Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends Online Exclusives Blog Hop

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Stamping With Friends Online Exclusives Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends Blog Hop as we showcase products from the Online Exclusives. Our wonderful Design Team is excited to share their projects and ideas to help show you the amazing possibilities open to you with these products. As the name suggests, these products can only be found online and it's important to remember that they are available while supplies last. I hope our projects will encourage you to explore this exclusive collection of products.

Lately I have been having so much fun creating projects with the beautiful One Horse Open Sleigh Suite Collection. I just love how these products coordinate to make it simple and stress free to create with. I love the beautiful One Horse Open Sleigh 6"x6" Designer Series Paper and how the pretty Winter scenes make perfect backgrounds for simply beautiful cards. For today's card design, I chose to use one of the beautiful designs to create a stepped up clean and simple card design, that showcases how these amazing products work together to create a wonderful Christmas card.

Products Used:

One Horse Open Sleigh Suite Collection (item #162130)

- Horse & Sleigh Bundle (item #162126)

- One Horse Open Sleigh 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #162118)

-Adhesive Backed Snowflake Assortment (item #162129)

Misty Moonlight Cardstock (item # 153081)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Vellum Cardstock (item #101856)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush (item #141897)

Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels (item #158130)

Measurements:

Misty Moonlight Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Detailed Tree die cut with the Horse & Sleigh Dies

One Horse Open Sleigh Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Basic White Cardstock

4 Snowbanks die cut with the Horse & Sleigh Dies

Vellum Cardstock

Tag die cut with the Tailored Tags Dies

The hardest part about creating with this wonderful suite of products, is choosing which design from the One Horse Open Sleigh Designer Series Paper to use. For this card design, I chose the design that gives the feeling of a Winter sunrise/sunset with the warm glow in the sky in the background. I love using Vellum cardstock with this paper pack to minimize covering up the beautiful scenes and this time I chose to use an old favorite, Tailor Made Tags Dies, to create a simple tag for my sentiment. To step up the tag, I die cut 2 each of the snowbanks with the Horse & Sleigh Dies to create some dimension in the foreground of the card design. I heat embossed the sentiment from the Horse & Sleigh stamp set using Gold embossing powder, positioning the sentiment towards the top of the tag, to allow room of the snowbanks along the bottom. I attached two of the snowbanks to the reverse side of the vellum tag and the other two on the front of the tag, offsetting them so that it allowed the back layers to show through and create multiple layers. I attached the Misty Moonlight tree die cut to the right side of the card front, near the grass peeking through the snow. I attached the vellum tag to the card front so that it partially overlapped the tree and hid the adhesive behind the snowbanks so that it wouldn't show. To embellish the card, I added several white Snowflakes and added Iridescent Rhinestones to the centers of the snowflakes for a touch of sparkle. To help hold down the vellum tag, I also added a Mini Glue Dot behind each of the snowflakes to anchor it. I love how soft and pretty this card design turned out and even though I have used a Christmas sentiment for my card, you could also use this design for a variety of other occasions.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will inspire you to explore the wonderful products available in the Online Exclusives. It's a wonderful way to create beautiful projects and mix and match with old favorites from the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog.

Please take the time to visit my fellow Design Team members to see their wonderful projects but clicking on the links in the Roll Call List below. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you enjoyed about our projects and what products you would like to try.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.