Have you seen all the fun items you can earn FREE during the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration promotion? This annual promotion runs through the end of March. With a $50 product order you can earn FREE products. And this year they added a second tier level. So with a $100 order you can get some special new items for FREE! There are 2 level 2 choices – one is a beautiful stamp set and the other is a set of Thinlits. Let me show those to you today.
The Celebrate You Thinlits Dies are one of your level 2 choices and I used the Celebrate on this card. The Thinlits coordinate with the Amazing You stamp set – that’s where the word YOU comes from on this card. But there is also a die in the set with the word YOU. Plus a third die that says amazing. I love the word dies – they make quick and easy cards.
I did use one more Sale-A-Bration choice on this card and that’s the Bubbles & Fizz Designer Series Paper. But this card would be fun with any designer paper and color combination.
Watch this quick video showing the Amazing You stamp set and Celebrate You Thinlits.
I’ve been planning to blog all week and I just haven’t gotten to it. My house is a total disaster. We are doing renovations – a lot! It’s a project that started a couple of months ago to replace our dining room table and our sofa. It has grown to so much more and I’m so ready for it to be done. Every room in my house has been impacted. If there isn’t work going on in that room then the room is full of stuff from the other rooms. My poor dogs are so confused. And please don’t open any closets – they are filled right now. I think this is why people move after a certain period of time – it’s too much trouble to do all this work and live in the house with your stuff. We have lived in this house for 24 years now. And we will stay here for a long time.
I hope you are having a great week. I know around here the kids are happy – school holiday on Monday, and weather related school closures Wednesday – Friday. Yes they had a 1 day school week. The weather is making our renovation project stretch out – I had really hoped today they would be done and out of here. But they will be back next week…….
I’m starting something new for 2018 – Mail a Card Monday – #mailacardmonday.
Every Monday I plan to send out at least one card and I’m challenging everyone else to join me!
This was my mailbox when I was sending out Christmas cards – so I’m not sending out that many every Monday. I’m challenging everyone to send out at least one card each Monday for the whole year! That would be 52 cards.
Last week Monday was a holiday but I got my cards in the box – I had 4 go out last week. So they really went out on Tuesday but I had them in the box. Today I mailed out 7 cards and had to resend one Christmas Card.
Throughout the week I make myself a little list of who I need to send cards to and then on Sunday’s I’m getting them together. I really do love to decorate the envelopes. So if I don’t already have a coordinated envelope I’m try to make those real quick on Sunday night.
Will you join me? I’m posting on my Instagram and on my Facebook Page and Group. Be sure to share a picture with me and a comment and let me know you are playing along.
Have a great day and let me know if you are playing along. And post with the hashtag #mailacardmonday
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Check out one of the stamp sets that you can earn Free during our Sale-a-Bration promotion. This new set – Heartfelt Blooms is a brand type of stamp. It’s called Distinktive (patent pending) – these stamps lay down the ink at different opacities giving the finished image more depth for a photographic finish. Watch the video to learn more about it. You can get this set Free with a $50 product order
It gives a very interesting look. How did you like all those different ideas they shared in the video.
You can shop now – order $50 in product and get the stamp set free.
Here is what you might want to get:
Night of Navy Card Stock $8
Whisper White Card Stock $9
Night of Navy ink pad $6.50
Calypso Coral ink pad $6.50
White Envelopes $6.50
Clear Block E $12
Stampin’ Mist Cleaner $4.50
Heartfelt Blooms Stamp Set FREE
These are the basic supplies used in the card above.
This is just one of the items you can choose for free during the Sale-A-Bration promotion.
It’s time to start a brand new year and get back to business. I have been away from my blog for a couple of weeks through the holidays. But my plan is to get back to a regular schedule posting and sharing more. I meant to post this card for you yesterday but it didn’t happen – so here it is today –
It’s a Happy New Year card featuring the Seasons of Whimsy stamp set it the Holiday Catalog. It’s a Hostess only stamp set and today is the last day to get it! You just need to placing a qualifying order in my store and you can choose it for one of your rewards. It actually has a perfect image for Valentine’s day too. Stampin’ Rewards start once your order reaches $150.
Today – January 2nd is the last day of the Holiday catalog and the year end sale. And while there are some things from the Holiday catalog sticking around if it is a bundle (a stamp set and die set or a punch) – the bundle won’t be available anymore. So order that today.
I’ll be back tomorrow with all the exciting news for Jan. 3rd and the start of our new Occasions catalog and Sale-A-Bration promotion.
The Christmas around the World Designer Series Paper has a variety of prints including this one filled with sweet holiday treats. I’ve been working my way through this paper and the various prints. I may just finish up what I have with a card design for the Ronald McDonald house next week. I’ll be headed there with some other demonstrators to stamp with the guests at the house. Perhaps I’ll use this card design and just let them choose their own prints from the paper pack.
This card was part of my stamp a stack classes and I would change a few things if I use if for the Ronald McDonald house. Because the kids and adults are usually not familiar with stamping and making cards I try to keep it as simple as possible.
Here is what I did on this card (with notes on what I might change):
Soft Suede card stock is the card base
A 4″ x 4″ square of Designer Paper is on the top (I use this size to get the most out of one 12×12 sheet. (for RMHC I’ll use various designs that I have left from the pack)
A 4″ x 1-1/4″ strip of Real Red card stock.
A piece of Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine is tied around the card and in a bow. (for RMHC I will either leave this off completely or perhaps pre-tie a box and have them stick on with a mini glue dot)
A Real Red scalloped circle cut with the Layering Circle Framelits Dies (I pre-cut these for class and would do the same for RMHC)
A Whisper White stitched circle cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies ( I pre-cut these for class and would do the same for RMHC – I might switch out for a plain circle so if they stamp near an edge the stitching wouldn’t be in the image)
The stamp is from the Watercolor Christmas stamp set. (for RMHC I’ll likely pull out a few other sentiments in case I need something that doesn’t say Christmas for someone there.) I used Soft Suede ink.
I added a little gold metallic star (for RMHC I’ll probably leave this off only because I don’t have enough for them to put these on the card)
Then there are two little Garden Green holly leaves tucked under the circle. These are from the Quilt Builder Framelits Dies. (I’ll precut these and have them stuck to glue dots for the RMHC)
A group of us goes once a month to our local Ronald McDonald House – well for me it’s about 45 min away. I missed last month so I’m looking forward to being there and seeing the holiday decorations at the house.
Don’t miss out on some of these great products from the holiday catalog – they will be retiring soon – Christmas Around the World Designer Series Paper, Quilt Builder Framelits Dies, Watercolor Christmas stamp set.
This Santa’s Suit stamp set is so cute! The Photopolymer set has all the different pieces to create fun cards and a coordinating die set called Santa Builder Framelits.
It stamps so nicely. I did the outline of all the images in black and then stamped the filler images mostly in Real Red. The suspenders are colored in with Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker and so is his belt buckle and the clothes pins. There are stamps to fill in the suspenders and the clothes pins but we were already using up all my little blocks so I thought the markers worked just as easily.
I also used the Powder Pink Stampin’ Write Marker to color in his heads, hands, and feet.
On the inside of the card I added his boots. On this one I also have mittens on the inside. But on the others that I made I included those on the front clothes line. When I made this card I spaced the front too far apart and they wouldn’t fit.
The tag is part of the Framelits dies. And I tied it on with a piece of the Real Red 1/8″ Solid Ribbon. The red striped Designer Paper is from the Christmas Around the World Designer Series Paper pack.
The Santa’s Suit stamp set, Santa Builder Framelits Dies, the Santa’s Suit Bundle and the Christmas Around the World Designer Series paper will all be retiring after this Holiday catalog ends. Be sure to order them now before they are gone.
This card was part of my Stamp a Stack class last month. Everyone in my class made a set of 5 of these cards.
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