Happy New Year! Wishing you and your family safe travels and I hope you are enjoying some relaxing time at your favourite holiday spot.

My niece recently graduated from Waikato University and I created a card to celebrate her achievement and to share with her how proud we are. On page 10 of the soon-to-be-released Occasions Catalogue you will find the Lift Me Up stamp set and coordinating Up & Away Thinlits Dies - such a wonderful bundle! On that same page there is a photographed sample that was just perfect for this occasion, so I CASE'd it for this Graduate Card...

Merry Christmas

This month's thank you cards gave everyone who ordered with me during December a sneak peek at one of my favourite stamp sets coming in the Occasions Catalogue. It's called Carousel Birthday and it's a really fun set to layer and stamp as a collage...

448 Stampin' Dimensionals
192 star sequins
144 round sequins
80 Baker's Twine bows
32 tassels
8 packs of Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes
6 Tin of Tags Project Kits
2 people (Miss-13 and myself) and 10 hours later...

The intricate cutout from the Detailed Santa Thinits is perfect for shaker cards, and Mica Flakes make perfect shaker pieces - the gold mica flakes look a-ma-zing when they move! Here's the front of my Christmas card...

I love all the intricate cutouts in the Detailed Santa Thinits Dies. The first project I made with this awesome die was to recreate the gorgeous tag on the front of the Holiday Catalogue. Stampin' Up!'s tag is in Kraft and Cherry Cobbler; I've done mine in Crumb Cake and Real Red (one of my favourite colour combinations)...

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