It’s time to show off another of the retiring 2020-2022 In Colours! And this week I’m saying farewell to Cinnamon Cider. This colour along with Bumblebee, which I featured here last week, were challenging for me to use. I did end up using a lot of it though leading up to Christmas because I love the Frosted Gingerbread bundle. I’m going to miss that bundle this Christmas! Any way…
To get this design going picked a stamp set that I thought could work with this 2020-2022 In Colour. And in this case it was Timeless Tropical, which is also retiring soon. This helped me choose my other colour for this combination, Coastal Cabana. I really wanted to show off the Cinnamon Cider and thought the best way to do that would be by embossing some of the cardstock. The Bark 3D embossing folder has a nice texture to it that I thinks works well with the tropical theme. Tasteful Textile also would have worked.
Next I stamped the phrase and the palms trees. The palm trees I stamped off on a scrap piece of paper first because I needed a lighter shade so I could colour the leaves. To do this I used some Pear Pizzazz ink and a Blender Pen. It turned out really nicely! Then to bring in more Coastal Cabana I stamped a few of the small flowers. One on the same piece of cardstock as the phrase and palm trees. And the other two on a separate piece of cardstock which I then fussy cut.
To frame the phrase and palm trees I cut them out using one of the Stitched Rectangles dies. Then I popped it up, along with my two small flowers, using some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And for my little bit of bling I added a couple Opal Rounds to the centre of my flowers.
I hope you liked my farewell to Cinnamon Cider!
Some of the 2020-2022 In Colour products are starting to sell out. And so are a lot of the retiring stamp sets. So if some of your favourites are retiring don’t wait! Head over to my online shop and see if they’re still available.