A few months back, I posted a picture of my Valentine’s sampler. Yep, I’ve been busy creating, although I’m painfully pathetic at posting my creations!!
Today though, I thought I’d share a few closeup photos of the Spring Sampler Class I’ll be teaching tomorrow.
This is the what I finally came up with, using the Cupcakes and Carousels Designer Series Paper (DSP), the 12″ x 12″ cardstock from the Falling in Love cardstock (c/s) pack, and multiple stamp sets. I’ll list the stamp sets, framelits and “ingredient list” at the end. Comment if you have any questions and I’ll answer them as best I can! The outermost cardstock is Soft Sky, 12″ x 12″, then a 10″ x 10″ Sahara Sand c/s square (also from the Falling in Love 12×12 c/s pack, then a 9 3/4″ x 9 3/4″ Whisper White square. The blocks are 3″ x 3″ of a solid cardstock (c/s): Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede or So Saffron. I chose the colors from the DSP pack although Early Espresso seemed a bit dark for spring, so I opted to use the Soft Suede instead. The DSP is 5 different patterns from the Cupcakes and Carousels DSP pack — can you believe that I didn’t care for that pack to start with?! Now I love it!!
The 2 blocks clearly shown in the photo above are a couple of my favorites: The little chick is from the Little Cuties stamp set in the 2017 Occasions catalog. The little chick from the Basket Bunch was too small in my opinion, although the eggs are from the matching framelits, the Basket Builder framelits. The block below features an umbrella from the Weather Together stamp set and it’s matching Umbrella Weather framelits (for the cloud and the umbrella pieces) I stamped “April” using the Project Life Date It stamp set. The raindrops from that stamp set are inked with Basic Gray ink, stamped on a Smoky Slate square stitched framelit. I used this particular framelit size a few times for the sampler frame.
The bottom left and center squares are more favorites… indeed! Again, I used the Project Life Date It stamp set to stamp May. Get it??! April showers brings May flowers! LOL! The flower is again stamped in my favorite incolor ink, Flirty Flamingo on Flirty Flamingo c/s. The leaves are Garden Green ink on Garden Green c/s. The stamp set used is Falling Flowers, with it’s matching May Flowers framelits. The little lamb is another “little cutie” from the Little Cuties stamp set! Isn’t he adorable with his blushing pink cheeks?! I colored the ears and bow in with Blushing Bride marker, then blushed his cheeks with Pink Pirouette marker. (Oops, I did the same with the bunny in the square above — the bunny’s bow is Bermuda Bay … say that 5x fast!).
The last square was going to be my center square, but it just didn’t “work” for me. I used the Circle of Spring stamp set with the matching Wonderful Wreath framelits. The flowers are Flirty Flamingo, Soft Sky, Pear Pizzazz, and So Saffron marker. The bow is stamped with So Saffron ink on matching So Saffron c/s.
I bought the frame with a coupon from Michaels: the product is called Studio Decor and it’s a shadowbox frame. I’ve found them in both black and white — for Spring, I decided that white was most appropriate.
So… what do you think?! I will tell you that some of these products are on the retiring list for Stampin’ Up!, so you have until March 22nd to get the stamp sets (at which time they go to “while supplies last” status. So run … don’t walk! You can click on any of the products below in the showcase to be taken to my store!
*Retiring stamp sets include the Project Life Date It stamp set, the Basket Bunch stamp set with it’s matching framelits (in the Occasions catalog), the Circle of Spring stamp set (with matching wreath framelits), and the Little Cuties stamp set, also in the Occasions catalog. Also, the Falling Flowers stamp set is staying, but the bundle at 10% off will not be available in the new catalog.
