Hello and welcome to my blog post today where I am sharing a fun new handmade card perfect for the book lovers and book worms like me using the new For The Books bundle.
I am sharing this project today as part of my participation in the ESAD (Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators) blog hop where we are sharing projects made with all the new Mini Catalogue & Sale-a-Bration products.

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We are celebrating everything that is NEW with this gorgeous new catalogue filled with brand new & exciting product. This is combined with the new product from Stampin’ Up!’s biggest sale of the year full of gorgeous & exclusive new Sale-a-Bration products. I have chosen to combine one of my favourite bundles called the “For The Books Bundle” 📚 with my favourite Sale-a-Bration product ✨ — The Purple Adhesive Backed Sequins. Sequins are for sure a favourite product in my craft room!

my finished for the books card

Here is a look at my finished card. I love the book-themed dies from the For The Books bundle, which create a fun book design with a separate die for the pages and small flags as bookmarks. The set also includes a cute fringe/tassel die that I used to embellish my main book that I have used as my focal point.

I used a technique of repeating elements over a larger background to create an interesting effect. I used different colours for the background design and the book that I used for my focal point. This does take some die cutting but is definitely worth it.

a closer look at the for the books card

Here is a close up look at the details on my finished card where you can see a closer look at all the texture and dimension. I used one of my favourite die sets – the Perennial Postage dies to ‘ground’ my focal point. I added some additional texture with the Black & Vanilla Check Ribbon and embellished with some die cut flowers from the Flowers of Beauty Dies which I have added some additional colour to with a Small Blending Brush and some Petunia Pop Ink. I finished off these flowers and embellishing of the card with some of the gorgeous Purple Adhesive Backed Sequins from the new Sale-a-Bration catalogue.

I hope that you were able to get some inspiration from my project today.
There is plenty more inspiration by heading through the blog hop & checking out what all the other talented stampers created. Click below to hop along or click here.

the whole blog hop list

• Kayla Renee <<< you are here
• Denise Buetler
• Nicole Wilson
• Lou Kitzelman
• Rochelle Laird-Smith
• Tracy Held
• Lisa Whitehead
• Sharon Dalton
• Jenny Hayward

Until next time. Crafty hugs. xx

There are two upcoming amazing events with The Stamping Lounge run by myself, Maheswari Rajaguru and Rochelle Laird-Smith. We will be running an online class using the brand new Stampin’ Up! Gingerbread Man Bundle and we also have our next Virtual Retreat quickly approaching that is open for registration now featuring the Stampin’ Up! Elegant Pine Snowflake Suite of products. Click the images or links to find out more and enrol OR sign up to The Stamping Lounge membership to get our monthly classes which are included in the membership.

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