Fall Flowers Card Tote

Hello all! I have to say how much I love the range of Designer Series Double Sided Papers in our catalogue, but it is only recently that I have actually managed to acquire some and then play with them!
Lots of card makers say to me "Oh, I don't do scrapbooking", or scrapbookers say to me, "I don't have time for my scrap booking let alone making cards!" For you card makers out there, you don't have to be into scrapbooking to make use of beautiful papers - especially with Stampin' Up! All the colours in the Stampin' Up! range of card stock and inks match the colours in the papers perfectly, so you can make your 12x12 inch paper go a long way on several cards! And they are so super quick to make when you use paper already patterned.... and just as an added bonus, many of the papers coordinate beautifully with the Stamp sets! It doesn't get any easier than that! Scrapbookers, you will find your pages coming together beautifully with the coordinating papers at your fingertips!

These pictures are of a Card Tote with 3 matching cards and envelopes I put together as a door prize at the recent St Phillips College Community Fair at Narara. I have drawn a winner, and congratulations go to Robin of Narara! I shall be calling you Robin to arrange to drop off your prize.....

This is a pic of the tote, with the 3 cards and matching envelopes...

Here are 2 of the cards......




This is a close up of the 3rd card.....


And finally a slightly blurry close up of the patterned paper and the dangling embellishment. So what have I used?

The Fall Flowers designer series paper has Really Rust, Old Olive and Soft Sky as the main 3 colours in the pack. These are the colours I pulled out of it anyway to use for the base of the tote itself (Really Rust), and the 3 cards (Really Rust, Old Olive and Soft Sky). With one sheet of the paper I managed to decorate all 4 items and still had pieces left for other projects. The beautiful flower and curly vine design is complemented with the soft sky spotted pattern on the reverse of the paper. I used the Baroque Border Stampin' Around Wheel (standard sized) to subtly pattern the card stock on each piece with the matching ink. Each Whisper White envelope is decorated top and bottom with this wheel to match its card. I have used strips of the patterned paper to stick across the cards, and then added ribbons to complement -Groovy Guava and Soft Sky double stitched ribbon, and Old Olive wide grosgrain ribbon. I have created the embellishment for 2 of the cards and the dangly bit on the front of the tote with the scalloped circle punch, one and three eighths inch and one and a quarter inch punches, and the one inch and half inch punches. The stamp sets are Big Pieces (the Really Rust flower on the Old Olive card) and Circle of Friendship, which you will recall is part of the special for June with the one and a quarter inch circle punch and the Love Notes (see post below). The Jumbo Pewter eyelet was set with the Crop-a-dile of course, allowing me to thread and tie off the ribbon to hang the embellishment on the front of the tote.....

Well, that should do for now! ;-) All images are copyright Stampin' Up! 1990-2008, and all artwork is by Cheryl Andrews....

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