I am being nostalgic more and more these days!

I participated in a recent Online Stamp Camp and I choose to showcase the Celebratory Sips Suite Collection as one of my 50 minute sessions.

It was fun to show the versatility in the look of cards, just in the choice of patterned paper and color combinations.

It was also fun to go WAY BACK to 2005-06 to find a technique for a card - the Waterfall technique!

I watched old videos and looked at things from Splitcoast Stampers that I hadn't watched for years!

Then I saw a couple of waterfall cards using the same products that were made by Rose Ward and I decided I'd put my own little spin on it.

I hadn't made one of these in years, and in the old days we used brads to keep the mechanism in place.

I used a good dose of multipurpose liquid glue and Tear & Tape to hold things together.

When you start pulling down on the bottom of the card, you want to make sure your adhesive will hold everything together, but still give you the ability to allow movement.

I loved how mine turned out and those who attended the Online Stamp Camp were given the full written instructions and got to watch a live of me putting the card together.

I really loved that I was able to use almost all the products from the Suite on the card.

I used The Garden embossing folder from the Glass and Gardens duo pack of embossing folders included in the Suite. 

The pull at the bottom used the beautiful Gold 3/8" Striped Ribbon.

One of my favorite parts of presenting this card is I was able to use small portions of several of the patterns of paper from the Celebratory Sips paper pack.

There were even portions of the larger pattern glasses, that even of the top was cut off I showed how to fill in by stamping onto cardstock or patterned paper piece and die cut to complete the decoration.

That's what I did on the back of the card.

I fussy cut one of the glasses at the top edge of the paper, that had a portion of the umbrella in the glass, so I stamped onto a small piece of Cloud Cover cardstock and die cut the shape of the umbrella and attached it over the patterned paper.

It gave a fun look to the inside/back of the card.

If you'd like the complete instructions for this card, you can place an order of $20 or more from my online store in the month of August and the instructions are free as my thank you.

Or you can purchase the entire 35 page pdf of the Online Stamp Camp instructions by emailing me and I'll reach out with the details.

I hope this inspires you to go into the WAY BACK MACHINE for project ideas too!