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Flight & Airy Happiness Card

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Flight & Airy Happiness Card

Today is the LAST DAY for the Stampin’ Up! promotion famously known as Sale-A-Bration! If you haven’t placed a $50 order or more and gotten FREE product(s), then today is the last day! I’ve decided that this Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper is probably my favorite Sale-A-Bration free product! The floral prints and the watercolor birds are just so soft and beautiful! But there are many other wonderful products to choose from!

We’re lucky this is a Leap Year so we get one extra day for Sale-A-Bration!

HAVE FUN SHOPPING!

Last Day to Sale-A-Brate!!

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Flight & Airy Three Birds Card

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Flight & Airy Three Birds Card

I’m surprised how much I have fallen in love with this designer series paper in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! I have already made several cards with it and can’t wait to make more, like my most recent one that you see here, the Flight & Airy Three Birds Card! I’ve had this idea in my head, to put three birds on the card front, for a while so here it is.

The card base is Lost Lagoon, which is a very pretty color although I haven’t used it too much. It’s one of our retired colors, brought back in our Color Refresh last year with the newest Annual Catalog. When I looked in my cardstock package, I already had this card cut and folded. The right front side has just a little bit of the edge trimmed off so you can add designer paper to the inside edge of the card and it will show on the front! My card has 1/2″ of the front cut off. I’m sure you could do a wider margin if you wanted to.

Since the front of the card is 3 3/4″ wide, I cut a piece of the Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper at 5 1/4″ x 3 1/2″. I chose the Lost Lagoon colored paper with leafy designs and tiny little birds that you barely even notice. The strip on the inside of the card, from another pattern of the designer paper, is 5 1/4″ x 3/4″. You can vary that measurement to your liking.

This Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper is only available with a $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase and you get it FREE. Sale-A-Bration ends February 29 so you don’t have too much time left to order whatever you want from Stampin’ Up! as you normally would but then you get to choose FREE products for every $50 you spend from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure plus the extra products, mostly in the Annual Catalog. All of your choices will be shown online.

The birds, which I cut out by hand with my Paper Snips scissors, are from the designer paper with all the large birds. I cut out more than I wanted so I could see which ones I liked best for the card. It’s easy to just sit and cut things out while you are watching TV or relaxing for a little while! The branches (yes, a little more tedious!) I cut from another paper that had plenty of bare branches. I cut out a few extra leaves to use and could have cut out some flowers.

The birds and branches are adhered to three Deckled Circles die cut out of Basic White. The greeting I found in the Heartfelt Hexagon Stamp Set and stamped in Lost Lagoon. Since I didn’t have much space on the card for a greeting, I kept with the “fussy cutting” theme of the card and trimmed around the words to make it smaller! For a little embellishment, I added three Calypso Coral Opaque Faceted Gems, another FREE Sale-A-Bration product in the SAB Brochure on page 9. You might miss them because they are right in the fold of the brochure. Who doesn’t need a few more gems or jewels for cards and projects?!

Be sure to shop before the Sale-A-Bration deadline, February 29!

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Flight & Airy Thank You Card With Birds

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Flight & Airy Thank You Card With Birds

Continuing with my cardmaking with one of the beautiful Sale-A-Bration papers, I am showing you this Flight & Airy Thank You Card With Birds. I really like this Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper that I got FREE with my $50 purchase at Stampin’ Up! If you haven’t taken advantage of Sale-A-Bration yet, you have one more month to go! Sale-A-Bration ends February 29!

This card uses two different patterns of the Flight & Airy Designer Paper. The background design is just a floral pattern. It actually reminds me of years ago when maybe you would see a pattern like this on bedsheets or a bedspread. I think the soft pink in the background of the flowers is so pretty. The birds sitting on the flowery branch come from another paper in the package with medium size birds that can be cut out with Paper Snips by hand.

The card base is Boho Blue, but you could choose another coordinating color easily. I used the Radiating Stitches Dies to cut out the two rectangles on the center front of the card. I used Boho Blue and Basic White. If you do not own these dies, you can just cut rectangles out of cardstock to whatever size you want or maybe use one of the tag dies or something else in your die collection. The greeting is stamped in Boho Blue ink and is in the Go To Greetings Stamp Set.

The birds on the front of the card must be cut out by hand unless you want to use a circle die or something. It is not difficult to cut out. You do not need to cut deeply in between all the leaves or flowers. Just cut easily around the edges and it will be fine. It works best to turn the paper rather than the scissors. Don’t worry about perfection. You could pop up these birds with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but I glued them flat on the card. Then I added three colored Rainbow Dots for a little embellishment. I love these Rainbow Dots! They are flatter than some jewels and things so they are not a worry about mailing.

If you missed my card the other day using the Flight & Airy DSP, click HERE.

If you wanted to add a little something to the inside of the card, you could add a Basic White layer for a stamped greeting or personal message and cut out some other birds to adhere in the corner or a scrap strip of the flowered paper.

Don’t wait too long to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration! But stay tuned for February 1st when there might be something new for Sale-A-Bration!

Flight and Airy You’re Marvelous Card

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Flight and Airy You're Marvelous Card

This Flight & Airy You’re Marvelous Card is made with brand new designer paper, and you can earn it for FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration. This Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper is wonderful! It has watercolored birds, foliage, flowers, and washes. These papers will make beautiful cards and projects for spring!

This card has a Basic White card base but instead of leaving a white margin around the layers, I covered the entire card front with designer paper. I started by choosing the sheet of paper with a vertical line of branches and birds. Although you might waste a bit of paper, it was like cutting out the Christmas design with the bears so that you could make a little scene on your card. I chose a section of birds that I liked and cut the strip of paper to include that area. From that full length of paper, I cut the section that I wanted to be on the front of the card. After I worked on the card, I trimmed that piece of designer paper to be just a little bit narrower. It ended up being 3″ x 5 1/2″.

The “other side” of that same paper was a Pecan Pie brown with crisscrossed lines. I liked it and wanted to use it with the birds section. As I played with making the front of the card, I wanted to add another color to brighten up the card a little bit, to bring out the colors of the birds. I chose Daffodil Delight to be just a narrow strip along the side of the designer paper.

I didn’t want to waste a lot of the designer paper, so I cut the brown pattern into two pieces at 3/4″ x 5 1/2″. I adhered those two strips to each side of the card, exactly on the edges, top and bottom. The Daffodil Delight strips, which are 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ were adhered to the sides of the bird paper with just 1/4″ showing. It helps to use Grid Paper to get everything even and straight. Then I adhered that whole section to the front of the card, making sure I had it even top and bottom and with equal amounts of the brown pattern showing on each side.

The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White. I diecut it with a Tailor Made Tag Die, but I found it too large for this card. I didn’t want to cover up any of the pretty birds. I ended up trimming that sentiment as narrow as I could, then flagging one end. Then I layered it on a piece of Pecan Pie cardstock and trimmed that as narrow as I could for a layer. Luckily, it fit exactly right on the card without hiding any birds!

You know if I have a new package of embellishments, I must use them! The colors aren’t all perfect matches, but close enough for matching shades of watercolors. I used the Rainbow Adhesive-Backed Dots. These are in the new Spring Mini Catalog on page 33.

Overall this is a pretty basic, easy card for you to make and fantastic when you can get free designer series paper! Plan your orders in January and February in $50 increments so you can take advantage of Sale-A-Bration!

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