Kylie Bertucci's Monthly International Blog Highlights April 2023

Welcome to Kylie Bertucci's Monthly International Blog Highlights for April as we showcase Thank You cards to help inspire you. Talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from around the world are sharing their projects and ideas that will help you to create your own beautiful projects. 

For my card design, I decided to create a "No Stamping" card using products that will soon be retiring from the 2022-2023 Annual Catalog. Merry Merlot is sadly leaving us and I love the richness of this color and thought I would add Gold Metallic die cuts to create the design for my card. The tone on tone design of the designer series paper creates a pretty background and I embossed the focal panel using the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder to add some texture. 

Products Used:

Amazing Thanks Dies (item #157816) Retiring

Flowers of Home Dies (item #157938) Retiring

Deckled Rectangles Dies (item #159173)

Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder (item #154317)

Neutrals 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #159257) Retiring

Gold & Rose Gold 6"x6" Metallic Specialty Paper (item #156844) Retiring

Merry Merlot Cardstock (item #146979) Retiring 

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds (item #159185) Retiring 

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Merry Merlot Cardstock

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

Focal Layer die cut with the Deckled Rectangles Dies

Merry Merlot Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Gold Metallic Specialty Paper

Detailed Leaves & Flowers die cut with the Deckled Rectangles Dies

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to create your own beautiful Thank You cards. There are so many wonderful products on the Last Chance Retirement List to explore to spark your creativity.

I would love it if you would vote for my card design as part of this month's International Blog Highlights. Just click the Vote button below to vote for my card (# ). You can vote for up to 5 cards each day over the next week, so please take the time to visit with my fellow Demonstrators and share the love.

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
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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Global Stamping Friends February Blog Hop Stamp Free

Welcome to the Global Stamping Friends February Blog Hop as we explore the theme "Stamp Free". This theme can be taken in several different ways, including creating a project with "Free stamps" like the free stamp sets available during Sale-a-bration or perhaps a project which does not use any stamps. Our wonderful Design Team members will be sharing their take on this month's theme to share their projects and ideas to help inspire you to get creative. 

For my card today, I decided to go with a no stamping design using the Amazing Thanks Dies, an old favorite from the 2022-2023 Annual Catalog. I love the flowing script of the words in this die set and I thought they would work well with the pretty designs in the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper, a Level 1 Sale-a-bration Reward you can earn free with a qualifying order ($50 in the U.S.) I added a vellum oval to create a soft layer behind the sentiment and some die cut leaves to step up the design. I love the organic feel of this layout and how simple it was to create. 

Products Used:

Amazing Thanks Dies (item #157816)

Framed Florets Dies (item #160523)

Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper (item #160834) Sale-a-bration Level 1 Reward

Old Olive Cardstock (item #100702)

Mossy Meadow Cardstock (item #133676)

Lovely Layers Vellum 3 3/4" x 5" (item #158919)

Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154892)

Basic Rhinestone Jewels (item #144220)

Mini Glue Dots (item #103683)

Measurements:

Old Olive Cardstock

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

Mossy Meadow Cardstock

Sentiment Words die cut with the Amazing Thanks Dies

Assorted Leaves die cut with the Framed Florets Dies

Lovely Layers Vellum - Plain

Large Oval die cut with the Framed Florets Dies

Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper 

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

This pretty monochromatic card design focuses on the beautiful designer series paper background and the assortment of die cuts that help create the focal design. I chose Mossy Meadow and Old Olive from the colors used in the designer series paper to create this card. I chose to use the Lovely Layers Vellum for the oval because I love the size of the pieces of vellum in this pack. It's a wonderful way to have a supply of vellum on hand ready to use. For the sentiment, I trimmed the Thanks die cut to remove the "s" and then adhered it and the You die cut to the vellum oval. Using Mini Glue Dots, I attached the vellum oval to the designer series paper card front, hiding the Glue Dots behind the letters so that they don't show through the vellum. I added the die cut leaves to the top left and bottom right corners of the vellum oval, hiding the ends of the stems behind the sentiment letters. To complete the design, I colored several Basic Rhinestones with the Dark Old Olive Stampin' Blends Marker and added them to the vellum oval and several of the leaves. This clean and simple Thank You card has an elegant feel to it that would also work for other occasions. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore creating projects "stamp free". There are so many wonderful options to choose from. 

Now it's time to visit Jan's blog and see what she has to share with us. Just click on the Next button below to visit her blog. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

Roll Call List
1. Kimberley Morris
2. Tricia Butts
3. Jan Musselman
4. Marieke Bart

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Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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Stamping With Friends November Blog Hop CASEing A Demonstrator

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends November Blog Hop with our challenge to "CASE a Demonstrator". What is CASE? It stands for Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit, and is basically a great way to get inspiration when you are creating your own projects. Projects created by Stampin' Up! Demonstrators can provide you with amazing ideas to help spark your creativity. Visit with our Design Team members as they share their ideas and projects to help you get started. 

The hardest part about today's blog hop project, was choosing which Stampin' Up! Demonstrator to CASE. There are so many wonderful, talented demonstrators from around the world that inspire me on a daily basis, and I could have chosen anyone of them for today's project. In the end, I discovered this beautiful Christmas card designed by Australian Demonstrator, Catherine Proctor, and I just knew it was the one I wanted to CASE for this blog hop. You can click here to see Catherine's original post.

For my card design, I chose to use the layout from the original card design to create a bright and cheerful Thank You card. For the colors, I used Starry Sky, Orchid Oasis, Tahitian Tide and Sweet Sorbet from the 2022-2024 In Colors and I love the variety of patterns in the 2022-2024 In Colors 6"x6" Designer Series Paper that helps to add wonderful texture to the design. This beautiful clean and simple card would work well as a masculine Thank You Card to show your appreciation. 

Products Used:

Wildlife Wonder stamp set (item #157923)

Amazing Thanks Dies (item #157816)

Stitched Rectangles Dies (item #151820)

Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder (item #154317)

2022-2024 In Colors 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #159253)

Sweet Sorbet Cardstock (item #159268)

Starry Sky Cardstock (item #159263)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Sweet Sorbet Classic Ink Pad (item #159216)

2022-2024 In Color Matte Decorative Dots (item #159186)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Sweet Sorbet Cardstock

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

Thanks Outline die cut with the Amazing Thanks Dies

Starry Sky Cardstock

Detailed Thanks die cut with the Amazing Thanks Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" Embossed with the Painted Textures 3D Embossing Folder

Sentiment Label die cut with the Stitched Rectangles Dies

2022-2024 In Color Designer Series Paper

3/4" x 4" - Orchid Oasis Polka Dot pattern

3/4" x 4" - Tahitian Tide Plaid Pattern

3/4" x 4" - Tahitian Tide Polka Dot Pattern

3/4" x 4" - Starry Sky Stripe Pattern

To create my version of Catherine's card, I chose to use three of the In Colors for the strips to create the background design. I love that the tone on tone patterns add subtle texture to the card front without being overwhelming. For the Basic White cardstock, I wanted to add more texture to the card front, so I embossed it using the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder. I arranged the strips and adhered them to the card front in a staggered arrangement similar to the original card design. For the sentiment, I chose to use the Thanks die cuts using the Amazing Thanks Dies. The contrast between the Sweet Sorbet and Starry Sky layers really makes it pop against the card front background and coordinating with the Sweet Sorbet card base. The stamped sentiment from the Wildlife Wonder stamp set, was stamped with Sweet Sorbet Classic ink onto a Basic White Stitched Rectangle. I attached both sentiments using Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to the card front to add some depth and dimension to the design. To finish off the design, I added some Sweet Sorbet and Orchid Oasis Matte Decorative Dots to the card front. I love how this card design turned out and how I was able to take the layout from Catherine's beautiful Christmas card and transform it into this wonderful thank you card. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to try CASEing as a way to spark your creativity and create your own beautiful projects. There are so many possibilities to explore. 

Please take the time to visit with my fellow Design Team members to view their wonderful projects. Just use the Roll Call List below to find your way along our blog hop. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. 

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
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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