Crafting Up the Coast

You can still get some of our SAB items up until midnight tonight but after that, they are gone.  If you planned on getting some of this beautiful DSP now is the time.  I hate to see it go it has been one of my favs.

Of course, there is no guaranty, but you may see a lot of SAB items and DSP available as prizes, at my annual Hostess Appreciation party.  Contact me HERE to find out how to qualify for an invite to this party.

I got the idea for this card from a demonstrator in Stampin’ Connection.  I copied her layout and changed the colors and embellishments.

That’s one of the nice things about being a demonstrator.  You have access to this site called “Stampin’ Connection”.  It is awesome!  To give you an example, right now there are 17, 480 pages (20 samples on each page) of cards, scrap book pages, and 3 D items that you can case (copy and share everything).  You never have to be concerned finding examples for your paper crafting.

Did I say that right now (only til the end of this month) you can become a demonstrator and get a kit valued at $150 for $99?  Another SAB wonderful offering.  Contact me HERE to find out more.

I bet you think that the background on this card is DSP, right?  Well, you would be wrong.  I used Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Summer StarFruit, Pool Party ink and the stamp set, Petal Parade from SAB catalog to create the background.  In addition, I used Gorgeous Grunge to get that splattered look with Stazon ink.  I used the twine from SAB Sweet Sorbet pack.  That’s what I love about our products, with all the matching embellishments, creating a card with all kinds of texture is easy peasey.

The image and the sentiment on this card is from the set “Another Great Year” found on page 34 in the occasions catalog.  I used the Starburst Framelits (same page) and paper pierced the circle with our white gel pen to resemble stitching.

I used Crisp Cantaloupe and Summer Starfruit on the flowers  and then lined them in our Dazzling Details (Silver).  This is a set that will come out July 1st in the new Big catalog.  We got this as a gift at leadership from SU.  It is a very pretty stamp set called So Very Happy.  Has great images and sentiments.  Very versatile set.

Well SU didn’t offer any St. Patrick’s Day stamps in this years Spring catalog but I improvised using our little heart punch to make the Shamrock.  The sentiment is from our wonderful set, Teeny Tiny Wishes, from the BIG catalog on page 44.  This set covers just about any Holiday you can think of.  The banners and banner punch are from the SAB catalog.  Sorry, that my camera did not pick up the gold that I used for background on my image and sentiment.

We will be celebrating with our traditonal Cornbeef and Cabbage dinner tonight with all the fixin’s including Irish Soda Bread, YUM!  Hope y’all have a great Day and are sportin’ the green!!

I used the color block technique on this card.  The image is from Another Great Year found in the Occasions catalog on page 34.  The DSP is from Sale-A-Bration, as is the cork and the twine.

I really would love your comments on this card.  It was so much fun creating this.  I love the animals in our sets.  We sure have a lot of them.  This little bunny is from the set Storybook Friends found on page 52 of the Big catalog.  The flower is from the set, Peaceful Petals on page 20 of the Occasions catalog, and I paper pieced it with 6 layers.  The fence I created from the background stamp Hardwood, page 37.  I wanted our little bunny to appear like he was on one of those little oriental borders we see in gardens.  What do you think?

The flowers on this card front are from the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  With a $50 purchase you can get a sheet of cork embellishments plus 3 wheels of gorgeous twine in Pool Party, Crisp Cantaloupe and Summer starfruit.  What an awesome deal!  I love embellishing my cards with all different kinds of texture.  Here I also used the neutrals Candy dots in the center of each flower.  Hope you like it!

Ever wonder why I make so many cards with Thank You on them?  Well, every time you place an on-line order with me, no matter how big or how small your order, you will get one of these from me in the mail.  I like to send my customers handmade cards so they can case them or get ideas from them.  I appreciate your support and I am ready to help you in any way I can.  When you buy from me, you get me!

I guess this is a good time to remind you that we only have to the end of this month to take advantage of the FREE stuff you can get from our once a year “Sale-A-Bration Promotion”.  If you don’t have a catalog, contact me HERE and I will get one to you.

Doesn’t this card look like Spring?  It is really starting to get warm here and I am loving it!  That’s why I chose to live in the South.  However, I see on the news that we are to expect another cold front coming this way but I do hope it doesn’t last long.  I am ready for hot, hot, hot weather!  So while I am waiting, I can do the next best thing.  Create the feeling of Spring in my cards.

I haven’t used this DSP in so long I almost forgot I had it.  It is from the Big catalog and is called Etcetera.  I love this stamp set for watercoloring.  I used one of our wooden embellishments found on page 18 of the Occasions catalog and covered it with Retro washi tape found on 19.  I then added a button to the top of it from our in-color buttons.  I love a stamp set that has sentiments along with crisp images and this set (So Very Grateful), does it all, page 32.  Inside it says “And I’m so very grateful”.

Again, I am on a Pistachio Pudding roll here.  Although, what can you say about this gorgeous Sale-A-Bration DSP?  It is so HOT right now.  Especially because it goes so well with our new in-colors.  So much fun to create with all the wonderful products this spring.  I used crisp cantaloupe re-inker with alcohol and spritzed the silver glimmer paper to make the butterfly.  I think it gives it some needed pizazz!

It seems I am hooked on Pistachio Pudding lately.  I am so glad we get to keep these gorgeous in-colors for another year.  They are my favs so far.  However, I am sure gonna miss Summer Starfruit, gumball green and Midnight Muse.  Only a few more months to use them.  I used Summer Starfruit on this card for one of the flowers.  Maybe they will keep it as a core color, I hope, hope, hope.  And to think I disliked it so when I first saw it.  Who knew?  BTW, isn’t this set, Perfect Pennants, the best set of sentiments in a long time?

Okay, this was one of those sets that I was NOT going to buy.  Yeah!  Well I saw so much of it on the internet I knew that I just had to have it.  It has some reall cool stamps in it besides sentiments.  I love stamp sets that have both images and sentiments.  They really are the most versatile.  I used soft Sky on this card.  Hope you like it!

Y’all I had so much fun creating this card.  I think it is so stinkin’ cute.  I love the Zoo Babies set and this is the first time I have had a chance to play with it.  You can find it on page 54 of the big catalog.  I did use quite a bit of embellishments from the Occasions mini catalog.  I love this Retro Fresh DSP, it’s the bomb!

I used the Starburst Sayings stamp set and Framelits again on canvas with Summer Starfruit ink, only this time with a background paper (Sweet Sorbet) instead of the embossed background.  In addition, I used the beautiful matching colored twine that is another SAB product on the background of the card.  I have really fallen in love with Summer Starfruit ink and to think I turned my nose up at it when I first saw it!  One of those colors that tends to grow on you and keeps on giving!LOL

Again, both the DSP (High Tide), and Stamp set (Hello, Sailor), is from the Occasions mini catalog on page 24.  This is another project we made at Saturday’s camp.  The Banner Blast stamp set along with the Banner punch are Sale-A-Bration items that you can get FREE with a $50 purchase.  In addition, the large banners are cut with the Big Shot Framelit dies (Banners), found on page 27 of the Occasions catalog.  I love that they all go so well together, don’t you?

Isn’t this DSP beautiful?  The mini SAB catalog does not do justice to this gorgeous paper, Sweet Sorbet (SAB).  So pretty.  You can use it with so many of our in-color inks.  I used the Decorative Dots embossing Folder (SAB) to layer the sentiment.  The stamp set is Petal Parade (SAB) and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  Remember, with every $50 purchase of merchandise you can get one of these SAB items FREE.
The petite flowers with matching punch can be found in the occasions catalog on page 33.

If you belonged to my Friday evening club, you would have made this card as one of your projects.  I love the DSP High Tide, the selections are so awesome!  Notice how this background DSP makes it appear that the bottle (also cut from one the DSPs) is floating and bouncing along in the water.  I used the Sale-a-bration, Banner Blast, with the matching Banner punch and added them to the to the top of the card on Baker’s twine.  This is one of those fun projects that everyone loves.  It also make a very nice masculine card.

I used several items on this card.  The Embossing folder, Arrors Textured Impressions, found on page 26, So Very Grateful Stamp set (page 32), all in the occasions catalog.  I stamped and colored the image on our watercolor paper, distressed the background with Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and cut the image out with our framelits Apothecary Accents.  The sentiment is from Four You, and all of these are found in the Big Catalog.   Hope you like it!

If you came to my camp this past weekend, this is one of the cards you would have made.  I used canvas with Summer starfruit ink and cut it out with the Starburst framelits, found on page 34 of the occasions catalog.  The stamp set is called Starburst Sayings and is so versatile.  I just love it!  I dyed the doily with Calyso Coral reinkers and a spritzer.