I love to Create with new stuff!  How about you? Well guess what for this week’s  Create with Connie & Mary challenge I have a sneak peek for you with new products from the Stampin’ Up! Spring catalog!  This week was a sketch challenge so I could use whatever colors I wanted for my card.  And I decided to go with one of the new Designer Papers – Tea for Two.  And it has lots of colors – Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, So Saffron and Very Vanilla were the ones I decided to work with. First this is the sketch we are working with this week.

And look at this cute little creation –

What new things are there on this card – let’s see….

1. Tea for Two Designer Series Paper – Spring Catalog
2. Patterned Occasions stamp set – Sale-A-Bration set
3. 1/4″ Wide Satiny Ribbon in Island Indigo – part of the Sale-A-Bration Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Pack
4. Simply Scored Borders Scoring Plate – Spring Catalog

This is a cute and fun square card – it’s 4-1/4″ square.  Here are some quick details on how to make this –

• 4-1/4″ square card base in So Saffron, round the outside corners with the 3/16″ Corner Rounder punch
• Add a 4-1/4″ x 3″ piece of Tea for Two Designer paper
• Use the  Borders Scoring Plate to score the two rows of scallops along the edge of the paper
• Attach a piece of Island Indigo Satiny ribbon along the edge of the designer paper
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• Punch 3 Calypso Coral Bitty Flowers (from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack), crumple them up
• Pierce 2 holes in the upper right hand corner using the Essentials paper-piercing pack as a guide.
• Add 2 bitty flowers with mini silver brads in the center
• Ink the Elephant image from Patterned Occasions Stamp set with Island Indigo ink, use a cotton swap to remove ink from the words and the flower.  Use a Lucky Limeade Stampin’ Write Marker to ink the words and flower.  Stamp image on Very Vanilla card stock.
• Cut stamped image with the Big Shot machine and the Apothecary Accents Framelits.  Trim the right side of the label.  Sponge the edges of the label with So Saffron ink.
• Pierce a hole for the elephant eye and add a mini silver brad.  Pierce a hole for the flower and add a bitty flower with a mini silver brad.
• Attach label to front of card with Stampin’ Dimensionals
• Tie a bow with Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon and attach to label with a mini glue dot.
• Cuteness!!

Well I love how this turned out and I hope you do too. Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge.  Have a great week!

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

• Stamps:  Patterned Occasions
  

• Ink: island Indigo, So Saffron and Lucky Limeade Stampin’ Write marker

• Card Stock: Very Vanilla, So Saffron, Calypso Coral
  

• Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Bitty Punch Pack, Mini Silver Brads, Tea for Two Designer Series Paper, Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Pack, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon, Borders Scoring Plate,  Stampin’ Sponge, Stampin’, Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots