The new Annual catalogue is launching in just 4 days! And while I’m excited for all the goodies in the new catalogue I’m sad about some of the products that are retiring. There are some of my favourite go-tos leaving. So it’s time to say my final goodbyes! Over the past few weeks I’ve been sharing different projects featuring some of the products that are retiring. Here‘s one of my favourites.
For this project I used a few different products that are retiring. To start off my design I chose to feature two stamp sets that are retiring; Many Mates and Itty Bitty Birthdays. I’m definitely going to miss the Many Mates stamp set. I love the variety of the phrases and fonts. This is one that I’ll be holding on to for sure. Once I had an idea of how I wanted to use the stamp sets I picked my colour combination. For this one I wanted to make a more masculine/neutral card. So I went with Coastal Cabana and Night of Navy. I’ve never used this combination before and I really like it.
I wanted the other pieces to really pop and so I went with a larger Night of Navy border than I usually do. But I didn’t want it to be plain so I used the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder (this folder is sticking around, thankfully). I picked a couple of different phrases from the Itty Bitty Birthdays stamp set and alternated the ink colours to create a kind of DIY Designer Series Paper. Then I cut it out with one of the larger Stitched Rectangles dies, wrapped some Linen Thread around it and popped it up with a couple of Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To top it off I stamped the “It’s Your Day!” phrase from the Many Mates stamp set with Night of Navy. And then cut it out with one of my favourite go-tos that I’m very sad to say is retiring, the Stitched Shapes dies. It’s definitely going to take me a while to get over this one! The border behind it is the Natural Touch Specialty Paper which I cut out with the next die up. Here’s the full card…
I can’t believe it’s time to say our final goodbyes to some of these great products! Have you checked out the list of retiring products yet? If not, then you want to make sure to head over to my online shop ASAP!! If they haven’t sold out yet you only have until Monday May 3rd to get any of your favourite retiring products.