Stamp Off SAB Tea Time Framelits

Hey friends!  Today Buffy, Susan and I are showing off

 samples made with SAB products.  Sale-a-Bration time is

a wonderful opportunity to pick up FREE crafting supplies.

This card is a combination of the Occasions catalog

and SAB, since the (FREE with $100 purchase)

Tea Time Framelits Dies on page 17 coordinate with

the Tea Together set on Occasions page 49.   I also used

the Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper (Occasions p 35),

which coordinates beautifully with that yummy

SAB Organdy Ribbon Combo Pack on page 7.  

The sentiment that I used comes from the Butterfly

Gala Occasions set on page 35.  I love the way all of

these products combine and coordinate.  By the way,

I stamped with Memento Ink and colored the

flower with Stampin' Blends.

I wanted to show you an "organizing trick" that I am

using.  It helps to make the use of your Stamparatus 
more efficient.

I made a jig for each set of framelits, so that all of the

cut-outs were on a reduced sheet of cardstock.  

Then I securely taped the cardstock jig

to the sheet of small Stamparatus Grid paper

(away from the Stamparatus edges).  Since there are lots of 

grid sheets in the pack, you can create a lot of jigs.

This allows you to put the magnets anywhere on the sheet,

to hold everything down.   This also makes it really easy to

grab a Framelits jigs, and start creating.

You can see the Tea Time Framelits Dies jig

in the lower right position of this photo, 

taped to the small grid sheet.

Now that you've seen my sample, please click

on, to see what Susan and Buffy have created

for our Stamp Off SAB challenge.

Here are several videos featuring the Stamparatus.
The second describes the accessories, which include
the Small Grid Paper shown above.

Butterfly Gala with Butterfly Duet Punch

The Butterfly Gala photopolymer set, with coordinating

Butterfly Duet Punch was the first bundle that I

purchased out of the Occasions Catalog (page 35).

This is just a dandy set, with 3 different Butterfly wing

patterns, that can be colored (with Blends, Blender Pens,

etc) or the stamps included in the set to stamp the

wing colors.  I love it!

All you have to do is use a Textured Impressions 

Embossing Folder to give some life to the background

and your card is almost complete.  You can make a

CAS (Clean and Simple) card, or vintage.  The butterflies

work for either style! 

I did sponge the glimmer paper just a bit, to help it

blend in with the Soft Seafoam and Mossy Meadow

color combination. 

Lastly, just a reminder...  stamps go up 5¢ each next week.
I bought a number of books of forever stamps today,
because I LIKE TO SEND CARDS!  I hope
that you do, too.

Seize the Day with Nature's Poem #2

This is a ditto/matching card to the one that I posted

yesterday.  Same products, only the card base color is

different.  Since everything was out, it was a 

"no-brainer" to make another version of the card.

I ran the card base with DSP attached through the "Subtles" big shot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.   In this case,

the Gold Foil was also textured in the process.

I used the Seize the Day set on page 157.  

For the sentiment, I used the Well Written Framelits

Dies from the Occasions catalog, done with Gold

Foil paper.    

Seize the Day with Nature's Poem

First, please have a happy, warm Martin Luther King Day.

I had some friends over to stamp last week, right before

our little blizzard hit.  Marianne looked at some of my DSP

samples and loved the Nature's Poem Designer Series

paper on page 189.  I do, too, because it enables you to

combine so many pretty patterns!   I ran the card base with DSP attached through the "Subtles" big shot Textured Impressions

Embossing Folder, although it is hard to see the texture in this 

photo.   This is my "thank you" card for Marianne.

I used the Seize the Day set on page 157, because it works

so well with the DSP to create an elegant card.  The 

"DistINKtive" look of this stamp set creates depth and

nuances, without any effort on the part of the stamper.

For the sentiment, I used the Well Written Framelits

Dies from the Occasions catalog, done with Gold

Foil paper.    Here is more on DistINKtive stamps.