It almost seems like Sale-A-Bration just began, which was back in January, right after the holidays! It was great to see the new Occasions Mini Catalog and have fresh, new products and project ideas after working for months on the fall holidays and Christmas! Sale-A-Bration is a Stampin’ Up! promotion stampers have looked forward to for years and years.
But tonight at 11:50 PM Mountain Time, it all comes to an end! If there was a Sale-A-Bration freebie you were looking forward to earning, but hadn’t yet, today is the day!
See the Sale-A-Bration choices in the Online Store HERE! Place your order totaling $50 or more, or $100 or more, and then select the Sale-A-Bration items you want!
These Flowering Foils Colored Flowers Cards were so easy and fun to make, coloring with my Stampin’ Blends! I think coloring almost anything these days is good therapy to calm us from all the news in the world. And Stampin’ Blends really makes it fun!
We are at the last TWO days of Sale-A-Bration 2020! Today and tomorrow are the last days to earn FREE Stampin’ Up! products with a qualifying purchase. Spend $50 and choose one free item. Certain items have a $100 qualifying order. With a $150 order, you can choose Sale-A-Bration items PLUS Stampin’ Rewards. And with a $300 order, you can choose the Little Ladybug Stamp Set in addition.
The Flowering Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper is a beautiful choice for Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. These papers are beautiful on their own, as in this card, with Rose Gold and Silver Foil accents. If you like, you can color the papers with various coloring methods. You can use the Aqua Painter and ink, markers, brayer, sponges, Sponge Dauber, and Stampin’ Blends.
For the cards I made today, I simply colored the flowers with Stampin’ Blends markers. You can actually do it rather quickly because you don’t have to be perfect. The Stampin’ Blends do cover the foil outlines a little bit but that’s ok. For a lighter coloring over the whole area, use the Sponge Brayer. Or use Stampin’ Sponges (I cut mine into smaller pieces) or Sponge Daubers to apply ink in more specific areas.
JOIN Stampin’ Up! as a Demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration and get extra perks until March 31! Purchase the Starter Kit for $99 and choose $125 in product PLUS receive a new Mini Paper Cutter, a 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper Sampler, and your choice of any stamp set offered in current catalogs (host sets and Sale-A-Bration sets excluded). You will also receive business supplies free in your Starter Kit so you will be ready to start your stamping business! I can help you with any questions you may have to help you decide! Stampin’ Up! has lots of resources to help you start your business plus I’m here for you as well!
Reminder: You have two days left to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration 2020! Tuesday, March 31 is the last day! Use the Flowering Foils Paper, one of the Sale-A-Bration choices, to color in the designs to make cards like these Flowering Foils Colored Flowers Cards.
I’ve seen many people coloring this Flowering Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper various ways so I finally tried it on this Welcome Easter Lamb Card For a Sweet Friend. The Flowering Foils paper is one that you can earn FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase until March 31. You can tell from the glare on the photo that this paper has foil accents in Rose Gold and Silver Foil. It’s beautiful but difficult to photograph very well!
I decided to color in the background around all the flowers. You might think (and I thought!) that it would be extremely tedious and ridiculous to color around all those little flowers! Somehow it was not! I got out my Stampin’ Blends, chose Granny Apple Green, and started coloring! It really went pretty fast and I think the Blends marker made it easy. I didn’t feel I had to be absolutely exact and yet it came out just fine! After coloring the background, I decided to color the silver flowers, too! I used Dark Flirty Flamingo.
After the designer paper was colored, I layered it on a card base of Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. I tied around a piece of Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon with a knot on the side of the card. Then I stamped the lamb from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set and colored him with Stampin’ Blends, particularly with Light Gray Granite. The lamb was die cut with a Stitched Shapes Die and then layered on a scalloped Layering Circles Die in Flirty Flamingo. The greeting is in the same stamp set and is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink. It is punched out with the Classic Label Punch.
If you like coloring, just sit down and relax and enjoy coloring this Flowering Foils Paper. And we all need activities that help us relax right now! Here’s a card I made the other day with the Flowering Foils paper without coloring. I even used three different papers on that card! So you can do it either way! The paper is pretty as is, or you can do lots of coloring like I did on my Welcome Easter Lamb Card For a Sweet Friend, but don’t miss out on Sale-A-Bration!
Only one more month of Sale-A-Bration left! This is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year and now we are 2/3’s of the way through! To keep things fun, Stampin’ Up! has a few new products they are releasing on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, that you will be able to choose from when you have a $50 purchase and a few with a $100 purchase! Of course, you can still choose from the products in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure with the exception of two things that are already sold out:
Metallic Baker’s Twine & Sequins Combo Pack
Kerchief Card Kit
Get your shopping list ready and if you want the maximum number of Sale-A-Bration choices, wait until Tuesday, March 3 to order from Stampin’ Up! and take advantage of the Sale-A-Bration 2nd Release!
This Stampin’ Up! card is made with the Lily Pad Dies, available during Sale-A-Bration for FREE with a $100 purchase. Just because something says “lily pad” doesn’t mean it has to look like lilies in a pond! If you have an order of $100 or more, you can choose two free $50 items or you can get this higher valued $100 selection.
These dies go with the Lily Impressions Designer Series Paper and the Lovely Lily Pad Stamp Set. These are also Sale-A-Bration choices at the $50 level! So lots to choose from! The Lovely Lily Pad stamps are extra-special because they are reversible! This whole collection of products is really quite interesting. Wait until you hear about the designer paper!
Watch the Stampin’ Up! video below to learn about the Lily Pad products!
Just purchase $50 in Stampin’ Up! products and you can earn one FREE Sale-A-Bration product! No limit to the number of products you can earn so think of your order in $50 increments. You don’t want to get to $48 on your order and miss out on Sale-A-Bration! Sale-A-Bration is going on now through March 31.
When you want to make a pretty card in a very short time, try monochromatic like this Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card. I thought this stamp set might be a perfect one for a monochromatic card and I think I was right! Talk about quick and easy cardmaking!
I used the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set, only available FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. And even more exciting, coming in February, you will be able to purchase a set of dies for this stamp set as an extra! There will be several new coordinating items for you.
The card base is Whisper White and the layer is Lovely Lipstick. I realized I have barely used these In Colors and thought I would give Lovely Lipstick a whirl. Then I stamped the fancy cake with Lovely Lipstick on another layer of Whisper White and the greeting at the bottom. I mean, you can’t make a card any faster than this one!
But if you did want to make a quick and easy monochromatic birthday card and you wanted a little bling on it, you could make this card! I had some very narrow Lovely Lipstick 1/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon so I made a very small bow to go on the cake stand. Next, I colored three small rhinestones with the Lovely Lipstick Dark Stampin’ Blend marker and placed them on the card. A monochromatic card with a little extra bling!
Whatever you want to order, be sure to try and do it in $50 increments so you can take advantage of Sale-A-Bration 2020 and earn some free product(s). After you have entered your order, it will prompt you to choose your Sale-A-Bration items.
Today is the day we’ve been waiting for! Sale-A-Bration begins and with every $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase, you can choose a Sale-A-Bration product in the brochure! And to help you, the Occasions Mini Catalog is LIVE today with all new spring and summer products!
One of the products that I think will be the most popular is the Painted Poppies Stamp Set. I made this easy card with just some basic stamping and coloring by stamping the group of poppies twice and then quickly coloring in the flowers and grass with the Stampin’ Blends markers. I didn’t color “carefully”, I just dabbed some Light Poppy Parade marker on all the flowers and then went back and dabbed on a little bit of Dark Poppy Parade. I used Granny Apple Green Blends on the stems and drew in some grass.
The greeting on this card is from the Sending Thoughts Stamp Set, FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration! You will find it under the Sale-A-Bration category in the Online Store and in the SAB brochure. I simply stamped it in Memento Black Ink right on the card front to keep things simple! Sometimes we forget “simple”! The card base is Poppy Parade with a bit of Granny Apple Green Cardstock showing under the stamped image.
Today, January 2, 2020, is the LAST DAY for the HOLIDAY CATALOG! Where did the time go?! It seems like such a short time ago that we were SO excited to have the Holiday Catalog coming out! All the excitement of the holidays and the creative thrill of all the many holiday cards and projects we would be making were ahead of us. And now it’s all over except for the clean-up! (At least at my house!)
Today is the last day to order anything from the Holiday Catalog, what is still available anyway! Many products were so popular that Stampin’ Up! couldn’t get more in stock in time to be used for the holidays. We have to keep that lesson in mind with every catalog – anything you really love and want, be sure to order it as soon as you can to perhaps save you from a backorder situation.
Stampin’ Up! is doing a different Holiday Catalog Carryover process this year!
Some products will carry over to the next Annual Catalog in June.
Some products will carry over from this Holiday Catalog to the NEXT Holiday Catalog but will not be available in the meantime. If you want any of these now, be sure to order them today! Here is the list:
Holiday-to-Holiday Catalog Carryover Products
Most Wonderful Time Product Medley (item 150705)
Christmas Countdown Project Kit (item 150703)
Please note: The coordinating Christmas Countdown Stamp Set (item 151833) will not carry over.
Jingle Bells Embellishments (item 149598)
Snowflake Sequins Embellishments (item 150443)
Feels Like Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper (item 150444)
Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper (item 150432)
Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper (item 150429)
Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set (item 150464)
Gleaming Ornament Punch Pack (item 150647)
Merry Moose Stamp Set (item 150494)
Moose Punch (item 150652)
Gather Together Stamp Set (item 150589)
Gathered Leaves Dies (item 150662)
Here is the full Carryover Listalthough it includes the products available above (you will see an asterisk on the chart) that won’t be available until the next Holiday Catalog. Anything without an asterisk will be available after today even though it’s not shown in the catalog.
Whenever you are interested in a product and aren’t sure about it, just type in the item number and if you can order it at that moment, it will come up!
And beginning tomorrow, Friday, January 3, 2020, you can begin ordering from the Occasions Mini Catalog (but it’s not very “mini”) and enjoy the benefits of Sale-A-Bration! The catalog PDF’s will be online tomorrow if you don’t have a hard copy of the catalog and of course, you can see the products in the Online Store.
ORDERING DOWNTIME: Ordering will be unavailable from midnight to 3:00 am (MT) while we transition our systems to the new catalog and brochure. Ordering will be restored no later than 3:00 am (MT).
But TODAY…..the HOLIDAY CATALOG! Get what you want!
