Sale-a-bration 2023 is right around the corner and although I was signed up for our OnStage in person event in October and didn’t get to go…I still got the swag box and all the delightful goodies that demonstrators got as part of the event. Sad to have missed a Stampin’ Up! event but so excited to get the box filled with presents!
One of the best things about live events is the creative energy of being with like-minded people and if you love to stamp or craft this is YOUR kind of crowd! Sale-a-bration will be a great time to join this company and a great team of people – if you are interested let me know and I can tell you about all of the benefits!
The swag box was designed with one of the 24 patterns in the Fancy Flora 6″ x 6″ DSP that coordinates with the Fancy Flora Suite Collection, a beautiful Soft Succulent colored shoulder bag with a Stampin’ Up! tag inside and the words Stampin’ Up! embossed on the outside flap, a notebook, a decorative coordinating pen, and a set of trading pins!
Participants also got two stamp sets.
One of the stamp sets I received as an OnStage participant was the Level Two Sale-a-bration set called Beautifully Happy and below are pictures of the swag box and contents and the cards I am beginning to make with the fun set!

This card pictured below is a collage of flowers in Sweet Sorbet and leaves in Granny Apple Green inks. The sprinkle of dots from a small background stamp in the set is stamped in Mango Melody and fills in the white space beautifully! The sentiment and the smaller flower stamp are stamped on the 1″ x4″ piece of Sweet Sorbet in Tuxedo Memento black ink and adhered to the card front above the flower layer cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ on a sweet Sorbet card base. The card is finished off with Matte Black Dots as accent pieces.

For this card below I took 1/2 inch strips and lightly swirled color above the strips in Sweet Sorbet then Mango Melody then Granny Apple Green then repeated. Then a small focal stamped image is repeated over and over again.
Cut perpendicular to the stripes created with the Blending Brushes in 1/2″ strips and save then in the order they were cut. Starting on the right side of the card front adhere the first strip to the outside right edge and against the bottom edge. Moving about a 1/16th of an inch away from the first strip adhere the second strip even with the top edge of the card front making sure it was straight. Adhere the third strip the same as the first and the fourth the same as the second alternating this pattern until the end.
Adhere a 1/2″ strip of Basic black to the bottom 1/3 of the card and adhere a smaller strip of Basic White that has been stamped in Sweet Sorbet. Add Black Matte Dots to complete the look!

Stamp the larger flower image in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and using the flower and leaf stamps ink the sections on the flower – doing this for this stamp set is easy! With photopolymer stamps it is so easy to see where the stamp needs to go! I created a soft warm background with a blending brush and the sweet sorbet ink, added a sentiment and some Matte Black Dots for a stamps, ink ,paper simple stamping one layer card!

This card pictured below also used Blending Brushes in Sweet Sorbet on top, Mango Melody in the middle and Granny Apple Green almost to the bottom leaving a little white space. I stamped the larger flower image around the outside of the Basic White cardstock layer in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and added a sentiment and a angled die cut from the Something Fancy die set, and some Matte Black Dots to finish this colorful card with!
This will be one of the cards we will be doing January 25th at the next Conneaut Lake Library class! Sign-Ups will start about a month before and there will be a cap so call the library right after Christmas!

This is one of my favorites from this batch and it is a CASE from the mini Sale-a-bration catalog, I was inspired by the focal point in one of the cards on page 13 of the new catalog and so I used this iamge as a starting point and changed the color palette and the size of the cards, added a layer and an embossing folder – and out of the CASE card I developed my very own piece of artwork and so can you – one stamp at a time! Go try it today!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie