JUNE AND THE WEATHER IS HOT!
Living in Florida has many benefits...like beautiful coasts which provide gorgeous sunsets, varieties of animals...yes, we have alligators....but we have wild boar, cougars, Red cardinals year-round, flowers that bloom in December, fish to give any fisherman the best day fishing ever, lobsters, and the list goes on.
But in June, July, August, and even part of September, the weather is just plain HOT! I remember when we first moved here (30+ years ago), I was amazed when the weatherman said that the temperature outside at 11:00 pm was 92 degrees! I was used to warm weather, but a night the coolness would provide some relieve.
So what do Floridians do during the summer...stay inside and enjoy air conditioning! And I am enjoying crafting inside. Luckily, Stampin' Up!© has provided some beautiful Designer Paper for us to "play". And they must have known we needed MORE papers than normal as they provided us with a 15% OFF SALE! I am using some of the most unique, gorgeous colors, texture galore paper I've seen in years, the MASTERFULLY MADE paper collection. A couple of the sheets from this paper pack is central for my submission for this month's Blog Hop provided by Kylie and Bruno Bertucci.
Stampin' Up!© Demonstrators from around the world participate in the Bertucci's Demonstrator Training Program Blog Hop. We, Demonstrators, learn from the training program provided by the Bertucci's to help us build a successful Stampin' Up! business and to reach some goals we have set for ourselves.
You are invited to visit over 30 Stampin' Up! Demonstrator blogs which are showcasing "Thank You" cards they've created. You can start here with my blog post and then jump on the links (below) to travel around the world and see the gorgeous cards created by the talented Demonstrators. Have fun and enjoy the HOP!
The Masterfully Made paper pack includes colors Azure Afternoon, Berry Burst, Crushed Curry, Fresh Freesia, Lemon Lime Twist, Lemon Lolly, Lost Lagoon, Melon Mambo, Night of Navy, Pretty Peacock, Pumpkin Pie, and Sweet Sorbet. What an abundance of color! Some of the papers are small bits of colors that resemble pieces of flowers while others have strips of texture that resemble torn cloth from fabrics found around the world. Yes, they are definitely Masterfully Created!
For my cards, I used the new Berry Burst and the returning Pretty Peacock and Fresh Freesia colors. But I could have used any of the colors listed above. I chose a simple "Thanks" from the Biggest Wish stamp set. It's used so often by many of we Demonstrators for its clarity and font style. And in attempting to focus on the beauty of the Designer Papers, I used a simple card design.
Even the ribbon used is simple Basic White no to conflict with the abundance of colors in the paper. Although discontinued, I used it to provided the addition of more texture which can actually be felt.
Don't the flowers just look like they were randomly thrown in a simple pile. Or are part of a garden overwhelmed with tiny blooms. Don't you feel like you can just reach out and feel their softness?
I used the 2023 - 2024 In Color Dots to the card top to had some color to the top of the stark white card. But even those can't compete with the colors in the paper.
Guess by now, you know that I really like this paper pack. But when I was going through the catalog, and I looked at the papers and they really didn't interest me. It wasn't until I ordered a pack and opened it, that I fell in love with the pack.
I hope that when my customers receive these cards as a Thanks for selecting me as their Stampin' Up! Demonstrator that they love the papers too.
To see the cards made by Demonstrators around the world and their favorite papers and designs, just continue through the Blog Hop by choosing the links below.
Enjoy and keep creating!
