Bright Birthday Card!

Happy Friday to you! And it IS a happy day because I finally got to stamp!!!

Ordinarily at this time of year I would be cranking out cards using soon-to-be-gone supplies and featuring teacher gifts....
Instead we are keeping the house as clean as possible for showings, and anything that could possibly be considered 'clutter' is living elsewhere. Including 99% of my stamp supplies! I did get to bring home a very few supplies, and my card stash, which means I can now put together teacher gifts using the things I had already made... but that also means very little to share with you!

But for today, I have this...using current colors and supplies but retired stamps....

Supplies:
Stamps: All About Everything Paper Pumpkin, Banner Blast (retired)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Cucumber Crush
Paper: Cucumber Crush, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Banner Punch

Well, only the banner uses retired stamps. The birthday greeting comes from the beautiful, bonus stamp set included as a thank you in April's Paper Pumpkin kit! So it isn't available actually, so I guess that makes it retired too?? haha.......
*There is a similar banner set found on page 101 of the catalog that is also retiring if you love this idea! The punch is retiring too, and on sale for only $9.10 so don't miss out!

I stamped the banner images then punched them out. Then I laid them on the card where I wanted them before gluing them down. Quick and cute and happy and bright! Perfect for a birthday!

Hanging Banners

I found this card on pinterest, and then visited the blog shown in the watermark. Wow, she has lots of very cool projects- more than one that I'd already pinned, haha!
Anyway, I loved this idea and made it a valentiney card, for my upcoming class!

I also made a friend option, incase you don't want so many Valentine cards! :) For the 'friend' card, I thought the hanging towel look suited this word stamp, haha.

and here they are side by side! The banner stamps, the punch, and the DP all are Sale-A-Bration items, so if you want them, don't miss out! :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Banner Blast (SAB14), Crazy Mixed Up Love, Creative Elements
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe
Paper: Coastal Cabana & Whisper White card stocks, Sweet Sorbet DP (SAB14)
Accessories: Banner Punch (SAB14), Hung Up Cute Clips, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

Blog Hop: Sale-A-Bration!

Welcome to our February Blog Hop!!!

Most of you know that Sale-A-Bration began this past week, and that is Stampin' Up's biggest promotion of the year! There are 13 fun items to choose from, FREE (with a $50 purchase or $400 workshop) and who doesn't love that?? This year, you can choose from 4 stamp sets, a punch, 2 digital content disks, an embossing folder, a card kit, a treat giving kit, an accessory package, some Designer Paper, and a banner kit! In honor of this exciting time, we thought this month we would use some fun Sale-A-Bration products in our blog hop projects!

First up, I have the scrapbook page I demonstrated at my workshop Thursday evening! I demonstrated the first page and had the second page ready to show with it. This features mostly Sale-A-Bration products, with a few other things to note... The DP, and the smaller banners come from Sale-A-Bration- that's the punch and the stamp set. The tiny black pennants come from a photopolymer stamp set! And the Chevron Punch was in the Holiday Mini and carried over to the Occasions Mini!

Supplies:

Stamps: Banner Blast (SAB14!), Show & Tell 1 Photopolymer
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Basic Black
Paper: Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White card stocks, Sweet Sorbet DP (SAB14!)
Accessories: Banner Punch (SAB14!), Chevron Punch, Pennants Die, Big Shot, Dimensionals

Next, I wanted to let you know that thanks to being a Demonstrator and getting to pre-order products, I've actually been showing off stuff from Sale-A-Bration since December! The row of little black flowers in my blog banner? That's from the Sale-A-Bration content disk! Remember the calendars I made for Christmas? Here is the cover which I never shared, and check out those fun banners!!

Supplies: MDS

One Big Sale-A-Bration 2014 content disk, Lemonade Stand content disk, Burlap download, Moments Ago download, recolor tool

 

If you're dying to know, everything else I have made with the new Sale-A-Bration products can be found right HERE!
Now go check out Cheryl's blog and see what she made with the Sale-A-Bration items! (and give her a big welcome, she's new to our hop!)
Be sure and leave comments as you stop by all of our blogs- we love hearing what you think of our projects!