Congrat - YOU - lations!

Here's a great card for any graduate! This was my swap card for the Control Freaks swap. Holy moly, I got a lot of AWESOME cards back that I shared with my stamping friends at the open house yesterday. Were they ever impressed!

The greeting is from the Bravo stamp set on page 133 of the new catalog. It has lots of fabulous sayings.

Well, I have to get back to cleaning/purging the stamp cave. After pulling the retiring stamp sets, the shelves look rather barren. I'm sure that situation will be reversed in a few months, lol!

STAMP: Bravo
CARDSTOCK: Whisper White, Blackberry Bliss, Moonlight DSP Stack, Champagne Glimmer Paper
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Daffodil Delight & Rich Razzleberry Blendabilities markers
ACCESSORIES: Big Shot, Decorative Dots embossing folder, Hello Honey 3/8" Stiched Satin Ribbon, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, Rhinestones Basic Jewels, Stampin' Dimensionals

Bravo!

I promised to show you Shannon's card using all new products, and here it is! I've waited sooo long for Stampin' Up! to come out with their own alcohol markers, so obviously I was WAY excited when they announced last January that Blendabilities would be coming soon. May 1st was the first day we deomonstrators could preorder them, and you better believe I was all over it like syrup on a pancake!

I love to color, and Blendabilites make it so easy. You can color over and over the same spot, blending the ink, without wearing through the paper (unlike water-based ink markers). That makes it easy to add shadows and blend the edges. The markers come in sets of three of the specified color, a light, medium, and dark shade to make it easy to add shadow and depth to your images. When they are available to the public, they'll be $11.95 for the set of three, which is way less than three Copics!

Another fabulous thing about the alcohol ink is you can color your embellishments, like rhinestones, pearls, or metal embellies, and the ink stays put! Those lovely ruby-red rhinestones were colored with the darkest of the Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities.

So, let's see........on this card there are two new stamps (Blended Bloom and Bravo), the blossom was colored with Blendabilities (Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight), the Designer Series Paper is Back to Black, and the ribbon is the Hello Honey 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon, which will be available in all the new In Colors.

So there you have a good sneak peek of fabulous things to come when the new catalog goes live on June 2nd. If you are a customer of mine and placed an order in the past year, you will be getting a catalog in the next two weeks or so. If you aren't a customer, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator of your own, I'd love to send you a catalog! Contact me and I'll take care of it.

STAMPS: Blended Bloom, Bravo
CARDSTOCK: Whisper White, Basic Black, Back to Black DSP
INK: Cherry Cobbler Classic Pad, Memento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight Blendabilities
ACCESSORIES: Hello Honey 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon, Rhinestones Basic Jewels, Stampin' Dimensionals, Hexagon Punch (banner ends)