Sale-a-Bration Ferris Wheel

I love the nostalgic set, Feeling Sentimental pictured in the sale-a-bration brochure.  This four piece set is so easy to design a card around. The stamps are nice size with a lot of detail. The unicycle and the British phone booth with the ferris wheel and " Celebrate" complete the set.  Again I've used a pair of my favorite neutrals,  crumb cake ink and ribbon and soft suede in are awesome mixed with very vanilla.  This is a great FREE set with a 50.00 purchase between January 22 and March 22, 2013

Clockworks Birthday card

Often I'm asked for masculine cards at my workshops. With a family of men, husband, son, son-in-law and nine grandsons I better master making masculine cards.  Although the grandsons are younger I look for stamps that aren't floral to make their cards once they reach school age.

The card shown is made with a new stamp set called Clockworks found on page 105 of the Stampin'Up Idea Book.  The background stamp used is EnFrancais from page 129. You will see that stamp used again very soon. The colors used are Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Vanilla and Not Quite Navy.  All the clockworks are layered over the Early Expresso Baker's Twine

All Dressed Up Easel Card

I have to say the holidays just flew by.

 Then two weeks ago I was in Orlando for Stampin'Up Leadership for three days. Saw all the new items in the new spring mini and also the Sale-a-bration brochure.

I could not believe all the items being offered. Some of which I missed when I reviewed both.

Sale-a-bration has a lot of fun FREE items to choose from in the next two months.

The ribbon on the dress is one of the items and you get three rolls in three different color and also a package of coordinating buttons.

The dress die is from the Spring Mini.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you enjoy this easel card,

Barb