procrastistamper: February 2017

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

2017 Sale-a-Bration: FREE STAMPIN' STUFF Jan 4 - Mar 31

The graphic below pretty much explains Stampin' Up!'s Sale-a-Bration promotion for you, but here's the skinny: between January 4th and March 31st, get FREE STUFF when you SHOP, HOST, or JOIN! You can hop on over to my ONLINE STORE and browse, or check out the active catalogs at these links:

2016-2017 Annual Catalog PDF [approx 36MB] Ends May 31, 2017
2017 Occasions Catalog PDF [approx 11MB] Ends May 31, 2017

FREE Sale-a-Bration Items (Ending March 31st) check out the link(s) below:
Click to View or Download 2017 Sale-a-Bration PDF Brochure
NEW! Added 2/21 Click to View or Download 2nd Release PDF Flyer
NEW! Added 3/21: For the FINAL days of this year's Sale-a-Bration, Stampin' Up! has added several Annual Catalog products you can choose for your FREE items! Check out the list below (you MUST use these special item numbers listed below to get them FREE with your qualifying order), and hurry and grab your goodies, Sale-a-Bration ENDS March 31st!!!

147361 2016-2018 In Color 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock
147365 Party Animal Designer Series Paper
147363 Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper
147364 Tasty Treats Specialty Designer Series Paper
147362 Party Animal Designer Washi Tape
~~147360 Seaside Textured Impressions Embossing Folder~~ SOLD OUT
~~147356 Sparkle Textured Impressions Embossing Folder~~ SOLD OUT

Get your Stampin' Supplies in my ONLINE STORE, and Be sure to check out these Deals:
CLEARANCE RACK (Up to 60% OFF Retiring Product)
BUNDLE & SAVE!!! (ANNUAL Catalog Product Bundles at 10% OFF Everyday!)
BUNDLE & SAVE!!! (OCCASIONS Catalog Product Bundles at 10% OFF Everyday!)

~Kimberley Morris Colorado Springs, CO
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Friday, February 3, 2017

Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop: Color Challenge

Welcome again to the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop, that runs the first Friday of every month! You'll see projects from Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from all over the world in this blog hop. My name is Kimberley Morris, and I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA).

This month we have a color challenge to work with, you can see the swatches in the graphic below. Our colors for this challenge are So Saffron, Rose Red, and Wild Wasabi. These colors really scream out "Easter" to me, but I'm going to see if I can make a Valentine's card with them!

I've decided to feature the Basket Bunch photopolymer stamp set, along with the Basket Builder Framelits Dies. You can get these items together as the Basket Bunch BUNDLE, and SAVE 10%. This is a double challenge for me, to use what look like Easter colors to me, WITH an Easter themed stamp set, to make a Valentine's card :-D I'm also using the Suite Sentiments stamp set, available in wood-mount or clear-mount, which also has some Easter greetings in it, but I'm using the 'love is in the air mail' sentiment for this card! Yes, I ~~fussy~~ fu@*y cut those little hearts out from the stamped sentiment.

This is a super easy card, the only color (aside from white) that I added that was not in the color lineup was the Basic Gray Archival ink pad for the outline of the little birdies. And technically, the Watercolor Pencils have only one yellow--Daffodil Delight--but that's close enough to So Saffron that I'm saying it doesn't count ;-) By the way, the Watercolor Pencils went into backorder for a short time, and a shipment came in so they are orderable again RIGHT NOW, and expected to go on backorder again quickly...so RUN over to my Online Store and get them while you can!!! Don't forget to grab at least one pack of Blender Pens with them.

Stampin' Supplies: Basket Bunch BUNDLE (Basket Bunch stamp set + Basket Builder Framelits), Suite Sentiments stamp set, So Saffron card stock/ink pad (or you could use VersaMark), Rose Red card stock/ink pad/marker, Basic Gray Archival Ink Pad, Wild Wasabi card stock, Whisper White card stock, Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Paper Snips, Stampin' Dimensionals, Fast Fuse, Stampin' Trimmer.

Click the Next or Previous arrow below to find more color challenge projects around the world!
(or check out the Blog Roll below the arrows)

2017 FEBRUARY BLOG ROLL
1. Sarah McDermott http://www.papercraftartistry.blogspot.co.uk
2. Hannah Jones http://www.hancraftedcards.com
3. Angélique Stempelkeuken http://stempelkeuken.blogspot.com
4. Kristie Neal Walthall http://www.kwcrafts.wordpress.com
5. Christine Wrede http://www.stempeltamtam.blogspot.com
6. Jenn Curtis Charles http://www.BFFStampers.com
7. Kimberley Anne Morris http://procrastistamper.blogspot.com UR HERE
8. Anja Reuss http://www.stempelitis.de
9. Marieke Bart http://www.mintymik.blogspot.nl
10. Claire Napper http://www.cluxycrafts.blogspot.com

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Pick a Pretty Pocket Card Project - February Step It Up Blog Hop

Welcome to the February 2017 Edition of the We Create Bloggers Step It Up Blog Hop! The theme is to inspire stampers with a basic design, and at least one alternate "stepped up" version of that same design. My trigeminal neuralgia pain has kept me away from stamping for quite a while, so I'm going to keep things simple for this blog post.

The card above is from the Sale-a-Bration FREE product, called the Pretty Pocket Card Kit. The top picture is the card all assembled, the picture under that shows the little note card pulled out. The kit is pretty much peel and stick to put the pocket card together, there is no stamping required! You CANNOT purchase this kit, but you CAN choose this item for FREE with a $50 purchase.

Stampin' Supplies: Pretty Pocket Card Kit (Sale-a-Bration FREE Item), Paper Snips (to cut the twine to 18"). Seriously, that's ALL you need to put the cards together--and you get an envelope for each card (there are 8 in the kit).

To Step It Up this month, I made a little open-topped box with the same supplies used for making the card. I tried really hard not to use much of anything else except what would be used to make one of the cards in the kit, but I did need to add some adhesive. I also crinkle-cut some Calypso Coral card stock to toss into the bottom of the box. The Lindor truffles I put inside are Strawberries & Cream, for Valentine's Day, but you could use some crinkle-cut Wild Wasabi card stock for "grass" and put a couple or few Cadbury eggs in there for Easter :-) The greetings on the stickers in the kit only say 'hello' or 'thank you' (also in French, German, and Spanish), but I think that can still work with either holiday theme.

Stampin' Supplies: Pretty Pocket Card Kit (Sale-a-Bration FREE Item), Paper Snips (to cut the twine to 18"), Calypso Coral card stock, Stampin' Trimmer (to cut and score card stock), Tear & Tape Adhesive, Fringe Scissors, Paper Piercing Tool (to poke holes for the twine). {I sort of made this project on the fly, so I'll have to look at it and see if I can simplify the directions for you later.}

Click the pointing hand image below to hop to Libby's blog next, and see what fancy stepping she's got going on this month...

Get your Stampin' Supplies in my ONLINE STORE,

and Be sure to check out these Deals:
CLEARANCE RACK (Up to 60% OFF Retired Product)
BUNDLE & SAVE!!! (Annual Catalog Product Bundles at 10% OFF Everyday!)
BUNDLE & SAVE!!! (Occasions Catalog Product Bundles at 10% OFF Everyday!)

February Monthly Perks Code JRQTKTAH
(if your order total equals or exceeds $150, please do NOT use the Monthly Perks Host Code...you will have earned Stampin' Rewards of your own!)

~Kimberley Morris
Colorado Springs, CO
Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator since 1994
procrastistamper@gmail.com
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