Stamptastic Friends January 2020 Blog Hop

Theme – Sale-A-Bration

Hello and welcome to our January Blog Hop, theme Sale-A-Bration. You may have notice that we have had a change of name for our group. This is due to the working collaboration between Pip Todman and Louise Sims, SUBA (Simply Unique Business Angles), has been put on hold. They are both, seperately, concentrating on their individual businesses. We are still the same group of friends bringing you fantastic project inspiration.

This month we are showcasing some of the amazing products available, for FREE, during Sale-A-Bration.  Yes, I said FREE.  Sale-A-Bration is an annual sale, hosted by Stampin’ Up!, where you can earn free products.  All you have to do is order the products you would order anyway and for every £45/£90 spent you get to choose a product, for free, from the Sale-A-Bration broucher.

Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set

I have chosen to share the ‘Happy Birthday To You’ stamp set. This set is available FREE with a spend of £45. I just love the elegant, simplicity of the set, which includes one main image, three sentiments (Happy Birthday, To You, Celebrate) and a background image. This is perfect for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, engagements and much more. I hope you find inspiration in my makes.

For my main project I have made a ‘Congratulations’ card.  The background is made using a 10cm x 14.4cm piece of ‘Whisper White’ cardstock and ‘Gorgeous Grape’ ink.  Load a ‘Sponge Brayer’ with ink and starting off the cardstock, roll side to side starting at the bottom and working up.  This will give you an ombre effect.  Continue to do so until you are happy with the colour you have built up.  Allow to dry and rub over with an ‘Embossing Buddy’.  Load cake image stamp with ‘Versa Mark’ ink and stamp in the righthand bottom corner.  Cover with ‘White Embossing Powder’, shaking excess back into pot, melt with heat gun until all becomes shinny.  Layer onto an A6, ‘Thick Whisper White’ cardbase.  For the sentiment I used the congratulations stamp from the ‘Label Me Bold’ stamp set, embossing, in white, onto a piece of ‘Gorgeous Grape’ cardstock.  Fussy cut around the sentiment and attach to card front using ‘Stampin Dimensionals’.  Finish with a spool of ‘Silver Mettalic Thread’.

A full list of products used is available below.

I also recreated the card using ‘So Saffron’, ‘Pear Pizzazz’, ‘Smoky Slate’ Ink and ‘Aqua Painters’ on ‘Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper’, layered onto a ‘So Saffron’ cardbase.  Finished off with ‘Wink Of Stella’.

For my second recreation I used ‘Watercolour Pencils’ and ‘Blender Pens’ on ‘Shimmery White’ cardstock, layered onto a piece of ‘Pool Party’ cardstock and a ‘Thick Whisper White’ cardbase.

I hope you like my ‘Sale-A-Bration’ card and please hop along to the others for some more fabulous inspiration.

Happy Crafting

Happy Birthday To You Cling Stamp Set (English) (£0.00)	Label Me Bold Cling Stamp Set (English) (£16.00)	Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin’ Pad (£7.00)	Versamark Pad (£8.75)	Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock (£8.25)
Whisper White A4 Cardstock (£9.00)	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock (£7.75)	Embossing Buddy (£5.50)	White Stampin’ Emboss Powder (£5.50)	Heat Tool (Uk) (£28.00)
Silver Metallic Thread (£3.25)	Paper Snips (£9.25)	Paper Trimmer (£23.00)