Perennial Birthday

Welcome to May’s Creative Inking Blog Hop where we are featuring some of our favorite retiring products!   I’m SOOO excited for the new 2019-2020 Annual Catalog.  BUT, I’m excited to share with you one of my favorite retiring stamp sets – Perennial Birthday!  So much so that with these samples, I have shared 20 Perennial Birthday cards!

The number one occasion for which we send cards is birthdays!  So it makes sense to have a great birthday stamp set available, right?   The Perennial Birthday stamp set has 6 greetings and 8 coordinating images.  That makes me think that if I needed a really quick birthday card, I could pull out this one stamp set and voila! Quick and Easy birthday card underway!   And of course if you need ideas, I would suggest putting “perennial birthday” in the search bar of my website and you’ll have 20 samples to copy from!

For this card, I colored with sponge daubers after stamping the images in black ink.  Plus I then embossed the image with the Subtle embossing folder.  Just another cute detail!

The bolded items in each “You Can Make It’ list are retiring products

You Can Make It

• Stamp – Perennial Birthday
• Paper
  • Lemon Lime Twist – 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored & folded at 4 1/4″, 3/4″ x 5″
  • Blueberry Bushel – 5 1/8″ x 3 7/8″
  • Whisper White – 3 3/4″ x 5″
• Ink – Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist, Mango Melody, Poppy Parade
• Accessories – Sponge Daubers, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Big Shot, Subtle Embossing Folder

Perennial Birthday Card #2.  For this card, I wanted to share another way to color the flowers.  A staple of coloring tools for most people are the Stampin’ Write markers and that’s what I used on this card.  Check out the color combo – it’s a unique one that I am pretty sure that I haven’t used this one before;  Bermuda Bay, Lovely Lipstick, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight and Mango Melody.

The technique I used on this card is a masking technique.  Basically I added a strip of post it note paper across the Whisper White cardstock and then stamped right over the top of it.  After removing that strip of post it note paper I added the greeting.

You Can Make It

• Stamp Set – Perennial Birthday
• Paper
  • Bermuda Bay – 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored & folded at 4 1/4″
  • Lovely Lipstick – 3 3/4″ x 5″
  • Whisper White – 3 5/8″ x 4 7/8″
• Ink – StazOn Black, Stampin’ Write markers in Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Granny Apple Green & Lovely Lipstick
• Accessories – none!

And lastly here is a fun & cheerful card featuring the retiring In Color Berry Burst.  I used Berry Burst ink on the background.   And I love the greeting combination!   Of course I used the Stamparatus to line the 2 greetings up using the hinge stamping method.    I am sad that one of my favorite ribbons – the Metallic Edge Berry Burst ribbon is going away!

You Can Make It

• Stamp – Perennial Birthday
• Paper
  • Berry Burst – 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored & folded at 4 1/4″
  • Whisper White – 2″ x 5 1/2″ plus scraps for flowers
• Ink – Berry Burst, StazOn Black, Balmy Blue, Berry Burst, Powder Pink, Lemon Lime Twist
• Accessories – Stampin’ Dimensionals, Sponge Dauber, Berry Burst Metallic Edge Ribbon

I have gifted my current customers with their very own copy of the 2019-2020 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog mailed to their doorstep.  If you want to be one of my customers, email me!

Be sure and check out the rest of the inspiration on the Creative Inking Blog Hop.  Be sure and get your last minute choices in asap so you don’t miss out!

A new annual catalog from Stampin’ Up! is coming your way!  That means we’ll be bidding a fond farewell to products in the current annual and Occasions catalogs.  You can find the list of retiring products below.

• Retiring Accessories CLICK HERE
• Bundles CLICK HERE
• Retiring Stamp Sets CLICK HERE
• Place your order CLICK HERE
• List of Carry Over Stamp Sets CLICK HERE

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