Tamara's Paper Trail: Sale-a-brations 2023 - Stampin' Creative Global Blog Hop

Happy Blog Hop Day!

Each month my friends from around the glove and I bring you projects made with Stampin' Up! products around a common theme. This month the theme is "Sale-a-bration", in anticipation of the promotion that begins January 5, 2023. I LOVE this theme, as there are SO MANY great SAB items to choose from this year. Creating was CRAZY easy! Check out THIS lovely card!

Do you like it? I kid you not, it took me about 8 minutes to whip up, from start to finish!

The stamp sets I used are both FREE, with a minimum qualifying order. The image set is called "In the Country". At first glance I thought "Meh. It's pretty but a but of a one-trick-pony". Once I had a good hard look at it, though, I realize it is NOT! There are LOTS of techniques you can use with this set! Spotlighting, watercolouring, embossing ... honestly, it's a very versatile set! When you spend $60 CDN (pre tax and shipping) you can get this set for free, starting January 5th, 2023.

Here are the VERY basic measurements:

Very Vanilla Card Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Soft Suede layer: 3" x 4 1/4"

Very Vanilla top layer: 2 3/4" x 4"

Natural Finish Ribbon - 4 1/2"

I wanted to stamp the card base first, to give a "fuller" image look ... so I stamped the base three times with Soft Suede ink; once on the far left, once on the far right and once in the bottom centre. Yes, it looks a but of a hot mess but that's ok - the layers will cover the nasty part!

SO easy!

Then I stamped the image on the top Very Vanilla layer and adhered it to the Soft Suede layer. Before popping the layers up on dimensionals, I stamped on the Natural Ribbon in Soft Suede. The sentiment is from the second Sale-a-bration set I used, "Sending Support". What a great set! I was pleasantly surprised that the ink didn't bleed when I stamped on the ribbon! Once stamped, I used Tear & Tape to attach the ribbon to the card layers. Some Rustic Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots and a sentiment inside finish it off. BAM! A gorgeous, "sepia tone" card done in 8 minutes. LOVE!

So there you have it; a SAB card you can use for SO many occasions by just switching out the sentiment. Good for a masculine card, sympathy, just a note, birthday ... pretty much covers the full range!

Thanks for popping in. Now hop along and see what my friends have to share with us!

Tam

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