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Hard to believe, but this is the last weekend for Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration! Seems like the holidays just ended, the new Occasions Catalog came out and Sale-A-Bration started! Whether you have already placed your order or not, the deadline is tomorrow night for sure! We all like free stuff and what is better than Stampin’ Up! free stuff during Sale-A-Bration!

Here are some of my favorite projects I made with SAB products!

Tiny Treat Box With So Hoppy Together Frog

Tiny Treat Box So Hoppy Together Frog

Love What You Do Frog Card

Love What You Do Frog Card

Butterfly Gala Card

Free Butterfly Paper During Sale-A-Bration

Butterfly Gala Note Cards

Botanical Butterfly Note Cards

Hello Cupcake Birthday Card

Hello Cupcake Birthday Card

Butterfly Gala Gift Bag

Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag

Azaleas and Petal Promenade Designer Paper

Quick and Easy Petal Promenade Floral Card

Country Floral Embossing Folder

Country Floral Embossed Card For You

Colored Country Floral Embossed Card

Country Floral Embossed and Colored Floral Birthday Card

Those are just a few projects I’ve made during these Sale-A-Bration months! I thought this year had really good products to choose from. Obviously, they were great because several sold out! But we knew it was “while supplies last”. And this year, the supplies did not last!

Be sure to check your Wish List and basic supplies. Maybe you just want to stock up on ink refills, adhesives, new ink pads, cardstock, ribbons, whatever! You can get to $50 easily….and more, for sure! Or splurge on something like the Stamparatus!

You can also order a 3-month Prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription to get SAB credit, even if you already are on a month-to-month subscription. It will work out!

Go ahead and shop and then choose your free Sale-A-Bration items with every $50 you spend!

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Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch

Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch

If you are looking for a fun and easy little basket, try this Small Easter Basket with the Scalloped Tag Punch. It is really easy to make and you can decorate it however you like. The Scalloped Tag Topper Punch makes cute sides with an opening for the handle, but if you didn’t have this punch, you could just leave the side as is, unpunched. I just love this cute little Easter candy I found! It looks so cute in a little basket! Some chocolate eggs would be nice, too!

It’s very easy to make this little basket! I used Calypso Coral Cardstock with a layer of Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper on the front and back sides. You could use whatever paper you like, or stamp the cardstock, heat emboss, or emboss with the Big Shot and a folder. Anything goes! To make the basket, cut two strips of cardstock 2″ x 7 1/2″ and punch one end on each strip with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Score at 3″ from the scalloped top and fold. Those will be the ends of the basket and you can adhere the bottom pieces together, one on top of the other.

Also cut two pieces of cardstock 2″ x 5 1/2″.  Score 1/2″ at each end. These pieces will be the front and back sides of the basket. If you are going to adhere designer paper or stamp or decorate these two pieces, it’s a good idea to do it before you assemble the basket. The designer paper pieces are cut at 1 3/4″ x 5 1/4″. Once you have everything ready, glue all the pieces together to form the basket.

For the handle, cut a strip 1/2″ x 8 1/2″. Insert each end through the scalloped tag punch opening and glue to inside of basket. See photo of inside.

Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch Handle

Just to decorate the basket a little, I tied around a piece of Calypso Coral 3/8″ Satin Ribbon. You could make a little paper flower or add an Easter greeting or whatever you like!

Go get your “craft supplies” (chocolate candy!) at the store and then make some Easter baskets like this Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch.

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An Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks

Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks

Here is a fun little Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks, one you may have made in the past to fill with candy. Easter is late this year, but it will still sneak up on us! Now is the time to start having fun making Easter cards to send and maybe some little projects for your Easter dinner or home decorations!

This small little basket is made with just a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardstock and pieces of designer paper. Score at 2″ and 4″ on each side so it ends up looking like a tic tac toe board with six sections. Then on each corner, score diagonally. You can do it easily with the Stampin’ Trimmer by lining up the top and bottom corners on the cutting track of the Trimmer. Don’t score all the way down the paper, just in that corner. That center piece will be the bottom of the basket. See photo below.

Candy Basket How to Score

This is what your paper will look like when it is all scored and creased.

Candy Basket Scored Piece

After the scoring is done, be sure to crease on all the score lines and just see how it is going to fold up into a basket when assembled. Note where the bottom is and put an X on the bottom with a pencil just so you know. Then cut and adhere pieces of designer series paper (or stamp on the cardstock) to each area. The squares will be 1 3/4″ x 1 3/4″. Note that for the four pieces that will go on the corners must be cut diagonally in half and adhered on each half of that scored corner. You do not need a piece of designer paper for the bottom of the basket, that you have already marked.

Candy Basket with Designer Paper

To assemble the basket just fold up into a container shape, folding those diagonal corners in. The way the basket will stay together is by tieing the four corners together in the center. In order to do that, you will need to punch a hole in each corner. It’s probably best to do this after you adhere the designer paper, but you can do it to the plain cardstock and then just re-punch if needed. You can see the punched holes in the corners in the photo above if you look closely. Run some ribbon around through the holes and then pull and gather the corners to the center and tie the ribbon into a bow.

Candy Basket Top View

Add some shred or make your own by cutting very narrow strips of cardstock and crinkle with your hands or with a paper crimper. Then add your treats, like these chocolate Easter chicks!

Chocolate Candy for Easter

I spotted this candy at Home Goods and thought it would be perfect for Easter projects…..and it tastes good too!

My basket is made with Pineapple Punch Cardstock and Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper. If you are using a paper with a certain pattern, make sure you have each piece going the way you want it to go on the finished basket. The ribbon is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon. The Easter greeting is stamped from the Fable Friends Stamp Set and die-cut with a die in the Stitched Labels Framelits Dies. If you didn’t have this die set you could just cut a rectangle or an oval for the front of the basket.

Candy Basket Full View

That’s how you make this Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks and anyone can do it, even with a larger piece of cardstock. Make one for a little Easter treat or decoration at your house!

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Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Projects!

Here are a few St. Patrick’s Day projects from years past, in case you need some ideas! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick's Day Bloomin' Love Heart Card

This St. Patrick’s Day card was made with the beautiful Bloomin’ Heart Thinlit Die and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper colored with some green ink!

St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Rainbow Card

This St. Patrick’s Day Card shows a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

St. Patrick's Day Gift Bag and Tag

This St. Patrick’s Day Gift Bag & Tag is a fun little project for a little gift or treat!

Have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

St. Patrick's Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

If you need an easy little treat for St. Patrick’s Day, you can’t go wrong with this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box. Even if you don’t have the box or don’t want to make one out of paper, you could use a cello bag of some kinds. What is more St. Patrick’s Day than green and gold?

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are great to have on hand. You can put candy inside or a small gift or even just a special note. Best yet, they store flat so don’t take up space so all you have to do is crease and assemble when you need one! Just remember to remove the piece of plastic on them that protects the finish!

I think stamping is so much fun because you can use other images to make something else. If you don’t have a shamrock stamp (and most people wouldn’t!), just use hearts! You can stamp and cut out four hearts or in this project, I just stamped the Call Me Clover green hearts together in a shamrock shape. I just eyeballed it and they didn’t come out perfect meeting in the center but can you even tell? No, because I covered the center with a Gold Faceted Gem. These are sparkly and pretty. For a beginner stamper, a few of these kinds of embellishments are good to have on hand. They aren’t very expensive and serve (sometimes!) to cover up any little boo boo, stray ink, or smudge or at least direct the eye away from it! My little heart stamp is from the Meant To Be Cling Stamp Set. I told you hearts weren’t just for Valentine’s Day! The little stem is just hand cut from a scrap.

The shamrock is layered on a piece of Gold Foil, die cut from a scalloped Layering Circle Framelits Die. Lucky for me, I could fit it all on the front of the Tiny Treat Box! The greeting is from the must-have set, Itty Bitty Greetings. This set comes with 32 stamps and greetings to cover most any occasion. They are small which means they usually fit in the Classic Label Punch so they are easy to use. I cut a flagged end on the tag and stuck it under the shamrock with a little bit of glue.

After you put in your treat, green candy is good for St. Pat’s, tie a ribbon around the box to make sure the lid stays closed and mostly just to fancy it up a little bit more. This is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon, a great all-purpose ribbon to have on hand. The gold edge makes it just a little bit fancy.

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are something inexpensive you can add to your order if you are trying to reach a $50 increment on your Sale-A-Bration order to earn a free product! Remember, with a $100 purchase you may choose either TWO $50 Sale-A-Bration items or ONE $100 Sale-A-Bration item. Spending $150 gets you the choices above plus another $50 choice PLUS Stampin’ Rewards (another 10% in merchandise!). And for big spenders (I mean, crafters), a $250 order gets you all the appropriate Sale-A-Bration choices plus Stampin’ Rewards, PLUS an EXTRA $25 in Stampin’ Rewards! That’s a lot of good stuff!

Make something like this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box this weekend for a little St. Pat’s fun, maybe with your kids or grandkids!

Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag

Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag

It was so fun making note cards in yesterday’s post with the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper that I was inspired to try something else with the same paper which led to this Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag.

It’s really very easy to make little gift or treat bags like this one.  You can vary the measurements.  This bag starts with a 12″ x 6″ piece of the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper.  With the paper placed in landscape position on the Stampin’ Trimmer or Simply Scored, score at 1″, 3 3/4″, 6 1/2″, and 9 1/4″.  Turn the paper and score at 2″ which will form the bottom flaps of the bag so make sure you have the pattern going the way you want it!  Then cut up on the scored lines from the bottom of the bag.  I like to cut each score line at a slight angle on each side just to make it a little easier to fold in the flaps.  Also, cut out the small little piece at the end of the paper at the bottom, as you see in the photo below.  This is the inside pattern.

Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag Cutting Diagram

When you assemble the bag, it will first look like a box!  If you wanted to, you could have it stay like this or even make a lid.

Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag Assembly

To make the bag, just pinch the top edges together while also pushing in on the sides.  I punched two holes in the top and ran a ribbon through to tie in a bow.  This is the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Double-Stitched Ribbon.

To decorate the front of the bag (not that this beautiful paper needs very much embellishment), I punched a piece of Whisper White with the Starburst Punch and cut out a butterfly from the designer paper to pop up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is stamped in Balmy Blue Ink from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set.  This is one of those handy-to-have stamp sets with a ton of greetings.  They are “itty bitty” but you can punch them or die cut them and fit them almost anywhere.  I used the Classic Label Punch and glued the greeting at the bottom of the starburst.  To set it off a little bit on the busy paper, I adhered two little Gold Metallic Pearls.

Just be sure to put your gift or treat inside before you tie it shut with the ribbon when you make this Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag.

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Ghirardelli Valentine Candy Holder

Ghirardelli Valentine Candy Holder

One last Valentine’s project for Valentine’s Day today, a Ghirardelli Valentine Candy Holder.  This is pretty quick and easy to make and you can decorate it any way you like.  In fact, it doesn’t have to only be for Valentine’s Day.  This can be a little gift or favor for any occasion or just because.

Ghirardelli Valentine Candy Holder Inside

This is basically just a little strip of cardstock, scored to allow room for the candy, folded up to make the candy holder, and then the front is decorated for whatever occasion. If you wanted to make it super easy, just fold over the strip of cardstock (shorter) and adhere the candy piece with a bit of adhesive and fold over the top.  But this holder is easy to make with the Classic Label Punch.  We used to use the Window Punch in the past, so if you have that, it will work.

Cut a strip of cardstock 9 5/8″ x 2 3/4″.  I used Lovely Lipstick.  Score at 2 3/4″ and 3″;  6 1/4″ and 6 1/2″.  Fold and crease on the score lines then open back up.  You will see above and below the score lines, one section is shorter than the other.  You want the longer section to be the one that folds up to the inside (although really it doesn’t matter).

Use the Classic Label Punch on the bottom flap, inserting as far as you can, to punch the opening for the chocolate. This should be big enough for the candy.  If you are using the retired Word Window Punch and need a wider opening, just punch a little bit to the side to make the opening larger. Flip the flap up and adhere, preferably with Tear & Tape Adhesive, just at the top. Check to see that the bottom fold/score lines are flat. Insert chocolate to make sure it fits.

Decorate the front flap of the candy holder however you like. For my sample, I used the fancy heart die in the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies.  I love that heart!  The front of the candy holder is 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″ so I cut a layer of Whisper White just 1/8″ under that instead of 1/4″.  You could do either. I also love the little swirly die cut in the set, so I cut that and adhered it to the bottom of the candy holder.  I used the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets for these two pieces.  They are handy to use for small pieces that would be difficult to glue…..IF you remember to use them!

To hold this candy holder closed, I tied a ribbon around and the flap is just tucked under the ribbon.

Here is another Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holder I made a few years ago.  You can check it out for more inspiration.

For just a little gift with a bar of nice chocolate inside, this Ghirardelli Valentine Candy Holder is easy to make and looks impressive!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Red Money Envelopes For Chinese New Year 2019 Year of the Pig

Chinese Red Money Envelopes Year of the Pig 2019

It is the Chinese tradition to give out red envelopes with money inside to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which begins today. Here are Red Money Envelopes For Chinese New Year 2019 Year of the Pig, handmade for a Chinese acupuncture doctor who has asked me to make some for her for a couple of years now.  She likes them all different and a few without the animal of the year, so it is both a challenge and great creative fun to come up with many different designs for the envelopes.  It’s really like making a card, maybe just in a different shape.

One of the time-savers of this process is using my Envelope Punch Board.  I used Real Red Cardstock, cut to a certain size, and then punched and scored with the punch board very easily. Next, I creased all the score lines and assembled with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. So that she can put the cash gift inside and seal the envelope later, I just put a Stampin’ Dimensional on the envelope flap that will seal the envelope when she removes the little paper on the dimensional.

To design the envelopes, I looked back at past money envelopes I made, such as these from last year and ideas for the stamp sets I might use. This year, the Year of the Pig, it was easy to choose the  This Little Piggy Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog.  When I am doing custom projects for someone, I often pull out retired stamp sets and accessories and embellishments to use, so you may see some things that are not current.

Here are some more money envelopes with stamping, coloring, and other embellishments.

Chinese New Year Red Money Envelopes 2019

Great to use the Large Numbers dies again.  They come in handy for projects like this.

Chinese New Year 2019 Money Envelopes

I did some embossing on some of the envelopes to add an interesting background.
Chinese New Year 2019 Money Envelopes
It’s fun using the little piggy in different positions and with a little bit of glimmer through paper or Wink of Stella.

Chinese Red Money Envelopes 2019 Year of the Pig

Chinese New Year 2019 Red Money Envelopes

Chinese New Year 2019 Red Money Envelopes

I especially loved using my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers to color in all the pigs! I love the feel of those markers when I am coloring!

If you have some Chinese friends or family, you might like to surprise them by making your own red money envelopes to celebrate the Chinese New Year!  You can find templates online or make your own envelopes easily with the Envelope Punch Board from Stampin’ Up!

Happy Chinese New Year!

 

Easy Valentine’s Day Designer Paper Gift Bag

Easy Valentine's Day Designer Paper Gift Bag

You’ve got to make this Easy Valentine’s Day Designer Paper Gift Bag!  It just uses half a sheet of designer paper and you make it like a 2-4-6-8 box or bag, except the measurements are just a little different since it is a wider bag. You can make it with any paper, even cardstock.  Just be careful if there is a pattern that you score it the correct way so your pattern is going in the right direction.  For example, my hearts could have been upside down.

Start with a sheet of 6″ x 12″ designer paper.  I used the hearts sheet from the All My Love Designer Series Paper.  Place the paper in the Simply Scored scoring tool with the 12″ side at the top or use the Stampin’ Trimmer.  Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Turn the paper so the short edge is at the top and score at 1 3/4″. This will make the bottom flaps of the bag so make sure your pattern is going the right way and that the bottom is going to be where you want it!  Now take some scissors and cut those short bottom tabs up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab on the bottom.  Fold on all the score lines and crease well with the Bone Folder.  Adhere the tab on the end to the other side to assemble the bag.  Then adhere the flaps on the bottom.

Here’s another bag I made of the same size and design back in April.

You can leave the bag open at the top or for this one, I punched two holes in the top and draw closed with a ribbon.  I used the new Lovely Lipstick ribbon in the All My Love Combo Ribbon Pack. 

To decorate the bag die cut a large Whisper White heart with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies and stamped with the greeting in the Meant to Be Stamp Set.  Really, the bag looked fine with just that heart adhered to the front.  I could have stopped there.  But I already had a flower diecut from the Be Mine Dies so I adhered that at the bottom of the heart and added a Rhinestone Basic Jewel in the center.

Fill the bag with a small gift or some favorite candies!  You are all set to give someone this Easy Valentine’s Day Designer Paper Gift Bag!

Decorated Valentine Tin

Decorated Valentine Tin

Remember when we used to find a lot of crafty things to use at the Dollar Spot at Target?  I haven’t in a while but the other day I found this pretty tin that looked like it could be decorated for Valentine’s Day!  It already has a lot of cut out hearts on the tin so I added a big heart and new ribbon.

To decorate this tin, I cut out several different hearts with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies on page 6 of the Occasions Catalog.  I played around first with the grouping of little bitty hearts, but I wasn’t pleased with that for the tin. If you ever need a bunch of tiny little individual hearts cut out, run that die through the Big Shot and you’ll have lots of little hearts even if you don’t use the grouping!

Next, I cut out one of the large printed hearts from the All My Love Designer Paper. It is one sheet with large hearts and small hearts. You could use this sheet as is or you can cut out all or some of the hearts. I also used the very frilly heart die to cut out a heart to overlay the printed heart.  I liked that on the tin!

In the All My Love Suite in the Occasions Catalog is a package of two ribbons, the All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack.  One spool is Lovely Lipstick 1/2″ Ribbon with a white stitched edge and the other spool is Flirty Flamingo 1/8″ wide ribbon. I used both ribbons to wrap around the tin with the ends meeting in the front.  Then I adhered the heart I’d made over the ribbon ends using Stampin’ Dimensionals on the back.

Decorated Valentine Tin Closeup

A pretty easy way to decorate this Valentine tin a little more!  Since it was already pretty “busy” I didn’t want to add much more.  I could have stamped and adhered a greeting across the front, but I liked it the way it was.  Then just put some candy inside, a candle, notecards or whatever you like.  You could even use it to hold stamping supplies on your craft desk because the hearts aren’t only for Valentine’s Day!

You don’t have to find this exact tin, but you might find something similar, maybe already in your house, like a votive holder and this is one easy way you can decorate it!

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All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine’s Day

All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine's Day

One of the new pretty designer papers in the Occasions Catalog is this All My Love Designer Series Paper which I have used to make this All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine’s Day.  This paper has hearts and florals so it covers almost any occasion!  Remember, hearts are just for Valentine’s Day! The Occasions Catalog has a whole suite of products to go with this paper.

To make this little box or bag, for a treat to give someone or maybe as a party favor (think bridal showers, maybe?), just make the classic 2-4-6-8 box!

This paper is cut at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, even though the designer paper is 12″ x 12″.  Don’t you hate to cut into new designer paper?!  Then just score at 2″, 4″, 6″, and 8″.  Turn the paper to make the bottom flaps of the box at 2″. Cut up on those score lines to the horizontal score line to make the bottom flaps, cutting out the tiny little piece at the end.  Your paper will look something like this.

2-4-6-8 Box Scored Lined

On my treat box today, I also scored a line about 3/4″ down from the top so that I could fold over the top and see the other side of the paper.  Or you can just fold it on your own before you start assembling the box.

Crease and fold all the score lines and assemble the box. I just used the Multipurpose Liquid Glue to hold everything together.   You could also use the Tear & Tape Adhesive.

Once the box is assembled, tie a little ribbon around the top and use the new Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies to cut out the little hearts. This smallest heart is really cute because it comes out with the pretty edge and the little stitching! I used Glue Dots on the back of the hearts to adhere to the ribbon.  If you have trouble with the hearts hanging where you want them, another Glue Dot on the back won’t hurt to place them properly! If you wanted, you could use a  white gel pen to write a name or message on the hearts.

Fill with some treats or a little gift and you are done! The All My Love DSP is so pretty and can be used for almost any occasion.  You will think of it for Valentine’s Day but you are not limited to that at all. And the box is pretty on it’s own without the hearts because the paper is so pretty.

Check out the All My Love Suite in the new Occasions Catalog! Remember Sale-A-Bration — with every $50 purchase you earn a free Sale-A-Bration product!

Practice making some 2-4-6-8 boxes so you will know how easy they are to do! Here’s one I made at Christmas at this link. You can also squeeze the sides in a bit and the top together as I did on that Santa’s Workshop box. Try your hand at this All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine’s Day.

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The All My Love Suite For Valentine’s Day, Weddings, and Love

All My Love Suite

Image © Stampin’ Up! 2019

One of the most beautiful suites in the new Occasions Catalog is the All My Love Suite. And I would say one of the most useful suites!  We might immediately think of Valentine’s Day with this suite, but it’s also perfect for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, engagements……lots of occasions!

This Suite actually includes two different Bundles, the Forever Lovely Bundle with a stamp set and dies that cut out the beautiful floral border, and the Meant To Be Bundle that includes a stamp set with hearts and dies that cut out those heart shapes.  Of course, there is also a lovely designer paper, All My Love Designer Series Paper and extra embellishments like the Heart Epoxy Droplets and the All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack.

Enjoy these two Stampin’ Up! videos about these products and then put them on your order right away so you can use them for Valentines and birthdays if you like.

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Tiny Treat Box So Hoppy Together Frog

Tiny Treat Box So Hoppy Together Frog

Here’s a fun project for this time of year, this Tiny Treat Box So Hoppy Together Frog!  Isn’t that little frog so cute? It’s part of a cute stamp set you can earn FREE during Sale-A-Bration! After you spend $50, you can choose a free product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.  This stamp set is one you can choose and I think will be very popular!

If you have any leftover Christmas candy, it would be fun to use the green candies with this frog.  If you don’t have any, go buy some Christmas candy on clearance now and stock up on green candies to use with this frog stamp set!  How fun!

I started with one of the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.  I think everyone should have a package of these on hand because they are so easy and fun to use!  They come flat so it’s easy storage. Just assemble when you are ready with a project.  You can wrap paper around the box, ribbon, add stamped images or embellishments for any occasion!

The frog from So Hoppy Together is stamped with Memento Ink and colored with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers.  I used Old Olive and Granny Apple Green markers with a touch of Pineapple Punch.  Also, a little Smoky Slate just to give him some grounding.  An artistic friend told me one time that you should always use a little yellow when you use green.  I punched out the frog with the 1 1/2″ Circle Punch just to make it easy.  The saying is in the set. It is punched out with the Classic Label Punch and just trimmed it to fit.

Around the box, I tied the 3/16″ Braided Linen Thread.  The regular Linen Thread had always been one of my favorites to have on hand and I’m adding this Braided Linen Thread to the list. It’s useful as a neutral but lovely being braided.

Here’s a similar Clear Tiny Treat Box decorated for Christmas with Santa!

Remember, the Occasions Catalog also went live yesterday so you have gorgeous new products to choose from, plus the Annual Catalog and the Clearance Rack.  Just remember to try to shop in $50 increments to take advantage of FREE STUFF!  Happy Shopping!

So Hoppy Together Candy Treat Box

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Stampin’ Up!  Sale-A-Bration begins today! 

Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year begins today, January 3 and runs through March 31, 2019.

Purchase $50 or more in products (before shipping and tax) and earn a FREE product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure, pictured above!  Spend $100 and either choose two FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure or choose one of the special $100 products. No limit!

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Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to for another reason as well! Sale-A-Bration begins and the new Occasions Catalog is LIVE!  You can now shop from this beautiful catalog of new stamp sets and accessories!  And it all counts toward Sale-A-Bration!  Order from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, the Occasions Catalog, or even the Clearance Rack to reach $50 or more and earn a free Sale-A-Bration product!

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New Occasions 2019 and Sale-A-Bration 2019 Catalogs Go Live SOON!

Occasions 2019 and Sale-A-Bration 2019 CatalogsHere they are, the much-awaited Stampin’ Up! Occasions 2019 Catalog for spring and the Sale-A-Bration 2019 Brochure for the biggest promotion of the Stampin’ Up! year!  All of the fun starts January 3, 2019, after we get everyone sent back home and back to work and are ready to do something for ourselves!

Inside the Occasions Catalog, you will find beautiful stamp sets, coordinating dies, beautiful designer papers, new accessories and embellishments, ribbons, cardmaking kits, punches, supplies and ideas for Valentine’s Day (is the candy out already now that Christmas is over?!), masculine card ideas, cards for babies, pets, new Memories & More memory-keeping products, cactus(!), and did I mention butterflies?!

Sale-A-Bration is an exclusive promotion by Stampin’ Up! held annually for many years!  For every $50 you spend on Stampin’ Up! products, you get to choose a FREE product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure!  Earn even bigger rewards when you spend $100 or more (all of this before tax and shipping of course!). No limit on the number of rewards. Even a special bonus when you JOIN Stampin’ Up!

Remember, the Holiday Catalog ends on January 2, 2019. Don’t forget to look through all your favorite things in there one more time. These sales also end Jan. 2nd.

SHOP the Stampin’ Up! YEAR-END CLOSEOUT SALE!

Retiring Products

Discounted Products

How do you get to see these fabulous catalogs??  On January 3, 2019 you will be able to view them online and the products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store.  If you are a regular customer of mine, I have ordered both catalogs for you through Stampin’ Up! and you may or may not have received them by now. The catalog mail delivery is very irregular!  If you are new and do not have a Demonstrator you are currently working with, I would be happy to help you and send you complimentary catalogs so you won’t miss out!  Just send me your contact information so I can get them in the mail to you.  It’s always fun to start a new Stampin’ Up! catalog of any kind!

Let me know if you do not receive your catalogs in a reasonable amount of time. Personally, I received two SAB Brochures and not the Occasions Catalog in the mail! I don’t know what that means!!  But Stampin’ Up! will send out another catalog if customers did not receive theirs.

Hope you are still having a happy holiday season! Ours comes to an end tomorrow afternoon after the last of the kids leave!  So sad!  But it was fun while it lasted!