I love this Flowering Fields Sale-A-Bration stamp set. You can earn it for free right now during the promotion. Mix and match the little flowers. I used it to create a card for a swap I participated in. I used for my team meeting swap this weekend and also for a mail-in swap that I participated in a few weeks ago.
For this card I stamped the flowers in Memento Black ink and then colored them with my Stampin’ Write Markers. I did some faux stitching with my Project Life Journaling Pen.
Here is a full supply list for you – order $50 worth of products from this list and select the stamp set for FREE!
The Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration promotion has started and something a little different this year is there are a few items in the back of the brochure that are only available for a limited time! Two stamp sets and a paper pack that will be available as a free choice through Feb. 15th. These are on pages 16-19 in the Sale-a-Bration brochure. They are the Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper, Hello stamp set and Sky is the Limit stamp set. Today I’m going to share a few cards I’ve made with Sky is the Limit.
Choose $50 in product (before shipping and tax) and you can select this stamp set for free. The supplies used for this card would get you to that limit.
Here are a couple of other card ideas using this stamp set – it works as a Valentine, for birthdays, for graduations and congratulations on a new job or opportunity. It’s a nice masculine set.
For the birthday card I added the Sweet Lil’ Things washi tape, the small star punch, and the circle framelits. Colors are Baked Brown Sugar, Hello Honey and Pool Party.
On the congratulation card – I made this one for Tyler when he graduated college in December – I added Linen Thread and the Circle Framelits. Colors are Soft Suede with the Very Vanilla.
Be sure to order now while you can get this set before its gone. Just click on one of the products up above and it will take you to my online store.
I wanted to show you an idea with the Bloomin’ Heart Thinlits Die. At the OnStage Local event in November the Make&Take that I showed was how to cut the new heart thinlit from Designer Series paper. So everyone had the opportunity to cut one out and then to stamp on it with the coordinating stamp set. We were able to use the Precision Base Plate and the new Big Shot Die brush. Our Make&Takes this time were just elements and not full cards or projects. I turned the heart into a full card and it ended up looking like this:
Here are some tips for you when using this new die – it is the most intricate and detailed thinlit that Stampin’ Up! has released so far and in order to have it come out nice you want to follow these tips.
You have to use the Precision Base Plate to get a clean cut instead of your bottom cutting pad
Pass the die through the Big Shot back and forth 2 times
While in the past SU has not recommend this when cutting something thin like Designer Paper or Vellum use the Magnetic Platform on the bottom of your sandwich instead of the Multi-purpose Platform. Just be careful that you don’t pinch your fingers!
Use the Big Shot Die brush and pad to remove all the pieces.
Here is a video from Stampin’ Up! –
Another tip I have for you is with the stamping. If you look at the stamp set the little flowers have tabs on them to help you line them up for two step stamping. What I decided to do was to create a template to help with stamping on the cut heart each time. I marked on a cut heart where the tabs from the stamps should be in order to line it up. Create your own template so you can use it as a guide each time you stamp.
The little flower dies also match up to the die cut heart. Notice there are 2 larger and 3 small flowers – use the cut or stamped flowers in those spaces. If you look carefully there are also cut out flowers within the heart that you can layer a cut flower underneath. There are 2 large ones and 2 small ones. I need to take a picture of that – apparently I don’t have one.
This bundle doesn’t have to be just for Valentine’s day either. Here I took the same layout for the card I made above and created a birthday and Mother’s Day card with this collection of products.
These were some of my displays at the OnStage event. The birthday card uses the little flower dies and the other card uses the Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper.
Start of the year by attending this class and creating a Tin of cards! Create cards for a variety of occasions. Includes supplies for 16 cards (4 each of 4 designs) with dividers and a cute organizing tin.
Then you’ll have a place to keep all the cards that you make throughout the year so you can find what you need when you need it!
Class fee is $38. This is a PREPAID Class – all fees are due by January 12th.
Class will be held on Sunday January 24th.
After I receive your RSVP I will send you a Paypal invoice to complete the payment for the class.
Includes – supplies for 16 cards, envelopes, tin box with lid, 9 dividers, Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
Continuing the countdown….3 more days to order from the Holiday Catalog. The Designer Papers have been very popular this year. At convention we learned how the designers at Stampin’ Up! create the papers. Many are original hand painted or drawn designs. Now that the holidays are over you don’t have to stop using the pretty paper. Many of the patterns are general enough that they can be used for other things like Birthday cards! Any print that isn’t holiday specific would work. And often when one side is holiday specific the other side is not. Here are a couple of ideas for you.
These are the Holiday catalog items I used on this card:
Into the Woods Designer Series Paper pg. 43 (On Sale)
Into the Woods 3/8″ Cotton Ribbon pg. 43 (On Sale)
And here is another:
This one used the Season of Cheer Designer Series Paper. Unfortunately this paper is already sold out. The ribbon on this card is Hello Honey 3/8″ Satin Stitched Ribbon is part of the Year End Sale.
Take a look at your Designer Papers and see if you can make a stack of birthday or thank you cards from something that you thought was just for Halloween, Fall or Christmas.
Here is a video from Stampin’ Up! showing you how some of the Holiday paper were created. If you here a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator say DSP that stands for Designer Series Paper.
The two cards were the same I just switched the Designer Paper and ribbon and used matching card stock. These are supplies for the Into the Woods version:
Are you in need of a quick card for the Christmas Holidays? I think this card fits that need. Not only is it quick to make but also very beautiful. The Wonderland stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog has an image of some gorgeous evergreen trees. I used the Thick White Card Stock for the card base – stamped directly on the card. For this sample I used gold washi tape and cording but silver would also be beautiful.
This was one of the cards we made at my November Christmas Card Stamp A Stack. For the class I prepped 80 of these and pre-tied almost all the bows for the ladies that came to class. I think that was the best for them – me tying the bows! Now I just need to create some more for me!
If this card looks familiar it’s because it is very similar to the one actually in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog. They used only a portion of the tree image and I used the whole thing. They added the wooden snowflakes which I left off this card because we used them on a different one and I didn’t have enough for both – plus there wasn’t really room when stamping the full length of the trees.
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