It IS a Big Day in Stampin land! Today starts Saleabration and the Occasion Mini catalog! For every $50 you spend you get to select a free product from the Saleabration Catalog. This Saleabration set is called Big Day. I made up the sample shown in the mini with a change or two to make it my own. Colored with Blendabilities, it’s a sparkling wish for a happy birthday. I love this time of year! Hugs, Fran
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Love, love, love this little bird in the Saleabration set – A Happy Thing! I used Blendies to color him, cut him out, and set me on the Hardwood background. The design is the same as this card. Hope you’re enjoying the Holidays – I am! But I’m glad to get back in my craft room too! Hugs, Fran
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A Happy Thing will be available for FREE during Saleabration – January 6-March 31! For every $50 you spend, you will get to pick a free item from the Salebration catalog. It’s a really cute set, especially for Blendabilities. Here I stamped the image 3 times and colored it with Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi Blendies. The background is done with Harwood. Then I added some Dazzling Details to make the lemons sparkle! Hugs, Fran
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Here’s a bunny for your banner 
On Tuesday, Stampin Up released Eggstra Spectacular as a download (1379120). I imported the svg file into my ecutter and enlarged the bunny, deleted his tail and cut him out of Whisper White cardstock. He is adhered to a banner from the Celebration Basics Kit (133007) and has a pom-pom from the banner that was available during Saleabration. Making an entire banner of these would be so cute – but I am going to tie this one on to an Easter basket. Just a funny idea! Hugs, Fran
Feeling very springy today – even if it snows. This card base is the exclusive SU Pop N Cuts Base and Sweet Sorbet Designer Series paper. The tag was made with the Scallop Tag Topper punch. The words are from Blessings From Heaven. I masked off sections and made the sentiment tighter so that it would fit on the tag.
And here she is with her Easter Eggs. The eggs were done with the small oval punch. I punched them and then put them on a sticky note back into the punch so they would have a more “egg” shape.
Stamp Sets – Blessings From Heaven, Petal Parade
Card stock – Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Sweet Sorbet DSP
Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Crisp Cantaloupe
Etc – SU Pop N Cuts base and Dress Form insert, small and medium oval punches, Oval Framelits, Pistachio Pudding ribbon, pearls, Scallop Tag Topper punch, Doilie tape, Itty Bitty Shapes punch
The photo quality isn’t great – sorry. The Crisp Cantaloupe seemed to “glow” while I was taking pictures. Hugs, Fran
Still wishing for spring! This Circle Label Framelit card features the cute, cute butterfly and the Sweet Sorbet Designer Series paper. There are only 10 days left to grab this DSP! I found a new “pairing” of sentiments that I really like. The sentiment on the front is from Too Kind and the inside is from Really Good Greetings.
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Stamp Sets – Bug Me, Too Kind, Really Good Greetings
Cardstock – Sahara Sand, Crisp Cantaloupe, Basic Black, Whisper White, Sweet Sorbet Dsp
Ink – Crisp Cantaloupe, Basic Black
Etc – Circle Label Framelit, Tasteful Trim die, Rhinestone sticker
I ran out of black ribbon – all black ribbon – and used some rhinestone stickers from Elizabeth Craft Designs instead. Just a little bling for my butterfly Hugs, Fran
We are doing fancy folds at my team meeting this Sunday and this is the one I’m doing. It’s a Card in a Box and it folds nice and flat to fit in a regular envelope. I’ve made larger ones but this cutie is tiny! I used the measurements on Splitcoast – scroll all the way to the bottom to find the measurements for an A2 card.
My eggs are the large oval punch and the flowers are the Petite Petal and Bird punches. The grass is made with the Fringe Scissors. The little bunny/lamb is from Eggstra Specatular.
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Stamp Set – Eggstra Spectacular
Cardstock – Pool Party, Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White, Sweet Sorbet DSP
Ink – Jet Black Stazon
Etc – Large Oval punch, Scallop Edge punch, Petite Petal punch, Bird punch, Candy Dots, Fringe Scissors, small butterfly punch, rhinestones
Now I have a question for you – if you use Pinterest, would you rather see boards set up by stamp sets or catalogs. I currently have mine set up by stamp sets which makes for a lot of boards. I’m wondering if it would easier to just do it by catalogs or themes. What do you think? Hugs, Fran
One of my friends and I love to get up early in the morning and meet for coffee whenever we can. It’s a great way for us to get in some “girl time” before the day takes off. So the sentiment on the front of my card celebrates this time . The card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
Inside I used Karen Burniston’s Garden Bench Pop It Ups die to create this scene. (Stamp is from Art Impressions) The die comes with the flowers and grass (and more!)
To keep “our feet on the ground” I used the grass and few flowers – and a box behind it. There’s also a box behind the image to keep it steady.
Can you see them? One on the bench and one on the ground.
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Stamp Set – Perfect Blend, Yippee-Skippee, Coffee BFFs (AI)
Card stock – Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Pool Party, Whisper White, Sweet Sorbet DSP (SA
Ink – Jet Black Stazon
Etc – Garden Bench and Agatha Edges Pop It Ups, Oval Punch, Oval Framelit, Candy dots
Now if only the snow would melt so we could sit on a garden bench. Hugs, Fran
Karen Burniston challenged us to use any of her new Pop It Ups dies to create anything we wanted – makes my head spin! I decided to use her Pop It Ups Accordion Fancy Label to create a birthday card. The “Happy Birthday” is an Elizabeth Craft Design die that is so nice and thin I could bend is in an arc across the front. The flower is a stack of Petite Petal punch flowers scrunched to make a little flower. The little banner is the new banner punch in the SAB mini – rounded with an oval punch on the top.
Here it is open. The center square is embossed using My Friend. The “to You” is made up of the “You” in the ECD die Thank You and the “to” is the T from birthday and O from you. (Does that make sense?) The die for the Red Glimmer paper diamonds in the corner comes with the Accordion Fancy Label die!
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Stamp Set – My Friend
Cardstock – Very Vanilla, Red Glimmer paper, Basic Black, Modern Medley DSP
Ink – Versamark
Etc – Pop It Ups Accordion Fancy Label, ECD Happy Birthday and Thank You dies, Small banner punch, Petite Petal punch, Candy dots
Lots of fun! Hugs, Fran
This card is from the Sale a bration kit called Good as Gold. It makes lots of sweet cards like this one and comes with sentiments in English, French and German. Here’s another idea for this kit –
Using My Digital Studil, I printed out this image from Artistic Etchings and cut it out with the Oval Framelit die. I added a layer behind it using the beautiful Gold Foil. Then I used the “merci!”
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Cardstock – Good as Gold notecards, Gold Foil specialty paper, Whisper White
Etc – MDS2 (Artistic Etchings), Candy Dots
Now to come up with some very German – and I’ll have a cute set! Any ideas? This is why I love MDS! Hugs, Fran
