Sale-a-Bration and Occasions Mini Cards

The FIRST card class of the YEAR! WoW we had so much fun!

This class featured sets in the SALE-A-BRATION mini catalog

as well as the OCCASIONS mini catalog.

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Candas

This card features one of my FAVORITE colors! BASIC GRAY!

I love it! it goes with ANYTHING!

The set is ASIAN ARTISTRY and I stamped in Gray

and used a retired *gasp* metallic colored pencils

to add detail and color to the images.

The GRAY SATIN ribbon is found in the

NEW SELECTION of SATIN RIBBONS

in the Occassion mini catalog! GORGEOUS!

This card is practically copied out of the SALE-A-BRATION mini.

Super simple and easy.

Although some of my stampers were amazed at how many little steps there were.

I used an OPTIONAL SALE-A-BRATION reward set called HELLO AGAIN

 and WHIMSICAL WORDS.

BLISS BLUE, OLD OLIVE and PIXIE PINK cardstock.

STRIPPED GROSGRAIN ties it together.

This card features the SOLID STRIPES and

BUTTERFLY ACCENT stamps from the OCCASIONS MINI.

The butterfly is such a VERSITILE stamp!

I can't wait til next week when we do the kissing technique with it!

I used VERSAMARK only to create the tone on tone effect

as well as emboss the butterflies wtih IRIDESCENT ICE embossing powder.

SOFT SUEDE, BERMUDA BAY, MELON MAMBO are the cardstocks.

 I love the BERMUDA BAY POLKADOT GROSGRAIN.

This card has a boo-boo on it. Can you spot the boo-boo?

(that's what happens when I take pictures AFTER class instead of before)

This card is done in CLOSE TO COCOA with a smidgn of CHOCOLATE CHIP.

The EXTRA LARGE 2-STEP BIRD punch is used for the bird and the leaves.

I sponged and stamped it's wing with CLOSE TO COCOA ink,

The 2x2 GLASSINE ENVELOPES are just the right size to add

a message on the front with the KISSES card inserts.

I use an incentive stamp for the message.

Happy New Year!

A belated MERRY CHRISTMAS

and

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you!

I love new beginnings and the NEW YEAR is one of my FAVORITE! I feel like I get a UNIVERSAL "do over". So with that comes new resolutions... this year I resolve to be kinder to others, more patient, more forgiving, more accepting. Overall healthier, this year I turn 4-0! I don't FEEL 4-0! More like late 20's still trying to figure out life in general! I also resolve to be a better more dilligent blogger. Still posting with regular regularity *ha* made me laugh thinking of a laxative commercial from the redunant redundancy department.

So with this I had better get crackin'! I have my first class of the year on Tuesday the 5th and I have a few ideas, but nothing stamped, cut or assembled.