Beautiful new stamping toys arrived yesterday and I had to play with them right away. This stunning card was the result!

The first beautiful new toy is the Christmas Countdown stamp set that coordinates with the Christmas Countdown Project Kit which is an advent calendar with 25 little boxes to fill with all sorts of goodies. I plan to send this advent calendar as a family gift to our grandkids and greats.

I haven’t opened the kit yet to read the directions and don’t know how the stamp set is used with the kit. However, I love the cardinal on the branch of berries and wanted to use it on a card front.

I also ordered is the Frosted Foliage Bundle. I still enjoy last year’s Frosted Bouquet Bundle so really wasn’t sure I ‘needed’ this new bundle. They are very similar in detail. But…this beautiful frame that is part of the bundle got me hooked. Just look at it’s beauty!

The big frame is shown cutting-side down and I turned the cutting-side of the inner frame up so you could see that it not only cuts but embosses the frame with stitching. I love it!

So I combined these two beautiful new toys to make this card. I cut a piece of Champagne Foil Sheets (144748) with both frames and saved the inner piece of foil for another project. Then I stamped the bird on Whisper White cardstock with Gray Granite ink (147118). I used the Light Cherry Cobbler (144576) and Dark Mango Melody (147944) Stampin’ Blends to color the image. I used the smaller frame to cut the image out. The card base is a 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Gray Granite cardstock (146983) and I layered a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock (119685) on that.

These beautiful new toys can be ordered from the Holiday Catalog beginning September 4. You will be thrilled with all the new toys available in this catalog! It will be hard to choose what to order first.

There are two ways you can a copy of this catalog into your own hands now. The first way is to join my team as a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator. You can even order things from it now if you join! Contact me if you are interested or visit my online store here.

The second way to receive a free catalog is to just email me your mailing address and phone number. I’ll give you a call to confirm your contact information and mail one out to you.