Hello friends! Welcome to a BONUS Artisan Design team blog hop. We are excited to share with you a new product promotion called Color your Season. This promotion includes a special assortment of new products perfect for crafting in any season, in any part of the world. EEE! I love new products.

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Included in this promotion is the 12 piece Blended Seasons Stamp Set, the 10 piece coordinating Stitched Seasons Framelits Dies and a NEW watercolor pencil assortment. The pencils include some of Stampin’ Up!’s brand new colors and are a nice compliment to our existing pencil assortment.

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These are products available for a limited time only. If you are a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator you are able to preorder these products starting today, July 5th. Customers can begin placing orders August 1. Contact me for more information.

Falling Leaves card featuring the Blended Seasons Stamp set. Charlet Mallett - Stampin' Up!

Alrighty! Let's talk about the projects I'm sharing. The Artisan Design Team was asked to create projects targeting specific season. The season I am featuring is FALL. Harvest time and falling leaves are some of the imagery that comes to mind when I think of the Fall.

This 'Falling Leaves' card features the leaves image from the stamp set as well as the leaf die from the Stitched Season dies. I've also used the large stitched label shape shown behind the leaves.

The stamped leaves are colored with the Cajun Craze, Flirty Flamingo and Crushed Curry watercolor pencils directly onto watercolor paper. The colors are blended and lightened by adding water from an Aqua Painter. Flirty Flamingo might not seem an obvious color choice for fall but I found the way this color blends with Cajun Craze made these maple leaves pop! Love it.

Harvest Wheat Thank You card featuring the Blended Seasons Stamp set. Charlet Mallett - Stampin' Up!

This 'Harvest Thank You' card features the wheat image from the stamp set. This image is colored using the Crushed Curry and Granny Apple Green watercolor pencils. The background behind the wheat is also created using the watercolor pencils. Simply color a shape (I used Coastal Cabana on my project) and blend with water. The examples shown below use Crushed Curry and Granny Apple Green watercolor pencils.

Both of my cards today also feature the Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textured Impression embossing folder. I love how the look/feel of wood adds a bit of texture to these cards. This is folder is a GO TO staple in my crafting.

Are you ready to see more projects perfect for any season using these products? Let's go. Next up is the talented Connie Collins and the season she was assigned is Spring. I can't wait the see what she has come up with. Thanks for visiting. I appreciate you and your lovely comments. Have a wonderful day!

Are you Interested in purchasing Stampin' Up! products? I would LOVE to be your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. If you live in the United States you can order your paper crafting supplies from my online store. So easy. THANK YOU!

Hello and welcome back to another Stampin' Up! Artisan Design team blog hop. This edition we are featuring the playful Sunshine & Rainbows stamp set and coordinating dies. I'm excited to share two bright and beautiful cards with you today.

First off, the products used on my cards are currently available in the Stampin' Up! Occasions catalog and annual catalog. I created these cards before Stampin' Up! announced their retired products list. So, these cards DO feature a few items that will be going away May 31st (specifically colors: Sweet Sugarplum & Peekaboo Peach). If you love these products as much as I do grab these items now, while supplies last.

Now onto the cards. I really like the idea of something special at the end of a rainbow ... how about a bouquet of flowers? Or perhaps a cloud of iridescent sequins? Options are endless and oh so pretty. Both of these cards take a fun approach to treasure at the end of a rainbow.

The flowers are the end of this rainbow were created using the Blossom Builder Punch. Each flower has been punched in the same color as the corresponding rainbow stripe. I added a little pearl accents to the center of each of these flowers and stained these pearls with a similar matching Stampin' Blend marker. This is a fun little detail and adds a special touch.

Here is a fun approach for a shaker card. Make that shaker work for you inside and out! This shaker window full of sequins can be seen from the front of the card and then once opened, seen from the inside as well. The natural motion of opening the card also allows the sequins to fall, creating a nice WOW once the card is opened.

Creating a matching window for the inside of the shaker is easy to do by flipping your paper over once die cut to match up with the front.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed these projects. I am super excited to see what the other Artisan designers have in store. I am ready to be inspired! Next up is the super talented Connie Collins.