As a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I love my customers and Downline. A great way to keep in contact with them is not only with emails and newsletters, but with a Facebook Group Page. It’s so quick and easy to have conversations and post specials, promotions, etc. So I tried something new while I was away in Thailand. I posted a “card swap” and a few of the girls got daring and signed up. This is the card I swapped with them:

I’ll be posting their projects in a separate post when their cards arrive to them in the next few days. I used a brand new stamp set that I fell in love with that will be available to purchase on September 1st from the Holiday Catalog. This one is called Painted Harvest. Do you see what I did here? I turned a sunflower into another type of flower by inking it with Rose Red Ink. Can you see a poinsettia possibility for a Christmas card? I can!

And I love the script of the sentiment too!

The leaves and branches are two-step stamping. You can use them alone or together. One stamps the bold image and the second image stamps the detail:

Have you signed up for the August Mini at Create with Connie & Mary? We are posting soon, very soon!

- Coffee Cafe Bundle
- Ribbon of Courage Bundle
- Feathery Friends Stamp Set
- You Move Me Bundle
- Pieces & Patterns Stamp Set
- Our mini sessions include the instructions for 14 projects with full step-by-step tutorials:
- Each mini session includes TWELVE unique cards featuring three stamp sets, and
- Each mini session includes TWO 3D items perfect projects for your club, classes, stamp camps or gifts
- All 14 project tutorials are available once the mini session opens so you immediately have all project tutorials right there at your fingertips
- All designs and tutorials are EXCLUSIVELY for subscribers and will not be posted anywhere else online.
- Our FABULOUS design team members are joining us – Debbie Henderson, Libby Fens, and Melissa Davies! They always have such GREAT ideas that are perfect and easy to recreate!
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The flower looks great in red! Lovely card.