Speedy Recovery Get Well Card
Do you love the soft pastels of Easter and spring? Then you must have this packet of ‘Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper’ which has delightful pastels! This packet of 48 sheets of 12X12 paper is only available for two more days because it is a Sale A Bration product and Sale A Bration for this session ends February 28!
You didn’t give much warning!No, but I am here now! I needed a get well card and knew I could do double duty by showing a card and highlighting the paper, as well as mentioning a wonderful stamp set called ‘Speedy Recovery’ from the annual catalog.
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Check out this paper!
Wow! Green combinations, blue combinations, oranges and purples and some with all of the colors!
Yes, Sal, and perfect for those cards where we need a front and back to match or at least blend, like these! Click on the image to go to the blogpost for that card:
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ooohhh, make us a starburst card with all those pastels! Please…..
Maybe someday but for now the time is crucial to post this card to show the beauty of the Dandy Designs DSP (Designer Series Paper) only available during Sale A Bration which ends Februray 28.
Recipe
- Base: Highland Heather, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4
- Border: Dandy Designs DSP, 3 3/4 X 4 3/4, Die cut with 2nd largest Scalloped Contours Die
- Inside Strip: Dandy Designs DSP, 4 X 1/2
- Top Layer: Basic White, 3 1/4 X 4 1/2, Die cut with 4th largest Deckled Rectangle Die
- Stamp greeting in Memento Black Ink at bottom
- Stamp cup on a 2 X 2 1/2 piece of Dandy Designs DSP, Fussy Cut, for a left handed version like I used here, be sure the design you want is on the backside of the side you stamp.
- Stamp the flowers from Speedy Recovery directly on the Basic White toward the top
- Stamp the little tag on the flowers on a scrap of Basic White, fussy cut
- Adhere the cup over the flowers
- Make a tiny bow of twine and glue a length of twine at top of cup
- Using glue dots adhere the tag to the cup
- Pop up the layer with stampin’ dimensionals
- Embellish! I used Wink of Stella on the tag and three pearls in matching colors.
Thank you for spending a little time with me today! March 1st I will be ordering the new annual catalogs (May ’23 – April ’24) to be mailed directly to you so please let me know if you would like a hardcopy. text: 303-815-0838 or email [email protected].
The hostess code is C3XMWVCS. Using the code, you will automatically be shopping with me, otherwise you may need to select me as your demonstrator. Click on little Sal in the computer to shop:
SAL, Spring is not A Long ways away
Karen
Cherished Friend Valentine
Our stamping group met together on the traditional second Tuesday of the month and it just happened to be Valentine’s Day this year! I pulled out my ‘hearts’ collection and created a heart of hearts Valentine similar to a card made by Mary Herdt only monochromatic red and white with different embossing folders, a different background for the hearts and hearts instead of flowers for bling. I will note the products I used in the recipe.
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. Let me guess…. you forgot to take a picture of the inside before you wrote in them?!
Yes, and handwriting is not my forte.
Recipe
- Base: Thick Basic White, 4 1/4 X 11, scored at 5 1/2
- Stamp the lace look 1 1/2 down from the top and 1 1/2 up from the bottom with retired Delicate Details stamp (note: I used the Stamparatus so I could stamp twice for a darker image)
- Stamp ‘Cherished Friend’ with greeting from Lovely You stamp set
- Inside Layer: Basic White, 4 X 5 1/4, stamped with Real Red using 2 stamps from the retired Valentine Love
- Sparkly Background: Red Glitter Paper, 2 1/2 (minus a hair so 2 7/16) X 4 1/4 (minus a hair so 4 3/16)
- It is a good idea to cut your background paper just slightly smaller than the top layer
- Top Layer: Basic White, 2 1/2 X 4 1/4, die cut with Blooming Happiness Die
- after rolling out the little cuts, push the little leaves up from the backside for more texture
- Three Smallest Hearts: Basic White, 2 1/4 X 2 1/4, Cut and embossed using the retired Embosslits Fashionable Hearts
- Large Hearts (X2): Basic White, 2 X 2, punch with the retired heart punch which measures 1 3/4 across at the top
- Emboss one with the Ornate Flower 3D embossing folder
- Emboss the other with the Dainty Diamonds 3D embossing folder
- Bling it up!
- Two red Glossy Dots
- Two connected hearts die cut from the Many Hearts Die (from the long die of hearts cut just the two connected hearts fussy cutting the two away from the other hearts
I bet they can use any of their heart’s stash of stamps and dies to make a similar card!
Yes, Sal, and any embossing folder could be used!
Thank you for sharing a bit of your precious time today as Sal and I strive to bring a pinch of creativity to your crafting world!
Sal, Send A bit of Love
Karen
The hostess code is C3XMWVCS; click on Sal to order; Current products are in orange
Love Cats Card
The cutest kitty cat stamp set is available in the Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalog! It is callled ‘Love Cats’ -quite appropriate for a title!
I saw a card made by Jenny Boyle with one cat holding the tail of another cat and loved that idea so I changed colors, flowers, background, bling and greeting to make this:
The flowers and paper for the oval frame are from the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper. The flowers are fussy cut and the oval frame is made using the Oval Framelits. It is amazing how one little idea can lead to a very different card! I was making this for a get well card and used a greeting from the ‘Beautifully Happy’ Stamp Set in the Sale A Bration catalog:
I was experimenting with oval sizes and had an extra oval so I stamped the third kitty cat on it, put tear and tape around three edges and added it to the inside left of the card for the gift card.
This is the stamp set:
It is a great stamp set, and with the Stamparatus you can get perfect placement of the kitty so that you can stamp a couple of times for a nice black image.
The ‘Beautifully Happy’ Stamp Set is free with a $100 purchase. It has 17 stamps and is a two step so you can ‘stamp to color’ the flowers and leaves after first stamping the outside!
Stampin’ Up! has a new set of ovals which you can get separately or as a bundle:
Wow, that is tiny – I need a magnifying glass to see the ovals!
Better?!
Yes!
So let’s look at this from a Sale A Bration standpoint.
-Framed Florets Bundle. $54. #162407. This has the oval you need, mine is retired.
-Hues of Happiness DSP. $12.00 #158822
-Love Cats Stamp Set. $21.00 #160410
-Cane Weave Embossing Folder. $10 #160580. Mine is the retired basket weave but quite similar.
-Opal Rounds for Bling. $8.50. #159185
If you purchased all those items (assuming you have Thick White Cardstock for the base and a Cut and Emboss machine) you would get the ‘Beautifully Happy’ Stamp Set for free and you could make this card and dozens more with various sayings and flowers and dies to cut out what you need. Birthday, thank you, get well, friend and generic sayings in these sets cover most times you need a card.
Recipe
- Base: Thick Basic White 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2), Inside and Outside: Basic White 5 1/4 X 4, Emboss with Cane Weave 3D embossing folder for outside
- Kittys Outside: Basic White, 5 1/2 X 4 1/4, stamp in Memento Black with Stamparatus so you can stamp twice; fussy cut
- Oval: Basic White, 4 X 3 1/4, cut with oval framelit #4 for background of kittys
- Oval with DSP: Hues of Happiness DSP, 4 X 3 1/4, Cut with framelits 3 & 4 to make the frame
- Flowers: Fussy cut about 3 1/2 X 2 from the Hues of Happiness DSP for front and two flowers for inside
- Bling it up!
You thought that sheet of DSP was something you would never use and look at you!
Yes, indeed! Check out the other card I made with this one sheet of paper – Easel Card with Hues of Happiness.
Sale A Bration ends on February 28 so don’t delay! Check out the Catalog Tab here on the blog if you don’t have a hardcopy of the catalog.
The hostess code for February is C3XMWVCS. This code is used if your order is under $150 so all the little orders add together to give someone (might be you) hostess dollars! Over $150 and you get the hostess dollars yourself to spend on anything you would like from the Annual Catalog or the Mini Catalog. Both these catalogs end on May 1 when the new Annual Catalog comes out.
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SAL, Stamp A Lot, Smile A Little and always be Salt And Light to those in your world
Karen
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