Happy World Card Making Day 2022!

 Hi!  Happy World Card Making Day!  I enjoyed being able to celebrate with friends yesterday.  My friend Connie and I hosted a gathering on my back patio, and it was so fun to visit with friends, stamp together, and watch the Stampin' Up! presentations (including a sneak peek of the Fitting Florets Suite from the January-June catalog, which will be available to order as part of a customer special in November, and which demonstrators will be able to pre order this month!)  Here are some photos from our gathering:

If you would like to see the video presentation we watched and check out the three projects Stampin' Up! designed for us to create together, you can do that here:  https://events.stampinup.com/worldcardmakingday/video  (The video and resources will be available through October 18th).

Here are the three cards we created:

This card uses the Warm Welcome Bundle, which is a set pre-released from the upcoming January-June Catalog.  I love the shading technique we did with Mint Macaron and Fresh Freesia inks and Blending Brushes.

I think this card with the Cottage Rose Bundle may be my favorite of the three cards.  It is just so soft and pretty, and I really love the different layers of stamping and die cuts!  

  

For the third card, I didn't have the Cottage Wreaths bundle (yet), so had to substitute a retired die set and used the Forever Fern stamp set with it.  The watercolor wash technique we used to create the wreath was great fun -- and everyone's came out so different and so beautiful!  For example, Margery and Connie mixed in some Flirty Flamingo with the Old Olive washes on their wreath pieces with some really beautiful results!

Stay tuned this week as I'll be sharing some alternate ideas made with these products and card layouts!  

Thanks so much for visiting!

Happy Stamping!

Michelle

P.S.  Some fun news from the event -- on October 4th, Stampin' Up! will have free shipping on orders of $75 or more.  And, from October 4th-31st, there will be a "boosted" and discounted starter kit for those who join as demonstrators -- please let me know if you'd like more information about that!