A Rose is a Rose

I love roses, so A Rose is a Rose is one of my favorite stamp sets. It's a Last Chance set, so you have less than a week before it is no longer available! This is one of the cards we made at my Last Chance Stamp Party. We used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to perfectly align the rose stamps to create a beautiful two toned rose in Brocade Blue. We used some Mellow Moss for the leaves and stamped the sentiment in Close to Cocoa. I will miss all these beautiful colors when they retire! Lastly, we tied some of the retiring Brocade Blue Grosgrain ribbon around the card.

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Bella Rose with Scalloped Oval

I was trying to figure out how to use the new Oval Scallop Sizzix die cut on a card and this is what I came up with.  I started with some Kiwi Kiss and the Bella Toile background.  Then, I used the Bella Rose DSP and ran it through the polka dot Texturz plate.  I stamped the roses and leaves on the same pink dsp from Bella Rose and cut them out to pop them up.  I added some ribbon and the "thank you" from the set as well.

I'm getting ready for my first Stamp Club Meeting tonight, so I'll post our projects that we make tomorrow.  I'll give you a teaser:  It uses the Top Note die to create an adorable "P _ _ _ _."

In Love

I'm in love. With my new Sizzix Big Shot! I love all the different things I can cut out especially all the scallop circles! I've been waiting for Stampin' Up! to offer a die-cut machine, so the Big Shot is a dream come true. As soon as I saw this week's sketch challenge, I knew that I could use one of the scallop circles for it!



And as you already know, I'm in love with the Bella Rose paper so I had to get the coordinating A Rose is a Rose stamp set. So I used it to stamp the rose and the sentiment. I love the new satin riding hood red ribbon so I added that too!




Don't forget, this Thursday night is my New Catalog Open House at 7pm at my house! Please rsvp if you haven't already to let me know that you are coming!