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Here is my second card made with the Pick a Season Sale-a-Bration stamp set (Earn this one free with a $100 order!). I combined it with the...
A pretty thank you card made using the Pick a Season stamp set, a Sale-a-Bration 2025 choice from Stampin' Up!
Check out my Pick A Season card. Watch my Sale-A-Bration Sunday YouTube tutorial to see this lovely stamp set in all its glory.
Here is my set of cards made with the Pick a Season Sale-a-Bration stamp set (Earn this one free with a $100 order!). I combined it with th...
Do you need a stamp set that you can use all year round? The Pick A Season stamp set is just the stamp set you need! The best thing about this stamp set is that it's FREE during Sale-A-Bration, with a qualifying order, until 28th February 2025. This stamp set has interchanging elements for any season and occasion, including Easter, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, or create a Spring card like I have, by stamping the flowers and teaming it up with the Floral Delight Designer Series Paper. Find it on page 9 of the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. Available NOW!!! Ask me how you can get it for FREE.
Check out this cute card! It is perfect for many different occasions by changing up the words. I just love these Arch dies. This is one of the cards that everyone stamping with me at my February monthly classes will be making. I used these products- #16462- Everyday Arches Dies= $29.00 Online Exclusive #16496- Pick A Season stamp set- FREE Sale-a-bration choice with a $60 product order #164324- Season of Green & Gold 12x12 Specialty DSP= $16.50 Online Exclusive #163465- Natural 3/8" Polka Dot Trim= $10.00 NOW $4.00 Last Chance #164060- Faux Glass Dots= $8.50 Online Exclusive This is what the card looks like when opened up! Notice the shades in the tree/leaves. They are all stamped using just one Old Olive ink pad at full strength. The lightness of the leaves & darkness of the tree are naturally this way in the stamp. COOL HUH! Here are the supplies & measurements. stamp sets: Pick A Season Keeping Tabs Bright Borders card stock: Old Olive- 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"- score at 2 3/4" & 7"- fold for card base Mossy Meadow- 5" strip- die cut arch Mossy Meadow- 3/4 x 3 3/4" Basic White- 4 1/4" strip- die cut arch Basic White- 3/8" strip- stamp words onto Basic White- 4 x 5 1/4"- for the inside of the card designer paper: Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP 2 1/2 x 5 1/4" (stripes) 1 1/4 x 5 1/4" (plaid) ink: Old Olive other: Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine; Everyday Arches Dies; Faux Glass Dots; Natural 3/8" Polka Dot Trim; dimensionals; glue dots I hope you have a WONDERFUL Wednesday! Happy Stamping! Hugs- SUSIE You can CLICK on the product images below in my supply list & you'll be taken directly to my online store!!
Pick the Pick a Season stamp set as your freebie and you'll have all you need to make Valentine cards, Easter cards and a Shamrock card.
Hello all you wonderful people! Hope your month is going great so far. I've still got my hacky cough holding me back, but I'm definitely back to stamping! The ideas are just percolating at a rapid pace and I'm having trouble keeping up. There have been some orders coming in this month, so I needed to make some cute thank you cards for them. What better to use that the new Sale-a-bration set called Pick a Season. This is such a cute set that is very versatile. I was going to use different colors on each of the cards. But after starting out with the Peach Pie color, I liked it so much that's what I used for all of them. I'll have to revisit this set and use some of the other stamps in the set and different colors too. I started by stamping the tree on Basic White cardstock that measures 3 1/4" x 4". The trunk was stamped first with Pecan Pie ink near the bottom. The leaves were stamped next. It was inked with Lemon Lime Twist ink then the bottom portion of the stamp was tapped onto the Granny Apple Green ink pad to blend the colors. I like the lighter color at the top. It reminds me of sunlight on the upper branches. Then the triple flower stamp was used with Peach Pie ink to fill in each opening in the leaves. I kept twisting the stamp, so the flower cluster wasn't all lined up the same way. The grass stamp was inked in Granny Apple Green ink and stamped multiple times to get different shades of green. It also filled in the grassy area a little bit. Granny Apple Green was chosen for both the card base and the layering piece. The measurements are 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". This is scored at 4 1/4" and folded in half. The layer is 4 1/4" x 3 1/2". The stamped piece is layered onto this with adhesive. Now the decision for the background layer. After trying a few options, the 2024-2025 In Color 6" x 6" Designer Paper was chosen. I couldn't decide which print of the four to choose, so I tried out two different ones and liked them both. Dilemma - which one to choose. In the end both of the prints were used on my stack of cards, and I was happy. The sentiment is from the Mixed Labels stamp set. It's stamped on a Peach Pie 1/2" strip of cardstock and trimmed to fit. Pecan Pie ink was used. It's attached with Dimensionals. For this card, peachy colored gems from the Party Dots were used for an accent. Then a Peach Pie Bordered Ribbon was tied into a loose knot and attached with Mini Glue Dots to the card. The inside of all the cards were finished the same way. A sentiment from Mixed Labels was stamped with Pecan Pie ink. One of the flower clusters was stamped with Peach Pie ink. And one of the small leaf sets was stamped with Granny Apple Green ink. Did I mention making several changes on the cards as I went because I couldn't make up my mind on some of the choices? Thought you'd like to see a slightly different version... Can you spot the changes? The leaves have more of the Lemon Lime Twist showing on this one so it's a little brighter. The background DSP is a stripe instead of an overall print. It's still from the same pack of paper though. The gems used are the 2024-2025 In Color Shimmer Gems. All these add up to just minor changes, but it does make a difference. Here's a last look at them together. Which one do you prefer? I'd like to hear from you. If you didn't know, the Pick a Season set is one of the Sale-a-bration free choices. It's so dog-gone cute and so easy to use. You'll just love it if you choose to get this set. I will definitely be making more cards with this. There are tiny eggs, shamrocks, hearts, and of course the flowers I used. There is also a fence and clouds. Just think of all the possibilities! Happy stamping and creating, Sharon
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Happy Friday! I am so excited to share today's card, it's all things spring. I used the soon to be gone Stampin' Up Pick A Season Stamp Set. I used the colors from this weeks The Paper Players Challenge: Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight and Summer Splash. I started with a Flirty Flamingo card base that…
I'm feeling refreshed after a fun weekend crafting with friends. I pulled out all my new products and we laughed and crafted the weekend awa...
6 Simple Valentine cards featuring the Pick A Season stamp set from Stampin’ Up! This versatile set is not just for Valentines!
Happy Friday Eve! It's another week of the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop. This week we were challenged to create a card with a Sale-A-Bration item. I decided to use Stampin' Up Pick A Season Stamp Set alongside Stampin' Up Toadstool Gardens DSP. I stamped the tree from Stampin' Up Pick A Season Stamp Set…
Sale-a-bration is always a great time to shop! There are lots of free products to choose from and now we are in February, there are even more! Scroll down for a link to the NEW PDF. For this weeks Craft and Chat I used the Pick a Season stamp set, its really versatile and lots of fun to use, I made a Valentines card, a
Here are some of the quilts from our book, Once Upon A Season, which is out of print. Click here to buy the eBook at pieceocake.com. Click here to find other books by Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins. Please do visit pieceocake.com. Spring Wheels, below, is available as an individual epattern. Click here for more…
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Hey all, I have been extremely busy and just not able to get into my craft room. I will be seeing my friend again soon and I have been saying I would bring him a gift for three months. Each time we got together I still hadn't gotten anything done. I just couldn't come again without a gift for him. When I saw the lantern I knew I wanted to make it but not sure how.. I started with Victorian Christmas SVG Bundle and well the rest is history.. Here is how I made it. I cut the body of the lantern from Bazzill Avocado card stock. In my minds eye I could see this paper and pine needles. I loved the holly on the orginal but wanted it to be more of the lantern and of course I was thinking of Charles Dickens. I reached for black paper but It really isn't my favorite to work with because it tattles on you with your glue. That is when I reached for the Avocado colored paper. I found the patterned paper I was thinking about in my stash then because there just wasn't enough anymore of the one paper I had to improvise. I decided to do the bottom in the avocado with the pine emboss folder and add the metalic ink to the top. All pieces of the Avocado were inked with Tim Holts Iced Spruce distress ink as well. I will list the "ink" on the bottom of this post so you can get some as well. It is pretty nifty ink and we all have Trina Struckman to thank for telling me about it. The ribbon is a deep burgandy from Walmart and is 1/8 inch wide. The little snowflakes are from Michaels. Take a walk down the Christmas tree isle and in particular where the stuff is for the miniature Christmas trees are, I have stashed away a few things from there for future use. I punched a hole in my center top portion of the windows on the lantern and then added red bells using a jewelry jump ring, with exception to front where I added a single snowflake. I felt that the swag on the top would take away from the paper so I added ribbons to the sides using a glue gun to adhere them in three places. The tiny bells were something from my stash. I have had them so long I do not remember where I got them. The greenery is thinlit Tim Holtz Dies. I purchased them from Amazon as they often put his dies on sale. I usually use my machine but when I need a delicate cut it is often easier to use the dies. I know the paper will not tear while cutting. The top is Tim Holtz knob also purchased from Amazon. Now for the center which lifts the votive sized battery light. I save the center rolls from plastic wrap to use in designs as base pieces. This is a portion about 2 inches high. I cut it using a plaster saw. I adhered a strip of cardstock to cover the roll piece curling it first to help it" hug" the roll piece. I bent the top lip of the paper in to cover where the candle would sit. This lip portion is 1/16 inches high. The candle sat on top quite well. The candle flame was colored yellow and then a maroon with a permanent marker. I adhered the greenery to the center pieces and added pearls I had colored with a R39 Copic Marker. I hope you like my lantern as it was a gift for a couple of dear friends and was well received. Thank you so much for stopping by and reading my blog. As I write this I was given a Dreaming Tree spotlight for it which was very nice. Happy Crafting Y'all! Blessings, Sharalyn Supplies Avocado Bazzill Card Stock K& Company Glad Tidings collection I found one listing on ebay for the emboss folder It is RB Pine Branches emboss folder "Ink" Metallic Ink Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Iced Spruce Tim Holtz Vintage knobs Tim Holtz Thinlit Dies 661597 1/8 inch Maroon Ribbon Miniature Red Bells: Michaels Miniature Snowflakes: Michales Red Gems: Michaels Tonic Craft Tacky Glue: Scrapbook.com Sizzix Eclips2 ecal2 software
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