Va Shopping Card 

A Birthday card with a bakery and florist on a boulevard
Va Shopping Card

Hello Crafty Friends! Laurie here again! I am sharing my Va Shopping Card using the Les Shoppes Suite Collection by Stampin’ Up!

The Details of My Card

When I saw this Suite in the Annual Catty, this card immediately popped into my head! Lol! It’s a double Z fold card with the shops running along the cobbled Z part.

Open card displaying the boulevard
Open Z Fold Displayed

For my card, I decided to make a bakery since what is better for a birthday than a bakery filled with birthday cakes! The Let’s Go Shopping Photopolymer Stamp Set is so neat that you can interchange the stamps for a bakery, a bookshop, or a cafe! So, I coloured my bakery with my Stampin’ Blends to match the Les Shoppes Design Series Paper. I added a die cut awning to the window in matching colours to the bakery. I even popped it up with dimensionals so that it felt more 3D.

Close Up of Bakery
Close Up of Bakery

Since I was creating a boulevard of shops, I thought the die cut lamppost and bench would be fun accents without covering up the building in the background when the card was closed. The planter was also die cut out from the DSP, but you could stamp and colour it instead.

I used the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder to emboss the Basic White as a background for my DSP building. You could leave it unbossed to write on.

I made this card for a swap and used the different buildings in the DSP. There were 19 cards in total. So, a lot of fussy cutting was done! Lol! Here are the 5 designs with the different buildings that suited my cards.

Cards with Different Shops
Swap Cards with Different Shops

The sentiment was stamped in matching colours to the awning and die cut out. 

The finishing touch was a scattering of Loose Silver Sequins that are included in the Collection.

Supplies:

Stamps/Bundles/Dies: Les Shoppes Suite Collection (161337)

Inks: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink (132708), Misty Moonlight (102283), Calypso Coral (147101)

Paper: Basic White (159276), Misty Moonlight (153118), Smoky Slate (131202), Pecan Pie (161717), Calypso Coral (122925), Les Shoppes 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper (in Collection)

Accessories: Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder (161600), Misty Moonlight Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (153108), Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (154881), Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (154882), Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (161674), Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (154830), Loose Silver Sequins (in Collection), Paper Snips (103579), Bone Folder (102300), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Stampin’ Seal (152813), Mini Glue Dots (103683)

Measurements: 

  • Misty Moonlight (2 pieces): 
    • 4 ¼” x 11” scored at 2 ¾” and 5 ½”
    • Scrap for Awning
  • Basic White (3 pieces):
    • 4” x 5 ¼”
    • 2” x 2 ½”
    • Scrap for Sentiment
  • Smoky Slate
    • Scrap for Light Post
  • Pecan Pie:
    • Scrap for Bench
  • Calypso Coral:
    • Scrap for Awning
  • Les Shoppes 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper (4 pieces):
    • 4” x 2 ½”
    • 11” x 1”: Scored at 5 ½” and 8 ¼”
    • One of the shops
    • Planter
Card Open Displaying the Boulevard View
Card Open Displaying the Boulevard View

More Information on My Va Shopping Cards

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4 thoughts on “Va Shopping Card 

  1. What a fabulous card, this is the perfect layout for this set, love it, very many thanks for sharing, I definitely need to try this, thank you for the inspiration.

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