The stamp set and the dies used on this Counting Sheep Sale-A-Bration Card are ones that everyone can earn FREE during Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up! What is Sale-A-Bration? It’s a favorite, annual promotion of Stampin’ Up! where you can earn a free Sale-A-Bration product for every $50 that you purchase. No limits! Normally Sale-A-Bration only happens once a year, in January, but this year for the first time we are having a second Sale-A-Bration now in August through September! How exciting!
During Sale-A-Bration, with a $50 purchase, you can choose this Counting Sheep Stamp Set (156591) and stamp all kinds of cute cards with these delightful sheep! If you spend another $50, you just might want to choose the Sheep Dies (156600) FREE also coordinate with the Counting Sheep Stamp Set. The dies not only cut out the sheep and the little party hat, but they also come with a fence, a flag, a balloon, clouds, and a sun! So cute, I think!! I tried to use as many things on this card to show you as I could!
I stamped all three styles of sheep with Memento Ink and then added just a tiny bit of gray color and shading on the sheep with Stampin’ Blends. I actually stamped three of each kind of sheep and die-cut them just to have a bunch of sheep ready to use! I love the fence die! I used Crumb Cake Cardstock but I also cut out some from Soft Suede.
The card base is Pool Party cardstock with a layer of Basic White. I used my Blending Brush to pick up some Pool Party Ink for the sky and Granny Apple Green for the grass. I’m still learning how to best use these Blending Brushes correctly! If you don’t have them yet, you can use Sponge Daubers or an old Stampin’ Sponge you may have. I also stamped some grass on the bottom green part.
I just placed the clouds in the sky plus the cute sun, and then played with the sheep and the fence to get them where I liked them. A couple of sheep are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is in the Counting Sheep Stamp Set. I die cut it with one of the many choices on the Messages Die. You don’t always have to stamp all the greetings and die-cut them all. Just place a scrap of paper under the one die you want to use and run it through the Stampin’ Up! Cut & Emboss Machine! To save some space, I cut a sliver off the right side of the greeting so I could slide it up against the edge of the card.
There are so many cute animal stamps in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, the Holiday Mini, and now the sheep in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! I think these sheep are going to be a lot of fun for cardmaking and other projects, even baby cards! When you get your Stampin’ Up! order in during Sale-A-Bration I know you will have fun choosing which FREE item you want!