Stretching Your Stash Using Old and New, Mix and Match Products All From The Same Company. To Create Matching Card and Tag For Christmas

 Well Hello, I'm back fortunately the water company in my area fixed the burst water main.  But Unfortunately only to break all the roads phone lines and internet cables. So after three weeks and  a lot of discussion and a change of provider I'm here again. Anyway enough about that drama. 

So while ive been away the Christmas to do list has started, as card makers we have to be way ahead to give ourselves the time to get them all ready to send. So out come the releases with the amazing seasonal products. Of Corse we enjoy purchasing some new ones every year, but what about the previous years, stamps, dies and stencils.

This is were I made a discovery, not rocket science but didn't give this much thought. Each Company no matter who,  has there own look to their products. So mix and matching with that in mind means you can have a lot more options to use .

So Here's my theory in practice.

NEW THIS YEAR

Weathered Wood Background (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/weathered-wood-background-stamp-c9

Eclectic Garden Stamps (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/eclectic-garden-4x8-stamp-set-concord

Mix and Match Holiday Sentiments Stamp (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/mix-match-holiday-sentiments-4x6-c9?variant=39572246364242

Mix and Match Holiday Sentiments Die (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/mix-match-holiday-sentiments-dies-c9?variant=39572246397010

Enamel Dots in Cranberry, Stardust and Evergreen  (Concord & 9th) 

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/cranberry-enamel-dots-c9

Inkpads in Cranberry, Stardust and Evergreen (Concord & 9th) 

OLDER

Merry Shapes Stamps (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/merry-shapes?_pos=1&_sid=b2acbf146&_ss=r

Merry Shapes Dies (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/sew-merry-dies?_pos=2&_sid=b2acbf146&_ss=r

Basic's

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/nesting-circle-infinity-dies?_pos=1&_sid=78c0a16bf&_ss=r

White Card Stock (Neenah)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/neenah

Hemp Twine (any)

6 x 6 " Card Blanks

Connect Glue (Gina K)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/connect-glue?_pos=1&_sid=4413ee076&_ss=r

Method

Firstly comes the back ground design.

I notice that Weathered Wood and Electric have very similar wood effects in different scales. So I stamped these in Midnight and Stardust then die cut out the smaller design with Infinity dies.

Next I stamped out the Mix and Match Sentiments in Cranberry and Evergreen and Die cut them out using the coordinating die.

Before adding all the embellishments I stamps  out the tree image from the older set, and used the same inks to bring my card together.

I punch a hole in my tag and treaded some twine.

I loved mixing and matching between the colours for the sentiments. 

Sticking to a simple colour palette made everything work together old or new.

I hope you enjoyed todays blog from me.

Happy Stamping

Jo

xxx