Play Ball Scrapbook Pages

There is no stamping on these pages! I know, how do you do that? Is that even right? When the designer series paper is so fantastic, you don't have to stamp. 

This paper was from last spring's mini catalog so it is not available any longer but check out these fantastic pages anyway!

Hippest Hippo

Sale-a-bration is on it's way again this year! Stampin' Up! releases excludes stamp set and papers that you can only earn during sale-a-bration. Sale-a-bration used to be 2 times a year and Stampin' Up! is going back to just once a year and that time is NOW!!

July and Auguste were the last sale-a-bration window. You could pick this awesome hippo stamp set or the coordinating dies or the gold striped paper as one of your free items. You can see I may have earned more than one (oops, please don't tell my hubby! 😁

I think the hippos are so cute. I started with a card base of Smoky Slate. The designer series paper was colored with Melon Mambo. The hippo was die cut and is on dimensionals.

In Symmetry

This beautiful set called In Symmetry did retire last spring. Yep, I'm behind, playing catch up again--or maybe it's still. I used that stamp set with a fun technique to create these 3 cards. The technique is called plaid stamping. You can see from the examples why plaid stamping is a good name for this fun technique. All you need to re-create this technique is a large, solid image stamp and 3 coordinating ink colors. 

Charming Sentiments

Charming Sentiments is a fantastic sentiment set with an amazing set of coordinating dies. Most of the dies the words out closely. I paired this great set up with Perfectly Penciled designer series paper and created some great cards.

Parakeet Party is the base color here. I colored the designer series paper with some finger daubers and ink pads. Coloring this way is very fast but not very precise. The messiness of it is perfect for the look I was after. 

Kindest Gnomes

I'm not sure I love the gnomes but I certainly appreciate them. This set was in the June-January mini catalog and I thought it was cute so I bought it and played with it several times. 

I create a class at home every month. I pick a bundle and add some fun accessories and give you 3 options to purchase if that stamp set and the accessories that will fit into your budget. The November Class at Home was this set and these were the cards that came with this class.