Good morning, y’all! Happy Sunday! Hope you’re having a great weekend. 😎 We took advantage of it being ONLY 80 yesterday morning and planted a bed full of english peas for a Fall harvest (fingers crossed!). Now we just have to wait 8 to 10 days to see if they come up! I hope they do – and that the little chipper who was scoping it out is sufficiently deterred by the chicken wire cage we put over the bed!! I threatened him with bodily harm but he just laughed uproariously. I guess the word is out about me… 🤷♀️
So – when I went to tidy my table the other day – the Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP was still out. Which led me to think…I bet I could make another card with it – with a totally different feel! I decided to go wintery and the Forever Forest popped right into my hands. With the addition of a sentiment – this time from the Unbounded Love set. Take a look-see:
I know. I know. I sorta used similar designs the other day. AND also used Forever Forest. Sorry!
NOT sorry! Forever Forest is AWESOME and I love it. So….nyah. 😉
The sketch that inspired my layout is from this week’s Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge.
I started my totally-different-from-the-last-card-I-made-with-all-these-same-products card by stamping the snowfall image and the five-tree image from Forever Forest in stamped-off-once Blackberry Bliss ink all over a piece of Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP. I added the ground image in full-strength Blackberry Bliss ink, then adhered the panel to the front of my Blackberry Bliss card base using Liquid Glue.
Next, I pulled out the Stylish Shapes dies and cut out three squares – starting with the largest, then the second-from-largest and, finally, the next-to-smallest square – cutting a different design of the paper each time.
I used Liquid Glue to adhere the largest square to the card front.
Then I used Paper Snips to cut the smallest square in half and tucked it under the large square – adhering it with Liquid Glue.
On the middle sized square (aka the Goldilocks square – work THAT one out!!), I stamped the Unbounded Love sentiment in Blackberry Bliss ink – then I adhered it to the card front with Black Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I pulled out the Forever Forest Dies and used the largest detailed tree die to cut out two trees – one from Thoughtful Designs Specialty DSP (a Misty Moonlight piece) and one from the dark silver Textured Metallic Specialty Paper.
I cut three more trees with the next-smallest-detailed tree die. This time – one in the dark silver Textured Metallic paper and two in Fresh Freesia Thoughtful Designs Specialty DSP .
Using a combination of pieces of Black Stampin’ Dimensionals and Liquid Glue, I adhered them to the card front.
I added five silver Adhesive-backed Metallic Gems and the card front was done!
On the inside, I stamped the trees and ground from Forever Forest in stamped-off-once Blackberry Bliss ink on the bottom of a Basic White panel. Yes – I KNOW there’s an even number of trees – it just felt right like that. This time! 😉
I adhered the panel to the inside of the Blackberry Bliss card base and the card was done.
My Basic White Medium Envelope got the Forever Forest images in stampeon the front…
…and more Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP on the envelope flap.
Et Voila! Once again – the Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP proves it’s worth – and makes the fact that it’s ON SALE (along with THIRTEEN other paper packs from the Annual Catalog) next week! – even cooler!! Forever Forest totally deserves a spot on any crafter’s shelf – it’s just wonderful. And the Unbounded Beauty set has so many great sentiments – it’s sure to be a staple for you, too!!
I hope you like! And – I PROMISE to not use this paper/bundle combination again for….ALL of August.
Probably.
Maybe…
If you’d like to recreate this card, all the products and card cuts you’ll need are down below! And – this is the card that I made on yesterday’s Saturday Nite Live YouTube video! If you’d like to watch it – for the first time or again – here ’tis!
I’ve also created a printable PDF with written instructions and a list of the products used to create this project. You can download, print and/or save it by clicking this image:
Missed any tutorials? You can check out my past projects right here!
TTFN
M
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This is the perfect time to stock up and save on some of your favorite paper.
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Card Cuts Used in This Project:
Blackberry Bliss Cardstock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base – scored and folded at 5 1/2″)
Thoughtful Designs Specialty DSP : Forever Forest die cut trees (x3)
Textured Metallic Specialty Paper – in Silve: Forever Forest die cut trees (x2)
Basic White Cardstock: 4″ x 5 1/4″ (inner liner)
Thoughtful Journey 6″ x6″ DSP: 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ (card front panel); Largest Stylish Shapes square die cut (on front); Second-from-Largest Stylish Shapes square die cut (sentiment); Next-to-Smallest Stylish Shapes square die cut (cut in half – on front); 2 1/4″ x 6″ (envelope flap)
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Finn Fan Fix 
Last Tuesday – we had a pretty big storm come thru. Noisy. Windy – straight line, not spinny.
About 8:30pm or so, the power went out.
And stayed out for a hot minute. Wayne went to check the barn. I finished my blog post for Wednesday on my hot spot. And lit some candles.
When he came back in – he brought some battery lights.
I give you…the Deatherage’s in a power outage.
And…Finn Deatherage in a power outage.
Not worried. Well – other than wondering what I was going to do about his fan. He sleeps with a fan on him, you see.
So – I found my two little battery-operated fans (thanks, Mom!!) and set one on his kennel pointed straight down on him. I got the other one on the bed – I mean…hello?!
And – yes. We were BOTH still too hot to sleep good!
Thankfully the power finally came back on around 830 the next morning. And – that was his Pup Cup day so…all was good in Finn-land!
TTFN
M
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Such a pretty card! Love the shades of purple and blue, great layering with the tree die cuts! Yeah, no power is not much fun…glad that you had enough battery operated items to get through the night!
Yep – the fans and lights – were life-savers!! Thanks, Amy! 🙂
I don’t even THINK the words “power outage” if I can help it. 🙄🙄🙄
I know, right?! 🙂
Another amazingly stunning card Mary!! I say you use that bundle all you want everything is beautiful and not at all overtly “extra bundle-ly”. Just love having you create with us at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
Oh – thank you, Patti! I DO love this bundle, that’s for sure! Thank you for the kind words!! 🙂
Lovely! I really like the shades of purple and gray in the trees. Thank you for joining us at Tuesday Morning Sketches.
Thanks so much, Melissa – appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
Oh so Gorgeous! You can use that bundle as much as you want! I love the colors you used. I’m going to take a new look at my Thoughtful Journey paper. Thank you for joining Tuesday Morning Sketches
Thanks much, Donna – appreciate you stopping by!! 🙂
Showstopper card! Love the layout, colors, content. Win!
Thanks for the battery operated lights tip too. We need to make sure we have something for power outages AND that we know where they are!
Yes – that second part is ALWAYS the hard piece! But – they’re invaluable! And the fans. The fans were lifesavers!! Thank you so much, Kelley! 🙂
Wonderful card! Love the rich colors!
Thanks for playing along at Tuesday Morning Sketches!
Debbie – TMS DT
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Thank you so much, Debbie – I appreciate you coming by! 🙂