Welcome to the February Pals Blog Hop. This month we are sharing what we love – our favorite Stampin’ Up! products and our favorite crafting techniques.
You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Michelle Gleason at Stampin Mojo. Use the full lineup below to move along from blog to blog so you see all of the new projects.
Sharing what we love is the Stampin’ Up!’s motto as well as a beautiful theme for a February blog hop. I decided to share what I love most about Stampin’ Up! products, and have from the first moment I laid my eyes on a catalog over four years ago: Coordination.
You don’t even have to think about it, it’s so simple to do. Just use one suite of products and be assured that all your projects will turn out beautifully coordinated. Today I wanted to showcase products from Sale-A-Bration. You can’t buy these products, you earn one of them with every $50 purchase. I plan my yearly budget so I can stock up on basic supplies during Sale-A-Bration to ensure I get every one of the extra goodies!!
Today’s project is a box of thank you cards for someone who has really stepped up and helped me out these past two weeks while I was sick. Aren’t the colors delightful? Paper, stamps, ink colors, ribbon and buttons, all beautifully coordinated thanks to Stampin’ Up!’s design team!
I kept the design of the cards simple, using the same format for every card and just changing up the inks and accessory colors. These cards would be fun to make in a class setting or at a Stamp-a-Stack as well.
Six cards and six lined envelopes all housed in their own custom box! The box is very easy to make, I just followed Sam Donald’s tutorial. If you aren’t familiar with her work, she is AMAZING at creating boxes of all shapes and sizes, she’s so very talented!
I did modify the dimensions of my box for two reasons. One, I needed it to be taller and two, I didn’t have enough tulip DSP left to make my lid from DSP so I made it from card stock instead and then covered it with DSP. (I should have planned better!) Please let me know if you are interested in my alterations and I will be happy to work up a short tutorial when I am feeling a bit better.
I don’t want to overwhelm you with photos, but would like to show each card up close so I’ll show one close up here and post another post tomorrow with more individual photos:
This is my favorite paper of Sale-A-Bration! The tulips are SO beautiful!! I would love to have seen a stamp for the tulip, in two different sizes…sigh…maybe in the new Annual Catalog 🙂
And one more of the completed project:
I hope you have enjoyed my post, please let me know what you think!!
The next stop is the very talented Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards on the Pals Blog Hop!
Thanks for visiting and I’ll see you next month!
- Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
- Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
- Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Events
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
- Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
- Amy Hoptay at Inking of you
- Beth Beard at My little craft blog
- Susan Lankford at Stamp and Create With Susan
- Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
- Rae Harper at WildWestPaperArts.com
- September Gray at www.septembergray.com
- Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
- Becky Volpp at inkblossomwithbecky.com
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Martie Pollard at The Crafty Bandit
- Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
- Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
- Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
- Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
- Amy Whelan at Amy’s Inklings
- Karen Hallam at Karen’s Blog
- Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
- Shannon K Jaramillo at Shannon Kay Paperie
- Peggy Noe at prettypapercards.com
- Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
- Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
- Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven’s Retreat
- Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
- Angela Curry at Kindred Stampers