Hello! In today's Pretty Cards & Paper November blog hop you will see projects made with the Peaceful Place designer series paper. 

The gorgeous metallic accents in the Peaceful Place specialty designer series paper will help your projects pop! Included in this 12" x 12" pack of paper are 12 sheets of patterned paper: 2 each of 6 double-sided designs. One side of each has some metallic accents such as falling snow or woodgrain. Although this paper is monochromatic including Basic Black, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate you could colour in the sheets to change the look or stamp on the white portions.

Hello and welcome to my blog in this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop. Our projects for this blog hop use Gray Granite, Bermuda Bay and Gorgeous Grape.

Have you tried the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder before? It was available in the Jan-Jun Mini Catalogue and has carried over to the Annual Catalogue. I went digging through my embossing folders yesterday wondering what one I should use. It was hard to pick between the Painted Textured and the Tasteful Textile embossing folders. The best thing to do when you cannot chose between which embossing folder to use is to make a sample of both in the colour you will use. Then you can put the embossed cardstock down and place the items (without gluing them down) over top to see which one you prefer. Add the piece you don't use to your stash so that it's ready to go or make a 2nd card using it while you have all the items out. Then you'll have a few cards ready to send out for the time when you need it!

Inside the Annual Catalogue you can find the Holidays Section starting on page 88. The Tidings of Christmas suite uses the traditional colours I like to use for Christmas: greens and red. There is a coordinating stamp set & die bundle that is designed to work with the Tidings of Christmas designer series paper. But you could use any Christmas or Holiday themed stamp set with it. I've used the Season's Blessing stamp set and now the Perfectly Plaid stamp set.

On Saturday I participated in an online event where a fellow Canadian demonstrator hosted an online training and creative session. This was one of the cards she designed for us to create using stamps, dies and designer series paper from the Plentiful Plants suite. It's fun to gather with other demonstrators virtually or when there were in person events. The community that enjoys being creative and loves Stampin' Up! products is what I enjoy the most about events and meeting other demonstrators. It's one way I can feel connected and part of something bigger than me. Knowing that there is someone else out there that enjoys the same things I do is a great comfort. 

I love the textures in the Tasteful Touches stamp set. There is lots of detail with the images and this stamp set has some great sentiments as well. The hello is part of a larger sentiment in the Tasteful Touches stamp set. It was inked up using a Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker then stamped onto a piece of Sahara Sand cardstock.

With the retiring list posted recently I went through my stamp collection. One of my favourite things is purchasing new stamps to play with but then I forgot about the awesome stamps I have in my collection already! Do you get that way too? This week I'll be sharing projects using some of my favourite retiring products. Today's card features the Country Home stamp set and the Tin Tile 3D Embossing folder.

Each week I will share a video on how to create a project. This video will be available on my YouTube channel and shared in a blog post with more details about that project. See today's video below or you can watch it on my YouTube channel:

Happy Valentine's Day and Family Day long weekend! The sentiment on today's card is a perfect fit for these holidays. Just Jade is one of my favourite In Colours and I love the designs in the 2020-2022 In Colour 6" x 6" designer series paper.

This stamp coordinates with many of our punches: Rectangular Postage Punch, Double Oval Punch and the Heart Punch Pack (please note that the heart stamp does not perfectly line up with the hearts). You can earn this stamp set for free during Sale-A-Bration and until the end of Feb with a party or a personal order of $375 or more.