Easel Card for the Holidays

Stampin’ Up!s holiday catalogue is here! Or as they’re calling it now… the July-December Mini catalogue. And as always my team organized a card swap. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing some of my favourites from the card swap. So make sure to keep checking back here. In the meantime I’m sharing my card for the swap. For this card swap I wanted to do something other than a standard card. So I made an easel card for the holidays.

Once I figured that out I had to choose a stamp set. I decided to use the new Sweet Treats stamp set. One of the rules of the card swap is that we need to use a stamp set from the new mini catalogue. This is such a fun set! And I love that it’s not just for Christmas, even though that’s what I used it for. Then for my colour combination I went with non-traditional colours. I started with Crumb Cake for the colour of my fruit cake and paired it with Petal Pink. I also threw in some Old Olive for the bits of fruit. And Smoky Slate for the cake platter and dome.

Easel Card for the Holidays

I stamped the holly from the top of the cake in the bottom corners of the “inside” of the card. The trick here was having a tissue handy to wipe off any extra ink. I coloured the holly and the cake using Stampin’ Blends. Even without too much blending I still love the colours.

I cut out the phrase using one of the smallest Stitched Rectangles dies. And to hold up my easel I popped it up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And behind that I added some of the new White Glittered Organdy ribbon. Adding an embellishment of some kind was one of the other rules of the card swap. So it could be Designer Series Paper, ribbon, jewels. Just a little something more to add to your card design. Then to add even a little something more to my card, I added a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels. I’m also tempted to pull out my retired Frost White Shimmer paint for the frosting. I may just have to go back and do that.

Easel Card for the Holidays

A little more to it than I’ve done for some of my swaps cards, but this was a fun card to make. A cute easel card for the holidays! You can check out the July-December mini catalogue here. And if you’d like to see some of the cards from our teams’ Annual Catalogue card swap you can do that here.

Sweet Treats

The new mini catalogue is here! And so is another round of Sale-a-bration!! I’ve been having fun with some of the products from the new catalogues and am so excited to share them with you. While the July-December mini catalogue is all about the holidays, especially Christmas, this card is something a little different. I’ve been on the look out for a new birthday themed stamp set and I found a really cute one in the mini. It’s the Sweet Treats stamp set.

I don’t think I’m quite ready to take the deep dive into holiday crafting just yet. So while I can use this set for Christmas, I decided to make a birthday card instead. I just love the versatility of this set. And I can’t wait to use the coordinating dies! For this card I started my colour combination with Pale Papaya, one of the newest In Colours. I also wanted something a little darker than Crumb Cake. So I went with Soft Suede and I really love these two colours together.

For this design I wanted the Pale Papaya to be the stand out colour. So I used it for the card base and frame behind the cupcakes. For the background I used a combination of the Pale Papaya and Soft Suede to stamp the images. Then I wrapped some of the White Crinkled Seam Binding ribbon around it and added a bow.

Sweet Treats

I really wanted some cupcakes as the focal point for this card. So I used some masking to create my cupcake pile. Then I used a Blender Pen to make some Pale Papaya frosting and Soft Suede cupcakes. Once that was dry I added some Wink of Stella to the frosting.

To help them stand out even more I used the Layering Circles dies to frame them. And then I popped them up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. I still wanted a little something more for this card. So I pulled out one of my favourite go-tos… the Rhinestone Basic Jewels. I love my bling!

Sweet Treats

I just LOVE this card using the Sweet Treats stamp set! And I can’t wait to craft some more with it. If you want to check out one of the stamp sets that you can earn for FREE during Sale-a-bration, then check out last week’s post here. And if you want to check out the new mini catalogue, you can do that here in my online shop. Plus if you live in Canada and want your very own copy just send me an email (inkspirationwithteresa@gmail.com). I’d be happy to mail them out to you!