HUES OF HAPPINESS
When I saw the cover photo on Stampin' Up!s new Annual Catalogue I instantly fell in love with the featured card. The cover card apart from the leaf stamps and sentiment is totally made up by combining designer series paper (DSP) and flower images cut from the Hues of Happiness designer series paper.
This DSP is simply beautiful and I can tell you it sure makes me smile every time I look at it. The paper is part of the Hues of Happiness Suite (158828).
This paper features illustrated and painted flowers on one side and a selection of coordinating all-purpose patterns on the other side. The concept artist(s) who designed Hues of Happiness chose the colours so they'd represent the Stampin' Up! colour spectrum. What wonderful art work. The repeating patterns can be used as focal images, accent pieces or elegant backgrounds and are terrific for card bases and scrapbook pages.
The Hues of Happiness DSP coordinates perfectly with the following Stampin' Up! colours:
The Hues of Happiness DSP coordinates perfectly with the following Stampin' Up! colours:
- Coastal Cabana
- Daffodil Delight
- Flirty Flamingo
- Fresh Freesia
- Gorgeous Grape
- Granny Apple Green
- Mango Melody
- Melon Mambo
- Mossy Meadow
- Night of Navy and
- Pool Party.
Here are Some Card Ideas I came up with:
I haven't purchased the Happiness Abounds Bundle (158824) which includes the Happiness Abounds stamp set and the Blossoming Happiness dies yet as I just wanted to get my hands on the DSP. In particular these two sheets:
While I was watching tv I fussy cut all the roses, leaf images and the small flowers that were in the background. Literally there was hardly anything in the scrap pile as everything was cuttable and useable.
While I was at it I pre-cut card bases and mats from the coordinating card stock colours and before adhering these mats I die cut stitched circles, squares and rectangles to use on the fronts of my cards from their centers.
I also used a variety of embossing folders to add designs to my 3 3/4" x 5" Whisper White mats, and left enough space for a larger type sentiment.
Card Bases: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4"
Mats: 1st mat for card front - 4" x 5 1/4" (1) and cut 1 for the inside
Whisper White layer 3 3/4" x 5" for front and one for the inside.
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| The card base for this card is Starry Sky, followed by a layer of silver foil card stock. The embossing was done on the top part of the whisper white mat with the retired Meadow Moments Embossing Folder. I stamped the "thanks" sentiment which is from the Artistically Inked stamp set in Starry Sky ink. The flowers were adhered directly to the white mat with adhesive except for the Fresh Freesia flower which was attached with dimensionals. |
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| Here is another version of the thank you card. On this one I've used a Fresh Freesia mat for contrast and used a 3" Starry Skye stitched circle as a base for the floral arrangement. The embossing folder is called Greenery (Retired). embossing folder to |
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| For this thank you card I didn't do any embossing in the background, choosing to leave it plain, but I changed up the mat and flower colours and added a double stitched circle mat in Fresh Freesia and Whisper White. The sentiment is from Plentiful Plants (155693). Basic Pearls add a touch of nostalgia to this card. |
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| I built a larger bouquet of the Flirty Flamingo and Melon Mambo floral images and framed them using the Stitched With Whimsy (155314) dies. |
My final card is a fun fold flap card. I totally loved this as I was able to use a mixture of designs.
And because I love this Flap Card so much, I made another one featuring some bolder papers from the Hues of Happiness DSP. Let me know which is your favourite.
Well that's it for this post. I look forward to sharing some more cards made with this beautiful designer series paper. Next time around I'll share some Birthday and Thinking of You cards. Hope you enjoyed them, I'd love to hear which are your favourites.
HAPPY STAMPING!
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