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Sale-a-bration is a fantastic time of the year! Free goodies is always the best time of the year! The sale-a-bration offerings are super fantastic.  This post is featuring one of the bundles that you could pick as free. at the $100 level.

The bright colors of this paper helps get me in the mood for spring. Not that I need much help for that! I'm ready for some warm weather, sun shine, heat and soccer! but I digress. This first card is made with Fresh Freesia as the main color. The designer series paper is from the Friendly Hello paper pack. The flower were stamped on watercolor paper and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then spritz the flowers so that you could see water standing in the image. I placed a couple of drops of re-inker in the lid of my Fresh Freesia ink pad and picked some of that color up with a water painter. I touched the color to the image and watched as the color seeped through out the image. I repeated with the leaves and Granny Apple Green. I did fussy cut them all out and added them to my card. The re-ink spread technique can be seen HERE as a replay of my Facebook Live. Watch now!

Color & Contour

I know I don't normally post on Saturdays. I missed Tuesday and I have so many posts just waiting to be written up and shared that I really wanted to get this out to you too. So here I am on Saturday!

This flower looks like a daisy to me. I also loved the greetings in this set so home it came. The Fresh Freesia card base and the gingham paper makes this card feel like spring should be here! I'm ready. I'm not a winter girl and am ready for the heat and humidity of summer. The flowers were stamped and then die cut. The centers were colored with Daffodil Delight blends and Wink of Stella added. The leaves were stamped and then colored with Soft Succulent. The leaves were fussy cut. No die for them, bummer. The greeting looks much darker in this picture than in real life. It really is Highland Heather.

Frosted Gingerbread

Another retired set on display today. This one just retired in early January. It's called Frosted Gingerbread. This was available as a suite. The suite included the stamp set, the dies, designer series paper, ribbon, and decorative masks. I was really hoping this one would hang around a bit longer but, alas, we don't always get what we want.

Soft Suede is the base for this card. Before I added a strip of the designer series paper that had the sheer red ribbon tied around it, I stamped the beautiful border stamp with Soft Suede ink. The ornament was stamped, die cut, and added to the layers of circles with dimensionals. The rhinestones were colored with Real Red blend markers. To make the tail end of the greeting, I used my paper snips. Cut a small length up the middle of the cardstock. Then line up the top of the cut with the corner and snip that triangle off. Repeat on the other side.

Counting Sheep Scrapbook Pages

These sheep and their coordinating dies were available during Sale-a-bration this past summer. I thought they were just too cute and had to make some scrapbook pages with them.

The sheep from Counting Sheep were stamped with Memento ink and then die cut. The fence is also part of the Sheep dies. These pieces and the title were adhered with dimensionals. The 12 x12 cardstock is Pool Party with Highland Heather as the photo mates. The title is covered with some Wink of Stella.

A couple more sheep and a fencing piece adorn this page. The designer series paper is from the hostess only pack of paper called Pattern Party. I also die cut the banner with the Stitched Triangle dies and covered them with Wink of Stella.  The sheep have a bit of Smoky Slate on their faces and their legs. The black & white gingham ribbon is the perfect touch for these pages.

No matter the stamp set, you can make scrapbook pages with it. It is a fun challenge for me. I like to find a sketch and then add my own colors and accents, making the pages mine. 

The supplies for these pages are listed below and you can purchase them by clicking on the pictures. 

Happy Stampin'!

Supplies:

Print Recipe

Product List

Counting Sheep Cling Stamp Set (English)

[156591]

Subtles 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock

[147004]

Pattern Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Host Designer Series Paper

[155426]

Highland Heather 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146986]

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154904]

Sheep Dies

[156600]

Stitched Triangles Dies

[152710]

Playful Alphabet Dies

[152706]

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

Black & White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Gingham Ribbon

[156485]

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

Nothing's Better Than

How much fun is this stamp set? It was introduced almost 2 years ago with a coordinating die set. If you are a coffee, chocolate or cocktail loving person, you might want to look closer at this set and dies. 

I will admit to being a chocolate-aholic so this set spoke to me. The stamp set is a 2-step set, meaning that the outline is one stamp and the insides are another stamp, giving you chance to color in without having to color. Perfect for those that don't like coloring. 

The background is called the crinkled background. You can watch the replay of my Facebook live where I created this card HERE to see how to do the crinkled background. To do this technique, start with a piece of Basic White cardstock. Crinkle it up. Yep, wad it up in a loose ball. Flatten it out a bit and then take an ink pad and drag it across this cardstock so that the peaks of the cardstock collect the ink. Wad the cardstock up again, this time into a tighter ball. Flatten it out and drag a darker color across it this time. I used Bermuda Bay and Early Espresso for this card.