Late Throwback Thursday Card

 Good day everyone! It's Saturday, hope you have great things planned for the weekend. I will be working evenings but crafting by day. I created this really fun card that I posted to Facebook on Thursday on my group page Diane's Craft Space. See the post here.

It's a new themed feature post "Throwback Thursday" that may not happen every Thursday but often enough to call it a theme. The goal of this new feature is to get you using your old stamp sets, old Designer Series Paper, retired card stock, retired embossing folder and dies, etc. There's still LOTS of life left in these products, they shouldn't be pushed to the wayside and ignored. 

On the Facebook post, I asked: Can you name the Retired products used on this card?? Hint: there's three. Want the answer right away? Scroll to the Supplies Used section to find out if you're right.

 

 

 

I am a horrible fussy cutter. Are you one too? Here's a tip:

- Use your Basic Black Stampin' Write marker to colour in the white space outside of the outlined image. Ta Daaaa! No one will know.

For a more professional finish, here's another tip:

- Since you have the marker handy, colour your side edges. No white showing. Finished look.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a close up to see the professionally finished edge. 

What do you think?? I like it much better.

Supplies used:

• Birthday Cheer stamp set: retired (Throwback Thursday answer 1 of 3)
• VersaMark ink pad: 102283
• Memento ink pad: 132708
  
• Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, Daffodil Delight: 154883
• Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, Granny Apple Green: 154885
  
• Stampin' Blends, Color Lifter: 144608
• Stampin' Write Marker, Basic Black: 100082
• Mango Melody card stock: 146989
• Basic Black card stock: 121045
• Basic White card stock: 159276
• Oh So Ombre DSP: retired (Throwback Thursday answer 2 of 3)
• Stampin' cut & Emboss machine: 149653
• Dainty Diamonds 3D embossing folder: retired (Throwback Thursday answer 3 of 3)
• Heat Tool: 129053
• White embossing powder: 155554
• Paper Snip scissors: 103579
• Mini Stampin' dimensionals: 144108

 And to finish of the card set, I added strips of DSP and stamp and coloured the hat image. Lots of white space to write a message and the address. No more naked envelopes and plain insides. Let the recipient start smiling upon receiving.

One more tip: If your DSP falls a little short for the envelope flap, measure it to see if there's still enough of the adhesive to close it. If the answer is yes, adhere the DSP flush with the top edge and trim off the white space. Another option: adhere the DSP flush with the end of envelope flap and add a strip of coordinating card stock to the top. Trim to fit.

For today's card, I played along with the following challenges. Click on the images to visit their blogs.

 

 

 

That's all for today Thank you for stopping in and enjoy your weekend. Hopefully you can squeeze in some craft time