Retro Fresh quick and easy cards

I gave myself a challenge…. make something WITHOUT flowers! 🙂

So, I got out some Stampin' Up! supplies from the Retro Fresh Suite of products from the Occasions catalog and I made 5 cards. Here are 2 of them:

The card bases are Very Vanilla cardstock, and I added some Tangerine Tango cardstock that had been embossed with the Arrows Embossing Folder and the Alphabet Press Embossing folder. On top of that I added strips of Retro Fresh Designer paper and Chevron punch pieces and banners from the Retro Fresh DSP as well.

I accented these cards with the cute wooden embellishments found on page 18 of the Occasions catalog (here online).

Above: I stamped on the Retro Fresh Tag and also punched out the 3 arrows using the Chevron punch in one of the tags and put 2 strips of DSP behind it.. kind of fun, right?

Above: I love this fun background… it's embossed with the Alphabet Press embossing folder! So I know I said I challenged myself to make something without flowers… and I know the starburst wooden element kind of looks like a flower.. but it's really not. :) But it does look cute with the In Color Boutique embellishment on it, doesn't it?