HAPPY NEW YEAR! Out with the old, in with the new!

 It's a new year!   Soon we will say the final good-bye to the 2020 August-December Mini Catalog (also known as the Holiday Catalog). LAST DAY TO ORDER FROM THE MINI IS MONDAY JAN.4.

  Many, many items are on sale, and many/most are retiring.  Today I want to share a card using some of the retiring items.  After that, I've got a card for you that is made with new products, available to purchase starting Tuesday, January 5th.   So today it's "out with the old, and in with the new!"  Both cards are the same size, and have a similar layout/sketch.  I hope you will use it as an idea for creating your own cards.

First up:  Eat, Drink and Be Cozy Card.

Products from the Holiday Catalog are:

• Plaid Tidings 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper
• Warm Hugs stamp set
• Warm Wraps Dies

Here are the specifics for making this card:

• Card base:  Smoky Slate card stock, 8 1/2" x 4 1/4", folded at 4 1/4".
• Plaid Tidings DSP:  4" x 4"
• Whisper white card stock, cut with the Stitched Shapes Dies.
• Classic Ink Pad:  Pretty Peacock.  Using sponge or blender brushes, add color to the center of the die-cut white piece.
• Stamp set:  Warm Hugs.  Stamp the sentiment in Pretty Peacock ink onto the blended area of the white piece.  On a scrap of white, stamp the cup image and die cut it with the Warm Wraps Dies.

Card base, layer of DSP and die-cut piece of whisper white

Assemble: 

• Glue the plaid DSP to the card base with Liquid Mulitpurpose Glue.
• Use Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the cup below the sentiment.  Then, also with Dimensionals, adhere the white piece to the plaid.  
• Add embellishments (rhinestones or others you have, as you like). 

How do you like the size of this card?  The 4 1/4" square card fits in a standard A2 Envelope, so requires no additional postage to mail.  

I adhered a matching piece of DSP to the envelope flap, then fussy-cut trimmed it.

Now, let's see something NEW!  Available starting January 5th.

For the cutest snail-mail you'll love to make & send, use the stamp set Snailed It.  It comes in a Suite with coordinating dies, DSP, & embellishments and also coordinates with the Rectangular Postage Stamp Punch (found in the Annual Catalog).

Card base, DSP layer, die-cut white, and the stamp set.

Here are the specifics for this card:

• Card base:  Basic Black CS, 8 1/2" x 4 1/4", folded at 4 1/4".
• Snail Mail DSP:  4" x 4".
• Whisper white CS piece:  Die-cut with the die from Snail Dies.
• Classic Ink Pad:  Bermuda Bay.  Using sponge or blender brushes, add color to the center of the white piece.
• Tuxedo Black Ink:  stamp the "hello" and the word bubble image onto the area you just sponged.
• Snail image:  stamp this image from the Snailed It stamp set in Tuxedo Black onto white CS; die cut.  Then color the snail image with Stampin' Blends (Smoky Slate, Daffodil, Bermuda Bay).  On the larger package, I free-handed a cross-hatched pattern with the Bermuda Bay blends.

Snail image stamped and die cut.

Assemble:

• Glue the DSP to the black card base.
• Glue the white piece next.
• Adhere the snail using Stampin' Dimensionals.
• Die cut a heart from Daffodil CS.  The heart die is also in the set.  Glue it to the word bubble.

Envelope:  Stamp the "happy mail" image using Bermuda Bay ink.  Cut a piece of the matching DSP using the Envelopes Dies, or just glue a strip of the DSP and fussy-cut trim (as I did on the other envelope on the Cozy card).

What do you think?  Using the same layout, you can create very different cards.   I hope you will try the layout of these cards, and create something fun and beautiful of your own. Let your imagination go wild! Share on the Julie Petrie Crafts business Face Book page - I'd love to see what you make!

Shopping with me in January?   Use the January HOST CODE:  WVM6UKEH

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Important DATE:  January 4

 Closeout Sale ends.

Also, January 4 is the LAST DAY FOR THE HOLIDAY MINI CATALOG.

Coming January 5th

The NEW 2021 January-June Mini Catalog and Sale-a-bration.

SALE-A-BRATION time!   For every $50 you spend, you choose a free item from the SAB Catalog.

SAB runs from January 5-February 28 this year.

If you have any questions, or if I can help with your crafting needs in any way, please let me know.  

As we start the new year, I wish you all the best, and as always, continue to stay safe, and be well.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, today!  Come back again soon!  I'll be sharing products from the new JJ Mini.  

Take care,

            Julie