Mixed Drinks Beer Card: Retiring Products Blog Hop

Hey everybody! I'm stopping by for a quick hello, a birthday brew and a sad farewell...

Today I am taking part in blog hop featuring retiring Stampin' Up! products. My buddy had a birthday this past weekend and he loves a good beer! The soon to be retired stamp set "Mixed Drinks" was the perfect set for me to make him a card with. I stamped the mug of beer (could double as a root beer float too!) in Black Archival ink and watercolored it using So Saffron and Smoky Slate inks. 

After the mug dried I added some texture paste to the "foam" and dabbed some So Saffron ink on it to color it in a bit. I used a current set called Bubble Over (carrying over into the next catalog-yeah!) to add the punched sentiment and to stamp the background. 

The image piece needed a little extra something so I used a fine tip black Sharpie to add to some little "fizzles" into the air over the beer. I also frayed the top of the watercolor paper with my fingernail and then sponged it with Sahara Sand ink. 

This set is such a great one and instead of being sad to see it go... I will keep it and use it forever more because I know lots of people who enjoy a good birthday brew! Is there a retiring set that you will be keeping forever because you hate to see it go? 

I'm so glad you've stopped by today! If you'd like to continue on this hop and see more amazing "last chance," retiring products then please the person after me on the Blog Roll below. Enjoy! As always, feel free to contact with questions either by comment below or via email. If you're interested in purchasing this stamp set before it's gone for good please click the product link below the blog roll.

Thanks and have an awesome day!

Maria Willis

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Creating Kindness: Fun Fold

Hello Everybody and welcome to this month's Creating Kindness Blog Hop! I'm getting together with a group of truly amazing people today to bring you a blog hop filled with Fun Fold Cards and Video tutorials! Here's a little peek at what's to come...

The Creating Kindness Team Blog Hop goes live on the first Thursday (if you're in the USA) of every month. If you love the techniques and videos we share with you today I hope you will mark your calendar and come back to visit us next month.

For my card today I decided to make a card based off of a card a friend sent me a couple of years ago. I loved the way the card flapped open first on the left and then on the right... like a brochure. I have no idea what this fold is called so I've decided to go ahead and call it a "Brochure Fold." Thank you Jenny Hall for helping me to come up with that! I haven't used my Bubble Over stamp set yet and I've been wanting to make a card with beer bottles so this was my chance. Here's what the front looks like...

The front is a flap that opens to the left. I've stamped the bottles in Chocolate Chip and Old Olive inks and then heat embossed them in clear to make them look like glass. I put bottles both on the front and inside of the flap so that when you opened the card you wouldn't see the backs of the beer bottles.

For the labels on the bottles I used Old Olive and Sahara Sand inks that were stamped off once. The star was stamped in Chocolate Chip and punched out with the 3/4" punch. The sentiment was stamped in Basic Black Archival ink. Have you noticed those bottle tops yet? Those little beauties come in the framelits that are bundled with this stamp set. I love that they have a crimped edge and look so realistic!

The second part of the card opens up to the right and gives you lots of room to write to your birthday beer buddy. I left the inside of the card sentiment free and added another beer bottle over on the right to finish it off. 

Here's another look at what this card looks like when it's all closed up...

This type of card is so much fun and is so easy to make! Just in case you'd like to make your own I've made a video tutorial to show you how. All measurements are included in the video. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. It's always great to have you here. If you have any questions on how to make this card, or, would like help purchasing the products so that you can make your own cards please let me know. I can be reached by email or in the comments below.

*Remember that right now is the best sale of the year! It's Sale-a-Bration time and for every $50 USD that you spend before tax and shipping, you will be able to select a free gift from the Sale-a-Bration catalog! 

Bye for now!

Maria

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Now it's time to head on over to my talented friend in the Netherlands: Danielle Bennenk!

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