At Onstage, we received advance copies of the Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs.  Occasions and Sale-A-Bration open up to demos on December 3rd and to customers on January 3rd just in time to tackle those post holiday blues.  So, thought I would give everyone a sneak peek of some lovelies that will be available during that time, and you can get them for FREE!!  Yep, you heard me, each can be had free when you reach $50 in purchase.

I love using Sale-A-Bration items to show you how your dollars can stretch during this fabulous time. In this project, the designer sersies paper and the floral stamp set are both from the Sale-A-Bration catalogs. I used a new punch that will be in the Occasions catalog to punch out 3 butterflies from the paper – aren’t they beautiful accents?  Anyway, here’s a picture of the card of the card.

I started with a card base of Whisper White cut 4-1/4″ x 11″, scored and folded at 5-1/2″ for a top folding card.  I then cut a piece of the beautiful Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper (free with $50 during Sale-A-Bration) that is 4″ x 5-1/4″.  Next, I cut a 3-1/2″ x 4-3/4″ piece of Whisper White card stock to use for the design panel.

I inked up the floral stamp from the Lovely Lattic stamp set (free with $50 during Sale-A-Bration) in Smoky Slate ink and stamped it in the center of the design panel.  I then used Blends (Calypso Coral light and dark and Old Olive light and dark) to color in the flowers.  Coloring is so therapeutic!  When this was done, I adhered it to the DSP mat using Liquid Multipurpose Glue.  I thought our Granny Apple Green ribbon would look amazing with this, so I cut a 6″ piece and adhered it to the matted panel using glue dots, about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom.  This panel was then adhered to the card base using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Next, I inked the sentiment from the Butterfly Gala stamp set (new Occasions item) using Smoky Slate, stamped it onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and used a 1-1/2″ punch to punch it out.  I then used a 1-3/4″ circle punch for the Smoky Slate cardstock mat and adhered the two together using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  This was adhered to the card front centered over the ribbon, just to the right using Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Lastly, I used the Butterfly Duet (new Occasions item) punch to punch out three butteflies from the same DSP (note:  if you cut out the center of the DSP mat before adhering the design panel to it, you may can use this to punch out the butterflies saving paper).  These were adhered as shown using glue dots.  I did fluff up the wings a bit before sticking them down to give added dimension.

And there you have it!  It really did come together quickly and I love how feminine the card is.  I sure hope I have whet your appetite for all the new goodies coming in the 2019 Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs!  If you don’t already have a demonstrator and would like the new catalogs once they are available, just drop me a note and I will be happy to send them to you.  Thanks for dropping by and talk to you soon!

Supplies

Welcome back to another Inkin’ Krew team blog hop!  Our very talented team is doing a blog hop featuring Stampin’ Up! products.  Our theme this month is “Christmas or Happy Holidays”.  We have some really amazing holiday stamps in both the annual catalog and the holiday catalog so I decided to pull from both for my card.  Here is what I created:

I started with a piece of Merry Merlot cardstock cut 4-1/4″ x 11″, scored and folded at 5-1/2″.  Normally this would give me a top folding card but I decided that it would be a side fold so I could maximize using the beautiful poinsietta stamp.  The design panel is a 4-1/2″ x 3-1/4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock.  I inked up the poinsietta stamp from Stylish Christmas in Merry Merlot ink and stamped it in the lower left corner.  The leaf stamp was inked with Old Olive and then stamped on either side of the poinsietta. The greeting, from the Stylish Christmas stamp set, was inked in Smoky Slate and stamped in the upper part of the pane, slightly to the right for balance.  There is a cute snowflake cluster accent stamp in the Snow is Glistening stamp set (part of the Snowflake Showcase suite) which I inked in Smoky Slate and stamped between the greeting and the stamped images.  This design panel was then mounted on a 4-5/8″ x 3-3/8″ piece of Merry Merlot cardstock using multipurpose liquid glue.  This was then mounted onto a 4-3/4″ x 3-1/2″ piece of our beautiful Gold Foil, again with multipurpose liquid glue.  I then took a 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″ piece of Whisper White and ran it through the Big Shot with the Swirls and Curls Embossing Folder.  This was adhered to the Merry Merlot card base using multipurpose liquid glue.  The double matted design panel was adhere to this using Stampin’ Dimensionals.  A lovely little bow made with the lovely Merry Merlot & Copper 5/8″ Reversible Ribbon was attached to the bottom right using a glue dot.

For the inside sentiment panel I started with a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock.  The floral design strip is from the Dashing Deer stamp set.  It was inked in Merry Merlot and stamped at the top center and bottom center.  The sentiment, from the Stylish Christmas stamp set, was inked in Smoky Slate and stamped in the center of the panel.  Finally, the completed sentiment panel was adhered to the inside of the card using multipurpose liquid glue.

I hope you enjoyed the card and will give it a try.  A list of the supplies is below the blog hopping information.  Click on any of the pictures in the supply list to be taken to my store for purchase.  Thanks again!

Now on with the hop!  Click the Previous button to see the card by Karen Finkle or the next button to see Connie Troyer’s entry.

• Shirley Gentry
• Karen Finkle
• Linda Richenberg
• Connie Troyer 
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Aurora Lopez
• Mary Deatherage 
• Sue Prather
• Amy Koenders

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