When you send a greeting card to a special someone, you will be lifting their spirits. The Special Someone stamp set is so cute with its raccoon, squirrel and rat.  I know I said rat, but this one is a cute rat. I chose to create a “Get Well” card because of the cute sentiment…”This Balloon is Special, it’s Filled with Heal-ium”. Cute, right?

This stamp is a 2-step stamp, which means that you stamp once with one color and then with another color that coordinates.  The Stamparatus makes the type of stamping easy peesy.

At the beginning of February, Stampin’ Up! made available coordinating dies for products in the 2020 Mini Catalogue and 2020 Sale-a-Bration items.  These coordinating products will not be in the 2020/21 Annual Catalogue, so if you have fallen in love with them, you will need to order sooner rather than later.

Send a Greeting Card Recipe

Stamp Sets: Special Someone, Birch.

Ink:Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Pool Party.

Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper.

Accessories: Embossing & Die Cutting Machine, Special Days Dies, Stitched Nested Label Dies, Stampin’ Write Markers: Granny Apple Green, Melon Mango, Pumpkin Pie, Shimmery Crystal Effects, Stamparatus.

Create the Card

Cutting Measurements:

Soft Suede – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ score at 4-1/4″ and burnish with Bone Folder.

Very Vanilla – 5-1/4″ X 3″, 2-1/2″ x 4-1/4″, scraps for flowers, raccoon, squirrel, flowers, balloon, and sentiments.

Granny Apple Green – scraps for grass.

Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper. (looks like Soft Suede burlap – 4″ x 5-1/4″.

Linen Thread: – 10″.

Assembly:

• Attach the DSP to the card base.
• Use the Stamparatus to do your 2-step stamping. Align the stamps with no distinctive lines on Very Vanilla.  Stamp the squirrel and raccoon with Soft Suede ink, stamp the balloon with Pool Party ink, use the lighter markers to color in the flowers, and stems. 
• Remove the stamps and align the matching stamps (distinctive line) on previously stamped images.  Stamp the squirrel and raccoon with Early Espresso ink, stamp the balloon with Bermuda Bay ink, use the matching darker markers to color in the flowers, and stems.  
• Die cut with the coordinating dies (these are available only during Sale-a-Bration or while supplies last). You will need 2 small flowers and the grass from Granny Apple Green.
• Use the Stitched Nested Label Dies to cut a border from Very Vanilla (use the 2nd and 3rd largest dies). Cut a label die from Very Vanilla with 3rd largest die. Stamp the border and single label with the Birch stamp and Early Espresso ink.
• Add a  layer of Shimmery Crystal Effects to the balloon and set aside to dry.
• Use the picture of the card to position the various elements on the labels.
• Stamp sentiment with Soft Suede ink, attach to card.
• Tie a bow with the Linen Thread.  Wrap the length of thread around 4 fingers, slip off and tie a small piece of thread around the center and fluff,  Attach with Mini Glue Dot to top of border.

Send this card off to someone who is feeling “under the weather”.  It is sure to cheer them up.

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