We Create January Blog Hop New Year New Look

Happy 2024! I am excited to celebrate the New Year with a fun new project I have created for the We Create January Blog Hop as we showcase our theme, "New Year, New Look". With the new January-April 2024 Mini Catalog and 2024 Sale-a-bration Catalog due to launch on January 4th, this is a perfect opportunity for me to share with you some Sneak Peeks of brand new products to help you get excited to create in the New Year.

Now that the holidays are over, it's time to focus on creating cards for the other special occasions we celebrate throughout the year. I wanted to create a pretty birthday card using the new Filled With Happiness stamp set and I paired it with one of the beautiful new Sale-a-bration products, the Stippled Softly Designer Series Paper, which you can earn Free with a qualifying order. I love that this new stamp set coordinates with the Modern Oval Punch, which I am happy to say, is carrying over from the September-December 2023 Mini Catalog. To help step up this clean and simple card design, I chose to use heat embossing to make the sentiment pop and Watercolor Pencils to color in the focal image. I decided to skip the embellishments for this design and instead added some Clear Wink of Stella to the bird, leaves and berries for a touch of shimmer. 

Products Used:

Filled With Happiness stamp set (item #162915) Sneak Peek

Modern Oval Punch (item #162234) Carry Over Product

Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper (item #162975) Sale-a-bration Sneak Peek

Lost Lagoon Cardstock (item #133679)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Lost Lagoon Classic Ink Pad (item #161678)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Embossing Powders (item #155554)

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 1 (item #161700)

Blender Pens (item #102845)

Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush (item #141897)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Lost Lagoon Cardstock

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

Sentiment Layer - 2 1/2" x 3 1/4"

Basic White Cardstock

Focal image punched out with the Modern Oval Punch

Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

To start off the New Year, I thought I would share how to create a clean and simple card design that you can easily duplicate to personalize your cards as well as use other images from the Filled With Happiness stamp set to create designs for other occasions. The Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper has so many beautiful designs that will provide you with a wide variety of options to help you create so many pretty cards. I used a piece of one of these designs for my card front and I love how the Lost Lagoon card base makes this paper pop. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image onto the Lost Lagoon cardstock using White embossing powder to coordinate with the card design. For the focal image, I stamped the image onto a piece of Basic White cardstock using Lost Lagoon Classic ink and then I punched out the center image using the Modern Oval Punch. To add a touch of color, I used the Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Blue Watercolor Pencils to color the image and then gently blended with a Blender Pen to smooth out the coloring. To add a touch of shimmer, I added some Clear Wink of Stella to the bird, leaves and berries and then added the oval to the center of the sentiment panel using Stampin' Dimensionals. This pretty card is easy to assemble and fun to create. I hope this design helps inspire you to create your own beautiful designs.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help you get excited to start creating your own beautiful cards to send to the people you love this year. There are so many wonderful possibilities to explore in the new January-April 2024 Mini Catalog and 2024 Sale-a-bration Catalog to help spark your creativity. Remember that these catalogs launch on January 4th and you can earn Sale-a-bration products, like the Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper, for Free with a qualifying order. If you have any questions, please contact me and I would be happy to help. 

Now it's time to visit Heather's blog and see what she has created to share with us. Just click on the Next button below to visit her blog. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you enjoyed about our projects. 

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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. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
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