Looking Back to 2011… Stampin’ Up! Apothecary Labels Gallery

These are reposted from my old Typepad blog. Can you tell I had a lot of fun playing with my first set of nested framelits and Big Shot? These label dies are much like Stampin’ Up!’s current Beautifully Celebrated Dies so you may find the ideas to be interchangeable. The Typepad blog noted on my watermark no longer exists.

DECEMBER 07, 2011 –

Apothecary Christmas

I splurged on Stampin’ Up!’s Occasions Mini pre-order, even express shipped it so I could play with it during my recent 3-day weekend. Needless to say I was impressed with what I saw in the catalog, but I’ve had even more fun than I expected playing with the new Big Shot “toys” and coordinating stamps.

Paper Player’s challenge this week is to make a Christmas card out of non-Christmas stamps and colors. That challenge combined with my new box of goodies led to this:

Apothecary Art is a new set of 6 stamps that I thought might be a little more coloring than even I enjoy, but it really does color up quickly. I had a whole page stamped on So Saffron, colored and ready to cut up with the new Framelit Labels Collection in no time. I used the same framelit to cut the label as I did to cut the opening into the front of the card. This gave me a sort of dry embossed frame on the card in which to set my colored label.The roses were colored with Regal Rose and Blushing Bride; the leaves with Pear Pizazz and Lucky Limeade. The picture may not have caught it but Dazzling Details adds shimmer to the roses and border on the ribbon.

The Pear Pizazz label cut out of the first card ended up as a background layer for my next label image, after running it through the Snow Burst embossing folder. Once again the label is stamped on So Saffron. Coloring is with the white gel pen and Pear Pizazz with Dazzling Details. Several of the Petite Pairs greetings will work on these labels if you offset them.

White Christmas Flowers with Pear Pizzazz and So Saffron.

With tiny, tiny pearls…

Take it to Heart stamp set(SU)

Pursuit of Happiness stamp set (SU)

Also uses Tiny Tags w/punch(SU) and Finial Press embossing folder(SU).

Wisteria Sympathy. Also uses Loving Thoughts (SU).

This also uses a 2012 designer paper, Twitterpated.

This features white craft ink stamped on Night of Navy cardstock. Accent is a die cut (and embossed) butterfly.

So Saffron with a little Pear Pizzazz. Lightly sanded the DSP after embossing. I loved this paper as it reminded me a bit of the wallpaper in my room while I was in high school.

A little bit more current look using a recent embossing folder plus flowers and a greeting from Fragrant Layers. I was using the sketch from the Wisteria Sympathy card above. There is sanding on both embossed layers. Sanding the Night of Navy DSP shows the white core of the paper and works best on monochromatic patterns. Lightly sanding the Silver Metallic papers gives a softer, aged patina.