procrastistamper: January 2022

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Third Thursdays Blog Hop - A Sweet SALE!

Welcome once again to our Third Thursdays Blog Hop! This month our theme for the hop is A Sweet SALE! It's all about the Sale-a-Bration promotion that's happening through February 28th. One of the fun perks of Sale-a-Bration is earning FREE stuff for $50 you spend on an order in the US. You can also choose higher level items with $100 purchases - and I'm featuring one of those items today: the Friendly Hello Stamp Set & DSP Bundle.
{you'll find Product Purchase Links for current items I've used, below the Blog Roll}

For this project, I used my Soft Pastels for an old technique called Poppin' Pastels. The technique is simple, you just stamp the images you want on Basic White Cardstock with a VersaMark Ink Pad, then rub some of the pastel color you want, over the images with a Sponge Dauber. The images pop up seemingly out of nowhere! I like to use my Paper Snips to scrape some powder off the pastels, and onto a piece of paper towel first. Then I can load more of the "chalk" onto the Sponge Dauber at a time. I also used my Paper Snips to cut the bird away from the flowers on the image from the Friendly Hello Stamp Set that you see below. It was kind of a tight surgery, but I think it worked wonderfully to be able to stamp the bird head to peek up from the corner without the flowers and the rest of the foliage obscuring the greeting.

One of the great things about the VersaMark Ink Pad is that you can use it on any colored cardstock to give you a watermark look. I used this to create the floral background on the Pale Papaya Cardstock, and also to stamp the speckles on the little piece of Coastal Cabana Cardstock. I highly encourage you to purchase the VersaMark Ink Refill with your VersaMark Ink Pad, so you can make sure the pad is well inked for your projects. The watermark look will not show up nearly as well if the pad is not well inked. The Heart & Home Doilies add a nice final touch - they come in gray, blue, and brown, but the flip-side is white, so I used a different Sponge Dauber, along with the Fresh Freesia Ink Pad, to color it. I am all about making product last longer, so I cut each doily in half. That way, I'm not wasting the other half that would be hiding under the other layers. Same idea goes for the Friendly Hello Designer Series Paper...I just used a very small piece, but I feel like it really pulls all the colors together.

Stampin' Supplies: Sale-a-Bration FREE Friendly Hello BUNDLE (Friendly Hello stamp set + Friendly Hello Designer Series Paper), Basic White Cardstock, Pale Papaya Cardstock, Coastal Cabana Cardstock, VersaMark Ink Pad, Soft Pastels Assortment, Fresh Freesia Ink Pad, Heart & Home Doilies, Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, Iridescent Rhinestones, Sponge Daubers, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, Paper Snips, Paper Trimmer, Grid Paper, Bone Folder, Simply Shammy (to clean photopolymer stamps). And don't forget to grab some Basic White Medium Envelopes for mailing your cards!

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January 2022 Third Thursdays Blog Roll:
Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE
Susan Webster
Jan Musselman
Angie McKenzie

Stampin' Supplies Product Purchase Links:

Friendly Hello Bundle (English) [159990]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Pale Papaya 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155668]	Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131297]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Versamark Refill [102193]	Soft Pastels Assortment [154585]	Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad [155611]
Heart & Home Doilies [157956]	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475]	Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels [158130]	Sponge Daubers [133773]
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]	Paper Snips [103579]	Paper Trimmer [152392]
Grid Paper [130148]	Bone Folder [102300]	Simply Shammy [147042]	Basic White Medium Envelopes [159236]

View or Download PDF of CURRENT Product Catalogs:

2022 Jan-Feb Sale-a-Bration Brochure

2022 Jan-June Mini Catalog

Stampin' Up! 2021-2022 Annual Catalog
JANUARY Monthly Perks HOST Code: K9S6EPAP
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CLEARANCE RACK (Up to 60% OFF Retired Product)
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Friday, January 7, 2022

Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop - Happy NEW Year

Welcome to the JANUARY 2022 Edition of the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! You'll see projects in our hop from Stampin' Up! demonstrators around the world--I'm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Note: I can only sell to customers in the US, so prices are in USD)

We generally hop the first Friday of each month, and our theme for today is Happy NEW Year! We'll be sharing projects using NEW products today! I'm featuring products from the Sweet Talk Suite. {you'll find all Product Purchase Links below the Blog Roll near the bottom of the post}

My card is a "slimline" card...and although we now have our own Slimline Envelopes now, I decided to make my own envelope, using Fresh Freesia Cardstock. It is not listed as a color that would coordinate with the Sweet Talk 12x12 Designer Series Paper, but I think it works great. I stamped the images on the front of the envelope using the Highland Heather Ink Pad. The X and O are separate images in the Sweet Conversations Stamp Set, and the lines are another separate image, but they look like a postmark to me when they are used all together. I also used it across the bottom of the envelope, turned 90 degrees, just overlapping the bottom a bit. You can only see a small bit of it in the picture, but I thought it sort of looked like the bar code lines the postal service puts across the bottom of an envelope. In addition to the products from the Sweet Talk Suite, I have used the Dotty Hearts Embossing Folders from the Annual Catalog. There are two small embossing folders in that pack, and I just used one of them on my card.

On both the envelope, and the card front, I made use of the corner rounder punch that's on the Detailed Trio Punch. The Iridescent Rhinestones you see on the project are in the NEW Sweet Talk Suite. The Suite also includes some Real Red ribbon, but I wanted something in a purple hue for this card. I chose the Fresh Freesia Open Weave Ribbon, and I think it works really well. That ribbon is also from the Annual Catalog, just like the Dotty Hearts Embossing Folders...don't forget about those great products! The curve at the back top of the envelope was made with a little die from the Sweet Heart Dies If you want to replicate that look, be sure to put a piece of chipboard inside your envelope first, so the die doesn't cut all the way through. My final touch on the envelope was to add just a bit of Multipurpose Liquid Glue around the corners of the flap, and let it dry. This creates a temporary bond that will allow the envelope to open and close

Those cute little hearts that look like a number pad, are from the coordinating Sweet Heart Dies, which you can get in the Sweet Conversations Bundle, or purchase separately. The die is a column of 4 hearts, so I die cut 3 columns, and cut the last heart off two of the columns. You will really want the Foam Adhesive Sheets for that part of the project. Just put some on the back of the Highland Heather Cardstock before you die cut, then you can just peel and stick the columns to the card front. The little hearts in the center of the columns of hearts are meant to come out, so you can use them that way on a project if you like, too. I used the Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker to write the numbers by hand.

Stampin' Supplies: Sweet Conversations BUNDLE (stamp set + Sweet Heart Dies), Fresh Freesia Cardstock, Highland Heather Cardstock and Ink Pad, Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker (to write numbers on hearts), Sweet Talk 12"x12" Designer Series Paper, Fresh Freesia Open Weave Ribbon, Iridescent Rhinestones, Detailed Trio Punch (for rounded corners), Dotty Hearts Dies, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Foam Adhesive Sheets, Simply Shammy (to clean photopolymer stamps), Bone Folder, Paper Snips, Grid Paper, Paper Trimmer, Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine. {see Product Purchase Links near the bottom of the post}

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Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop JANUARY 2022 Blog Roll
1. Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
2. Tricia Butts
3. Jan Musselman
4. Marieke Bart
5. June Olsen

Stampin' Supplies Product Purchase Links:

Sweet Conversations Bundle (English) [157624]	Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155613]	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103]	Highland Heather 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146986]
Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker [100082]	Sweet Talk 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [157616]	Fresh Freesia 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155615]	Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels [158130]
Detailed Trio Punch [146320]	Dotty Hearts Embossing Folders [155434]	Fresh Freesia 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155615]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]
Foam Adhesive Sheets [152815]	Simply Shammy [147042]	Bone Folder [102300]	Paper Snips [103579]
Grid Paper [130148]	Paper Trimmer [152392]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]

View or Download PDF of CURRENT Product Catalogs:

Stampin' Up! 2021-2022 Annual Catalog

2022 Jan-June Mini Catalog
JANUARY Monthly Perks HOST Code: K9S6EPAP
(if your order total in My Online Store equals or exceeds $150, please do NOT use my Monthly Perks Host Code...you will have earned Stampin' Rewards of your own!)

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