Two for Tuesday: Irresistible Blooms Birthday

It’s Two for Tuesday.  Each Tuesday during the month of May, I’ll be featuring two cards either using the same stamp set, patterned paper or card layout.  A lot of times while making a card, I’ll have the thought that it would look good in another color, pattern, or with a different layout.  So I hope to show that by using just one aspect, you can create two slightly or totally different cards.  And basically you don’t have to “re-create the wheel” to do so.

So here’s today’s Take Two…

I’m featuring the Online Exclusive, Irresistible Blooms bundle…remember this?  When new products come out, they get so much attention in the beginning and then we tend to forget about them when something newer comes out.  Well as excited as I am to create with some of the new products from the Annual Catalog, I’m still enjoying this bundle.  I’ve only used the products from the Online Exclusives on these cards as well as the same card layout.

Here’s the details…

Cut & Measure

• Basic White Thick card base: 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″
• Colored Card stock: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
• White Embossed panel: 3 3/4″ x 5″
• Colored Card stock strip: 3 7/8″ x 7/8″ (cut 3)
• DSP: 3 3/4″ x 3/4″ (cut 3)

Assemble

• Emboss the Basic White panel using the crosshatch embossing folder from the Basic 3D Embossing Folders HERE.
• Glue to the colored card stock panel.  I used Soft Sea Foam and Petal Pink.
• Then adhere to the card base using dimensionals.
• Cut 3 strips from the colored card stock and 3 strips from the Hello Irresistible Designer Series Paper and glue together.
• Glue these panels to the card front.  Start by centering the middle panel and then working one either side to get them evenly spaced.
• Cut the flowers and leaves from the DSP using the Irresistible Blooms dies and arrange on the card.
• Stamp a sentiment and add to the flowers.  I used a sentiment from the Irresistible Blooms stamp set.  I didn’t want the “hooray” on my sentiment so I masked it off and was able to use just the smaller text which fit better for these cards.  This is a way to get a little more mileage from your stamps.
• Add a few of the coordinated Loose Frosted Dots.

This was a fun exercise.  I enjoyed choosing different DSP to use that would fit with the card layout.  I also liked the challenge of just using one suite of products as most times I tend to mix products.

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The new Annual Catalog starts today!  I’m excited about so many new products.

I also have a new Host Code for May: FZ3KZ2DC

Thanks very much for stopping by today and I hope you liked the first Two for Tuesday. I’m looking forward to the next one.

Take care,

Rosanne

 

 

 

Product List

Hello, Irresistible Suite Collection (English) [161154] $74.50	Irresistible Blooms Cling Stamp Set (English) [161140] $25.00	Irresistible Blooms Dies [161149] $35.00	Hello, Irresistible 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161139] $12.50
Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock [159229] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [159276] $10.25	Petal Pink 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [146985] $9.25	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [146988] $9.25
Basic White Medium Envelopes [159236] $7.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Loose Frosted Dots [161153] $8.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00
Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $125.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.25