Ferns and Botanicals ... a Super Soft Version ... and a Surprise

Sometimes, it's fun to design a card that is super soft and pretty.  That's what I have for you today.  This one holds a little surprise for you, too! 

The ferns are from one of my most favorite stamp sets ever ... Butterfly Basics.

The leaves are cut from our Botanical Builder Framelits Dies.  I cut them from watercolor paper and then 'painted' them with various shades of reinkers.  They are attached with dimensionals.  I used the same DSP for the card and the envelope liner.

Did you figure out the surprise yet?  I used our Filter Paper for the stamped ferns layer!  It's artistically rumpled and then attached to a piece of white CS.  It gives the look of tissue paper but it's even easier to work with it on a project.  Please do give this a try.  Filter paper is good for more than you may realize.

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Getting Your Sparkle On, Part 7

Today's sparkle is brought to you by some gorgeous Glimmer Paper and some Iced Rhinestone Embellishments.  My favorite part, in addition to all the sparkle, is all the die cut pieces. 

These die cut pieces are all cut from the same set of framelits I used in my previous post.  I'm not sure I'll ever need to put these away because I'll be using them so much.  They are my favorite product from our Occasions Catalog this year!  I used 2 colors in my die cut leaves, to echo the 2 shades used in the leaves on the DSP. 

In the close-up, notice how the flower pieces are cut to be dimensional.  This is all done with one little flower framelit!  I used one of our Iced Rhinestone Embellishments in the center of the flower.  Pretty!

I added a row of tiny rhinestones to complete my design.

Next up...
Using Wink of Stella on DSP and some more gorgeous Glitter Ribbon.  See you then!

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Flurry of Wishes with a Highlighted Snowflake

Today's post is brought to you by our Flurry of Wishes... and me:)  Before we go further, if you are local and attended my Christmas Open House, I have your order ready for pick-up.  I'm having trouble reaching a couple of people and hope you'll catch this reminder. 
So now, for my card ...
This was a fun card to make and came together pretty quickly. 

I've used Lost Lagoon and Island Indigo, with a layer of white between them, to brighten the card and to bring out the white in my highlighted snowflake.

I used our white Signo Gel Pen to highlight each section of my snowflake.

If you look closely, you can catch a bit of the shimmer mist that I spritzed over the top layer of the card, to add some extra sparkle and shimmer.  The Iced Rhinestone embellishment is the perfect touch to finish off my card.

I'm almost finished with everything for my Christmas Retreat this Saturday.  I can't wait for another fun day of stamping with friends.

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My Snowflake Banner ... A Fun Project

Instead of a card or scrapbook project, I have a banner project for you today.  It's fun to make and pretty quick and easy... so I kept making another and another and ...

I used 2 alternating designs for my banner pieces.  Here is the first design. 

Here is the second design I used.  I embossed the wooden Snowflake Elements with Gold EP.

It's pretty difficult to get a shot of the banner in place, because it's pretty long.  I think I ended up with 26 pieces altogether.

The banner runs the entire width of my studio.

Click here to see a fun video from Stampin' Up! on alternate ways to use our Spider Web doilies.

Above and below:  images from the video...

So... now it's time for you to order up some of these fun doilies and get to work.  Enjoy!

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