Happy Birthday Dear {#GDP052}

I'm playing along with the Global Design Project challenge this week, which is "CASE the Designer". 

When you CASE the Designer, you might be inspired by the colors, the pattern, or even the theme. It is really up to you what you would like to be inspired by. I chose to use the layout of her lovely card.  All products Stampin' Up!

I knew when I purchased the Santa's Sleigh bundle from the new holiday catalog, I just had to find other ways to use the deer image and/or the die cut. For this card, I used the large splatter stamp from the "must have" Gorgeous Grunge set to create a colorful background to die cut the deer image from. I used Bermuda Bay, Emerald Envy & Soft Suede to create the colorful piece. It almost made me think of camouflage, even though that wasn't my intention at the beginning. Wouldn't this make a great guy card? 

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As always, let me know if you have any questions about the project or the products used. Thanks for visiting my blog.

Artfully Yours,

Kim

Sneak Peek: Christmas Pines {#GDP049}

I'm playing along with the Global Design Project this week. It is a color challenge. I also thought I would use this opportunity to post a sneak peek of the new Christmas Pines stamp set from the holiday catalog. All products Stampin' Up!

If you follow my blog at all, you will know I love using stamps in unexpected ways. When I saw the new Christmas Pines stamp set, (with matching dies) I saw all kinds of possibilities other than just for the holidays. 

 Do you see as many uses for these images as I do? 

I've paired the simple pine branch image with a splattering of Basic Black Archival ink using one of my favorite stamps from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and a few of the pine branch die cuts from the matching Pretty Pines Thinlits dies. The words were stamped using images from the set called Labeler Alphabet. I love how I can stamp ANY word I want using that set. 

The Labeler Alphabet is available right now. The Christmas Pines stamps and Pretty Pines Thinlits (available as a bundle), will be available in the new holiday catalog September 1. 

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As always, let me know if you have any questions about the project or the products used. Thanks for visiting my blog.

Artfully Yours,

Kim