Artisan Design Team Blog Hop - Sale-A-Bration Sneak Peek

Hello everyone and welcome back to another Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog Hop! We are a group of 16 Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from around the world, that were chosen to represent Stampin' Up! over the course of the 2019 year, through blog hops, Facebook posts and corporate blog posts. Each month we will be be focusing on a particular set of products to bring you inspiration from around the globe Stampin' Up! Today we get to give you all a little sneak peek at what is coming in January for Stampin' Up's biggest promotion of the year- Sale-A-Bration!

Sale-A-Bration pre-earn is finally here from December 3, 2019 to January 2, 2020! This means that demonstrators can earn items in the Sale-A-Bration Shop offering early. For every $60 CAD or $120 CAD you spend, you choose a free item from the Sale-A-Bration brochure that matches the level you spent. Demonstrators can even use the preorder of the January–June mini catalog and purchase items from that catalog or any other current catalog, and earn free Sale-A-Bration products! If you aren’t a demonstrator (what are you waiting for?!), this is a great sneak peek to see what is in store for Sale-A-Bration beginning January 3, 2020, or better yet sign up to join my team and earn your Sale-A-Bration exclusives now!

I got to work with the stunning Lovely Lily Pad stamp set. It includes 8 individual image stamps, but because this set is part of Stampin' Up's Reversibles collection of stamps you get 16 total images! Not familiar with reversible stamp sets, well let me tell you a little bit about this cool new product. On one side of the photopolymer stamp there is a detailed image and the other side will have solid mirrored image shape. For my card I used the large lily pad image to stamp the main flower on Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper and embossed it. Next I cleaned the stamp then flipped it over and inked it up with VersaMark and stamped repeatedly to create a background on the Mint Macaron card base.

TIP: The reason I chose to use Versamark for the background stamping is that it creates a much softer image as opposed to stamping the coordinating ink. VersaMark is perfect for creating a tone on tone or watermark effect. I also stamped the small lily pad image of the Petal Vellum Cardstock strip.

When I saw the beautiful large lily I just knew I wanted to do the paper piecing technique with it. I first stamped it once in VersaMark on the green DSP pattern and heat embossed with Copper Embossing powder. Next I stamped it 3 times on the pink DSP pattern and also heat embossed it with copper. The images were then cut out (* hint, hint there are coordinating dies for this set as well coming out as a Sale-A-Bration exclusive). Using my paper snips I cut the three pink images apart at various sizes to layer on top of one another and create a more dimensional flower. I then attached it to the green image.

TIP: Paper piecing is a great easy technique to quickly "colour" a line art image. Try this technique with Designer Series Paper to create different depths of colour like I did here, or use a heavily patterned piece for a different look. Once my flower was made I want to make sure it stayed the star of my project so I layered a few die cuts (remember those coordinating dies I mentioned earlier?) of Vellum Cardstock behind it. Because Lovely Lily Pad is an image only stamp set I paired it with a sentiment from Here's A Card and heat embossed it in white on DSP. A little White Baker's Twine and some bling finishes it off nicely while keeping the image the main focal pint.

Hope you enjoyed my projects today and are even more excited for the Sale-A-Bration pre-earn period! Next up on the Hop is the insanely talented Kaylee van Es, I just know you will love what she has to share.

Now remember there are 16 of us sharing our idea along the blog hop, be sure not to miss a single one! Below is a little look of the amazing inspiration everyone is sharing today.