Pal’s Blog Hop: Let’s Sale-A-Brate!

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is Sale-A-Bration. We hope that you will be inspired by the creations the Pals are sharing with you! Then, you will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.

It’s my favorite time of the paper crafting year — Sale-A-Bration! When you order from the new January-April Mini Catalog or Annual Catalog, for every $50 or $100 you spend, you earn FREE Sale-A-Bration gifts, found in the Sale-A-Bration brochure. And there’s a great variety this year — stamp sets, dies, beautiful designer series papers, and more!

Although I haven’t received my big Sale-A-Bration order yet, I did get a chance to receive one free Sale-A-Bration item in December as a result of Demonstrator Preorders. Take a look at my project and guess what it is:

You guessed it — it’s the embellishments — the Opaque Faceted Gems!

This set of cute gems contains 150 adhesive-backed pieces, 50 each of 3 colors: Calypso Coral, Pecan Pie, and Pool Party. Think of all the ways you will use these!

For my project, I started with a piece of Basic White cardstock cut at 7″ by 8 1/2″. I scored on the 7″ side at 3 1/2″. I then cut a panel of Pecan Pie cardstock at 3 3/8″ by 6 7/8″ and adhered to the front of the card base. Then I cut a piece of Fresh as a Daisy Designer Series Paper at 3 1/4″ by 6 3/4″ and adhered to the top of the Pecan Pie. I love the thought of the bees buzzing around on daisies!

I then stamped and punched out four bees, stamping on Basic White paper with Lemon Lolly and Pecan Pie to match my DSP. In addition, I stamped wings onto Vellum cardstock using Pebbled Path ink and punched them out. Be sure to let the ink dry on the vellum!

In addition, I cut out a circle from the Deckled Circles dies and stamped a sentiment from the stamp set in Pecan Pie. These sentiments are ADORABLE!! I also stamped a little bit of honeycomb in Lemon Lolly. I was then ready to construct the card.

I used Glue Dots to adhere the wings to the bees, and then I adhered the sentiment circle with Stampin’ Dimensionals first, after which I scattered the friendly bees onto the card, adhering with Dimensionals also. 

My last task was to add Opaque Gems around the bees, providing a little bling and color. I just love them! I also ‘decorated’ my envelope flap with a little DSP as well. I hope you like my “bee-lightful” card — all the products used to create the project are found at the bottom of this post. Just click on one to start shopping with me.

More inspiration awaits, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. Then, please mark your calendars for our next blog hop next month, when our theme will be “Love is in the Air” on February 14th. Until then, have fun in your craft space.

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty!
2. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
3. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stamping Habit
4. Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life
5. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
6. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
7. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’ ——You are Here!
8. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
9. Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
10. Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
11. Pamela Sadler at Pamela Sadler
12. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
13. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
14. Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
15. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
16. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
17. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!

Besides the FREE GIFTS you can earn, Stampin’ Up! is offering TWO options to join during Sale-a-Bration. GO HERE to get all the details!

Here’s a fun video to show all the FREE Sale-A-Bration products, many of which coordinate with products from the new Mini Catalog!

Be sure to use this Host Code for January if you make an order of $50 or more — I will send you a Sale-A-Bration surprise!

Host Code: VDNBXJVT

Let me know if you have any questions! Be sure to join my Up North Stampin’ Gang Facebook page. We are having SO much fun over there! We post, we share, and just enjoy life! Here’s the link to request to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/199783410436824

Product List

Bee My Valentine Bundle (English) [162554] $38.50	Fresh As A Daisy 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161289] $12.50	Deckled Circles Dies [162286] $37.00
Pecan Pie 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161717] $10.00	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $10.50	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101856] $10.00
Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665] $9.00	Lemon Lolly Classic Stampin' Pad [161666] $9.00	Pebbled Path Classic Stampin' Pad [161648] $9.00
Opaque Faceted Gems [162979] $8.00

Mary