Sale-a-Bration and the Occasions Catalogue are HERE!

Don't miss out on your chance to get FREE items from this year's Sale-a-bration!  There are some truly wonderful products available.  Click Here to see what you can earn for FREE!  For every $60 you spend you can choose a FREE item.

What do I choose to spend my $60 you ask?   That is easy with this years Occasions Catalogue!

One of my Favorite stamp sets is the new Painted Petals from the Occasions Catalogue.  I love the layers and potential for colour combos!  Check out my first creation with it.

I hope you like it.

Sweet Baby ... An Oh So Pretty C.A.S.E. from Pinterest.

    I saw a card on Pinterest (from Heather Summers) that used this beautiful colour combo, Crumb Cake, Vanilla and Pink Pirouette. Love It!!  The beautiful banner and the soft colours just made me want to re-create it.

I switched it up a little bit and changed the Crumb Cake to Soft Suede (I just feel I have used a lot of Crumb lately).

Here is what I have used to make this card...

Ink: Soft Suede and Pink Pirouette
Card Stock: Soft Suede and Very Vanilla
Accessories: Twine (retired), Pearls, Banner Punch (SAB)
Stamp Sets: Baby, We've Grown, Chevron Background, Petal Parade and Banner Blast (SAB)

I used an old piece of Pink Pirouette DSP for a liner on my envelope to finish off the look.


To the right is a close up of the absolutely adorable baby shoes in the set "Baby, We've Grown."   This set is in the Occasions Catalogue right now!  Check it out ...

 133086  $29.95 (wood)//133089  $21.95

Pretty Petals!

The new Catalogue includes a great new punch/stamp set bundle called "Petite Petals!"   With all of this winter weather I feel like this little set brings spring into your home.   Below is a birthday card I made using this set.  I used some retired products I have had hanging around my craft room.

When I saw these little flowers they screamed "Chalks" to me.  I used versamark to stamp the flowers and then used chalks and rubbed them over the stamped images.  I love this technique, it is colourful, fun and easy.  I used Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, and Whisper White Card Stock.  There is a great, bright, Spring feel to this card and it has been so snowy out that I just want to remember that sunny days are just around the corner.

Below is the Stamp Set and punch that is available now in the Occasions Catalogue.

Petite Petals Clear-Mount Bundle  134822   $26.25 CAD

Don't Forget "Sale-a-bration" is on now!

Just Sayin' - Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #118

Have you ever looked at a product and just known you would love, use it and keep it forever?   That is what happened when I saw the Just Sayin' stamp set and coordinating Word Bubbles Framelits.  I mean, "Word Bubbles!!"  awesome!

When I saw the FMS challenge for this week I pulled out my all new Stamp set and got to work.  I hope you like it.

I first thought was about colour and background.  I wanted to use colours that I had not used in a while and the In Colour Baked Brown Sugar and to coordinate with it I used Bermuda Bay.  the Background was more of a challenge. I wanted texture but not too busy and keeping with my love of Word Bubbles I created a white on white background by cutting out and attaching a number of framelits.

I added a few little flags and some detail with a marker.  Let me know what you think.


To see the other great entries and ideas from Freshly Made Sketches Click Here.

Have a great day!

Janet Y

janetyates@shaw.ca