Time to embrace life

I've been so busy trying out my new stampsets from the new catalog. I love the sets I chose to get in my first order, I got Ever After, Fift Avenue Floral and Special Blessing. I've yet to take pictures of the cards I've been making, that's on today's schedule. So I have to stick to the cards I had planned to show you anyway ;)

When I was making this card I was having a really hard time what color to use with the red and the pink (ridinghood red and pink pirouette) and I think I made the wrong choice, I should have used Chocolate Chip or Basic Gray, what do you think? But I like how I used the flowers. They are covered in glitter.

I got the idea for this card from a scrapbook page. The big flowers had similar eyelets or brads in the middle and I liked the way they looked. The jumbo eyelets are a little bit too big...or the flower center is a little bit to small for the eyelets but I managed to get the flowers to not fall apart. I covered the flowers with Crystal Effects and added a little bit of Dazzling Diamonds.

I have not decided which one of my new sets I'll be showing you next time, but if I can post before the weekend it'll probably be Ever After.

There's a Sale-a-bration going on now. If you order products for $50 you can pick out a little something from THIS BROCHURE

Until next time...

TFL

Christmas Classics

Here's the first card I made with the Christmas Classics stampset. And the first and only time I've made a card like this. It's a free standing pop-up card. There's a tutorial HERE.

I think I did OK, it's pretty simple, not much embellishing. The colors are Always Artichoke, Real Red, Chocolate Chip and I think So Saffron, it's been a while since I made the card.
Here's a simpler card. I wanted to try the Dryer Sheet Technique. And I bought dryer sheets for the first time *lol*, we don't have those in Iceland :o

I used the Holiday Treasures designer paper.
the punches I used in these two cards are the Scallop Edge Punch (second card) and the Round Tab Punch (first card).
I think I have a curse on my, every time I buy a background stamp (2 out of 3 stamps) the same stamp end up on the retired list, like just a month after I buy them. Maybe I need to order background stamps just after I see the retired list, so I can use them longer :o
But yes, the retired list is up, you can find it by clicking HERE. I've got 4 stamps/stampsets on this list :(
We've got FREE SHIPPING going on, if you order for $70+ and 10% OFF RETIRED SETS.

And remember you can order online (US residents only), my website is http://huldap.stampinup.net

TFL