step directions on how to make this Fun Fold Card.  Don't worry.  It's amazingly easy and a terrific way to use some of the Designer Series Paper stash that you have!

Because there is so much DSP on this card, there was no need to do anything special to decorate the inside of the card.  A simple piece of Basic White cardstock stamped with a sentiment was all that was needed.

Please see the following Product List for more details on the products I used.  You can click on any item to learn more about that item.

Product List

Adorable Owls Cling Stamp Set (English) [160269]	Celebrating You Cling Stamp Set (English) [158028]	Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [122924]	Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133675]
Design A Daydream 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Host Designer Series Paper [159161]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154904]
Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883]	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894]	Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155518]	Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon [151326]

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See the 3 options on how to join Stampin' Up! during Sale-A-Bration and take advantage of this limited time opportunity.  Sale-A-Bration runs from January 5 through February 28, and once Sale-A-Bration ends, this promotion will end as well.  

AN OWL FLY BY

I'm giving you a sneak peek at another Sale-a-Bration item today.  Of course, I'm using this week's featured stamp set again, Adorable Owls, but the gorgeous floral Designer Series Paper called Favored Flowers is also a Sale-a-Bration item.  This paper has lots of beautiful deep rich colors including one of my favorites, Blackberry Bliss.  It also coordinates with a new bundle in the Mini card Fragrant Flowers.  If you love flowers, this set may call your name!

You can see the beautiful Favored Flowers paper peeking out from behind the Split Card Textures die cut.  This particular floral pattern has Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, and Evening Evergreen colors, so I used those to choose the color of my cardstock.  The card base is made from Evening Evergreen and the die cut is from Petal Pink.

I struggle with picking color combinations and using colors from Designer Series Paper (DSP) makes it so much easier.   Always remember that DSP make a great color coach!

Today, I decided to use the third owl in the set, this cute little flying owl.  I also experimented a bit with different colors.  I'll admit, I did some Googling to figure out which colors owls come in, but after looking at lots of pictures, I still wasn't sure about colors.  The photos show such beautiful color variation on the feathers, but that level of artistic skill is beyond me.  To see which Stampin' Blends colors I used, please click on this link for the Free Tutorial which will give you all the details.

The dots behind the Owls were made with the Hand-Drawn Dots stamp.  I received this stamp during Prize Patrol at OnStage in November.  I wasn't sure how I would use it, but after playing with it this week on a couple of cards (this was the first if you missed it), I really like it!  

The upper Petal Pink corner of the card was looking a little blah, but I wasn't sure what to do about it.  I thought about embossing it with an embossing folder but wasn't sure that the die cut section of the cardstock would survive embossing.  Then I remembered the VersaMark stamping technique.  The VersaMark gives a nice subtle effect.  I forget about using that technique.  The VersaMark dots added just the contrast it needed.  Mom would have said, "It just does something to it!"

I thought that the sentiment that says HOOT! HOOT, You're so cute! was really adorable, but I wasn't sure who I would send a "you're so cute!" card to, so I used the masking technique to hide that part of the sentiment before I Heat Embossed it with white embossing powder on the Evening Evergreen cardstock.

Since I'm running a low on Thank You cards, I added a simple Thank You stamped on the inside of the card in Evening Evergreen ink.  This sentiment is from a new sentiment set in the Spring Mini called Happy Labels.  It has 12 very nice versatile sentiments.  

I probably need another sentiment set like I need a hole in my head.  It's an addiction.  Some people have a Designer Series Paper addiction.  I have a sentiment set addiction!

Below I have listed the items used on this card that will become available January 5 with the launch of the new mini catalog and the start of Sale-a-Bration.

Adorable Owls - SAB Item #160269

Hand-Drawn Dots - Mini Catalog Item #160508

Happy Labels - Mini Catalog Item #160685 (C) or 160586 (P)

Current Products used are listed below.

As always, if you ever have any questions about the cards I share, please don't hesitate to ask.  I am here to help!

Product List

Split Card Textures Dies [159162]	Evening Evergreen 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155574]	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad [155576]	Mango Melody Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154888]	Bronze & Ivory Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154922]
Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154906]	Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154881]	Stampin’ Blends Medium Deep Combo [159461]	Stampin’ Blends Medium Combo [159462]
Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154904]	Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels [158130]	Basics Embossing Powders [155554]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]

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