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Swap cards for convention.  At Stampin’ Up conventions most people bring card fronts to trade with other demos and get new ideas and great card samples.  Here are my big shot flower cards in three different color designs.  The first two use the new Love Letter DSP on page 173.  The colors are basic black, riding hood red and very vanilla.  The flower is a bigz clear die called “Flower” found on page 207.  This is one of my favorites right now.  It is also used a lot for making quilts.  The third flower card uses Sweet & Sour Specialty DSP found on page 172.  These colors are very vanilla, pumpkin pie and rose red.  The cards also use several circle and oval punches on page 203.  I spent four days with my upline and good friend, Lori, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  We had a wonderful time!  I will show you my Christmas swap (only 153 days until Christmas, so think about what your Christmas card will be) and show you many of the beautiful swap cards I received over the next several days.  Please stop back often and leave a comment so I know there’s someone out there reading this. :)  Oh… I almost forgot,  all the flowers are embossed with the big shot embossing folder called vintage wallpaper on page 214.

  My kids were lucky enough to go boating a few weekends ago, so we made a thank you card to send to the hosts.  I used the SAB 2009 set, So Many Scallops, In Full Bloom is where I got the stem and the sentiment came from Sincere Salutations.  The paper and ink is Regal Rose, Riding Hood Red and Old Olive.  The flower print paper is a single sheet from Michael’s purchased last week.  It matches the Stampin Up colors really well.  The scallop circle punch is my favorite.  I also used the1/2 inch circle punch for the center of the flowers.  The flowers are raised with dimensionals.  I cased this card from Nancy Riley at istamp.com.  See her card here  I really like Nancy’s blog.  She always has awesome cards.  My son just taught me how to do the link so I can show the card I used for inspiration.

If you are a Stampin Up customer or hobby demo, don’t feel like you can’t use retired products.  I’m going to try and make a lot of cards using retired Stampin Up products so you can be inspired to use everything you already own.  If you make cards with retired products, please send me a link and I’ll show them here.

I want to have another LNO (Stamp A Stack) in August, so watch for details coming soon.

I was trying to make a “manly” Valentine card for my husband.

Stamps-Love You Much- from the Love You Much Bundle- 20% off through the end of January

Love Matters-Retired- “I love you the most” is from this set and fits the word window perfectly

Ink-Purely Pomegranate-Retired

Paper-Purely Pomegranate-Retired, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Accessories-Cuttlebug embossing folder, Word Window Punch, Purely Pomegranate stitched ribbon-Retired, Scallop Circle punch, 1 3/8 Circle punch

Recipe:

Stamps-Attitude Alphabet Upper-retired

Ink- Pink Passion

Paper-Pink Passion, Green Galore, Only Orange, Whisper White

Accessories- Cuttlebug embossing folder, Scallop Circle punch,  1 1/4″ and 1 3/8′ Circle punches, Crafters Tool Kit, Ribbon from Michael’s

I gave sets of six cards and envelopes to teachers as Christmas gifts.  They loved them.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Recipe:

Stamps-Elegant Thank You

Ink-Kiwi Kiss

Paper- DSP ski slope, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Baja Breeze

Accessories- Cuttlebug embossing folder, White gel Pen, Scallop Square punch, SU Soft Sky ribbon-retired

Did you notice the soft sky ribbon matched the Baja Breeze paper?

These 10 cards and envelopes were put together in a clear plastic box.  They are all done with different Cuttlebug embossing folders. Please see other monogram post for the recipe.  These colors are Stampin’ Up tempting turquoise and real red.