What’s a Designer Tin of Cards? Well I’m glad that you asked!  It’s a project kit that Stampin’ Up! sells which contains the consumables to create 16 cards and a tin to store them in with organising tabs. But it doesn’t include the stamp set, ink or adhesive. I bought the designer tin of cards and also the stamp set of the same name to complete the set.  But the sentiments are fun and definitely aren’t confined to the 16 cards in the kit. As you can see here:

Here’s an image showing the project kit. It’s only $27 and if you gather with your friends or demo, you only need one stamp set.

The sentiment is actually bigger than just Thanks, but I coloured just the Thanks in with my Stampin’ Write marker in cherry cobbler. For the bear, I used Baby Bear and intended this to be the start of a recent design card at CAS Colours & Sketches. I stamped the first image in soft suede, stamped off twice, then the second image in the same ink, stamped off once. The final image is stamped, would you believe, in elegant eggplant. There was a colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches but the cucumber crush just didn’t want to play with this as a starting point. But I didn’t want to waste the bear. I love the elegant eggplant with the soft suede, it works really well. After getting a smear of ink on the card, I decided to rescue my bear and fussy cut him out. After adding the cherry cobbler sentiment, I popped up the bear on dimensionals. Then I noticed a little cherry cobbler dot but I “fixed” that by putting a cherry cobbler enamel shape over it.

This works well because this card is for a 4 year old. One of my friends at work signed up for Paper Pumpkin’s special offer last month and her sons had a lot of fun playing with it. They both made me a card so I wanted to make cards for them too. This one seems perfect. I dry embossed the envelope with Lucky Stars to match the enamel shape.

See you tomorrow,

Liz