Be Inspired Blog Hop--Sale a Bration 2024!

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Hi friends! Welcome to the Be Inspired Blog Hop for January! We are all sharing some project inspiration featuring Sale a bration items. Now, if you have been a Stampin’ Up! fan for a while, would you agree with. me that this is one of our BEST Sale a bration offerings EVER! I am loving the variety of things we can choose for FREE!

Valentine’s Day is a really fun day around our house. I host a ‘pink dinner’ for my kids and even though they are teens, I still spoil them with fun valentine’s gifts. Of course, I also love to make a fun place setting treat for them for our pink dinner and the Most Adored 12x12 paper was perfect for creating some fun little treat boxes to dress up our table.

I used the Square Pillow Box and left the top flap open to create a fun little box to stick in a box of chocolates. Both the box and chocolates are wrapped in the Most Adored 12x12 paper in the two heart patterns in the DSP. Having the box left open creates a fun opportunity to stuff it full of fun Valentine’s treats and other stuff (I will probably add some gift cards or cold hard cash inside for my teens). Top off the box or add filler around your treat with some paper shreddie that you can easily pick up at most box stores in the party isle.

I love how simply keeping the box open creates the opportunity to stick in fun treats like this wrapped sleeve of chocolates. The sentiment on the box is die cut with the Everyday Details Dies which I am just loving at the moment! I didn’t even get the stamp set, I just got the Dies!

Using the Black& White Gingham ribbon on both projects helps unite the two projects. And the Heartfelt Hellos was a perfect set to add to these projects. A couple cute little foil hearts also add a special touch—you can find them in the Adorning Hearts Dies.

I hope this project inspires you to create some fun easy Valentine’s projects for the special people in your life too using just a few supplies—two of which you can get for FREE during Sale a bration 2024!

I can’t wait to see what new Artisan Design Team member Maheswari has created to share with us! You can see her project by clicking the image below, and of course visit the entire hop to be inspired on how you can craft with the 2024 Sale a bration collection!

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Conversation Bubbles Creative Project

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Hello friends! One of my fun jobs as a member of the Artisan Design Team is something known as the Creative Project! It is a project that we get to do a couple times a year with anything we like! That sounds exciting but sometimes it is really hard to decide was to do or what products to use because we have SO MANY awesome things!

However, my favorite new bundle of the Occasions Catalogue is the Conversation Bubbles Bundle. I just love how much fun the dies are and the unlimited potential of what you can do with them!

I decided to lean into the color palette of the Country Gingham DSP—I just love the color combo of Petal Pink, Sweet Sorbet, Balmy Blue and Mint Macaron in this DSP. And who doesn’t LOVE a gingham print?

The base of my page is Sweet Sorbet and I added two 3x6 inch strips of the DSP over top to fool you into thinking its 12x12. A 1 inch strip of the new Textured Shimmer Paper adds to this illusion!

I matted my 5x7 picture on Mint Macaron and added a little more Sweet Sorbet DSP to the side.

 

The best part of my page is the custom stencilling done on the background.

I used 4 different dies from Conversation Bubbles cut on a Window Sheet. I then used the stencils with Petal Pink ink and my new mini Blending Brush to create the fun word bubbles right on my scrapbook page!

If you look closely, you can see some hearts literally DOODLED on top using my Petal Pink Stampin’ Blend Marker! Why not use your markers to make custom designs on our projects!

The best part about using the stencils created with Window Sheets (versus cutting the shape from card stock) is you can see right through them for perfect placement AND you can flip them over to change the direction of the stencil. Not to mention you can use them again and again!

 

You can see the 4 custom stencils that I created using the dies. Think of all the fun you can have with the variety of dies that Stampin’ Up! sells!

I really hope this idea inspires you to try some stencilling and doodling on your own projects!

Happy 14th birthday summer! She requested a family cake recipe from my mother in law and i attempted a naked cake!

I stamped out a variety of the words from Conversation Bubbles and use the various coordinating dies with them. I really love how you can layer up the different words to bring your scrapbook page to life. The dies also have little hearts and stars which are perfect little accents along with the new Pastel Adhesive Backed Sequins and a bit of the Gold Shimmer Ribbon.

If you are not already following the 2023 Artisan Design Team Members—please do! I have a few posts on my Instagram account that lists everyone!

Happy stamping! Make sure to check out Stampin’ Up!’s Facebook and Instagram account for lots of inspiration!